Pull-Tight Players Theatre Announces Auditions, ElectionsApril 30, 2011Please join us for our next Artist Membership Meeting. These meetings are open to the public - anyone interested in learning more about Pull-Tight. We will hold a brief business and information meeting and then voting members will be electing 3 new members to our Board of Directors.
Special Price to See Comedian Butch Bradley 4/26 at Covina CenterApril 24, 2011One of the most popular stand-up comics on today's comedy circuit. A veteran of The Laugh Factory, The Improv, The Comedy Store, The Tropicana Comedy Stop, The Comedy Connection, and Comic Strip NYC, His experience has earned him opening spots for comics such as Ray Romano, Lewis Black, and Cathy Ladman. Also a featured comic at the 2001 Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, Colorado. Butch doesn't just warm-up an audience he sets them on fire!
Town Players Announce Auditions for SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER 5/9 & 5/11April 24, 2011Auditions will be held May 9 and 11 at 7:00 at The Little Theater, Orchard Hill Rd., Newtown, for Town Players' July production, Oliver Goldsmith's 1773 comedy She Stoops to Conquer, directed by Ruth Anne Baumgartner The famous eighteenth-century writer Samuel Johnson said of this play, 'I know of no comedy that has answered so much the great end of comedy-making an audience merry.'
Opera Idaho Presents La Fille du Régiment, 5/6 & 5/8April 24, 2011Hailed by the Times of London as an 'exceedingly yummy operatic cake,' Donizetti's rousing La Fille du Régiment (The Daughter of the Regiment) is one of Donizetti's most cherished - and perhaps one of the most vocally challenging - operas. It includes the famous tenor aria 'Ah! mes amis, quel jour de fête,' often described as the 'Mount Everest' for tenors due to its nine high Cs! Opera Idaho's 2010-2011 Artist-in-Residence, Tara Victoria Smith, stars as Marie.
Castillo Theatre Presents LICENSE TO DREAM, Opens 4/29April 24, 2011The Castillo Theatre (Dan Friedman, artistic director, Diane Stiles, managing director) is opening Fred Newman and David Truskinoff's musical LICENSE TO DREAM, Friday, April 29 and running through Sunday, June 5 with an official press preview on Thursday, April 28, directed by David Nackman and choreographed by Javier Dzul
STAGE TUBE: Edward Staudenmayer Talks WONDERLAND April 24, 2011Edward Staudenmayer, who plays the white rabbit in the new Broadway musical WONDERLAND, recently sat down to talk to CBS 2's Emily Smith about the play. Click below to watch the video.
Ryan Tracy's ALL ABOUT MARRIAGE In Page to Stage at Dixon Place, 5/23April 24, 2011The Page To Stage reading series at Dixon Place (NYC) will present an excerpt of ALL ABOUT MARRIAGE, the latest play by RYAN TRACY on May 23, 2011 at 7:30pm. Featuring Mikéah Ernest Jennings (The Shipment; Bellona, Destroyer of Cities), William Dixon Popp (Monodramas at New York City Opera; OTHER WORLDS), and Michelle Mola (Rumble Ghost). The reading is $10 and also features 'I'm Miserable But Change Scares Me' by Maxwell and Milo Cramer. For more information, please visit www.dixonplace.org.
2011 Fred & Adele Astaire Awards Nominees to be Announced at Theater Row's Firebird Russian RestaurantApril 24, 2011The 29th Annual Fred & Adele Astaire Award Nominees will be announced at a special reception hosted by Carolyn Kendall Buchter, Ronald Buchter, Cassandra Seidenfeld Lyster and Patricia Watt, Producer of the Astaire Awards at Theater Row's Firebird Russian Restaurant, 365 West 46th Street, New York 10036 on Tuesday April 26 from 5:30 to 7:30 pm. The 'Astaires' are the only awards to honor excellence in dance and choreography on Broadway and in film. Actor, Choreographer , director and dancer Lee Roy Reams will announce the nominees.
New Items Added to the The Gamm's Glam Night Auction, 4/29April 24, 2011To celebrate a Year of Premieres - including the North American premiere of PAUL and the Rhode Island Premiere of WHY TORTURE IS WRONG AND THE PEOPLE WHO LOVE THEM, The Gamm Theatre is throwing a red carpet party, and we want you to be there!
Opening Night Party for Performer KT Sullivan, 4/29April 24, 2011The Mad Batter, 19 Jackson Street, is hosting an after-show opening night party for KT Sullivan on Friday, April 29. Hors d'oeuvres are provided, with a cash bar, but no other costs, to come and meet this lovely Broadway and cabaret performer and her musical arranger and accompanist, Jon Weber.
KT is only performing for two nights in Cape May: April 29 and 30 at 8:00 p.m., at The First Presbyterian Church, 500 Hughes St. in Cape May.
Theatre Lovers Raise $587,000 at Berkeley Rep's Onstage GalaApril 24, 2011Last night, more than 360 people gathered to celebrate the neighborhood playhouse with the national reputation: theatre lovers, gourmands, and philanthropists stepped into the spotlight at ONSTAGE, a theatrically delicious feast held on the 43rd birthday of the Tony Award-winning Berkeley Repertory Theatre.
Taye Diggs Prepares for Solo Debut in MiamiApril 24, 2011Taye Diggs, who began his rise to fame after starring in the original cast of RENT, is preparing for a solo show at Prelude by Barton G at Miami's Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts. According to an article from the Miami Herald, Diggs is both excited and terrified about the show. 'I was 175 percent petrified out of my gourd. But then I thought, ‘If I can do this, then f**k the world!' Part of it was that this is Idina's thing. But she was 100 percent supportive,' said Diggs.