David O News

This May, the second annual 'The Comedy Awards,' the annual event dedicated to honoring and celebrating the world of comedy, will air on Sunday, May 6.

PICT launches its 2012 season with the Pittsburgh premiere of Sarah Ruhl's Pulitzer finalist In the Next Room or the vibrator play. The production features Brad Heberlee as Dr. Givings, Megan McDermott as Catherine Givings, Jessica Frances Dukes as Elizabeth, and Melinda Helfrich as Sabrina Daldry. Alan Stanford directs.

David O. talks about his latest collaboration with A Noise Within and what it's like to create the sound of Molière's The Bungler.

ESPN will begin its 23rd Major League Baseball season with a full national telecast of Opening Night - the World Champion St. Louis Cardinals at the Miami Marlins - Wednesday, April 4, at 7 p.m. ET.

Olivier Award-winning director Maria Aitken (39 Steps) will direct John Glover (Death of a Salesman), Marthe Keller (Judgment at Nuremberg) and Lisa Banes (Present Laughter) in a staged reading of Noel Coward's A Song at Twilight on Monday, April 16 at 7 pm at the Mainstage Theater (Playwrights Horizons). The performance, sponsored by the Noel Coward Foundation, is presented in conjunction with The Noel Coward-New York Festival 2012. A reception with the cast and director will be held following the performance. Ms. Aitken serves on the Artists Advisory Board of The Acting Company; Ms. Banes is an Alumna of the Company. Tickets @ $35 are available from 212-258-3111.

Howe's rather fanciful memory play wears its heart on its crisp linen sleeve, offering audiences a glimpse into the life of Mabel Tidings Bigelow (played with such spirit by Allen that it's easy to fall just a little bit in love with both the actress and the beautifully written character she plays), a spirited 90-year-old former swimming champion who in her later years finds herself looking back over the multitude of events in her life that have shaped her and challenged her. As the story of Mabel's remarkable, though sometimes deceptively mundane and usual, life unfolds onstage before you, you are likely to find yourself thoroughly caught up in the minutiae of that life as the panoply of events and individuals move about-not unlike the ebb and flow of the tides that buffet the beaches of her hometown of Prides Crossing, Massachusetts, an upper crust enclave of Beverly, Mass.

City Theatre presents Tigers Be Still, a new comedy by Kim Rosenstock. Directed by Matt M. Morrow, Tigers Be Still runs from March 31 to May 6, 2012 on City Theatre's Lester Hamburg Studio Stage, with an Opening Night performance on Friday, April 6 at 8pm.

Lucasfilm Ltd. and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment present the RED TAILS, soaring onto Blu-ray™, DVD and Digital Download May 22.

The Community Theatre of Little Rock presents its spring production of Ron Hutchinson's comedy Moonlight and Magnolias in downtown Little Rock, Ark.

THE KING'S SPEECH opened on the 22nd March at Wyndham's Theatre. Check out these pictures of the cast taking their bow on the press night, plus the after-show party featuring Charles Edwards as King George VI, Jonathan Hyde as Lionel Logue, Emma Fielding as Queen Elizabeth, Ian McNeice as Winston Churchill, Michael Feast as Cosmo Lang, and Joss Ackland as King George V.

Viewers nationwide can now sample the series premieres of the hit SHOWTIME returning series THE BORGIAS, NURSE JACKIE and THE BIG C, two weeks before they premiere on the network.

Viewers nationwide can now sample the series premieres of the hit SHOWTIME returning series THE BORGIAS, Nurse Jackie and THE BIG C, two weeks before they premiere on the network. The premiere episodes can be accessed on the SHOWTIME website www.sho.com/preview, on YouTube www.youtube.com/SHOWTIME, and via select television providers' free On Demand channels and websites, reaching over 40 million digital households across 26 distributors. The series premieres are also available on Showtime ANYTIME®, Showtime apps on iPhone®, iPod Touch®, Android smartphones and tablets, and Nook® tablets, as well as the Showtime Social app for iPad®, on connected TV platforms, major web portals, and for download as a free video podcast on iTunes. The fourth season premiere of NURSE JACKIE airs on Sunday, April 8 at 9 p.m. ET/PT on SHOWTIME, followed by the third season premiere of THE BIG C at 9:30 p.m. ET/PT, and the second season premiere of THE BORGIAS at 10 p.m. ET/PT. The first three episodes of all three series will be made available on SHOWTIME ON DEMAND® and Showtime ANYTIME the day after their series premieres.

Infinitheatre will present the Quebec English language premiere of the award-winning play, The Leisure Society (La Societe de loisirs), by Francois Archambault, translated by Bobby Theodore, through March 25 at Bain St-Michel. Along with director Ellen David, the cast and design team features Montreal's finest theatre artists from both the English and French sectors including actors Daniel Brochu (presently in Scientific Americans at the Segal Centre), Catherine De Seve (previously seen in Dangerous Liaisons at the Segal Centre and long-time member of L'auberge du chien noir on Radio-Canada), Sheena Gaze-Deslandes (The Daily Miracle, Infinitheatre) and Howard Rosenstein (hot off his praised portrayal of lawyer Hugh Rose in Ars Poetica, Infinitheatre).

People's Light & Theatre presents John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men, running through March 25, 2012 on the Main Stage.

Ignasi Vidal se embarca en el proyecto de grabacion de un disco con su banda A Media Distancia, el grupo del que formaba parte y que se separo hace 17 años. Lo novedoso del proyecto es que estara financiado con "crowdfunding", la iniciativa que permite que todo el que quiera se pueda convertir en productor y contribuir al proyecto.

The Rose Theatre Kingston's new season includes many great productions!

American Composers Orchestra (ACO) presents Orchestra Underground: American Accounts on Thursday, March 22, 2012 at 7:30pm at Carnegie Hall's Zankel Hall. The concert, led by ACO Music Director & Conductor George Manahan, explores uniquely American stories - both in musical content and in the background of the composers - and features works by Aaron Copland, Milton Babbitt, Gabriel Kahane, and Michael Daugherty. (The premiere of Ian Williams' new piece, previously announced as being part of this concert, has been postponed.)

A Noise Within (ANW), the acclaimed classical repertory theatre company, presents MOLIÈRE's THE BUNGLER, translated by RICHARD WILBUR, a careening cavalcade of wily servants, dim-witted young lovers and avaricious old men opening Saturday, April 7 and closing Sunday, May 27, 2012.

City Theatre presents Tigers Be Still, a new comedy by Kim Rosenstock. Directed by Matt M. Morrow, Tigers Be Still runs from March 31 to May 6, 2012 on City Theatre's Lester Hamburg Studio Stage, with an Opening Night performance on Friday, April 6 at 8pm.

The Texas Talent Musicians Association will present the 32nd Annual Tejano Music Awards Fan Fair, March 16, 17, 18, 2012, in downtown San Antonio's Market Square. The free festival continues its tradition as the leading event to promote Tejano music - a unique American genre with rock, soul and pop influences but performed in Spanish.