The Cedar Lake Theater in West Chelsea will come to life on Friday, January 24 with a thrilling evening of dance to benefit Dancers Responding To AIDS (DRA), a program of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS (BCEFA). Hosted by Tony Award winning choreographer Rob Ashford, this gala event guarantees to be a soul-stirring showcase of the best and brightest from today's varied dance landscape with performances by American Ballet Theatre, Battleworks, Broadway's 'Billy Elliott,' Camille A. Brown, Dresden Ballet, Les Ballet Grandiva, Paul Taylor Dance Company, and Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre. The program will also feature the world premiere of TITLE by choreographer Chase Brock performed by NYCB principal Tiler Peck.
Director-choreographer Mark Morris's much-lauded 2007 production of Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice returns to the repertoire, with Stephanie Blythe taking on one of the pinnacles of the mezzo-soprano repertory, the role of Orfeo, for the first time in her career. Soprano Danielle de Niese, an acclaimed singer of eighteenth-century music and a graduate of the Met's Lindemann Young Artist Development Program, sings Euridice for the first time at the Met. Heidi Grant Murphy returns as Amor, which she performed at the production's premiere in 2007.
BARBARA COOK in conversation with Steven Sorrentino featuring musical performances from her new CD, Rainbow Round My Shoulder, with Lee Musiker as music director.
Tuesday, January 6, 7:30pm, Barnes and Noble Lincoln Triangle, 1972 Broadway at 66th Street
Due to a bad cold, Tony Award winner Barbara Cook has rescheduled her performance and CD signing at Barnes and Noble to January 6, 2009.
At that time Cook will sing selected sings from her new album 'Rainbow Round My Shoulder,' accompanied by her musical director, Lee Musiker.
BARBARA COOK in conversation with Steven Sorrentino featuring musical performances from her new CD, Rainbow Round My Shoulder, with Lee Musiker as music director.
Tuesday, January 6, 7:30pm, Barnes and Noble Lincoln Triangle, 1972 Broadway at 66th Street
In February of 2009, in honor of the bicentennial of Joseph Haydn's death, Gotham Chamber Opera will present the New York City stage premiere of L'isola disabitata (Desert Island) in a new production staged by Mark Morris at the Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College.
Due to a bad cold, Tony Award winner Barbara Cook has rescheduled her performance and CD signing at Barnes and Noble to January 6, 2009.
At that time Cook will sing selected sings from her new album 'Rainbow Round My Shoulder,' accompanied by her musical director, Lee Musiker.
In February of 2009, in honor of the bicentennial of Joseph Haydn's death, Gotham Chamber Opera will present the New York City stage premiere of L'isola disabitata (Desert Island) in a new production staged by Mark Morris at the Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College.
An appearance by Tony Award winner Barbara Cook has been cancelled for 11/13. Ms. Cook was originally scheduled to appear at the Lincoln Triangle Barnes and Noble, but the event has been delayed. According to a spokesperson, Ms. Cook is suffering a bad cold and the event will be rescheduled for January.
Tony Award winner Barbara Cook will perform songs from, discuss, and sign her newest CD 'Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder,' Thursday, November 13th at 4pm at Barnes & Noble Lincoln Triangle, 1972 Broadway at 66th Street.
Peter Quanz, the talented and acclaimed young choreographer, will premiere a new ballet 'Jupiter Symphony' on Friday June 6th for the Pennsylvania Ballet.
The Royal Albert Hall and Raymond Gubbay celebrate Summer 2008 with a world premiere featuring English National Ballet. Strictly Gershwin continues the
hugely popular and successful series of in-the-round ballet presentations which started in 1997, (Swan Lake / Romeo & Juliet), and is a dazzling homage to George Gershwin, the big band era and the glamour of musical motion pictures.
The UK's Musical Theatre Podcast MusicalTalk is pleased to announce four new guests to be interviewed: Anthony Rapp, Nicholas Parsons, Paul Kieve and Lin-Manuel Miranda.
Andrew Lloyd Webber and a collection of theatre stars, including Connie Fisher, Lee Mead, Sarah Brightman, Donny Osmond, Josh Groban and Andrea Bocelli took part in a portion of the 'Concert for Diana' at Wembley Stadium, Sunday July 1.
Will Tuckett will direct Moira Buffini's new stage adaptation of Catherine Storr's 'Marianne Dreams', the Almeida's first production specifically for families.
There will be a Memorial Celebration of the life of acclaimed choreographer Glen Tetley, this Saturday, April 28, 2007 at 2:00PM. The memorial will take place at the New York Public Library For The Performing Arts - Dorothy and Lewis B Cullman Center - Bruno Walter Auditorium (111 Amsterdam Avenue at West 65th Street Lincoln Center), and is open to the public.
Andrew Lloyd Webber has accepted an invitation from Prince's William
and Harry to pay tribute to their mother in a celebratory concert
being held at the new Wembley Stadium next year.