Lincoln Center Festival News

The Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College presents Another Life, a new play by Karen Malpede, starring George Bartenieff and Eunice Wong, as part ofThe 9/11 Performance Project.

The Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College presents Demolition of the Eiffel Tower as part of The 9/11 Performance Project, on Friday, September 9 at 7:30pm, followed by a JUST-US Dialogue, and Saturday, September 10, 2011 at 12pm at the Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College, 899 Tenth Avenue, NYC.

The Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College presents Another Life, a new play by Karen Malpede, starring George Bartenieff and Eunice Wong, as part ofThe 9/11 Performance Project.

The Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College presents Demolition of the Eiffel Tower as part of The 9/11 Performance Project, on Friday, September 9 at 7:30pm, followed by a JUST-US Dialogue, and Saturday, September 10, 2011 at 12pm at the Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College, 899 Tenth Avenue, NYC.

Composer Lisa Bielawa's The Houri and the Poet will have its world premiere on Sunday, September 25 at 7pm in a free concert performed by soprano Mary MacKenzie, cellist Andre Emelianoff, and pianist Vicky Chow at the Tenri Cultural Institute (43A W. 13th Street, NYC).

Miller Theatre opens the 2011-12 season with an ambitious, three-night staging of James Dillon's Nine Rivers, a symphonic cycle of monumental proportions, and one of the most talked-about new works of the past few years.

The 41st edition of one of the longest-running, free, outdoor festivals in the U.S.-Lincoln Center Out of Doors-presents its final week of performances from August 10 through 14. Events follow in chronological order.

An August line-up of FREE events at David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center includes urban folk for families, a film screening highlighting legendary Stax Recordings soul and R&B artists of the 1960s/70's, evening concerts by rising American singer/songwriters and the Louisiana-generated stylings of one of today's leading Cajun music groups, excerpts from Bertolt Brecht's play Life of Galileo in an evening of music-theater, and a stylish evening of dance served up by Ballets With a Twist.

David Henry Hwang, one of America's most dynamic and versatile playwrights, is the Honoree of the 31st Annual William Inge Theatre Festival, in Independence, Kansas, on the campus of Independence Community College.

Tony Award-winning director Garry Hynes returns to New York on July 24, 2011 with the Druid Theatre Company's production of Seán O'Casey's The Silver Tassie, a searing drama set during and after World War I.

Lincoln Center Festival will present irrepressible Brazilian artist Tom Ze returns to New York after 12 years with "Studying Tom Ze," featuring songs from the celebrated series of albums Estudando o Samba, Estudando o Pagode, and most recently Estudando a Bossa.

Sam Troughton, star of the Royal Shakespeare Company's ROMEO AND JULIET is recovering from arthroscopic knee surgery and will miss Sunday night's performance according to the New York Times.

As reported by BroawayWorld earlier this week, Sam Troughton, who plays Romeo in the Royal Shakespeare Company's Romeo and Juliet at the Park Avenue Armory, sustained a knee injury during a performance on July 12. After the audience was led out of the theatre, understudy Dyfan Dwyfor took over. Now, according to the NY Times, Troughton had to have arthroscopic knee surgery.

Tony Award-winning director Garry Hynes returns to New York on July 24, 2011 with the Druid Theatre Company's production of Seán O'Casey's The Silver Tassie, a searing drama set during and after World War I.

Eight hundred young people aged between 8 and 14 from underserved communities from New York will get the opportunity to experience Shakespeare by attending the Royal Shakespeare Company's Young People's Shakespeare productions of Hamlet and The Comedy of Errors at Park Avenue Armory.

The Midtown International Theatre Festival presents Children of GOD, The Musical, a modern musical mash-up of inspiration for the next generation written by Charles B. Murray, IV.