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Native youth theater finds home at Seattle’s King Street Station
The five youth-arts organizations that occupy Station Space — RES, Totem Star, The Rhapsody Project, Jackson Street Music Program and Whipsmart — are all part of the Office of Arts and Culture’s Creative Advantage program to increase student access to the arts. “We know that art saves lives,” said Olisa Enrico, executive director of CSA, in an…
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Decades of Tradition: ‘The Rapture’ gospel play returns to the Marcus Center
MILWAUKEE — This upcoming weekend, the gospel play “The Rapture” opens at the Marcus Performing Arts Center. Since September, actors, singers, and musicians from all over Milwaukee have been rehearsing and getting ready to put on this musical event. The gospel play has been put on and off by churches in Milwaukee for the past…
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Top Performing Arts & Live Theater This Week: November 20-26, 2023
Houston Ballet’s The Nutcracker opens for the 2023 holiday season this week | Courtesy of Houston Ballet See the latest performing arts productions and theater happenings opening across Houston from Monday, November 20 to Sunday, November 26, 2023. Looking for ways to keep the theater calendar straight? We have you covered with this weekly roundup…
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Looking for something new to do in Nashville? College campuses offer something for everyone
Itching for a day out in Nashville? While the city is bursting with entertainment options for locals and tourists alike, so are its college and university campuses. In addition to offering a wide swath of academic opportunities, many schools also offer events and activities that are open to the public. Here’s a rundown of things…
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Free activities and hot meals for many children across Wiltshire this Christmas
Revolution Performing Arts will be taking part in The Department of Education’s FUEL programme – which stands for food, unity, energy and laughter – to ensure that thousands of children who usually receive free school meals have access to nutritious, hot meals over the holiday period. The programme is also available to children that are refugees, children…
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Gadsden State’s Cheryl Sington honored by magazine as ‘inspiring leader’
Cheryl Sington, director of Gadsden State Community College’s Cheaha Educational Opportunity Center, was selected to IE Magazine’s “Top 10 Inspiring Leaders” list for 2023. The digital magazine describes itself at its website as “a source of information, inspiration, and motivation for the industry’s leading leaders, executives, investors and entrepreneurs.” Sington has been at Gadsden State…
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Youth Performing Arts School covers many grown up topics in the funny musical, Urinetown
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — Youth Performing Arts School’s (YPAS) latest production tackles many social topics. WDRB’s Keith Kaiser joins the cast of Urinetown before their next performances. Urinetown is a musical satire of the legal system, capitalism, social irresponsibility, populism, environmental collapse, privatization of natural resources, bureaucracy, municipal politics, and musical theatre itself. In a Gotham-like city,…
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UNCSA’s Stevens Center officially closes for renovations
WINSTON-SALEM,N.C. — Construction has officially started on the three to five year renovation of the Stevens Center in Winston-Salem. What You Need To Know The Stevens Center is a theatre owned by The University of North Carolina School of the Arts and hosts dozens of performances each year The building closed for a three…
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Magical performances, and Traditions older and newer and in store for the holiday season
Handel’s “Messiah,” holiday pops, “A Christmas Carol,” “The Nutcracker” and community chorus events are some of the reassuring holiday favorite concerts and shows coming up on the Worcester calendar for November and December. Worcester has its own unique holiday traditions, which include the Worcester Chorus singing “Messiah” on the first weekend in December, even though…
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Darren Criss brings his Christmas show to Orlando’s Dr. Phillips Center
Emmy-winning actor Darren Criss is fine if the title of his upcoming holiday concert inspires a dad-joke groan from you. He gets it — but maintains with a laugh that the title was a pre-emptive strike to silence future critics. “It was mainly so I didn’t have to explain to people years from now why…
