Take Magazine Profile: Kristen Van Ginhoven and WAM

My final article for soon-to-shutter Take Magazine. WAM Theatre's Kristen Van Ginhoven, an artist whose work I very much admire, and whose mission I believe in. https://thetakemagazine.com/kristen-van-ginhoven/

Calendar Listings: Capitol Steps Return to Northampton

CALENDAR LISTINGS

The Mike Thornton Agency presents

THE CAPITOL STEPS

2018 Spring Break Tour

Friday, April 20, 2018 at 7:30PM

The Academy of Music Theatre

274 Main Street, Northampton, MA 01060

Tickets now on sale at The Academy of Music Box-Office

413-584-9032 ext. 105 or www.aomtheatre.com

Sponsored by New England Public Radio and WGBY Public Television.

The Capitol Steps return to Hampshire County or their first performance since 2010. The political musical satiure troupe has been a national institution for over 35 years, providing a unique blend of musical and political comedy and satire to audiences coast-to-coast.. Each show consists of tasteful lampooning guaranteed to leave both sides of the political spectrum laughing. The troupe started in 1981. Since then, they have appeared on “The Today Show,” “ABC News Nightline,” “CBS Evening News” and on specials for NPR. 

The Capitol Steps’newest radio special, Politics Takes A Holiday , airs on many NPR member stations on New Year’s Eve. For details on stations airing the Capitol Steps radio special,or podcast downloads:: http://www.capsteps.com/radio/

The Washington Post calls The Capitol Steps: “An oasis of good-natured ribbing in a fiercely partisan world. The entire audience, Republicans and Democrats alike, roared with laughter”.

DC Theatre Scene says “The Capitol Steps is a political comedy show that offers a mix of song and standup, lampooning modern political leaders and taking on the major issues of the day. .If you’re a political junkie, you’ll get a healthy dose of the daily news served spit-roasted and heavily mocked.”

The Capitol Steps works overtime to capture the new administrations’ antics in satire and song. And since The Capitol Steps find their laughs in materials ripped from today’s and tomorrow’s headlines you never know whether Steve Bannon, Jeff Sessions, or Kim Jong-un might appear from Mar-A-Lago or The White House.

To preview some of the Capitol Steps materials, visit their website, www.capsteps.com, or find The Capitol Steps on Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter (@capsteps)

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Note to The Press.

For Capitol Steps publicity photos: http://www.capsteps.com/live/pr06.html

For a copy of The Capitol Steps’ latst CD, “Orange Is The New Barack”, or links to broadcast versions of Capitol Steps songs, and other promotional items, please email Mark G. Auerbach at mgauerbach@gmail.com. 

Westfield News Group ArtsBeat 12/20/17

Westfield News Group ArtsBeat for 12/20/17. The best theatre performances of the year. http://thewestfieldnews.com/arts-beat-204/

ArtsBeat Radio 12/20/17

My ArtsBeat Radio program for 12/20/17 on 89.5fm/WSKB with TheaterWorks' Rob Ruggiero, Noble Shropshire from Hartford Stage's A Christmas Carol, and Westfield native Josh Burrage from Broadway'sCats. https://vimeo.com/248158819

Westfield News Group ArtsBeat 12/12/17

Westfield News Group ArtsBeat 12/12/17. "Best of The Arts" Part 2. The outstanding plays, musicals, directors, an designers. http://thewestfieldnews.com/arts-beat-203/

Calendar Listings: The Big Broadcast!

DATELINE: December 8, 2017

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CALENDAR LISTINGS

The Jazz Ensembles of Mount Holyoke College

present

THE BIG BROADCAST!

The 13th Edition

Saturday, March 3, 2018

2PM and 7:30PM

Chapin Auditorium

Mount Holyoke College

Route 116

South Hadley, MA 01075

The Jazz Ensembles of Mount Holyoke College's 13th annual presentation of a live 1940’s radio broadcast created and directed by Mark Gionfriddo (onstage as “Matt Morgan”) with WWLP-22News meteorologist Brian Lapis as emcee “Fred Kelley". Under Gionfriddo’s direction, the Mount Holyoke Big Band, Vocal Jazz, and Chamber Jazz Ensembles perform well-known tunes from the swing era, including music by Bing Crosby, the Andrews Sisters, Benny Goodman, and Spike Jones, as well as a Centennial Salute to Ella Fitzgerald.

Sponsors (to date) include Mount Holyoke College, WWLP-22News & The CW Springfield, The Republican powering MassLive and El Pueblo Latino.

Tickets are general admission. $25.00 premium front and center seating. $20.00 regular seating. $10.00 seniors in advance; $15.00 seniors at door. and $10.00 students. Tickets are available at the UMASS Fine Arts Center Box Office in Amherst; at the Odyssey Bookshop, Village Commons, South Hadley; and at the door (subject to availability).  For phone orders: 413-545-2511 or 1-800-999-UMASS. Online ticket purchases will be available through the UMass Fine Arts Center.

For information on The Jazz Ensembles of Mount Holyoke College: https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/music/jazz-0

Snow date is Sunday, March 4.

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Westfield News Group ArtsBeat 12/7/17: Arts Year in Review Part I

Part I of my 3-part Westfield News Group Best of the Arts 2017. Some of the innovators: Kristen Van Ginhoven and WAM Theatre; Matt Bertuzzi and Kevin Rhodes for the Springfield Symphony Real Time Concert Notes; Hartford Symphony Orchestra, and Berkshire Theatre Group’s Travis Daly. http://thewestfieldnews.com/arts-beat-202/