The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts News

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.

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts announces new casting for Broadway: Three Generations, a three act evening featuring condensed versions of Girl Crazy, Bye Bye Birdie, and Side Show.

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.

Celebrated American composer Charles Strouse will present his papers to the Library of Congress in a ceremony on May 14.

American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) artistic director Carey Perloff announced casting today for A.C.T.'s season finale, Perloff's new production of John Ford's 'Tis Pity She's a Whore.

Shen Wei, artistic director of Shen Wei Dance Arts, is named Principal Choreographer and Lead Creative Consultant for 2008 Beijing Olympics.

'Broadway's Greatest Gifts: Carols for a Cure, Volume 9,' holiday music from the Broadway stars of the 2007 season, is on sale now!

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'

'Broadway's Greatest Gifts: Carols for a Cure, Volume 9,' holiday music from the Broadway stars of the 2007 season, will be on sale October 24.

2007-2008 Season Includes August Wilson's 20th Century, Cook Cabaret series, My Fair Lady and The Lion King

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.

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.

'The Kennedy Center Presents: The 2006 Mark Twain Prize for American Humor' will celebrate Neil Simon, one of America's foremost playwrights, humorists and screenwriters

Theatre Access Project (TAP), TDF's invitation to the performing arts for theatregoers with physical disabilities, and TAP's director, Lisa Carling, have been named to receive one of this year's 2006 Excellence in Accessibility Leadership Award

On March 13th, Chita Rivera and other stars attended Guild Hall's 75th anniversary Academy of the Arts gala 'Celebrating Creativity'

The Public Theater (Oskar Eustis, Artistic Director; Mara Manus, Executive Director) and New Dramatists (Todd London, Artistic Director; Joel Ruark, Executive Director) will hold a memorial service for the Playwright John Belluso, who died on Friday, February 10, 2006. The service will be held at The Public Theater on Monday, February 27th at 7:00 PM. It will be open to the general public.

Chita Rivera will perform at the Academy of the Arts award gala on March 13th