John Baker News

Partial Comfort Productions (Drama Desk nominee A Bright New Boise) kicks off it's 11th season with the World Premiere of AND MILES TO GO by Chad Beckim. Directed by Hal Brooks (Pulitzer Prize finalist Thom Pain), previews begin October 3 at The Wild Project. Opening night is slated for Thursday, October 10. Originally, scheduled to close October 26, performances have been extended through November 2nd by popular demand.

Partial Comfort Productions (Drama Desk nominee A Bright New Boise) kicks off it's 11th season with the World Premiere of AND MILES TO GO by Chad Beckim. Directed by Hal Brooks (Pulitzer Prize finalist Thom Pain), previews begin October 2 at The Wild Project. Opening night is slated for Thursday, October 10.

The final production of the 2013 Shenandoah Summer Musical Theatre season, Shrek: The Musical, is an entertaining and enchanting modern fairy tale filled with wildly comedic moments and, of course, fart jokes. The regional premiere of the musical is the closing production for the summer musical theater company.

Shenandoah Summer Music Theatre's production of Crazy for You is a phenomenal evening of entertainment filled with fantastic tap-dancing and great Gershwin standards. The 1992 musical comedy featuring music and lyrics by George and Ira Gershwin and an updated book by Ken Ludwig was a perfect evening of entertainment in the incredibly talented hands (and tap dancing feet) of the Shenandoah Summer Music Theater company.

Chicago, the second production in the Shenandoah Summer Musical Theater 2013 season, was stuffed with star turns by the talented leads of the production, but the production as a whole lacked a little of the conventional "Razzle Dazzle" one would expect from the sexy and scandalous 1975 musical.

The East Tennessee River Valley commemorates the 175th Anniversary of the Trail of Tears, the forced removal of the Cherokee Nation to Oklahoma. This tragic event will be remembered in special events and exhibits in the East Tennessee River Valley during 2013.

Theatre Southwest presents 'Critics Choice' by Ira Levin, directed by Malinda L. Beckham, running tonight, February 22-March 16, 2013. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the show in the photos below!

'Locomotive,' one of the bonus tracks from the forthcoming expanded edition of Above (the first and only album to be completed by Seattle-based rock supergroup Mad Season), premiered as a stream on RollingStone.com.

Theatre Southwest presents 'Critics Choice' by Ira Levin, directed by Malinda L. Beckham, running February 22-March 16, 2013. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the show in the photos below!

Legacy Recordings -- the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment -- will release a newly expanded Deluxe Edition of Above, the first and only album to be completed by Seattle-based rock supergroup Mad Season.

The Calendar Girls will launch Seasons of Love, a unique celebration of words, music and film at the Royal Albert Hall, tonight, 7 October 2012, at 4pm and 8pm. The gala show will have contributions from the City of London Philharmonic, the West End Chorus, Stephen Disley and the Grand Organ of the Royal Albert Hall together with some of the VIPs and stars of the stage and screen The Calendar Girls have met along the way.

John Legend will make his Sarasota premiere, opening the Van Wezel season, Fri. Oct. 19, 2012 @ 8 PM. Powerhouse Anita Baker makes her appearance Sun. Nov. 18, 2012 @ 7 PM. Tickets go ON SALE this Friday, August 17 at 10 AM.

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts will host more than 120 outstanding theater students from colleges and universities across the nation as part of the 44th annual Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (KCACTF), April 16-21, 2012. In January and February of this year, these artists from eight regions presented their outstanding work and were selected to travel to Washington, D.C. for an expense-paid trip to participate in National Festival events taking place at the Kennedy Center.

The Calendar Girls will launch Seasons of Love, a unique celebration of words, music and film at the Royal Albert Hall, 7 October 2012, at 4pm and 8pm. The gala show will have contributions from the City of London Philharmonic, the West End Chorus, Stephen Disley and the Grand Organ of the Royal Albert Hall together with some of the VIPs and stars of the stage and screen The Calendar Girls have met along the way.

Tony Award-winning director John Doyle, who has previously staged Broadway revivals of Stephen Sondheim's SWEENEY TODD and COMPANY directs the composer-lyricist's musical MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG at the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park which runS through March 31. Check out just-released production shots below!

Whose Wives Are They Anyway? comes to the Farmington Players stage. The show runs February 17 through March 3 at the Barn Theatre in Farmington Hills.

The Farmington Players are holding open auditions for the comedy by Michael Parker: Whose Wives Are They Anyway?

The Farmington Players are holding open auditions for the comedy by Michael Parker: Whose Wives Are They Anyway?

Marin Theatre Company Artistic Director Jasson Minadakis and Producing Director Ryan Rilette are pleased to announce the winners of MTC's two national new American play prizes.

Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company is pleased to announce a partnership with iStrategyLabs, a DC based digital and experiential marketing agency.