George Strait and Chris Stapleton Extend Run of Stadium Shows With New Dates Added for 2024
by Michael Major
- Sep 12, 2023
Setting venue attendance records across seven stadium shows this summer, country music icon George Strait and eight-time GRAMMY winner Chris Stapleton continue the excitement into 2024 with nine new dates. Also returning alongside the King of Country and Stapleton for the extended run of one-off stadium dates are Little Big Town.
CNN Films and HBO Max Have Commissioned New True Crime Documentary, 'American Pain'
by Marissa Tomeo
- May 12, 2022
CNN Films and HBO Max, in association with TIME Studios, have commissioned a new true crime tale, American Pain, directed by Emmy® Award-winner Darren Foster and produced by Motto Pictures, Muck Media, and Fishbowl Films that traces the rise and fall of Chris and Jeff George, identical twins who are believed to be America’s most prolific opioid kingpins. In just a few short years of operation, the Georges ran a pill mill empire that attracted clients from around the country, and spawned a prescription drug trafficking network with an estimated street value of more than $500M. The film will premiere at the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival in June, and is currently slated for release in 2023.
Guest Blog: Chris Foxon and George Turvey On Exciting Changes to Papatango
by Guest Author
- Oct 19, 2021
Papatango runs on one simple belief: all you need is a story. Ever since we were founded in 2009, that motto has been at the heart of our work. Everything we do is aimed at providing pathways into theatre, especially playwriting, for people who might otherwise struggle to make or experience new work.
Casting Announced For VANARA - THE LEGEND at Hackney Empire
by Stephi Wild
- Sep 13, 2021
As disaster threatens to destroy the world they know, two tribes are locked in an age-old battle. One young woman must make a choice: protect the traditions of her people or challenge everything she has been taught. With total devastation bearing down on them, will the two tribes reunite before it's too late?
BWW Review: AMERICAN IDIOT at Civic Theatre Auckland
by Monica Moore
- Oct 10, 2019
The essence of Green Day has not been shoved into the safe mode stage musical model; it breathes the rage, the confusion, the struggle and the senselessness of post 9/11 in an edgy package of fast paced grit wrapped up in the sensational music.
Expect a confronting emotional roller coaster that infiltrates on a soul-level.
Nikki Bentley, Helen Woolf, and More Join WICKED
by Stephi Wild
- May 30, 2019
WICKED, the West End and Broadway musical sensation that tells the incredible untold story of the Witches of Oz, has announced that Nikki Bentley and Helen Woolf will lead the new London cast as Elphaba and Glinda respectively, alongside the previously announced Alistair Brammer as Fiyero, from Monday 22 July 2019.
40th Annual Dora Awards Nominations Announced: Soulpepper Takes Home 25 Nominations, DEAR EVAN HANSEN Taps 9 Noms
by Alan Henry
- May 28, 2019
At a press conference held May 28 in the Davies Takacs Lobby of the Elgin and Winter Garden Theatre Centre, the Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts (TAPA) announced 282 nominations for the 40th Anniversary Dora Mavor Moore Awards, which recognize excellence in professional theatre, dance and opera in Toronto. On Tuesday, June 25 at the Sony Centre for the Performing Arts, 49 Dora Mavor Moore Awards, the Silver Ticket Award and the Jon Kaplan Audience Choice Award will be presented.
Photo Flash: Inside RIOULT Dance NY's 2019 Spring Gala
by Stephi Wild
- Apr 1, 2019
RIOULT Dance NY's 2019 Spring Gala and Live Auction held on Wednesday, March 20, raised over $200,000 to benefit the creation of new Company works, a performance space and community arts programs.
Photo Flash: First Images Of the 10th Anniversary UK Tour Of Green Day's AMERICAN IDIOT
by A.A. Cristi
- Jan 24, 2019
First look at the 10th anniversary tour of American Idiot - the ground breaking Tony award-winning rock musical with music by punk-pop and multi Grammy award-winning band Green Day. Leading the cast is: Waterloo Road's Tom Milner as Johnny; 2013's X Factor third place runner-up Luke Friend as St Jimmy; and 2016 X Factor finalist Sam Lavery as Whatsername.
BWW Review: AMERICAN IDIOT, Mayflower Theatre, Southampton
by Jo Fisher
- Jan 25, 2019
American Idiot brings Green Day's much-loved album to life in a punk-rock production that rebels against the musical archetype and vigorously sticks its middle finger up to everything and anything that gets in its way.
BWW Review: BEING A PLAYWRIGHT: A CAREER GUIDE FOR WRITERS, Chris Foxon & George Turvey
by Cindy Marcolina
- Oct 19, 2018
How do you become a playwright? How do you behave as a playwright? When are you officially a playwright? Papatango's Chris Foxon and George Turvey answer all budding playwrights' answers and take the immeasurable task of giving advice by the horns in their first venture, Being a Playwright - A Career Guide for Writers.
David Witts and Chris Jarman Join the Cast of WICKED; Alice Fearn, Sophie Evans, and More Renew
by Stephi Wild
- May 15, 2018
WICKED, the “world class West End musical” (Official London Theatre) that tells the incredible untold story of the Witches of Oz, is delighted to confirm that Alice Fearn (Elphaba), Sophie Evans (Glinda), Melanie La Barrie (Madame Morrible), Andy Hockley (The Wizard), Jack Lansbury (Boq), Laura Pick (Standby for Elphaba) and Carina Gillespie & Maria Coyne* (Standby for Glinda) will all continue in their current roles. Joining them, from Monday 23 July 2018, will be the previously announced David Witts as Fiyero together with Chris Jarman (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child) as Doctor Dillamond and current cast member Rosa O'Reilly, who takes over the role of Nessarose.
|
|