Gotham Chamber Opera to Shutter Operations
BroadwayWorld has just received the official word that Gotham Chamber Opera is ceasing operations and will be closing. The Board of Directors of Gotham Chamber Opera voted today to shut down the organization.
Gotham Chamber Opera Names New Executive Director
Gotham Chamber Opera announces Edward Barnes as the company's new Executive Director, effective June 1, 2015. Mr. Barnes will succeed Gotham's previous executive director, David Bennett, who will become general director of the San Diego Opera. In addition, David Rubeo has been promoted to Associate Director.
Collegiate Chorale's Spring 2015 Benefit Raises More Than $300,000
The Collegiate Chorale raised more than $300,000 at its annual Spring Benefit featuring the U.S. premiere of Kurt Weill and Franz Werfel's The Road of Promise at Carnegie Hall on May 7, 2015. Proceeds will go toward The Chorale's artistic and education initiatives.
DUBLINERS: A QUARTET Set for Greene Space at WNYC, 6/28-29
James Joyce's Dubliners, once considered scandalous, sacrilegious - and, for a decade, unpublishable -- this year celebrates its 100th year in print. The stories in the collection peer into the lives of everyday Irishmen and women - the poor, the ordinary, working girls and wandering men -- portraying otherwise unremarkable people in some of the most luminous prose in the English language, recording their hopes and dreams, triumphs and tragedies in all their ragged humanity.
DUBLINERS: A QUARTET Set for Greene Space at WNYC, 6/28-29
James Joyce's Dubliners, once considered scandalous, sacrilegious - and, for a decade, unpublishable -- this year celebrates its 100th year in print. The stories in the collection peer into the lives of everyday Irishmen and women - the poor, the ordinary, working girls and wandering men -- portraying otherwise unremarkable people in some of the most luminous prose in the English language, recording their hopes and dreams, triumphs and tragedies in all their ragged humanity.
Producer, Writer Biddy Baxter to Receive BAFTA Special Award
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) has today announced that Biddy Baxter , television producer and writer, will be presented with the Special Award at this year's British Academy Children's Awards on Sunday 24 November at the London Hilton on Park Lane.
Diversionary Theatre Premieres SEXTET, 9/30-10/4
What do Walt Whitman, the rapture, and a gay bath house all have in common? Those are among the unusual subjects explored in the new gay opera Sextet, with music and libretto by San Diego composer Nicolas Reveles. Sextet sheds light on various aspects of gay desire: for community, for power, for acceptance, for family, for sex and for love. Diversionary Theatre will produce the world premiere of this new gay opera as part of its Queer Theatre-Taking Center Stage program, underwritten in part by The James Irvine Foundation. Sextet will be presented for only four performances between September 30-October 4.
Diversionary Theatre Premieres SEXTET, 9/30-10/4
What do Walt Whitman, the rapture, and a gay bath house all have in common? Those are among the unusual subjects explored in the new gay opera Sextet, with music and libretto by San Diego composer Nicolas Reveles. Sextet sheds light on various aspects of gay desire: for community, for power, for acceptance, for family, for sex and for love. Diversionary Theatre will produce the world premiere of this new gay opera as part of its Queer Theatre-Taking Center Stage program, underwritten in part by The James Irvine Foundation. Sextet will be presented for only four performances between September 30-October 4.
New Audio Theater Version of 'A Christmas Carol' Online Today
A new audio theater version of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol is the featured launch product for WYD Media Management's new online consumer entertainment digital destination, Spoken Word America. The new production, written and directed by Night Kitchen Radio Theater founder Arthur Yorinks debuts today
