Joyce Castle News Today

The University of Kansas theater department will be performing "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street" at the Crafton-Preyer Theater from Feb. 16 to 21.

Cherokee Nation citizen and opera singer Rebecca Allen has written her first children’s book, “My Mom Sings at the Opera.”

Demkee, Allentown Symphony Orchestra Associate/Pops Conductor and Principal Tuba, will retire after the orchestra’s 2023-2024 season, which will be his 45th as a member of the ASO.

/ After a successful debut in 2018 as the Refugee in Flight, countertenor and recent finalist of NBCs The Voice, John Holiday, returns to DMMO for a special program entitled The John Holiday Experience. The plains are alive with the sound of a wild barber, ghostly apparitions, ornery mythical characters, forbidden love... and music. Read more about the DMMO’s 2021 summer festival season. With safety protocols firmly in place, the nationally acclaimed Des Moines Metro Opera is revving back u...

There’s a certain experience that you’re probably familiar with at this point in the pandemic: You log into a Zoom meeting and are greeted by your own horrendous face. You needed a haircut a month ago, and it shows. The cruel, uncontrollable lighting does you no favors. Beauty is lost in virtual reality. Be that as it may, you are happy to see some other faces after weeks of seclusion either with yourself as your sole company or (even worse?) with a troupe of raucous family members. This i...

Review: Fort Worth Opera streams a new Zoom production. But the main messages fall flat ‘Bernadette’s Cozy Book Nook’ was composed by Joe Illick, with a libretto by Mark Campbell. Gabrielle Gilliam, Brenda Harris, William Burden, Donnie Ray Albert and Joyce Castle are the singers in "Bernadettes Cozy Book Nook."(Fort Worth Opera) Bernadette’s Cozy Book Nook Thursday night. Composed by FWO’s artistic director Joe Illick, with a libretto by Mark Campbell, the 40-minute, one-act opera ca...