'Tina — The Tina Turner Musical' coming to The Hanover Theatre
Oct 8, 2024 · "Tina — The Tina Turner Musical" was just two performances into its new national tour, but the show was already putting together a notable record. "So far, two-for-two standing ovations," said cast member Steven Sawan after the musical's opening Sept. 24 and 25 at the E. J. Thomas Hall in Akron, Ohio. "You feel the audience," he said about the reaction to he show's inspiring story of Tina ...
Worcesteria: Silent witnesses in exhibit marking Cold Storage fire
Dec 4, 2024 · In the wake of every such disaster, a community struggles to understand and to learn ways to prevent future tragedies. For three days in Worcester, tributes to Lt. Thomas Spencer, Lt. Timothy P. Jackson Sr., Lt. James Lyons III, and firefighters Jeremiah M. Lucey II, Paul A. Brotherton and Joseph T. McGuirk have given a city a place to pause and remember.
Opinion/Worcesteria: A closer look at the Downtown Worcester BID
Oct 7, 2024 · The organization first caught the public eye when it partnered with the city to put on the Out to Lunch concerts and Movies on the Common (the last of which for this year will be Disney’s “Haunted Mansion” Oct. 17).
Get your Irish up at Irish Cultural Festival at Polar Park
Oct 9, 2024 · (This story was updated to correct the spelling of a name)At the beginning of Worcester’s first Irish Cultural Festival last October, organizer Caitlin Sargent watched one memorable moment unfold as two Gaelic football teams lined up on the grass at Polar Park. “Right before the opening ceremonies, we had a lineup with the Irish flag, the American flag, and one line was the American-born ...
'Van Gogh: The Immersive Experience' to bring art to heart of …
Nov 12, 2024 · "Van Gogh: The Immersive Experience," running from Nov. 14 to Jan. 31 at the Mercantile Center, is "exactly what it sounds like," said John Zaller, the producer overseeing the exhibition. "From the minute you enter to the time you leave you are immersed in the world of Vincent van Gogh like never before," Zaller said. That includes using 360-degree projections and virtual reality where you are ...
Nick Noble's annual live holiday show for WICN is 'Controlled chaos'
Dec 3, 2024 · Somehow, Nick Noble’s year-end holiday shows keep getting bigger and bigger. Noble, who hosts “The Folk Revival” from 7 to 10 p.m. Thursdays for WICN 90.5 FM, has always held his annual live holiday show on the second Thursday of the month. This year, for the first time in a while, the show is coinciding with the station’s annual fund drive, taking an event which he already refers to ...
Fractal Tribe art collective set to bring light to holiday festival
Nov 21, 2024 · Years ago, during the days when the Fractal Tribe art collective ran its own music venue in Worcester, fans would come to see their favorite artists, but stay for the glowing hieroglyphs that lit up the walls. “We made our own font and wrote a bunch of important values we thought people should live by, and we never translated them.
Richard Thomas in 'To Kill a Mockingbird' at Hanover Theatre
Apr 23, 2024 · Veteran actor Richard Thomas has been playing small-town Alabama lawyer Atticus Finch in the national tour of a new stage adaptation of Harper Lee's American classic 1960 novel "To Kill a Mockingbird" since 2022. "By the time we're done at the very end of June it will just be going on two-and-a-half years. It's kind of unbelievable," Thomas, 72, said during a recent telephone interview.
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Worcester Festival of Lights ready to shine on City Common
Nov 21, 2024 · Music. Arts markets. And lights. Lots and lots of lights. This year's Festival of Lights promises its traditional offering of entertainment, with headliner reggae artist Clatta Bumboo, youth and community groups, skating in the Worcester Common Oval, the ceremonial tree-lighting and a seasonal celebration of a multifaceted city.. It all happens Dec. 6 on the Common, with a concert by Clatta ...