By PAM HARBAUGH Introducing the little ones to theater is a sweet thing to do. And the King Center makes it easy with “Peppa Pig’s Surprise!” The live action all singing, all dancing show begins 6 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 19 and features favorite characters in life as life sized puppets. Tell...
GET OUT! Aug. 11 to 13
By PAM HARBAUGH People are already lining up to get their tickets to Melbourne Civic Theatre’s season opener…so snap to and read more below. And if some beautiful music is what’s needed to lift your soul, then nothing better than tonight’s concert featuring two extraordinary up and coming musicians…read more about...
COMEDY TONIGHT at MCT
By PAM HARBAUGH Or…rather, on Friday, when A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM opens at Melbourne Civic Theatre. No doubt, this is one of the funniest, and most enduring of American musical comedies. Written in 1962 by Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart with music and lyrics by...
AUDITIONS August 2017
By PAM HARBAUGH There will be actors! The 2017/2018 theater season is about to burst forth. COCOA VILLAGE PLAYHOUSE will hold auditions for BEAUTY AND THE BEAST this weekend. The audition schedule is: Children 7 to 12 years old 10 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 12; males and females 13 years and older,...
Cellist FRANISCO VILA-HAAS returns to Brevard
By PAM HARBAUGH With a world made weary by politics, it’s time to come together. And, there’s no better way to make that happen than with “Summer of Love,” a chamber concert chock-full of romantic themed classics and headed by two extraordinary young artists growing in acclaim. The concert will have...
GET OUT! Aug 4 to 6
By PAM HARBAUGH Fido might be tired of fetching the ball. Get him off the beach and into the Eau Gallie Arts District for tonight’s DOG DAYS OF SUMMER First Friday (read below and in the item about the Fifth Avenue Art Gallery). In addition, the melodramatic holy trinity of villain/hero/damsel-in-distress...
AROMATHERAPIST and Art at Ruth Funk Center
By PAM HARBAUGH Now here’s something totally new and different — an art exhibition with an aromatherapy “sidebar.” The Ruth Funk Center for Textile Arts will present aromatherapist DOREEN DeSERRES-DuJARDIN to speak at its current exhibition, FLORA AND FIBER. The event runs 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 5, at the...
Melodrama Fun at Surfside
By PAM HARBAUGH Forget everything you hear about bad audience behavior at live theater. At “Deadwood Dick or A Game of Gold,” the audience is expected to get loud. Well, maybe you still should climb on stage and look for a power outlet to charge your cell phone. (That actually happened...
SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN Photo Gallery
By PAM HARBAUGH Well…wow and double wow. These photos from Dana Niemeier Photography reveal quite a stunning production of “Singin’ in the Rain” at the Henegar. In other words, don’t miss it. You’ve got this afternoon and this evening. SIDE O’ GRITS: SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN, is a production of the...
GET OUT! July 28 to 30
By PAM HARBAUGH You’re in luck. If you missed Jesse Jones, Jr. the first time he came to Heidi’s Jazz Club, you have a second unexpected chance this weekend. In addition, rumor has it that the Henegar’s production of “Singin’ in the Rain” is a great thing to do this weekend....