Opera San José Launches Season With All-New ROMEO & JULIET
Opera San José will launch its 40th anniversary season with an all-new production of Charles Gounod's Romeo and Juliet, directed by OSJ General Director/CEO Shawna Lucey, in her first production since taking the helm of the company. Romeo and Juliet follows on the heels of Lucey's critically acclaimed La Traviata for San Francisco Opera, which is scheduled to be remounted at Los Angeles Opera this fall.
Apple Unveils New Peanuts Programming With New SNOOPY PRESENTS Specials
Apple TV+ has announced a kids and family summer slate stacked with all-new Peanuts programming, alongside beloved and acclaimed returning series. “Snoopy Presents: One-of-a-Kind Marcie,” following endearing introvert Marcie as she helps her friends in her own unique way, premiering August 18, and the third season of “The Snoopy Show.'
VIDEO: Netflix Shares TELETUBBIES Trailer Narrated By Tituss Burgess
Join colorful friends Tinky Winky, Dipsy, Laa-Laa and Po on wonder-filled adventures as they learn and grow in this 21st century refresh of the beloved preschool series, now narrated by Emmy-nominee Tituss Burgess (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt). Watch the new video trailer now!
VIDEO: Apple TV+ Debuts LOVELY LITTLE FARM Trailer
Levi Howden stars as Jill, with Kassidi Roberts joining as Jacky, and the series also features the voice talents of Shirley Henderson (“Harry Potter” franchise, “Stan & Ollie”) as Quackety Duck Duck, Dominique Moore (“Thomas & Friends”) as Pickle Pony, Joel Fry (“Cruella,” “Paddington 2”) as Al Alpaca, and Canan Yildiz-Husbands as Bif & Bop.
HAVING OUR SAY Will Be Performed at The Ivoryton Playhouse
Catherine Williams* plays the role of Sadie and Hope Harley* plays the role of Bessie. The play is directed by Todd Underwood, Associate Artistic Director of the Ivoryton Playhouse. Set design by Martin Marchitto; costumes by Elizabeth Saylor; lighting design by Marcus Abbott and sound by Tate R. Burmeister
Different Stages Presents A DOLL'S HOUSE By Henrik Ibsen
Different Stages continues its 2018- 2019 season with Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House. The play, hugely controversial when first published and performed in Copenhagen in 1879, is about the unraveling of a family. Nora and Torvald Helmer believe they are happily married and on the brink of a blissful new phase of life; Torvald has been promoted to bank manager and their money worries are over. But Nora has a secret debt, incurred with good intentions and a forged signature, and with her husband's new power comes the threat of blackmail.
BWW Review: OUR TOWN at The City Theatre Austin
It's a bit embarrassing to admit that a life-long theatre junkie like me had never seen OUR TOWN until last Saturday night. I have read it and loved it of course; I am familiar with the plot, characters, etc, but had never actually experienced this American treasure and I am so glad and grateful I got to see this production. Austin Theatre lovers have a special affinity for The City Theatre I think because it's a 'neighborhood' theatre. Andy Berkovsky and company treat you like family and instead of dropping in for coffee, we drop in for some quality art time.
OUR TOWN, Thornton Wilder's Iconic American Play Comes to Austin in February
Coming in February, The City Theatre Company proudly presents the acclaimed stage classic Our Town, Thornton Wilder's great American play about family, community, and the value of life's most precious moments. Written in 1938, this moving portrait of small-town life won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and, with so much relevance, is still being produced in theatres today. It plays February 14 thru March 3 in an exciting original production at Picturebox Studios.
BWW Review: RHINOCEROS St. Edwards Stages Smartly Stylish Satire
RHINOCEROS was written by Eug ne Ionesco in 1959 and staged for the first time in 1960. Considered by many scholars as one of the best examples of The Theatre of the Absurd, this label was, in later years, rejected as too interpretatively narrow. Over the course of three acts, the inhabitants of a small town in France turn into rhinoceroses. Only one human resists this mass metamorphosis and that is the central character, B renger, portrayed in this production by Blake Browning. He is an everyman figure who is criticized first for his drinking, lateness, and unkempt appearance and later for his paranoid obsession with the rhinoceroses. The play is widely considered a criticism of the spread of Fascism and Nazism in Europe preceding World War II. It examines such themes as conformity, mass political movements, mob mentality, logic and morality.