Lamb's Players Theatre is closing its 2009 Season with Tim Slover's historical drama, Joyful Noise. Directed by Robert Smyth and Deborah Gilmour Smyth, the show will play October 9 - November 22.
Yvonne Seggerman, Executive Director of The Sandra Feinstein-Gamm Theatre, is pleased to announce the hiring of Jessica Hill as the non-profit theater's first general manager, as well as the promotion of former Development Associate Brian Platt to development manager, also a newly created position. The combined hiring and promotion within the professional non-profit theater's staff is expected to help manage the company's consistent growth and new opportunities.
Village Players Theater is proud to announce two new Educational Opportunities housed under the Village Players Training Center: Village Players Youth Training Center and Village Players Professional Training Center. This fall the Village Players Professional Training Center will be offering Weekend Intensive Workshops at Village Players Performing Arts Center on Sundays in November and December from 9am-2pm for Adults. There will also be accompanying Weekend Intensive Workshops for Teens offered through the Village Players Youth Training Center in 'Mastering the Audition Process' and 'Off of the Page and Onto the Stage: A Shakespeare Intensive'. Cost is $75 per Adult Intensive; $50 per Teen Intensive.
Musical Theatre West is proud to present Meet Me in St. Louis. Meet Me in St. Louis previews on October 30th and opens October 31, 2009 and runs through November 15, 2009 at the Carpenter Performing Arts Center in Long Beach.
Kassie DePaiva, Kathy Brier, and Bobbie Eakes portray three of the most complicated women in the soap world, but harmony abounds at the St. George Theatre as this trio joins forces as the Divas of Daytime TV!
Centaur Theatre boasts a very Italian fall.
The following are SARTA's upcoming events.
The Broadway Theatre of Pitman is set to present A Neil Diamond Tribute starring Tom Sage. The event is set to take place on October 16th at 8:00 pm and costs $30.
Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific, directed by Bartlett Sher, will premiere in Chicago coming in November at the Rosemont Theatre. Based on James Michener's Pulitzer Prize winning book Tales of the South Pacific, Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific swept the 2008 Tony Awards®, winning seven honors including Best Musical Revival and Best Director for Bartlett Sher.
Nashville Symphony and Regions Bank host regions Free Day of Music at Schermerhorn Symphony Center
The following are the October-December events at the King Center.
The Whole Backstage Theatre in Guntersville announces a workshop for high school students who are interested in auditioning for a performing arts scholarship. The workshop will be held Friday November 13th from 4:30p.m. - 6:30p.m. and Saturday November 14th from 10:00a.m. - 2:00p.m. at the Whole Backstage Theatre, 1120 Rayburn Ave in Guntersville.
The NORD/NOBA Center for Dance, a cultural community partnership between the New Orleans Recreation Department (NORD) and the New Orleans Ballet Association (NOBA) offering free dance programming to local youth, has been selected to perform at three upcoming Louisiana arts festivals. The company will appear at the fourth annual Louisiana Dance Festival in Baton Rouge on Saturday, October 3, at the 34th annual Red River Revel Fest in Shreveport on Saturday, October 10, and at the New Orleans Fringe Festival on November 13, 14, and 15..
It's 'back to school' with CityRep! They're partnering again with UCO, who joined them in closing last season with Zombie Prom, and they're rocking the house and opening their eighth season with The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee! Tickets are on sale now for this Oklahoma Premiere of the Tony-nominated Broadway hit musical. Click here to purchase your tickets online NOW, or call the CityRep Ticket Hotline at 405.848.3761.
The Marriott Theatre continues its highly acclaimed 2009 season with Hairspray, the show the New York Post calls "A great big fat gorgeous hit!" This all-new production of the Tony Award-winning international phenomenon explodes onto the Marriott Theatre stage September 23rd. Direct from Broadway, where it played for over 2,500 performances, the production begins previews September 23rd, opens Wednesday, September 30th at 8 p.m., and runs through December 6th, 2009. Chicagoland favorite and multiple Jeff Award winner Marc Robin (Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, The Full Monty), has been tapped to direct and choreograph.
VIP tickets are now available for the holiday stage spectacular Junior Claus. Don't miss the chance to give your family an extra-special holiday present with VIP tickets that include a pre-show dessert buffet, meet-and-greet with Santa, special offer from Best Buy, and the best seats in the house! VIP tickets are available only for limited shows and limited rows so act now!
Click here to watch the sneak preview video for BETC's The Sunset Limited by Cormac McCarthy, opening October 9th!
The following is UFPA's calendar of events for October - December 2009.
The F.U.D.G.E. Theatre Company at the Arsenal Center for the Arts Black Box, Watertown, MA is set to present Nevermore. The show features music by Matt Conner and book by Grace Barnes. The lyrics are adapted from the writings of Edgar Allen Poe. Joe DeMita directs the show with muscial direction by Jason Whiting.
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