John Dos Passos News

'Every good story's a war story,' says a character in Scott and Hem in the Garden of Allah, premiering at the Contemporary American Theater Festival. That certainly seems to be playwright Mark St. Germain's approach in imagining a 1937 encounter between writers F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway.

Fiction writer Mat Johnson delivers a reading at Emory University on Tuesday, February 26 6:30 p.m. in the Jones Room of the Woodruff Library. Johnson will also hold a public colloquium Wednesday, February 27 at 2:30 in the Callaway Center on Emory's campus. Both events are free and open to the public with a book signing to follow the reading.

Acclaimed vocal group The Manhattan Transfer will perform a program featuring songs from their four-decade career of popular jazz hits at Concord NH's Capitol Center for the Arts on Thursday, January 24 at 7:30pm.

According to the NY Times, Cherry Lane Theatre's Angelina Fiordellisi, will resign as Artistic Director sometime between March and June of 2011. Additionally, Fiordellisi plans to sell the building, which has been a Greenwich Village staple since 1924, due to ongoing financial struggles.

Theater For The New City is pleased to present Whatever Happened To Bevery Daniels, directed and Music Composed by Frank Dunham Jr (aka franco)

Theater For The New City is pleased to present Whatever Happened To Bevery Daniels, directed and Music Composed by Frank Dunham Jr (aka franco)

Theater For The New City is pleased to present Whatever Happened To Bevery Daniels, directed and Music Composed by Frank Dunham Jr (aka franco)

Manhattan Transfer and Suits and Ties/Suits and Capes comes to the The Shell Theatre. All performances are at The Shell Theater, 300 W 43rd St., 4th Floor (between 8th & 9th Ave). Tickets are $18 and available by calling 212-352-3101 or online through theatremania.com or the Turtle Shell Theater website at turtleshellproductions.com.

A foreign war, burgeoning immigration, market ups and downs, exhaustion from the lastdecade and fear mixed with hope as technology changes rapidly. It's just another typical day in today's society.

A foreign war, burgeoning immigration, market ups and downs, exhaustion from the last decade and fear mixed with hope as technology changes rapidly. It's just another typical day in today's society. But turn back the clocks 100 years and theatergoers will soon discover that life in the early 20th century was very similar, when they see MANHATTAN TRANSFER.

MANHATTAN TRANSFER is produced by Turtle Shell Productions. The show is a play by Martin M. Zuckerman, Adapted from the John Dos Possos Novel. It runs July 17-Aug 1: Mon-Thurs 7 p.m., Sat 8 p.m., Sun 2 p.m.

Manhattan Transfer and Suits and Ties/Suits and Capes comes to the The Shell Theatre. All performances are at The Shell Theater, 300 W 43rd St., 4th Floor (between 8th & 9th Ave). Tickets are $18 and available by calling 212-352-3101 or online through theatremania.com or the Turtle Shell Theater website at turtleshellproductions.com.

A foreign war, burgeoning immigration, market ups and downs, exhaustion from the lastdecade and fear mixed with hope as technology changes rapidly. It's just another typical day in today's society.

A foreign war, burgeoning immigration, market ups and downs, exhaustion from the last decade and fear mixed with hope as technology changes rapidly. It's just another typical day in today's society. But turn back the clocks 100 years and theatergoers will soon discover that life in the early 20th century was very similar, when they see MANHATTAN TRANSFER.

The off-Broadway musical GOOD OL' GIRLS is set to record its cast album today, March 23. The cast features Sally Mayes, Teri Ralston, Lauren Kennedy, Liza Vann, and Gina Stewart. A release date for the recording has yet to be announced.

THE AMERICAN THEATRE OF ACTORS' production of THE TAMING OF THE SHREW, directed by JAMES JENNINGS and featuring MICHAEL MATUCCI and JESSICA JENNINGS, will close on March 14.

GOOD OL' GIRLS, the new musical which opened Off-Broadway, at the Black Box Theatre at The Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre (111 West 46th Street between 6th and 7th Avenues) on Sunday, February 14th will have a change in performance schedule.

THE AMERICAN THEATRE OF ACTORS is pleased to announce additional performances of THE TAMING OF THE SHREW, directed by JAMES JENNINGS and featuring MICHAEL MATUCCI and JESSICA JENNINGS.

White Sand Entertainment (Ken Denison, executive producer) announces GOOD OL' GIRLS, a new musical set to open Off-Broadway, at the Black Box Theatre at The Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre (111 West 46th Street between 6th and 7th Avenues) on Sunday, February 14th.

White Sand Entertainment (Ken Denison, executive producer) announces GOOD OL' GIRLS, a new musical set to open Off-Broadway, at the Black Box Theatre at The Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre (111 West 46th Street between 6th and 7th Avenues) on Sunday, February 14th.