Martha Graham News

Rioult* will present a world premiere work, along with two acclaimed repertory pieces during its 2008 New York season, June 3 - 7, at the NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts.

Soho Think Tank to present 'Me' by Kirk Wood Bromley beginning May 3rd.

The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation has awarded a two-year, $1 million grant to The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts to support the preservation of performing arts works and related oral histories through the audio and visual documentation of jazz, contemporary dance, and theater performances by artists or organizations

Dancers Responding with Action (DRA) presented a special sold-out event 'Dance from the Heart,' on Monday December 10 to benefit Broadway Cares / Equity Figths AIDS.

This flat out hilarious show is for people who love Broadway musicals but who hate Broadway musicals that are based on movies, have jukebox scores, sell on-stage seating, make the actors wear those mouthpiece microphones, wink at the audience with smarmy self-reference, are cheaply produced, are packed with jokes only gay men understand, really belong Off-Broadway and put the actors on roller skates.

Purchase College will mark its 40th Anniversary on November 12, 2007 with a gala at the Millenium Broadway Hotel/Hudson Theater to honor Jessye Norman, Helen Frankenthaler, Merce Cunningham, Douglas Durst and Ming Cho Lee with the first Nelson A. Rockefeller Awards for their contributions to the visual and performing arts or the environment.

The New Mel Brooks Musical Young Frankenstein, a new musical comedy from the creative team of the 12-time Tony Award winning smash The Producers, will open on Broadway November 8th 2007 at the Hilton Theatre (213 W 42nd St). Previews begin October 11th 2007. The production stars Roger Bart (Dr. Frederick Frankenstein), Megan Mullally (Elizabeth), Sutton Foster (Inga), Shuler Hensley (The Monster), Fred Applegate (Kemp) and Christopher Fitzgerald (Igor).

West Side Story with an American cast will be performed in English at the historic Theatre du Chatelet in Paris.

Epic Theatre Center has announced additional programming and participants for their 'Beyond Beauty Initiative.'

There will be a Memorial Celebration of the life of acclaimed choreographer Glen Tetley, this Saturday, April 28, 2007 at 2:00PM. The memorial will take place at the New York Public Library For The Performing Arts - Dorothy and Lewis B Cullman Center - Bruno Walter Auditorium (111 Amsterdam Avenue at West 65th Street Lincoln Center), and is open to the public.

In conjunction with their Off Broadway production of Zak Berkman's Beauty On The Vine, Epic Theatre Center has announced the programming for their 'Beyond Beauty Initiative.' The program seeks to bring together a diverse array of women with different backgrounds to share experiences and creatively explore how definitions of beauty, power and success impact society as a whole.

Yale Repertory Theatre and Yale School of Drama have announced the appointment of Susan R. Hood to the position of Press Director.

Manhattan Theatre Club (Lynne Meadow, artistic director; Barry Grove, executive producer) is pleased to announce full casting for the world premiere of LoveMusik, a new musical featuring the songs of Kurt Weill, starring Tony Awardâ winners Michael Cerveris and Donna Murphy.

MacDowell Colony celebrated its upcoming centennial by hosting a gala benefit on December 4th

BroadwayWorld.com is presenting first in a series of new, interactive interviews on the site in which you, the reader, will have the opportunity to submit questions for some of today's hottest stars, directors, choreographers and more. First up - Twyla Tharp!

Back in NYC after doing sketch comedy and nonmusical theater in L.A., Angela will play the 'Drowsy' lead Janet for a week in September.

BroadwayWorld.com is proud to announce the first in a series of new, interactive interviews on the site in which you, the reader, will have the opportunity to submit questions for some of today's hottest stars, directors, choreographers and more. First up - Twyla Tharp!

At an event held at Sardi's Restaurant in New York on Wednesday, June 21st, Heather Randall and Jack Klugman, along with the Board of Directors of the Tony Randall Theatrical Fund, and the Grant Selection Committee announced the beneficiary of the inaugural Tony Randall Grant.