Four of musical theater's brightest talents offer behind-the-scenes tales and the magical music of a true legend in Broadway Up Close and Personal: A Tribute to Cy Coleman. Beloved songs from Cy Coleman's award-winning shows including Sweet Charity, City of Angels and The Will Rogers Follies and songs such as 'Witchcraft' and 'The Best is Yet to Come' will be performed at the Orange County Performing Arts Center December 9 - 12 in this heartfelt and personal tribute to the life
and incredible work of this great American artist. The show features Tony-winning lyricist David Zippel, who collaborated with Coleman on City of Angels; Center favorite Jason Graae, whose special way around a song has taken him to the Metropolitan Opera, the Hollywood Bowl, Birdland and the Rainbow Room; Jenifer Lewis, who has starred in numerous Broadway productions as well as movies and television and the multi-talented Tami Tappan Damiano, who has appeared on stages all over the world.
Manhattan Movement & Arts Center presents Manhattan Youth Ballet's Fall Season on Saturday, November 6, 2010 at 2 and 7pm at the Manhattan Movement & Arts Center, 248 W. 60th Street, NYC (between 10th and 11th).
American Ballet Theatre will travel to Cuba to perform as part of the Havana International Ballet Festival, November 3-6, 2010, it was announced today by ABT's Executive Director Rachel Moore.
Popular cabaret singer and Broadway star Jason Graae will brings his new show "Perfect Hermany," to The Arthur Newman Theatre at the Joslyn Center in Palm Desert on Saturday, November 27th at 7 PM as part of Les Michaels' Life Is A Cabaret Concert Series which began there in July and will continue through December.
Rolex presents Career Transition For Dancers' 25th ANNIVERSARY SILVER JUBILEE: A STAR-STUDDED RETROSPECTIVE on Monday, November 8, 2010 at 7:00 pm at New York City Center, 131 West 55 Street (btwn. 6th and 7th Ave) NYC.
Rolex presents Career Transition For Dancers' 25th ANNIVERSARY SILVER JUBILEE: A STAR-STUDDED RETROSPECTIVE on Monday, November 8, 2010 at 7:00 pm at New York City Center, 131 West 55 Street (btwn. 6th and 7th Ave) NYC. Hosted by Angela Lansbury, the five-time Tony Award-winning actress, and legendary star of musicals, films and television icon; the spectacular evening will highlight magical moments from past glittering galas. Award winning composer Marvin Hamlisch has created a Pièce d'occasion.
Kingsborough Performing Arts Center's season of world-class Dance, Music, Theatre, and Family Shows continues with American Ballet Theatre's ABT II, Klea Blackhurst's Everything The Traffic Will Allow: The Songs & Sass of Ethel Merman, and The Fred Garbo Inflatable Theatre.
New York Choral Society (NYCS) will make its' 18th annual appearance at the Richard Tucker Music Foundation Gala on Sunday, November 14th in Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center at 6:30pm. In an evening led by Maestro Marco Armiliato, NYCS will perform the 'Era desso il figlio mio' from Donizetti's Lucrezia Borgia, featuring Angela Mead as soloist, the Act III Finale of Ponchielli's La Gioconda and 'Lied der Sylva' from Die Csárdásfürstin by Emmerich Kalman.
Casting has been announced for the World Premiere of Cold Lang Syne, the new holiday thriller by Gregory Blair that runs November 26 through January 2, 2011 in the Ruby Theatre at The Complex, 6472 Santa Monica Blvd. in Hollywood.
Manhattan Movement & Arts Center presents an intermediate/advanced Master Class with American ballerina Wendy Whelan from 7:30 - 9:00pm on October 25 at the Manhattan Movement & Arts Center, 248 W. 60th Street, NYC (between 10th and 11th).
It was George Bernard Shaw who famously defined dancing as 'the vertical expression of a horizontal desire.' And indeed everything from classical ballet to hip-hop has presented humanity's most passionate (and most tragic) yearnings more artfully than real life ever could. This week that terpsichorean ardor was displayed in two very different productions on Dublin's south side; Tango Pasión at the Grand Canal Theatre and Ballet Ireland's Romeo and Juliet at the Gaiety Theatre.
Manhattan Movement & Arts Center presents a Modern Master Class with Matthew Rushing, a star of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, on Monday, November 15, 2010 from 7:30 - 9:00pm at the Manhattan Movement & Arts Center, 248 W. 60th Street, NYC (between 10th and 11th)
Nominees for the Clive Barnes Awards Announced including nine New York Actors and Dancers. Awards set for November 9, 2010 at Lincoln Center 's Walter Reade Theatre.
The Clive Barnes Foundation and its Selection Committee have agreed on an impressive list of talented young nominees for the first Clive Barnes Awards: Four finalists in theater and five in Dance.
Rolex presents Career Transition For Dancers' 25th ANNIVERSARY SILVER JUBILEE: A STAR-STUDDED RETROSPECTIVE on Monday, November 8, 2010 at 7:00 pm at New York City Center, 131 West 55 Street (btwn. 6th and 7th Ave) NYC.
On Sunday, November 7th American Ballet Theatre (ABT) is pleased to celebrate 'ABT Day' at the Children's Museum of Manhattan (CMOM). ABT and CMOM invite all young ballet fans to a special interactive workshop and dance demonstration celebrating ABT's upcoming World Premiere production of THE NUTCRACKER, to perform Dec. 22 - Jan. 2 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, BAM Howard Gilman Opera House.
To celebrate and honor Frank Sinatra's 95th birthday on December 12, Wynn Las Vegas will premiere performances of SINATRA Dance With Me in the Encore Theateron December 11, 2010.
To celebrate and honor Frank Sinatra's 95th birthday on December 12, Wynn Las Vegas will premiere performances of SINATRA Dance With Me in the Encore Theateron December 11, 2010.
American Ballet Theatre's 2011 Spring Season at the Metropolitan Opera House, May 16-July 9, was announced today by Artistic Director Kevin McKenzie. Highlights of the season include World Premieres by Alexei Ratmansky and Christopher Wheeldon, the New York Company Premiere of Alexei Ratmansky's The Bright Stream and the U.S. Premiere of a new work by Benjamin Millepied.
Principal Dancers for the 2011 Metropolitan Opera Season include Maxim Beloserkovsky, Roberto Bolle, Jose Manuel Carreño, Angel Corella, Herman Cornejo, Irina Dvorovenko, Marcelo Gomes, David Hallberg, Paloma Herrera, Julie Kent, Gillian Murphy, Veronika Part, Xiomara Reyes, Ethan Stiefel, Diana Vishneva and Michele Wiles. Natalia Osipova, a principal dancer with the Bolshoi Ballet, and Alina Cojocaru, a principal dancer with The Royal Ballet, will return for the Spring season as guest artists.
