Celebrated bubble artists, Guinness World Record holder, and star of the log running Off- Broadway Hit The Gazillion Bubble Show, Melody Yang is featured in the third season of the upcoming award-winning Amazon series “Mozart In the Jungle.” In the third season of Amazon’s Mozart in the Jungle, a musicians’ strike forces the fictional New…
This January, the legendary Broadway visionary Harold Prince returns to New York City Opera to direct a new production of Leonard Bernstein’s Candide. The production, choreographed by Emmy AwardÒ-winning and Tony AwardÒ-nominated choreographer Patricia Birch, brings together a versatile cast of Broadway veterans and rising opera stars to tell the story of Candide’s adventures and…
Feinstein’s/54 Below, Broadway’s Supper Club, presents Former Broadway Kids, All Grown Up on January 17th, 2017, 9:30pm. Broadway stars celebrate their time as children on the Great White Way. Join some of Broadway’s most beloved child stars sharing stories and songs from Les Miserables, 13, Beauty and the Beast and more. Get ready to hear…
The following post was originally published on meganminutillo.com. For the past eight years, I’ve had the privilege of being part of the Young Artists and Writers Project (YAWP), at Stony Brook Southampton College. “The YAWP Playwriting Program introduces middle and high school students to the elements of dramatic writing. Using a curriculum inspired by Aristotle’s…
FEINSTEIN’S/54 BELOW, Broadway’s Supper Club, presents Mary Bridget Davies in her 54 Below debut concert Friday, January 6th 2017! “Soulful and genuine, Davies gives a lively and energetic performance” – Associated Press “Ms. Davies sings with a throbbing fervor that is… riveting” – The New York Times Tony Award-nominee Mary Bridget Davies, of Broadway’s…
FEINSTEIN’S/54 BELOW, Broadway’s Supper Club, presents Chris Rayis in Chris Rayis: Ex Nihilo on January 2nd at 7 pm. This show marks the debut of Chris Rayis’ work in the New York theatre scene. His brilliant musicianship and meaningful content set him apart as a leading composer of new works for the musical theatre stage. His storytelling encompasses everything from…
The twelfth book of Christmas is The Heroine’s Bookshelf: Life Lessons, from Jane Austen to Laura Ingalls Wilder by Erin Blakemore. This book is the second heroine-centric book on our 12 Days list, following up Day Three’s account of How to Be a Heroine. If I had my way, I would swap the titles of these two…
The eleventh book of Christmas is The Camel Bookmobile by Masha Hamilton. “Deep in the heart of the dusty Kenyan desert a train of heavenly laden camels wind their way slowly through the bush. The camels’ panniers are stuffed to bursting, not with grain or medical supplies, but with books of every imaginable variety. Mididimc…
The tenth book of Christmas is The Bookshop Book by Jen Campbell. “Every bookshop has a story. We’re talking about bookshops in barns, disused factories, converted churches and underground car parks. Bookshops on boats, on buses and in old run-down railway stations. From the oldest bookshop in the world, to the smallest you could imagine, The Bookshop…
The ninth book of Christmas is Shakespeare Saved My Life: Ten Years in Solitary with the Bard by Laura Bates, an English professor at Indiana State University. “Shakespeare professor and prison volunteer Laura Bates thought she had seen it all. That is, until she decided to teach Shakespeare in a place the bard had never been…