The Members of the Board of Trustees of the Brooklyn Museum have elected Elizabeth A. Sackler, Board member since 2000, as the Museum's Chair. Dr. Sackler, the first woman in the nearly 200-year history of the Museum to serve in that position, is the founder of the Museum's Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art. She succeeds retiring chair John S. Tamagni, who has served as Chair since 2011 and will continue to serve as an active Board member.
Bobby Lee will headline at Comedy Works Downtown in Larimer Square, this weekend, June 12 - 14, 2014. Bobby Lee, best known from his numerous years as a cast member on Mad TV, can now be seen as a regular guest on E!'s Chelsea Lately and The Burn on Comedy Central.
Bobby Lee will headline at Comedy Works Downtown in Larimer Square, June 12 - 14, 2014. Bobby Lee, best known from his numerous years as a cast member on Mad TV, can now be seen as a regular guest on E!'s Chelsea Lately and The Burn on Comedy Central.
Exactly 20 years to the day after the 1994 Olympic Winter Games, Mary Carillo looks back at the events leading up to, during and following the ladies' figure skating competition in the special one-hour Nancy & Tonya.
On January 6, 1994, just weeks before the Olympic Games in Norway, Nancy Kerrigan was struck on the knee in a stunning attack and what unfolded was one of the most dramatic controversies in sports history.
The 9th Annual Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival (TOsketchfest) returns March 6-16, 2014 with the Toronto debut of CBC Radio's hit sketch comedy show The Irrelevant Show, and Featured Series performances by Canadian Comedy Award winners Falcon Powder, TOsketchfest Best of the Fest award winners Last Call Cleveland, Winnipeg's hometown heroes Hot Thespian Action, Fringe favourites Peter n' Chris and multi-disciplinarians National Theatre of the World.
On January 6, 1994, just weeks before the Olympic Games in Norway, Nancy Kerrigan was struck on the knee in a stunning attack and what unfolded was one of the most dramatic controversies in sports history.
The Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival presents the sixth annual Sketch Com-Ageddon, a five-night sketch comedy competition where 43 new and established troupes fight it out to the death, at Comedy Bar, November 19-23, 2013.
On Thursday, Nov. 14, the Newseum will open its highly anticipated 'Anchorman: The Exhibit,' featuring props, costumes and footage from the comedy classic 'Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy.'
Theatre Aspen is presenting a staged reading of the new musical Cross That River today, July 28th, at the Hurst Theatre in Aspen, Colorado. The musical is subtitled 'a new musical about the black west' with a book by Allan & Pat Harris and music and lyrics by Allan Harris (based on an original story by Allan & Pat Harris). Regge Life is the director.
Theatre Aspen is presenting a staged reading of the new musical Cross That River on Sunday, July 28th, at the Hurst Theatre in Aspen, Colorado. The musical is subtitled 'a new musical about the black west' with a book by Allan & Pat Harris and music and lyrics by Allan Harris (based on an original story by Allan & Pat Harris). Regge Life is the director.
Award-winning theatre, opera, and film director Julie Taymor will be honored at the 2013 Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art First Awards at the Brooklyn Museum on June 13 from 6:30 to 9 p.m. The award, which honors women who have broken gender barriers to make remarkable contributions in their fields, will be bestowed on Taymor, winner of the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical in 1998. It will be presented by Museum Trustee Elizabeth A. Sackler and followed by a conversation between Taymor and feminist icon Gloria Steinem.
Award-winning theatre, opera, and film director Julie Taymor will be honored at the 2013 Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art First Awards at the Brooklyn Museum on June 13 from 6:30 to 9 p.m. The award, which honors women who have broken gender barriers to make remarkable contributions in their fields, will be bestowed on Taymor, winner of the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical in 1998. It will be presented by Museum Trustee Elizabeth A. Sackler and followed by a conversation between Taymor and feminist icon Gloria Steinem.
GIRL RISING, Academy Award-nominated director Richard E. Robbins' new feature film about the strength of the human spirit and the power of education to change the world, premiered last night in New York at the Paris Theatre.
The Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum is celebrating its fifth anniversary by honoring fifteen contemporary women with the Sackler Center First Awards. Each of the recipients has broken a gender barrier to make a remarkable achievement and contribution in her respective field. The awards ceremony will take place in the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Auditorium at the Brooklyn Museum on Wednesday, April 18, from 4 to 6 p.m.
Part dude. Part lady. Full-time lesbian. The insanely adorable (or is that adorably insane?) Beth Malone will take audiences from Castle Rock, Colorado to the South Pacific on a journey of little girl crushes to grown-woman heartbreak. Malone's one-woman show is part musical, part comedy, part tragedy (and part crush on Connie Chung).