Carl Sandburg News

Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas (MTT) and the San Francisco Symphony (SFS) today announce their 2016-17 season.

Articulit Readers Theatre presents an afternoon of tea and poetry on Friday, February 5, at 1 pm, at High Tea with Gerri, 144 Old McHenry Road in Long Grove.

Joe's Pub at The Public has announced its nightly performances from tonight, January 6, through January 17, 2016.

Joe's Pub at The Public has announced its nightly performances from January 6-17, 2016. Scroll down for details or visit www.joespub.com for a complete list of shows!

The Chicago Public Library Foundation and the Chicago Public Library presented the 16th annual Carl Sandburg Literary Award to legendary composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim. Universally heralded for his immense contributions to musical theater in a career spanning more than 50 years, Sondheim was at the Carl Sandburg Literary Awards Dinner tonight, October 21, 2015 at The Forum (725 W. Roosevelt Road) on the campus of the University of Illinois at Chicago. The event was attended by almost 700 and raised more than $1.5 million to support the initiatives of the Chicago Public Library. Scroll down for photos!

The romance of letter writing centers Milwaukee Chamber Theatre's (MCT) Midwest premiere of Dear Elizabeth. Playwright Sarah Ruhl's character study of Pulitzer Prize winners Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell carries the two writers through their 30 plus year friendship, the ups and downs in producing award winning poetry while maintaining personal relationships.

True to its mission of nurturing local theatre artists, Milwaukee Chamber Theatre (MCT) presents the Montgomery Davis Play Development Series staged reading of AN EVENING WITH CARL SANDBURG by Jonathan Gillard Daly on Monday, October 19, 2015 at 7:30 pm. The playwright himself will perform the reading of this one-actor piece and his wife Gale Childs Daly will direct.

The Flat Rock Playhouse 2015 season will continue with the critically acclaimed Fly, which will run tonight, September 10th, through September 27th on the Clyde & Nina Allen Mainstage in the village of Flat Rock.

The Flat Rock Playhouse 2015 season will continue with the critically acclaimed Fly, which will run September 10th through September 27th on the Clyde & Nina Allen Mainstage in the village of Flat Rock.

The Chicago Public Library Foundation and the Chicago Public Library have announced that the 16th annual Carl Sandburg Literary Award will be presented to legendary composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim. Universally heralded for his immense contributions to musical theater in a career spanning more than 50 years, Sondheim will be honored at the Carl Sandburg Literary Awards Dinner Wednesday, October 21, 2015 at The Forum (725 W. Roosevelt Road) on the campus of the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Known as the nation's foremost label launched by an orchestra and devoted exclusively to new music, BMOP/sound today announced the release of its 43rd recording, Lukas Foss: Complete Symphonies, led by conductor Gil Rose and performed by the intrepid Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP), celebrating its 20th anniversary season in 2015-­??16. A seminal contribution to the discography of 20th century American classics, this two-­??disc SACD compilation is the first recording of the complete symphonies of Lukas Foss (1922-­??2009). BMOP previously released Foss's cantata The Prairie (BMOP/sound #1007, 2008), set to texts of Carl Sandburg.

It's that time of year! The Flat Rock Playhouse will present its annual Dark Night Revue fundraiser, but this time with a twist! This year's theme, inspired by a longtime Vagabond tradition, calls for a re-naming of the event. On August 3, the Supporting Players Guild of Flat Rock Playhouse will present Dark Night Studio!

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South Bend Civic Theatre welcomes master banjo player Michael J. Miles for one weekend only May 29-30, as he performs an evening of music and memories of the American experience.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS: Arica Hilton is a Chicago based multi-media artist and poet. Born in Turkey, many of her collaborations are with international artists. Much like the Luminists, the poetic art movement that captured light as it moved across the American Landscape, Hilton's works are inspired by the European Romanticists, who depicted cool waterscapes reflecting nuanced skies. Hilton's paintings and installations are intricately woven with her poetry and three-dimensional materials, which transports them to the present while still capturing a timeless quality that is ever present in her works. Hilton is co-owner of the Hilton/Asmus Contemporary Gallery. Until recently, she was the president of the board of the Poetry Center of Chicago. Her book LUMINISIM REVISITED will be released in May 2015.

South Bend Civic Theatre welcomes master banjo player Michael J. Miles for one weekend only May 29-30, as he performs an evening of music and memories of the American experience.

Flat Rock Playhouse announced today the launch of Studio 52, a division of the Vagabond School of Drama, est. 1952. Kicking off for Summer 2015, Flat Rock Playhouse Studio 52 is an eight week long series of camps, intensives and mini seminars all focusing on Theatre, Musical Theatre and Film for all ages Kindergarten through adult.

Good morning, BroadwayWorld! Because we know all our readers eat, sleep and breathe Broadway, what could be better than waking up to it? Today's big news: IT'S ONLY A PLAY gains two 'new' cast members, the PIPPIN tour gets a new 'Berthe', Sutton Foster leads TV Land's new series YOUNGER and more!

Acording to the Chicago Tribune, theatre legend Stephen Sondheim will receive Chicago Public Library Foundation's 16th Carl Sandburg Award. As a part of the ceremony on October 21, 2015, Sondheim will be interviewed onstage by Scott Simon of NPR. The Carl Sandburg Literary Award is presented annually to an acclaimed author in recognition of outstanding contributions to the literary world and honors a significant work or body of work that has enhanced the public's awareness of the written word. The Carl Sandburg Award in the Arts is presented to an individual who embodies a spirit of creativity and social consciousness.

Michael Miles performs his acclaimed one-man show, From Senegal to Seeger, a social and political portrait of America through the strings of a banjo, live at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre, 2030 Hwy 89A in West Sedona, at 7:30 p.m., Monday June 2. Tickets will be available at the door and online at www.sedonacollaborative.org. Tickets are $35.