Victoria Bussert News

Victoria Theatre Association presents Dayton native Rob Lowe's one man show, Stories I Only Tell My Friends: LIVE! at the historic Victoria Theatre on Sunday, June 2, 2019 at 4 p.m. Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. on Monday, March 11 at the Ticket Center Stage Box Office, by calling 937-228-3630, (toll-free) 888-228-3630 or online at ticketcenterstage.com.

Hans and Nora Heysen: Two Generations of Australian Art is the first major exhibition to bring together the work of father and daughter artists Hans and Nora Heysen. With works covering more than a century of Australian history, this exhibition offers audiences an unprecedented insight into one of Australia's most prominent and influential artistic dynasties.

George Orwell's famed novel Animal Farm - a political satire targeting Stalinist Russia - is coming to the Victoria Park Hotel as a staged dramatic reading.

You will receive a pair of house seats to Grammy-winning, critically acclaimed, blockbuster Broadway show Hamilton on the West End in London.

Have you had enough of the crazy weather and the winter blahs?  Liven up your life and go to see Rodger's and Hammerstein's THE KING AND I at the Schuster Center this weekend.

Pacific Opera Victoria announces its 2019/20 season, comprising six operas, including a Canadian premiere and a world premiere production.

Complementing performances of Tony Award-winning actress and director Victoria Clark's production of Conor McPherson's new version of Strindberg's The Dance of Death, Classic Stage Company (CSC; Artistic Director, John Doyle) presents the second installment of its new Classic Conversations series. The series began with acclaimed actor Raul Esparza on the occasion of his "blisteringly good" (New York magazine) turn in Bertolt Brecht's Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui; another conversation will be announced this spring. The March 5 at 7pm event will serve as a rare, intimate, and engaging distillation of Clark's life in theater through conversation-with CSC Artistic Director John Doyle and celebrated music director Ted Sperling-and song. Sperling, who memorably worked with Clark on The Light in the Piazza, for which they both received Tony Awards, will also accompany Clark on piano for the musical portion of the evening. This one-night-only engagement takes place Tues, March 5 at 7pm at Classic Stage Company (136 E 13th Street, New York); tickets are $100-$150 and can be purchased at classicstage.org or 212-352-3101 (or toll free 866-811-411). The Dance of Death runs in repertory with director Shariffa Ali's staging of Yael Farber's Mies Julie through March 10.

Classic Stage Company devotes the beginning of 2019 to the timeless emotional and social resonance of August Strindberg, with new productions of two acclaimed adaptations-Yael Farber's Mies Julie and Conor McPherson's new version of The Dance of Death-presented in repertory.

Maggie Politi & Spiro Marcos, co-founders of NikoFrank Productions, presented the screening of a female film making initiative, Ladies In Action. It's a series of 4 short films, eclectic in genre, all written by, directed by, and starring women.

The Queen Victoria Women's Trust, led by Chair Van Badham, is pleased to announce the appointment of Jo Porter as CEO of the Trust. The announcement precedes a very busy period for the organisation, which includes a free lunchtime conversation with Leta Hong Fincher, award-winning author of Betraying Big Brother: The Feminist Awakening in China, as well as further celebrations to mark International Women's Day on March 6, 7 and 8.

'You take a mackerel, grill it, drizzle a little lemon on it, serve it up with a huge glass of white zinfandel, and one doesn't feel quite like blowing one's brains out anymore, does one?' observes a husband when considering the prospect of another evening's dinner with his wife of nearly twenty-five years.

Following the 2016 release of their critically acclaimed debut album 'Divine Love', Swedish/Belgian duo Victoria+Jean will return with the Producer Henrik Alsér (The Hives, Coldplay) produced follow-up 'Underdog' this spring.

Victoria Theatre Association's Universal 1 Credit Union VIC150 Music Series presents RUBEN SINGS LUTHER, featuring American Idol winner, Ruben Studdard as he pays tribute to Grammy Award - winning, R&B singer and songwriter, Luther Vandross, April 4 at 7:30 p.m. in the historic Victoria Theatre. Tickets go on sale Friday, Feb. 8 at 10 a.m. at Ticket Center Stage, by phone at 937-228-3630, (toll-free) 888-228-3630 or online at ticketcenterstage.com.

CinemaLive, leading producers and distributors of Event Cinema, are partnering with Northern Ballet to release two of their full-length productions into cinemas across the UK and Ireland in 2019. The brand-new production of Victoria will be screened for one night only on Tuesday 25 June and Draculawill be broadcast live via satellite into cinemas for Halloween on Thursday 31 October. This is the first collaboration between CinemaLive and Northern Ballet, the UK's leading storytelling ballet company.

Hans and Nora Heysen: Two Generations of Australian Art is the first major exhibition to bring together the work of father and daughter artists Hans and Nora Heysen. With works covering more than a century of Australian history, this exhibition offers audiences an unprecedented insight into one of Australia's most prominent and influential artistic dynasties.

Theatre Forward and UBS will host the 16th Annual Broadway Roundtable on Friday, January 25, 2019 at UBS (1285 Avenue of the Americas) from 12:00pm - 2:00pm.

Have a child in your life or need to get back in touch with your own inner child?  Go to the Schuster Center this weekend to see a performance of the national tour of FINDING NEVERLAND.

Today, Adia Victoria reveals the new single and video from her forthcoming album Silences. 'Different Kind Of Love' was directed by Alex Bittan who also directed the 'Dead Eyes' and 'Horrible Weather' videos from her last album Beyond The Bloodhounds. Adia spoke on the video, noting 'Different Kind of Love' is at its heart an attempt to confront very primal, timeless questions of the human condition. We all fall in and out of love and question those who join us in our folly. I teamed up with Alex Bittan to recreate a performance that may have felt at home on 1960's French television, replete with Parisian musician Madeleine Besson playing host. The video is only one take, and this captures the relentless spirit of the repeated refrain-between the world and me, tell me what will be? who do you love, tell me who do you love?'

Ghost Ship Radio will bring Victoria Valentine: Paranormal Investigator to the Hatbox Theatre on January 27th, March 24th, and May 26th for Sunday Matinee showings at 2:00 PM. Tickets are $17, $14 for members, seniors and students, and $12 for senior members.

Beck Center for the Arts presents Once with the esteemed Baldwin Wallace University Music Theatre Program. This limited engagement runs February 8 through 24, 2019 in the Mackey Theater.