PITTSBURG, Kan. ― The Colonial Fox Theatre Foundation received a $10,000 grant on Friday from the Westar Energy Foundation that will fund a downtown block party to celebrate the Block 22 project. The block party, “Back to Broadway,” will be held in conjunction with...

Historic theaters enjoy a revival, often in small towns, but still strive for survival Geoff Gordon of Live Nation, who covers more than 600 shows for the mega-promoter, couldn’t be more excited about The Met Philly, a 3,400-seat restored opera house set to open in...

Coney Island Shore Theater to become seven-story hotel Project from PYE Properties will include spa and banquet hall 1301 Surf Avenue (Credit: PropertyShark) Local developer PYE Properties is planning to convert the famed Coney Island Shore Theater into a seven-story...

By: Michelle Kinsey— Muncie, IN—Muncie Civic Theatre is going down under – the sea, that is — for its latest production. The historic downtown theatre is presenting Disney’s “The Little Mermaid” live on stage June 8-24. For tickets, call 288-PLAY or go...

The Denton Square’s historic Fine Arts Theatre — which has sat vacant for over four years — will be restored into an entertainment venue under a new partnership of several Texas entities. Some of the partners involved in the project include Aviation Cinemas, Talented...

Songs For Screens is a Variety column sponsored by music experiential agency MAC Presents, based in NYC. It is written by Andrew Hampp, founder of music marketing consultancy 1803 LLC and former correspondent for Billboard. Each week, the column will highlight...

By Reggie Ellis @Reggie_SGN VISALIA – Dena Cochran has dedicated half a lifetime helping her community by preserving its history, health and horizons.  The 2018 Visalia Chamber of Commerce’s Woman of the Year has raised money for countless good causes, none greater or...

When the Lompoc Valley Historical Society uprooted and moved the iconic “Hi! Let’s Eat” sign from East Ocean Avenue a little more than a year ago, the group’s plan was to eventually have the sign fully restored to its former glory. This month, a local service...

Producers for the world premiere of “Moulin Rouge! The Musical” at the Emerson Colonial Theatre in Boston are evaluating whether a construction mishap will delay the June 27 opening.A beam from the steel grid above the stage failed sometime between Friday night and...

A construction mishap occurred over the weekend at the Emerson Colonial Theatre when a beam that supports a new steel grid above the stage failed, raising the question of whether the world premiere of “Moulin Rouge! The Musical’’ might be delayed. Robert Jones, a...

Austin’s Hidden Room theatre company is officially in cahoots with John Wilkes Booth, the actor who shot and killed President Abraham Lincoln back in 1865. They’re engaged in a sort of transtemporal collaboration, of course, and the Ransom Center’s Eric Colleary is...

The pre-Broadway engagement of Moulin Rouge! may be forced to delay the start of previews, which are scheduled to begin June 27 in Boston, due to a construction issue with part of the steel grid above the stage of the newly restored Emerson Colonial Theatre. "During...

It’s a stop-the-presses moment. I had another column in the works for today, but the news that Ford Motor Co. is buying Detroit’s abandoned behemoth of a train station makes it worth shifting gears.  There have been rumors going back several months that a deal could...

The Fine Arts Theatre in Denton is a classic movie palace that has sat on the city’s Square, mostly abandoned, since a fire in the '80s. But that’s all about to change. Denton artist Martin Iles is a member of Good/Bad Art Collective and a founder of Rock Lottery....

President of the Treasury Board Scott Brison, on Monday, April 30, 2018. Justin Tang / THE CANADIAN PRESS When Auditor General Michael Ferguson recently cited public service culture as a contributing factor to the “incomprehensible failure” of the flawed Phoenix pay...