Festival Opera to Present OPERA IN THE PARK Concert This Month
Festival Opera will return to the beautiful setting of Orinda Community Park on Thursday, June 22 at 6 p.m., with the 13th Annual Opera in the Park concert. Free and ample lawn seating will await attendees along with a selection of food and wine trucks to enable their summer repast al fresco.
LITTLE MANFRED Comes to Soldiers' Arts Academy in October
Soldiers' Arts Academy will present a wonderful new adaptation of Little Manfred, at Polka Theatre this October Half Term. Little Manfred is a delightful story created by Sir Michael Morpurgo OBE, writer of War Horse which this year celebrates its 40th birthday, and has enjoyed both stage and film adaptations.
Dick King-Smith's BABE, THE SHEEP-PIG Returns to the Stage
Adapted from Dick King-Smith's much-loved children's novel which inspired the Oscar-winning 1995 film, Babe, The Sheep-Pig will be brought to life on stage in an enchanting new production, embarking on a major UK Tour in 2017 following a Christmas season at Polka Theatre. Featuring stunning puppetry, an original score and an utterly charming 'baa-ber sheep' quartet, the tour will launch from West Yorkshire Playhouse on Monday 13 February and run until September 2017. Full tour schedule attached; further dates to be announced.
Birch Brook Press Publishes Lavishly Illustrated Poetry Collection, 'Transformations,' by Lance Lee
A blend of poetry and visual art, author and poet Lance Lee melds narrative stylings of the 19th and 20th centuries into work suitable for the 21st century. Like the modern Greek poet-novelist Kazantzakis, he tackles a story as old as Homer and makes the story sing. This illustrated poetry collection includes original artworks by Michael Foreman, Anne Howeson, Laura Knight, John Robertson, and Ron Sandford.
Book Details:
'Transformations'
By Lance Lee
Publisher: Birch Brook Press
ISBN: 978-0984200351
Pages: 148
Genre: Poetry
About The Author:
Lance Lee is a poet, playwright and novelist. His previous volumes of poetry include 'Wrestling with the Angel,' 'Becoming Human,' 'Human/Nature,' 'Seasons of Defiance,' 'Transformations.' His poetry appears widely in the US and UK.
MacCallum to Appear at Duplex in MATCHMAKER, 10/2-3 &11/1
Matchmaker, Matchmaker: I'm Willing to Settle, a musical guide to Internet dating with Nikki MacCallum will be featured at The Duplex (61 Christopher Street at Seventh Avenue) on October 2 at 4:30pm, October 3 at 7pm November 1 at 7pm.
MacCallum to Appear at Duplex in MATCHMAKER, 10/2-3 &11/1
Matchmaker, Matchmaker: I'm Willing to Settle, a musical guide to Internet dating with Nikki MacCallum will be featured at The Duplex (61 Christopher Street at Seventh Avenue) on October 2 at 4:30pm, October 3 at 7pm November 1 at 7pm.
MacCallum to Appear at Duplex in MATCHMAKER, 10/2-3 &11/1
Matchmaker, Matchmaker: I'm Willing to Settle, a musical guide to Internet dating with Nikki MacCallum will be featured at The Duplex (61 Christopher Street at Seventh Avenue) on October 2 at 4:30pm, October 3 at 7pm November 1 at 7pm.
MacCallum to Appear at Duplex in MATCHMAKER, 10/2-3 &11/1
Matchmaker, Matchmaker: I'm Willing to Settle, a musical guide to Internet dating with Nikki MacCallum will be featured at The Duplex (61 Christopher Street at Seventh Avenue) on October 2 at 4:30pm, October 3 at 7pm November 1 at 7pm.
BWW Reviews: Nashville Opera's RIGOLETTO
Rife with corruption and intrigue, teeming with forbidden love and deception, Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto is among the most often performed operas in America - and Nashville Opera closes out its 2009-2010 season with a beautifully designed and sumptuously mounted production of the Italian masterpiece in Andrew Jackson Hall at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center. Yet, as exquisite as its physical trappings are, Nashville Opera's Rigoletto may be even more impressive in its artful musicality: it is rapturously sung by a deft blending of talented newcomers to the Nashville stage.