W. H. Auden News

New York Theatre Workshop (NYTW) Artistic Director James C. Nicola and Managing Director William Russo, L.A.

Opéra McGill et l'Orchestre symphonique de McGill sous la direction de Julian Wachner présentent The Rake's Progress d'Igor Stravinsky les 27 et 29 et 30 janvier à 19h30 à la Salle Pollack. David Lefkowich sera metteur en scene invité. La production sera surtitrée en français et en anglais. Les billets sont 27$ et 22$ (étudiants et aînés) et sont disponibles au guichet de la salle Pollack, du lundi au vendredi entre midi et 18h ainsi qu'une heure avant les représentations, ou par le réseau Admission (514-790-1245 or 1-800-361-4595, www.admission.com).

Monday January 11, 7:30pm Red Bull Theater presents A STAGED READING OF THE DUKE OF MILAN by Philip Massinger, with DAVID ANZUELO • HEIDI ARMBRUSTER, ARTHUR BARTOW • DELPHI HARRINGTON, JULIE JESNECK • DALIYA KARNOVSKY, JASON KRAVITZ • ALEX MORF • PATRICK PAGE, STEVEN RATTAZZI • MATTHEW RAUCH, SAMANTHA SOULE • AND MORE

Red Bull Theater's Revelation Readings series will feature Martha Plimpton, Michael Emerson and more. The series began readings on September 14th and will continue the series through June 14, 2010. The series is meant to rediscover neglected classics, and to develop new plays of heightened language and classical themes.

Affinity Collaborative Theatre brings back its moving and popular production of For the Time Being: A Christmas Oratorio by W.H. Auden for two nights only at The New York Society Library.

Affinity Collaborative Theatre brings back its moving and popular production of For the Time Being: A Christmas Oratorio by W.H. Auden for two nights only at The New York Society Library.

NATIONAL THEATRE: JANUARY - MARCH 2010 Simon Russell Beale and Fiona Shaw lead the cast of Boucicault's LONDON ASSURANCE, directed by Nicholas Hytner in the Olivier

Affinity Collaborative Theatre brings back its moving and popular production of For the Time Being: A Christmas Oratorio by W.H. Auden for two nights only at The New York Society Library.

Red Bull Theater's Revelation Readings series will feature Eric Bogosian, Michael Emerson and more. The series began readings on September 14th and will continue the series through June 14, 2010. The series is meant to rediscover neglected classics, and to develop new plays of heightened language and classical themes.

Red Bull Theater has announced the Revelation Readings 2009-2010 schedule.

Red Bull Theater has announced the Revelation Readings 2009-2010 schedule.

Great Evenings in the Great Hall, The Cooper Union?s dynamic performance series celebrating the college?s 150th anniversary, continues this fall with appearances by Salman Rushdie, Tony Kushner, Adam Gopnik, Olympia Dukakis, Amy Goodman, Siri Hustvedt, Isaiah Sheffer, Maria Tucci, and Karen Finley. From September through January 2010, in six provocative and entertaining presentations, The Cooper Union will showcase the stirring words of the radicals and reformers who spurred change and propelled advancements in civil rights, the labor movement, education and the arts for the past century-and-a-half. Period music and historic artifacts will complement the fiery oratory and inspiring dialogue that have filled The Great Hall since 1859.

Indiana University Associate Professor Osamu James Nakagawa was confirmed as a Guggenheim Fellow last week. Fellows were announced Tuesday, April 7. This marks the 85th year for the annual competition, established to honor 'stellar achievement and exceptional promise for continued accomplishment' to add to the 'educational, literary, artistic and scientific power of this country, and also to provide for the cause of better international understanding,' according to the organization's mission statement.

London's National Theatre announced Wednesday, Jan. 14th, that it will transmit live performances to movie theaters around the world in a quest to widen its audience and test the public appeal for watching stage productions onscreen. The first of four planned simulcasts will be the June 25th performance of Jean Racine's tragedy 'Phedre' starring Academy Award-winning actress Helen Mirren and mega hit 'Mamma Mia' film star Dominic Cooper. The National's artistic director Nicholas Hytner said Mirren, who won a best actress Oscar for 'The Queen,' was 'tremendously excited' by the idea.

The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts delves into its renowned collections for Writing to Character: Songwriters & the Tony Awards, the first exhibition to explore the over 70 Broadway shows that have won Tonys for either Best Musical or Best Score.

The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts delves into its renowned collections for Writing to Character: Songwriters & the Tony Awards, the first exhibition to explore the over 70 Broadway shows that have won Tonys for either Best Musical or Best Score.

Affinity Company Theater in association with The Poetry Society of America will present two dramatic performances of the masterful poem, W. H. Auden's, For the Time Being: A Christmas Oratorio in honor of the poet's centenary on December 9 at 7:30PM.

The New York Quarterly, cited by Rolling Stone as 'the most important poetry magazine in America,' and The Phoenicia Project are pleased to present A Dying Art: The William Packard Festival of Original Works.