Berger News

ESPN will kick off the 2013 college football season with national coverage of 46 games in five days as part of the sixth annual DICK's Sporting Goods Kickoff Week from Thursday, Aug. 29, to Monday, Sept. 2.

On Saturday night, philanthropic patrons were treated to a wonderful Italian dinner at a fundraiser for Ridgedale Players. The evening began with generous amounts of appetizers and golden punch. The main course featured delicious lasagna, topped off by tiramisu for dessert. Actors from the theatre company performed a murder mystery set in a Detroit speakeasy during the Great Depression.

Hot off yet another successful, critically acclaimed cross country touring season of'Sandy Hackett's Rat Pack Show,' producer and star Sandy Hackett is in high creative gear preparing to star in another show dear to his heart - 'My Buddy,' an intimate show about his father, legendary comedian and actor Buddy Hackett.

The National Asian American Theater Company's solid if unexceptional production of Awake and Sing, Clifford Odets 1935 drama of a struggling immigrant Jewish family in The Bronx, is opening just a few days after the 50th anniversary of the death of Odets

Composer/pianist Vijay Iyer and master percussionist Cyro Baptista are the latest Guiding Artists to join the Creative Music Studio's 40th Anniversary workshop, October 7 - 11, at the well-appointed Full Moon Resort in Big Indian, NY. In addition to Vijay and Cyro, the four-day workshop will feature renowned musicians and educators, including Peter Apfelbaum, Tony Malaby, Jason Hwang, Kirk Knuffke, Kenny Wessel, Steve Gorn, Mark Helias and others. They will join CMS Artistic Directors Karl Berger and Ingrid Sertso, exploring CMS's "Music Mind" practice that focuses on the common elements of all music, inspiring awareness, personal expression, intensive listening and cross-cultural communication. Registration deadline is September 7, 2013.

Commonwealth Shakespeare Company and Boston Landmarks Orchestra will present a concert version of Cole Porter's Kiss Me Kate with Broadway's Marc Kudisch* as Fred Graham/Patruchio and Kerry O'Malley* as Lilli Vanessi/Katherine. Steven Maler, Founding Artistic Director of Commonwealth Shakespeare Company and Associate Artistic Director, Adam Sanders, will direct with Boston Landmark Orchestra's Music Director Christopher Wilkins, conducting. The free event will be held tonight, August 21st at 7:00PM at DCR's Hatch Shell on the Esplanade.

Obwohl der Erfolg des Films „Ziemlich beste Freunde' noch gar nicht lange zuruckliegt, ist sein Titel bereits zum stehenden Begriff geworden: So uberschrieb beispielsweise die Tageszeitung DIE WELT vor kurzem eine Geschichte uber Franz Josef Strauß und Erich Honecker mit: „Wie aus Todfeinden ziemlich beste Freunde wurden'. Die Konstellation der beiden Politiker ist ahnlich wie die des Querschnittgelahmten und seines Pflegers im Film: Sie konnten kaum unterschiedlicher sein.

From the boardrooms in New York to Hollywood and behind the scenes in Las Vegas, meet bankers, politicians, con men and refuted mobsters in Harry Brooks' new novel Everybody Does Business. It is the larger than life, rollickingly funny, money-grubbing world of NFL wanna-be owners that Harry Brooks uses his poetic license on for this new must-read adventure on the cutting edge of modern American folklore in the making. Brooks' involving tale has brilliant proletarian appeal in its set of self-made characters battling in-bred American aristocracy for the attention of the great American public fascinated by big, husky men duking it out on the gridiron.

The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts announces its Inaugural Season beginning with performances by the Martha Graham Dance Company, which open the 500-seat Goldsmith Theater on November 8 and 9, 2013, followed by the play Parfumerie by Miklos Laszlo, adapted by Edward P. Dowdall and directed by Mark Brokaw, from November 26 to December 22, 2013. The romantic tale Parfumerie inspired the films The Shop Around the Corner, In the Good Old Summertime, and Nora Ephron's You've Got Mail, as well as the Broadway musical She Loves Me. As a special program, an exhibition on perfume entitled Timeless Scents: 1370-2013, a history of iconic fragrances through the ages is being created especially for The Wallis by Chandler Burr, former New York Times scent critic.

'Cafe Cabaret' CafeCabaret is an eclectic variety/cabaret show with a rotating cast of performers. With a new cast every month, the show is always fresh. From poignant to funny, mirth to disaster it all happens at Cafe Ballou. Cafe Ballou is located @ 939 N Western. The show begins @ 7pm.

NBC reports that an actor was injured on the set of Broadway's SPIDER-MAN: TURN OFF THE DARK this evening, August 15.

Foot Locker, Inc., the New York-based specialty athletic retailer, has partnered with Terrence 'J' Jenkins, co-anchor of E! News, to share his style tips and favorite looks for the back-to-school season.

This past Saturday, Spider-Man attended the Staten Island Yankees game vs. the Lowell Spinners. On his way to the game, Spidey took the Staten Island Ferry and even hung out with New York Penn League All Star Bubba Jones. Check out photos from the special day below!

The Public Theater announced the September line-up today for NEW WORK NOW!, the free reading series that allows audiences an opportunity to experience new work by a diverse selection of established and emerging theater artists. NEW WORK NOW! will run September 9 to September 21 in The Public's Martinson Theater (425 Lafayette Street). Now in its twentieth season, NEW WORK NOW! is an important part of The Public Theater's ongoing commitment to developing and mentoring new voices for the American Theater.

freeFall Theatre's production of the Tony-winning musical Spring Awakening is now playing through August 18. Check out the production photos below!

Broadway rocker Justin Matthew Sargent, best known for his star turn as 'Drew' in Broadway's Rock of Ages, will join the company of SPIDER-MAN Turn Off The Dark as the Peter Parker / Spider-Man Alternate. Sargent will play select performances at the Foxwoods Theatre (213 West 42nd Street) with a varied week to week performance schedule.

The St. Louis County Library Foundation's 'Buzz' Westfall Favorite Author Series is pleased to present journalist and author Vanessa Gezari for a discussion and signing of her book 'The Tender Soldier: A True Story of War and Sacrifice.' The event will take place at Library Headquarters (1640 S. Lindbergh Blvd.) tonight, August 14 at 7:00 p.m. The program is free and open to the public. Books will be available for purchase at the event from Left Bank Books.

Hangin with Satan, a new play by Reynaldo Rivera, will be presented by Follow Your Art Always Inc. & M27 at Teatro LATEA, located in the Clement Sotto Velez Cultural Center (107 Suffolk St. New York, N.Y. 10002 - Lower East Side) in a limited engagement running September 13th & 21st, 2013.

True False Theatre, in association with The Present Company as part of the 2013 New York International Fringe Festival, presents SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE a new play by Daria Tavana, based on Kurt Vonnegut classic novel of the same name. SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE opens at Fringe Venue #5 The Celebration of Whimsy aka The C.O.W. (formerly The Living Theatre) (21 Clinton Street) in Manhattan tonight, August 10, and continues through August 20.

SPIDER-MAN Turn Off The Dark, Broadway's high-flying spectacular, is launching a massive coast-to-coast search to find its next Peter Parker/Spider-Man in Los Angeles, at the Hollywood United Methodist Church, on Monday, August 12 beginning at 9:30 a.m. As BroadwayWorld previously reported, the show's original and current star (and Los Angeles native), Reeve Carney (who is scheduled to depart the production on Sunday, September 15, 2013) is taking the trip to Los Angeles to be at the casting call to meet and greet hopefuls.