Leopold News

Chesapeake Shakespeare Company, Maryland's leading professional classics theater, has hired Jenny Leopold as its new Director of Development.

Lifeline Theatre inaugurates its 28th anniversary MainStage season of "Big Stories, Up Close" with the world premiere adaptation of Emily Bronte's "Wuthering Heights," adapted by Lifeline ensemble member Christina Calvit, directed by Lifeline ensemble member Elise Kauzlaric.

William Shakespeare's classic comedy A Midsummer Night's Dream is re-imagined with a queer aesthetic in Mauckingbird Theatre Company's gender-bent tale of modern love, directed by Mauckingbird Artistic Director Peter Reynolds and co-Director Lynne Innerst.

With support from Temple University, Mauckingbird Theatre Company co-Founder and Artistic Director Peter Reynolds, in collaboration with Scott Gratson, was recently awarded a 2010 Provost Seed Grant in the amount of $36,500 to delve into a new project entitled Queer, Get Used to It.

Violinist Julia Fischer's recording of Paganini's 24 Caprices will be released by Decca in the U.S. digitally on August 31 exclusively at iTunes with the recording available in full distribution on September 7.

This fall, Carnegie Hall's Weill Music Institute (WMI) teams up with conductor Marin Alsop and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra to bring an exciting choral creative learning project to hundreds of New York City high school students.

René Scheibli wurde am 23. September 1936 in Zürich geboren. Er schloss sein Schauspielstudium an der Schauspielakademie Zürich ab.

The American Symphony Orchestra with Music Director and conductor Leon Botstein return to Carnegie Hall for the 2010-2011 season (where the ensemble debuted under Leopold Stokowski in 1962) with a program about James Joyce's iconic influence and musical inspirations on Wednesday, October 6 at 8:00 P.M.

Amsterdams Marionetten Theater sinds 1985 de Europese traditie van het klassieke marionettentheater

William Shakespeare's classic comedy A Midsummer Night's Dream is re-imagined with a queer aesthetic in Mauckingbird Theatre Company's gender-bent tale of modern love, directed by Mauckingbird Artistic Director Peter Reynolds and co-Director Lynne Innerst.

Violinist Julia Fischer's recording of Paganini's 24 Caprices will be released by Decca in the U.S. digitally on August 31 exclusively at iTunes with the recording available in full distribution on September 7.

Renowned mezzo-soprano Marilyn Horne will share her valuable insights and experiences in a rare interview with Nancy Shear, as part of Music For All Seasons' popular and acclaimed 'Conversations' series. The event will launch the 2010/2011 series, and will be held on Thursday, October 14, from 6:00 to 8:30 p.m., at Saint Peter's Lutheran Church, Citigroup Center on 54th Street and Lexington Avenue.

Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) has announced the full cast for Tigers Be Still, a new play by Kim Rosenstock, directed by Sam Gold. Tigers Be Still will feature Reed Birney (Joseph), Halley Feiffer (Sherry), Natasha Lyonne (Grace), John Magaro (Zack).

The Summer Festival of Sacred Music at St. Bartholomew's continues with a service celebrating the 175th anniversary of the founding of St. Bartholomew's parish on Sunday, July 25 at 11 am.

Chief Conductor Charles Dutoit and The Philadelphia Orchestra, who are celebrating 30 magnificent years of musical collaboration together in 2010, kick off Philadelphia's cultural season with the Opening Concert and Gala of the Orchestra's 111th season on Thursday, September 23, 2010, at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts.

Miami City Ballet's (MCB) milestone 25th Anniversary Season - perhaps the most exciting since its very first season - will feature a major Company Premiere in each of its four Programs - including Romeo and Juliet. Plus the return of the Opus One Orchestra at each of its Program I-IV performances. The 2010-2011 season in South Florida begins on October 15, 2010 and runs through May 1, 2011. The Company performs at Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County, at Broward Center for the Performing Arts in Fort Lauderdale; and at Kravis Center for the Performing Arts in West Palm Beach.

Stavovské divadlo je jednou z nejkrásnijších historických divadelních staveb v Evropi. Aristokrat František Antonín hrabi Nostic Rieneck, vystielil touhou zvýšit kouzlo jeho rodného mista a myslích svých spoluobiani, byl postaven stavby. Trvalo ne docela dva roky postavit a divadlo bylo oficiálni otevieno v roce 1783 první vystoupení této tragédie Emilia Galotti do Lessing. Pivodni bylo divadlo daboval Nosticovo hrabicí divadlo. Tento výjimeiný projekt pro Prahu iasu odpovídá pievažující ducha na konci 18. století, kdy byly národní divadla staví na evropské soudy, ve mistech a kulturních centrech v souladu s vizí osvícení podporována usnadniním obecný piístup do divadla, za mají být morální instituce demonstrující kulturní úrovei národa. Nápis nad portálem ite Patriae et Musis - Chcete-li rodné zemi a piemítá. Toto motto slouží jako dikaz zakladatele pivodního zámiru a neztratilo svou platnost dodnes. Když bylo toto divadlo spojené Národního divadla, jeho motto 'Národ sobi', se stal piirozeným doplikem první.

The Summer Festival of Sacred Music at St. Bartholomew's continues with a service celebrating the 175th anniversary of the founding of St. Bartholomew's parish on Sunday, July 25 at 11 am.

In its first-ever production of Shakespeare's HAMLET, the Chesapeake Shakespeare Company gets most everything right ... except for the prince.

Variety reports that Michael Urie has joined the cast of 'The Decoy Bride,' which begins a five-week shoot on Scotland's Isle of Man tomorrow, June 26. The film was written by Neil Jaworski and Sally Phillips, and will be directed by Sheree Folkson. Other cast members include Federico Castelluccio, David Tennant, Kelly MacDonald, and Alice Eve. The film is reported to center on the marriage of an author and film star who escape to an island for some comedic entanglement. Ecosse Films' Robert Bernstein and Douglas Rae will produce the film with Paul Ritchie.