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One of Britain's leading comedians Craig Ferguson, will be performing at the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall on Tuesday, December 1st at 8:00pm*.

One of Britain's leading comedians Craig Ferguson, will be performing at the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall on Tuesday, December 1st at 8:00pm.

In 2014, Ferguson concluded his nine-year run as the host of CBS' “The Late, Late Show with Craig Ferguson,” setting all-time viewer records and earning a Primetime Emmy nomination. He is the current host of syndicated game show “Celebrity Name Game,” a New York Times best-selling author, and has become a huge success on the North American comedy circuit, selling out theatres around the country including Carnegie Hall and Radio City Music Hall.

Cafe Carlyle is pleased to welcome back GRAMMY Award-winner Steve Tyrell for a four-week engagement, December 1-January 2.

In 2014, Ferguson concluded his nine-year run as the host of CBS' “The Late, Late Show with Craig Ferguson,” setting all-time viewer records and earning a Primetime Emmy nomination. He is the current host of syndicated game show “Celebrity Name Game,” a New York Times best-selling author, and has become a huge success on the North American comedy circuit, selling out theatres around the country including Carnegie Hall and Radio City Music Hall.

Embracing innovative changes and a new 'Arts for All Seasons' year-round Festival format, Columbia Festival of the Arts welcomes new Board leadership and staff.

Global Citizen has announced that Stephen Colbert, CHIME FOR CHANGE co-founder Salma Hayek Pinault, Deborra-Lee and Hugh Jackman, Kerry Washington and Olivia Wilde will appear as the lead hosts of the 2015 Global Citizen Festival

Craig Ferguson, one of Britain's leading comedians will be appearing at the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall on Tuesday, December 1st at 8:00pm. Tickets go on-sale Friday, July 31 at 10am.

After sold-out seasons in Cape Town and Johannesburg in earlier this year, AN AUDIENCE WITH PIETER-DIRK EISH will be back at Theatre on the Bay from 2 November 2015.

From the producers of NIRBHAYA, The Exonerated, Guantanamo and Sarah Jones' Bridge & Tunnel, Culture Project along with Rosie O'Donnell will present the world premiere of MotherStruck written and performed by Staceyann Chin and directed by Cynthia Nixon, beginning Thursday, September 24th, 2015 at Culture Project's Lynn Redgrave Theater.   Opening Night is set for Wednesday, October 7th.

National Security Advisor Susan Rice, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell, Department of Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, former United States Attorney General Eric Holder, United States Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James, United States Secretary of Department of Veterans Affairs Robert A. McDonald, actor George Newbern, members of Congress and other distinguished guests attended the Ford's Theatre Annual Gala the evening of Sunday, May 31, 2015, at Ford's Theatre (511 10th Street NW). Scroll down for photos from the event!

Nirbhaya, which has received unanimous critical praise in its North American premiere will play its final weeks at The Lynn Redgrave Theater.

CHICAGO, April 6, 2015 /PRNewswire/ The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Foundation (ALPLF) announced today that it will award its prestigious Lincoln Leadership Prize to the Little Rock Nine, a group of nine schoolchildren whose attendance at Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, marked the end of racial segregation in U.S. public schools. On September 25, 1957, the group received a federal troop escort by the 101 st Airborne Division as they integrated the school following the Brown v Board of Education Supreme Court decision in 1954. Their actions that day, and since, have helped to define the civil rights movement.

CHICAGO, April 6, 2015 /PRNewswire/ The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Foundation (ALPLF) announced today that it will award its prestigious Lincoln Leadership Prize to the Little Rock Nine, a group of nine schoolchildren whose attendance at Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, marked the end of racial segregation in U.S. public schools. On September 25, 1957, the group received a federal troop escort by the 101 st Airborne Division as they integrated the school following the Brown v Board of Education Supreme Court decision in 1954. Their actions that day, and since, have helped to define the civil rights movement.

NYC will never be the same when new and former housewives collide as Bravo Media's “The Real Housewives of New York City” premieres tonight, April 7 at 9pm ET/PT.

NYC will never be the same when new and former housewives collide as Bravo Media's “The Real Housewives of New York City” premieres on Tuesday, April 7 at 9pm ET/PT.

The electrifying new docudrama Nirbhaya will make its North American premiere at The Lynn Redgrave Theater this spring. Written and directed by internationally -acclaimed Yael Faber (Mies Julie), in collaboration with an extraordinary cast and creative team from India, Nirbhaya had its world premiere at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in August 2013.

Pieter-Dirk Uys's new look at South Africa and the world around us in 2015, AN AUDIENCE WITH PIETER-DIRK EISH!, is a veritable national assembly of this South African legend's cluster of satirical characters, some which have been firm favourites with Uys's audiences since the 1980s. While it has always been Uys's aim to remind South Africans where they come from, the celebrated satisrist says that it 'is more of a necessity now to celebrate where we are going.'