Emily Dickinson News

RUINED, the Pulitzer Prize winning play by Lynn Nottage currently playing an extended engagement at Manhattan Theatre Club, will observe Congolese Independence Day with a special talkback following the performance on Tuesday, June 30 at MTC at New York City Center - Stage I (131 West 55th Street).

RUINED, the Pulitzer Prize winning play by Lynn Nottage currently playing an extended engagement at Manhattan Theatre Club, will observe Congolese Independence Day with a special talkback following the performance on Tuesday, June 30 at MTC at New York City Center - Stage I (131 West 55th Street).

North/South Consonance, Inc. will present its 9th concert of its 29th consecutive season on Tuesday, June 16 at 8 PM at the auditorium of Christ & St. Stephen's Church (120 West 69th St) in Manhattan. Admission is free.

Lynx Theatre to perform DICKINSON, the secret story of Emily Dickinson in New York City and San Diego, Seahorse Award Winner, Best Stageplay Moondance International Film Festival, written by William Roetzheim and directed by Al Germani.

Examine The Women Behind The Words at Planet Connections Theatre Festivity with DICKINSON THOSE WHISTLING LADS! and HER KIND, Telling the Stories of Emily Dickinson, Dorothy Parker and Anne Sexton Beginning June 13th See all three shows for only $15.00 each!

North/South Consonance, Inc. will present its 9th concert of its 29th consecutive season on Tuesday, June 16 at 8 PM at the auditorium of Christ & St. Stephen's Church (120 West 69th St) in Manhattan. Admission is free.

Lynx Theatre to perform DICKINSON, the secret story of Emily Dickinson in New York City and San Diego, Seahorse Award Winner, Best Stageplay Moondance International Film Festival, written by William Roetzheim and directed by Al Germani.

Examine The Women Behind The Words at Planet Connections Theatre Festivity with DICKINSON THOSE WHISTLING LADS! and HER KIND, Telling the Stories of Emily Dickinson, Dorothy Parker and Anne Sexton Beginning June 13th See all three shows for only $15.00 each!

Accused of treason against the United States in 1945, the controversial poet Ezra Pound was kept confined to a mental hospital in Washington, DC for 12 years. Now, more than 35 years after his death, he will finally face a jury of his peers - the audience - in William Roetzheim's one-man show Pound, starring Jeff Berg. Directed by Roetzheim, Pound will be performed at Tada Theater, the Studio Theatre on Theater Row and the Midtown International Theatre Festival, between May 4th and July 26th. The show is being produced by American International Theater, Inc.

The Philharmonic begins the Winter U.S. Tour 2009 with performances in Atlanta and West Palm Beach led by Lorin Maazel, who is making his final tour with the Orchestra as Music Director. The trip, which will take the musicians to 10 cities in the U.S. and Puerto Rico and will include 13 concerts, marks the first American tour under the aegis of Credit Suisse, the Global Sponsor of the New York Philharmonic.

To help celebrate our 20th season, BLUEBARN THEATRE will revive our 2001 award-winning play, Wit, which opens March 19 and runs through April 11, 2009. BLUEBARN founding member, Kevin Lawler, returns to direct the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, with Phyllis Doughman recreating the role that won her rave reviews, as well as a Theatre Arts Guild Award for Best Actress. The BLUEBARN's 2008 production will also feature local theatre veterans, Melissa Jarecke, Mary Kelly, Benjamin Beck, Paul Schneider, Jennifer McGill, Chris Elston, Eric Grant-Leanna, and Danielle Smith.

The Coming Up Taller Awards recognize and support outstanding community arts and humanities programs that celebrate the creativity of America's young people, and provide them with new learning opportunities and a chance to contribute to their communities. The awards also highlight the contributions that historians, scholars, librarians and visual and performing arts make to families and communities by mentoring children. More than 320 nominations were received by the program in 2008.

Get a true taste of NoHo at the second annual All-Day, All-Arts, All-NoHo 'NoHo Scene' on Sunday, October 5 from 11 am until 8 pm. Admission to all NoHo Scene events and activities is free.

Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) Announces 2008 Next Wave Festival-featuring eighteen engagements, Sept 30-Dec 20.

NEW THIS WEEK! Best Bet at BSF! New discounts and workshops! Plus news of BPF, Baltimore Black Arts, and a new production of Little Shop of Horrors!

TV and film star Lindsay Crouse as Emily Dickinson, Paul O'Brien as George Bernard Shaw, and Sandra Shipley as famed actress Mrs. Patrick Campbell share intimate conversations in 'The Belle of Amherst' and 'Dear Liar' performing in repertory at Massachusetts' Gloucester Stage

Tony Award-winner Charles Nelson Reilly, the acclaimed actor and director who became a familiar face to millions through his flamboyantly witty appearances on 'Match Game' and other game shows, has passed away at the age of 76

Philip Seymour Hoffman, Joanne Woodward, Paul Newman, Charles Grodin, Joanna Gleason and Chris Sarandon were among the all-star cast reading classic, contemporary and humorous love poems in 'Come Be My Love….Love Spoken Here,' which took place on Saturday February 10, 8 p.m., at the Westport Country Playhouse in Westport, CT.

For more information and tickets, call the box office at (203) 227-4177, or for out-of-town callers toll-free at 888-927-7529, or visit the box office at 25 Powers Court, off Route 1, Westport. Information about the Playhouse is also available at www.westportplayhouse.org.

Tony Award winner Joanna Gleason and Oscar-nominee Chris Sarandon, new residents of Fairfield, have joined previously announced local cast members Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman of Westport, and Eartha Kitt and Charles Grodin, both of Weston, to read classic, contemporary and humorous love poems in 'Come Be My Love….Love Spoken Here'