KUSC & LA Master Chorale Announce 2-Year Broadcast PartnershipNovember 28, 2010The Los Angeles Master Chorale - the renowned resident choir of Walt Disney Concert Hall led by Music Director Grant Gershon - and KUSC (91.5 FM) - one of the largest and most listened to classical radio stations in the country - have announced a two-year broadcast partnership in which 14 of the acclaimed choir's Disney Hall concerts from the 2009|10, 2010|11 and 2011|12 seasons will air in two seven-week series, entitled 'The LA Master Chorale in Concert,' with the first series launching Sunday, December 19, 2010 and running through January 30, 2010.
Jazz Education Network Conference Honoring Performance in the Birthplace of Jazz, 1/5-1/8November 28, 2010Who: enthusiasts, vocalists, instrumentalists, arrangers, composers, administrators, managers, agents, journalists, historians, archivists, improvisers, educators, and students of the music from all age groups
Photo Flash: A VERY PHOENIX XMAS 5: REGIFTED at the Phoenix TheatreNovember 28, 2010The Phoenix Theatre of Indianapolis will produce A Very Phoenix Xmas 5: Regifted as its annual alternative holiday production from November 26 through December 19, 2010. This year's 'regifted' production, conceived and directed by Phoenix Theatre Producing Director Bryan Fonseca, is truly the result of work-shopping Phoenix Xmas shows for the past four years and coming up with a 'greatest hits' selection of music, sketches, videos and dances from past shows.
Titirangi Theatre Presents DICK WHITTINGTON AND BOB THE CAT- the pantomime, 12/1-12/19November 28, 2010Young Dick Whittington leaves his tiny West Coast village of Titibumbum and heads for the new Super City of OrkLand where he dreams of one day becoming Mayor. On his travels he meets Bob - friendly feline by day - but at a hint of trouble, he becomes Bob THE Cat! Self-proclaimed Superhero Feline and Protector of the Pet-Owning Way!
Meet the Proverbial Loons! Musical Comedy Improv at Castillo Throughout Dec.November 28, 2010Meet the Proverbial Loons, David Nackman, John B. Opdycke, Andy Parker, Marian Rich, Cathy Rose Salit and Frank Spitznagel on piano, Castillo's new comedy improv troupe. Veterans of New York and Castillo's stages, come together with some new faces to create new material each night. Audience member can volunteer, and watch your life transformed into a zany musical! Or just watch and enjoy the show. It's gonna be ridiculous - and wonderfully entertaining.
Every Christmas Story Ever Told (and then some!) Opens 12/10 at Pull-Tight Players Theater November 27, 2010What would happen if you gave five actors 90 minutes to perform every Christmas tradition, movie, TV special, and song? You'd get 'Every Christmas Story Ever Told (And Then Some!)'. The talented, if somewhat overwhelmed, performers (Robby Coles, Beth Henderson, Dresden Leebron, James Rudolph, and Owen Sullivan) each have to take on 12+ roles, from Rudolph to Frosty to the Grinch to Ebenezer Scrooge. Through it all, the actors keep the laughs coming, often improving to insure a new experience for every audience. The show promises to be a madcap romp, lovingly parodying many of the institutions of the season that we all hold dear.
Annual UNSILENT NIGHT Set for 12/18November 27, 2010On Saturday, December 18 at 7:00pm, composer Phil Kline will lead a massive chorus of boomboxes from the West Village to the East Village in the 19th annual holiday presentation of UNSILENT NIGHT. People gather at the arch in Washington Square Park, and less than an hour and mile later, end up in Tompkins Square Park.
Playwrights Foundation Presents 1st Annual San Francisco 1-Minute Play Festival, 12/18 & 12/19November 27, 2010It's theater boiled down to its essence. Sixty Seconds from lights up to lights down. The much-anticipated short-form theatre festival comes to San Francisco in partnership with new play development center Playwrights Foundation! Curated by Dominic D'Andrea, the program will present over 80 plays all under sixty seconds by some of the most exciting emerging and established writers in the American Theatre
Performance Space 122 Presents Premiere of BROTHERS & SISTERS & MOTHERFUCKERS, 12/15-12/19November 27, 2010Performed in Jibz Cameron (aka Dynasty Handbag)'s renowned comedic style, this unseasonable holiday anomaly probes deep into our inner familial issues. In a multimedia holiday extravaganza, five characters, all played by Ms. Cameron, sit down for dinner where hatred, secrets, psychic siblings, hexagonal twins, presents, explosives, love and much more are all on the menu.
GLEE Tops the Charts for the Second Week In A RowNovember 27, 2010For the second week in a row, GLEE has topped the charts. Gwyneth Paltrow's 'Forget You' cover on last weeks' episode was number one this week while Darren Criss' 'Teenage Dream' hit number one the week before.
Kyra Sedgwick 'Dream to Be in a Musical'November 27, 2010In a recent interview with The New York Times, Kyra Sedgwick, who plays Branda Leigh Johnson on 'The Closer,' revealed that she her dream is to star in a Broadway musical.