William Butler Yeats News

The 19th annual New American Playwrights Project (NAPP) takes the stage at the Utah Shakespeare Festival August 11 to September 2.

Committed to the discovery of fresh voices in the American Theatre Variations Theatre Group, Inc. (VTG) is proud to present the American Avant-Garde Arts Festival.

After successful performances in New Orleans and New York's Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall, pianist/composer Gregg Kallor announces his upcoming engagements. Kallor will bring his unconventional blend of classical works, improvisation, and his own unique music to New Orleans, Chicago, Connecticut and Massachusetts in the summer of 2011.

On May 2 at 8:00 PM, The Town Hall (123 West 43rd Street), led by Marvin Leffler (President) and Lawrence Zucker (Executive Director), will celebrate its 90th Anniversary with 'Town Hall at 90,' a benefit concert paying tribute to the rich cultural history of the institution from 1921 to the present day. The concert will star Tony Award winner Jason Robert Brown, Tony Award nominee Liz Callaway, Tony Award nominee and Drama Desk, Theatre world and Emmy Award winner Tovah Feldshuh, legendary Jazz guitarist and banjoist Bucky Pizzarelli and Tony Award nominee Emily Skinner. Dancers/choreographers Jeffry Denman ('White Christmas,' 'Yank!') and Noah Racey ('Curtains') will dance together. The performance list is still in formation as of this writing and more will be announced. Scott Siegel, creator/writer and host of The Town Hall's acclaimed Broadway By The Year series, has written and will host the evening. All proceeds will benefit The Town Hall's Educational Outreach program.

On May 2 at 8:00 PM, The Town Hall (123 West 43rd Street), led by Marvin Leffler (President) and Lawrence Zucker (Executive Director), will celebrate its 90th Anniversary with 'Town Hall at 90,' a benefit concert paying tribute to the rich cultural history of the institution from 1921 to the present day. The concert will star Tony Award winner Jason Robert Brown, Tony Award nominee Liz Callaway, Tony Award nominee and Drama Desk, Theatre world and Emmy Award winner Tovah Feldshuh, legendary Jazz guitarist and banjoist Bucky Pizzarelli and Tony Award nominee Emily Skinner. Dancers/choreographers Jeffry Denman ('White Christmas,' 'Yank!') and Noah Racey ('Curtains') will dance together. The performance list is still in formation as of this writing and more will be announced. Scott Siegel, creator/writer and host of The Town Hall's acclaimed Broadway By The Year series, has written and will host the evening. All proceeds will benefit The Town Hall's Educational Outreach program.

As we continue our march toward the beginning of Daylight Savings Time, I'm hoping that you'll be leaping forward into seeing some of the great productions that are presently playing or soon to open at any number of our California Central Coast live performance and theatre venues!

Pianist/Composer Gregg Kallor to perform two New York concerts at Weill Recital Hall and at Carnegie Hall on Wednesday, February 23, 2011 and Wednesday, April 20, 2011 at 8 PM.

The Town Hall was built in 1921 with the vision of becoming the hall for the people.

Pianist/Composer Gregg Kallor to perform two New York concerts at Weill Recital Hall and at Carnegie Hall on Wednesday, February 23, 2011 and Wednesday, April 20, 2011 at 8 PM.

Classical Connections presents pianist and composer Gregg Kallor in a solo concert at the Cornelia Street Café on Thursday, June 17th at 6:00 p.m. Mr. Kallor's fresh approach to the solo piano recital seamlessly integrates original music, contemporary pieces, classic repertoire, and improvisation. Admission is $10, plus a one-drink minimum.

The Irish play that led to riots in the streets of Dublin when it debuted 103 years ago and became a comic masterpiece, The Playboy of the Western World, opens the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival's 19th season. With previews June 16 and 17, the play opens June 18 in the Schubert Theatre and continues through July 3.

The Irish play that led to riots in the streets of Dublin when it debuted 103 years ago and became a comic masterpiece, The Playboy of the Western World, opens the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival's 19th season. With previews June 16 and 17, the play opens June 18 in the Schubert Theatre and continues through July 3.

Classical Connections presents pianist and composer Gregg Kallor in a solo concert at the Cornelia Street Café on Thursday, June 17th at 6:00 p.m. Mr. Kallor's fresh approach to the solo piano recital seamlessly integrates original music, contemporary pieces, classic repertoire, and improvisation. Admission is $10, plus a one-drink minimum.

Casting 100+ roles, designing hundreds of costumes and myriad lighting and sound cues, and hiring 134 seasonal staff, the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival prepares to open its 19th season.

A Noise Within (ANW) concludes its 2009-10 season with celebrated Irish playwright JOHN MILLINGTON SYNGE's THE PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD directed by Co-Founder/Co-Artistic Director Geoff Elliott, which opens Saturday, April 17 and closes Saturday, May 22, 2010 (previews begin Saturday, April 10). The once controversial play - which sparked riots during and after its debut in Dublin in 1907, was booed in New York four years later, and resulted in the arrest of the Philadelphia cast on charges of staging an immoral performance - has since been recognized as a masterpiece.

This year's Christmas Revels is set aboard a 1905 ship travelling from Ireland to America, bringing immigrants to the New World. On the shortest day of the year, the passengers gather on the desk to sing, dance, tell stories, and to 'drive the dark away.'

This year's Christmas Revels is set aboard a 1905 ship travelling from Ireland to America, bringing immigrants to the New World. On the shortest day of the year, the passengers gather on the desk to sing, dance, tell stories, and to 'drive the dark away.'

This year's Christmas Revels is set aboard a 1905 ship travelling from Ireland to America, bringing immigrants to the New World. On the shortest day of the year, the passengers gather on the desk to sing, dance, tell stories, and to 'drive the dark away.'

This year's Christmas Revels is set aboard a 1905 ship travelling from Ireland to America, bringing immigrants to the New World. On the shortest day of the year, the passengers gather on the desk to sing, dance, tell stories, and to 'drive the dark away.'

A Noise Within (ANW) -- the acclaimed classical repertory theatre company hailed by critics as 'adventurous,' 'compelling and current,' 'ingenuity at work,' 'a bona fide class act,' and 'what great theatre is all about' -- continues its trajectory in the 2009-10 season with a slate of six masterworks about individuals who forge their own destinies, much like ANW itself, which takes a momentous step on its journey to a permanent home with a Fall '09 groundbreaking for its Pasadena theatre. The 18th Season, titled 'On the Wings of Fate!', marks the company's last in its current Glendale location before the move in Fall '10 to its spacious new venue. The Fall 2009 line-up opens October 3 with Shakespeare's Richard III, followed by a new adaptation of Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment and Michael Frayn's Noises Off. The Spring 2010 offerings are Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, Clifford Odets' Awake and Sing! and John Millington Synge's The Playboy of the Western World. The company also reprises for the third consecutive year its critically acclaimed and popular production of Beckett's Waiting for Godot for 10 performances in January 2010.