We Want You to Be Loud!
Robin Hood – A Very British Pantomime is at the Burgdorff Performing Arts Center. A very loud British holiday theater tradition is wowing audiences in New Jersey with Robin Hood: A Very British Pantomime. For the many who do not what the British Panto art form is, this slapstick, participatory show is a really terrific treat for all the family. Panto, a hilarious and fun British holiday play, tells a fairy tale in a vaudevillian...
Alice – What is Alice150?
Dr. April Lynn James (aka Madison Hatta) performing The Twinkle Bat Variations: A Work and Life in Progress Alice150: Celebrating Wonderland will be a global festival beginning in early October 2015 to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the first publication of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland in 1865. Author Tim Manley and his delightful book, Alice in Tumblr-land The festival that The Lewis Carroll Society of North America...
The Global Search for Education: To Be or Not to Be?
“Shakespeare’s plays, stories and myth all constitute memetic content that has spread from brain to brain to paper to hard drive across language, substrate, from neurons to silicon and back again and have SURVIVED, making them incredibly successful.” – Jason Silva Today is William Shakespeare’s 450th birthday. In celebration, the Royal Shakespeare Company – on the other side of the pond – will...
The Next Hit Show?
“This is a story about how love changes over time…The hope is that the emotion of that theme + a twisting thriller plot + great tunes = something unique and exciting for audiences.” – Kyle Jarrow What does it take today to create the next hit musical theater show? What are the critical must have elements? An original and unique story? An unforgettable score? Outstanding performances from talented actors? Or...
Alice – The New Opera
“Dodgson himself wrote that he imagined his work as musical theater — an “operetta”.”- Gary Bachlund Johnny Depp and Mia Wasikowska are scheduled to reprise their roles as the Mad Hatter and Alice, respectively, in Disney’s Alice in Wonderland 2 on May 27th, 2016. Unfortunately, the sequel to the original blockbuster (the sixth movie to earn more than $1 billion worldwide) will, in the words...
Alice — Wotcha! Gotcha! Alice?
“Alice in Wonderland is one of the earliest books written with the intention of entertaining children and not improving or educating them. It is still a breath of fresh air. I like to think that my version of Alice Liddell in Wotcha! Gotcha!, speaks and acts more like the Alice of the books than various other recent versions.” — Gareth Jones Wotcha! Gotcha!, a very British style of pantomime (or panto), is...
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