English National Opera Will Perform THE TURN OF THE SCREW This Month
by Stephi Wild - Oct 3, 2024
English National Opera will present the opportunity for audiences in London to experience a new production of Benjamin Britten’s masterpiece The Turn of the Screw based on Henry James’s ghost story, with seven performances at the London Coliseum between 11 and 31 October 2024.
Rita Moreno, Ben Vereen, & More to Attend 2024 TCM Classic Cruise
by Josh Sharpe - Aug 27, 2024
EGOT-winner Rita Moreno, Tony Award-winner Ben Vereen, and stage and screen legend sisters Hayley and Juliet Mills are set to attend the TCM Classic Cruise, sailing October 26, 2024, from Fort Lauderdale to Cozumel and Disney Castaway Cay on the Disney Magic.
Summer Movies At Sarasota Opera House To Begin May 12, 2023
by A.A. Cristi - May 2, 2023
Sarasota Opera has announced the lineup for the 2023 Summer Classic Movies at the Opera House. The Classic Movies at the Opera House series featuring many beloved movies will open on Friday, May 12th at 7:30 pm with 2001: A Space Odyssey. Throughout the summer and into the fall, featured movies will include films ranging from the 1930's to the 1990's. Tickets will be $12 and will go on sale starting on Wednesday, May 3. Additional movie titles are detailed below.
Student Blog: Reflections on Selected Musicals
by Student Blogger: Alexandra Boccone - Sep 24, 2021
I was instructed to write my reflection in this format: favorite character, song, actor/actress, and production. While many of the shows my teacher told me to listen to were ones I was familiar with, it brought me great joy to explore musicals I have yet to discover then.
Theater Stories: CURIOUS INCIDENT, THE BAND'S VISIT, THE INHERITANCE and More About the Ethel Barrymore Theatre
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Apr 11, 2021
Today's Theater Stories features the Ethel Barrymore Theatre! Learn about Ethel Barrymore herself, shows to have graced the theatre's stage, including An Evening with Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin, Chaplin, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, The Band's Visit, The Inheritance, and many more!
Chiswick Playhouse Reopens With New Variety Festival
by Stephi Wild - Mar 23, 2021
Chiswick Playhouse will mark its reopening with a socially distanced festival of magic, musicals, comedy and more! There will be premieres, hilarious stand-up and dreamy music with artists including star of stage and screen, Phyllis Logan (Downton Abbey; Lovejoy); comedy legend, Andy Parsons (Mock the Week); and comedian and TV personality, Judi Love (Loose Women).
BWW Flashback: Getting to Know the Many Versions of THE KING AND I
by Nicole Rosky - Feb 16, 2021
Paramount Pictures will remake Rodgers & Hammerstein's classic musical, The King and I. Paramount reportedly intends to 'reimagine this classic story with a contemporary perspective that explores diversity and the contrasting worldviews of the characters by drawing from real history and the musical.' Before that happens, we're recapping the earlier versions!
Reimagined THE KING AND I Film Is in the Works
by Nicole Rosky - Feb 12, 2021
This news is something wonderful! Paramount Pictures will remake Rodgers & Hammerstein’s classic musical, The King and I. Paramount reportedly intends to 'reimagine this classic story with a contemporary perspective that explores diversity and the contrasting worldviews of the characters by drawing from real history and the musical.'
BWW Review: A Brilliant SEA MARKS from Stage to Screen at Irish Classical Theatre
by Michael Rabice - Oct 25, 2020
Even the untamable powers of the sea could not keep Buffalo's Irish Classical Theatre from beginning it's 30th season under a veil of a pandemic. Artistic Director Kate LoConti Alcocer has joined forces with Buffalo's own Pan-American Film Division to bring theatre into it's audience’s homes with their newest venture. And the result is captivating as we watch a powerful production of Gardner McKay's SEA MARKS filmed on the ANDREWS THEATRE stage. The intimacy that audiences have come to know and expect at Irish Classical is heightened without being overly cinematic in it's approach.
PLAY OF THE DAY! Today's Play: THE NIGHT OF THE IGUANA
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Apr 3, 2020
During this time when productions all over the world have been put on pause, we are coming together to celebrate plays that have left their mark on theater history.This week we will be focusing on the plays of Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, Tennessee Williams. Today's play, The Night of the Iguana!