Jacob's Pillow Dance, National Historic Landmark and home of America's longest-running international dance festival, kicks off Festival 2010 with the prima ballerina Nina Ananiashvili. The Festival runs Wednesday, June 23 through Saturday, June 26 at 8pm; Saturday, June 26 and Sunday, June 27 at 2pm. Tickets range from $10-63. $10 Friday evening and Saturday/Sunday matinee youth tickets available. Tickets on sale now online jacobspillow.org, via phone at 413.243.0745 or in person at Jacob's Pillow. Jacob's Pillow is located at 358 George Carter Road in Becket, MA, 01223 (10 minutes east on Route 20 from Mass Pike Exit 2).
Playwrights Horizons (Artistic Director, Tim Sanford; Managing Director, Leslie Marcus) and New York Theatre Workshop (Artistic Director, James C. Nicola; Managing Director, William Russo) have announced that they will co-produce THE SHAGGS: PHILOSOPHY OF THE WORLD, a new musical with book by Joy Gregory; music by Gunnar Madsen; lyrics by Ms. Gregory and Mr. Madsen; and story by Ms. Gregory, Mr. Madsen and John Langs.
Images by Christopher Duggan, a Festival photographer for Jacob's Pillow Dance, are being presented in a solo exhibit at Dance New Amsterdam in New York City, June 23 through August 11. Festival 2010 marks Duggan's fifth season as a primary photographer of Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, which annually presents more than 50 outstanding dance companies from all over the world, and 200 free talks, performances, and exhibits. An opening reception with the photographer will be held at Dance New Amsterdam, Wednesday, June 23, at 7pm.
Audiences will have the opportunity to see some of Europe's leading ballet dancers in this June when Nina Ananiashvili and the State Ballet of Georgia perform at Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, June 23-27. Joining the acclaimed company for this engagement is Sebastian Kloborg, a soloist with the Royal Danish Ballet who has a deep family connection to Jacob's Pillow.
Jacob's Pillow Dance, National Historic Landmark and home of America's longest-running international dance festival, kicks off Festival 2010 with the prima ballerina Nina Ananiashvili. The Festival runs Wednesday, June 23 through Saturday, June 26 at 8pm; Saturday, June 26 and Sunday, June 27 at 2pm. Tickets range from $10-63. $10 Friday evening and Saturday/Sunday matinee youth tickets available. Tickets on sale now online jacobspillow.org, via phone at 413.243.0745 or in person at Jacob's Pillow. Jacob's Pillow is located at 358 George Carter Road in Becket, MA, 01223 (10 minutes east on Route 20 from Mass Pike Exit 2).
Jacob's Pillow Dance, home of America's longest-running international dance festival, has enjoyed a long history with Dance Theatre of Harlem. Founded to create opportunities for minority dancers at a time when they were not welcome in established classical companies, Dance Theatre of Harlem made its first professional appearances at the Pillow in 1970, the same year the company was launched.
Signature Theatre Company (James Houghton, Founding Artistic Director; Erika Mallin, Executive Director) is pleased to announce casting for the first New York revival of Tony Kushner's Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning epic work, ANGELS IN AMERICA: A GAY FANTASIA ON NATIONAL THEMES. The production will be directed by Michael Greif. ANGELS IN AMERICA is the first production of Signature's 20th Anniversary season, celebrating the works of Tony Kushner.
Nicholas Leichter and Monstah Black's take on 'The Wiz/ard of Oz' for the Obama generation THE WHIZ: OBAMALAND will be at the Abrons Arts Center (466 Grand Street) in Manhattan June 16-19 at 8pm. Tickets are $20 at www.theatermania.com or by calling 212-352-3101 or via www.abronsartscenter.org.
The Joyce Theater is proud to welcome back onto its stage - for five performances only - the John Jasperse Company, presenting the New York premiere of Truth, Revised Histories, Wishful Thinking, and Flat Out Lies, a Joyce Theater 25th Anniversary commission, from June 16-19.
Nicholas Leichter and Monstah Black's take on 'The Wiz/ard of Oz' for the Obama generation THE WHIZ: OBAMALAND will be at the Abrons Arts Center (466 Grand Street) in Manhattan June 16-19 at 8pm. Tickets are $20 at www.theatermania.com or by calling 212-352-3101 or via www.abronsartscenter.org.
In August 2009, Arena Stage announced the formation of a new groundbreaking initiative created for the advancement of America's new play development sector-The American Voices New Play Institute.
American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) has added five performances to the world premiere production of The Tosca Project, created and staged by A.C.T. Artistic Director Carey Perloff and San Francisco Ballet's Val Caniparoli.
Steppenwolf Theatre Company concludes its 2009-2010 season, an exploration of the theme of belief, with A Parallelogram a new play by Bruce Norris, directed by ensemble member Anne D. Shapiro.
A dancer described as 'a pixie-ish powerhouse with the determined air of a high priestess' (San Francisco Chronicle), Camille A. Brown brings her dynamic choreography to Jacob's Pillow, America's longest-running international dance festival, June 30-July 4.
Nicholas Leichter and Monstah Black's take on 'The Wiz/ard of Oz' for the Obama generation THE WHIZ: OBAMALAND will be at the Abrons Arts Center (466 Grand Street) in Manhattan June 16-19 at 8pm. Tickets are $20 at www.theatermania.com or by calling 212-352-3101 or via www.abronsartscenter.org.
The Joyce Theater is proud to welcome back onto its stage - for five performances only - the John Jasperse Company, presenting the New York premiere of Truth, Revised Histories, Wishful Thinking, and Flat Out Lies, a Joyce Theater 25th Anniversary commission, from June 16-19.
Nicholas Leichter and Monstah Black's take on 'The Wiz/ard of Oz' for the Obama generation THE WHIZ: OBAMALAND will be at the Abrons Arts Center (466 Grand Street) in Manhattan June 16-19 at 8pm. Tickets are $20 at www.theatermania.com or by calling 212-352-3101 or via www.abronsartscenter.org.
At a press conference yesterday the Oregon Shakespeare Festival provided a comprehensive picture of the scope of new work underway over the next several season supported by grants totaling more than $800,000. OSF recently received a grant of $600,000 from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation over three years (2010-2012) for the decade-long commissioning, production, and public dialogue initiative American Revolutions: the United States History Cycle. The Edgerton Foundation of Los Angeles, California awarded OSF a four-year $200,000 grant to support the commissioning of five new American musicals, putting OSF in the unique position of creating new American musicals with a resident acting company.
New York Theatre Workshop (NYTW) Artistic Director James C. Nicola and Managing Director William Russo have announced that Jonathan Cake has joined the cast of Restoration, written by Claudia Shear, and directed by Christopher Ashley. Mr. Cake assumes the role to have been played by Danny Mastrogiorgio.
Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company continues its 30 th Season (2009/10) with a four-week run of Gruesome Playground Injuries, created by the 2010 Pulitzer Prize-nominated Rajiv Joseph (playwright of Animals Out of Paper and Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo ) and directed by John Vreeke. Gruesome Playground Injuries stars Gabriela Fernandez-Coffey and Tim Getman.
