Performing Arts News
This category features news about dance, theater, music and other live audience performances (magic shows, puppetry, circus, comedy, etc.), festivals, venues, artists, staging and ticketing. The spotlight is on news of interest to theater goers, producers and performing arts amateurs and professionals.
2010 California International Theater Festival Tickets Now Available Through Al Brooks Tickets
Tickets for the 2010 California International Theater Festival, which takes place July 17th thru August 25th in Calabasas, can now be purchased through Al Brooks Tickets (www.albrooks.com). - June 27, 2010 - Al Brooks Tickets
Tickets Still Available for Thurgood at the Geffen Playhouse June 27th Through August 8th from Al Brooks Tickets
Theater goers can still purchase tickets to the highly acclaimed Broadway play Thurgood, which runs June 27th thru August 8th at the Geffen Playhouse, from Al Brooks Tickets (www.albrooks.com). The popular show runs June 27th thru August 8th. Thurgood is the triumphant story of Supreme Court... - June 27, 2010 - Al Brooks Tickets
What's The Benefit? Inc. Produces Its First Broadway Benefit
From “Live Aid” and “Farm Aid” to the recent “Live Earth” and “Hope for Haiti”—everyone has heard about celebrity benefits. But there’s a new benefit organization making a unique impact on the charitable scene. - June 25, 2010 - What's The Benefit? Inc.
Face the Sun D.C. is Seeking Sponsors for Its Upcoming Event to Benefit the American Cancer Society
Face the Sun D.C. is seeking sponsors for their upcoming event to benefit the American Cancer Society’s Making Strides Against Breast Cancer. - June 25, 2010 - Face the Sun D.C.
EBE Ensemble Presents Free Summer Shows in Prospect Park at the Music Pagoda
This Summer, EBE Ensemble brings "Shakespeare in the Pagoda" to Prospect Park, with free productions of Romeo & Juliet and Julius Caesar in repertory with a company of 12 actors. Performances begin July 24 at the Prospect Park Music Pagoda. - June 24, 2010 - EBE Ensemble
Sarasota Opera to Hold Apprentice Artists Program Auditions in September
Sarasota Opera to hold Apprentice Artists program auditions in Chicago, New York City, and Sarasota. - June 23, 2010 - Sarasota Opera
Breaking the Mold of Predictable Theater Storylines
Shabach Enterprise premiers the new stage play "Just a Few Feet Away" - June 23, 2010 - Shabach Enterprise
Bollywood Comes to Disney
World renowed Bollywood choreographer brings Bollywood to Disney park. - June 22, 2010 - Bollywood Step Dance
US Based Promoter Gabe Reed Productions to Promote Concerts at the Workers Stadium Complex in Beijing China
United States based promoter Gabe Reed Productions has reached an agreement with Beijing based Sports Window to be its partner of choice to promote concerts by western artists at the Worker’s Stadium Entertainment complex in Beijing, China. The complex includes the 60,000 seat Worker’s... - June 19, 2010 - Gabe Reed Productions
J Rice Talks About New Album and Signing to Phantom Boyz with Editors Keys
J Rice, the up and coming R&B star talks to Editors Keys about the his new album and the new Editors Keys Portable Vocal Booth which is out today. - June 18, 2010 - Editors Keys.com
Superbowl Champ Dorsey Levens' Produces and Stars in Hit Play "Torn" at Atlanta’s 14th Street Playhouse - Tickets on Sale Now
Former NFL player and Super Bowl champion, Dorsey Levens teams up with Tiffany Brown’s A Higher Calling Theatre Company to bring the breakout hit play, Torn to Atlanta's 14th Street Playhouse July 14-18, 2010. - June 18, 2010 - Levens Communications
New Musical in "Jamboree" Series Returns to Amish Door
The "Grand Ole Jamboree" musical by 34west debuts as part of Amish Door's dinner theater series. - June 17, 2010 - Amish Door Village
International Magicians Gather in Atlanta Georgia
The 2010 Society of American Magicians national convention will be hosted in Atlanta Georgia, June 30 - July 3. The opening night Gala Stage Show "Amazing Atlanta" stars seven top Atlanta magicians, including the award-winning magic and interactive comedy of Corporate Magician, Comedian, and Entertaining Keynote Speaker Debbie Leifer serving as the show's producer, audience energizer, and magical emcee. - June 17, 2010 - Atlanta Magician, Mentalist & Atlanta Keynote Motivational Speaker Debbie Leifer
Thousand Oaks Philharmonic Invited to Perform at the 100th Annual Music Teacher’s Association of California Convention
Orchestra to perform Piano Concerto No. 2 by Samuel Adler on July 3rd - June 14, 2010 - Thousand Oaks Philharmonic
San Pablo Arts District Fund Presents Lip Service West: True Stories Featuring Authors Marcus Banks, Lauren Becker, Joe Clifford, and Alan Kaufman
The San Pablo Arts District Fund (SPAD) is proud to host the debut of Lip Service West: True Stories, Friday, June 11, in North Oakland’s Golden Gate District. The featured readers include Marcus Banks, Lauren Becker, Joe Clifford, and Alan Kaufman. The event is free - June 11, 2010 - San Pablo Arts District Fund
The Marsh Berkeley Presents "An Evening with The Groundlings," Four Short Pieces Addressing Some of Today’s More Pressing Social Issues, June 23
“An Evening With The Groundlings” will play for one-night-only on Wednesday June 23 at 7:30 pm at The Marsh Berkeley, 2120 Allston Way, off Shattuck. Featuring Rebecca Fisher, Mark McGoldrick, Wayne Harris and Paul Sussman. - June 11, 2010 - The Marsh
World-Renowned Magician Jeff McBride Makes Rare Atlanta Appearance
World-renowned magician Jeff McBride, named "one of the most influential magicians of the 20th century" will perform a theatrical magic show and present two "magicians only" lectures in Atlanta on June 11 & 12, 2010. - June 11, 2010 - Atlanta Magician, Mentalist & Atlanta Keynote Motivational Speaker Debbie Leifer
California Contemporary Youth Ballet Presents Summer Performance
La Canada-Based Youth Dance Company to Perform ‘DanceScapes’ - June 10, 2010 - California DanceArts
Summer is Cool at SoBe Arts
SoBe Institute of the Arts announces its SoBe Arts Summer Program 2010 for children, teens and adults. Two 4 week sessions: Session 1: June 21 - July 16 Session 2: July 19 - August 13 SoBe Arts is located in the historic Carl Fisher Clubhouse and Little Stage Theater Complex on Miami Beach. This... - June 09, 2010 - SoBe Institute of the Arts
The Marsh San Francisco Presents Cherry Zonkowski’s "Reading My Dad’s Porn And French Kissing The Dog" June 24 – July 17, 2010
The Marsh is pleased to present Cherry Zonkowski, PhD, in “Reading My Dad’s Porn And French Kissing The Dog” in which she takes us on a tour of the suburban living rooms, crowded dungeons, and ultra-hip warehouses of San Francisco’s sex and artist party scenes. When she... - June 09, 2010 - The Marsh
The Marsh Presents a 20th Anniversary Performance Marathon from Noon to Midnight on Saturday, June 19, 2010
The Marsh is celebrating is twentieth anniversary year with a Performance Marathon, featuring past and present Marsh artists performing extracts of their past, present and future work as well as telling stories about their experiences at the theater, good, bad and totally unexpected. - June 09, 2010 - The Marsh
New Line Theatre Artistic Director Inks Deal for 6th Musical Theatre Book
New Line Theatre is proud to announce that artistic director Scott Miller has signed with a new publisher, Northeastern University Press, to publish his sixth musical theatre book, "Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll, and Musicals," due to be released in 2011. - June 09, 2010 - New Line Theatre
The Illuminated Theater Launches the Chatroulette Show Variety Show & Competition / Drinking Game / Online Performance Featuring the Risqué Site, Chatroulette.com
The Illuminated Theater, dedicated to creating exciting, irresistible theater and performance events, debuts a cutting-edge show in the San Francisco Bay Area, with aims to eventually bring the show to venues nationally. Utilizing a live internet connection with the infamous site chatroulette.com, performers take turns entertaining both surprised people on the site as well as a live audience. Plus, it's a drinking game. - June 07, 2010 - WholeSpeak
Brooklyn Children’s Theatre Presents “Alice In Wonderland, Jr.” June 25 & 26, 2010
17 local Brooklyn Chilrdren's Theatre student actors, ages 11-16, will be performing the Walt Disney classic “Alice in Wonderland, Jr.”, Friday, June 25 and Saturday June 26, 2010 at The Brooklyn Music School Playhouse. - June 07, 2010 - Brooklyn Children's Theatre
First World Theatre Ensemble Re-Emerges to Usher in an Explosive New Era of Black Theatre
First World Theatre Ensemble, branded by the press as “one of Philly’s newest and most provocative companies,” re-emerges to launch an explosive new era of black theatre with Sundays At Seven Open House. Come out for a Free Green Fun evening of music, spoken word, and theatre featuring dessert buffet, addresses by Johnny Hobbs, Jr and Penelope Reed, live band Rich Tucker and the Universal Concept, spiritual street poet Mrs. Betty's Son, and scenes from plays including August Wilson's "Fences." - June 07, 2010 - First World Theatre Ensemble
New Line Theatre's "Evita" Parallels Current US Politics
New Line Theatre, "the Bad Boy of Musical Theatre," closes its nineteenth season of provocative, adult, alternative musical theatre with the first St. Louis production in many years of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's political rock opera "Evita," running July 8-31, 2010, at the Washington University South Campus Theatre in St. Louis. Money, sex, power, fame – who knew they had a dark side? - June 07, 2010 - New Line Theatre
Lisa Loeb Performing at Genius Jones in Mizner Park on June 18
Bring the kids to Genius Jones in Mizner Park, Boca Raton, at 11:30 a.m., Friday, June 18 to meet Lisa Loeb and hear her perform songs from the world-premiere musical Camp Kappawanna. One lucky family attending the June 18th event will win four free tickets to see Camp Kappawanna, courtesy of Genius Jones. - June 05, 2010 - Mizner Park
Fire Island Dance Festival 16 Announces Line Up Celebrated Dance Festival Turns Sweet Sixteen With Ailey, Wheeldon, Petronio, Momix and More
Set for July 17 and 18, the Fire Island Dance Festival 16 will include performances by Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, American Ballet Theatre principal Marcelo Gomes, Joffrey Ballet Chicago principal Fabrice Calmels, MOMIX, Camille Brown, Mark Stuart Dance Theatre and San Francisco Ballet principals Yuan Yuan Tan and Damien Smith performing choreography by Christopher Wheeldon, premiere dances by Travis Wall and Stephen Petronio. - June 05, 2010 - Broadway Cares / Equity Fights AIDS
Piano Discoveries Announces New Documents Added to Membership Inventory
Piano Discoveries, which provides ready-made studio documents and piano teaching resources to its members, has added new award documents and theory worksheets to its membership inventory. - June 04, 2010 - Piano Discoveries
Yankee Doodle Dandies
Dayton Gay Men’s Chorus presents a patriotic season finale. - June 04, 2010 - Victoria Theatre Association
Voices.com Co-Founder to Present at VOICE 2010
Stephanie Ciccarelli of Voices.com will be speaking at VOICE 2010 during a special panel dedicated to voice over industry service providers. - June 03, 2010 - Voices.com
MyTheaterPlace.com Launches Beta
Website creates a centralized knowledge hub for all theater information, including auditions, theaters and show information within a rich social community framework. - May 28, 2010 - MyTheaterPlace
VOICE2010 Philip Banks Speaker from Portgordon Scotland
Voiceover based in Scotland to advise an LA audience how to make it as a Voiceover at the VOICE2010 conference. - May 28, 2010 - Philip Banks
Douglas Newton Combines Painting Exhibition with CD Release Concert at Blue Moon Gallery
Local songwriter Douglas Newton will release his long awaited CD, “Don’t Look Down” on June 26th at the Blue Moon Gallery in Sacramento. The music belongs to the art-song tradition of musicians such as Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell and Bob Dylan. The CD has been 5 years in the... - May 28, 2010 - Douglas E Newton
Canned Ham, Starring Tom Judson (aka Gus Mattox), Opens at Provincetown’s Art House on June 6th, 2010
Following a three week run in Los Angeles, triple-threat Broadway actor/singer/musician Tom Judson (aka Gus Mattox) will debut in his new musical comedy Canned Ham in New England for a summer-long run at Provincetown’s Art House Theater, 214 Commercial Street, starting on June 6th. The show will perform Sunday and Monday evenings through Labor Day weekend. - May 28, 2010 - Kearns Artist Services
The Arts Edge Summer, a New Performing Arts Program in NYC, Combines Musical Theater with College Prep for High School Students
The Arts Edge Summer Program is a New Performing Arts Program in New York City that combines musical theater with college prep for high school students. Students can put a little glee in their summer with a unique program that offers expert guidance from faculty members of leading performing arts institutions. The Arts Edge Summer Program is designed for high school students seriously considering a college major in musical theater. - May 27, 2010 - The Arts Edge
Laurence Fuller’s Australian TV debut
Laurence Fuller made his Australian TV debut last Sunday starring in the sophisticated art thriller Possession(s). Co-starring Asher Keddie (X-Men Origins; Wolverine) and Max Cullen (Baz Lurhman’s Australia), directed by Jim Lounsbury. The 10 minute film aired nation-wide on the ABC May 23rd. After Possession(s) and his West End debut Fuller is being courted by Hollywood; - May 26, 2010 - Laurence Fuller
‘American Idol’ Comic Talent Norman Gentle ‘Slaps’ Debut Single Toward Critical Mass: "Bitch Slap" Released by Young Pals Records International
Music Video Released to Multiple Outlets, Media Mayhem, Radio Airplay Launches - May 25, 2010 - Young Pals Music
Voices.com Talent, Dave Courvoisier, to Present at VOICE 2010
Dave Courvoisier will co-present on the topic of “Building Your VoiceOver Presence Through Social Networking” at VOICE 2010 in Los Angeles. - May 25, 2010 - Voices.com
IHMG Recording Artist the Sistah is "The Lady in Red" in For Colored Girls
Ironhorse Music Group singer/songwriter The Sistah makes her acting debut in an off-Broadway production of For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow is Enuf. Written by Ntozake Shange and directed by by Steven Hitt, For Colored Girls is a passionate and fearless look at what it... - May 23, 2010 - Ironhorse Music Group LLC
“The MANIFESTIVUS” to Feature: Common, Toubab Krewe, and John Brown's Body
The Festival is announced and tickets are ready for sale. Performances highlighted by headliner Common. - May 20, 2010 - Halogen Media Works.LLC
The Marsh, San Francisco’s Leading Venue for Solo Theater, Presents Its Second Festival of New Voices June 2 -13, 2010
Full Length Performances: “Uncle Sam's Children In Africa” by Sia Amma, “40 Pounds In 12 Weeks: A Love Story” by Pidge Meade, “Cracked Clown” by David A. Moss, “It’s All The Rage” by Marilyn Pittman, “Squeeze The Dollar, Change Your Life” by Sigal Shohan, “The Dream” by Kenny Yu. With Additional Short Performances by: David Caggiano, Victoria Doggett, Rebecca Fisher, Emlyn Guiney, Wayne Harris, Mark McGoldrick, Mia Paschal, Ann Randolph, Don Reed, JoJo Razor and Paul Sussman. - May 19, 2010 - The Marsh
Europe's Leading Dance Magazine Reviews Flamenco DVD by Music Film Factor LLC
Europe's leading dance magazine TANZ reviews Flamenco DVD "Petenera – a Flamenco Drama in Music and Dance" in its April print issue: - May 17, 2010 - Music Film Factor LLC
No Complaints as Teatro Miramar Receives Grand Donation of Ballet Shoes
Unexpected parcel arrives at Teatro Miramar brings joy to students of the Havana, Cuba art school. In a grand gesture, Birmingham and Royal Ballet donated more than 50 pairs of new ballet shoes. - May 16, 2010 - Cuba Solidarity Campaign
Huemanitee.org Announces the Production of: Wombman, The Play
Humanitee.org is a non-profit organization focused on empowering the people. Women's issues are at the forefront of this movement. The production of Wombman, The Play takes the first steps in motivating and inspiring women to speak up against abuse, redefine their place in society and create positive images of beauty for every women. - May 16, 2010 - Huemanitee.org
Independent Film Produced by Performing Arts San Antonio to be Featured at the Alamo Drafthouse
There will be a special screening of “The Long Ride Home” at the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema at 410 and Blanco Rd. on Thursday, June 3rd 2010 at 7:30pm. The film, distributed by Lions Gate Films, stars Randy Travis, Eric Roberts, Academy Award Winner Ernest Borgnine and Garry... - May 15, 2010 - Performing Arts San Antonio
Summer "Train With A Pro" Acting Workshops to be Offered by Performing Arts San Antonio
Performing Arts San Antonio announces their 2010 Summer “Train With A Pro” Acting Workshops. Under the direction of Paul Tinder and Vaughn Taylor, students will be able to learn the skills and techniques they would learn in a professional workshop in New York or Hollywood. Paul Tinder... - May 15, 2010 - Performing Arts San Antonio
Seattle Dance Company Engages Audiences Young and Old with Contemporary Dance
This June, Katy Hagelin Dance Project presents fromPhantastes, an evening-length, contemporary ballet inspired by George MacDonald’s novel Phantastes: a Faerie Romance. The magical story combined with the universal language of dance make this performance accessible to for all ages and audiences. Connecting to the artistic community, fromPhantastes includes nearly 20 dancers of various ages and skill levels from professional to student. - May 12, 2010 - Katy Hagelin dance project
A Grand Restoration Project: Teatro Miramar (Havana, Cuba)
UK based charity Music Fund for Cuba is restoring Teatro Miramar to its original grand state. - May 12, 2010 - Cuba Solidarity Campaign
The Original Mayor of Whoville Joins the Cast of “They Changed Broadway”
Stuart Zagnit, who created such memorable characters on stage such as The Mayor of Whoville in “Seussical” and Goldberg in “The Wild Party” joins the cast of “They Changed Broadway: From Berlin to Bernstein and Beyond,” a one-night only revue at The Forum Theater... - May 12, 2010 - They Changed Broadway