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BroadwayWorld Presents The 2009 Tony Award Nominees: 'Best Revival Of A Musical'

BroadwayWorld Presents The 2009 Tony Award Nominees: 'Best Play'

BroadwayWorld Presents The 2009 Tony Award Nominees: 'Best Musical'

Nominations in 27 competitive categories for the American Theatre Wing's 63rd Annual Antoinette Perry 'Tony' Awards were announced today by Tony Award Winners Cynthia Nixon and Lin-Manuel Miranda from the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center.

On May 5th at 8:30am EST, Cynthia Nixon and Lin-Manuel Miranda will announce the 2009 Tony Awards nominations from the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Tickets to the 2009 Tony Awards will go on sale that same morning at 9am EST.

The Tony Awards Administration Committee will meet on May 1st for the fifth and final time to discuss eligibility for the 2009 American Theatre Wing's Tony Awards, presented by The Broadway League and The American Theatre Wing. The meeting will determine eligibility for Broadway productions which have opened between the date the group last assembled, April 2, and the cut-off date for eligibility, April 30, 2009.

The Tony Awards Administration Committee will meet on May 1st for the fifth and final time to discuss eligibility for the 2009 American Theatre Wing's Tony Awards, presented by The Broadway League and The American Theatre Wing. The meeting will determine eligibility for Broadway productions which have opened between the date the group last assembled, April 2, and the cut-off date for eligibility, April 30, 2009.

On May 5th at 8:30am EST, Cynthia Nixon and Lin-Manuel Miranda will announce the 2009 Tony Awards nominations from the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Tickets to the 2009 Tony Awards will go on sale that same morning at 9am EST.

The New York Public Library is introducing an online archive of theater lighting documents. Modern theatrical lighting is a uniquely American art form, which until now has been exceedingly difficult to study due to limited access to original lighting documents.

On March 31 and April 1 at Schermerhorn Symphony Center, the Nashville Symphony will host the Bruno Walter National Conductor Preview, presented every two years by the League of American Orchestras. This highly anticipated two-day event - held in Nashville for the first time - is designed to bring talented conductors to the attention of American orchestra leaders.

On the morning of May 11, 2009, 50 years after that momentous occasion, Lincoln Center will begin a year-long celebration of its 50th anniversary with a special ceremony in the newly-transformed Alice Tully Hall. New York Philharmonic Music Director Alan Gilbert, acclaimed violinist Itzhak Perlman with alumni from The Perlman Music Program, Tony Award-winning opera star Paulo Szot, jazz icon Wynton Marsalis with members of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, and The Juilliard Orchestra are among those scheduled to perform in a program that celebrates the past 50 years and looks to the next generation of Lincoln Center's artists and audiences. In the audience of this private event will be elected officials, performing artists, civic and community representatives, and leaders from all 12 Lincoln Center resident organizations.

The music of Bobby Cronin will be showcased on Monday, March 30 at the Bruno Walter Auditorium at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center. The event which starts at 6pm will be hosted by Erica Ruff and John Zindarsic.

The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts' Theatre on Film and Tape Archive is to tape for its archives The Irish Repertory Theatre's production of Aristocrats. It was announced previously that Aristocrats has been extended until March 29, 2009.

Through staged readings, song, dance, panel discussions, and films, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts will mark the centennial of the death of famed Irish playwright and poet J. M Synge and examine his 1904 tragedy Riders to the Sea. 'On an Anniversary': J.M. Synge, 1871 - 1909 is a free series of five programs that explore the importance and influence of this writer and co-founder of the Abbey Theatre.

Philadelphia Orchestra Chief Conductor and Artistic Adviser Charles Dutoit leads the Orchestra in three concerts in Verizon Hall at the Kimmel Center celebrating the influence of African-American culture on classical music (March 12-14). The program features Milhaud's jazz-inspired The Creation of the World; George Walker's 1996 Pulitzer Prize-winning work Lilacs for voice and orchestra, with tenor Russell Thomas as soloist in its first Philadelphia Orchestra performances; Mahler's Songs of a Wayfarer, a work for which the late, great contralto Marian Anderson was known, with Philadelphia-native bass-baritone Eric Owens as soloist; and Dvoř?k's Symphony No. 9 in E minor ('From the New World').

Our special series for Women's History Month continues with a profile of Irish Rep's artistic director and cofounder.

Due to snow and travel conditions, the March 2 program did not take place.. It has been re-scheduled for Wednesday, March 18 at 7:30 p.m. The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts presents Kathleen Chalfant, Richard Easton, Philip Bosco, Harold Holzer 'O, My Offense Is Rank': Lincoln's Favorite Shakespeare Speeches

Through staged readings, song, dance, panel discussions, and films, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts will mark the centennial of the death of famed Irish playwright and poet J. M Synge and examine his 1904 tragedy Riders to the Sea. 'On an Anniversary': J.M. Synge, 1871 - 1909 is a free series of five programs that explore the importance and influence of this writer and co-founder of the Abbey Theatre.

On March 31 and April 1 at Schermerhorn Symphony Center, the Nashville Symphony will host the Bruno Walter National Conductor Preview, presented every two years by the League of American Orchestras. This highly anticipated two-day event - held in Nashville for the first time - is designed to bring talented conductors to the attention of American orchestra leaders.

Due to snow and travel conditions, the March 2 program did not take place.. It has been re-scheduled for Wednesday, March 18 at 7:30 p.m. The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts presents Kathleen Chalfant, Richard Easton, Philip Bosco, Harold Holzer 'O, My Offense Is Rank': Lincoln's Favorite Shakespeare Speeches