Joe's Pub in NYC has announced events scheduled for Summer 2010. Starting May 31, the packed line-up includes a CD release for Bill Kirchen and James Armata, the Brooklyn Rundfunk Orckestrata, the Happy Ending Music and Reading Series, Jazz singer Sachal Vasandani, and a one-man show starring John Heginbotham, among others. To see a complete calendar, visit www.joespub.com
Astoria Performing Arts Center is pleased to announce that its production of the Stephen Schwartz musical, Children of Eden, has been extended one-week, after receiving fantastic notices and audience response.
James Marsters (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), Emily Bergl (Southland), and Theatre World Award winner and three-time Olivier Award nominee Adam Godley head the cast when L.A. Theatre Works records 'SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER or The Mistakes of a Night' for radio. Also in the cast are Rosalind Ayres, Julian Holloway, Christopher Neame, Paula J. Newman, Ian Ogilvy, Darren Richardson and Moira Quirk. Martin Jarvis directs Oliver Goldsmith's bad and bawdy comedy of manners June 16-20 at the Skirball Cultural Center.
Dixon Place (161A Chrystie St.) presents the premiere of Asylum on April 16th at 8 PM. Asylum was written and will be performed by James Braly. The show is directed by Seth Barrish. It will run from April 16th to May 22nd.
Three students in the University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Journalism and Mass Communications will participate in a 10-week national reporting project this summer as part of the prestigious News21 fellowship sponsored by the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
Ingredient X, the new play by Nick Grosso, will open at the Royal Court Theatre from 26 May (previews from 20 May) with a cast including James Lance, Lesley Sharp and Indira Varma.
Astoria Performing Arts Center is pleased to announce that its production of the Stephen Schwartz musical, Children of Eden, has been extended one-week, after receiving fantastic notices and audience response.
Celebrate the arrival of the Freedom Schooner Amistad on its official entry to the United States from Cuba. The ship is following the original path of La Amistad, which arrived in New London in 1839!
'If I finish the book, I'm a killer,' Charles Darwin says in Trumpery about The Origin of Species. 'I murder God.' Trumpery, written by Peter Parnell, plays the Mainstage June 9 through July 4. Tickets are $26 to $54, with discounts available to groups, seniors, military, and students.
The Irish play that led to riots in the streets of Dublin when it debuted 103 years ago and became a comic masterpiece, The Playboy of the Western World, opens the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival's 19th season. With previews June 16 and 17, the play opens June 18 in the Schubert Theatre and continues through July 3.
IN + OUT RECORDS, one of Europe's independent jazz labels, announced today, May 6, that there will now be a U.S. National distribution through the Allegro Music Group. Scheduled new releases for the distribution include Billy Cobham, Odean Pope, Sun Ra and James Blood Ulmer.
Joe's Pub in NYC has announced events scheduled for Summer 2010. Starting May 31, the packed line-up includes a CD release for Bill Kirchen and James Armata, the Brooklyn Rundfunk Orckestrata, the Happy Ending Music and Reading Series, Jazz singer Sachal Vasandani, and a one-man show starring John Heginbotham, among others. To see a complete calendar, visit www.joespub.com
Cynthia, a fledgling vampire, is taken under the wing of a more venerable one, Marie. Marie tries to teach her little one how to hunt and be merciful towards humans. However, like all rebellious children, Cynthia has ideas of her own on how to make the most out of immortality.
Playwrights Theatre is pleased to announce the winners of the 27th Annual New Jersey Young Playwrights Contest. From the over 350 plays submitted by young writers throughout the state, a panel of theatre professionals has selected four High School plays, four Junior High School plays and four Elementary Schools plays.
The Sheldon presents Sheldon Classics: Samuel Barber, featuring cellist Bjorn Ranheim, baritone James Ivey, and pianist Peter Henderson, Wednesday, April 28, 2010 at 8 p.m. in the perfect acoustics of the Sheldon Concert Hall. The American composer Samuel Barber was born 100 years ago and is probably best known for his Adagio for Strings. A quartet of symphony musicians will perform the String Quartet, Op. 11 that contains the famous Adagio, and cellist Bjorn Ranheim will perform Barber's Cello Sonata. Baritone James Ivey will sing his Dover Beach for voice and string quartet, and Peter Henderson will play Barber's Excursions for piano.
Verdi's La Traviata returns to the Met with Angela Gheorghiu reprising her acclaimed interpretation of Violetta, a role the New York Times called a 'supercharged star turn' when she performed it in 2006.
Dixon Place (161A Chrystie St.) presents the premiere of Asylum on April 16th at 8 PM. Asylum was written and will be performed by James Braly. The show is directed by Seth Barrish. It will run from April 16th to May 22nd.