Linda Burson News

An Nuo, Chinese choreographer and Artistic Director of AN NUO SPIRITUAL DANCE & ART, will return to New York City with ICEBERG · EXPLORATION, a full-evening dramatic dance musical exploring the Arctic and ice as a powerful force of nature.

On November 2, the Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation (SDCF) celebrated the 2014-2015 season's Joe A. Callaway Award winners for Direction and Choreography.

In keeping with the general Halloween atmosphere, Class Act Books is releasing four new novels this month, all with a mystery-thriller theme. Each book is also a new entry in a series. "Shadow Revealed" by Tony-Paul de Vissage heads the list. This novel is number 8 in the Second Species series which will complete next month with the ninth and final entry. The first book in the series, "Shadow Lord," was named one of the Top Ten horror novels of 2013 by Preditors and Editors Readers Poll for that year. "Death is Magical" by RW Weiss, is another Hugh Winslow mystery, set in Lodgepole, Montana. Bringing more of that town's quirky characters and unusual happenings, this story ties together the death of a racehorse and jockey in England with the murder of one of Lodgepole's long-time residents. It is the fourth in the series. Debut novelist Linda "Burson's Rage" brings the story of a woman whose title emotion embroils her in deception, murder, and heartbreak. In Jack Frost's novel "Stacked Deck," detective Jake Coleman enters another struggle against Louisiana gangsters as he aids New Orleans District Attorney Trey Greeley's bid for governor. Politics, betrayal, and murder definitely mix in this third entry in the series. Class Act Books is in the second year of new ownership. Its purpose statement is to bring the best in literature in all genres to its readers. From Romance to Horror, Class Act Books features award-winning international authors with currently over 200 novels listed on its website.

Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation (SDCF) has announced the 2014-2015 Committee for the Joe A. Callaway Award, the only peer-given award for excellence in direction and choreography. The Committee, which will oversee the award for the theatre season, is Sue Lawless, William Martin, Barry McNabb, Leslie (Hoban) Blake, Linda Burson, Jonathan Cerullo, Edie Cowan, Clinton Turner Davis, John Going, Richard Hamburger, Bruce Heath, Michael Montel, DJ Salisbury, and Amy Saltz. Sue Lawless will serve as Committee Chair.

The Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation (SDCF) proudly reveals this season's Joe A. Callaway Award winners for Direction and Choreography from more than 200 eligible productions in the 2012 - 2013 New York City theatre season. This year's awards will be presented to Ruben Santiago-Hudson for his direction of The Piano Lesson produced by Signature Theatre and Marlo Hunter for her choreography of Unlock'd produced by Prospect Theater Company. The winners join previous Joe A. Callaway Award Winners including Susan Stroman (1991), Harold Prince (1993), Julie Taymor (1996), Jack O'Brien (2001), Bartlett Sher (2002), Daniel Sullivan (2004), John Tiffany (2012) and Steven Hoggett (2012).

On November 15th, the winners of the Stage Directors and Choreographers' Joseph A. Callaway award were announced at an intimate presentation at the SDC offices, attended by most of the finalists. John Tiffany, director and Steven Hoggett, choreographer each won the prestigious award for their collaborative work on Once, produced by New York Theatre Workshop.

Bick Goss and Frank Evans, Producing Artistic Directors of Musical Mondays Theater Lab, Inc, have announced the first two previews of new musicals for their 2010-2011 season of Musical Mondays on Theatrical Thursdays productions.

Bick Goss and Frank Evans, Producing Artistic Directors of Musical Mondays Theater Lab, Inc, have announced the first two previews of new musicals for their 2010-2011 season of Musical Mondays on Theatrical Thursdays productions.

The Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation has announced that the winners of the 2009 Joe A. Callaway Awards for excellence in the crafts of directing and choreography are director Garry Hynes for The Cripple of Inishmaan and choreographer Martha Clarke for Garden of Earthly Delights.

On Sunday, February 10 2008 at 12:30 pm Musical Mondays honors songwriter Ervin Drake and his wife Edith ( the 'Love Couple' ) at a Luncheon and Silent Auction at Sardi's.

BMI presents a showcase of new material at Musical Mondays, held December 10 at 6:30PM at the Snapple Theatre Center

The director and choreographer of In the Heights, Thomas Kail and Andy Blankenbuehler, are the winners of the 2006-2007 Joseph A. Callaway Award for Excellence in the crafts of Direction and Choreography.

Musical Mondays presents 3 new musicals in development on Monday, November 19 at 6:30PM and on Monday, December 10 at 6:30PM at The Snapple Theatre Center (210 West 50th Street at Broadway). For tickets ($10) call 212 989-6706

Director Peter DuBois (Measure for Pleasure) and Choreographer Bill T. Jones (Spring Awakening) are the winners of the 2006 Stage Directors and Choreographers FoundationCallaway Awards for 'Excellence in the craft of Direction and Choreography.'

Musical Mondays Theatre Lab will present BMI Workshop Writers Steve Routman and Aron Acurso's Top of the World, 'a short two person Musical,' at St. Joseph's Church on Monday, September 11 at 7PM.