The Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University announces the programming for THE BILLY STRAYHORN FESTIVAL, September 4 - November 21, celebrating the 100th birthday of the late Billy Strayhorn. The Festival begins with the Chicago Jazz Festival, Friday, Sept. 4 in Millennium Park, continues at various jazz clubs and locations throughout Chicago and culminates on the Auditorium Theatre's landmark stage Saturday, Nov. 21 with Lush Life: The Music of Billy Strayhorn.
Following the shooting of two WDBJ-TV reporters on live television this morning, USA has decided to postpone tonight's season finale of MR. ROBOT, according to Deadline.
The Onassis Cultural Center NY launches its inaugural fall season with the Onassis Festival NY 2015. Narcissus Now: The Myth Reimagined is the first annual festival of arts and ideas, taking place in the newly renovated space in the Olympic Tower in New York City. The Festival features a kaleidoscopic view of the myth of Narcissus through music, visual art, film, science, literature, choreography, culinary arts, fashion and digital media for curious minds. Free and open to the public, Narcissus Nowat the Onassis Cultural Center NY (645 5th Avenue, New York, NY 10022), October 8-11, will include over 40 events for audiences of all ages-novices and scholars alike. The Inaugural Season continues with the World Citizens symposium on October 23 and music programs in November and December.
In spite of all the ongoing controversy and uproar with with small Theatre, The Promenade Playhouse is not letting that slow down their future plans. Founder, Artistic Director and CEO, Natalia Lazarus, along with Managing Director Danette Garrelts are making plans to improve The Promenade Playhouse, with some major renovations to the interior as well as looking ahead to an exciting Fall, Winter and Spring line-up.
As the 1960s come to a close, Barney Cashman goes about his life in New York with one thought -"Will the sexual revolution pass me by?" Hanover Little Theatre's 67th season will open with Last of the Red Hot Lovers, Neil Simon's Tony-nominated comedy about Cashman and his attempts at seduction. Overworked and overweight, this middle-aged and married restaurant owner falls flat in each attempt and realizes in the end that he would prefer a romantic afternoon with his wife, Thelma.
FROM COMO TO HOMO - Juggling a Stage Mom, Gender Confusion and Tap! - written and performed by Lynne Jassem and directed by Peter Michael Marin, will play four performances only as part of the San Francisco Fringe Festival next month.
"When We Were Soldiers… once and young (WWWS)," a photographic installation by German artist and social activist Bettina WitteVeen, will be on view at the Brooklyn Navy Yard Hospital from September 19-October 24, 2015.
Playwrights Horizons begins accepting entries today, Wednesday, August 19, for the LIVEforFIVE online lottery for $5 tickets to their New York premiere of THE CHRISTIANS, a new play by Lucas Hnath (A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney, Isaac's Eye, Death Tax). Directed by Obie Award winner Les Waters (Doris to Darlene at PH; the recent 10 Out of 12; In the Next Room, or the vibrator play; Big Love; eurydice), the play is the opening production of the theater company's 2015/2016 Season, and it's a co-production with L.A.'s Center Theatre Group (Michael Ritchie, Artistic Director; Stephen D. Rountree, Managing Director).
Love can conquer all - sometimes even death. That's the premise behind this new novel released by Dog Ear Publishing that blends romance, myth and science. Eulba, a physicist and mathematician exploring theories on the universe, had a unique relationship with her boyfriend, Beloved, another brilliant person. Their romance somehow continues despite his untimely death, and Eulba discovers that science and myth are simply two sides of the same coin, representing the same reality from different points of view.
'Eulba' opens as the couple first meets - Eulba is quickly drawn to the blue-eyed handsome man and slyly signs up for a math tutoring session, only to be quickly found out as the one who's been writing anonymous notes of admiration. Their relationship becomes physical and blooms until Beloved's experimenting with mind-altering substances leads to fateful consequences. She finds that her relationship with Beloved has not, in fact, ended with his death but continues, thanks to mythical forces that rule the cosmos, parallel universes and the elasticity of time.
As Eulba begins to believe the myths of the Maya, she decides to enter that world. It will take an act of self-sacrifice for her to make the journey and be reunited with Beloved. Powerful imagery and colorful prose, as well as beautiful verse, set the scene for a story of unbreakable bonds and the wonders of the universe.
This is the second novel for Michele Duva, who also wrote 'Waiting for Dawn.' The author has an MBA from San Jose State University, a master's degree in taxation from Golden Gate University and a PhD. in comparative literature from State University of New York at Binghamton. Duva, who lives in Northern California, has been pursuing a multidisciplinary career working in different professions.
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Michele Duva
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KANSAS CITY, Mo., Aug. 18, 2015 /PRNewswire/ In its 130 th year, the Kansas City Art Institute (KCAI) is honoring its past and celebrating its future, thanks to a $25 million gift, believed to be one of the largest donations to a North American art college.
Ashland, Ore.-The Oregon Shakespeare Festival will open Lynn Nottage's Sweat, the final production of the Festival's 2015 playbill, on August 2 in the Angus Bowmer Theatre. Preview performances are July 29, July 31 and August 1.
The first Circuit Playhouse show of the 2015 - 2016 season is the hit comedy Buyer and Cellar. This one-man show explores the world of Alex More, a struggling L.A. actor who accepts a job working in Barbra Streisand's basement. Hilarity ensues when, one day, Barbara herself comes downstairs to play. This outrageous, smart, and award winning comedy examines the cult of celebrity in such a way that The New Yorker raves that it is "so delightful that you wish it were true."
Liz Gerring, the 2015 Jacob's Pillow Dance Award winner and artistic director of Liz Gerring Dance Company, returns to Jacob's Pillow for her company's performances of glacier, August 19-23 in the Doris Duke Theatre. Gerring has garnered praise by dance enthusiasts and critics alike for her abstract choreographic style and keen use of musical and visual elements.
MBS Productions has announced its 12th Season. Season punch cards are now available, and for a limited time, patrons may receive 6 admissions for $99 (normal punch card price is $110). Special price expires on September 1, 2015.
The Riant Theatre has announced the 20 semi-finalists in the 28th Strawberry One-Act Festival competition, who will be presenting performances on Sunday, August 16 from 3:00pm - 11:00pm at the Tato Laviera Theatre, 240 East 123rd Street.
Lynn University and Producer Jan McArt, director of theatre arts program development, are announcing that both season subscriptions and individual show tickets are now available for the popular Libby Dodson's Live at Lynn Theatre Series.
Teal Wicks (Finding Neverland, Wicked) and Carole Demas (Grease, The Baker's Wife) will join host Natalie Weiss (Les Miserables, Everyday Rapture, 'American Idol') and the selected cast of musical theater writing team Sam Carner and Derek Gregor's 7th Annual 'Barely Legal Show-Tune Extravaganza' in performance on Monday, August 17th at 7:30pm at New York's Monday, August 17th at 7:30pm at premier New York music venue (Le) Poisson Rouge, 158 Bleecker Street in Manhattan.
