James Marshall News

Roxey Ballet Company, the premiere contemporary ballet company serving Hunterdon and Mercer Counties in New Jersey, and Bucks County in Pennsylvania, is proud to unveil its 'I Love NJ' dance and musical concert to celebrate Hunterdon County's 300th anniversary and New Jersey's 350th anniversary. The concerts will take place at Canal Studio Theater in Lambertville, NJ on February 7th through February 16th, 2014 and will fuse live poetry, song and dance to great a truly up close and personal live theater experience.

Adventure Theatre MTC (ATMTC) opens 2014 with Miss Nelson is Missing, its third production of its 62nd Professional Season. Based on one of the most memorable books its time by Harry Allard and James Marshall, Miss Nelson is Missing is written by nationally-renowned, local playwright, Joan Cushing, who is the most produced playwright in children's theatre according to TYA Today Magazine. This children's favorite directed byJennifer Nelson (2011's Mirandy and Brother Wind and former Producing Artistic Director of the African Continuum Theatre) and music directed by Helen Hayes Award Recipient and 8-time nominee, George Fulginiti-Shakar, will run January 17- March 9, 2014. Miss Nelson is Missing stars Helen Hayes Award Nominee Jessica Lauren Ball (Olney's Cinderella, Toby's Legally Blonde) as Miss Nelson, the well-natured and long-suffering teacher of the disobedient Room 207, who is suddenly replaced by the petrifying substitute, Miss Viola Swamp. Tickets are $19 each and can be purchased online atwww.adventuretheatre-mtc.org or by calling 301.634.2270.

President Barack Obama appointed seven new members of the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities. They will join 30 other private members appointed by the President and twelve federal representatives, whose agencies have cultural programs such as the National Endowments for the Arts and the Humanities, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, U.S. Department of Education, the Smithsonian Institution, the Library of Congress, the National Gallery of Art and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. A swearing-in ceremony will be held at the Supreme Court with Justice Kagan presiding.

The Hunter College Department of Art and Art History is pleased to announce a public lecture by Charles Gaines, the Fall 2013 Judith Zabar Visiting Artist,Today, November 4, 2013, at 7:00 pm in the Lang Recital Hall, located in the Hunter North Building, entrance on East 69th Street between Lexington and Park Avenues in Manhattan.

The Hunter College Department of Art and Art History is pleased to announce a public lecture by Charles Gaines, the Fall 2013 Judith Zabar Visiting Artist,Monday, November 4, 2013, at 7:00 pm in the Lang Recital Hall, located in the Hunter North Building, entrance on East 69th Street between Lexington and Park Avenues in Manhattan.

Brain Holiday is the debut album proper from Dead Gaze, following on from the acclaimed self-titled compilation released by FatCat imprint Palmist in March.

The Frist Center for the Visual Arts will present 30 Americans, an exhibition surveying works by many of the nation's leading African American artists working since the mid-1970s. Often provocative and challenging, the exhibition explores how artists relate their own sense of self to ideas within history, popular culture and contemporary mass media central to American society. 30 Americans will be on view in the Center's Ingram Gallery from today, Oct. 11, 2013 through Jan. 12, 2014.

The Art Institute of Chicago has announced the appointment of Susanne Ghez, former executive director and chief curator of the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, as Adjunct Curator in the Department of Contemporary Art, effective immediately.

The Art Institute of Chicago has announced the appointment of Susanne Ghez, former executive director and chief curator of the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, as Adjunct Curator in the Department of Contemporary Art, effective immediately. In this capacity, Ghez will bring her seasoned expertise in contemporary art to all aspects of the museum's engagement with the field, including exhibitions, acquisitions, and collections. She will represent the museum in Chicago, around the country, and abroad, traveling widely to visit contemporary artists and institutions, and engaging on behalf of the Art Institute in global contemporary programming.

Bergen Performance Arts Center in Englewood, New Jersey will welcome THE WATERBOYS, dubbed 'The Big Music,' tonight, September 25th 2013 at 8PM.

Bergen Performance Arts Center in Englewood, New Jersey will welcome THE WATERBOYS, dubbed 'The Big Music,' on Wednesday September 25th 2013 at 8PM. Tickets are $59.00, $39.00, $29.00, and available at: www.ticketmaster.com or www.bergenpac.org or by calling the box office at (201) 227 1030.

Brain Holiday is the debut album proper from Dead Gaze, following on from the acclaimed self-titled compilation released by FatCat imprint Palmist in March.

The Frist Center for the Visual Arts will present 30 Americans, an exhibition surveying works by many of the nation's leading African American artists working since the mid-1970s. Often provocative and challenging, the exhibition explores how artists relate their own sense of self to ideas within history, popular culture and contemporary mass media central to American society. 30 Americans will be on view in the Center's Ingram Gallery from Oct. 11, 2013 through Jan. 12, 2014.

Stage and screen star Lee Pace reveals his annoyance with facial hair - mutton chops, specifically - as part of his role in Terrence McNally's THE GOLDEN AGE, as well as thoughts on his role in TWILIGHT: BREAKING DAWN and more in a new exercise-centric interview.

Conde Nast Entertainment today launched a new digital video network with slates of original video series inspired by Glamour and GQ.

Main Street Theater's Theater for Youth program's continued commitment to fully produced shows for children is alive and well in their current production of Jeffrey Hatcher's adaptation of Harry Allard and James Marshall's MISS NELSON IS MISSING. The play is produced with the same standard for design and acting as any of their main stage shows, ensuring that Houston's children and the adults who bring them are treated to a quality theatrical production.

Miss Nelson Is Missing!, adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher and based on the book by Harry Allard and James Marshall, will be directed by Mark Adams at the Main Street Theater - Chelsea Market ( 4617 Montrose Blvd., Houston, TX), today, March 2 - April 6, 2013. Get a first look at the cast in the photos below!