Steve Martin News

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts today announced the selection of the individuals who will receive the 2011 Kennedy Center Honors. Recipients to be honored at the 34th annual national celebration of the arts are: singer Barbara Cook, singer and songwriter Neil Diamond, cellist Yo-Yo Ma, saxophonist and composer Sonny Rollins, and actress Meryl Streep.

Stages on the Sound (Will Ditterline, Artistic Director) is proud to announce the world premiere of nine/twelve tapes, presented in the Dream Up Festival at Theater for the New City (155 First Ave, NYC).

Stages on the Sound (Will Ditterline, Artistic Director) is proud to announce the world premiere of nine/twelve tapes, presented in the Dream Up Festival at Theater for the New City (155 First Ave, NYC).

Audiences coming the see 'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels' at the new Alhambra Theatre & Dining will get a bonus the week of August 30.

'Soft-spoken but not without bite, and all delivered with exquisite timing,' says the New York Times. 'A wildly successful show...an endless chain of jokes and one-liners,' says Los Angeles Times. 'The funniest female performer on earth,' says Las Vegas Weekly.

Talk show listings for Tuesday, August 30.

Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers will be performing at the Majestic Theatre on Friday, August 26, 2011 at 8PM.

'Soft-spoken but not without bite, and all delivered with exquisite timing,' says the New York Times. 'A wildly successful show...an endless chain of jokes and one-liners,' says Los Angeles Times. 'The funniest female performer on earth,' says Las Vegas Weekly.

On September 9, Town Players of Newtown will open legendary actor/comedian Steve Martin's clever comedy, PICASSO AT THE LAPIN AGILE, for a three-week run.

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts Los Angeles® (BAFTA Los Angeles) will honor Ben Stiller with the Charlie Chaplin Britannia Award for Excellence in Comedy at the 2011 BAFTA Los Angeles Britannia Awards on Wednesday, November 30 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.

Audiences coming the see 'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels' at the new Alhambra Theatre & Dining will get a bonus the week of August 30.

Budd Friedman and Mark Lonow's world-famous Improv Comedy Club at Harrah's Las Vegas showcases a different marquee of acts each week.

Daniel Reichard, Christian Hoff, J. Robert Spencer and Michael Longoria - the quartet of remarkable performers known collectively as The Midtown Men - are perhaps best known for their musical evocations of the best guy groups of the 1950s and 1960s, thanks to their previous starmaking turns in Broadway's Jersey Boys and their current concert tour, bringing their special brand of repartee, music and friendship to audiences all over North America. So, it might come as a surprise to their legions of fans that next up on the set list will be their 'interpretation,' if you will, of the very best of the girl groups.

The nominees for the 2011 International Bluegrass Music Awards (IBMA) have been announced. Sam Rush will host the awards ceremony, to be held on Thursday, September 29 at 7:30pm at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville.

Television icon Regis Philbin, Muppets creator Jim Henson, the extraordinary actresses who vocally brought to life many modern-day Disney Princesses including Jodi Benson (Ariel from The Little Mermaid), Paige O'Hara (Belle from Beauty and the Beast), Lea Salonga (singing voices of Jasmine from Aladdin and Mulan from Mulan), Linda Larkin (speaking voice of Jasmine from Aladdin), and Anika Noni Rose (Princess Tiana from The Princess and the Frog) plus other equally impressive contributors to the Disney legacy will be named and honored as official Disney Legends during the D23 EXPO at 11 a.m. on Friday, August 19, in the Anaheim Convention Center Arena.

“Steve Martin‘s 2009 collection, The Crow: New Songs for the Five String Banjo earned the veteran actor not only a Grammy but the respect of the close knit bluegrass community.

This week's OC stage shows include the opening of Orange County's newest Play Festival on the campus of Chapman University, Steve Martin on stage at the Performing Arts Center in Costa Mesa, and Theatre Out continues its one-two punch of Short Plays and the return of their hilarious Sound Of Music parody.

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.

As we move into the second half of August, I trust you will want to plan on seeing at least a couple of the theatre and live performance productions that are being presented at any number of the entertainment venues here on the idyllic California Central Coast!

Actors' Theatre opens the 2011-12 season, its 26th, with Susan Claassen's one-woman performance in 'A Conversation With Edith Head' from Sept. 16 through Oct. 2 on Stage West at The Herberger Theater Center, 222 E. Monroe.