A new gallery itinerary, display, blog post, and Sunday at the Metlecture event at The Metropolitan Museum of Art focus on the heroic work of the Monuments Men during World War II and their lasting impact on the Museum and its collection. The role of James J. Rorimer, a Monuments Man who became the Met's director after the war, is highlighted.
In anticipation of what is traditionally the biggest season for books, Amazon.com today announced its Big Fall Books Preview. The Amazon Book Editors have made their selections for fall's top 20 big books, as well as a selection of new under-the-radar books. The Amazon Big Fall Books Preview also features the season's most anticipated releases in biographies, comics and graphic novels, cookbooks, fiction, mysteries, nonfiction, romance and science fiction-plus upcoming releases for kids and young adults. Customers can browse the full lists at www.amazon.com/fallbookspreview.
Tennessee-born novelist Linda Lappin author of the Indie classic,The Etruscan, takes on the mystery of Italy's celebrated Monster Park in her new novel Signatures in Stone. The park, located in Bomarzo not far from Rome, originally created in the 16th century by a Roman nobleman as a memorial to his wife, leads visitors on a journey through hell represented by its eerie sculptures of ogres, mermaids, and giants. Art historians are puzzled by its meaning: is it a pagan itinerary of initiation, a surreal illustration of its patron's weirdest nightmares, an allegory for political events, or a series of emblems concealing an alchemical formula for making gold? And who was the real mastermind behind this complex creation? Was it, perhaps, as some scholars believe, one of the greatest sculptors of the Italian Renaissance?
Academy Award-winner Whoopi Goldberg guest stars as Maris Elder and Broadway's Raul Esparza guest stars as Phillip Perez on tonight's December 2nd episode of the new ABC drama series 666 PARK AVENUE.
Academy Award-winner Whoopi Goldberg guest stars as Maris Elder and Broadway's Raul Esparza guest stars as Phillip Perez on the December 2nd episode of the new ABC drama series 666 PARK AVENUE.
Check out a first look at 666 PARK AVENUE's upcoming episode, 'Hypnos,' set to air on ABC on Dec. 2!
The New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF) has announced the full slate of 34 musical productions and special events for its ninth annual festival. This year's Festival will begin July 9th and continue through July 29th. An additional slate of free events, including 12 staged readings and several educational panel discussions, will be announced shortly.
Art and class collide, as a group of Northern English miners unexpectedly ascend to the top of the art world in The Pitmen Painters at ACT - A Contemporary Theatre. Penned by playwright Lee Hall, author of the celebrated Billy Elliot, this critically acclaimed play from London and Broadway receives its regional premiere in ACT's dynamic in-the-round Allen Theatre directed by ACT's Artistic Director Kurt Beattie tonight April 26, and the show is scheduled to run until May 20.
Art and class collide, as a group of Northern English miners unexpectedly ascend to the top of the art world in The Pitmen Painters at ACT - A Contemporary Theatre. Penned by playwright Lee Hall, author of the celebrated Billy Elliot, this critically acclaimed play from London and Broadway will receive its regional premiere in ACT's dynamic in-the-round Allen Theatre directed by ACT's Artistic Director Kurt Beattie this Friday, April 20. The official opening night is April 26, and the show is scheduled to run until May 20.
Check out photos of Frank Lawler and Jason Marr in the production below!
Art and class collide, as a group of Northern English miners unexpectedly ascend to the top of the art world in The Pitmen Painters at ACT - A Contemporary Theatre. Penned by playwright Lee Hall, author of the celebrated Billy Elliot, this critically acclaimed play from London and Broadway will receive its regional premiere in ACT's dynamic in-the-round Allen Theatre directed by ACT's Artistic Director Kurt Beattie this Friday, April 20. The official opening night is April 26, and the show is scheduled to run until May 20.
Art and class collide, as a group of Northern English miners unexpectedly ascend to the top of the art world in The Pitmen Painters at ACT - A Contemporary Theatre. Penned by playwright Lee Hall, author of the celebrated Billy Elliot, this critically acclaimed play from London and Broadway will receive its regional premiere in ACT's dynamic in-the-round Allen Theatre directed by ACT's Artistic Director Kurt Beattie this Friday, April 20. The official opening night is April 26, and the show is scheduled to run until May 20.
Check out photos of Frank Lawler and Jason Marr in the production below!
Art and class collide, as a group of Northern English miners unexpectedly ascend to the top of the art world in The Pitmen Painters at ACT - A Contemporary Theatre. Penned by playwright Lee Hall, author of the celebrated Billy Elliot, this critically acclaimed play from London and Broadway will receive its regional premiere in ACT's dynamic in-the-round Allen Theatre directed by ACT's Artistic Director Kurt Beattie this Friday, April 20. The official opening night is April 26, and the show is scheduled to run until May 20.
Art and class collide, as a group of Northern English miners unexpectedly ascend to the top of the art world in THE PITMEN PAINTERS at ACT - A Contemporary Theatre. Penned by playwright Lee Hall, author of the celebrated BILLY ELLIOT, this critically acclaimed play from London and Broadway will receive its regional premiere in ACT's dynamic in-the-round Allen Theatre directed by ACT's Artistic Director Kurt Beattie.
Rosette C. Lamont, a renowned theater critic, eminent author, distinguished teacher and leading authority on the works of Samuel Beckett and Eugene Ionesco, died on January 5, 2012 in Falmouth, Massachusetts after a lengthy illness.
Since COIL began in 2006, 50+ companies from NYC, the US, UK, Australia, continental Europe, Latin America and Asia have been presented as part of this mid-winter festival.
Since COIL began in 2006, 50+ companies from NYC, the US, UK, Australia, continental Europe, Latin America and Asia have been presented as part of this mid-winter festival.
In celebration of the 200th anniversary year of Chopin's birth, Charles Rosen, one of the most widely respected pianists of our time, will give a lecture and recital at 92nd Street Y.
Magnificent! Brilliant! Bravo! Just some of the accolades heard from the audience at the Gay Men's Chorus of Los Angeles' masterful production, worthy of the Great White Way, of 'L'Amour' - music from the movies of Baz Luhrmann.
The NYC400 is the first-ever list of New York City's ultimate movers and shakers since the City's founding?from politics, the arts, business, sports, science, and entertainment.
Samuel West and Penelope Wilton will return to the Donmar Warehouse later this year to star in Jeremy Herrin's revival of TS Eliot's drama 'The Family Reunion.' The production will be the centrepiece of the Donmar's upcoming festival celebrating the work of the 20th-century writer. It will run at the Donmar's Covent Garden home from 25 November 2008 to 10 January 2009.
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