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A special one-day-only staged reading of "North Star," an award-winning play about a young girl growing up in North Carolina in the early days of the civil rights struggle, will be presented Jan. 17 by the Theatre and Interpretation Center at Northwestern University.
The Public Theater (Artistic Director Oskar Eustis, Executive Director Andrew D. Hamingson) and La MaMa proudly present an encore benefit performance of the Belarus Free Theater's acclaimed BEING HAROLD PINTER on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Monday, January 17 at 7 PM, at The Public Theater (425 Lafayette Street).
Cabrillo Music Theatre, the Ovation Award-winning Resident Musical Production Company of the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza, is proud to announce it will be hosting the LA STAGE ALLIANCE 2010 OVATION AWARDS CEREMONY on Monday, January 17 at 7:30pm at the 1,800-seat Fred Kavli Theatre at the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza, located at 2100 Thousand Oaks Boulevard in Thousand Oaks.
Berkshire Theatre Festival is proud to announce 'Stories for a Sunday Afternoon,' a reading series hosted by Gail Ryan, will begin this Sunday, January 16, at 4pm in the Unicorn Theatre.
The McLean Community Center (MCC), in cooperation with The DC Blues Society, will present a Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration, "Embrace the Dream: A Blues & Barbecue Dinner" from 5-7 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 16, in the Center's community hall.
David O. Russell will be the subject of the first director retrospective at the newly expanded Museum of the Moving Image.
Rochelle Slovin, Director of Museum of the Moving Image, today announced the complete schedule for the screenings and programs that will celebrate the grand re-opening of America's only museum dedicated to film, television, and digital media.
Rochelle Slovin, Director of Museum of the Moving Image, today announced further details of the events and programs that will celebrate the grand re-opening of America's only museum dedicated to film, TV and digital media in all their forms. Transformed through a $67 million project, the Museum will open to the public on January 15, 2011, having doubled in size (from 50,000 to 97,700 square feet) and been given striking new physical expression by architect Thomas Leeser.
Tony Award-winner James Earl Jones, currently starring on Broadway in the hit revival of Driving Miss Daisy, will appear with Mayor Michael Bloomberg at a breakfast commemorating Martin Luther King Day on Monday, January 17, 2011. Jones will make remarks about Dr. King at the program, which will also include City Council Speaker Christine Quinn. The event will take place at Martin Luther King Jr. High School (122 Amsterdam Avenue) at 8:00 AM.
The Seattle Center Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration and Youth Awards will be presented on Saturday, January 15 at the Center House's Main Stage from 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. This event is a co-production of Seattle Center and the Seattle Youth Violence Prevention Initiative and Central District Forum for Arts & Ideas. Mayor Mike McGinn will participate in the award presentation.
Galleries, shops, and dining facilities at The Metropolitan Museum of Art will be open to the public on January 17 (Martin Luther King Jr. Day), the next in the series of popular 'Met Holiday Mondays.'
January 17 - 23 at The Staten Island Children's Museum! Snowballs - Mosaics - Cool School Holiday
Imagination and teamwork will be center stage when a diverse cast of over 2,000 students and teachers representing 50+ schools and educational theatre groups from 15 states and Canada join Broadway creatives in a monumental celebration of the arts at the 2011 Junior Theater Festival happening January 14 - 16, 2011, at the Cobb Galleria Centre in Atlanta, GA, it was announced today by Theater of the Stars president, Nick Manos and Timothy Allen McDonald, founding chairman of iTheatrics. Four-time Tony nominated composer Jeanine Tesori (Thoroughly Modern Millie, Shrek the Musical) will receive the Junior Theater Festival Award for Advancement of Musical Theatre for Young People, while Broadway producer and Disney Theatrical Group president Thomas Schumacher will be the festival's keynote speaker and Grammy award-winning musician, producer and songwriter Bryan-Michael Cox will participate in a Q&A session with all attendees. For the first time, in honor of the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend, the festival will also feature 'Dream Boxes' where students will record 30 second messages with their dreams for the future to be uploaded on the Internet.
Continuing the 50-year anniversary celebration of Harper Lee's landmark book-turned-legend, ‘TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD' opens on January 14th, 2011 as THE PRODUCTION COMPANY unveils their new larger space, The Lex Theatre; 6760 Lexington Avenue, in Hollywood's Theatre Row.
David O. Russell will be the subject of the first director retrospective at the newly expanded Museum of the Moving Image.
Berkshire Theatre Festival is proud to announce 'Stories for a Sunday Afternoon,' a reading series hosted by Gail Ryan, will begin this Sunday, January 16, at 4pm in the Unicorn Theatre.
The Public Theater (Artistic Director Oskar Eustis, Executive Director Andrew D. Hamingson) and La MaMa proudly present an encore benefit performance of the Belarus Free Theater's acclaimed BEING HAROLD PINTER on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Monday, January 17 at 7 PM, at The Public Theater (425 Lafayette Street).
CIGNA presents The Philadelphia Orchestra's free Martin Luther King Jr. Tribute Concert on Monday, January 17, 2011, at 3:00 PM. The concert will be held at Philadelphia's Martin Luther King High School, which is hosting the concert for the sixth consecutive year. See listing below for complete ticket information.
The fourth annual BET HONORS gears up for a highly anticipated show on Saturday, January 15 with a premiere during Black History Month on Monday, February 21 at 9:00 p.m.*
January 11 - 17 at The Staten Island Children's Museum including Sorbet - Oil Pastels - Cool School Holiday
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