Mark Holden News

Beyond the Usual and Bootleg Theater proudly present the World Premiere of Tell Me I'm Pretty, a hilarious and riveting new solo show - written and performed by Joshua Silverstein and directed by Diana Wyenn. Tackling race, gender, and poverty in America through storytelling, spoken word, vocal percussion, and hip hop, Tell Me I'm Pretty opens its five-week run at Bootleg Theater on Friday, April 8, 2016.

Ben Richards will join previously announced Beverley Knight in the international hit musical The Bodyguard when it returns to the West End for a limited six month run in July this year.  Richards will play Frank Farmer, Rachel Marron's bodyguard, alongside Beverley Knight in the leading role of the Oscar-nominated superstar Marron.   Performances begin at the Dominion Theatre on 15 July 2016 for this strictly limited season to 7 January 2017. 

USITT's Architecture Commission has built an impressive array of sessions for USITT 2016 in Salt Lake City - with most carrying AIA Continuing Education credits that architects need to keep their licenses current.

The Alley Theatre, one of the nation's leading nonprofit theatre companies and housed in one of Houston's most iconic buildings, celebrated the groundbreaking today for the first extensive renovation of its facilities since its opening in 1968 as part of its $73 million capital campaign. Having raised $47.5 million in the "Extended Engagement" campaign, the theatre intends to raise a total of $56.5 million by August 2015 to complete the first two phases of the campaign, Artistic Enhancement and Renovation. This will allow the theatre to have the building costs secured, before the Alley Theatre begins its inaugural season back in its downtown home.

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The Alley Theatre, one of the nation's leading nonprofit theatre companies and housed in one of Houston's most iconic buildings, unveiled plans today to enhance its artistic product and complete the first extensive renovation of its facilities since its opening in 1968 through a $73 million capital campaign.

Tomorrow night, Thursday, PHIT House Team King Friday will be having their monthy West Philadelphia pay-what-you-can show at Studio 34.

Philly Improv Theatre (PHIT) has announced its upcoming schedule of shows and stage readings.

Mark Holden, Chairman and Director of Design of JaffeHolden, is delighted to announce the firm's work on the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center, scheduled to reopen with Hugo Weisgall's Esther on November 7th. Among the world's most respected and sought-after acoustical design firms, JaffeHolden's expertise at successfully designing the sound for diverse venues is highlighted by their recent work in renovating Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center - a project that received international critical acclaim - and the new performance spaces at The Juilliard School, completed in October.

After 10 years of consulting with internationally lauded performing artists and administrators on their vision of a 'dream venue,' The Eli and Edythe Broad Stage opens with two sold-out concerts. Broadway Legend Barbara Cook inaugurates the performing arts center in a program featuring songs composed by Stephen Sondheim, Rogers and Hammerstein, Rogers and Hart, and Cole Porter.