Macy News

Atlantic Theater Company (Neil Pepe, Artistic Director, Jeffory Lawson, Managing Director) is proud to announce its 2011-2012 season productions, featuring world premieres from Academy Award® winner Ethan Coen, Fernanda Coppel, Gabe McKinley, Adam Rapp, and Pulitzer Prize winner John Patrick Shanley, as well as a U.S. premiere from Simon Stephens starring Olivier Award winner Simon Russell Beale.

Upcoming MTI Shows - 7/17 for Warsaw

Theater 2020 is very pleased toannounce its inaugural production, Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.Thursday, July 14th through Saturday, August 6th, 2011, in Brooklyn Heights and Hunter Mountain, NY.

Upcoming MTI Shows - 7/10 for Warsaw

WHO: Monogold & Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI), the American performing right organization that represents more than 475,000 songwriters, composers and music publishers in all genres of music and more than 6.5 million works.

Multi-platinum superstar Jennifer Hudson will make her debut Festival performance, joined by R&B/Funk icon Chaka Khan and the reunion of New Edition at the 2011 ESSENCE MUSIC FESTIVAL celebrating the 'Roots of R&B' July 1, 2 and 3 in New Orleans. In addition, Kem, Miguel, Naughty By Nature, Doug E. Fresh, Marsha Ambrosius, Mavis Staples, Eric Benet, Vanessa Bell Armstrong, Trin-i-tee 5:7 and Brian Courtney Wilson have been added to the previously announced line-up, which includes Kanye West, Mary J. Blige, Trey Songz, Jill Scott, Charlie Wilson, Boyz II Men, Fantasia, George Clinton, Macy Gray and more.

We have four exciting new plays drawn from a national search, four Oregon playwrights' work to explore and spanking new works from adventurous local companies filling every nook and cranny of the Armory (even the men's room!).

The new Disney animated feature WINNIE THE POOH is set to be released in theaters nationwide on July 15. This week, Robert Lopez and his wife Kristen Anderson-Lopez hosted a premiere for the film in NYC.

SHOWTIME has announced its panel line-up for the 2011 Comic-Con which will feature stars from some of the network's biggest original series.

Theater 2020 is very pleased toannounce its inaugural production, Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.Thursday, July 14th through Saturday, August 6th, 2011, in Brooklyn Heights and Hunter Mountain, NY.

Atlantic Theater Company (Neil Pepe, Artistic Director; Jeffory Lawson, Managing Director) concludes its 25th Anniversary season with a celebration of its history with 10x25, an all-commissioned, one-act festival of ten-minute plays by twenty-five of the extraordinary playwrights who have been produced there since 1985.

Talk show listings for Tuesday, June 7.

The Broadcast Television Journalists Association (BTJA), a new offshoot of the Broadcast Film Critics Association, today announced nominations for the inaugural Critics' Choice Television Awards, hosted by Cat Deeley and scheduled to take place at a luncheon at the Beverly Hills Hotel on June 20, 2011. ABC was the most nominated broadcast network with 16 nominations, followed closely by NBC with 12. AMC and FX led nominations for cable networks, with nine each. Modern Family was the most nominated series with six.

Talk show listings for Tuesday, June 7.

The REP, Point Park University's professional theatre company, will produce four works, including three world premieres and one Pittsburgh premiere, in the 2011-2012 season, which opens September 9, 2011 and runs through April 7, 2012 at the Pittsburgh Playhouse.

Josh Strickland, currently starring in PEEPSHOW and 'Holly's World' on E!, is debuting his second single off his upcoming EP. The song, titled 'Last Dance' was co-produced by Grammy Award winning producer Damon Elliott and by Norwegian pop/dance producer Axident. The single highlights Strickland's amazing vocals accompanied by an addictive and exotic beat.

I Am Barbie closes May 29 at Main Street Theater - Rice Village, 2540 Times Blvd.

Talk show listings for Thursday, May 26

Lifetime Television will premiere the all-new hour-long procedural drama series, The Protector, starring Ally Walker (Sons of Anarchy, Profiler) as a single mother and detective in the LAPD homicide division, on Sunday, June 12, at 10:00 PM ET/PT.

Talk show listings for Thursday, May 26