Parks & Recreation Commissioner Adrian Benepe today joined City Council Member Margaret Chin, Lower Manhattan Development Corporation (LMDC) Director of Planning and Development Sayar Lonial, Community Board 3 Parks Committee Chair Thomas Yu, Hester Street Collaborative President Annie Frederick, and Cristina Roosevelt, great-great granddaughter of Sara D. Roosevelt, mother of Franklin D. Roosevelt, to cut the ribbon on nearly $5 million in improvements to Hester Street Playground. Students from IS 131 and University Settlement Day Care were also in attendance.
Riverside Park Fund announced today that long-time Board member and Upper West Side restaurateur Michael O'Neal will be honored at its annual benefit gala to raise funds for Riverside Park.
Mint Theater Company today announced that Kristen Johnston (last seen in the Mint production of So Help Me God!, for which she received a Drama Desk nomination) will replace the previously announced Laura Benanti in THE NAKED GENIUS written by Gypsy Rose Lee, on Monday, June 14th at Caroline's on Broadway (1626 Broadway between 49th & 50th Streets).
New York City's popular Upper West Side institution - SING! SING! SING! - tips the hat to the fabulous musicals of MGM at its next sing-in, I Like New York in June - How About You? on Wednesday, June 23 at 7 p.m. at The Triad, 158 West 72nd Street.
Kick the 60th anniversary season off right by joining us for a special screening at the Playhouse of the 1941 classic, Buck Privates, starring one of America's favorite comedy duos, Abbott and Costello.
Alfred Hitchcock's favorite among his dozens of films, 'Shadow of a Doubt' will be screened as the next feature in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' 'Oscar Noir: 1940s Writing Nominees from Hollywood's Dark Side' on Monday, May 17, at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater.
Alicia Alonso, legendary ballerina and director of National Ballet of Cuba, will celebrate her 90th birthday with American Ballet Theatre on Thursday, June 3 at 7:30 P.M. at the Metropolitan Opera House, it was announced today by Artistic Director Kevin McKenzie.
The Collegiate Chorale presents George F. Handel's Israel in Egypt on Wednesday, May 12, 2010 at 8pm at the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, New York University, 566 LaGuardia Place (at Washington Square South), NYC.
The CAPA Summer Movie Series, the longest-running classic film series in America, celebrates its 40th anniversary in 2010 with an impressive assembly of classics, cult favorites, and much beloved films. The 2010 series, made possible through the generous support of PNC, will run June 4 - July 25 at the historic Ohio Theatre (39 E. State St.).
THE NAKED GENIUS picks up where GYPSY leaves off... Mint Theater Company, 'that truffle hound of half-buried treasures from the past' (Village Voice), has unearthed the original, unadulterated script of THE NAKED GENIUS written by Gypsy Rose Lee, and will bring it to life for one fun-filled performance only on Monday, June 14th at Caroline's on Broadway (1626 Broadway between 49th & 50th Streets).
As an annual gift to the city, Symphony Space has been presenting its signature music marathons since it opened in 1978. This year Symphony Space's Associate Artistic Director Laura Kaminsky curates a program that includes world and U.S. premieres along with rare works by world-renowned and emerging composers alike from the Soviet Union and Communist-era Eastern Europe.
The Collegiate Chorale presents their annual Spring Benefit on Monday, April 19, 2010 at 7pm, Ted Sperling and Friends, with a performance hosted by Ted Sperling and featuring Christopher Fitzgerald, Santino Fontana, Alexandra Silber and Lauren Worsham. The benefit will be held at The Hudson Theatre, Millennium Broadway Hotel, 145 W. 44th Street.
The Copperstate Dinner Theater At Arizona Broadway Theatre is pleased to announce the opening of the hilarious comedy Greater Tuna. It will play in The Encore Room at ABT April 23 - May 30, 2010*.
The Open Fist Theatre Company presents the third show in their 2010 season, the Los Angeles Premiere of GETTING FRANKIE MARRIED - AND AFTERWARDS, written by acclaimed playwright Horton Foote (The Orphans Home Cycle) and directed by Scott Paulin (The Roads to Home, Harrison, Texas).
The Open Fist Theatre Company presents the third show in their 2010 season, the Los Angeles Premiere of GETTING FRANKIE MARRIED - AND AFTERWARDS, written by acclaimed playwright Horton Foote (The Orphans Home Cycle) and directed by Scott Paulin (The Roads to Home, Harrison, Texas). GETTING FRANKIE MARRIED - AND AFTERWARDS previewed on Friday, March 26 at 8pm; Saturday, March 27at 8pm; Sunday, March 28 at 2pm and will open on Friday, April 2 at 8pm and run through Saturday, May 15 at The Open Fist Theatre, 6209 Santa Monica Blvd. in Hollywood.
Heaven Can Wait by Harry Segall runs April 16 - May 30, 2010 with performances: Fridays & Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 3 p.m. Heaven Can Wait' is produced by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Heaven Can Wait by Harry Segall runs April 16 - May 30, 2010 with performances: Fridays & Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 3 p.m. Heaven Can Wait' is produced by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
'The Cove,' 'Man on Wire' and 'An Inconvenient Truth' will be among the 12 Oscar-winning short and feature documentaries that will screen as part of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' 'Oscar's Docs, Part Six: Academy Award-Winning Documentaries 2004-2009' beginning Monday, March 22, at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy's Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood.
The Collegiate Chorale, led by Music Director James Bagwell, presents the World Premiere Two Act Concert Version of Ricky Ian Gordon and Michael Korie's musical version of Nobel Prize-winner John Steinbeck's epic Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Grapes of Wrath, on March 22, 2010 at 8pm at Carnegie Hall, conducted by Ted Sperling with Jane Fonda as the narrator.
The Collegiate Chorale, led by Music Director James Bagwell, presents the World Premiere Two Act Concert Version of Ricky Ian Gordon and Michael Korie's musical version of Nobel Prize-winner John Steinbeck's epic Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Grapes of Wrath, on March 22, 2010 at 8pm at Carnegie Hall, conducted by Ted Sperling with Jane Fonda as the narrator.
The Jewish Museum, one of the world's largest and most important institutions devoted to exploring the remarkable scope and diversity of Jewish culture, was founded in 1904 in the library of The Jewish Theological Seminary of America, where it was housed for more than four decades.
The Jungle Theater opens its milestone anniversary season with the timeless wit of Noël Coward, whose work will grace the Jungle stage for the first time in the company's 20 years. BLITHE SPIRIT, directed by Associate Artistic Director Joel Sass, opens February 12 and runs through March 28.
Some questions remain long after their owners have died. Lingering like ghosts. Looking for the answers they never found in life. (Margrethe Bohr, in Copenhagen)
Ashley C. Wheater, Artistic Director of The Joffrey Ballet, is proud to announce the Company's 2010-2011 season, which will launch with a mixed repertory program of Company Premieres by iconic New York choreographers George Balanchine and Christopher Wheeldon, October 13-24, 2010, followed by the timeless holiday classic, Robert Joffrey's The Nutcracker, December 11-26, 2010.
Worcester County Light Opera Company presents, Blithe Spirit by Noel Coward, February 05 - 21, 2010!
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