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The newly restored Church of St. Francis Xavier and the Mary Lou Williams Foundation will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of the First Lady of Jazz with a concert to benefit Xavier Mission outreach programs including the homeless shelter and soup kitchen. WBGO Jazz 88.3FM radio host Rob Crocker will emcee the celebration taking place on Saturday, May 8, 2010 at 7:30pm.
Tony Award winning actress Anika Noni Rose will perform in a concert reading of THE MOUNTAINTOP by Katori Hall. The reading will take place at 7:30 PM on April 3 at the Independence Community College as a part of the William Inge Theatre Festival. Chay Yew will direct.
The multi-talented Anika Noni Rose-Grammy nominated singer, Tony Award-winning actress- is on stage at the William Inge Theatre Festival to undertake one of the most anticipated new roles of theater today.
American playwright Katori Hall's The Mountaintop was named Best Play at the 2010 Olivier Awards in London. Marking the first time a female African American playwright has received the honor in the Olivier Awards' 34-year history, Ms. Hall's play was nominated alongside such new works as Jerusalem, Enron and Red.
Lifeline Theatre Artistic Director Dorothy Milne and the artistic ensemble announce their 2010-2011, 28th anniversary season of presenting Big Stories, Up Close. In its award-winning and audience-acclaimed style, Lifeline's 2010-2011 season will feature six popular books onstage, all productions adapted by Lifeline ensemble members. The season will feature sprawling, legendary stories as well as stirring, contemporary titles, as Lifeline retains its reputation for fresh, imaginative interpretations of well-loved classics and embraces the challenge and excitement of modern, thought-provoking works.
A blended chorus of one hundred and fifty young people will fill the soaring spaces of Princeton University Chapel with glorious music on Saturday, April 10, at 7:30 PM. The concert, 'Lift One Voice', will feature the premiere of a brand new work by Francisco J. Núñez , noted composer of choral music and Founder/Artistic Director of The Young People's Chorus of New York City. Hailed by the New York Times as one 'who has been raising the bar for children's music for over a decade', Núñez will personally conduct the massed voices which combine members of Trenton Children's Chorus (organizer of the event), with the Westminster Conservatory Cantus, Princeton Girlchoir Cantores, Princeton High School Freshman Women's Choir, and Núñez' own Young People's Chorus.
Wilmene Hercule, a fifteen year old sophomore from Prospect Hill Academy Charter School in Cambridge, was named the Massachusetts 2010 Poetry Out Loud State Champion at Boston's Old South Meeting House on Sunday, March 14.
Tony Award-Winner Hugh Jackman is set to star alongside David Oyelowo in Precious director Lee Daniels' upcoming film Semla according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Celebrate Black History Month with the New McCree Theatre's 'Let Nobody Turn Me ‘Round,' written by Reuben Yabuku, an original musical celebrating the life of the late Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement.
Vocalist, poet, author and activist Gil Scott-Heron returns to the Blue Note for two nights only from March 2 - 3 upon the release of his first recording in 16 years, the highly anticipated I'm New Here (XL, 2010).
Vocalist, poet, author and activist Gil Scott-Heron returns to the Blue Note for two nights only from March 2 - 3 upon the release of his first recording in 16 years, the highly anticipated I'm New Here (XL, 2010).
Westport Country Playhouse's Family Festivities Series will present the treasured tale, 'Charlotte's Web,' based on E. B. White's loving story of the friendship between a pig named Wilbur and a little gray spider named Charlotte, on Sunday, February 28, 1 and 4 p.m.
Working Theater presents a Benefit Reading of the 1993 Hit I AM A MAN by OYAMO and directed by BILL MITCHELSON on Monday, February 22, 2010 at 7pm, followed by a post-performance reception with the artists at the Abingdon Theatre Arts Complex, June Havoc Theatre located at 312 W 36th Street (btwn 8th & 9th Aves).
Lifeline Theatre KidSeries' 'The Last of the Dragons,' based on the classic fantasy story by Edith Nesbit, adapted by David Bareford, will play its final show on February 21.
Working Theater presents a Benefit Reading of the 1993 Hit I AM A MAN by OYAMO and directed by BILL MITCHELSON on Monday, February 22, 2010 at 7pm, followed by a post-performance reception with the artists at the Abingdon Theatre Arts Complex, June Havoc Theatre located at 312 W 36th Street (btwn 8th & 9th Aves).
Celebrate Black History Month with the New McCree Theatre's 'Let Nobody Turn Me ‘Round,' written by Reuben Yabuku, an original musical celebrating the life of the late Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement.
Westport Country Playhouse's Family Festivities Series will present the treasured tale, 'Charlotte's Web,' based on E. B. White's loving story of the friendship between a pig named Wilbur and a little gray spider named Charlotte, on Sunday, February 28, 1 and 4 p.m.
59E59 Theaters (Elysabeth Kleinhans, Artistic Director; Peter Tear, Executive Producer) welcomes Luna Stage (Montclair, NJ) to 59E59 Theaters with the New York City premiere of THE MAN IN ROOM 306, written by and starring Craig Alan Edwards and directed by Cheryl Katz. The play will close on February 14, 2010.
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