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Sarasota Orchestra Announces 2024-2025 Harmony Gallery Artists
by Blair Ingenthron - Oct 3, 2024

Sarasota Orchestra has announced six exhibitions at the Orchestra's Harmony Gallery to take place during the 2024-2025 season, including a collaboration with Booker High School featuring works by students from the school's venerated Visual and Performing Arts program.

Review: JULIA at Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre
by Barry Lenny - Aug 19, 2024

The opening night audience was ecstatic.

Banjoist/Vocalist Cynthia Sayer and her Joyride Band to Open The Glenridge Performing Arts Center Season
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Nov 1, 2023

Discover the captivating sounds of multi-award winning banjoist/vocalist Cynthia Sayer and her Joyride Band as they take the stage at The Glenridge Performing Arts Center.

Hosts Announced For AN EVENING WITH RICHARD DAWKINS Austalian Tour
by A.A. Cristi - Jan 19, 2023

World-renowned evolutionary biologist, author, and public intellectual, Richard Dawkins, makes his highly anticipated return to Australia in less than one month for a national tour, kicking off on Friday 17 February in Melbourne.

GREASE Comes to The Beverly Theatre Guild This Month
by Stephi Wild - Oct 10, 2022

Fifty years after its debut, “Grease” is still the word. The Beverly Theatre Guild kicks off its 60th season with a stage production of the knock-your-bobby-socks-off musical Grease at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 21 & 22 and 2 p.m. on Oct. 23 at the Baer Theatre at Morgan Park Academy Arts Center in Chicago.

Beverly Theatre Guild Chicago Announces Its Cast Of GREASE
by A.A. Cristi - Sep 16, 2022

The Beverly Theatre Guild has announced the cast for the opening show of its 60th season musical production, Grease.

BUDDY - THE BUDDY HOLLY STORY Will Open at NSMT in August
by Stephi Wild - Jul 27, 2022

The stage at Bill Hanney's award-winning North Shore Music Theatre (NSMT) is set to rock with BUDDY - THE BUDDY HOLLY STORY Buddy Holly rose to fame in 1956 and set the music world on fire, forever changing the face and sound of rock 'n' roll before his tragic end in 1959 – the day the music died. 

DE-CRUIT Presents Three Shakespeare Adaptations This Summer
by Stephi Wild - Jul 7, 2022

DE-CRUIT has announced a three-show series at Theatre Row July 15 through August 20. Each production is a two-person adaptation of one of Shakespeare's classics, written and performed by DE-CRUIT founders Dawn Stern and Stephan Wolfert.

Director Cecilia Robles' Film TINDER TANGO Announced As Official Selection Of Dances With Films Festival
by A.A. Cristi - Aug 26, 2021

Online dating takes a horrific turn on Cecilia Robles' short film Tinder Tango.  A dreamy Tinder match of two tango aficionados who meet for the first time, and it turns out to be a hell of a date. 

Parity Productions To Honor And Announce Winners Of Parity Commission Oct. 16th
by Julie Musbach - Sep 10, 2019

Theatre production company Parity Productions, a producer of new work that ensures they fill at least 50% of the creative positions (playwrights, directors, and designers) on their productions with women and/or trans and gender nonconforming (TGNC) artists, is hosting their third annual Awards Ceremony and Celebration on Wednesday, October 16 from 6pm-9pm at Theaterlab, honoring and announcing the winners of the third Annual Parity Commission.

A.R.T. Raises Record-Breaking $1.4 Million At April 1 Gala
by A.A. Cristi - Apr 4, 2019

The American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) at Harvard University, under the leadership of Terrie and Bradley Bloom Artistic Director Diane Paulus and Executive Producer Diane Borger, raised a record $1.4 million in support of the theater's artistic, community, and education programs at its annual fundraising gala held last Monday, April 1. More than 500 guests attended the event at the Boch Center Wang Theatre that celebrated Paulus' 10th anniversary season and honored Harvard President Emerita Drew Gilpin Faust with the theater's Angel Award.

Photo Coverage: Inside Ohio Artists Gathering's SUMMER OF '63 REHEARSAL
by Jerri Shafer - Aug 29, 2018

The inaugural Ohio Artists Gathering hosted its first public event tonight at Short North Stage! Pictured is the talented cast and creative team of an original show called "Summer of '63" written by York Walker and directed by Alan Jones. Tonight they welcomed the general public to sit in on a brief snippet of the workshop process that the actors must go through in order to take the show from page to stage. They will be performing "Summer of '63" as a staged reading this Friday at Short North Stage. Go to www.ohioartistsgathering.com for tickets and more details. Also, feel free to follow @ohioartistsgathering on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook to keep up on all the events happening this week.

REACH Starring Garrett Clayton, Jordan Doww, Joey Bragg, and Johnny James Fiore on DigitalHD and in Theatres October 19
by Macon Prickett - Jul 26, 2018

Freestyle Digital Media, the digital film distribution division of Byron Allen's Entertainment Studios, has acquired North American digital rights for REACH, the high-school drama about bullying from the perspective of the bully, the bullied, and the bystanders. REACH will debut on VOD and will be available to rent and own on digital HD across North American cable, internet, and satellite platforms through Freestyle Digital Media on October 19, 2018. Christian Meoli's Voltaire Media will theatrically release REACH in 10 major markets, day and date, including his Los Angeles theatre Arena Cinelounge, in Hollywood.

Review Roundup: Did the Critics Lay All Their Love on MAMMA MIA! HERE WE GO AGAIN?
by Julie Musbach - Jul 17, 2018

Get ready to sing and dance, laugh and love all over again! Ten years after Mamma Mia! The Movie grossed more than $600 million around the world, you are invited to return to the magical Greek island of Kalokairi in an all-new original musical based on the songs of ABBA. Let's see what the critics had to say...

Theatre Uncovered to Present BARE: A Pop Opera
by BWW News Desk - May 26, 2018

Theatre Uncovered returns with its third annual production, after producing Heathers The Musical in 2016 and Spring Awakening in 2017. BARE, by Jon Hartmere Jr. and Damon Intrabartolo, explores the relationships between a group of catholic high school students who are struggling to feel heard by church leaders and are desperate to hear the voice of God over their individual struggles. At the center of the story are Peter Simonds (played by Andrew Sabonis-Chafee) and Jason McConnell (played by Nicholas Carlin), two students who secretly are engaged in a on-and-off relationship. Both struggle to reconcile their love for eachother with their belief that being gay might be sinful.

Theatre Uncovered to Present BARE: A Pop Opera
by BWW News Desk - May 25, 2018

Theatre Uncovered returns with its third annual production, after producing Heathers The Musical in 2016 and Spring Awakening in 2017. BARE, by Jon Hartmere Jr. and Damon Intrabartolo, explores the relationships between a group of catholic high school students who are struggling to feel heard by church leaders and are desperate to hear the voice of God over their individual struggles. At the center of the story are Peter Simonds (played by Andrew Sabonis-Chafee) and Jason McConnell (played by Nicholas Carlin), two students who secretly are engaged in a on-and-off relationship. Both struggle to reconcile their love for eachother with their belief that being gay might be sinful.

Theatre Uncovered to Present BARE: A Pop Opera
by A.A. Cristi - May 22, 2018

Theatre Uncovered returns with its third annual production, after producing Heathers The Musical in 2016 and Spring Awakening in 2017. BARE, by Jon Hartmere Jr. and Damon Intrabartolo, explores the relationships between a group of catholic high school students who are struggling to feel heard by church leaders and are desperate to hear the voice of God over their individual struggles. At the center of the story are Peter Simonds (played by Andrew Sabonis-Chafee) and Jason McConnell (played by Nicholas Carlin), two students who secretly are engaged in a on-and-off relationship. Both struggle to reconcile their love for eachother with their belief that being gay might be sinful.

Photo Flash: American Conservatory Theatre Celebrates Artistic Director, Carey Perloff
by A.A. Cristi - Apr 11, 2018

With the help of celebrated guest artists,American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) raised $1.2 million at its 2018 Season Gala honoring Carey Perloff and her 25-year tenure as artistic director. Proceeds from the gala, held on Saturday, April 7 at San Francisco's Four Seasons Hotel, support A.C.T.'s professional training and education and community programs reaching more than 20,000 Bay Area-based recipients each year.

American Conservatory Theater Presents Its 2018 Season Gala Honoring Carey Perloff
by Julie Musbach - Feb 27, 2018

American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) and gala co-chairs Prisca Geeslin and Nancy Livingston are proud to announce A.C.T.'s 2018 Season Gala honoring Carey Perloff and her 25-year tenure as artistic director, taking place on Saturday, April 7 at San Francisco's Four Seasons Hotel (757 Market Street). Proceeds from the gala support A.C.T.'s professional training and education and community programs reaching more than 20,000 Bay Area-based recipients each year. Individual tickets range in price from $1,500 to $5,000.

The Frist Announces October-December Programming
by A.A. Cristi - Sep 28, 2017

Here comes the busy new season. First up, the landmark exhibition World War I and American Art opens on Friday, October 6, and as we hope you've heard, it features an impressive roster of heavyweights, including John Singer Sargent. Opening evening in our auditorium, Sargent's great-nephew Richard Ormond, CBE, will present a free lecture Mr. Sargent Goes to War. No one on staff can recall ever hosting a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, so this is big news.