John F Kennedy News

The Board of Trustees of Jubilee Theatre is proud to announce the selection of its new artistic director, Tre Garrett.

Today, President Barack Obama named fifteen recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The Medal of Freedom is the Nation's highest civilian honor, presented to individuals who have made especially meritorious contributions to the security or national interests of the United States, to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private endeavors. The awards will be presented at a White House ceremony early next year.

JC Lee's Pookie Goes Grenading will have a staged reading Nov. 15 at 7:30 p.m. as part of South Coast Repertory's NewSCRipts series.

Upcoming Theatre Communication Group Member Shows - 11/14 for Norfolk

Upcoming Theatre Communication Group Member Shows - 11/14 for Richmond

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in association with the British Council presents ON THE FRINGE: Eye on Edinburgh in various locations throughout the Kennedy Center from October 28 to November 13, 2010. Containing many free and low-cost performances, the three-week event features seven works from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe - which has been a crucible for the creation of innovative and experimental work.

BroadwayWorld has learned that a new musical called INNOCENCE just did a low-key reading at The Banff Centre in Alberta last week and now the theatrical community around the world is nosing around. What is INNOCENCE? The days surrounding the assassination and funeral of President John F. Kennedy are the background for the new show, examining the hopes, expectations and emotional significance of that time through the eyes of several people who felt the loss deeply.

Photos from the 12th annual Mark Twain Prize for American Comedy at the Kennedy Center on November 9, 2010 in Washington, DC. Tina Fey, creator of the television show 30 Rock, is the recipient of this year's prize.

Upcoming Theatre Communication Group Member Shows - 11/07 for Norfolk

Upcoming Theatre Communication Group Member Shows - 11/07 for Richmond

A Noise Within (ANW), Los Angeles' critically acclaimed classical repertory theatre company, has received a $1 million "Patron To Patron" challenge, a $200,000 Eisner Foundation grant and a $500,000 Ahmanson Foundation grant during the last six weeks for its new theatre under construction in Pasadena, announced Board of Directors President Terry Kay.

Two more casts have added their voices to Broadway's Carols for a Cure, the annual holiday music CD benefiting Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS (BC/EFA). Promises, Promises cast members sing 'Oh Come, Oh Come Emmanuel,' and Joey Curatolo, who plays Paul McCartney in RAIN - A Tribute To The Beatles On Broadway, wrote and recorded an original song 'Wishing You a Very Merry Christmas.'

Washington National Opera (WNO) is proud to join nearly 100 other opera organizations nationwide in celebration of National Opera Week (October 29 - November 7), organized by OPERA America, the national service organization for opera, with support of the National Endowment for the Arts.

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts has announced its calendar of events for the months of September and October, 2010. All events are subject to change without notice. Free performances are held each evening at 6 p.m. on the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage.

Florida International Museum (FIM) at St. Petersburg College announces Thanks for the Memories will be the final exhibition at the iconic downtown facility, celebrating 15 years of exhibits and leading the transformation of downtown St. Petersburg.

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in association with the British Council presents ON THE FRINGE: Eye on Edinburgh in various locations throughout the Kennedy Center from October 28 to November 13, 2010. Containing many free and low-cost performances, the three-week event features seven works from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe - which has been a crucible for the creation of innovative and experimental work.

This Friday, SPACE TOURISTS: Christian Frei (who made the Oscar- nominated WAR PHOTOGRAPHER) follows the adventures of Iranian-American entrepreneur Anousheh Ansari, who became the first female space tourist in the world. Her childhood dream of space travel is made possible not by NASA, but the Russian Federal Space Agency. The cost of Ansari's ten-day journey into space and onto the international space station is twenty million dollars, including a rough landing in the steppes of Kazakhstan.

Washington National Opera (WNO) is proud to join nearly 100 other opera organizations nationwide in celebration of National Opera Week (October 29 - November 7), organized by OPERA America, the national service organization for opera, with support of the National Endowment for the Arts.

This month, Anthony Kearns, a founding member of The Irish Tenors, embarked on a unique concert tour to help improve education for children across the U.S. The tour featured Kearns singing favorite songs of Ireland, Broadway and operas in San Francisco, CA (September 23), Long Beach, CA (September 26), Columbus, OH (October 21), and Wilton, CT (October 23). The concert tour, sponsored by Wexford Institute, continues in Spring 2011.

Upcoming Theatre Communication Group Member Shows - 10/24 for Norfolk