Final Curtain Fear For Birkenhead Library Cinema Club
Filed Under Curtain Rods | Posted on December 26, 2008
A CINEMA club based in Wirral’s historic Birkenhead Town Hall (now Wirral Museum) faces an uncertain future after the local authority announced proposed cuts in public buildings.
The Birkenhead Library Cinema Club is in its 37th season and has become known for showing films people would be unlikely to see in a multiplex.
Using projection equipment rescued [...]
Dancers Hawk Tickets To Avoid The Final Curtain
Filed Under Curtain Rods | Posted on December 20, 2008
It’s come to this: Sacramento Ballet dancers sold tickets Friday to upcoming “Nutcracker” performances on the corner of 19th and J streets in Sacramento as part of an effort to raise public awareness about their company’s dire financial circumstances.
The announcement comes in the wake of an emergency Wednesday board meeting in which Jill Kaiser Newcom, [...]
Final Curtain For Primary
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on December 16, 2008
AN axed primary school is to host its last show tonight.
Pupils at Lismore Primary in Bingham will be performing Sleeping Beauty to parents, staff and members of the public from 6.30pm. The school will close its doors for good on Friday.
City councillors voted last month to close the school, along with Bonnington in Leith and [...]
American Musical Theatre Of San Jose Brings The Final Curtain Down
Filed Under Country Curtain | Posted on December 3, 2008
One of the South Bay’s “longest-running cultural institutions,” American Musical Theatre of San Jose, is calling it quits. The Broadway musical-ish theater will halt all performances this week and file for Chapter 7 bankruptcy.
But in an odd twist, according to theater officials, AMT’s failure doesn’t necessarily stem from the current economic crisis that has slowed [...]
Final Curtain For Texoma Band
Filed Under Shower Curtain | Posted on November 29, 2008
After thousands of performances, three albums and more than a decade of music, the members of a band with Texoma ties are heading a new direction. Tonight the band Bigloo will play one of their final shows for fans in Wichita Falls.
The Texoma natives have grown up along with their fans. They got married, had [...]
Final Curtain Came Too Soon
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on November 28, 2008
Always a frenetically busy person, he explained in his clipped English accent that he was on a tight schedule: “I’ve got to take my sister out to dinner in half an hour.” In other words, the interview would have to be snappy.
In the end, though, it ran over time. Controversy had raged around Hickox for [...]
Artistic Society Faces Final Curtain
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on November 26, 2008
The 55-year-old society could cease to exist next year because of a lack of financial and community support, the committee says.
The society has catered for the likes of Dame Kiri, who competed in classical singing in 1963.
But interestingly enough, she did not win the competition, society president Alan Reekie says.
The society provides people of all [...]
Final Curtain Players To Open With A Musical
Filed Under Shower Curtain | Posted on November 19, 2008
Brownsboro High School’s theater department is ready to showcase a high-energy musical number for the Brownsboro Independent School District community. The musical is called Once Upon a Mattress, a comic and offbeat retelling of The Princess and the Pea.
Theater Director David Young said the musical is about a prince, the son of a controlling, overbearing [...]
Final Curtain For Uiq Symbian Interface
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on November 11, 2008
According to a report by Swedish online magazine mobil.se, the Swedish software company UIQ has given notice to all of its 270 employees. UIQ produces one of the two interfaces for the Symbian OS smartphone operating system. Smartphones with this interface were produced by UIQ’s owners Motorola and Sony Ericsson, among others, but both vendors [...]
Anne And Gilbert Faces Threat Of Final Curtain
Filed Under Country Curtain | Posted on November 10, 2008
The popular musical sequel to Anne of Green Gables is facing an uncertain future in Summerside, its home for the last three years.
“To do a production of this scale, that’s celebrated across the country and in Variety and in the Toronto Star, and it’s really kind of the great new Canadian Musical it’s really expensive,” [...]