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Upright Cabaret will present Broadway star and recording artist Billy Porter as he debuts his one-man show, The Standard, on the West Coast with James Sampliner set to Music Direct.

The world-renowned Imagination Workshop was founded 40 years ago by Margaret Ladd, the award-winning actress and Founding Artistic Director, and her husband Lyle Kessler, the critically-acclaimed playwright, and Co-Founder of the organization. Today, the Imagination Workshop, a unique theatre company comprised of professional theatre artists collaborating with patients recovering from mood disorders and other mental illnesses, is one of the longest running Arts and Social Institutions in the country.

The Old Globe announces whats on stage and whats soon to come. A musical with songs by Stephen Schwartz, folk-rock legend James Taylor, and new songs by Broadway's hottest young musical sensation Lin-Manuel Miranda, Working is an unforgettable musical that creates a vivid tapestry of how we work in America - woven from the funny and poignant stories of twenty-six everyday Americans - a fireman, a housewife, a publicist, a business executive, a stone mason, and more. Based on the best-selling book by Pulitzer Prize winner Studs Terkel. Playing in The Old Globe Theatre March 7 - April 12

The Old Globe Theater's production of the musical Working which is playing March 7th - April 12th and stars Marie-France Arcilla, Donna Lynn Champlin, Wayne Duvall, Danielle Lee Greaves, Nehal Joshi, and Adam Monley.

Upright Cabaret will present Broadway star and recording artist Billy Porter as he debuts his one-man show, The Standard, on the West Coast with James Sampliner set to Music Direct.

Maxwell C. King Center For The Performing Arts The Best Of The Performing Arts Close To Home MARCH, APRIL, MAY, LINE-UP PRICES SHOWN ARE THE SINGLE TICKET PRICES WHICH ARE TO BE PUBLISHED WITH SHOW INFORMATION.

The induction and awards dinner is scheduled for Thursday, June 18 at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City. Special award honorees will be announced at a later date.

Johnny Rodgers brings the Johnny Rodgers Band to Barnes and Noble, Lincoln Center on February 25 at 6 p.m. for the AnyWednesday Music series. Johnny is fresh off the Broadway run with Liza Minnelli in LIZA's AT THE PALACE and is out promoting his 2 new EP releases - Bound Together, and Let's Make A Date.

The Old Globe Theater's production of the musical Working which plays 3/7-4/12 will star Marie-France Arcilla, Donna Lynn Champlin, Wayne Duvall, Danielle Lee Greaves, Nehal Joshi, and Adam Monley. Stephen Schwartz, the man behind the curtain of the global sensation Wicked, has re-imagined his musical vision of the American dream for the 21st Century.

Johnny Rodgers brings the Johnny Rodgers Band to Barnes and Noble, Lincoln Center on February 25 at 6 p.m. for the AnyWednesday Music series. Johnny is fresh off the Broadway run with Liza Minnelli in LIZA's AT THE PALACE and is out promoting his 2 new EP releases - Bound Together, and Let's Make A Date.

USA Today has revealed that Beyonce will sing for Barack and Michelle Obama's first dance on inauguration night. The song has just been announced to be the Etta James classic 'At Last.' The star recently portrayed the blues great in the film Cadillac Records (where she also sings the song).

USA Today has revealed that Beyonce will sing for Barack and Michelle Obama's first dance on inauguration night. The song however is being kept a secret. The Presidential Inaugural Committee is keeping mum on the title of the song. 'It is our hope that we can keep the song secret until the moment,' said spokeswoman Linda Douglass to the paper. The inaugural team for Barack Obama has announced a huge and starry lineup of talent that will perform at an opening celebration at the Lincoln Memorial on Sunday, in a kickoff heavy in its mix of history and leading performance artists.

While Barbra Streisand was at the top of the list of celebrity artists asked to appear at the Obama Inaugration Celebration, her art is sadly keeping her away from the starry and historic event. Liz Smith reports in today's New York Post that thought she was requested, her recording sessions for her upcoming new album will notallow her to attend, but, reveals Smith, she and Diana Krall will watch the ceremonies from a recording studio in LA, where they're working 'feverishly' on the new project. Streisand says she is happy that she was able to perform her LA fund-raiser for the president-to-be, and while she won't be in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, 'he knows her heart is there along with 300 million other Americans'.

Lincoln Center's acclaimed series American Songbook returns in January for its eleventh season celebrating the diversity of American popular song. For 17 nights of pop, folk, cabaret, R&B, country, rock, show tunes, bluegrass and multimedia, the series will explore the best of the golden age of musical standards through to today's most dynamic contemporary songwriting. The 2009 season - January 14 through March 6 - will bring to the stage some of today's most gifted interpreters of song, including top vocalist Kurt Elling and country's winning Patty Loveless. It will feature the rare opportunity to hear Paulo Szot, star of Broadway's South Pacific, and film and stage star Alan Cumming, in intimate concert settings.

Variety is reporting that the inaugural team for Barack Obama has announced a huge and starry lineup of talent that will perform at an opening celebration at the Lincoln Memorial on Sunday, in a kickoff heavy in its mix of history and leading performance artists.

Whats happening at THE OLD GLOBE from January - March, 2009, full season announced.

The second week of Lincoln Center's acclaimed series American Songbook brings to the Allen Room stage a jazz great, a new singer/songwriter, a country music classic and Broadway's newest heartthrob, all celebrating the diversity of American popular song. Singer Kurt Elling will re-create the standout recording that singer Johnny Hartman made in 1963 of the music of John Coltrane. Saxophonist Ernie Watts, The Laurence Hobgood Trio and the string quartet ETHEL will join Elling for this show, entitled Dedicated to You.

McCarter Theater Center has added new events for 2009. Ben Folds has been scheduled for February 11, 2009 at 8pm. Over the last 15 years, Ben Folds' first-class melodic gifts, irony-laced lyrics, and punk-rock tendency to play piano as if it were a contact sport have earned the North Carolina native a legion of devoted fans of all ages. Kris Kristofferson has been booked for February 27, 2009 at 8pm.

Whats happening at THE OLD GLOBE from January - March, 2009, full season announced.

Nationally acclaimed award-winning singer/songwriter/pianist, Johnny Rodgers will open his highly anticipated special performance at JIM CARUSO'S CAST PARTY at BIRDLAND (315 West 44th Street) on MONDAY, DECEMBER 29th with composer/lyricist CAROL HALL'S ?Big City Boogie' which he will then follow with her ?Change In