Philip Glass News

Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) announces 2009 Next Wave Festival, featuring fourteen dance, theater, music, opera, and nouveau cirque engagements from Sept 15-Dec 19

A staged-reading of Ian Talks - Louie Walks A One Man Show (With A Bunch Of Other People) A Musical Oddity will be presented Tuesday, June 9 at 2PM & 4PM Friday, June 12 at 4PM

The World Science Festival (www.worldsciencefestival.com) today announced a sweeping line-up of cutting-edge and innovative science programming, designed to make science captivating and accessible to the general public.

The Public Theater (Artistic Director Oskar Eustis; Executive Director Andrew D. Hamingson) will begin previews on Wednesday, June 10 for the Shakespeare in the Park production of TWELFTH NIGHT, directed by Daniel Sullivan.

The Public Theater (Artistic Director Oskar Eustis; Executive Director Andrew D. Hamingson) announced casting for the Shakespeare in the Park production of Euripides' THE BACCHAE, directed by JoAnne Akalaitis with original music by Philip Glass and translated by Nicholas Rudall. THE BACCHAE will run August 11-August 30 at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park with an official press opening on Monday, August 24 at 8 p.m. Bank of America returns as lead sponsor of Shakespeare in the Park 2009.

With a vital role on band sensation Grizzly Bear's new CD Veckatimest (officially released today) and an appearance this Thursday backing up the band at Town Hall, the Grammy Award-winning Brooklyn Youth Chorus embarks on a six-week run of performances spanning music as diverse as indie rock and Mahler's 8th.

Frist Center Announces Their Calendar of Events: June 2009 Thursday, June 4 Gallery Talk: Museums in the 21st Century: Concepts, 7 p.m. Projects, Buildings

Cause Célèbre, a not-for-profit theater dedicated to causes and charity, proudly announces the launch of Part-Time Productions and its inaugural presentation, A Battle of Wills: Internal and External.

The work of Chuck Close, renowned as one of America's foremost artists in any medium, will be featured in Chuck Close Prints: Process and Collaboration, opening in the Frist Center for the Visual Arts' Ingram Gallery June 26, 2009. The exhibition will remain on view through the summer and will close Sept. 13, 2009.

Two-time Tony Award winners NATHAN LANE (The Producers, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum) and BEBE NEUWIRTH (Chicago, Sweet Charity) will star as Gomez and Morticia in THE ADDAMS FAMILY, a new musical based on the bizarre and beloved family of characters created by legendary cartoonist Charles Addams. Produced by Stuart Oken, Roy Furman, Michael Leavitt and Five Cent Productions, by special arrangement with Elephant Eye Theatrical, THE ADDAMS FAMILY will open on Broadway Thursday, April 8, 2010 at a Nederlander theatre to be announced. Previews will begin Thursday, March 4, 2010 following a pre-Broadway engagement at the Ford Center for the Performing Arts, Oriental Theatre in Chicago that begins November 13.

FOR LOVERS ONLY (Love Songs... Nothing But Love Songs), a new musical revue celebrating romance, will have its Opening Night on Monday May 11th (8 PM) at New World Stages, 340 West 50th Street (between Eighth & Ninth Avenues). It began performances on Friday April 24th.

FOR LOVERS ONLY (Love Songs... Nothing But Love Songs), a new musical revue celebrating romance, began performances Friday April 24th at New World Stages, 340 West 50th Street (between Eighth & Ninth Avenues). Opening Night is set for this Monday May 11th (8 PM).

FOR LOVERS ONLY (Love Songs... Nothing But Love Songs), a new musical revue celebrating romance, began performances Friday April 24th at New World Stages, 340 West 50th Street (between Eighth & Ninth Avenues). Opening Night is set for this Monday May 11th (8 PM).

Seattle Theatre Group (STG) presents the 8th annual More Music @ The Moore (MM@M) on Friday, May 8, 2009 at 7:30 p.m. For one night only more than 30 of this region's finest young musicians and market Buskers will storm the Moore Theatre and 'mix it up' with their diverse music styles such as pop, indie rock, Irish fiddle and strings.

The Peace Center, in collaboration with Artisphere, is proud to present recording star Suzanne Vega at the Dow Brands Amphitheater on May 8th. Vega, who has sold over 7 million albums worldwide, is best known for her hit songs 'Luka' and 'Tom's Diner.'

The Harris Theater for Music and Dance today announced its Harris Theater Presents 2009-2010 season. The schedule of Harris Theater Presents events features nine programs, a remarkable thirteen Chicago premieres and includes an impressive and diverse selection of music, dance and conversation by internationally acclaimed artists and ensembles. Highlights of the Harris Theater Presents 2009-2010 season include a rare opportunity to see Mikhail Baryshnikov in a solo dance performance, an evening of insight with the 'Master of the Musical,' Stephen Sondheim, the Harris debut of Lang Lang under the baton of his mentor Maestro Christoph Eschenbach, the Chicago premiere of Orquestra de São Paulo with virtuoso percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie, Kathleen Battle's unusual program of holiday spirituals, and much more.

The Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University (ATRU) and the Sara Lee Foundation proudly present the world-renowned Nederlands Dans Theater I (NDT), which brings ATRU's 2008 - 2009 International Dance Series to a thrilling conclusion with performances June 16 and 17. Tickets are now on sale.

Chicago Opera Theater's second opera of their 2009 Spring Festival Season is La Tragédie de Carmen, a 90 minute adaptation of Georges Bizet's Carmen by Marius Constant, Jean-Claude Carrière, and Peter Brook. La Tragèdie de Carmen runs May 2nd through May 15th at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance in Millennium Park.

The Public Theater (Artistic Director Oskar Eustis; Executive Director Andrew D. Hamingson) announced additional casting today for the Shakespeare in the Park production of TWELFTH NIGHT, directed by Daniel Sullivan. Herb Foster will play Valentine; Kevin Kelly will play Sea Captain; Tony nominee Stark Sands will play Sebastian; Baylen Thomas will play Curio; Jon Patrick Walker will play Fabian; and Tony Award winner Julie White will play Maria. TWELFTH NIGHT will feature original music by symphonic folk-rock band Hem.

Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director), in association with Jonathan Reinis, Jamie Cesa, Eva Price & Berkeley Repertory Theatre, is proud to present the Broadway premiere production of Wishful Drinking, created and performed by Carrie Fisher and directed by Tony Taccone at Studio 54 on Broadway (254 West 54th St).