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Bernadette Peters, The Center for Discovery, and The Monderer Foundation announced today the naming of the Michael Wittenberg Center for Imagination at The Center for Discovery.

Tickets for the inaugural season of the Finger Lakes Musical Theatre Festival are now on sale.

Merry-Go-Round Playhouse has announced this year's show line-up with six productions filled with strong and saucy characters.

Cortland Repertory Theatre kicks off its 41st season at the Little York Pavilion with the regional premiere of a hysterical new farce "The Ladies Man", written by Charles Morey, who "freely translated and adapted" this version from the French farce "Tailleur pour dames" by Georges Feydeau.

Hudson Village Theatre (HVT), celebrating its 20th anniversary this summer, is once again under the Artistic Directorship of its founder, Heather Markgraf and has announced the following upcoming events.

A band of fire jugglers will light up the evening at historic Van Cortlandt Manor in Croton-on-Hudson during "A Night on Fire," a brand new event taking place tonight, May 26.

The ninth annual Bard SummerScape presents The Imaginary Invalid ("Le malade imaginaire," 1673), a classic comedy of manners by Moliere, France's undisputed master of the genre.

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Paul Williams will be the special guest at the Emelin's film extra program, which will present the documentary Paul Williams Still Alive, on Sunday June 3, 2012 at 7:30 pm.

The Glimmerglass Festival, the Central New York summer opera and musical company, has announced its full schedule for the 2012 season, including concert performances by Eric Owens, Deborah Voigt and Dolora Zajick.

National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Rocco Landesman announced that the NEA will award $20,000 to the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival (HVSF) to support their production of Romeo and Juliet during the 2012 season.

Cortland Repertory Theatre has received a record-breaking eight nominations for the 2011 Syracuse Area Live Theatre (SALT) Awards, which recognize outstanding achievement in Central New York theatre.

Get ready for "musical hockey without the ice" as Ira Dean, formerly of Trick Pony, heads to Thunder Country to headline the 7th annual ThunderBash presented by Thunder 102, The Town of Thompson and Concord Associates at the Monticello Casino & Raceway tonight, May 19th.

The CM Performing Arts Center presents THE MARVELOUS WONDERETTES from June 1st through 17th.

The New York Philharmonic's 170th subscription season will conclude with Music Director Alan Gilbert, The Yoko Nagae Ceschina Chair, leading the Orchestra in an all- Mozart program: the Mass in C minor, Great, and Piano Concerto No.

Writer for stage and screen Aaron Sorkin spoke at Syracuse University's 158th Commencement yesterday; read a transcipt from his speech below!

A band of fire jugglers will light up the evening at historic Van Cortlandt Manor in Croton-on-Hudson during "A Night on Fire," a brand new event taking place Saturday, May 26.

Inspired by the grand cross-cultural springtime celebrations jointly created by Dutch settlers and enslaved Africans during colonial times, Philipsburg Manor's Pinkster is described as 'a rousing re-creation.

In its concert season given to the theme of Healing, Schola Cantorum on Hudson (SCH) presents 'Thresholds,' featuring the chamber premier ofB ellagio Resident Andrea Clearfield's cantata Tse Go La ('At the threshold of this life').

Francesca Zambello, Artistic & General Director of The Glimmerglass Festival in Cooperstown, New York, will receive an honorary degree from Colgate University on May 20.

Maggie Whitlum, Executive Director of the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival (HVSF), has announced that Laurent Fisher and David Webber have joined the professional staff.

Geva Theatre Center's 2011-2012 Wilson Mainstage Season concludes with Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's musical Company, which begins performances tonight, May 9 and runs in the Elaine P.

Michael Perlman, whose critically acclaimed NYFringe solo show, Flying on the Wing, was named Outstanding Solo Show of 2006, will debut his new ensemble play, From White Plains, produced by Fault Line Theatre at the CSV Cultural Center from May 31st through June 10th.

On Saturday, April 28, Kitchen Theatre Company (KTC) hosted Dance the Night Away, the theatre's 21st anniversary celebration.

Hudson Stage Company has announced that its Spring's Mainstage production will be a revival of the Pulitzer Prize winning, romantic comedy TALLEY'S FOLLY by the late, great Lanford Wilson.