viernes, 18 de febrero de 2011

Entertainment: theater news

Entertainment: theater news


Mixed Blood Theatre Presents AGNES UNDER THE BIG TOP Beginning 218

Posted: 18 Feb 2011 12:51 AM PST

Mixed Blood Theatre presents the world premiere of AGNES UNDER THE BIG TOP, a tall tale, Aditi Brennan Kapil's funny and powerful new work that imagines the intersecting lives of immigrants in today's America. Kapil also directs this magical adventure, a

AMC Theaters' Best Picture Marathon draws in the movie fans and masochists

Posted: 18 Feb 2011 12:48 AM PST

Many avid consumers of entertainment are suckers for marathons. Gamers do it all the time and I'm sure many music lovers are in the midst of their Radiohead marathons in anticipation for this weekend's new album. Movie fans? For the past several years,

Quiet Milton Jones is king of the one-liner

Posted: 18 Feb 2011 12:45 AM PST

For years Milton Jones has been honing his comic skills. Now he's taking on his biggest challenge yet. Roz Laws reports. Comedians may seem a jovial bunch, but joke theft is considered a deadly serious matter. At the centre of a recent row was Keith

Review: Journey?s End, at Malvern Festival Theatre

Posted: 18 Feb 2011 12:45 AM PST

R C Sherriff's First World War play proved an international hit in 1929 despite being comprehensively rejected by the London theatre establishment. More recent attempts to revive it, including this award-winning one originally directed by David

Review: Matthew Bourne?s Cinderella, at Birmingham Hippodrome

Posted: 18 Feb 2011 12:45 AM PST

Matthew Bourne is the king of the caricature. His dancers are more like cartoon characters than ballerinas with edgy, exaggerated movements that make their personalities come alive on the stage. Fascinated by the dark undertone of Prokofiev's score of

Bruce Mason Centre Announces FebruaryMarch Events

Posted: 18 Feb 2011 12:35 AM PST

Mums n Kids Magical Storytime - Every Tuesday & Friday @ 10am. Kids come sit on the mat and be swept away to a land of stories and fun. Stories and characters change every show. Kids $5 under 1's free with a paying child. Auckland Arts Festival -

Vintage Domingo

Posted: 18 Feb 2011 12:33 AM PST

Oreste is by no means a show-off role, musically or dramatically: there are no prolonged high notes, no long, lyrical melodies to spin, and the character, mired in the agony of his unhappy destiny, has no moments to display the sort of crowd-pleasing

Watching Plácido Domingo as Oreste on the recent opening night of Iphigénie en Tauride at the Met (Feb. 12), I could not help...

Posted: 18 Feb 2011 12:33 AM PST

Oreste is by no means a show-off role, musically or dramatically: there are no prolonged high notes, no long, lyrical melodies to spin, and the character, mired in the agony of his unhappy destiny, has no moments to display the sort of crowd-pleasing

Anna Netrebko Withdraws from February 19 Don Pasquale Broadcast

Posted: 18 Feb 2011 12:33 AM PST

The Metropolitan Opera announced today that soprano Anna Netrebko has withdrawn from the Saturday, February 19 broadcast of Don Pasquale, because of illness. The matinee performance, scheduled for 1:00 P.M., will feature Australian soprano Rachelle

The Metropolitan Opera's 2011â12 Season to Feature Final Ring Installments, Company Premiere of Anna Bolena, World Premiere of The Enchanted IslandÂ

Posted: 18 Feb 2011 12:33 AM PST

The Metropolitan Opera's 2011–12 Season to Feature Final Ring Installments, Company Premiere of Anna Bolena, World Premiere of The Enchanted Island  New productions include Don Giovanni, Faust, Manon  General manager Peter Gelb and music director

Spring is on the way with highs in the lower 70s

Posted: 18 Feb 2011 12:33 AM PST

Spring is on the way. Patchy fog this morning and evening. Highs in the lower 70s inland and upper 60s at the beaches. Lows in the lower 50s. Forecast Today: Partly cloudy. Patchy fog. Highs in the lower 70s, except in the upper 60s at the beaches.

Letters to the Editor - Feb. 18, 2011

Posted: 18 Feb 2011 12:33 AM PST

Goolsby said he was a small-government wolf. Turns out he was another socialist sheep in wolf?s clothing. Tim Fuller, Wilmington The Star News? Cape Fear Public Utilities articles on rate increases, investments, inherited debt and more have been

Editorial - The end of film incentives likely would mean the end of many jobs

Posted: 18 Feb 2011 12:33 AM PST

Incentives offered by other states put a huge dent in North Carolina?s status as a filmmaking hub. To remain competitive the state has upped the tax credit to 25 percent of qualified production expenses and made other significant revisions to put our

Weekly News Quiz - Feb. 18

Posted: 18 Feb 2011 12:33 AM PST

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Family fairy tale fun from amateur theatre society

Posted: 18 Feb 2011 12:32 AM PST

Snow White and the Seven Dwarves is on at Haughley Village Hall from February 24 to 26 at 7.30pm and on February 25 and 26 at 2pm. For details and tickets call Sally on 01449 770391. Tickets are £4. Logged in as: Start typing your comment here: Post

Local theater showing Best Picture nominees

Posted: 18 Feb 2011 12:31 AM PST

AMC theaters are rolling out the red carpet just in time for Oscars.

OLYMPIA: Kucinich to drop by Capitol Theater

Posted: 18 Feb 2011 12:30 AM PST

Rep. Dennis Kucinich will head to Thurston County in February to speak about the cost of wars. Kucinich settles suit over pit in sandwich Rep. Dennis Kucinich said Friday that he settled a lawsuit filed against a Capitol Hill cafeteria over a split tooth

USC Annenberg Announces Seventh NEA Arts Journalism Institute in Theater and Musical Theater (2/17/11)

Posted: 18 Feb 2011 12:22 AM PST

WASHINGTON, Feb. 17 -- The National Endowment for the Arts issued the following news release: The University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism

TV funnymen bring in the laughs at theatre

Posted: 18 Feb 2011 12:19 AM PST

A TRIO of laughs will be coming to Wakefield for a night of fast-paced comedy.

Theatre Macon’s silver season begets ‘Steel Magnolias’

Posted: 18 Feb 2011 12:16 AM PST

�The only thing that separates us from the animals is our ability to accessorize.� That line from the play �Steel Magnolias� encapsulates the precise reason that director Jim Crisp chose the play for this season. �It has become part of our

Theatre

Posted: 18 Feb 2011 12:16 AM PST

Goethe Institute/ Max-Mueller Bhavan invites you to a documentary theatre performance ?A Small, Small World? by Konradin Kunze and Sophia Stepf, based on the story by the same name by Philip Haucke. Venue: Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan, 716 CMH

Laugh Factory to lease former Lakeshore Theatre

Posted: 18 Feb 2011 12:15 AM PST

The Los Angeles comedy club known as The Laugh Factory is opening an outpost in Chicago and will book stand-up at the Lakeshore Theatre at 3175 N. Broadway on Chicago's North Side. The seats are going and will be replaced with tables and chairs, in the

"Rape of Lucretia" im Theater an der Wien

Posted: 18 Feb 2011 12:12 AM PST

Februar gefeiert htte. mehr Vor kurzem stellte der 72-jhrige Theaterkritiker Peter Iden im SN-Interview fest, es schwappe eine Schmuddelwelle ber das deutschsprachige Theater. Die SN fragten dazu einen jungen Schauspieler und Regisseur, den 30-jhrigen

"Mamma Mia!"

Posted: 18 Feb 2011 12:08 AM PST

Attention, dancing queens: Check this out at the Kentucky Center

The Peking Acrobats

Posted: 18 Feb 2011 12:08 AM PST

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Two guys, one theater, one dream

Posted: 18 Feb 2011 12:07 AM PST

Sometimes you have a dream so audacious you wonder if the naysayers might be correct. Oanh Nguyen, Casey Long and several others started dreaming such a dream in the 1990s. And they never let the doubters get them down. They wanted to create their own

Piloting new tunes

Posted: 18 Feb 2011 12:07 AM PST

WILLIAMSTOWN -- The Brooklyn-based sextet White Rabbits will make its Western Massachusetts premiere next Fridayat the Francine and Sterling Clark Art Institute; between gigs at the Paradise in Boston and the Bowery Ballroom in New York City. "We've

Ohio, 1960s: Roots of a 'rock star'

Posted: 18 Feb 2011 12:07 AM PST

From left, Tim Farkas, Norm Schaffer and Michelle Plouffe rehearse in Lenox for Mountain Breeze's opening set at the Unicorn Theatre on March 4. Beatlemania swept the country in the 1960s, but in my home in northeastern Ohio, I was more of a Monkees

Body of Knowledge at Square Space Theatre

Posted: 18 Feb 2011 12:07 AM PST

Choreographer/dancer Vusi Makanya launched his Dusi Dance Company last year (2010). The company's mission is to "promote an understanding of the human experience 'within the African context' through dance and storytelling and to provide sensory

Staging 'Jesus Christ Superstar' is theater director's idea of a miracle

Posted: 18 Feb 2011 12:06 AM PST

For Michael Brindisi, bringing "Jesus Christ Superstar" to the Chanhassen Dinner Theatres main stage has been, well, a religious experience. He uses a stream of adjectives to describe the show opening tonight at the suburban dinner-theater complex:

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