North Shore Animal League America, the world's largest no-kill animal rescue and adoption organization, will hold its annual Celebrity Gala on Today, November 18th at 7:00 pm at the Mandarin Oriental in New York City. A stellar line up of attendees from all sectors of New York's animal-loving community are expected. Actress/comedienne Pam Stone will host the evening which will be highlighted by Bill Abbott, President & CEO of Crown Media Family Networks honored with the Crystal Collar Award. Three NY Metro area Mutt-i-grees Curriculum® Classroom Canines will also be honored. Musical guest and renowned animal activist Belinda Carlisle will complete the memorable evening with a musical performance.
North Shore Animal League America, the world's largest no-kill animal rescue and adoption organization, will hold its annual Celebrity Gala on Friday, November 18th at 7:00 pm at the Mandarin Oriental in New York City. A stellar line up of attendees from all sectors of New York's animal-loving community are expected. Actress/comedienne Pam Stone will host the evening which will be highlighted by Bill Abbott, President & CEO of Crown Media Family Networks honored with the Crystal Collar Award. Three NY Metro area Mutt-i-grees Curriculum® Classroom Canines will also be honored. Musical guest and renowned animal activist Belinda Carlisle will complete the memorable evening with a musical performance.
On Sunday, November 6, 2016 at 7:30pm, Works & Process at The Guggenheim presents a discussion with the creators and excerpts of Houston Grand Opera's upcoming world premiere of It's a Wonderful Life by composer Jake Heggie and librettist Gene Scheer.
The Richard Tucker Music Foundation's annual gala, one of the opera world's most star-studded evenings, returns home to New York's Carnegie Hall after an absence of more than a quarter of a century this Sunday, October 30, and for the first time, audiences both in the U.S. and abroad will have the opportunity to watch it live (6pm ET/3pm PT). Thanks to a new partnership with medici.tv, the gala concert will be webcast live free of charge both on medici.tv and on medici.tv's Facebook page, and made available for on-demand viewing for 90 days. In addition, the Richard Tucker Music Foundation continues its collaboration with WQXR 105.9 FM, New York's classical radio station, which will broadcast the performance to listeners in the New York metropolitan region and beyond on November 18 at 9pm ET/6pm PT. Both the medici.tv webcast and WQXR 105.9 FM radio broadcast are made possible in part by support from the Lloyd E. Rigler-Lawrence E. Deutsch Foundation.
The Drama Book Shop is pleased to welcome actress and author Mara Wilson (best known for her starring turns in the films Mrs. Doubtfire, A Simple Wish, Matilda and more) for an intimate discussion and signing of her new book: Where Am I Now: True Stories of Girlhood and Accidental Fame tonight, October 26th at 5:30pm.
WOMEN OF LETTERS is a best-selling literary salon. Each month, New York's best and brightest women come together on stage to celebrate the lost art of letter-writing. The Season 3 premiere will be held tonight, October 5th, at 7 p.m. at Joe's Pub at The Public Theater, 425 Lafayette St., New York, NY.
Houston Grand Opera (HGO) will offer New Yorkers a preview performance of excerpts from a new opera based on the classic story and Frank Capra film It's a Wonderful Life on Sunday, November 6, at 7:30 p.m. at the Guggenheim Museum, as part of the museum's Works & Process program. The evening will include a discussion with the composer/librettist team of Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer, moderated by HGO Artistic and Music Director Patrick Summers.
The American Symphony Orchestra, conducted by music director Leon Botstein, will open its 55th season at Carnegie Hall on Wednesday, October 19, 2016. The four-concert Vanguard series begins with a program titled Troubled Days of Peacein which Botstein will lead the Orchestra and the Bard Festival Chorale in concert versions of two one-act operas that examine the turbulent period between the First and Second World Wars: Ernst Krenek's Der Diktator ('The Dictator') and Richard Strauss' Friedenstag ('Days of Peace').
WOMEN OF LETTERS is a best-selling literary salon. Each month, New York's best and brightest women come together on stage to celebrate the lost art of letter-writing. The Season 3 premiere will be held on Wednesday, October 5th at 7 p.m. at Joe's Pub at The Public Theater, 425 Lafayette St., New York, NY.
'Mrs. Doubtfire' child star Mara Wilson stopped by this morning's GOOD MORNING AMERICA to talk about her new book 'Where Am I Now?' and discuss what was happening behind the scenes of the classic 1990's film with Robin Williams.
Florida Grand Opera (FGO), with its new artistic vision, is proud to announce the casting choices for the four productions of its 2016-17 Season, which include Georges Bizet's Carmen, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin, Jorge Martin's Before Night Falls, and Giuseppe Verdi's A Masked Ball (Un Ballo in Maschera).
Next week, Feinstein's/54 Below, Broadway's Supper Club & Private Event Destination, presents some of the brightest stars from Broadway, cabaret, jazz, and beyond, including Michael Feinstein with Marilyn Maye, 54 CELEBRATES THE MUPPETS, BROADWAY GOES TO THE MOVIES with Christopher Durang and more. Details below!
One of the most highly anticipated events of the opera season, the Richard Tucker Music Foundation's annual gala returns home to New York's Carnegie Hall for the first time in more than a quarter of a century on Sunday, October 30.
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