lunes, 3 de octubre de 2011

Entertainment: theater news

Entertainment: theater news


New Music: New Ensemble | Soundstream Collective

Posted: 03 Oct 2011 01:25 AM PDT

Adelaide's curator of the Soundstream Festival, Gabriella Smart and the University of Adelaide launched the Soundstream Collective with a concert in Elder Hall on 30 September 2011. The event signalled vital classical new music creativity which is to

Spring Awakening | MUST and MAPA

Posted: 03 Oct 2011 01:25 AM PDT

Perhaps most well-known for launching the career of Glee star Lea Michele, Spring Awakening has a lot to answer for. Originally written in 1891 by German playwright Frank Wedekind the controversial play was first staged in 1906 in Berlin and was

Exotica | Marawa

Posted: 03 Oct 2011 01:25 AM PDT

Alumni of NICA (National Institute of Circus Arts) are spread far and wide across the globe working their skills and tricks in shows, festivals, theatres and beyond. The inaugural Melbourne Circus Festival (based at NICA) was a chance for some of them to

Prometheus Selling Actors Bible ‘Back Stage’

Posted: 03 Oct 2011 01:20 AM PDT

The Hollywood Reporter's Parent Company Continues To Cost Cut: Prometheus Pulled Plug On Hollywood Creative Directory EXCLUSIVE: The Hollywood Reporter's parent company is unloading more assets to cut costs. Still, the sale of Back Stage is a

Fort Wayne arts group plans black box theater

Posted: 03 Oct 2011 01:15 AM PDT

ans black box theater Updated: HEADLINES FORT WAYNE - A group working to create an arts campus in Fort Wayne has announced plans to build a 200-seat black box theater aimed at being an arts incubator. The Journal Gazette reports that the next phase of

Theatre artists continue to promote artistic skills

Posted: 03 Oct 2011 01:05 AM PDT

Filed Under: kashmir SRINAGAR, Oct 2: Theatre artists continue to promote their artistic skills and performance not only in Kashmir but other parts of the country to promote Kashmiri art, language, literature, culture and customs. For the purpose, a

New music therapy centre opened by Andrew Lloyd Webber

Posted: 03 Oct 2011 12:59 AM PDT

A new music therapy unit based in the grounds of Croydon's Brit school was opened by Andrew Lloyd Webber yesterday. Earlier this year a grant of £250,000 was awarded to Nordoff Robbins, a music therapy charity, by the Andrew Lloyd Webbed Foundation. The

The Phantom at 25

Posted: 03 Oct 2011 12:57 AM PDT

If the Vegas version of the show calls itself Phantom - the Las Vegas Spectacular — and whose original star Sierra Boggess was coincidentally reprising her performance as Christine from that show here, having subsequently originated the same role in

Meet, Greet, Sing & Play Roadshow The Capitol Theatre, Horsham Saturday 15th October 2011 from 11:00am & 2:00pm Join Katy for an hour of simple fun and play. Learn the raisin face, explore the magic suitcase, join in with the story making and help do some

Posted: 03 Oct 2011 12:57 AM PDT

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Cal Shakes sexes up Shakespeare?s ?The Taming of the Shrew?

Posted: 03 Oct 2011 12:51 AM PDT

With ticket in hand, I approached the showing of William Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew." Drawing closer to Cal Shake's amphitheater, the unexpected thud of club music echoed around the courtyard. The front of the press packet read

Sounds of Silence

Posted: 03 Oct 2011 12:51 AM PDT

The grand fantasy of spending every last dime on a train ticket to get to Hollywood in the hopes of making it big sets the stage for the American Conservatory Theater's latest production, "Once in a Lifetime." Written in the early 1930s by the

Ministry upgrades operating theatres

Posted: 03 Oct 2011 12:46 AM PDT

The Health Ministry is lifting the standard of operating theatres in the north and west. Minister Dr Neil Sharma told FBC News - operating theatres at the CWM Hospital have been upgraded and focus will now move to other areas. He says theatres in the

Architect of Guatemala's National Theater dies

Posted: 03 Oct 2011 12:44 AM PDT

The architect who designed Guatemala's majestic National Theater has died from gastrointestinal problems. He was 83. The Central American country's cultural ministry says artist Efrain Recinos died in a Guatemala City hospital, where he had been taken

Sexy Flirt turns on audiences

Posted: 03 Oct 2011 12:42 AM PDT

Kathryn Delaney, Zoe Cooper and Lawrence Ashford. Picture: Marcus Whisson WHEN a young Perth theatre collective premiered its titillating play Flirt Fiction at the recent 2011 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, it certainly hit the spot with audiences. "Some

New form of opera shimmers

Posted: 03 Oct 2011 12:42 AM PDT

THE traditional view of opera with fat ladies and short tenors singing with their arms out to the audience and bellowing away as the orchestra ploughs on is very outmoded, says accomplished Perth composer and musician David Pye. In an attempt to do away

Lloyd Webber joins Corn Exchange

Posted: 03 Oct 2011 12:37 AM PDT

Cellist Julian Lloyd Webber has been named as Cambridge Corn Exchange's artist-in-residence. The world-renowned musician said he accepted the role as Cambridge was steeped in musical history, and the Corn Exchange – which celebrates its 25th

Lauren Caserta: Unsung heroes of theater

Posted: 03 Oct 2011 12:28 AM PDT

The descent of the stage curtain has long signaled a traditional end to the careful artistic façade of a play, opera or ballet. But while the actors can pause and emerge from the woodwork to take their bows and soak up the applause of the audience, a

Broadway Drama Turned Samuel L Jackson On To Crack Cocaine

Posted: 03 Oct 2011 12:24 AM PDT

Samuel L. Jackson has bad memories of his first stint on Broadway - because it led to a crack cocaine addiction that almost killed him. The movie star, who will return to the New York stage this month (Oct11) as Martin Luther King, Jr. in The

Theatre: Ganesh Versus The Third Reich ***

Posted: 03 Oct 2011 12:23 AM PDT

Ganesh Versus The Third Reich Source: Supplied BACK to Back Theatre's new show challenges our preconceptions about disability and dignity. But Ganesh Versus The Third Reich _ with one narrative thread based in mythological realms and the other firmly

Theatre: Half-Real ***

Posted: 03 Oct 2011 12:23 AM PDT

Half-Real Source: Supplied BLEND a murder mystery with an interactive video game, projected digital imagery, characters and dialogue, then give the audience digital, handheld devices to choose the direction of the narrative, and you have Half-Real. At

West End show rocks for Pudsey

Posted: 03 Oct 2011 12:19 AM PDT

A West End musical which transforms the theatre into a bourbon bar serving alcohol to customers at their seats is raising money for Children in Need. Rock of Ages, which is set in the 80s, stars 2005's X Factor winner Shayne Ward and presenter Justin Lee

Airport's £500 grant for theatre group

Posted: 03 Oct 2011 12:13 AM PDT

THE East Leake Amateur Players (ELAPS) have received a 500 boost from East Midlands Airport. The grant will allow the group to buy new stage equipment. They were given the money as part of the airport's pledge to help community projects. ELAPS shares the

Crooks onstage (Madoff, et al.)

Posted: 03 Oct 2011 12:08 AM PDT

WASHINGTON Bernard L. Madoff, the reviled mastermind of the Ponzi scheme that appalled the world just as the financial tailspin began, has faded from the front pages, his monstrous crimes overshadowed by the continuing financial woes that lack easily

'Newsies the Musical': Sing all about it

Posted: 03 Oct 2011 12:08 AM PDT

"Newsies the Musical" transfers a 1992 Disney film to the stage at the Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn, N.J. More Photos � With its spring-loaded backflips, airborne spins, rambunctious kicks and balletic pivots, the athletic ensemble in Newsies the

'Play It Cool': Sexuality in 1950s Hollywood

Posted: 03 Oct 2011 12:08 AM PDT

The opening scenes of Play It Cool, a new musical about a gay jazz club in 1950s Hollywood, promise mystery, scandal, provocation, eroticism and moral outrage. Unfortunately, the show is so busy bragging about its potential for these enticements that it

Cool Hand Luke, Starring Marc Warren, Opens Oct. 3 at West End's Aldwych Theatre

Posted: 03 Oct 2011 12:05 AM PDT

Marc Warren Photo by Alastair Muir Marc Warren (West End's The Rise and Fall of Little Voice) stars in Cool Hand Luke, a new stage adaptation of Donn Pearce's 1965 novel of the same name, which officially opens Oct. 3 at the West End's Aldwych Theatre,

Betsy Aidem, Quincy Tyler Bernstine, Reed Birney, et al. Set for Adam Rapp's DREAMS OF FLYING, Opens 10/3

Posted: 02 Oct 2011 11:54 PM PDT

Atlantic Theater Company has announced that Betsy Aidem, Quincy Tyler Bernstine, Reed Birney, Christine Lahti, Shane McRae, Cotter Smith, and Katherine Waterston will star in the world premiere of Adam Rapp's DREAMS OF FLYING DREAMS OF FALLING, directed

Bangalore Little Theatre relives India's political past on stage in Caribbean

Posted: 02 Oct 2011 11:53 PM PDT

Whilst there appeared to have been 'personality conflicts' between India's two independence giants, Rabindranath Tagore and Mahatma Gandhi, the two shared soft hearts, mutual respect and an overflowing camaraderie. This was clearly gleaned in the play

'Dolphin Tale' feels the love in N. America theatres

Posted: 02 Oct 2011 11:49 PM PDT

LOS ANGELES, (AFP) - "Dolphin Tale," a feel-good family film about a boy who helps a dolphin get a prosthetic tail, made the biggest weekend splash at North American box offices, industry data showed Sunday. The movie starring Morgan Freeman, Ashley Judd

Paris Community Theatre presents Our Town through Oct. 9

Posted: 02 Oct 2011 11:42 PM PDT

Paris Community Theatre's second production of the season, Our Town by Thornton Wilder, opened on September 30 and runs, October 1st , 2nd , 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th. All evening performances begin at 7:30 and Sunday performances begin at 2:30 p.m.

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