Final Season of 'Monday Nights, New Voices,' Premieres 1/8 with Marla MindelleJanuary 9, 2011Scott Allan has announced that this year will be the eighth and final season of 'Monday Nights, New Voices.' For the final season, Allan will celebrate some of today's brightest unheard talent and today's most exciting composers and lyricists as well as welcoming back some of the most successful alumni to host the final year of the series.
GROUP: A MUSICAL Premieres at the LA Theatre Ensemble, Opens 1/13January 9, 2011The Los Angeles Theatre Ensemble continues its string of original work with Group: A Musical. This world premiere, written by Adam Emperor Southard and composed by Adam Emperor Southard and Josh Allan Dykstra, uses folk and indie rock to tell a story about finding your peace that is both hilarious and heart-wrenching, melodic and moving. Group: A Musical officially opens January 13th.
MADAGASCAR LIVE Plays the Benedum Center, 2/4-2/6January 9, 2011DreamWorks Theatricals and Broadway Across America today announced that 'MADAGASCAR LIVE,' DreamWorks Theatricals' first-ever live family touring show will play the Benedum Center on Thursday, February 3, through Sunday, February 6, 2011.
Neil Berg Presents BROADWAY FOR KIDS, 1/16January 9, 2011Neil Berg is teaming up with ArtsRock to bring a very special kids' version of his '100 Years of Broadway' concert to his home county of Rockland. It's called 'Broadway For Kids!'
Pentagon to View THE GREAT GAME: AFGHANISTANJanuary 9, 2011The Tricycle Theatre is to perform its production The Great Game: Afghanistan for The Pentagon at the Shakespeare Theatre Company's Sidney Harman Hall, for two performances only. The two trilogy days - presented by the Tricycle Theatre, The Bob Woodruff Foundation, British Council and Shakespeare Theatre Company - will be performed to audiences of policy and decision makers, military and government officials, service members, veterans and their families.
Esprit Orchestra Presents THE RIVER, 1/30January 8, 2011The first Esprit Orchestra concert of 2011 features a wide variety of works, from a small gem to the humorous, to the broad and expansive. The first half of the concert features works all under 10 minutes each: José Evangelista's Symphonie minute; György Ligeti's Lux aeterna, sung by the Elmer Iseler Singers (this work is famous from the Kubrick film '2001: A Space Odyssey';) and Canadian composer Douglas Schmidt's Discouraged Passion, a humorous tale of a guy who's scared of his girlfriend's mother.
Legally Blonde Evening Performance to Run as Scheduled January 8, 2011The Sunday evening performance (7:30pm) of Legally Blonde will go on as scheduled. The National Weather Service has indicated, as of Noon, January 8, that the predicted snow storm will arrive between 8pm-10pm on Sunday evening. The chance for snow at 8pm is 40% and the chance for snow at 10pm is 50%. The evening performance of Legally Blonde will let out at 9:50pm.
'Ultimate Drag Off' to Open Off B'way 1/15January 8, 2011The new interactive musical comedy, ‘The Ultimate Drag Off' will officially open Off-Broadway at: The COMIX THEATRE, 353 WEST 14th St, NY NY 10014 on January 15th, 2011.
Gwyneth Paltrow to Return to GLEEJanuary 8, 2011According to the Huffington Post, Gwyneth Paltrow will return to GLEE for two episodes, playing a sex-education teacher who dates Mr. Schuester.