lunes, 7 de noviembre de 2011

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Entertainment: theater news


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Posted: 07 Nov 2011 12:52 AM PST

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Pasadena Playhouse gets direction from Sheldon Epps

Posted: 07 Nov 2011 12:52 AM PST

The artistic director for 15 years also has had a hand in guiding the company out of troubled waters into more stable times. 2 1 | single page Pasadena Playhouse artistic director Sheldon Epps, center, directs a rehearsal of "Blues for an Alabama Sky."

He's 'Bring It On: The Musical's' chief cheerleader

Posted: 07 Nov 2011 12:52 AM PST

Director-choreographer Andy Blankenbuehler tackles the challenges of bringing the cheerleading film to the musical theater stage. 0 1 | single page Spinning in air are Elle McLemore, left, as Eva and Taylor Louderman as Campbell in the musical "Bring It

Zimbabwe: Ownership of National Resources Plays Out On Stage

Posted: 07 Nov 2011 12:46 AM PST

Award-winning playwright Steven Chifunyise continues to tackle topical issues in his plays and this time he returns to Theatre in the Park with a thought-provoking production titled Indigenous, Indigenous, Indigenous. The play premieres on Tuesday and

Morris Panych's 'Vigil' darkly witty yet deeply touching

Posted: 07 Nov 2011 12:44 AM PST

A nephew 30-years estranged dashes to his aunt's home after she write a letter declaring she's on her death bed. White-haired and seemingly mute, the old woman doesn't seem quite ready to...

New exhibit helps revisit Carolina Theatre's legacy

Posted: 07 Nov 2011 12:43 AM PST

New exhibit helps revisit Carolina Theatre's legacy Source: News & Observer DURHAM -- In the Carolina Theatre lobby, you can see a poster for Katharine Hepburn in "The Philadelphia Story" on its early-'40s post-Broadway tour. You can see 1960s

Alameda and Oakland's Virago to stage surreal comedy

Posted: 07 Nov 2011 12:43 AM PST

Alameda and Oakland's Virago to stage surreal comedy Virago, a local theater company, will kick off its sixth season in November with a world premiere. It's a play about the time the Dodgers and Giants left New York for California. Well, sort of.The

Holly Theatre prepares for its encore

Posted: 07 Nov 2011 12:43 AM PST

Source: Mail Tribune The Holly Theatre's days of playing the faded beauty queen appear to be numbered. Work could begin as soon as next month on the first phase of the Jefferson Public Radio Foundation's restoration of the old theater in downtown

Simon Stephens: 'Pornography', Merlin Theater Budapest, 9 November

Posted: 07 Nov 2011 12:43 AM PST

"Simon Stephens' play Pornography is set in July 2005, when the London bombings took place. The author shows the few days between the Live 8 concert, the announcement that London had been awarded the Olympics and the July 7 bombings through everyday

Mahaffey Theater to get upgrades

Posted: 07 Nov 2011 12:37 AM PST

» 0 Comments | Post a Comment ST. PETERSBURG -- Visibly pleased with what the company has accomplished in 63 days since taking over the Mahaffey Theater, the city council gave Big 3 Entertainment the authority to make some changes on the property, with

GO-FAME

Posted: 07 Nov 2011 12:36 AM PST

provides children performing arts opportunities through classes and theatrical productions. They offer acting, musical theater, show choir and stage craft classes for children (8+) taught by entertainment industry professionals. During their show season,

One Flew Over Chapel Off Chapel

Posted: 07 Nov 2011 12:32 AM PST

This November, Melbourne's Human Sacrifice Theatre presents the Tony Award Winning play One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest in the Chapel Theatre at Chapel Off Chapel. Opening on November 24, this exuberant, boisterous and devastatingly honest portrayal of

Win Tickets to Songs For Nobodies, Brisbane

Posted: 07 Nov 2011 12:32 AM PST

  Bernadette Robinson's highly acclaimed one woman show  Songs For Nobodies  is opening in Brisbane this week, and AussieTheatre have 5 double passes to give away! 

Dyan Cannon, Lily Tomlin And Joan Van Ark Join Peace Over Violence Spokesperson Calista Flockhart In Honoring LAPD Chief Charlie Beck and Playwright Eve Ensler

Posted: 07 Nov 2011 12:32 AM PST

Lifetime Achievement Award Honoree and famed Playwright Eve Ensler along with Public Service Award Honoree LAPD Chief Charlie Beck joined Peace Over Violence Spokesperson Calista Flockhart and actresses Dyan Cannon and Lily Tomlin at the 40th Annual

Theatre Review (LA): Southern Comforts by Kathleen Clark at the Falcon Theatre

Posted: 07 Nov 2011 12:20 AM PST

Part of: StageMage Share Two seasoned pros are strutting their stuff on the Falcon Theatre stage. Michael Learned and Granville Van Dusen light up the stage in the Off Broadway hit romantic comedy Southern Comforts written by Kathleen Clark and directed

Theater Review (NYC): Clowns Full-Tilt: A Musing on Aesthetics

Posted: 07 Nov 2011 12:20 AM PST

Part of: StageMage Share "It's too white!" wails a member of the all-female troupe known as Clowns Ex Machina, staring in forlorn desperation at a blank canvas she's just thrust onto a wall. And with that we're dragged kicking and screaming – well,

Theatre Review (LA): A Conversation With Edith Head at the Odyssey Theatre

Posted: 07 Nov 2011 12:20 AM PST

Part of: StageMage Share Nine years ago, actress Susan Claassen was watching a biography about the famed costume designer Edith Head when she realized her physical resemblance to the designer was uncanny. After some research she realized that there had

Cringely's Lost Jobs Interview: Coming To a Theater Near You

Posted: 07 Nov 2011 12:20 AM PST

A few weeks ago, Robert X. Cringely revealed that a long-lost, hour-long interview he conducted of Steve Jobs in 1995 had been found. Now, it seems the lost tape has found its calling: the movies. Says the linked Economic Times story: "The interview will

Wearside Echoes: Haunted theatre spooks actors

Posted: 07 Nov 2011 12:04 AM PST

High pitched moaning noises, dark shadows, moving furniture, slamming doors and spooky black cat apparitions have all been reported at the Royalty Theatre. "Part of the building was apparently used as a hospital for wounded and dying soldiers during

An international dance icon’s majestic return

Posted: 07 Nov 2011 12:01 AM PST

As Nina Ananiashvili, in a flame-red catsuit and toe shoes to match, slithered across the stage like an elegant, loopy vixen in Dreams About Japan at Lisner Auditorium on Sunday night, she seemed light-years away from when we last saw her in Washington.

Kim Cattrall back in the city - on Broadway

Posted: 06 Nov 2011 11:52 PM PST

Source: CBS News To many viewers, Kim Cattrall will always be the one who put sex in "Sex in the City, but now, the 50-something woman takes the Broadway stage in Noel Coward's masterpiece "Private Lives." Tracy Smith reports. ... Read the full story at

Broadway's 'Godspell' revival proves heaven-sent for once-struggling cast

Posted: 06 Nov 2011 11:52 PM PST

Broadway's 'Godspell' revival proves heaven-sent for once-struggling cast Source: China Post Online All three -- George Salazar, Anna Maria Perez de Tagle and Celisse Henderson -- are overjoyed to be making their Broadway debuts this month in a revival

The Harp in the South a labour of love for Henry Lawson Theatre director

Posted: 06 Nov 2011 11:49 PM PST

The latest retelling of Ruth Park's classic about a poverty-stricken Irish family struggling to make ends meet in 1940s inner Sydney. The latest retelling of Ruth Park's classic about a poverty-stricken Irish family struggling to make ends meet in 1940s

Dance Theatre Review: Bangarra's Mathinna

Posted: 06 Nov 2011 11:43 PM PST

© The Cairns Post Bangarra's Mathinna is a tour-de-force of dance and emotion. At Cairns Civic Theatre on Tuesday and Wednesday night (Nov 1-2), this was the second time around for the troupe that performed Mathinna in 2008. Set in the 1830s, it follows

Manchester Orchestra brings enthusiasm, energy to Bourbon Theatre

Posted: 06 Nov 2011 11:39 PM PST

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'Thoroughly Modern Millie' brings 1920s to Millburn High School stage

Posted: 06 Nov 2011 11:35 PM PST

"Thoroughly Modern Millie" takes place in New York City in 1922. It tells the story of young Millie Dillmount, who has just moved to the city in search of a new life for herself. It's a New York full of intrigue and jazz; a time when women were entering

Czech Republics Black Light Theatre at Kingdom of Dreams from Nov 8

Posted: 06 Nov 2011 11:27 PM PST

After pioneering the Broadway style musicals in Indian through the enthralling musical Zangoora, Kingdom of Dreams is now bringing to India the Black Light Theatre, the unusual theatrical style from the Czech Republic. Beginning November 8, Kingdom of

Community theater: 'Fuddy Meers' combines comedy with tragedy

Posted: 06 Nov 2011 11:20 PM PST

Photos by Howard Waggner/Maricopa Monitor The Maricopa Community Theatre entertained with three performances of "Fuddy Meers" this past weekend. The play, which was written by David Lindsay-Abaire, follows a day in the life of a woman named Claire

Mad Cow Hosts Reading of Standing on Ceremony The Gay Marriage Plays, 117

Posted: 06 Nov 2011 11:19 PM PST

Mad Cow Theatre and producers Joan Stein and Richard Frankel Producersare pleased to announce that the new theatrical event Standing On Ceremony The Gay Marriage Plays, which premieres Off Broadway at the Minetta Lane Theatre in NYC this fall, will join

Three Days in May, Trafalgar Studios 1, London

Posted: 06 Nov 2011 11:15 PM PST

_ Plain sailing then for a dramatist? Rather the reverse. With so much handed to him or her on the silver salver of historic fact, the risk of dropping the foreordained goods on the nylon tile flooring of the dog-eared and oft-rehearsed is thereby

Blog: Fresh Young Writers, Tattered Old Seats

Posted: 06 Nov 2011 11:14 PM PST

The Royal Court's Young Writers' Programme has been running a series of writing workshops for local schoolchildren supported by the John Lyon's Charity, and the theatre hosted a showcase of their short plays on Saturday morning. I'm an adviser to ...

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