Category: Performing Arts

  • The curtain falls on Watertown’s New Repertory Theatre

    The curtain falls on Watertown’s New Repertory Theatre

    After 40 seasons and over 300 performances, Watertown’s New Repertory Theatre will permanently close. “It’s a bit of the frog in the boiling pot, where we’ve been gradually coming up to this point,” said New Rep Board Chair Chris Jones. “It’s always a challenge to put the puzzle pieces together, and then you add in…

  • Funny Girl now until – Oct 22nd sponsored by Blumenthal Performing Arts

    Funny Girl now until – Oct 22nd  sponsored by Blumenthal Performing Arts

    CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Sponsored by: Charlotte, N.C. – This article involves commercial content.  The products and services featured appear as paid advertising. Funny Girl is the hilarious, brilliant and stunningly gorgeous production that has made the almost 60-year wait for its return worth every second.” Here with more are the stars of the show Katerina…

  • 24 hour party precinct: inside Manchester’s Aviva Studios – where even the loos are a stage

    24 hour party precinct: inside Manchester’s Aviva Studios – where even the loos are a stage

    A group of dancers in cocoons convulse on stage, thrashing their limbs in tortured spasms as if trying to break free from their elasticated sacks. This is a scene from Free Your Mind, Danny Boyle’s live-action, Matrix-themed extravaganza which launches Aviva Studios – a new £240m arts venue that Manchester city council’s leader has described…

  • Historic Hogg Memorial Auditorium Reopens After Major Renovation

    Historic Hogg Memorial Auditorium Reopens After Major Renovation

    AUSTIN, Texas — The first auditorium at The University of Texas at Austin has reopened after an extensive two-year renovation. Situated on the western edge of campus near the Tower and Texas Union, the 90-year-old Hogg Memorial Auditorium is a premier live music and performing arts venue with a rich history of hosting many types…

  • BOO BALL to support Acorn Center for the Performing Arts

    The Acorn’s First BOO BALL is scheduled for 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 28. The Halloween fundraiser will help support The Acorn Center for the Performing Arts – Southwest Michigan’s nonprofit arts and culture hub. Scare up a costume to win spooktacular prizes; Feast on freaky fabulous food from Classic Catering; Imbibe in a witches brew…

  • Genie’s manic magic never stops in touring musical ‘Aladdin’ at the Marcus Center

    Genie’s manic magic never stops in touring musical ‘Aladdin’ at the Marcus Center

    “Everyone here has a minor in dance,” the Genie quips at the start of the musical “Aladdin.” Tuesday night’s performance by the North American touring company at the Marcus Performing Arts Center proved that he is not wrong. This Disney stage musical adapted from the 1992 animated film (itself inspired by a tale from the…

  • New Repertory Theatre to Close Doors After 40 Seasons

    New Repertory Theatre to Close Doors After 40 Seasons

    WATERTOWN, MASS.: After 40 seasons and more than 300 productions, New Repertory Theatre’s board of directors has determined that it is not possible to sustain the organization going forward. According to a release, audiences and critics responded enthusiastically to New Rep’s relaunch and its 2023 season, but fundraising with major donors has fallen short of…

  • Inside the UK’s new $292 million arts center

    Inside the UK’s new $292 million arts center

    Manchester CNN  —  “It might sound strange, but I’m going to show you the toilets,” said Ellen van Loon, the RIBA-award winning Dutch architect tasked with building the UK’s largest arts and culture center since the Tate Modern in 2003. “We had a DJ in here,” Van Loon points to the far left-hand corner of…

  • Inside the UK’s new $292 million arts center

    Inside the UK’s new $292 million arts center

    Leah Dolan, CNN October 18, 2023 at 8:31 AM “It might sound strange, but I’m going to show you the toilets,” said Ellen van Loon, the RIBA-award winning Dutch architect tasked with building the UK’s largest arts and culture center since the Tate Modern in 2003. “We had a DJ in here,” Van Loon points…

  • Susan Jaffe Is Ready to Bring American Ballet Theatre Into a New Era

    Susan Jaffe Is Ready to Bring American Ballet Theatre Into a New Era

    The “New Look” by Christian Dior came at a time when the thirst for a new beginning was insatiable. It was 1947 and the world was trailing off of the dreary woes of the Second World War; the rounded shoulders, cinched waist, and full skirt were a celebration of opulence in women’s fashion. It was…