Steve Cook News

The 8th Music By The Sea Festival (8-10 January, 2010) presents quality music in three venues of the picturesque, bay side area of Sandgate in Brisbane's north. It brings classical, folk, jazz, popular and world music by International, Australian, local professional and emerging artists.

Kicking off the Harold Clurman Festival of the Arts, the Stella Adler Studio hosts Art and Social Activism Spotlight on Africa, a panel discussion with Melissa Fitzgerald (actress, The West Wing, activist, Voices of Uganda), John Prendergast (author, Not On Our Watch: The Mission to End Genocide in Darfur and Beyond, chair of ENOUGH Project), Mira Sorvino (Academy award-winning actress, Mighty Aphrodite, ambassador Amnesty International), Winter Miller (playwright, In Darfur) and Jeffrey Wright (actor, W., Angels in America, spokesperson for All for Africa), on Friday, October 17 at 7pm at Cooper Union's Great Hall, 7 East 7th Street, New York, NY.

William Ayers, Jimmie Briggs, Ruby Dee, Alvin Epstein, Melissa Fitzgerald, Maxine Greene, Margie Gillis, Whoopi Goldberg, Bill T. Jones, Herbert Kohl, Francis Lucerna, Leonard Lopate, Winter Miller, Tom Oppenheim, Rosie Perez, John Prendergast, Phylicia Rashad and Anna Deavere Smith are among the many artists that will be participating in the upcoming Harold Clurman Festival of the Arts.

The Harold Clurman Festival of the Arts will kick off with a symposium discussing Art and Social Activism: Spotlight on Africa with participants Nima, Elbagir, Mira Sorvino, Winter Miller, Melissa Fitzgerald, John Prendergast and others.

Just in time for Halloween, Wake Up, Marconi! Theater Company proudly presents a theatrical adaptation of Henry James' hair-raising ghost story, The Turn of the Screw, adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher and directed by Don K. Williams. Performances begin Halloween night, October 31 and will continue through November 17 at the Bank Street Theatre (155 Bank St). The official opening is November 3.

Just in time for Halloween, Wake Up, Marconi! Theater Company proudly presents a theatrical adaptation of Henry James' hair-raising ghost story, The Turn of the Screw, adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher and directed by Don K. Williams. Performances begin Halloween night, October 31 and will continue through November 17 at the Bank Street Theatre.

The Stella Adler Studio of Acting will celebrate the 2nd annual Harold Clurman Festival of the Arts from September 14 - 17. The Festival will comprise four days of theater, poetry readings, concerts and symposia.