Jerry Sanders

New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) presents Dance Theater of Harlem: MLK Celebration tonight, January 16, 2015 at 7:30 PM in the Prudential Hall. Get your tickets now at NJPAC.org or 888.GO.NJPAC (888.466.5722).

ABC News reports that federal officials are looking into claims from three commercial pilots about drones being seen near their planes while approaching New York City's Kennedy Airport earlier this week.

The San Diego History Center, located in Balboa Park, will launch its 2015 Centennial Celebration year today, November 21, 2014, with a marquee exhibition celebrating San Diego's renowned local author, Theodor Geisel.

Mad Horse Theatre Company will present its second year of its successful BY LOCAL reading series! In the course of its first year, BY LOCAL presented six original plays by six local playwrights to enthusiastic audiences. Theaters are now producing several of the plays presented during BY LOCAL, including Monica Wood's PAPERMAKER at Portland Stage Company and Callie Kimball's ALLIGATOR ROAD at Mad Horse Theatre. BY LOCAL has proven that audiences are interested in new plays by Maine playwrights, and the series has been instrumental in championing these fresh, vital new works.

New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) presents Dance Theater of Harlem: MLK Celebration on Friday, January 16, 2015 at 7:30 PM in the Prudential Hall. Get your tickets now at NJPAC.org or 888.GO.NJPAC (888.466.5722).

Mad Horse Theatre Company will present its second year of its successful BY LOCAL reading series! In the course of its first year, BY LOCAL presented six original plays by six local playwrights to enthusiastic audiences. Theaters are now producing several of the plays presented during BY LOCAL, including Monica Wood's PAPERMAKER at Portland Stage Company and Callie Kimball's ALLIGATOR ROAD at Mad Horse Theatre. BY LOCAL has proven that audiences are interested in new plays by Maine playwrights, and the series has been instrumental in championing these fresh, vital new works.

The San Diego History Center, located in Balboa Park, will launch its 2015 Centennial Celebration year on Friday, November 21, 2014, with a marquee exhibition celebrating San Diego's renowned local author, Theodor Geisel. Entitled INGENIOUS! The World of Dr. Seuss, the exhibition, developed in cooperation with locally-based Dr. Seuss Enterprises, L.P. and Chase Art Companies, will feature artwork by Geisel, some inspired by San Diego locales. This whimsical fun-filled exhibition will also include family-friendly activities based on Dr. Seuss books' underlying themes: Literacy, the Environment, Family, and Community.

John Schreiber, NJPAC's President and CEO, and David Rodriguez, Executive Producer of the Arts Center, announced today a 2014-15 season packed with new, NJPAC- created, season-long series', collaborations with renowned artists and companies, an expansion of diverse programming, further integration of NJPAC's arts education programs within mainstage performances, and a continuation of the Arts Center's 17-year tradition of presenting world-class artists. With over 100 performances and special events announced for the acoustically superb 2,800- seat Prudential Hall, intimate 514-seat Victoria Theater, 250-seat Chase Room, and outdoors in Theater Square, by artists ranging from Patti LaBelle to The Metropolitan Opera Rising Stars; from Chris Botti to Potted Potter: The Unauthorized Harry Experience; from Golda's Balcony with Tovah Feldshuh to the Brick City Jazz Orchestra; from Bela Fleck to Lula Washington Dance Theatre; from Beres Hammond to Audra McDonald; and from The Second City to Dinosaur Train Live!, NJPAC's new season has something for everyone.

Production & Celebrity Entertainment, with license from the American Foundation for Equal Rights (AFER) and Broadway Impact, has announced a one-night-only reading of "8," a play chronicling the historic trial in the federal constitutional challenge to California's Proposition 8, written by Academy Award-winning screenwriter and AFER Founding Board Member Dustin Lance Black.

Production & Celebrity Entertainment, with license from the American Foundation for Equal Rights (AFER) and Broadway Impact, has announced a one-night-only reading of "8," a play chronicling the historic trial in the federal constitutional challenge to California's Proposition 8, written by Academy Award-winning screenwriter and AFER Founding Board Member Dustin Lance Black.

To promote HIV Testing Day, Bishop Terry Angel Mason will be the guest speaker for the 'I Speak Life' event at Christ Church of San Diego. The event will take place on Saturday, June 23, 2012, from 10:00 am-12:00 pm at 1355 Fern Street, San Diego, CA 92102. Mason will be discussing what African American seniors, teens and young adults need to know about HIV/AIDS and how they can protect themselves.

To promote HIV Testing Day, Bishop Terry Angel Mason will be the guest speaker for the 'I Speak Life' event at Christ Church of San Diego. The event will take place on Saturday, June 23, 2012, from 10:00 am-12:00 pm at 1355 Fern Street, San Diego, CA 92102. Mason will be discussing what African American seniors, teens and young adults need to know about HIV/AIDS and how they can protect themselves.

San Diego HIV/AIDS advocate, civil rights activist, author and columnist Terry Angel Mason will be a guest speaker for the San Diego Neighborhood House Association's event for HIV Vaccine Awareness Day. The event is hosted in part by the San Diego Urban League.

San Diego HIV/AIDS advocate, civil rights activist, author and columnist Terry Angel Mason will be a guest speaker for the San Diego Neighborhood House Association's event for HIV Vaccine Awareness Day. The event is hosted in part by the San Diego Urban League.

NEA Chairman Rocco Landesman and Blue Star Families Chairman Kathy Roth-Douquet announced the launch of Blue Star Museums, a partnership with more than 600 museums across America to offer free admission to all active duty military personnel and their families from Memorial Day through Labor Day 2010. The complete list of participating museums is available at www.arts.gov.

NEA Chairman Rocco Landesman and Blue Star Families Chairman Kathy Roth-Douquet announced the launch of Blue Star Museums, a partnership with more than 600 museums across America to offer free admission to all active duty military personnel and their families from Memorial Day through Labor Day 2010. The complete list of participating museums is available at www.arts.gov.

'Some Enchanted Evening,' the Conrad Prebys Theatre Center Inaugural Gala, begins at 5:30 p.m. on Dec. 7 and includes a reception, dinner and a performance in the Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre by Kelli O'Hara and Paulo Szot, the stars of Broadway's South Pacific. The orchestra will be conducted by Ted Sperling.

Executive Producer Lou Spisto today announced a month-long series of events celebrating the opening of The Old Globe's Conrad Prebys Theatre Center. The Theatre Center incorporates the flagship Old Globe Theatre and a newly-constructed four-level facility housing the Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre, Karen and Donald Cohn Education Center, Hattox Hall, Erna and Andrew Viterbi Lobby, Lady Carolyn's Pub and Donald and Darlene Shiley Terrace.

Actor's Express partners with the Alliance Theatre to bring Atlanta audiences a staged reading of a powerful new play,The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later (An Epilogue). Directed by Actor's Express Artistic Director Freddie Ashley, the special event takes place on the Alliance's Hertz Stage Monday, October 12, the 11th anniversary of the brutal murder of gay University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard.