Lincoln Center Festival News

Tickets are on sale now for Lincoln Center's 23rd season of Midsummer Night Swing taking place every Tuesday through Saturday, June 28-July 16, with an added opening event on Monday, June 27th.

July will sizzle and the David Rubenstein Atrium chills out with a celebration of American music ranging from Broadway and pop, to jazz and soul, and some cheers for the red, white and blue with top military brass-the 40-member strong 42nd Infantry Division Band.

Continuing its mission to offer groundbreaking in-theater events of all types, NCM Fathom presents GISELLE IN 3D, the world's first 3-D ballet to be shown with RealDTM 3D technology on Tuesday, July 12 at Noon followed by a second performance at 7:30 p.m. (both times local).

Steve Burns, the original host of the hit children's TV series, Blue's Clues, will appear at the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival this summer in The Comedy of Errors opening June 24 at DeSales University.

MILLER THEATRE AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS announces the New York City open-air premiere of John Luther Adams' Inuksuit

Continuing its mission to offer groundbreaking in-theater events of all types, NCM Fathom presents GISELLE IN 3D, the world's first 3-D ballet to be shown with RealDTM 3D technology on Tuesday, July 12 at Noon followed by a second performance at 7:30 p.m.

Lincoln Center and Park Avenue Armory announced today a $25 rush ticket program - RSC Rush - to give budget-minded theater-goers a chance to see the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) in New York this summer.

Tickets are now on sale for the World Premiere production of DARK SISTERS, composed by Nico Muhly with libretto by Stephen Karam, conducted by Neal Goren, directed by Rebecca Taichman, and co-commissioned and co-produced by Gotham Chamber Opera, Music-Theatre Group and the Opera Company of Philadelphia. DARK SISTERS will premiere from November 9-19,2011 at the Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College, 899 Tenth Avenue, NYC. Tickets are $30-125 and are available at www.ticketcentral.com or by phone at 212-279-4200.

Steve Burns, the original host of the hit children's TV series, Blue's Clues, will appear at the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival this summer in The Comedy of Errors opening June 24 at DeSales University.

Steve Burns, the original host of the hit children's TV series, Blue's Clues, will appear at the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival this summer in The Comedy of Errors opening June 24 at DeSales University.

Week Three of Lincoln Center's 23rd season of Midsummer Night Swing runs from Tuesday through Saturday, July 12-July 16. The event takes place at the band shell in Damrosch Park, on West 62nd Street between Columbus and Amsterdam Avenues.

Christopher Shutt is the 2011 recipient of the Tony Award for Best Sound Design of a Play for War Horse. Broadway Beat's Richie Ridge spoke with the Shutt immediately following his acceptance about what winning the award means to him. Click below to catch up with the sound man right after his big moment!

The American Theatre Wing's 64th Annual Antoinette Perry 'Tony' Awards were held at Radio City Music Hall on Sunday, June 13, 2011 and broadcast on the CBS Television Network. For more information visit tonyawards.com.

Lincoln Center Festival will present irrepressible Brazilian artist Tom Ze returns to New York after 12 years with "Studying Tom Ze," featuring songs from the celebrated series of albums Estudando o Samba, Estudando o Pagode, and most recently Estudando a Bossa.

Eight hundred young people aged between 8 and 14 from underserved communities from New York will get the opportunity to experience Shakespeare by attending the Royal Shakespeare Company's Young People's Shakespeare productions of Hamlet and The Comedy of Errors at Park Avenue Armory.