The Alden in McLean has announced its Classics of the Silent Screen series. This four-event series will feature not only groundbreaking silent films and the legendary stars, but also live accompaniment and introductions by a film historian and preservationist.
New York City's Drama Desk-nominated Parallel Exit returns to the Joyce SoHo for the third time, to present the world premiere of I LOVE BOB, an evening-length comic ballet, from July 20-29, 2012 at 7:30pm at Joyce SoHo, 155 Mercer Street (between Houston & Prince). Tickets are $25 general admission ($15 student/senior) and are available by phone at JoyceCharge 212-242-0800 or online at joyce.org. The performance on Saturday, July 28 is a benefit and tickets are $150.
The Picture Show at Bay Street Theatre continues in February with Ronald Coleman Weekend. See THE PRISONER OF ZENDA on February 10 and LOST HORIZON on February 11. Next up is Charlie Chaplin starring in THE GREAT DICTATOR on February 17. The last weekend of February celebrates Black History Month with the screening of the THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MISS JANE PITTMAN on February 24 and THE COLOR PURPLE on February 25.
The Picture Show at Bay Street Theatre continues in February with Ronald Coleman Weekend.
The Picture Show at Bay Street Theatre continues in February with Ronald Coleman Weekend. See THE PRISONER OF ZENDA on February 10 and LOST HORIZON on February 11. Next up is Charlie Chaplin starring in THE GREAT DICTATOR on February 17. The last weekend of February celebrates Black History Month with the screening of the THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MISS JANE PITTMAN on February 24 and THE COLOR PURPLE on February 25.
The Picture Show at Bay Street Theatre continues in February with Ronald Coleman Weekend.
The Alden in McLean has announced its Classics of the Silent Screen series. This four-event series will feature not only groundbreaking silent films and the legendary stars, but also live accompaniment and introductions by a film historian and preservationist.
On January 31, pianist Rudolf Buchbinder's live performance (as pianist and conductor) of all five of Beethoven's Piano Concertos with the Vienna Philharmonic will be released in the US as a 2-DVD set by C Major/Unitel Classica. The concerts were filmed live in May 2011 at the Goldener Saal der Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna. In addition to the performances, the DVDs include a conversation between Buchbinder and music journalist Joachim Kaiser as bonus material.
BECOMING CHAPLIN, a new musical depicting the life of film icon Charlie Chaplin, with music and lyrics by Christopher Curtis and book by three-time Tony Award-winner Thomas Meehan (Annie, The Producers, Hairspray) and Christopher Curtis, will open on Broadway in the 2012-2013 season. Acclaimed director/choreographer Warren Carlyle (Finian's Rainbow, Hugh Jackman, Back on Broadway) directs and choreographs the production. Broadway theatre, casting, additional creative team and dates to be announced.
The New York Film Academy (NYFA) has a long and impressive list of speakers who have shared their insight and knowledge with students who have chosen acting and/or filmmaking as a career. Previous guests have included Philip Seymour Hoffman, Glenn Close, Dennis Hopper, John Carpenter, Kevin Klein, Jon Voight, Kevin Spacey, Ben Stiller, Ron Howard, Juliette Lewis, Sir Ben Kingsley, Andy Garcia and Steven Spielberg.
The Picture Show at Bay Street Theatre continues in February with the celebration of Charles Dickens' Bicentennial of his birth! See DAVID COPPERFIELD on February 3 and OLIVER TWIST on February 4. For Ronald Coleman Weekend, see THE PRISONER OF ZENDA on February 10 and LOST HORIZON on February 11. Next up is Charlie Chaplin starring in THE GREAT DICTATOR on February 17. All of these films begin at 8 pm. The last weekend of February celebrates Black History Month with the screening of the classic TV mini-series ROOTS on February 24 and 25 at 8 pm and Sunday, February 26 at 2 pm. Tickets are $5 at the door.
The accomplished Italian theater artist Maria Cassi will make her American stage debut this March in the international hit MY LIFE WITH MEN… AND OTHER ANIMALS, a hilarious and poignant semi-autobiographical look at what makes up la dolce vita and the lifelong process of figuring it out. The production, performed seamlessly in English and Italian, has been produced throughout Italy to critical acclaim since 2010, with Cassi being likened to such legendary comedians as Charlie Chaplin and Jacques Tati.
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Multi-talented Golden Globe and Emmy Award winner Ricky Gervais ('The Office,' 'The Ricky Gervais Show') has signed for the third time to return as host of NBC's 'The 69th Annual Golden Globe Awards' on Sunday, January 15, 2012. This year's show will again be broadcast live coast-to-coast from 5-8 p.m. (PT) and 8-11 p.m. (ET) from the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills.
Following a highly successful run of performances in the Metropolitan Opera's season-opening production of Donizetti's Anna Bolena, Stephen Costello returns to the Vienna State Opera for a second consecutive season, singing the role of Nemorino in another (and far more light-hearted) Donizetti opera, L'elisir d'amore.
Roundabout Theatre Company will present the national tour of ANYTHING GOES, the 2011 Tony® Award winning Broadway musical theatre masterpiece. Roundabout Theatre Company's ANYTHING GOES sets sail at Cleveland's PlayhouseSquare in October 2012. Following its opening in Cleveland, Roundabout Theatre Company's ANYTHING GOES will cruise into more than 25 other cities during the 2012/2013 season including the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles.
In this fantastical, magical, musical extravaganza, Tony winners Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty (LUCKY STIFF, MY FAVORITE YEAR, ONCE ON THIS ISLAND, and RAGTIME) have lovingly brought to life all of our favorite Dr. Seuss characters, including Horton the Elephant, The Cat in the Hat, Gertrude McFuzz, lazy Mayzie and a little boy with a big imagination - Jojo.
Magic and movies are popular art forms based on make-believe. Magicians were once the world's most popular entertainers-but once cinema supplanted them, magicians quickly embraced the moving image, using it to create astonishing new illusions.
Lincoln Center's vibrant public and visitors space on the Upper West Side, the David Rubenstein Atrium, offers shopping, warm up with a hot drink from 'wichcraft, and enjoy great music with Target® Free Thursdays and Meet the Artist Saturdays.
Lincoln Center's vibrant public and visitors space on the Upper West Side, the David Rubenstein Atrium, offers shopping, warm up with a hot drink from 'wichcraft, and enjoy great music with Target® Free Thursdays and Meet the Artist Saturdays.
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