Christopher Berg

In honor of the solstice and batting an eyelash towards holiday-triggering depression, Opera on Tap returns to HERE to present a female-driven cabaret of contemporary classical songs.

Starring Buffalo concluded it's 3 performances of LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS on Saturday night. The visiting Broadway artists included Matt Doyle as Seymour, Lindsay Nicole Chambers as Audrey and Brandon Espinoza as the Dentist. Artistic Director Drew Fornarola has announced EVITA as the spring of 2020 staged musical concert. Casting will be announced in the new year. The company is using Shea's 710 Theatre this season, after it's inaugural season at Rockwell Hall last year presenting THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME. The touring cast of THE BROADWAY PRINCESS PARTY was also in town and joined in to celebrate.

Opera on Tap in partnership with The Old Stone House, The Park Slope Fifth Avenue BID, and Anti-Social Music and in association with Sing For Hope and with support from the Park Slope Civic Council, will stage an interactive musical walk through America's volatile political history the weekends of July 5th and July 12th entitled This Is The Ground. With curatorial support from famed song historian Paul Sperry, music will include a diverse array of songs spanning popular and classical styles ranging from the 1790s to now. Billed as a site-specific, interactive musical journey mapping an American refusal to surrender, the experience has been developed and directed by renowned theatre-makers, Latrelle Bright and Jerre Dye.

Opera on Tap Presents: Bucket O' Blood Cabaret at The Flea Theater.

Opera on Tap Presents: Bucket O' Blood Cabaret at The Flea Theater.

Broadway's Ben Fankhauser (Newsies, Spring Awakening - Tour) will play Quasimodo in Starring Buffalo's upcoming concerts of THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME, joining previously announced cast members Dan'yelle Williamson (Memphis, Rocky the Musical) as Esmeralda, Jonah Platt (Wicked, Jesus Christ Superstar - Live) as Phoebus, Devin Ilaw (Les Miserables, Miss Saigon) as Clopin, and Keith Ersing (Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra's Fiddler on The Roof) as Frollo. They will team with celebrated Buffalo actors Leah Berst, Charmagne Chi, Arianne Davidow, Matthew Iwanski-Jackson, Dudney Joseph, Ben Michael Moran, Katy Miner, Raphael Santos, and over 100 other contributing Western New York professional and student artists to create an unforgettable theatrical experience.

Returning for the second time this year, Opera on Tap brings its signature irreverent approach to opera to The Flea in its resident immersive cabaret series. In honor of the season, we are pleased to present Bucket o'Blood Cabaret. Committed to the tagline "No one gets in for free… but nobody gets out alive", the company promises to deliver an evening of blood-red cocktails paired with hair-raising operatic screams.

Opera on Tap Presents: Bucket O' Blood Cabaret at The Flea Theater.

Broadway's Devin Ilaw (Les Miserables, Miss Siagon) and Jonah Platt (Wicked, Jesus Christ Superstar Live) will complete the cast of Starring Buffalo's upcoming concerts of THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME. They play Clopin and Captain Phoebus, respectively, and join previously announced visiting artists Alex Wyse (Spring Awakening, Lysistrata Jones) as Quasimodo, and Dan'yelle Williamson (Memphis, Rocky The Musical) as Esmeralda. Noted Buffalo vocalist and conductor Keith Ersing plays Frollo, and all will be joined by a company of star Buffalo actors including Leah Berst, Charmagne Chi, Arianne Davidow, Matthew Iwanski-Jackson, Dudney Joseph, Ben Michael Moran, Katy Miner, Raphael Santos.

Gloucester Stage Company opens its 39th season of professional theater on May 11 with the world premiere of Madame Defarge, Wendy Kesselman's new musical inspired by Charles Dicken's classic A Tale of Two Cities. The world premiere musical runs from May 11 through June 2 at Gloucester Stage Company, 267 East Main Street, Gloucester, MA. A passionate re-imagining of Dickens' infamous Madame Defarge illuminates this new musical by Wendy Kesselman.

What does it mean to be a woman in the times of the #metoo and #timesup movements? What would our historical sisters have to say about it? From Sappho and Hildegard von Bingen to present day, this classical cabaret explores some of the innermost thoughts, desires, dreams, and experiences of women through music and poetry. Opera on Tap makes its' Flea debut as an Anchor Partner, presenting a diverse program of classical song in their signature fresh, heartfelt, and entertaining style.  

Mirror Visions Ensemble (MVE) an acclaimed vocal chamber ensemble dedicated to exploring the relationship between music and text presents its newest program, Of Beasts and Brutes, in the Loreto Theater at The Sheen Center on Monday, March 12, 2018 at 8:00 p.m.

Composer and cellist Peri Mauer will present her new performance piece MAD JAM Wednesday, June 21st, 3-5pm, in Hudson Boulevard Park, located at 35th Street between 10th and 11th Avenues, New York, NY.

On Saturday, April 29, 2017 cellist and composer Peri Mauer will be featured playing with the Illuminati Orchestra for two sets at Club Bonafide, located at 212 East 52nd St., New York, NY 10022.

Cellist and composer Peri Mauer will be revisiting her composition 'Dutchess Starlight Revisited' in a solo set on cello at Zinc Bar on Wednesday, March 22nd at 7PM.

On Tuesday, February 21, 2017 at 7PM, composer Peri Mauer will present the world premiere of her newly composed string quartet, Shadow Lake, at St. Peter's Church, located at 619 Lexington Ave. at 54th St. in NYC.

On Tuesday, February 21, 2017 at 7PM, composer Peri Mauer will present the world premiere of her newly composed string quartet, Shadow Lake, at St. Peter's Church, located at 619 Lexington Ave.at 54th St. in NYC.

As a musical theater librettist, lyricist and lifelong connoisseur of Broadway and Hollywood musicals, Frank Evans would have been extremely sad to learn about the passing of screen legend Debbie Reynolds on December 28. But given his sense of humor and ability for self-deprecation, Evans might have also gotten a perverse kick out of knowing he died on the same day as one of his film favorites. Franklin G. Evans, 70, died last Wednesday evening at Methodist Hospital in Park Slope, Brooklyn, due to complications from multiple strokes that ravaged his brain over the last couple of months of 2016. Evans, who also suffered from Parkinson's-related dementia and diabetes, had spent the last year rehabilitating from a serious concussion sustained last December.

On Tuesday June 21st, 3:00-5:00pm, composer and cellist Peri Mauer will present a free concertat the Bard Graduate Center, located at 18 West 86th St., NYC. 

THOUGHT'S TORSION, composer Peri Mauer's trio for flute, viola, and cello will be performed at Symphony Space on June 4, 2016, by Michael Laderman flute, Gregor Kitzis viola, and Arthur Cook cello in a New York Composer's Circle Gala Concert. Symphony Space is located at 250 West 95th St., NYC. Also on the program is music by Raoul Pleskow, Madelyn Byrne, Patricia  Leonard, Hubert Howe, Max Giteck Duykers, Ross Griffey, and Brian Fennelly. Tickets are $20, students free.