Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts Announces 2012-13 SeasonAugust 20, 2012Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College announces its 58th season of music, dance, theater, and family programming reflecting the multicultural diversity of Brooklyn. The outstanding line-up features performances from Jamaica, Russia, China, and Canada, as well as the United States, and includes both Brooklyn premieres and returning favorites.
Opera House Players' THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD Runs 9/7-23August 20, 2012The Opera House Players will present THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD, the solve-it-yourself musical, from September 7 through 23, 2012, at the Broad Brook Opera House, 107 Main Street, Broad Brook, CT. Performances are Fridays and Saturdays at 8 pm and Sundays at 2 pm. Tickets can be purchased online at www.operahouseplayers.org or by calling the box office at 860-292-6068. The show will be directed by John Pike, with musical direction by Melanie Guerin.
MADEA GETS A JOB to Play 4 Shows at Madison Square Garden, 11/16 & 17August 20, 2012The Theater at Madison Square Garden will present Tyler Perry's "Madea Gets a Job" starring Tyler Perry live on-stage on Friday, November 16 at 8PM and Saturday, November 17 at 1PM, 5PM and 9PM. This show is in response to the overwhelming demand for Tyler Perry's return to the stage, following a successful first season run.
Lee Roy Rogers, Susannah Flood and More to Join TRIBES in SeptemberAugust 20, 2012The producers of Off-Broadway's Tribes have announced new additions to the clan beginning September 4th: Lee Roy Rogers (Orson's Shadow) will assume the role of Beth and Dina Thomas (See How They Run) will assume the role of Ruth, and beginning September 25th: Susannah Flood (A Civil War Christmas) will assume the role of Sylvia, joining Will Brill (Our Town) as Daniel, Russell Harvard (There Will Be Blood) as Billy, and Jeff Still (August: Osage County) as Christopher.
Seanachaí Theatre Company to Present IN PIGEON HOUSE, Opening 10/17August 20, 2012Juxtaposed against the contemporary drug-fueled club scene in Dublin, In Pigeon House weaves together vaudeville, music hall, and cinema in this love letter to traveling shows. Moving between time and genres, the itinerant players Basher, Masher, Rasher and Dolly rip up the stage with a furious tornado of language and moving pictures. A startlingly theatrical and darkly comic oeuvre, In Pigeon House at once explodes and upholds the romantic myth of the traveling show.
Human Race Theatre's 26th Season Opens with MANAGING MAXINE, 9/6August 20, 2012The Human Race Theatre Company kicks off its 2012-2013 Season with Janece Shaffer's Managing Maxine, an unlikely love story with an unconventional heroine featuring Broadway actress Jana Robbins as Maxine and television veteran Steve Vinovich as Arthur.
Nathan Pacheco Comes to Chicago's Harris Theatre in NovemberAugust 20, 2012With two PBS concert specials and a new self-titled Disney Pearl debut album, Nathan Pacheco is headlining a North American tour, which will stop in Chicago at the Harris Theatre for Music and Dance at Millennium Park (205 East Randolph Street) Tuesday, November 13, 2012 at 7 p.m. The PBS special, "Introducing Nathan Pacheco: Live in Concert" airs August 23, 2012 on WTTW in Chicago.
Common Ground Theatre Announces Upcoming EventsAugust 20, 2012Common Ground Theatre (www.cgtheatre.com) is a performance and teaching space located in west Durham, offering performing arts and educational groups a flexible, well-equipped alternative space.