Reynard Loki - Page 96

Violinist Karen Gomyo will join the New York Philharmonic to perform Vaughan Williams?s The Lark Ascending at the Orchestra?s 18th free, Annual Memorial Day Concert at The Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, Amsterdam Avenue at 112th Street, Monday, May 25, 2009, at 8:00 p.m. David Robertson will conduct. The program also features Ives?s The Unanswered Question, Barber?s Adagio for Strings, and Messiaen?s L?Ascension.

Life and love are not so simple, as three couples with six different perspectives discover in the Chicago premiere of Rebecca Gilman's The Crowd You're In With at Goodman Theatre. Wendy C. Goldberg, a frequent Gilman collaborator and artistic director of the acclaimed National Playwrights Conference at The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center-where The Crowd You're In With was developed-directs this intimate and relevant new play.

Broadway/L.A. today announces the lineup for its 2010 Season, with all productions scheduled to play at its flagship venue, Hollywood's historic Pantages Theatre (6233 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood).

Adelaide Festival Centre and National Pharmacies proudly announce Something on Saturday's 2009 program, now in its 32nd year and running from 16 May to 5 September.

The Covina Center for the Performing Arts announces that Artistic Producing Director Phil Miller will be leaving CCPA in the middle of May.

Crown City Theatre Company is set to present The Apple Tree. Previews will take place June 3 & 4 at 8 pm. The show runs from June 5 - June 28. General admission tickets cost $20, tickets for students and seniors cost $15. Tickets to preview shows cost $15, $10 students and seniors.

The Las Vegas City Council gave unanimous approval today to several agenda items that clear the way for construction to begin on The Smith Center for the Performing Arts. Plans for The Smith Center outline classic elegance that will stand unique in the Union Park 61-acre, mixed-use, master-planned urban center in downtown Las Vegas. The votes were taken during this morning's City Council and Redevelopment Agency meetings.

La Mirada Theatre For the Performing Arts and McCoy Rigby Entertainment are thrilled to present the fifth and final production of La Mirada Theatre?s 2008-2009 season of shows, the West Coast Premiere of a new and completely revised production of Ring of Fire, created by Tony Award-winner Richard Maltby, Jr., conceived by William Meade, orchestrations by Steven Bishop and Jeff Lisenby, choreography by Jane Lanier and directed by and starring one of the original cast members from the Broadway production, Jason Edwards. Ring of Fire will begin performances on Friday, June 5 and will run through Sunday, June 21 at La Mirada Theatre For the Performing Arts, 14900 La Mirada Boulevard in La Mirada, near the intersection of Rosecrans Avenue.

The Tony Award®-winning Old Globe presents the world premier of Cornelia, by Mark Victor Olsen (Big Love), directed by Ethan McSweeny (In This Corner), to run in the Old Globe Theatre May 16 ? June 21 (press opening: Thursday, May 21 at 8pm). Melinda Page Hamilton, who will play ?Cornelia,? was in the Globe?s critically acclaimed productions of Bell, Book and Candle and All My Sons. Robert Foxworth is a television veteran but is perhaps best known for his role as ?Bernard Chenowith? on HBO?s Six Feet Under. Tickets are available by calling (619) 23-GLOBE, online at www.TheOldGlobe.org, or by visiting the Globe Box Office at 1363 Old Globe Way in Balboa Park.

Carole W. Nussbaum, Cabrillo Music Theatre President and Chief Executive Officer, proudly announces Cabrillo Music Theatre?s 2009-2010 season. Fresh from such recent smash hits as 42nd Street and Breaking Up is Hard To Do, Cabrillo Music Theatre will present its biggest season yet. In addition to the four-show season, Cabrillo will introduce a bonus holiday production at the Kavli Theatre, Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza.

Two countries, three generations, 22 turbulent years?and a dynamic soundtrack ranging from Syd Barrett to The Plastic People of the Universe to U2?are at the heart of Rock 'n' Roll, a sweeping and passionate drama about love, music and revolution from Academy Award and four-time Tony Award-winner Tom Stoppard. For the play?s Chicago premiere at Goodman Theatre, Artistic Director Robert Falls taps director Charles Newell, whose reputation for directing acclaimed Stoppard productions precedes him. Newell?s cast of 12 is led by Stephen Yoakam and Chicago favorites Timothy Edward Kane and Mary Beth Fisher, who explore the unique intersection of politics and art against the background of John Culbert?s rock concert-inspired set design?complete with a floor resembling the cover art of Barrett?s solo album, Madcap Laughs. Rock ?n? Roll will be performed in the Albert Theatre May 2 ? June 7, 2009. Tickets are $25 ? $75. A complete performance schedule including dates, times and ticket prices appears at the end of this release. The Edith-Marie Appleton Foundation and Goodman Theatre Women?s Board are the Major Production Sponsors for Rock ?n? Roll and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP is the Corporate Sponsor Partner. Additional support is provided by the Director?s Society Sponsors. WXRT is the Official Radio Sponsor of Rock ?n? Roll.

Captain Smartypants goes ?native? when a luxury airliner nosedives into the Pacific, the shipwrecked Air Smarty crew takes to the airwaves. It?s a unique taste of homo-comedy at its talented and flagitious best. ?Mayday? turns to musical mayhem as their increasingly creative distress signals attract all sorts of characters. Part Tempest, part Gilligan?s Island, part Lost, part American Idol, this show demonstrates just how creative, and desperate, a group of nine survivors can get. Air Smarty features songs by Annie Lennox, a tribute to gay and straight composers, and a medley of songs shown to drive people clinically insane. Peppered with commercials for new and cryptic products, the evening is all done up by a parade of undaunted, unbalanced, and unearthly characters who will definitely keep you laughing.

Carol Mayo Jenkins, a veteran actress who has starred on Broadway and is remembered as English teacher Elizabeth Sherwood in the award-winning television series Fame, returns to Petaluma to star the upcoming Cinnabar Theater production of Collected Stories.

WaterTower Theatre (WTT) concludes its 2008-2009 Discover Series with the regional premiere of Adam Bock's The Receptionist. It will run June 4 - 21, 2009.

Shakespeare Festival/LA (SF/LA), a professional and community-based non-profit theater company, is auctioning off a speaking role alongside Rita Wilson and Tom Hanks in the 2009 Simply Shakespeare adaptation of ?The Comedy of Errors? under the direction of Ben Donenberg, founding Artistic Director, SF/LA. The winner will participate in rehearsal, gain admission to the VIP post-show party and take a group photo with the cast, which the cast will all sign. The auction began May 1 and will end at 7pm PDT on May 11, 2009.

With more that 4,000 in attendance, Carol Channing was honored for her unstinting support of the arts in education at the PTA Convention on May 2nd, 2009. The Children's Arts Advocate Award 2009 - the state PTA's first such award - was presented to the First Lady of Musical Theatre during an appearance at the organization's 110th annual convention. She and her husband, Harry Kullijian spoke to a crowd of thousands of PTA members and delegates, representing the organization's nearly 1 million volunteer members in the state of California

The Children?s Playhouse of Maryland, in residence at the Community College of Baltimore County, Essex, presents the uproarious musical comedy, Once Upon A Mattress. Performances are 1 p.m., May 9 - 10, 16 - 17, 23 - 24 and a special 4 p.m. performance May 17 and will be held in the ?J? Building Lecture Hall (J-137) at CCBC Essex, 7201 Rossville Boulevard. Tickets, which are $10 regular admission and $8 for birthday parties and scout troops, are available from the CCBC Box Office at 443-840-ARTS. (Actorlist recipients under the age of 18 get in for $5.00 with a copy of Art Notes.)

Portland State University School of Fine And Performing Arts and the Department of Theater Arts is set to present The Imaginary Invalid by Molière. This Oregon premiere of a new adaption by Constance Congdon is directed by Glenn Gauer. Performances at Portland Center for the Performing Arts will be in the Dolores Winningstad Theater and will take place Saturday, May 30 - Sunday, June 7, 2009: Tuesday-Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, May 31 & June 7 at 2:00 p.m.

The New York Philharmonic?s final Very Young People?s Concerts of the season will introduce children ages 3 to 6 to ?Treble and Bass,? a program created to show how high and low sounds make music fun, Sunday, June 14, 2009, at 12:30 and 3:00 p.m., and Monday, June 15, at 10:30 a.m., at Merkin Concert Hall, 129 West 67th Street. The program will feature pieces by Dvo?ák, Bartók, and Smetana, along with hands-on music-making with musicians from the orchestra.

AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) was proud to announce the statuesque Julie Newmar as their emcee for Out of the Closet's Cheap Chic Fashion Show and Auction on Saturday night, May 2nd at their Out of the Closet (www.OutoftheCloset.org) in Hollywood at 6210 Sunset Blvd. This 21-and-over fundraising event, orchestrated by Designer Louis Natividad, was built around a timely theme-?Tough Times, Great Solutions!?-and will benefit AHF, the largest AIDS group in the US, which currently provides more than 15,000 free HIV and STD tests annually in California via its community-based testing programs. The fashion show, that began at 9:00 PM featured models decked out in trendy and affordable wares straight off the racks of ?Out of the Closet,? year-round purveyor of ?cheap chic? and great solutions in tough times!