Bill Clinton News

The production will close on May 15 at the SoBe Arts Little Stage Theater in Miami Beach.

New Orleans has been selected as one of only three US cities for the upcoming tour of Corella Ballet Castilla y Leon, Spain's only classical ballet company.

Beginning this summer, passionately innovative conductor Rachael Worby will be enriching the Los Angeles arts scene, and creating a new audience for orchestral music, with the eclectic and ground-breaking offerings of a new orchestra, MUSE/IQUE.

Executive Producer Lou Spisto today announced that The Old Globe will produce the World Premieres of four new plays and musicals in its 2011-12 Winter Season. The season will feature the World Premiere musicals Some Lovers by music legend Burt Bacharach and Tony Award winner Steven Sater and Nobody Loves You by Gaby Alter and Itamar Moses, as well as the West Coast Premiere of John Kander and Fred Ebb's The Scottsboro Boys, recently nominated for 12 Tony Awards including Best Musical, directed and choreographed by five-time Tony Award winner Susan Stroman. The two plays receiving World Premiere productions are Somewhere by Globe Playwright-in-Residence Matthew Lopez and The Recommendation by Jonathan Caren. The new season also includes revivals of Richard O'Brien's The Rocky Horror Show and the Eugene O'Neill classic Anna Christie directed by Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner David Auburn. Special events include the World Premiere of Odyssey by Todd Almond, a music theater event conceived and directed by Lear deBessonet celebrating the Globe's 75th Anniversary, The Old Globe/University of San Diego Graduate Theatre Program production of Twelfth Night and Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, which returns for its 14th consecutive year.

Surf the multisensory edges of time, space, culture and consciousness with legendary author/anthropologist Carlos Castaneda and acclaimed American composer Michael Colgrass at SoBe Institute of the Arts' groundbreaking music-theater experience Tales of Power.

Suspense novelist and Washington insider Rick Robinson's award-winning political thriller 'Manifest Destiny' (Headline Books, Inc.) has been acquired by Los Angeles producer Peter R.J. Deyell ('Road to Nowhere') in a six-figure agreement, with Academy Award-nominated screenwriter Quinn Redeker ('The Deer Hunter') attached to write. Deyell is in talks with other top creatives in Hollywood about developing the book into a motion picture.

BroadwayWorld.com has excitedly learned that fresh from it's 12 Tony nominations this morning, The Scottsboro Boys will make its west coast premiere from April 22-June 3, 2012 at The Old Globe in San Diego.

The 19th Viennese Life ball brings high-caliber star guests to Vienna on the 21st of May. Joining already announced US singer Janet Jackson, the former American President Bill Clinton, actress Brooke Shields, and US singer and '30 Rock' actor Cheyenne Jackson will sing this year's original Life ball song 'Ask the Universe'

PLEASE NOTE LOCATION: Evening Public Programs will be presented at the New York Society for Ethical Culture at 2 West 64th Street at Central Park West, unless otherwise noted.

Elvis Presley Enterprises, Inc. (EPE) announced today that for the fifth annual Ultimate Elvis Tribute Artist Contest, there will be a record-breaking 26 preliminaries held around the world throughout the spring and summer.

Surf the multisensory edges of time, space, culture and consciousness with legendary author/anthropologist Carlos Castaneda and acclaimed American composer Michael Colgrass at SoBe Institute of the Arts' groundbreaking music-theater experience Tales of Power.

According to Deadline.com,Dan Amboyer will join previously announced Jane Alexander in 'William and Kate: A Royal Love Story' for the Hallmark Channel. The film, which chronicles the couple's time together, features a script by Linda Yellen.

Bay Street Theatre is celebrating its 20th season and has announced the 2011 Mainstage productions. From the insightful look into the life of Truman Capote, to the wild comedy of Christopher During, and a Broadway bound musical.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, Tony winner Jane Alexander is set to play Queen Elizabeth II in 'William and Kate: A Royal Love Story' for the Hallmark Channel. The film, which chronicles the couple's time together, features a scrit by Linda Yellen.

PLEASE NOTE LOCATION: Evening Public Programs will be presented at the New York Society for Ethical Culture at 2 West 64th Street at Central Park West, unless otherwise noted.

Next month, Washington University's Performing Arts Department (PAD) in Arts & Sciences will present ECLIPSED for six performances in the A.E. Hotchner Studio Theatre. It is perhaps the unlikeliest community imaginable, and daunting territory for any dramatist. Yet ECLIPSED, a recent work by acclaimed actress and playwright Danai Gurira, is at once sharp-edged, humanizing and surprisingly funny - a portrait of resilience in even the most difficult of circumstances.

Next month, Washington University's Performing Arts Department (PAD) in Arts & Sciences will present ECLIPSED for six performances in the A.E. Hotchner Studio Theatre. It is perhaps the unlikeliest community imaginable, and daunting territory for any dramatist. Yet ECLIPSED, a recent work by acclaimed actress and playwright Danai Gurira, is at once sharp-edged, humanizing and surprisingly funny - a portrait of resilience in even the most difficult of circumstances.

World-renowned tenor Anthony Kearns will perform at a reception to benefit the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute at the William J. Clinton Presidential Center in Little Rock, Ark. on Tues., March 29 from 5 to 7 p.m.

Applauded singer-impressionist Tom Stevens brings his one-of-a-kind show to the Suncoast Showroom for two performances, March 26 and 27, each evening at 7:30 p.m.

If Bill Clinton really was, as Toni Morrison put it, America's first black president, then perhaps it's about time we crowned David Lindsay-Abaire as America's leading female playwright.  Since first gaining major attention in 1999 with Fuddy Meers, and including major productions such as Kimberly Akimbo, Wonder of the World and the Pulitzer-winning Rabbit Hole, Lindsay-Abaire (whose surname is a hyphenated combination of his and his wife's last names) has been continually filling stages with unique and interesting women as his leading characters.