Magic Circle Theater News Today

Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. Rhett Butler and Scarlett O’Hara. Sandy and Danny from Grease. Since the dawn of the motion picture, audiences have found an escape from the humdrum

Did you really think with "Little Shop of Horrors" playing at the Magic Circle Theater at Halloween time that I could resist writing about carnivorous plants? I wont give it

Top theater company honors at the 40th Elliot Norton Awards Monday night went to the Front Porch Arts Collective, which collected 13 prizes, and the Huntington, which snagged 10. “K-I-S-S-I-N-G,” a co-production of the Huntington and Front Porch, was the most celebrated production, with eight awards.

The May 8 ceremony honored both Boston-based productions and visiting productions, including the national tour of Into the Woods.

Awards were presented last night to 34 outstanding actors, directors, designers, choreographers, musicians, and 5 visiting productions by the Boston Theater Critics Association (BTCA) at the 40th Anniversary Elliot Norton Awards ceremony, held at the Huntington Theatre in Boston.

Hugh Karraker, a documentary filmmaker, environmentalist and plastics historian, died Aug. 17 at age 74. He was a great grandson of Leo Baekeland, who invented Bakelite, the world's first synthetic plastic, in 1907.

PINT & A HALF, 4:30–7:30 p.m. Friday, July 29, Grand Mesa Arts & Events Center, 195 W. Main St., Cedaredge, Outdoor Summer Concert Series, take a lawn chair, full service

VANESSA COLLIER, gates 5 p.m., music 6 p.m. Friday, June 3, Montrose Rotary Amphitheater at Cerise Park in Montrose, Montrose Summer Music Series with guest Crazy Like a Fox, facebook.com/Montrose-Summer-Music-Series-1561292044137650.READ

CELTIC WOMEN: POSTCARDS FROM IRELAND, 7:30 p.m. Friday, May 27, Avalon Theatre, 645 Main St., SOLD OUT, ticketmaster.com.

CODY JOHNSON & FRIENDS, 7 p.m. Friday, May 20, Las Colonias Amphitheater, 925 Struthers Ave., country, SOLD OUT, theampgj.com.