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St. Petersburg’s Palladium Theater needs to be renovated. Fundraising is underway.
The Palladium Theater in St. Petersburg has launched a $10 million fundraising campaign. Its plans include full renovations for the main theater and the Side Door cabaret. Groundbreaking is expected to begin in the summer of 2025 and to be completed in 2026, which will be the building’s 100th anniversary. The Hough Family Foundation has…
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The Oxford Performing Arts Center Presents: “The Four Phantoms” – A Night of Broadway’s Best
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Drew, Lea Lachey bringing ‘social experiment’ project back home. Here’s how it started
The idea for “label•less,” an inspirational musical from Cincinnati natives Drew and Lea Lachey, arose in 2018 after a simple empathy exercise during one of their theater classes. They asked their students to anonymously write down how they had been discriminated against in their lives. The result of the exercise, which included stories of sexism,…
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Spooky ‘Dracula’ is the final role for veteran Milwaukee Ballet dancer
Seeing Michael Pink’s “Dracula” is like watching a silent horror film with live orchestra accompaniment. But instead of images of Max Schreck flickering across a screen, we get the real Davit Hovhannisyan ominously descending a staircase or slithering across the stage into a cloud of smoke. Milwaukee Ballet opened a new production of director-choreographer Pink’s…
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UGA Theatre spotlights ‘Mother Courage and Her Children’ in post-apocalyptic reinvention
UGA Theatre presents “Mother Courage and Her Children,” written by Bertolt Brecht, translated by Eric Bentley and directed by guest artist Justin Anderson. Performances will be held in the Fine Arts Theatre on Nov. 10, 15-18 at 8 p.m. and Nov. 12 and 19 at 2 p.m. A ticketed preview performance will be held on…
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Pumped-up security, performing arts facility updates among new SVSU projects
KOCHVILLE TOWNSHIP, MI — Saginaw Valley State University students and visitors in the coming months will see about $4.7 million in infrastructure updates applied to the campus here. SVSU’s Board of Control during a Monday, Oct. 23, meeting approved several investments in university facilities and resources, university officials said.
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‘Once Upon a Mattress’: Collaborative musical theatre experience helps students learn, grow in their craft
NACOGDOCHES, Texas – Musical theatre provides a unique and invaluable learning experience for students, allowing them to develop skills in acting, singing and dancing while also fostering teamwork and creativity. Stephen F. Austin State University’s presentation of “Once Upon a Mattress” offers an opportunity for SFA’s aspiring artists to put their classroom knowledge into practice…
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AT&T PAC’s 2023 ‘Turn Up the Lights’ Benefit is a Social Season Standout
Aptly named Turn Up The Lights, AT&T Performing Arts Center’s ongoing fundraising event series did not disappoint on Saturday, October 21, 2023. Hosted at the Arts District’s Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre space, the night began with an al fresco serenade by Clover the Violinist. As guests emerged from a tunnel into the Performing Arts…
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Alumnus Jeffrey Adkins performs at Lynn University
Adkins’ interest in music was almost inevitable. Music was a staple in his household growing up—his parents didn’t have any formal musical training but were avid music lovers. Adkins fondly recalls attending concerts with his father and learning to sing harmonies with his mother to any song on the radio. “I was developing ear training…
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Francisco Borja: Longmont deserves a performing arts center
As the director of bands for Timberline PK-8, I consider myself very fortunate to be in a position where I can teach what I love. As a young man, I was adrift, unguided, and disinterested in school. In middle school, I was constantly in trouble, struggling to find consistency in almost every aspect of my…