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Dick Martin, who co-created and co-hosted Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In - a show which forever changed the face of television - and who championed free speech and satire as staples in American media, died today of respiratory complications, while surrounded by his wife, family, and friends. He was 86 years young.
The Tricycle Theatre Announces their Summer/Autumn Season.
2008 Delta Classic Chastain series performers include Melissa Etheridge, Soul Asylum, The Temptations and The Four Tops, Gipsy Kings, Hootie & the Blowfish and many more (see full lineup below). The latest performer additions to the 35th anniversary lineup are country music superstar Trace Adkins, Tony Award-winning actress, singer and songwriter Idina Menzel, and the 'Kickin' Pickin' Bluegrass Party' featuring Marty Stuart and the Del McCoury Band.
Terry Fator, winner of NBC's 'America 's Got Talent,' and The Mirage announced Fator signed a five-year deal, with an option for an additional five years, to perform at the resort.
Applications are being accepted for the 3rd Annual Johnny Mercer Songwriters Project.
The celebrated musician, conductor, singer and arranger Jerry Graff, born in New York City on November 17, 1920, died of cancer on February 14 in Encino, CA at the age of 87.
Kwame Kwei-Armah's Let There be Love, withe Joseph Marcell, Sharon Duncan-Brewster and Lydia Leonard, debuts tonight January 17 at Tricycle Theatre through February 16, 2008, with press night on January 21.
Tomorrow evening, January 9 at 6PM, Any Wednesday at Barnes & Noble in Lincoln Center, is excited to present the return of jazz singer, Allan Harris. Also of interest this week: Thursday, January 10, at 5:30PM, the cast of Broadway huge hit, Xanadu, will appear to perform highlights from the newly released cast recording and sign copies of the CD.
Ruben Studdard, notable as the winner of 'American Idol' Season 2, will reportedly star in the 30th Anniversary national tour of the Tony Award-winning musical Ain't Misbehavin' with Frenchie Davis.
January is overflowing with musical and theater events at Barnes & Noble. Below are the Any Wednesday events for the month, followed by some musical theater events, and then other music events of interest.
Joining Joseph Marcell in the cast for Kwame Kwei-Armah's Let There be Love, will be Sharon Duncan-Brewster and Lydia Leonard. Let There be Love, also directed by Kwei-Armah, runs at the Tricycle Theatre from January 17 - February 16, 2008, with press night on January 21.
Feinstein's at Loews Regency will continue their Fall 2007 season with the debut of critically-acclaimed performer Erin McKeown. She was recently called 'one of the freshest singer-songwriters of her generation' by The Wall Street Journal. McKeown and her Little Big Band will perform songs from the CD Sing You Sinners for two shows only, Sunday, November 25 and Monday, November 26.
Kwame Kwei-Armah has both written and will direct the world premiere of Let There be Love running at the Tricycle Theatre from January 17 - February 16, 2008. Starring Joseph Marcell, Let There be Love is an immigrant's tale of beginnings, endings and Britishness set against the music of Nat King Cole.
The West Bank Café announces our October, 2007 line-up of live entertainment, to be presented in The Laurie Beechman Theatre.
Due to popular demand, Chicago's Entertainer Ron Hawking will once again extend his new show The Men and Their Music at Chicago's Mercury Theatre. Tickets for a new block of performances from September 14 through October 28, 2007 are currently on sale. Tickets for performances through December 31 go on-sale Friday, October 5
Feinstein's at the Regency has announced its fall 2007 season
Ron Hawking again extends his new show 'The Men and Their Music' at Chicago's Mercury Theatre through October 28.
