New York Public Library for the Performing Arts News

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.

Previously known as the 'VELVETY - R/Evolution' production by Pavel Dobruský in conjunction with Agentura dell'Arte, Sametova-VELVETY has been canceled. The Czech dance-theater piece was slated to appear at the Tank March 25-28, 2010.

'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

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.

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).

On Monday, March 15th at 6pm Tom Jones, creator of the The Fantasticks, will interview dancer and choreographer Marge Champion. Marge and her husband Gower Champion were legendary in the 1950s for their dancing in nightclubs, MGM musicals and on television. More recently, she appeared with her current dance partner, Donald Saddler, in a six-month run in the Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim's Follies in 2001. In 2007 Ms. Champion, who began her dance career with Walt Disney as the live action model for Snow White, was honored with the Disney Legends Award. Following the interview, there will be a question and answer period.

THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY PRESENTS 'REVOLUTION!?' Theater spectacle with puppetry and circus arts examines revolutions throughout history as a backdrop for the extraordinary peaceful 1989 Velvet Revolution in former Czechoslovakia.

Launched this November, Target® Free Thursdays offers free public performances by a wide-range of artists every Thursday night throughout the year at the new David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center, a vibrant new public facility on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts is partnering with Target® to sponsor the series.

Launched this November, Target® Free Thursdays offers free public performances by a wide-range of artists every Thursday night throughout the year at the new David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center, a vibrant new public facility on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts is partnering with Target® to sponsor the series.

Northrop Dance at the University of Minnesota presents Pilobolus, the provocative dance company of today's art world, with adult programming on Friday, Feb 12 and a family-friendly version on Saturday, Feb 13.

Northrop Dance at the University of Minnesota presents Pilobolus, the provocative dance company of today's art world, with adult programming on Friday, Feb 12 and a family-friendly version on Saturday, Feb 13.

Northrop Dance at the University of Minnesota presents Pilobolus, the provocative dance company of today's art world, with adult programming on Friday, Feb 12 and a family-friendly version on Saturday, Feb 13.

Launched this November, Target® Free Thursdays offers free public performances by a wide-range of artists every Thursday night throughout the year at the new David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center, a vibrant new public facility on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts is partnering with Target® to sponsor the series.

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.

Launched this November, Target® Free Thursdays offers free public performances by a wide-range of artists every Thursday night throughout the year at the new David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center, a vibrant new public facility on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts is partnering with Target® to sponsor the series.

One of Europe's leading new musical Festival's Unsound will come to New York for the first time, when Unsound Festival New York (February 4-14, 2010) opens at Lincoln Center on February 4, starting at 8:30 p.m. with two performances presented as part of the Target® Free Thursdays series at Lincoln Center's new David Rubenstein Atrium.

'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

THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY PRESENTS 'REVOLUTION!?' Theater spectacle with puppetry and circus arts examines revolutions throughout history as a backdrop for the extraordinary peaceful 1989 Velvet Revolution in former Czechoslovakia.

According to The New York Times, Lincoln Center plans to begin offering discounted day-of-show tickets at its Box Office beginning this Wednesday, January 27th, at noon.

According to The New York Times, Lincoln Center plans to begin offering discounted day-of-show tickets at its Box Office beginning this Wednesday, January 27th, at noon.