M. Martin News

The White Plains Performing Arts Center Board of Trustees and the Honorable Thomas M. Roach, Mayor of White Plains, announce that the annual Season Opening Celebration will be held at the theatre on Tuesday, September 27. The Chair of the evening's event is Councilman John M. Martin, Esq., Vice President and General Counsel of All New York Title Agency, Inc.

White Plains Performing Arts Center Board of Trustees and the Honorable Thomas M. Roach, Mayor of White Plains, announce that the annual Season Opening Celebration will be held at the theatre on Tuesday, September 27.

The White Plains Performing Arts Center Board of Trustees and the Honorable Thomas M. Roach, Mayor of White Plains, announce that the annual Season Opening Celebration will be held at the theatre on Tuesday, September 27. The Chair of the evening's event is Councilman John M. Martin, Esq., Vice President and General Counsel of All New York Title Agency, Inc.

Multi-talented Grammy® and Emmy winning actor/comedian/musician and bestselling author Steve Martin and The Steep Canyon Rangers return to Segerstrom Center for the Arts on Thursday, August 18 at 7:30 p.m.

New York Institute of Technology (NYIT), and co-sponsor Quarterly Review of Wines, will present its Professional Excellence Awards to elite leaders in the culinary and oenology community at NYIT's Gold Coast Classic on Thursday, May 5, at the Ritz Carlton in New York City.

Multi-talented Grammy® and Emmy winning actor/comedian/musician and bestselling author Steve Martin and The Steep Canyon Rangers return to Segerstrom Center for the Arts on Thursday, August 18 at 7:30 p.m.

New York Institute of Technology (NYIT), and co-sponsor Quarterly Review of Wines, will present its Professional Excellence Awards to elite leaders in the culinary and oenology community at NYIT's Gold Coast Classic on Thursday, May 5, at the Ritz Carlton in New York City.

Now commemorating its 16th year, Signature Theatre's flagship Education Program Signature in the Schools will present local high school students performing in Image is Everything, a world premiere work by award-winning playwright and director Joe Calarco.

Now commemorating its 16th year, Signature Theatre's flagship Education Program Signature in the Schools will present local high school students performing in Image is Everything, a world premiere work by award-winning playwright and director Joe Calarco.

Now commemorating its 16th year, Signature Theatre's flagship Education Program Signature in the Schools will present local high school students performing in Image is Everything, a world premiere work by award-winning playwright and director Joe Calarco.

Broadway bound Ricky Martin is set to promote his memoir, Me, at the Columbus Circle Borders on November 3 at 12:30pm. Martin will star as Che in the upcoming Broadway revival of Evita.

Broadway bound Ricky Martin is set to promote his memoir, Me, at the Columbus Circle Borders on November 3 at 12:30pm. Martin will star as Che in the upcoming Broadway revival of Evita.

Ravinia Festival presents a grand finale of concerts as the 2010 summer season comes to a close, including New York-based chamber ensemble The Knights making their Ravinia debut at 8 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 2, in the Martin Theatre.

Hailing from Mazatlan, Mexico, dance company Delfos Danza Contemporánea makes its Ravinia debut on Friday, Aug. 27, with the piece When Disguises Are Hung Up (Cuando los Difraces se Cuelgan), with additional performances at 5:30 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 28 and 1 p.m. on Sunday, August 29.

Ravinia Festival presents a grand finale of concerts as the 2010 summer season comes to a close, including New York-based chamber ensemble The Knights making their Ravinia debut at 8 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 2, in the Martin Theatre.

Hailing from Mazatlan, Mexico, dance company Delfos Danza Contemporánea makes its Ravinia debut on Friday, Aug. 27, with the piece When Disguises Are Hung Up (Cuando los Difraces se Cuelgan), with additional performances at 5:30 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 28 and 1 p.m. on Sunday, August 29.

Legendary soprano Kiri Te Kanawa returns to Ravinia Festival in a rare intimate Martin Theatre recital at 8 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 18. This performance also features director of the Steans Music Institute vocal program Brian Zeger on piano. The program includes works by Scarlatti, Vivaldi, Handel, Liszt, Strauss, Rachmaninoff, Ginastera, Guastavino and Canteloube.

Ravinia celebrates opera with Mozart's Così fan tutte and The Marriage of Figaro featuring the Chicago Symphony Orchestra led by James Conlon and joined by all-star casts as well as members of the Chicago Symphony Chorus. Both operas will be presented in the Martin Theatre and will receive two performances, Così on Aug. 5 and 7 and Figaro on Aug. 6 and 8. Cosi fan tutte features 'one of America's finest artists and singers' (New York Times), mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade, portraying Despina; Grammy Award winning soprano Ana Maria Martinez, who last appeared at Ravinia with Plácido Domingo at the festival's 2007 Gala, as Fiordiligi; Romanian mezzo-soprano Ruxandra Donose, who recently appeared as Veronica Quaife in The Fly at L.A. Opera, making her Ravinia debut as Dorabella; Russian baritone Rodion Pogosov, who made his Metropolitan Opera debut playing Papageno in the 2004 production of Die Zauberflöte, portraying Guglielmo in his festival debut; and Albanian tenor Saimir Pirgu, who made his US debut singing Rinuccio in Gianni Schicchi at LA Opera, conducted by Conlon and directed by Woody Allen, appearing as Ferrando in his festival debut.

Pinchas Zukerman returns to Ravinia this week as both violinist and conductor beginning with a Thursday, July 8, performance featuring himself as violinist and including cellist Amanda Forsyth alongside the Chicago Symphony Orchestra led by James Conlon at 8 p.m.

Pinchas Zukerman returns to Ravinia this week as both violinist and conductor beginning with a Thursday, July 8, performance featuring himself as violinist and including cellist Amanda Forsyth alongside the Chicago Symphony Orchestra led by James Conlon at 8 p.m.