Photo Flash: Danny Dyer, Dani Dyer and Jo Brand Star in NATIVITY! THE MUSICAL
by Julie Musbach - December 20, 2018 Every child in every school has one Christmas wish, to star in a Nativity, and at St Bernadette's School they've decided to mount a musical version! Join teacher Mr Maddens and his assistant Mr Poppy as they struggle with hilarious children, and a whole lot of sparkle and shine to make everyone's Ch...
YOU AND ME AND CHRISTMAS! Grammy Winner LeAnn Rimes Celebrates The Holidays At The McCallum
by David Green - November 27, 2018 The McCallum Theatre presents LeAnn Rimes, with Barry Zito, on Saturday, December 15, at 8:00pm. LeAnn will present "You and Me and Christmas," about which she says, "I love everything about the holidays and want to share the magic and joy of the season with my fans. I look forward to playing some o...
PTC Presents ONCE ON THIS ISLAND
by A.A. Cristi - February 04, 2020 The professional regional premiere of the musical ONCE ON THIS ISLAND opens at PIONEER THEATRE COMPANY (PTC) on FEBRUARY 21, 2020 and runs through MARCH 7, 2020. Tickets for this production can be purchased by calling 801-581-6961 or by visiting pioneertheatre.org....
Two Holiday Shows Take The Stage At Goodman Theatre
by Julie Musbach - November 08, 2018 Tis the season for holiday theatergoing! This year, Goodman Theatre offers two choices for Chicago audiences-Charles Dickens' classic A Christmas Carol, now in its 41st year, and the Goodman debut of David Sedaris' contemporary, irreverent The Santaland Diaries, adapted by Joe Mantello....
The Ritz Theatre Company Presents Reimagined SCROOGE: THE MUSICAL
by Chloe Rabinowitz - November 26, 2019 This Christmas, the Ritz Theatre Company enters a new era, presenting a 'revitalized and reimagined' take on its annual holiday production of Scrooge: The Musical, a celebrated tradition that spans more than two decades....
THE HAPPY ELF Opens Tonight At Theatre In The Park
by A.A. Cristi - December 07, 2018 Theatre in the Park's (TTIP) INDOOR presents a wonderful gift this holiday season with the festive tale of THE HAPPY ELF. Composed by Grammy Winner and American Idol judge Harry Connick, this lively musical will entertain adults and children alike. THE HAPPY ELF opens Friday evening Dec. 7 for its ...
VIDEO: The Guthrie Theater Celebrates The Holidays With A CHRISTMAS CAROL
by A.A. Cristi - November 13, 2019 The Guthrie Theater presents the perennial holiday favorite A Christmas Carol, written by Charles Dickens, adapted by Crispin Whittell and directed by Lauren Keating. A Twin Cities holiday tradition for many, this season marks the Guthrie's 45th production, making it the longest run of A Christmas C...
KNITMAS Comes to Greenwich Theatre
by Stephi Wild - November 07, 2018 A daft and heart-warming Christmas show KNITMAS is coming to London's Greenwich Theatre this December....
Peter Mayer of Jimmy Buffett Band Releases Illustrated Christmas Book
by Kaitlin Milligan - November 01, 2018 Guitarist and singer-songwriter Peter Mayer, of Jimmy Buffett's Coral Reefer Band and The Peter Mayer Group, has released his first illustrated book for all ages, entitled A Junkman's Christmas Eve. The tale of Ernie the Junkman's journey to Christmas is a story rooted in Mayer's childhood and is br...
Guthrie Theater Announces 2019-2020 Season - CABARET, SWEAT, and More!
by Stephi Wild - March 05, 2019 The Guthrie Theater (Joseph Haj, artistic director) today announced the nine productions of its 2019 2020 subscription season: Tennessee Williams' classic family drama The Glass Menagerie; Shakespeare's rollicking comedy Twelfth Night; an adaptation of Emma based on the Jane Austen novel; and Kander...
Crystal Gayle Digitally Reissues 'A Crystal Christmas'
by Sarah Jae Leiber - December 13, 2019 Grammy®, AMA, ACM and CMA award winning country music singer and Grand Ole Opry member Crystal Gayle has digitally reissued her 1986 holiday album, A Crystal Christmas, for the first time ever. Like he did on You Don't Know Me, Crystal's son Christos Gatzimos, returned to the studio and remastered h...
Holiday Perfection at Gamm's IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE: A LIVE RADIO PLAY
by Robert Barossi - December 08, 2019 Nowadays, it seems that everything old is constantly being rebooted, updated, adapted, reimagined, etc. etc., so on and so forth. Any time something is re-imagined or adapted into something else, such as the many new Broadway musicals based on Hollywood movies, it can be a risky proposition. In the ...
LOS NUTCRACKERS Gay Latino Holiday Show Returns To BAAD!
by A.A. Cristi - November 22, 2019 The Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance proudly presents Los Nutcrackers: A Christmas Carajo, written by Charles Rice-González and directed by Fernando Vieira. This year marks the play's 16th year at BAAD!, and the second time that Vieira helms the work. The play interweaves two holiday classics, The Nu...
Adam Thomas, Jake Wood And Charlie Brooks To Star Alongside Simon Lipkin In NATIVITY! THE MUSICAL For Select UK Dates Only
by Stephi Wild - September 07, 2018 The producers of the smash-hit 'NATIVITY! THE MUSICAL', are thrilled to announce the return of Simon Lipkin as the hilarious 'Mr Poppy' after delighting critics and audiences in the show last year. He will play the role for the entire run opening at The Belgrade Theatre, Coventry on 23 October and f...
A CHRISTMAS CAROL Brings Holiday Spirit to Contemporary Theater Company
by Robert Barossi - December 08, 2019 At its most fundamental, theater is a group of people coming together to tell a story in front of an audience. In its earliest days, that's all it was, basic and pure, without any need for today's technological lights and sounds (not that there's anything wrong with those). Contemporary Theater Comp...
EBENEZER SCROOGE is Returning to The Pocket Sandwich Theatre
by Chloe Rabinowitz - November 26, 2019 Opening on November 29 and running through December 23 is their 38th season of Ebenezer Scrooge, a holiday tradition for many and so popular that it has become a much anticipated season at The Pocket Sandwich Theatre every year since 1981. The show is based on the age-old holiday favorite about the ...
Peter Mayer of Jimmy Buffett Band Releases Illustrated Christmas Book
by Kaitlin Milligan - November 01, 2018 Guitarist and singer-songwriter Peter Mayer, of Jimmy Buffett's Coral Reefer Band and The Peter Mayer Group, has released his first illustrated book for all ages, entitled A Junkman's Christmas Eve. The tale of Ernie the Junkman's journey to Christmas is a story rooted in Mayer's childhood and is br...
Pioneer Theatre Company Presents SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET
by A.A. Cristi - October 12, 2018 Just in time for the Halloween season, Pioneer Theatre Company presents the diabolical musical thriller Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and book by Hugh Wheeler based on an adaption by Christopher Bond....
Grand Theatre 125th Anniversary Pantomime, Nativity Musical And More For 2019 Season!
by Stephi Wild - December 11, 2018 There's plenty to celebrate as the Grand Theatre turns 125 next year! The streets of Wolverhampton will be paved with gold as the magic of DICK WHITTINGTON comes to the Grand Theatre!...
Children's Casting Announced For NATIVITY! THE MUSICAL In Wolverhampton
by Stephi Wild - September 06, 2019 Following fantastic auditions in Wolverhampton, the producers of the smash-hit NATIVITY! THE MUSICAL are delighted to announce the class of St Bernadette's for 2019....
Pioneer Theatre Company Presents THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG
by A.A. Cristi - November 18, 2019 Theatre-lovers are invited to the Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society's production of The Murder at Haversham Manor, via the Broadway and London hit comedy, THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG. It opens at PIONEER THEATRE COMPANY (PTC) on December 6, 2019 and through December 21, 2019. Tickets for this productio...
BPA's Irish Play Series Returns January 12 With THE SEAFARER
by Julie Musbach - December 03, 2018 Irish author Conor McPherson's play The Seafarer is a black comedy set over the course of a long evening of family, friends, and drink one Christmas Eve in Dublin. The play centers on James "Sharky" Harkin, who has recently returned to Dublin and moved in with his older, quarrelsome sibling Richard....
TV: First Look At A CHRISTMAS CAROL At The Goodman Theatre
by A.A. Cristi - November 25, 2019 Acclaimed Chicago actor Larry Yando returns for his 12th season at Goodman Theatre as Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol, directed for the seventh year by Artistic Associate Henry Wishcamper....
BWW Feature: The Twelve CD's Of Christmas
by Stephen Mosher - December 03, 2019 It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas. That's a sentiment that has been expressed for many years, sometimes merely through the utterance of the sentence, but usually through the singing of the popular song written by Meredith Wilson in 1951. While many attribute the song to the 1963 Broadway m...
Hershey Area Playhouse Presents THE HOMECOMING
by Stephi Wild - November 19, 2019 Hershey Area Playhouse will present the holiday production The Homecoming. Directed by Marcie Warner, The Homecoming is a heartwarming family story based on Earl Hamner Jr.'s novel and adapted for the stage by Christopher Sergel. The story takes place one Christmas Eve in 1933 as the Spencer family... |