STAGE: Good Ol' Girls

GOOD OL’ GIRLS, a new musical written and adapted by Paul Ferguson, based on the stories of two prominent Southern authors, Lee Smith (The Last Girls) and Jill McCorkle (Going Away Shoes), with songs by Nashville hit-makers Matraca Berg (Reba McEntire, Dixie Chicks, Faith Hill) and Marshall Chapman (Jimmy Buffett, Wynonna, Olivia Newton-John). At the Black Box Theatre at The Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre (111 West 46th Street between 6th and 7th Avenues) thru April 11. (source)

STAGE: Clothes For A Summer Hotel

Mr. Williams’ highly theatrical and evocative “Ghost play” about the tumultuous marriage and creative lives of Zelda & Scott Fitzgerald. CLOTHES FOR A SUMMER HOTEL, which opened in NYC on March 26, 1980, was Mr. Williams’ last Broadway production and has rarely been staged since. Filled with music and dance of the jazz age, the play fuses the past and the present in a theatrical tour-de-force as Zelda and Scott re-visit their youth and the ghosts of characters (including Ernest Hemingway) who helped shape their existence. (source)

Thru Feb 21 @ at the Hudson Guild Theatre
441 West 26th Street (Btw. 9th & 10th Aves.)

MARDI GRAS

HAPPY PRESIDENT'S DAY

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SOUNDS: BB King & Buddy Guy 2/12

BB King and Buddy Guy perform tonight at United Palace Theatre. Nuff said!

SCREEN: Still Bill

• At IFC Theater - Thu, Feb 11 at: 12:55 PM, 4:30 PM
  

The story of a 33-year-old Navy vet from Slab Fork, WV, who became, almost overnight, a ’70s soul legend, STILL BILL is an intimate portrait of Bill Withers, the artist behind the classics “Ain’t No Sunshine,” “Lean On Me,” “Lovely Day” and “Just the Two of Us.” Through archival and new concert footage and interviews with music greats, his family and closest friends, the film reveals the man behind the music. (source)

STAGE: The Miracle Worker

The Miracle Worker (starring Abigail Breslin) opens for previews tomorrow (2/12) at Circle in the Square Theatre on Broadway.

"Set in the American South in the 1880s, THE MIRACLE WORKER tells the story of real-life Medal of Freedom winner (and Tuscumbia AL native) Helen Keller, who suddenly lost her sight and hearing at the age of 19 months, and the extraordinary teacher who taught her to communicate with the world, Annie Sullivan."

SCREEN: Dear John

Get the tissues ready! Tearjerker Dear John opens today:

Savannah Curtis (Amanda Seyfried) was on spring break when she first met John Tyree (Channing Tatum), a military man home on temporary leave. For the smitten soldier, it was practically love at first sight. Over the course of the next seven years, when each deployment seemed more treacherous than the last, the love letters that Savannah sent to John were one of the only things that kept him going. However, those loving and heartfelt correspondences would ultimately yield consequences that neither the brave soldier nor his one true love could have ever foreseen.

2 Reasons To Wish You Were In Alabama Today

Thursday, FEBRUARY 4, 2010
BAMA THEATER
Spectacular, Formal Affair with Live Music, Entertainment and Pie.

The night will feature performances by Alabama students representing APO Theatre Fraternity, Dance Alabama!, and the Musical Theatre Program. The night will also feature singer-songwriter from Nashville, Amy Stroup. We invite all of you to dress your dressiest [or not] and come support the Pie Lab. Cocktails at 6, event at 7.

Jeanie Thompson at the Blow Your Mind: Public Discussion Series @ the Wiregrass Museum of Art in Dothan AL

STAGE: Black Angels Over Tuskegee

Now at St. Luke's Theatre: Black Angels Over Tuskegee is the story of the Tuskegee Airmen told in narrative of six men embarking upon a journey to become pilots in the United States Army Air Forces. The play explores their collective struggle with Jim Crow, their intelligence, patriotism, dreams of an inclusive fair society, and brotherhood. The play goes beyond the headlines of the popular stories of the Tuskegee Airmen and exposes the men who exhibited the courage to excel, in spite of all the overwhelming odds against them. (source)

STAGE: Phantom Killer

Now thru 2/14 @ Abingdon Theatre Arts Complex:

On a scorching hot Texas night in 1946, Luke parks on a deserted country road with his new wife Jessie. A Texas Ranger searches the same road hunting a serial killer. Before the three part ways, plans change, a deal is struck, a heart breaks, and everyone is guilty. (Source)

STAGE: The Man In Room 306

Now thru 2/14 at 59E59 Theaters:

The Man in Room 306 is a fictional account of the last night in the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The story unfolds on the rainy, windswept evening of April 3, 1968, at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.

During these declining years of the Civil Rights Movement, Dr. King has returned to Memphis to lead a demonstration of striking, Black sanitation workers. This is the second march King will lead in the troubled "River City". The first ended in violence and the tragic shooting death of a sixteen year old black boy at the hands of white, Memphis police. For an anxious Dr. King the stakes couldn't be higher; if this next march ends in rioting, it may permanently damage the viability of nonviolence in the civil rights struggle and destroy his credibility as its symbolic leader. It is under these trying circumstances that Dr. King finds himself alone in Room 306, struggling with his past, anxious about his future, and coming to terms with his life.

Audiences are invited into the private world of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to catch a rare glimpse of the iconic figure as a man filled with life and hope, as well as the worries and burdens of his calling.

Written by and starring Craig Alan Edwards, The man in room 306 is an intimate, human portrait of Dr. King; a fictional glimpse into the private moments of history; into the passions and fears of an incredible man during an extraordinary time.

The Man in room 306 is proudly supported by the National Civil Rights Museum.

(Source)

STAGE: Babel Tower

Now thru tomorrow! (2/2) @ ArcLight Theater:

In BABEL TOWER the year is 1950. The isolated townspeople of Black Kettle, Texas, have come together to construct a mysterious tower. Jack, an ex-high school football star and gas station owner, stands alone as the voice of dissension. When he discovers that the eponymous tower might actually be a Russian missile, we find out how far he will go to save the town.(source)