Bay Street Theater Announces THE GREAT GATSBY As 2018 Literature Live! Production
Bay Street Theater & Sag Harbor Center for the Arts is pleased to announce the tenth year of the Literature Live! program. This year's Literature Live! production will be F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, adapted for the stage by Simon Levy. Public performances are Thursday through Saturday, November 8 - 10, 15 - 17, and Thanksgiving weekend November 23 - 25. Tickets are on sale now and available online at baystreet.org, or by calling the Box Office at 631-725-9500. Private school group performances are Monday through Friday, November 5 - 25. To book a school group, contact mary@baystreet.org.
Joe Minutillo Directs Literature Live! Production of THE GREAT GATSBY at Bay Street Theater
Bay Street Theater & Sag Harbor Center for the Arts is pleased to announce the tenth year of the Literature Live! program. This year's Literature Live! production will be F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, adapted for the stage by Simon Levy. Public performances are Thursday through Saturday, November 8 - 10, 15 - 17, and Thanksgiving weekend November 23 - 25.
Photo Flash: In Rehearsal For PARADE at WaterTower Theatre
This Saturday, WaterTower Theatre will produce a one-night-only benefit concert production of PARADE, a musical the theatre produced 10 years ago in their 2006-2007 Season. Inspired by the true events surrounding the 1913 murder trial of Leo Frank, a Brooklyn-raised Jew living in Georgia who is wrongly convicted of the murder of 13-year old Mary Phagan, PARADE is filled with soaring music and a heart-wrenching story, offering a moral lesson about the dangers of prejudice and ignorance that should not be forgotten. Amid religious intolerance, political injustice and racial tension, the stirring Tony Award-winning PARADE explores the endurance of love and hope.
Susan Egan Weighs in on HAMILTON Controversy in Response to Larry O'Connor
Following the curtain speech made by the Broadway cast of Hamilton to Vice President-elect Mike Pence that took over the Internet, the resultant aftermath included an article from Hot Air writer Larry O'Connor (formally known by the alias 'Stage Right') titled 'And this is why I was a closeted conservative when I worked on Broadway' (sic).
BWW Review: THE SCARLET LETTER at The Bay Street Theatre
The latest offering from The Bay Street Theatre, Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, with an original script adapted for the Sag Harbor venue by Scott Eck and Joe Minutillo, will leave you unequivocally breathless. The cast is absolutely astounding delivering intense performances taking the audience on a true emotional roller coaster. Based on the classic novel, this thrilling production, part of Bay Street's LITERATURE LIVE! educational program (more about that below), runs through November 26th.
Photo Flash: First Look at THE SCARLET LETTER at Bay Street Theater
Bay Street Theater & Sag Harbor Center for the Arts is pleased to announce the eighth year of the Literature Live! program. This year's Literature Live! presents THE SCARLET LETTER adapted for the stage by Scott Eck and Joe Minutillo from the American classic novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!
WaterTower Theatre Announces Casting, Creative Team for PARADE IN CONCERT Benefit
???????WaterTower Theatre Managing Director Greg Patterson and Associate Artistic Director Kelsey Leigh Ervi today announced casting and creative team details for Parade in Concert, Directed by Kelsey Leigh Ervi, with Musical Direction by Scott Eckert. With Music and Lyrics by Jason Robert Brown and a Book by Alfred Uhry, Parade will play a special one-night only performance on Saturday, March 25, 2017 in the Canterbury Family Main Stage at the Addison Theatre Centre.
BWW Reviews: CURTAINS at Irving Arts Center
Often, we enter the theatre hoping to be moved, inspired, or educated. Other times, we go simply for the entertainment, and why not? Over at the Irving Arts Center, Mainstage Irving-Las Colinas and their cast of CURTAINS offers exactly that: a fantastic night of pure fun!
MainStage Irving-Las Colinas' CURTAINS Begins Tonight
MainStage Irving-Las Colinas closes its 2014-15 Curtain Up! season with the musical mystery, CURTAINS (book by Rupert Holmes and music by John Kander & Fred Ebb). The production opens tonight, July 24 and runs through August 8 at the Irving Arts Center's Dupree Theater (3333 N. MacArthur Blvd., Irving, TX 75062). Tickets range from $21-26 and are on sale now at the Irving Arts Center Box Office (972.252.2787/ www.irvingartscenter.com). Ticket discounts are available for seniors and students.
BWW Reviews: Bay Street Theatre's TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
Harper Lee's classic novel To Kill a Mockingbird is indeed an astonishing tale and the staged incarnation is just as powerful as the book first published in 1960. The story is Lee's account of her own observations of her own family and neighborhood in addition to an event that occurred in/near her hometown in 1936, when she was 10 years old.
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD at Bay Street Theater Begins 11/5
Bay Street Theater & Sag Harbor Center for the Arts is pleased to announce the cast of this November's Literature Live! production of TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, directed by Joe Minutillo. Performances will be held at the Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor, NY from November 5 to 29. Public performances will be presented on Friday's and Saturday's November 7-8, 14-15, 21-22, and Thanksgiving Weekend November 28-29 at 7 pm. Matinees will be held on Saturday's, November 15, 22 and 29 at 2 pm. Groups and weekday show times vary and are open to the public based on availability. Tickets on sale now at the Box Office at 631-725-9500 or online at www.baystreet.org.
East Lynne Theater Company Presents THE AMERICAN SONGBOOK, 11/8
On Thurs., November 8, the award-winning Equity professional East Lynne Theater Company presents 'The American Songbook' where all may test their skills with a Music Trivia Contest. Questions could be about a movie featuring a famous song written by Cole Porter, Bruce Springsteen, or Woodie Guthrie, or what were those lyrics to a song sung by Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, or Dolly Parton? How about what song was sung in which Broadway musical? To add to the fun, music is performed live by Chris Sooy, Lew London, and Grace Wright, and winners receive prizes. The evening begins at 5:30p.m. with hors d'oeuvres and a cash bar. At 6:00p.m. is a sumptuous dinner, and at 7:00, the competition begins! The MCs for the evening are Mark Lang and Scott Eck.