Leonardo News

The Eurovision Song Contest, recently featured on 'The Oprah Winfrey Show,' is an annual competition for active Members of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and is one of the most-watched TV programs in the world, with 42 countries competing for first place.

Playing Shakespeare (Home Video Debut) - Royal Shakespeare Company's John Barton's intimate acting workshop featuring nine master classes on Shakespearean performance with 21 of Britain's finest actors, including Oscar® winners Judi Dench (Shakespeare in Love, Casino Royale), Ben Kingsley (Gandhi, Schindler's List), and Peggy Ashcroft (A Passage to India), Ian McKellen (The Lord of the Rings, Gods and Monsters), Patrick Stewart (X-Men), and David Suchet (Agatha Christie's Poirot).

Media City Ballet of Los Angeles, Natasha Middleton, Artistic Director, in association with Woodbury University will present Miriam Larici and Leonardo Barrionuevo, Best Couple Winners of NBC Television's Premiere Season of 'SuperStars of Dance,' in 'TANGO, TONIGHT!,' A One Night Only Special Event to be held in The New Woody's Café at Woodbury University; 7500 Glenoaks Avenue; Burbank, CA 91510 from 6:30 - 10:30 p.m. on Thursday, May 28, 2009.

Following a critically acclaimed season which included the Pulitzer Prize finalist Becky Shaw and the Broadway transfer of its musical hit Next to Normal, Second Stage Theatre (Carole Rothman, Artistic Director; Ellen Richard, Executive Director) has announced three of the four plays scheduled for its upcoming 31st Season.

Tony Award-winner Mark Rylance will be presented with the Samuel H. Scripps Award at Theatre for a New Audience's Spring Gala Celebrating Shakespeare's 445th Birthday. The celebration, Monday, May 11, will be held at The Powerhouse at the American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79th Street.

A new play written and directed by Paul Weitz and the rain-check run of the latest Douglas Carter Beane play are set for the 2009-10 season at Off Broadway's Second Stage Theater according to a report in Variety.

Your wedding is supposed to be the biggest day of your life - but when your wedding includes a duel to the death you know the stakes are high. Blood Wedding, written by celebrated Spanish playwright Federico Garcia Lorca, is one of the most anticipated productions of the 2009 Wellington theatrical calendar.

Fresh off his lauded New York production of Farragut North, director Doug Hughes reunites much of his ensemble cast, including Juno's Olivia Thirlby, The Wire's Isiah Whitlock, Jr, Mia Barron, Dan Bittner and Justin Huen, at the Geffen Playhouse to join the previously announced Chris Noth and Chris Pine. Noth, best known for his longtime stint as Detective Mike Logan on Law & Order and as the (in)famous Mr.Big on Sex and the City, is a fellow cast member from the Atlantic Theater Company's NY production, while Pine, who is starring as the young Captain Kirk in the new film Star Trek and was recently seen in the Geffen's production of Neil LaBute's Fat Pig, is new to the LA production. Written by Beau Willimon, Farragut North was recently nominated for two Outer Critics Circle Awards including Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play.

Tony Award-winner Mark Rylance will be presented with the Samuel H. Scripps Award at Theatre for a New Audience's Spring Gala Celebrating Shakespeare's 445th Birthday. The celebration, Monday, May 11, will be held at The Powerhouse at the American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79th Street.

Media City Ballet of Los Angeles, Natasha Middleton, Artistic Director, in association with Woodbury University will present Miriam Larici and Leonardo Barrionuevo, Best Couple Winners of NBC Television?s Premiere Season of ?SuperStars of Dance,? in ?Tango, Tonight!,? A One Night Only Special Event to be held in The New Woody?s Café at Woodbury University; 7500 Glenoaks Avenue; Burbank, CA 91510 from 6:30 ? 10:30 p.m. on Thursday, May 28, 2009.

For this one-night-only event, Broadway performers will join the 2ST Board of Trustees to perform 'The Quest for Fame,' featuring the Great White Way's best show-stopping numbers in this spring gala benefit for the acclaimed off-Broadway theatre company.

Second Stage Theatre (Carole Rothman, Artistic Director; Ellen Richard, Executive Director) will conclude its 30th Anniversary mainstage season with the New York premiere of VANITIES, a new musical written by Jack Heifner, featuring music and lyrics by David Kirshenbaum, directed by Judith Ivey.

Your wedding is supposed to be the biggest day of your life - but when your wedding includes a duel to the death you know the stakes are high. Blood Wedding, written by celebrated Spanish playwright Federico Garcia Lorca, is one of the most anticipated productions of the 2009 Wellington theatrical calendar.

Broadway favorite Sherie Rene Scott is not the 'Sherie Rene Scott' diva character appearing in EVERYDAY RAPTURE, but that doesn't mean everyone knows that yet.

Second Stage Theatre (Carole Rothman, Artistic Director; Ellen Richard, Executive Director) will launch its 31st season this fall with the New York premiere of Anna Deavere Smith's LET ME DOWN EASY. Conceived, written, and performed by Ms. Smith and directed by Leonard Foglia, LET ME DOWN EASY will begin preview performances on Tuesday, September 15 and will officially open in early October.

For this one-night-only event, Broadway performers will join the 2ST Board of Trustees to perform 'The Quest for Fame,' featuring the Great White Way's best show-stopping numbers in this spring gala benefit for the acclaimed off-Broadway theatre company.

Completing its 30th Anniversary Season, Second Stage Theatre (Carole Rothman, Artistic Director; Ellen Richard, Executive Director) will present EVERYDAY RAPTURE, written by Dick Scanlan (Tony nominee for Thoroughly Modern Millie) and Sherie Rene Scott (Tony nominee for Dirty Rotten Scoundrels), with musical supervision by Tom Kitt (Next to Normal, High Fidelity), directed by Michael Mayer (Tony Award winner for Spring Awakening).

Academy Award nominated and Emmy winning actress Patricia Clarkson will receive the ShoWest Independent Award for Excellence in Acting, it was announced today by Mitch Neuhauser, co-managing director of the event, which will be held March 30-April 2, 2009, in Las Vegas. Clarkson will be presented with the ShoWest Independent Award for Excellence in Acting at a special luncheon 'Celebrating the Importance of Independent and Specialty Film' on Thursday, April 2, at Bally's and Paris Las Vegas.

Academy Award nominated and Emmy winning actress Patricia Clarkson will receive the ShoWest Independent Award for Excellence in Acting, it was announced today by Mitch Neuhauser, co-managing director of the event, which will be held March 30-April 2, 2009, in Las Vegas. Clarkson will be presented with the ShoWest Independent Award for Excellence in Acting at a special luncheon 'Celebrating the Importance of Independent and Specialty Film' on Thursday, April 2, at Bally's and Paris Las Vegas.

General Director Brian Dickie announces Chicago Opera Theater's 2010 Spring Festival Season: Jake Heggie's Three Decembers, featuring Frederica von Stade; the 2008 People's Opera winner: Rossini's Mosè in Egitto; and the Chicago professional premiere of Francesco Cavalli's Giasone.