New York Public Library for the Performing Arts News

This fall, the LPTW celebrates Oral History, a project made possible by generous grants from the Edith Meiser Foundation and the New York State Council on the Arts.

1st Irish 2010, New York's only all-Irish theatre festival, runs from September 7 to October 4. Coordinated by the New York-based Origin Theatre Company, the month-long festival features a diverse range of plays by 16 mostly contemporary, living Irish playwrights, in prominent local venues like 59E59 Theaters (two productions), The Irish Repertory Theatre (two productions), The Mint, and PS 122 (two productions), among others.

On the eve of its 15th season which begins on July 7, Lincoln Center Festival celebrates the new-on its expanded website-with its critically-acclaimed past-a photo exhibit at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.

On the eve of its 15th season which begins on July 7, Lincoln Center Festival celebrates the new-on its expanded website-with its critically-acclaimed past-a photo exhibit at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.

One of New York's great collections of modern art and architecture isn't in a museum, it's at Lincoln Center, where paintings, sculpture, limited-edition prints, posters, and buildings by the leading artists and architects of this and last century can be found outside and inside the theaters on the world-famous 16-acre campus.

The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts presents a concert featuring the music of Tommy Newman May 24. Performing in the concert will be Alison Briner, Melissa Wolfkain, Chris Critelli and James Moye. The concert is apart of the NYPL's Songbook series and is directed by John Znidarsic.

Broadway veteran James Moye will headline 'The Songbook Series,' directed by John Znidarsic, Monday, May 24th at 6pm at the Bruno Walter Auditorium at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. The concert, free to the general public, celebrates the work of up and coming composer and lyricist Tommy Newman.

On Monday, May 17th at 6pm journalist and theater critic Don Shewey will interview Tony Award-winning actress Carole Shelley. On stage, Shelley made her Broadway debut in the original 1965 production of The Odd Couple, playing Gwendolyn Pigeon, a role which she reprised for the film version and for the first season of the subsequent television series.

The David Rubenstein at Lincoln Center, the new community, visitors and ticketing facility on the Upper West Side, welcomed its 100,000 visitor last week. Opened on November 19, Manhattan's newest public space, home to an array of programs, services and amenities designed to welcome, inform and entertain the thousands of people who visit Lincoln Center and its surrounding community each day, the Atrium is becoming a favored destination for area residents, tourists, and students.

On Monday, May 17th at 6pm journalist and theater critic Don Shewey will interview Tony Award-winning actress Carole Shelley. On stage, Shelley made her Broadway debut in the original 1965 production of The Odd Couple, playing Gwendolyn Pigeon, a role which she reprised for the film version and for the first season of the subsequent television series.

Legendary costume designer ALBERT WOLSKY and world renowned scenic designer MING CHO LEE are among the 2010 TDF/Irene Sharaff Awards recipients. The awards will be presented at a ceremony on Friday, April 23 at 6:30pm at the Hudson Theatre (145 West 44th Street). Two-time Academy Award-winner Albert Wolsky will receive the 2010 TDF/Irene Sharaff Lifetime Achievement Award for costume design, and Tony Award-winning scenic designer and educator Ming Cho Lee will receive the TDF/Irene Sharaff Robert L.B. Tobin Award for Sustained Excellence in Theatrical Design.

Legendary costume designer ALBERT WOLSKY and world renowned scenic designer MING CHO LEE are among the 2010 TDF/Irene Sharaff Awards recipients. The awards will be presented at a ceremony on Friday, April 23 at 6:30pm at the Hudson Theatre (145 West 44th Street). Two-time Academy Award-winner Albert Wolsky will receive the 2010 TDF/Irene Sharaff Lifetime Achievement Award for costume design, and Tony Award-winning scenic designer and educator Ming Cho Lee will receive the TDF/Irene Sharaff Robert L.B. Tobin Award for Sustained Excellence in Theatrical Design.

The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts' Theatre on Film and Tape Archive (TOFT) is to tape the Irish Repertory Theatre's hit revival of George Bernard Shaw's CANDIDA on April 21. As previously announced, the acclaimed production, which recently received a Lucille Lortel Award nomination for Outstanding Revival, has been extended until Sunday, April 25 at the Irish Repertory Theatre (132 West 22nd Street) in Manhattan.

The David Rubenstein at Lincoln Center, the new community, visitors and ticketing facility on the Upper West Side, welcomed its 100,000 visitor last week. Opened on November 19, Manhattan's newest public space, home to an array of programs, services and amenities designed to welcome, inform and entertain the thousands of people who visit Lincoln Center and its surrounding community each day, the Atrium is becoming a favored destination for area residents, tourists, and students.

Arts and Artists at St. Paul's will continue their Songbook Series on Monday, March 29, 2010 at 6 PM, this time featuring composer/lyricist Nick Blaemire.

The Bohemian National Hall, a new Czech theater and cultural space once home to the original Manhattan Theater Club, hosts its first-ever full run of a play: Rudolf II, the story of a bisexual, bipolar emperor in 1600 Prague obsessed with alchemy, astronomy, his longtime mistress, and his newest lover and valet, a converted Jew.

WaxFactory's Year 11 Retrospective season concludes its mainstage presentations with DELIRIUM 27, set to play Wednesday, March 24 - Sunday, March 28 at Abrons Arts Center (466 Grand Street). An international co-production with Integrali (Ljubljana, Slovenia), this marks the American premiere of DELIRIUM 27, a hybrid performance melding sound, text, movement, architecture and video technology written and directed by Erika Latta (Co-Founder/Co-Artistic Director, WaxFactory).

Whoopi Goldberg will host George Carlin: A Tribute on Wednesday, March 24th at 7pm in the Celeste Bartos Forum at the New York Public Library.

'NYPL Performing Revolution: The Gilded Red Cage' Wednesday, March 17, 2010; 7:30pm - $12, Sunday, March 21, 2010; 7:30pm - $12. Location: The Tank at 354 W. 45th Street, New York, NY 10036

Arts and Artists at St. Paul's will continue their Songbook Series on Monday, March 29, 2010 at 6 PM, this time featuring composer/lyricist Nick Blaemire.