Taraji P. Henson to Release New Children's Book YOU CAN BE A GOOD FRIEND
Actress and mental health advocate Taraji P. Henson, will release her debut picture book, titled You Can Be a Good Friend (No Matter What!) on June 18, 2024, illustrated by Paul Kellam. The story opens with a young girl named Lil TJ getting ready for her first day of school and telling her Grandma Patsy about making new friends. “Don’t forget, friendships take time,” Grandma reminds her, but Lil TJ throws herself into school with gusto . . . and immediately attracts the bullying attention of a boy who makes fun of her for her loud voice, colorful drawings, and larger-than-life personality.
Review: GREASE at Toby's Is Slick Production
GREASE, a perennial favorite for theaters and theater-goers, is quite the crowd-pleaser at Toby's Dinner Theater in Columbia, Maryland. It's full of fun songs you already know, excellent dancing and a tiny bit of plot. The cast is excellent and the staging is lively. It has many elements in common with the movie, but a PG rating isn't one of them.
Photos: THE LITTLE MERMAID Books Give New Look at Upcoming Live Action Remake
Take a new look at Disney's upcoming live action reimagining of The Little Mermaid through books The Little Mermaid: Make a Splash, The Little Mermaid Live Action Novelization, The Little Mermaid: Guide to Merfolk, The Little Mermaid: Against the Tide, and The Little Mermaid: Adventures on Land. Check out new photos of the book covers now!
Review: Suspend Your Disbelief: See GHOST THE MUSICAL At Toby's In Columbia
GHOST THE MUSICAL at Toby’s Dinner Theater in Columbia, based 1990's movie Ghost, starring Demi Moore and Patrick Swayze, offers romance, drama and retro vibes. The 1955 tune “Unchained Melody” strings the whole thing together. Cast and orchestra are harmonic and wonderfully watchable. Production values are excellent and dinner is delicious.
Photo Flash: Pittsburgh CLO Ambassadors 23rd Annual Wine Tasting
The Pittsburgh CLO Ambassadors 23rd Annual Wine Tasting and Silent Auction was held on Friday, March 6, 2020 at the Duquesne Club in downtown Pittsburgh. Featuring fabulous hors d'oeuvres, live music and an extensive silent auction including exclusive CLO packages, it is a once-a-year highlight.
Arizona Broadway Theatre Has Raised Over $140,000 in Support of Artistic & Educational Programming
Arizona Broadway Theatre's (ABT) 7th Annual Broadway Ball was a spectacular affair overflowing with champagne, chandeliers, guests wearing their very best, live performances, and loads of fun! ABT's annual event brought out over 300 attendees on Saturday, February 29, 2020, and raised over $140,000 in support of the theatre's artistic and educational programs. The festivities included a live auction featuring a Viking River Cruise, Sedona 'Cool Down' summer get-away, an exclusive in-home dinner for eight featuring ABT's talented culinary and service team, a silent auction, the all-new 'Bubbles & Barrels' sparkling wine and whiskey tasting experience, 'Gift Card Frenzy,' and the very popular 'Wine Pull.'
First Survey Of Rachel Feinstein's Three-Decade Career Opens November 1
The Jewish Museum will present Rachel Feinstein: Maiden, Mother, Crone, the first survey of the New York-based artist in the United States, from November 1, 2019 through March 22, 2020. The exhibition includes three decades of Feinstein's work in sculpture, painting, and video, as well as a panoramic wallpaper, a major new commission, and the artist's maquettes for sculpture. Taken together, the works emphasize the artist's fascination with dualities: her investigations of masculinity and femininity or good and evil echo her formal explorations of balance and precariousness or positive and negative space. Feinstein's art follows myriad lines of inquiry, but the idea of the feminine is central. She has made a sustained examination of the many ways this concept is manifested culturally. Female protagonists and figures proliferate in her work and bind it together across diverse media.
BWW Review: LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS by ArtsCentric at Baltimore Motor House - Full of Energy
You may have heard of the long journey of LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS from a 1060 Roger Corman horror film (with a young Jack Nicholson) to a 1982 Off-Broadway hit musical, a 1986 film with Rick Moranis, Ellen Greene, and Steve Martin, and a revival in 2003 this time on Broadway with Hunter Foster, Douglas Sills and Kerry Butler. And believe it or not, another revival coming to Off-Broadway previewing on September 17 and opening October 17 to the Westside Theatre Upstairs with Jonathan Groff, Tammy Blanchard, Christian Borle, and Kinglsey Leggs.
The Wallis Studio Ensemble Presents S.O.S.
The Wallis Studio Ensemble presents S.O.S., an original multi-media physical theatre work about love and resilience in times of crisis, directed by Madeleine Dahm, from Thursday, January 31 through Sunday, February 10, 2019 at the Circle X Theatre (Please note: S.O.S.is not being performed at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, but at the Circle X Theatre in Atwater Village). The production uses little known love letters by great writers and activists such as Vita Sackville West, Frederick Douglas, Maya Angelou, Tchaikovsky, Frida Kahlo, Virginia Woolf, Rainer Maria Rilke and others, along with original text, movement, film and photography.
BWW Interview: Theatre Life with George Caldwell
Today's subject George Caldwell is currently living his theatre life as one of the composers and the onstage pianist for the creative dance troupe Urban Bush Women. The company performs Walking with'Trane this Friday and Saturday in the Eisenhower Theater at Kennedy Center.