Kennedy Center to Present DRUID Theater Company in Double Bill
by Faetra Petillo
- Sep 29, 2008
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts presents DRUID theater company in a double bill of The Shadow of the Glen and The Playboy of the Western World in the Terrace Theater October 22-25, 2008 at 7:30 p.m. as part of the Center's etcetera! series.
Maazel's To Perform Benefit Concert at Kennedy to Support Castleton Festival
by Faetra Petillo
- Sep 26, 2008
Maestro Lorin Maazel and his wife, Dietlinde Turban-Maazel will inaugurate a new, annual music festival on their 550-acre property in Castleton, Virginia in July 2009. To help launch the fundraising campaign for the Castleton Festival, the Oscar/Tony/Grammy/Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Marvin Hamlisch and Maestro Maazel will participate in a benefit concert at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
Kennedy Center to Present Richard Thomas in 'Blanche and Beyond'
by BWW News Desk
- Sep 24, 2008
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts presents Emmy Award winner Richard Thomas in Blanche and Beyond September 24-26, 2008 in the Terrace Theater. The one-man show is adapted and directed by Steve Lawson from the correspondences of Tennessee Williams between 1945 and 1957, and is a sequel to A Distant Country Called Youth, staged during the Center's Tennessee Williams Explored festival in 2004. This production is part of Prelude 2008: Arts Across America. Language and content for Blanche and Beyond is intended for mature ages, high-school age and above.
Daltrey, Freeman, Jones, Streisand, Tharp, and Townshend to Receive Kennedy Center Honors
by Faetra Petillo
- Sep 9, 2008
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts announced the selection of the individuals who will receive the Kennedy Center Honors of 2008. Recipients to be honored at the 31st annual national celebration of the arts are: actor Morgan Freeman, singer George Jones, actress and singer Barbra Streisand, choreographer Twyla Tharp, and musicians Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey of The Who.
Blanchett to Star in BAM and Kennedy Center's 'Streetcar'
by Faetra Petillo
- Aug 22, 2008
Sydney Theatre Company's forthcoming production of A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, directed by Liv Ullmann, is to tour to the United States. The production which will play at Sydney Theatre from 1 September to 10 October 2009, featuring STC Co-Artistic Director Cate Blanchett as Blanche DuBois, will run at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington from 29 October to 21 November 2009 and Brooklyn Academy Of Music (BAM), New York from 27 November to 20 December 2009.
Kennedy Center to Present Richard Thomas in 'Blanche and Beyond'
by Faetra Petillo
- Aug 22, 2008
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts presents Emmy Award winner Richard Thomas in Blanche and Beyond September 24-26, 2008 in the Terrace Theater. The one-man show is adapted and directed by Steve Lawson from the correspondences of Tennessee Williams between 1945 and 1957, and is a sequel to A Distant Country Called Youth, staged during the Center's Tennessee Williams Explored festival in 2004. This production is part of Prelude 2008: Arts Across America. Language and content for Blanche and Beyond is intended for mature ages, high-school age and above.
Strike Affects BC/EFA 'Carols for a Cure' CD Sales
by BWW News Desk
- Nov 12, 2007
The entire Broadway community has been affected by the Strike, including the non-profit organizations who rely on theatre-going audiences for their support. Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS released the following statement today regarding sales of their latest 'Carols for a Cure' CD: 'Due to the stagehand strike closing so many shows on Broadway, this project is now a silent victim of the strike… Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS will suffer a big hit this year unless this strike is settled quickly'
Hamlet's Sanity Judged by Supreme Court Justice, 3/15
by BWW News Desk
- Feb 8, 2007
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and the Shakespeare Theatre Company present one performance of The Supreme Court Hears the Trial of Hamlet on Thursday, March 15, 2007 at 7:30pm in the Kennedy Center's Eisenhower Theater.
Carols for a Cure CD to be featured on 'The View' 12/4
by BWW News Desk
- Dec 1, 2006
Broadway's Greatest Gifts: Carols for a Cure Volume 8, the annual holiday music CD benefiting Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS (BC/EFA), is going to be featured Dec. 4th on The View, where the CD
will be a gift for the studio audience.
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