CHICAGO, April 6, 2015 /PRNewswire/ The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Foundation (ALPLF) announced today that it will award its prestigious Lincoln Leadership Prize to the Little Rock Nine, a group of nine schoolchildren whose attendance at Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, marked the end of racial segregation in U.S. public schools. On September 25, 1957, the group received a federal troop escort by the 101 st Airborne Division as they integrated the school following the Brown v Board of Education Supreme Court decision in 1954. Their actions that day, and since, have helped to define the civil rights movement.
CHICAGO, April 6, 2015 /PRNewswire/ The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Foundation (ALPLF) announced today that it will award its prestigious Lincoln Leadership Prize to the Little Rock Nine, a group of nine schoolchildren whose attendance at Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, marked the end of racial segregation in U.S. public schools. On September 25, 1957, the group received a federal troop escort by the 101 st Airborne Division as they integrated the school following the Brown v Board of Education Supreme Court decision in 1954. Their actions that day, and since, have helped to define the civil rights movement.
Live From Lincoln Center - the pioneering, award-winning performing arts series - continued its 40th anniversary season with another concert from Lincoln Center's American Songbook series, featuring Billy Porter tonight, April 3, in BROADWAY & SOUL. Tony Award-winning actress and singer Audra McDonald hosts the broadcast. In case you missed the performance, BroadwayWorld brings you the whole video below!
Live From Lincoln Center - the pioneering, award-winning performing arts series - continues its 40th anniversary season with another concert from Lincoln Center's American Songbook series, featuring Billy Porter tonight, April 3, in BROADWAY AND SOUL. Tony Award-winning actress and singer Audra McDonald hosts the broadcast.
Producers, Kari Lynn Hearn of CoolChic Productions and Ken Davenport want to help bring Democracy to New World Stages (340 West 50 Street). Today, April 3 the first 50 people to register to vote at Clinton The Musical at New World Stages will receive a FREE ticket to that evenings performance. The registration table will be in the lobby of New World Stages beginning at 6:45pm - 7:15pm, Clinton The Musical begins at 8pm.
Hotel Nikko San Francisco and Michael Feinstein are thrilled to welcome Tony and Olivier Award-winning star and recording artist Lea Salonga to Feinstein's at the Nikko for four performances only - tonight, April 2 (8 p.m.), Friday, April 3 (8 p.m.), Saturday, April 4 (7 p.m.) and Sunday, April 5 (7 p.m.)
NEW YORK, April 1, 2015 /PRNewswire/ Youth, I.N.C. (Improving Nonprofits for Children) announced today that it will host a youth book signing event with Civil Rights Movement leader and Congressman John Lewis.
Producers, Kari Lynn Hearn of CoolChic Productions and Ken Davenport want to help bring Democracy to New World Stages (340 West 50 Street). On Friday, April 3 the first 50 people to register to vote at Clinton The Musical at New World Stages will receive a FREE ticket to that evenings performance. The registration table will be in the lobby of New World Stages beginning at 6:45pm - 7:15pm, Clinton The Musical begins at 8pm.
Celebrate Cinco de Mayo with mariachi master Jose Hernandez and his Sol de Mexico orchestra at Mayo Performing Arts Center, Monday, May 4, 2015 at 8 pm. Tickets are $19-59.
Tonight, March 25, 2015, at 7:00 p.m., Museum of the Moving Image and the Comedy Hall of Fame will present Norman Lear in a discussion that will include clips from his greatest shows, moderated by former New York Times media reporter Bill Carter and Al Roker, feature anchor on NBC's Today Show.
On Wednesday, March 25, 2015, at 7:00 p.m., Museum of the Moving Image and the Comedy Hall of Fame will present Norman Lear in a discussion that will include clips from his greatest shows, moderated by former New York Times media reporter Bill Carter and Al Roker, feature anchor on NBC's Today Show.
NEW YORK, March 20, 2015 /PRNewswire/ Kay Koplovitz knows a few things about launching, building and leading billion-dollar enterprises. As the founder of USA Network, she is the visionary who created the business model for cable networks by introducing the concept of two revenue streams licensing and advertising. When she founded USA Network in 1977, she was the first woman to head a television network. She led it to first place in cable prime-time ratings for 14 years.
Number 1, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, and a currently in office 42--these numbers represent five presidents and two portraits placed in a holding pen, a room, before Richard Nixon's (37) funeral on April 18,1994 in Yorba Linda, California. The men often identify each other by numbers instead of their names in Milwaukee Rep's World Premiere of Five Presidents.
Live From Lincoln Center - the pioneering, award-winning performing arts series - continues its 40th anniversary season with two outstanding concerts form Lincoln Center's American Songbook series, featuringBilly Porter (April 3) and Norm Lewis (April 10). Six-time Tony Award-winning actress and singer Audra McDonald will host each broadcast. Details follow below.
Milwaukee Repertory Theater presents the World Premiere production of Five Presidents. Broadway and television veterans Mark Jacoby, Martin L'Herault, Steve Sheridan, Jeff Steitzer, and Brit Whittle, along with Rep Associate Artist Reese Madigan, make up the cast of Five Presidents from Emmy Award-winning writer Rick Cleveland (The West Wing, House of Cards, Mad Men, and Six Feet Under). Directed by Milwaukee Rep Artistic Director Mark Clements, the production opens tonight, March 13, 2015 and runs through April 5, 2015.
Producers Lorenzo Thione and Andrew Treagus announced today that Tony Award winner Lea Salonga and Telly Leung will co-star with George Takei in Allegiance, a new American musical, set to open on Broadway next season at the Longacre Theatre (220 West 48th Street).
The Ackerman Institute's Gender & Family Project will present its second annual benefit, A Night of A Thousand Genders, an evening of cocktails followed by a very special one-night-only cabaret evening celebrating the beauty and resilience of gender expansive youth and their families on Monday, March 23, 2015 from 6:00-8:30pm at Joe's Pub (425 Lafayette Street).
IN THE MOOD, a rhythmic, jazzy, brassy, sentimental, and patriotic 1940s musical revue, featuring a company of 19 on stage, including a thirteen-piece Big Band and six singers and swing dancing, jitterbugs into the Citi Performing Arts Center Emerson Colonial Theatre for two weeks only, running Tuesday, May 12 through Sunday, May 24, 2015.
