BWW Review: A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE, Theatre Royal, Glasgow
Southern belle, Blanche DuBois, seeks solace with her sister, Stella, after her world starts to crumble. But her downward spiral brings her face-to-face with Stella's husband, the sexy but brutal Stanley Kowalski. As temperatures soar and passions rise, Blanche and Stanley battle for Stella's soul.
BWW Review: BLACK COMEDY at Ojai Art Center Theater
For the first ten minutes of Peter Shaffer's knockabout farce, Black Comedy, the stage is dark, as engaged Londoneers Brindsley Miller and Carol Melkett get ready to receive wealthy German art collector Georg Bamberger, who they hope will purchase Brindlsey's latest modern sculpture. But a blown fuse plunges their home into darkness, and that's when the lights on the stage finally go up. Confused? Well, the story of the anticipated sale of Brindsley's work is merely the MacGuffin in Black Comedy, something only the characters care about. What's important to the audience is the show's topsy-turvy lighting gimmick, one that gives Black Comedy its name: a riotous jumble of mistaken identities, complex blocking, and side-splitting slapstick. If everyone in the cast stays healthy, the show will run through February 14 at the Ojai Art Center Theater.
Orpheus Studio Productions & Lansbury Players Set FRANKENSTEIN: THE METAL OPERA Cast; Performances Begin 28 October
Orpheus Studio Productions and The Lansbury Players present FRANKENSTEIN: THE METAL OPERA, by Richard Campbell & Carol Pestridge. Directed by Alan Mandel. The cast includes Roy Ryan (A Midsummer Night's Dream, Frankenstein: The Metal Opera Workshop, Singin' In The Rain), Duncan Drury (Into the Woods, Entertaining Mr. Sloane, Rent), James Craze (Ernie, BBC Doctors, Frankenstein: The Metal Opera Workshop), Anya Hamilton (Frankenstein: The Metal Opera Workshop, Tess of the D'Ubervilles, Into the Woods), Max Panks (The Merry Wives of Windsor, Lost Boy, Frankenstein: The Metal Opera Workshop) and Charlotte de Paeztron (West End Gospel Choir (Various), Dick Whittington, Mean Girls - The Musical)
WSR Signature Theatre to Present 1776, 7/2-3
It's the summer of 1776, and the nation is ready to declare independence...if only our founding fathers can agree to do it! 1776 follows John Adams of Massachusetts, Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania, and Richard Henry Lee and Thomas Jefferson of Virginia as they attempt to convince the members of the second Continental Congress to vote for independence from the shackles of the British monarchy by signing the Declaration of Independence.
Circa Theatre to Host 'A Tribute to Richard Campion', Nov 4
Circa Theatre is honoured to join the Campion family in hosting a tribute to New Zealand theatre pioneer Richard Campion, who died in July of this year. Director Jane Campion will offer a series of free masterclasses at Circa today, 4 November, followed by a late afternoon tribute at the Paramount Theatre at 4pm and refreshments at Circa after 6pm.
Circa Theatre to Host 'A Tribute to Richard Campion', Nov 4
Circa Theatre is honoured to join the Campion family in hosting a tribute to New Zealand theatre pioneer Richard Campion, who died in July of this year. Director Jane Campion will offer a series of free masterclasses at Circa on Monday, 4 November, followed by a late afternoon tribute at the Paramount Theatre at 4pm and refreshments at Circa after 6pm.
Photo Flash: First Look at Lyceum and National Theatre of Scotland's THE GUID SISTERS
The Lyceum Theatre Company, Scotland's largest producing theatre, collaborates with the National Theatre of Scotland for The Guid Sisters, from the original French Quèbecois Les Belles-Soeurs by Michel Tremblay, translated by Bill Findlay and Martin Bowman and directed by Serge Denoncourt. The show runs now through 13th October 2012 Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh. The Guid Sisters will transfer to the King's Theatre, Glasgow from 23-27 October 2012. Get a first look at the cast onstage in the photos below!
STAGE TUBE: ME & MY DICK Creators Talk Premiere!
What started off as a small college musical at the University of Michigan made national headlines this week, when the cast album recording to Me and My Dick, featuring a book by Matt Lang, Nick Lang, Brian Holden and Eric Gale and a score by AJ Holmes, Carlos Valdes, and Darren Criss, made the Billboard charts as the number 15 best selling cast album this week. BroadwayWorld brings you an introduction to the musical via their premiere promo.