Manhattan Movement & Arts Center presents THE KNICKERBOCKER SUITE on December 4 at 2 and 7pm, and December 5 at 2 and 6pm, at the Manhattan Movement & Arts Center, 248 W. 60th Street, NYC (between 10th and 11th). Tickets are $35 for adults and $20 for students. Tickets are available by visiting manhattanmovement.com/calendar.
Morgan Freeman has been selected by the American Film Institute's (AFI) Board of Trustees to receive the 39th AFI Life Achievement Award, the highest honor for a career in film, it was announced today by Sir Howard Stringer, Chair of the AFI Board of Trustees.
The Bethany Mass Choir, featuring George Shirley, Carmen Lundy, Dwight Andrews, Howard University's Afro-Blue Jazz Chorus, Eric Talley, Maurice Chestnut, Kenny Davis, Kassa Overall, and Geri Allen performing Mary Lou's Mass. Bethany Baptist Church, the first Baptist Church founded by African-Americans in Newark, will celebrate the annual church Homecoming and honor it's distinguished spiritual leader, Rev. Dr. M. William Howard, Jr., on his 10th pastoral anniversary.
The cultural melting pot bubbled over during the fourth annual OzAsia Festival: through story-telling, theatre, dance, music, visual arts and film South Australians united and celebrated the rich and diverse cultural offerings of Asia and its interactions with Australia.
New Year's Eve, 1989, South Africa. Mere weeks before the release of Nelson Mandela and the first steps towards apartheid reform, South Africa's State of Emergency is reaching its breaking point. It's at this moment that a black security guard and a white soldier meet at a traveling amusement park. The two become an instant microcosm for their nation's turmoil as they battle over the spaces between guilt, damnation, and reconciliation in this turbulent drama. Will they find the harmony their country so desperately needs?
Before jazz had a name and 'world music' was a concept, a young trumpet player emerged from another hemisphere and landed alongside some of the greatest icons in American music. Louis Armstrong sent him a trumpet. Harry Belafonte arranged for him to come to New York City to study music. Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis took him under their wings. That man, Hugh Masekela, born out of apartheid South Africa, has consistently toured worldwide and his genre-bending dynamism has led to his own icon status. His uncategorizable sound comes to life on his October 2010 North American tour.
Decca is pleased to announce its first CD release by Grammy-winning superstar, singer-songwriter Bryan Adams.
LOBOLA ALLA TWIST- A TRUE AFRICAN STORY, Starring ZUKISWA APOR and SIMPLY SMOOTH plays ONE SHOW ONLY - MONDAY 27th SEPTEMBER 2010
Matthew Jocelyn, Artistic & General Director of Canadian Stage today announced casting for Fernando Krapp Wrote Me This Letter: An Attempt at the Truth and The cosmonaut's last message to the woman he once loved in the former Soviet Union, featured productions in the company's upcoming 2010-2011 season. Saint Carmen of The Main will be announced at a later date.
LOBOLA ALLA TWIST- A TRUE AFRICAN STORY, Starring ZUKISWA APOR and SIMPLY SMOOTH plays ONE SHOW ONLY - MONDAY 27th SEPTEMBER 2010
First Lady Michelle Obama has announced the Administration's first event celebrating dance - The White House Dance Series: A Tribute to Judith Jamison - will take place on Tuesday, September 7th, with dance workshops for students and a performance featuring a diverse cross-section of American dance. A legendary American dancer, choreographer and cultural icon, Jamison will be honored as she begins her final season as Artistic Director of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, a position she has held for over two decades.
Multi-faceted comedian and actor Eddie Izzard and multiple award-winning actress Frances Conroy will guest star on the SHOWTIME series UNITED STATES OF TARA. Izzard will appear in eight episodes and Conroy in one episode of the third season opposite Toni Collette, last year's Emmy(R) Award winner and this year's Emmy(R) nominee for her role as Tara Gregson, a wife and mother who struggles with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID). Izzard will play Tara's brilliant psychology professor who is at first a DID skeptic, but becomes fascinated with Tara as a subject, leading him to further explore the condition. Conroy will star as Max Gregson's (John Corbett) mother, a recluse with a compulsive hoarding problem. Production on season three begins mid-September in Los Angeles for a 2011 premiere.
Morgan Freeman will be this year's guest of honor at Bosnia's Sarajevo Film Festival, Variety reports. The festival will run from July 23 to July 31.
Morgan Freeman will be this year's guest of honor at Bosnia's Sarajevo Film Festival, Variety reports. The festival will run from July 23 to July 31.
Cornelia St Cafe Summer Storytelling Festival presents New York's best storytellers! TONIGHT Ryan Paulson--I'm Uncomfortable: How I Stopped Speaking In Tongues
Disneys DER KÖNIG DER LÖWEN ist weit mehr als ein Musical, es ist ein Bühnenkunstwerk, ein kreatives Feuerwerk der Emotionen. Die Ausnahme-Produktion verzaubert mit atemberaubenden Masken, fantastischen Kostümen und unvergesslichen Klängen - einer Mischung aus Popmusik von Sir Elton John und original afrikanischen Rhythmen. Julie Taymor schuf aus dem weltweit erfolgreichsten Disney-Trickfilm ein völlig eigenständiges Bühnenwerk.
Jacob's Pillow Dance, home of America's longest-running international dance festival, has enjoyed a long history with Dance Theatre of Harlem. Founded to create opportunities for minority dancers at a time when they were not welcome in established classical companies, Dance Theatre of Harlem made its first professional appearances at the Pillow in 1970, the same year the company was launched.
Jacob's Pillow Dance, home of America's longest-running international dance festival, has enjoyed a long history with Dance Theatre of Harlem. Founded to create opportunities for minority dancers at a time when they were not welcome in established classical companies, Dance Theatre of Harlem made its first professional appearances at the Pillow in 1970, the same year the company was launched.
Morgan Freeman will be this year's guest of honor at Bosnia's Sarajevo Film Festival, Variety reports. The festival will run from July 23 to July 31.
Harlem Stage, one of the country's top presenters, producers and supporters of works by artists of color, announces four performances by EVIDENCE, A Dance Company (Ronald K. Brown, founder and Artistic Director) in celebration of the company's 25th Anniversary.
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