Lincoln Center Festival News

The Cleveland Orchestra and Music Director Franz Welser-Möst return to Carnegie Hall on Friday, May 21st at 8:00 p.m. with a program that juxtaposes Berg's dramatic Lulu Suite - with soprano Erin Morley as soloist - alongside Beethoven's Coriolan Overture and Symphony No. 3, ‘Eroica'.

Connecticut Repertory Theatre (CRT), the professional producing arm of the Department of Dramatic Arts at the University of Connecticut in Storrs, will open its Nutmeg Summer Series with the rock musical, Rent, running May 27 through June 6 in the Harriet S. Jorgensen Theatre (Lower Jorgensen). This will be CRT's first full summer season since 2002.

Producer Scott Sanders announced today that film and television icon Pee-wee Herman (Paul Reubens) will bring his signature brand of hilarious mayhem to Broadway for a special six-week limited engagement of the acclaimed stage play, The Pee-wee Herman Show.

Master puppet theater artist Rezo Gabriadze's The Battle of Stalingrad, the critically- acclaimed elegy to individuals whose lives are ravaged by war, will replace his previously-announced new production, Ermon and Ramona, at the Lincoln Center Festival this July 20 -25.

New Dramatists, Tony Honor recipient and one of the nation's premiere playwright development workshop, honored two-time Tony Award winner Julie Taymor with their 2010 Lifetime Achievement Award at its 61st Annual Spring Luncheon tribute, to be held Tuesday, May 18th at the New York Marriott Marquis. Ms. Taymor's award was presented to her by Academy Award winning actress Helen Mirren, who stars in Taymor's soon-to-be-released film adaptation of Shakespeare's The Tempest. Thomas Schumacher of Disney Theatricals served as the Luncheon Chair. Disney Theatricals and Robert Boyett were the benefactors for New Dramatists 61st Annual Spring Luncheon.

Previews will begin today at Virginia's Signature Theatre for the world premiere musical Sycamore Trees written by Ricky Ian Gordon, the award-winning composer of the opera The Grapes of Wrath and the musicals Dream True and My Life with Albertine. A starry Broadway cast portrays Gordon's own family story - complete with a tough Bronx-born father and former 'Borscht Belt' singer/comedian mother - in a tale of two generations' struggles and triumphs in the decades from World War II through the 1990s.

Vista 360° in association with American Opera Projects presents the premier concert performance of the new chamber opera, Marymere, composed by Matt Schickele, based on the haunting true story of John D. Sargent and his wife, Edith, who lived as pioneer settlers on the shores of Jackson Lake, Wyoming, under the peaks of the Teton Range.

The 55th Annual Village Voice OBIE Awards were presented on Monday, May 17, 2010, at a ceremony held at Webster Hall in Manhattan. Co-hosted by Michael Cerveris and former OBIE winner Anika Noni Rose, the awards were presented by J. Smith Cameron, Marin Ireland, Linda Lavin, Hamish Linklater, Michael Shannon, and Jennifer Westfeldt. BroadwayWorld was on hand to celebrate and brings you complete photo coverage below.

The 55th Annual Village Voice OBIE Awards were presented on Monday, May 17, 2010, at a ceremony held at Webster Hall in Manhattan. Co-hosted by Michael Cerveris and former OBIE winner Anika Noni Rose, the awards were presented by J. Smith Cameron, Marin Ireland, Linda Lavin, Hamish Linklater, Michael Shannon, and Jennifer Westfeldt.

MEREDITH MONK: INNER VOICE Released on DVD May 18

Signature Theatre, the current recipient of the Tony Award® for Regional Theatre, presents the world premiere musical Sycamore Trees by Ricky Ian Gordon, composer of the acclaimed opera The Grapes of Wrath and the OBIE Award-winning Orpheus and Euridice, as well as the musicals My Life with Albertine and Dream True.

NEW DRAMATISTS, Tony Honor recipient and the nation's premiere playwright development workshop, proudly announces that two-time Tony Award winner Julie Taymor will be honored with their 2010 Lifetime Achievement Award at its 61st Annual Spring Luncheon tribute, to be held Tuesday, May 18th at the New York Marriott Marquis.

What if you could choose your own 'ending'? With the help of a highly skilled Death Agent, you can! And after you buy the farm, a 'Corpsetologist' will make you look like your favorite celebrity. These and other death-dealing characters await you in Esther Crow's one-woman variety show, DEATH IS A SCREAM.

Jane Moss, Vice President for Programming at Lincoln Center, today announced the launch of the first White Light Festival, a new fall festival at Lincoln Center, which this year takes place from October 28 through November 18, 2010.

NEW DRAMATISTS, Tony Honor recipient and the nation's premiere playwright development workshop, proudly announces that two-time Tony Award winner Julie Taymor will be honored with their 2010 Lifetime Achievement Award at its 61st Annual Spring Luncheon tribute, to be held Tuesday, May 18th at the New York Marriott Marquis.

Yesterday evening, May 10, the Algonquin Hotel hosted the 75th Annual New York Drama Critics' Circle Award ceremony honoring the best of the 2009-2010 theatre season. This year's honorees included casts and creative teams of The Orphans' Home Cycle, Fences, Circle Mirror Transformation, The Aliens; Viola Davis, Annie Baker, and Hallie Foote. Presenters included Denzel Washington, who presented the Award for Sustained Achievement to his Fence's co-star Viola Davis, Tony Kushner and Marian Seldes.

MEREDITH MONK: INNER VOICE Released on DVD May 18

The New York Drama Critics' Circle met on April 30, 2010, to determine the winners of its annual awards. The results were as follows:

The Drama Critics' Circle met tonight at the offices of Time Out New York magazine to select the winners of the 75th annual New York Drama Critics' Circle Awards.

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