A show at the Orpheum Theater scheduled for Saturday night is not only an original, professional production that tells stories of Omaha’s Black and Latino heritage through dance and drama, it’s also a love letter home from noted Broadway dancer and choreographer Ray Mercer. A native of Omaha who has been performing in “The Lion…
SAN ANGELO, Texas – The San Angelo Performing Arts Center will be hosting several entertainment opportunities for the community during the next few months. Pat Hazell – The Wonder Bread Years! Pat Hazell will be in San Angelo on September 24 at 2:00 and 7:00 in the Brooks and Bates Theater. Tickets for the show…
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A David Suzuki Foundation study found Canada’s Prairie provinces could be energy superpowers. It’s not because of their diminishing supplies of polluting, climate-altering coal, oil and gas — or even uranium for nuclear power. The Prairies have an abundance of cleaner, less expensive energy: sun and wind. Southern Saskatchewan and southeast Alberta get more sunshine…
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By Daniel Durchholz Special to the Post-Dispatch When Opera Theater of St. Louis cast its 2022 festival season production of “The Magic Flute,” two principal roles went to rising opera stars whose paths had crossed here once before. Tenor Joshua Blue, who plays Tamino, a prince on a quest, and baritone Jonathan McCullough as his…
BLOOMINGTON – The Illinois Shakespeare Festival is starting earlier than normal this year, leading the 2022 season this weekend with a highly abridged, comedic version of all of Shakespeare’s plays condensed into one. “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)” by Adam Long, Daniel Singer and Jess Winfield runs from this Saturday through June 12…
Summer typically is a slower time on the Dallas-Fort Worth arts scene, but nothing has been typical about arts – or anything else – the last couple years. Because of the pandemic, big events were postponed, seasons were reconfigured, and anniversary celebrations were rescheduled. As a result, DFW has a summer blockbuster of performing and…
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Usually a journalist’s work is to tell others’ stories; in “Bright Star,” by Alice Murphy, editor of the Asheville Southern Journal, opens the show by telling the audience that it’s her own story she is going to share. Thus begins a story of family, love, secrets and redemption, set in the Blue Ridge Mountains of…
Wednesday, May 25, 2022 GoLocalProv News Team View Larger + Late on Tuesday afternoon, Brown University announced that the nearly completed massive performing arts center will be named to honor the late George Lindemann and his wife Frayda. “The name for the center, set to open in 2023, honors Brown Corporation member Frayda Lindemann and…
Creating a new musical tends to be a risky proposition — partly when it comes to adaptations of movies. Do it right, and you wind up with the phenomenal Broadway success “The Producers.” Do it wrong, and you’re stuck with the barely stageworthy “Pretty Woman.” Which brings us to “The Karate Kid: The Musical.” Opening…
click to enlarge Courtesy Of Ember Photo Evan Premo and Mary Bonhag This year, the Vermont Symphony Orchestra embarks once more on its statewide Summer Festival Tour, serenading picnickers with pop favorites and upbeat classical selections. But…
