Lance Armstrong News

It's been 15 years since she's performed on a Bay Area stage - now Anna Deavere Smith is returning.

Anna Deavere Smith's latest one-woman production, Let Me Down Easy, will be videotaped at Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater by Great Performances in February for airing on PBS during the series' 2011-2012 season.

Anna Deavere Smith's latest one-woman production, Let Me Down Easy, will be videotaped at Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater by Great Performances in February for airing on PBS during the series' 2011-2012 season.

Philadelphia Theatre Company continues its 35th Anniversary Season with the Philadelphia debut of Anna Deavere Smith in her one-woman, award-winning show Let Me Down Easy, running March 18 through April 10, 2011 at the Suzanne Roberts Theatre (Broad and Lombard Streets).

FUCT (www.fuctnyc.com) is setting houses on fire, both literally and figuratively. In a recent performance, 'Boy's Night Out,' six of the male cast members, donning full mustaches, sprayed the packed audience with 'lighter fluid' and explained that the night could only end in a Bacchanalian orgy that sounded like a scene from 'Saw.' All of this to raise money for The Prostate Cancer Foundation, The Lance Armstrong Foundation (LIVESTRONG), and plane tickets to the 10th annual Chicago Sketch Comedy Festival.

LA's Next Great Stage Star 2011 rings in the New Year at Sterling's Upstairs at Vitello's, the most critically acclaimed, award-winning supper club of its kind in Los Angeles. The fifth anniversary presentation of this distinguished musical theatre talent competition shines the spotlight on an unprecedented twenty (20) young contestants beginning Sunday, January 6.

Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater is pleased to announce that it will launch the national tour of Second Stage Theatre's production Let Me Down Easy.

As we welcome in a new year of great theatre in the nation's capital, I thought it would be fun to do one of those “Best of 2010' lists as well as preview what's opening in January on DC area stages. So let's raise our glasses and offer a toast to all those theatre companies who gave us great productions in 2010, and to the upcoming 2011 theatre season!

FUCT (www.fuctnyc.com) is setting houses on fire, both literally and figuratively. In a recent performance, 'Boy's Night Out,' six of the male cast members, donning full mustaches, sprayed the packed audience with 'lighter fluid' and explained that the night could only end in a Bacchanalian orgy that sounded like a scene from 'Saw.' All of this to raise money for The Prostate Cancer Foundation, The Lance Armstrong Foundation (LIVESTRONG), and plane tickets to the 10th annual Chicago Sketch Comedy Festival.

Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater is pleased to announce that it will launch the national tour of Second Stage Theatre's production Let Me Down Easy.

Studio City's Sterling's Upstairs at Vitello's, the most critically acclaimed, award-winning supper club of its kind in the greater Los Angeles area, has set Saturday December 11 and Sunday, December 12 as audition dates for the fifth anniversary of LA's Next Great Stage Star, it was announced today by producers Michael Sterling and Tony Monsour of of Michael Sterling & Associates (www.msapr.net). As of Wednesday, December 1, potential contestants may call Michael Sterling & Associates at 818 623-7300, Ext. 2 to schedule an audition appointment.

Broadway Across America and Live Nation announce today that proceeds from tickets sold to the Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday evening performances of DREAMGIRLS playing the Murat Theatre at the Old National Centre November 2-7, will be donated to The Lance Armstrong Foundation in honor of former Live Nation employee, Steve Finkel.

Broadway Across America and Live Nation announce today that proceeds from tickets sold to the Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday evening performances of DREAMGIRLS playing the Murat Theatre at the Old National Centre November 2-7, will be donated to The Lance Armstrong Foundation in honor of former Live Nation employee, Steve Finkel.

Broadway Across America and Live Nation announce today that proceeds from tickets sold to the Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday evening performances of DREAMGIRLS playing the Murat Theatre at the Old National Centre November 2-7, will be donated to The Lance Armstrong Foundation in honor of former Live Nation employee, Steve Finkel.

Next month's Stand Up to Cancer TV special will feature several celebrity guests, including cancer survivors Christina Applegate and Maura Tierney, according to a report by TVGuide.com.

Two years after an historic fundraising telecast and the start of a groundbreaking grassroots movement, Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C) will return to primetime television on September 10, 2010, at 8PM EDT & PDT / 7PM CT, with a star-studded appeal to build continuing public support and donations for cutting-edge cancer research that translates at a rapid pace from the laboratory to treatments and technologies that benefit patients.

As reported previously, next month's Stand Up to Cancer TV special will feature several celebrity guests, including cancer survivors Christina Applegate and Maura Tierney. Accordig to Variety, an array of other Hollywood stars have signed on for the fundraiser, including: George Clooney, Gwyneth Paltrow, Will Smith, Denzel Washington, Billy Joe Armstrong, and Renee Zellweger.

Next month's Stand Up to Cancer TV special will feature several celebrity guests, including cancer survivors Christina Applegate and Maura Tierney, according to a report by TVGuide.com.

Sterling's Upstairs at Vitello's, LA's 'Cabaret destination' as described by the Los Angeles Times, rings in June with the celebration of its four-year anniversary.

Late night comedy troupe FUCT (www.fuctnyc.com) will take on one of six coveted solo performance slots in this year's Sketchfest NYC, on Friday, June 11th at 12am (Midnight), at the Upright Citizen's Brigade Theatre, 307 West 26th Street, NY, NY.