Mark Anthony News

From the team that brought you Hamlet comes Julius Caesar.

A new opera based on the life of tabloid queen Anna Nicole Smith will open at Royal Opera House this Thurday, February 17. Already, the production's six shows, which run through March 4, are comletely sold out. The show, entitled ANNA NICOLE is described on their website as 'a celebrity story of our times that includes extreme language, drug abuse and sexual content,' and imposed a minimum age of 16. This new opera is provocative in its themes, exciting in its bravura style and thrilling with its sheer contemporary nerve,' it added in language normally reserved for reality TV.'

From the team that brought you Hamlet comes Julius Caesar.

La Boite's 2010 sell-out Hamlet was called 'the most downright gripping Shakespeare production seen in Brisbane for many a year' (The Courier-Mail).

La Boite's 2010 sell-out Hamlet was called 'the most downright gripping Shakespeare production seen in Brisbane for many a year' (The Courier-Mail).

The following events arelined up at Joe's Pub February 26-28:

From the team that brought you Hamlet comes Julius Caesar.

Caffeine Theatre and Chicago Opera Vanguard, in association with Chicago DCA Theater, present the United States premiere of Boojum! Nonsense, Truth, and Lewis Carroll.

This December at London's Southbank Simpson's and Spinal Tap star Harry Shearer and acclaimed chanteuse Judith Owen are joined by an host of guests for a mix of traditional and non-traditional seasonal music that is both relavent and irrelavent and reverent and irreverent.

Thunder Road Theater Company present The Way Down Story by Mark Anthony Rolo November 18-20th at 8pm and November 21 at 2pm. $8 for Seniors and Students, $10 for General Public Old Tree Woman's life has left her hard as birch; she 'ain't about family.' Yet, somehow, she has found herself the sole guardian of her two teenage grandchildren. As the family struggles to survive in the inner city of Minneapolis, Old Tree Woman begins to realize that a malignant darkness has invaded her home. Soon, secrets will surface, truths will come to light. Can she brave her past to save her family's future?

Thunder Road Theater Company present The Way Down Story by Mark Anthony Rolo November 18-20th at 8pm and November 21 at 2pm. $8 for Seniors and Students, $10 for General Public Old Tree Woman's life has left her hard as birch; she 'ain't about family.' Yet, somehow, she has found herself the sole guardian of her two teenage grandchildren. As the family struggles to survive in the inner city of Minneapolis, Old Tree Woman begins to realize that a malignant darkness has invaded her home. Soon, secrets will surface, truths will come to light. Can she brave her past to save her family's future?

Caffeine Theatre and Chicago Opera Vanguard, in association with Chicago DCA Theater, present the United States premiere of Boojum! Nonsense, Truth, and Lewis Carroll.

This December at London's Southbank Simpson's and Spinal Tap star Harry Shearer and acclaimed chanteuse Judith Owen are joined by an host of guests for a mix of traditional and non-traditional seasonal music that is both relavent and irrelavent and reverent and irreverent.

Caffeine Theatre and Chicago Opera Vanguard, in association with Chicago DCA Theater, present the United States premiere of Boojum! Nonsense, Truth, and Lewis Carroll.

Dispelling the notion that sophisticated art music doesn't come from middle America, "Piano Innovation," pianist Matthew McCright's upcoming concert consists of new music by six compelling Minnesota composers. This special performance will take place on Saturday, September 25th, 2010, 8:00pm at Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Center, 129 West 67th Street in Manhattan.

Dispelling the notion that sophisticated art music doesn't come from middle America, 'Piano Innovation,' pianist Matthew McCright's upcoming concert consists of new music by six compelling Minnesota composers. This special performance will take place on Saturday, September 25th, 2010, 8:00pm at Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Center, 129 West 67th Street in Manhattan.

ANNA NICOLE, a new opera based on the life of late actress/model Anna Nicole Smith, will be broadcast on BBC4 in early 2011, Deadline reports.

This week, the Cornelia Street Cafe will be hosting several musical acts, including Four-handed Fantasies with Jed Distler, The Zozimos Quartet, and much more. For more information and a complete calendar listing, visit www.corneliastreetcafe.com.

London's Wigmore Hall celebrates its 110th Anniversary during the 2010-2011 Season. For one hundred ten years, the Hall has served the global musical community, of extending a 550-seat venue's reach across oceans and continents, launching careers of the next generation of musicians, presenting a familiar and beloved stage for familiar and beloved artists, and offering repertory not often heard on other stages.

In the second of the final three weeks of his inaugural season, Music Director Alan Gilbert will lead the New York Philharmonic in Wagner's Siegfried Idyll; HK Gruber's trumpet concerto Aerial; Mozart's Symphony No. 25; and Wagner's Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde, Thursday, June 17, 2010, at 7:30 p.m., Friday, June 18, at 11:00 a.m., and Saturday, June 19, at 8:00 p.m. Joining the Orchestra to perform Aerial will be the Swedish trumpet virtuoso, Håkan Hardenberger, for whom it was written, and who is making his New York Philharmonic debut.