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The Playwrights Foundation's 34th annual Bay Area Playwrights Festival (BAPF), a festival celebrating the development of new work which is performed script in hand, is taking place July 22-31 at Thick House in San Francisco.
On Monday, July 18, the 29th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Concert Series at Wingate Field, hosted by Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz, will welcome Grammy Award-winning duo Mary Mary as well as Ricky Dillard for the Annual Gospel Night show.
Theatrical Outfit launchs its 2011-2012 season with the World Premiere The Green Book by Atlanta writer Calvin Alexander Ramsey's, August 17 - September 11, 2011 at the Balzer Theatre at Herren's.
Obie Award-winning actress and solo performer Nilaja Sun's return engagement of the Off Broadway smash No Child... has been extended by two weeks, it was announced today by Producers Scott Morfee and Tom Wirtshafter.
Obie Award-winning actress and solo performer Nilaja Sun's return engagement of the Off Broadway smash No Child... has been extended by two weeks, it was announced today by Producers Scott Morfee and Tom Wirtshafter. Due to popular demand, No Child... will now run through August 14, 2011 at the Barrow Street Theatre (27 Barrow Street at 7th Avenue).
It was announced today that world renowned Grammy Award®-winning saxophonist and Tony Award® nominee Branford Marsalis (Fences) will join the creative team as composer of original music for the upcoming Broadway premiere of the new play, The Mountaintop, by Katori Hall, starring Academy Award-nominee Samuel L. Jackson as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Academy Award-nominee & Golden Globe-winner Angela Bassett as Camae. Directed by Tony Award® nominee Kenny Leon (Fences, A Raisin in the Sun), The Mountaintop will begin performances on September 22, 2011, at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre (242 West 45th Street), with an official opening on Thursday, October 13, 2011.
The Harris Theater for Music and Dance today announced its full Harris Theater Presents 2011-2012 season, offering Chicago audiences a ground-breaking collection of innovative, culturally diverse programming by the world's finest musicians and dance companies, as well as Harris' signature collaborations with Chicago's leading dance and music institutions.
Beginning July 11 and through August 22, Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz will host the 33rd annual Seaside Summer Concert Series at a new location in Coney Island and the 29th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Concert Series at Wingate Field in Crown Heights/Central Brooklyn.
The Playwrights Foundation's 34th annual Bay Area Playwrights Festival (BAPF), a festival celebrating the development of new work which is performed script in hand, is taking place July 22-31 at Thick House in San Francisco.
The Kitchen Theatre Company concludes its 20th Anniversary Season with a world premiere comedy, At A Loss by Jason Odell Williams.
The Kitchen Theatre's 20th Anniversary Season continues in June with Mary's Wedding by Canadian playwright Stephen Massicotte. A passionate love story set against the background of World War I, Mary's Wedding is an elegy and celebration of star-crossed lovers who burn with a thrilling brightness.
Obie Award-winning actress and solo performer Nilaja Sun will return to New York City this summer in her Off Broadway smash No Child..., it was announced today by Producers Scott Morfee and Tom Wirtshafter. No Child..., directed by Hal Brooks, began performances at the Barrow Street Theatre in 2006 where it ran for an astonishing 311 performances and played to sold-out audiences for over a year. Following the New York run of the show, Sun embarked on a national and international tour of the show, earning unanimous rave reviews and 17 awards along the way, including an Obie Award, a Lucille Lortel Award, two Outer Critics Circle Awards including the John Gassner playwriting award for Outstanding New American Play, a Theatre World Award, the Helen Hayes Award, a Los Angeles Ovation Award, and was named the Best One-Person Show at the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen. Sun comes back, where it all began, to the Barrow Street Theatre (27 Barrow Street at 7th Avenue) for 40 performances only starting June 5. An official opening night is set for Sunday, June 19, 2011 at 7:30 p.m.
On Memorial Day, Monday, May 30, the public will have an additional opportunity to view three popular exhibitions-the recently opened Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty; Guitar Heroes: Legendary Craftsmen from Italy to New York; and Rooms with a View: The Open Window in the 19th Century-at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Memorial Day is a Met Holiday Monday-one of the extra public viewing days that take place on the Mondays of major holiday weeks and weekends, when historically the Museum has been closed.
On Memorial Day, Monday, May 30, the public will have an additional opportunity to view three popular exhibitions-the recently opened Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty; Guitar Heroes: Legendary Craftsmen from Italy to New York; and Rooms with a View: The Open Window in the 19th Century-at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Memorial Day is a Met Holiday Monday-one of the extra public viewing days that take place on the Mondays of major holiday weeks and weekends, when historically the Museum has been closed.
Sanford Biggers: Sweet Funk-An Introspective challenges and reinterprets symbols and legacies that inform contemporary America in a focused selection of eight installations and five additional artworks created by the New York-based artist.
BEATLEMANIA NOW comes to the Riverfront Theatre in Bradenton for 5 big shows on June 29th through July 3rd.
Deep Dish Theater Company invites you to join a lively, informal discussion of Homer's Greek epic, The Odyssey, Monday, May 23 at 7:00 p.m. at Flyleaf Books in Chapel Hill. The conversation, presented in conjunction with the theater's production of Shakespeare's Othello, will be led by Evelyn Daniel and is free and open to the public. No prior attendance or registration is required.
The New Museum is pleased to announce that Alice Waters, chef, author, activist, philanthropist, proprietor of Chez Panisse Restaurant and Café in Berkeley, CA, and internationally admired pioneer of the sustainable food movement, will give the third annual Stuart Regen Visionaries lecture on the evening of May 23, at 7 p.m. in the New Museum Theater.
Obie Award-winning actress and solo performer Nilaja Sun will return to New York City this summer in her Off Broadway smash No Child..., it was announced today by Producers Scott Morfee and Tom Wirtshafter. No Child..., directed by Hal Brooks, began performances at the Barrow Street Theatre in 2006 where it ran for an astonishing 311 performances and played to sold-out audiences for over a year. Following the New York run of the show, Sun embarked on a national and international tour of the show, earning unanimous rave reviews and 17 awards along the way, including an Obie Award, a Lucille Lortel Award, two Outer Critics Circle Awards including the John Gassner playwriting award for Outstanding New American Play, a Theatre World Award, the Helen Hayes Award, a Los Angeles Ovation Award, and was named the Best One-Person Show at the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen. Sun comes back, where it all began, to the Barrow Street Theatre (27 Barrow Street at 7th Avenue) for 40 performances only starting June 5. An official opening night is set for Sunday, June 19, 2011 at 7:30 p.m.
The Kitchen Theatre's 20th Anniversary Season continues with an exciting international collaboration. Actors, playwrights and artists from the U.S. and Turkey have come together to create the play S/HE, which will have its world premiere production at the Kitchen Theatre in May 2011.
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