Twyla Tharp News

Doug Varone and Dancers' much-anticipated Chapters from a Broken Novel, will make its New York premiere at The Joyce Theater from March 15-20, 2011.

Broadway In Chicago is thrilled to announce that COME FLY AWAY is coming to the Bank of America Theatre (18 W. Monroe St., Chicago) for a limited two-week engagement Jan. 10-22, 2012.

R.Evolución Latina's Choreographers Festival is running full swing right now, and we couldn't be more excited. With auditions out of the way and the show fully cast, rehearsals are now underway. With all of this activity, we have a few new exciting announcements that we'd love to share.

R.Evolución Latina's Choreographers Festival is running full swing right now, and we couldn't be more excited.

Broadway's best new shows will be on stage in Charlotte next season in the 2011-12 Duke Energy Broadway Lights Series. The 2010 Tony Award® winners for Best Musical and Best Revival join five other hot, new hits and a return of the blockbuster JERSEY BOYS on the season. Seven and eight-show season tickets are on sale now. For more information, please visit BlumenthalArts.org/Broadway.

Wynn Las Vegas announced that performances of the new hit show SINATRA Dance With Me will be extended through April 30 in response to overwhelming audience demand. Additionally, Wynn is offering the SINATRA Dine and Dance With Me package, which includes classic Italian fare from acclaimed Chef Theo Schoenegger at Sinatra restaurant and a ticket to SINATRA Dance with Me for $145 per person (inclusive of tax and gratuity).

Segerstrom Center for the Arts (formerly the Orange County Performing Arts Center) just announced its brand new Broadway Series for the 2011 - 2012 Season, a year which also coincides with the Center's 25th Anniversary. For it's BROADWAY SERIES, the Center will host touring companies of SHREK THE MUSICAL, BLUE MAN GROUP, IRVING BERLIN'S WHITE CHRISTMAS, MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET, LES MISERABLES, and LA CAGE AUX FOLLES, plus 'Curtain Call Series' shows COME FLY AWAY, TRACES and AMERICAN IDIOT.

Wynn Las Vegas announced today that performances of the new hit show SINATRA Dance With Me will be extended through April 30 in response to overwhelming audience demand. Additionally, Wynn is now offering the SINATRA Dine and Dance With Me package, which includes classic Italian fare from acclaimed Chef Theo Schoenegger at Sinatra restaurant and a ticket to SINATRA Dance With Me for $145 per person (inclusive of tax and gratuity).

In celebration of the Fisher Theatre's 50th anniversary, a solid gold line-up of six sensational shows will headline the 2011-2012 Broadway In Detroit Subscription Season. For subscription ticket information (renewals and new subscriptions) please visit www.BroadwayInDetroit.com or call the Fisher Theatre at (313) 872-1000, ext. 0.

It's a golden jubilee of crowd-pleasing, hit Broadway shows! In celebration of the Fisher Theatre's 50th anniversary, a solid gold line-up of six sensational shows will headline the 2011-2012 Broadway In Detroit Subscription Season.

Bonnie Pfeifer Evans, fashion model, philanthropist and real estate investor; Mindy Grossman, Chief Executive Officer of HSN, Inc (Home Shopping Network); and Bebe Neuwirth, two-time Tony Award-winner currently starring on Broadway in Addams Family are Women's Project's 2011 Women of Achievement who will be inducted at the 26th Annual Gala Celebration hosted by the Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe Award-winning Kathleen Turner at ESPACE, 635 West 42nd Street, on Monday, March 7, at 6:30pm.

The Ordway Center for the Performing Arts has announced its complete 2011-2012 season. This includes the Ordway Theater Season and the Target® World Music and Dance Series. Subscriber packages for the whole season are available now.

In a co-production with Indiana Repertory Theatre, Pioneer Theatre Company will produce The Diary of Anne Frank, March 18 through April 2, 2011.

The American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) is proud and pleased to announce that its Founding Director Robert Brustein has been awarded the National Medal of Arts by President Barack Obama today at a ceremony in the White House.

The National Medal of Arts is awarded to individuals or organizations who 'are deserving of special recognition by reason of their outstanding contributions to the excellence, growth, support and availability of the arts in the United States.' Named a National Historic Landmark in 2003, Jacob's Pillow is the first dance presenting organization to receive a National Medal of Arts.

Broadway/L.A. announces the lineup for its 2011-2012 PANTAGES SEASON, a seven-show package that includes six Los Angeles premieres of recent Broadway productions - COME FLY AWAY, BILLY ELLIOT THE MUSICAL, THE ADDAMS FAMILY, MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET, LA CAGE AUX FOLLES and MEMPHIS - and the return of the most successful show in Pantages Theatre's history, WICKED.

To see Erin Spencer dance is to fall a little bit in love with her. Talented and determined, ambitious and creative...she's kind of a force of nature. One of the growing number of dancers in the Nashville area who focus on theatrical performances - she has a heady resume of performance with several theater companies here - she's gaining a much-deserved reputation as an exceptional performer with an amazing work ethic.

Returning next month for a week-long season, the highly acclaimed Aspen Santa Fe Ballet will present a program of three works, including two NYC premieres, at The Joyce Theater (175 Eighth Avenue at 19th street) from February 22 - 27.

Ordway Center for the Performing Arts today unveiled its 2011-2012 performance season. The diverse schedule will offer a full menu of entertaining experiences, from dinner with The Addams Family to the amusingly intimate car ride during a blind date, and transport audiences from the streets of Africa to the darkened stage of a Parisian opera house.

Dances Patrelle presents the World Premiere of Francis Patrelle's GILBERT & SULLIVAN, The Ballet!, an evening-length work featuring live music and singers, as well as characters from Gilbert and Sullivan favorites, from May 12-15, 2011 at Dicapo Opera Theatre, 184 W. 76th Street, NYC.