Rachel Brown News

Run Tiny Human is the latest album from Shelbyville, Oregon-based songwriter /singer / musician / producer Rachel Taylor Brown. The album was recorded and mixed by Jeff Stuart Saltzman (Bloc Party, Menomena, Stephen Malkmus, Typhoon). This is Rachel's 8th album with Jeff. The album was mastered by Adam Gonsalves of Telegraph Mastering. Run Tiny Human is being released October 19 by Penury Pop Records available exclusively from Bandcamp.

Hershey Area Playhouse is proud to present, Inherit the Wind, an American play by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, which debuted in 1955. The story fictionalizes the 1925 Scopes 'Monkey' Trial as a means to discuss the then-contemporary McCarthy trials.

Griffin's Artistic Director Lee Lewis has announced a powerful and timely line-up for 2019-five Main Season plays, urgent stories, intense experiences and the extraordinary imagination of Australian playwrights.

American designer Amsale Aberra will be honored posthumously for her contributions to the world of couture by the Harlem School of the Arts at the Herb Alpert Center for the Arts. She will receive the Visionary Lineage Award and is among several high profiled members of the artistic community, whose contributions will be acknowledged during the organization's 2018 Masquerade Ball and After Party, to be held at the New York Plaza Hotel on October 22nd.

According to Variety, actors Evan Rachel Wood (Across the Universe) and Sterling K. Brown (This Is Us) are currently in talks to visit the kingdom of Arendelle in the upcoming Disney sequel Frozen 2.

Mary Rachel Brown's new work PERMISSION TO SPIN pits greed for fame and fortune against the ethical dilemma of an artist's culpability for what other's do with their work once it is released for public consumption.

With a positive message of collaboration, Beatbox saxophonist Derek Brown has confirmed plans for his ambitious 'FiftyFifty Tour', featuring a performance in every state in America.

Hershey Area Playhouse announces auditions for Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee's Inherit the Wind, the story about the 1925 Scopes "Monkey" Trial that dealt with the debate over evolution versus creationism.

Playwright Suzie Miller was announced as the winner of the 2018 Griffin Award for her play On the Face of It at the SBW Stables Theatre today. Accepting the award from Griffin's Artistic Director Lee Lewis and Jane Curry of Copyright Agency, Miller said: "It's such a joy just to be nominated, especially with the plays I was nominated alongside. I'd been nominated once before but to win is astonishing, and it shows that the whole journey is worth it. The thing for playwrights in this country is really just keeping at it. To all the other playwrights and playwrights to-be out there like I once was: if you're passionate about it, keep doing it."

According to the Hollywood Reporter, Leslie Jones, Rachel Bloom, Sterling K. Brown, and more will be joining the cast of the upcoming film ANGRY BIRDS 2.

Theater's power to illuminate and to elucidate even while offering diverting entertainment has perhaps never been felt so strongly as in Nashville Repertory Theatre's engaging version of Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee's Inherit the Wind, a fictionalized account of the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial in Dayton, Tennessee, now onstage at TPAC's Andrew Johnson Theatre through April 25.

Special guests announced for three-time Tony Award winning composer Jason Robert Brown's one-off West End concert at London's Palladium, as part of BBC Radio 2's 'Friday Night is Music Night', accompanied by the 60-piece BBC Concert Orchestra

Ragged Wing Ensemble, known throughout the Bay Area for its original, ensemble-driven productions, presents A Different Long Stretch of Earth, an original play written by Addie Ulrey for Ragged Wing's core company (and directed by Amy Sass). Inspired by her work at the intersection of arts nonprofits and social justice as well as her fickle and persistent love of the Old West, Ulrey takes us into the contemporary American West where a group of characters wrestle with the mindsets and mythologies of our collective past and explore how they shape our ability to envision the future.

Centenary Stage Company's annual Dance Festival kicks off on Sunday, March 11 at 3 PM in the Lackland Performing Arts Center with Moe-tion Dance Theater.  Under the artistic direction of Maureen Glennon Clayton, moe-tion dance theater will present their concert, Touched.  Tickets are $20 general admission $15.00 for children under 12. Centenary Stage Company is also offering a Dance Flex Pass.  Dance Flex Pass grants entry to all three Dance Fest events for $45.00 per patron.

Through the month of March Centenary Stage Company will be hosting three professional Dance Company's for the annual Centenary Stage Company Dance Fest.  On Sunday, March 11 at 3PM Moe-tion Dance Theater known for their expression through movement, will kick off the annual Dance Fest. Then on Sunday, March 18 at 3PM the XY Dance Project returns with their unique style, that blends contemporary dance with the spiritual rhythms of African dance, and the grace and peace of Tai Chi. Finally, Nimbus Dance Works will close out the annual dance festival on Sunday, March 25 at 3PM with a retelling of the First Testament in a glam rock style, with music by the Brooklyn band Sky Pony.

As society has moved further and further away from the real meaning of Christmas, Mary Rachel Brown's new Australian play SILENT NIGHT is a shamelessly absurd expression of the worst of a time that was supposed to be about family, love and goodwill to all

Ho no, Christmas is coming! But before you groan at the thought of 10km queues at the Fish Markets, negotiating your way through stacks of Coles Christmas puddings or that one spirited colleague excited for Secret Santa, stay with us, Silent Night is not what you expect.

Tickets are now on sale for Pop Punk High, a new musical by Ben Lapidus and Anderson Cook that parodies and celebrates the pop punk bands of the 2000's and all the angst they inspired. The show is directed by Felicia Lobo and performs at the historic Parkside Lounge on the Lower East Side.

The upcoming 2018 season at The Old Fitz will feature 3 World Premieres (including a musical), 3 Australian Premiers, 2 Sydney Premieres, and 2 Of the great contemporary love stories.

Tickets are now on sale for Pop Punk High, a new musical by Ben Lapidus and Anderson Cook that parodies and celebrates the pop punk bands of the 2000's and all the angst they inspired. The show is directed by Felicia Lobo and performs at the historic Parkside Lounge on the Lower East Side.