Emily Dickinson News

To help celebrate our 20th season, BLUEBARN THEATRE will revive our 2001 award-winning play, Wit, which opens March 19 and runs through April 11, 2009. BLUEBARN founding member, Kevin Lawler, returns to direct the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, with Phyllis Doughman recreating the role that won her rave reviews, as well as a Theatre Arts Guild Award for Best Actress. The BLUEBARN's 2008 production will also feature local theatre veterans, Melissa Jarecke, Mary Kelly, Benjamin Beck, Paul Schneider, Jennifer McGill, Chris Elston, Eric Grant-Leanna, and Danielle Smith.

The Coming Up Taller Awards recognize and support outstanding community arts and humanities programs that celebrate the creativity of America's young people, and provide them with new learning opportunities and a chance to contribute to their communities. The awards also highlight the contributions that historians, scholars, librarians and visual and performing arts make to families and communities by mentoring children. More than 320 nominations were received by the program in 2008.

Get a true taste of NoHo at the second annual All-Day, All-Arts, All-NoHo 'NoHo Scene' on Sunday, October 5 from 11 am until 8 pm. Admission to all NoHo Scene events and activities is free.

Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) Announces 2008 Next Wave Festival-featuring eighteen engagements, Sept 30-Dec 20.

NEW THIS WEEK! Best Bet at BSF! New discounts and workshops! Plus news of BPF, Baltimore Black Arts, and a new production of Little Shop of Horrors!

TV and film star Lindsay Crouse as Emily Dickinson, Paul O'Brien as George Bernard Shaw, and Sandra Shipley as famed actress Mrs. Patrick Campbell share intimate conversations in 'The Belle of Amherst' and 'Dear Liar' performing in repertory at Massachusetts' Gloucester Stage

Tony Award-winner Charles Nelson Reilly, the acclaimed actor and director who became a familiar face to millions through his flamboyantly witty appearances on 'Match Game' and other game shows, has passed away at the age of 76

Philip Seymour Hoffman, Joanne Woodward, Paul Newman, Charles Grodin, Joanna Gleason and Chris Sarandon were among the all-star cast reading classic, contemporary and humorous love poems in 'Come Be My Love….Love Spoken Here,' which took place on Saturday February 10, 8 p.m., at the Westport Country Playhouse in Westport, CT.

For more information and tickets, call the box office at (203) 227-4177, or for out-of-town callers toll-free at 888-927-7529, or visit the box office at 25 Powers Court, off Route 1, Westport. Information about the Playhouse is also available at www.westportplayhouse.org.

Tony Award winner Joanna Gleason and Oscar-nominee Chris Sarandon, new residents of Fairfield, have joined previously announced local cast members Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman of Westport, and Eartha Kitt and Charles Grodin, both of Weston, to read classic, contemporary and humorous love poems in 'Come Be My Love….Love Spoken Here'

Joanne Woodward, Paul Newman, Eartha Kitt, Charles Grodin and others to be announced will read classic, contemporary and humorous love poems in 'Come Be My Love….Love Spoken Here,' on Saturday February, 10, 8 p.m., at Westport Country Playhouse.