“Blue Angel — A Marlene Dietrich Retrospective” presented by MASTERS’ CABARET, starring Diane McNaron & Michael King and introducing Barrington McQueen as the mythic “Jonny” Saturday, September 29, 8:00 PM Homewood Community Arts Center – Home of the Children’s Dance Foundation 1715 27th Court South, Homewood, AL 35209 “Falling in Love again,” Lili Marlene,” “The [...]
It would be easy to make fun of this material, as Emmett Weaver wrote in his review of the 1976 BFT production, of which he also said: “Director Carl Stewart is responsible for “Holy Ghosts” and it is the finest thing Birmingham Festival Theatre has done.” Director Beth Ensey’s revival of this play is also [...]
Much local talent and a great deal of thought and energy went into the production of “Quilters,” a piece of musical theatre intended to evoke the fabric of frontier life as experienced by women of all ages. The 1982 drama written by Barbara Damashek and Molly Newman takes the form of a series of tableaux [...]
Stage Door, the story of a group of actresses trying to make their way on Broadway during the Depression, opened October 22, 1936 at the Music Box Theatre on 45th street and became hugely popular, in spite of its anti-Hollywood overtones. The anti-Hollywood overtones were naturally eliminated in the film version that appeared the next [...]
Ouch, you missed it! It played October 5-9, 2011 at the Alys Stephans Center’s Sirote Theater, a great venue and what a fine performance from UAB’s Theater Department students! Elliot Cleverdon performed and sang both the Singer and Azdak wonderfully, and Rebecca Harper played a sweet Grusha with a very sweet and pure singing voice. [...]
Something amazing seems to be happening. Hula hoop, hybrid hoop, circus hula, contemporary hoop dance, performance hoop, Native American hoop dance theater, fire hoop, body hoop, hoopaholic…World Hoop Day is 10/10/10, just like it was 9/9/9! There is a World Countdown to World Hoop Day on 7 continents, now including Antarctica. Hoop camp, hoop class, [...]
Park Players presents “Noises Off” by Michael Frayn Directed by Clay Boyce Main stage at the Alabama School of Fine Arts Performances are July 8th – 10th & July 15th – 17th at 7:30pm Sunday July 11th & 18th at 2:30 For more about Park Players and the show, click here! Editor’s review: Michael Frayn’s [...]
Zumba is a fitness-dance developed in Colombia in the 1990′s by Alberto “Beto” Perez in Cali, Colombia. The story goes that he walked into an aerobics class he was going to teach, having forgotten his standard aerobics music, so he improvised the whole class around the salsa and merengue music that he loved and had [...]
The Alabama School of Fine Arts theater department with a cast of more than 30, presented Elizabeth Swados’ musical Runaways, February 18 – 21 under the direction of Jesse Bates and musical direction of Derek Jackson. According to my information, this play was inspired by real-life runaways (1970′s) from Elizabeth Swados’ workshops. The production is [...]