Acting Upstage Theatre Company Presents Their 'Dark Knight' Cabaret Series

Acting Upstage Theatre Company presents the first of their 'Dark Night' Cabaret Series at the Berkeley Street Theatre, February 2, 2010 at 8:00 PM; tickets are $15

Unexpressed: An Evening of Songs from the Heart, stars recording artist, Michael Hughes (David Foster & Friends) with special guest, Callandra Dendias (Toronto's Mamma Mia!). The cabaret will feature songs by Rodgers and Hart, Gershwin, Guettel, Pasek and Paul, Boublil and Schonberg, Sondheim, and Webber.

Michael Hughes has performed on stages across Canada, in Japan for Walt Disney Entertainment and in New York City. The singing actor was last seen as Dean Hyde in the sold-out, Canadian premiere of All Shook Up with Theatre North West. Prior to All Shook Up, Michael joined legendary producer, David Foster, on his highly successful, sold-out North American Tour, David Foster & Friends. Throughout the summer of 2009, he starred as Gilbert Blythe in the hit Canadian musical Anne and Gilbert on Prince Edward Island. Michael's award-winning, self-titled, debut album is currently in rotation on radio stations across Canada, including CBC Radio, where he was a featured artist. It is available for purchase at HMV, iTunes and through his website www.mickehughes.com.

London native, Callandra Dendias first wowed Toronto audiences when she took over the lead role of Sophie Sheridan in the smash hit mega-musical Mamma Mia! at the Royal Alexandra Theatre. Since then she has performed numerous roles with Walt Disney Entertainment and showed off her big voice on television and movie screens across the country in a commercial for Nestle Smarties. Most recently, she was seen as Martha Cratchit in A Christmas Carol and as Diana Barry in Anne of Green Gables, both for the Grand Theatre.

Acting Up Stage Company will present the Canadian premiere of The Light in the Piazza Jan. 30-Feb. 21 at the Berkeley Street Theatre. Now entering its sixth season of producing intimate, contemporary musical theatre productions in Toronto, the company has produced the Dora Award-nominated A New Brain, A Man of No Importance and Elegies: A Song Cycle, as well as the Toronto premieres of john & jen, Edges, and the Canadian premiere of tick, tick...BOOM!

The 'Dark Night' Cabaret Series is presented at the Berkeley Street Theatre on nights when The Light In The Piazza is not playing. February 2: Michael Hughes (David Foster & Friends). February 8: Adrian Marchuk (Jersey Boys). February 16: Sara Farb (Jane Eyre).

TICKETS: $15
LOCATION: Berkeley Street Theatre Downstairs - 26 Berkeley Street
BOX OFFICE: By phone (416) 368-3110
Online: https://bx.canstage
WEBSITE: www.actingupstage.com