Greg Patterson Appointed New Executive Director Plano Symphony Orchestra
by A.A. Cristi - Apr 28, 2022
The Plano Symphony Orchestra has announced that Gregory Patterson has been named Executive Director. Patterson, who is no stranger to the PSO having served as Director of Development from 2018 until now, steps into the role following Robert A. Reed's resignation to accept a position with the Madison Symphony Orchestra.
Plano Symphony Orchestra to Present CIRQUE DE LA SYMPHONIE
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jan 26, 2022
Conducted by PSO Music Director and Maestro Hector Guzman and featuring eight guest artists, the concert will include the most amazing veterans of exceptional cirque programs throughout the world—aerial flyers, acrobats, contortionists, dancers, jugglers, balancers, and strongmen.
Brown Box Theatre Project Returns Summer 2021
by Chloe Rabinowitz - May 6, 2021
Brown Box Theatre Project has announced its 10th year of free Shakespeare with the troupe’s largest tour to date! After a 2020 postponement, Brown Box returns in 2021 with an extended U.S. tour featuring the comedy Much Ado About Nothing.
Brown Box Theatre Project Announces Free Summer Tour Of MEASURE FOR MEASURE
by Stephi Wild - Apr 8, 2019
Brown Box Theatre Project announces its ninth consecutive year of free outdoor Shakespeare with the troupe's largest and most ambitious production yet: Measure for Measure. Brown Box, under the direction of Executive Artistic Director and Co-Founder Kyler Taustin, will tour Shakespeare's timeless - and timely - tale of power, corruption, virtue, and honor down the East Coast as part of a seven-week tour to 27 outdoor venues in 35 communities 9 sites in Massachusetts (August 9-25), and 18 in Delmarva (August 29-September 21). All Measure for Measure performances are free, outdoors, and open to all audiences; no tickets are needed. Lawn seating, blankets and lawn chairs welcome. Please visit www.brownboxtheatre.org for full performance schedule and rain locations. Due to mature themes this show is recommended for ages 13 and older with the advisory of a parent.
THE HATEFUL EIGHT, HAMLET and More Set for 2016 SEE IT BIG! at Moving Image
by BWW
News Desk - Jul 29, 2016
In what has now become an annual summer tradition, Museum of the Moving Image will present See It Big! The 70mm Show, a screening series featuring eight classic and contemporary films photographed in 70mm that will be projected in 70mm in the Museum's majestic Sumner M. Redstone Theater.
THE HATEFUL EIGHT, HAMLET and More Set for 2016 SEE IT BIG! at Moving Image
by TV News Desk - Jul 22, 2016
In what has now become an annual summer tradition, Museum of the Moving Image will present See It Big! The 70mm Show, a screening series featuring eight classic and contemporary films photographed in 70mm that will be projected in 70mm in the Museum's majestic Sumner M. Redstone Theater.
TOSHA PENDERGRAST, A Dancer's Life
by Jeffrey Ellis - Feb 19, 2016
Here's a question you may have asked yourself about Tosha Pendergrast: When does she sleep? Mundane, perhaps - but it's a question that comes to mind when you realize that she's always working, whether she's teaching students at Lauri Gregoire's Bellevue Dance Center, choreographing her latest show (Dreamgirls opened just last week at Murfreesboro's Center for the Arts, Street Theatre Company's production of In The Heights opens in a couple of weeks), performing onstage (she was among the cavalcade of stars in the Music City Theatre Collective's debut production Showstoppers), doing television appearances (The Dance Network is calling) or just living life with her handsome and charming husband Benjamin Pendergrast (together they are the perfect couple, each devoted to the other)…
Actress Betsy Palmer Dead at Age 88
by Sally Henry Fuller - May 31, 2015
Actress Betsy Palmer, whose long film, stage and television career began back in 1951 in the early days of live television and who later found a new generation of fans in her role as Mrs. Vorhees in the cult film classic Friday the 13th, has died at the age of 88, it was announced today by her longtime manager Brad Lemack.