'Poetry is a house with enough rooms for all.' Award-winning poet Sarah Kay doesn't put her art on a pedestal. As she and fellow critically acclaimed poet, Phil Kaye, take to the stage (or the classroom), they reach for the poet in everyone while entertaining, educating and inspiring. Kay, Kaye -- and their young, spoken word peers -- are redefining what it means to be an American poet and delivering funny, poignant performance in the process. Spoken Word with Sarah Kay and Phil Kaye comes to The Eccles Center on March 26. Show begins at 7:30 p.m.
CAMMO, The Center For Military Music Opportunities, today announced that it has been selected to receive the annual J.L. Simmons Non-Profit PR Grant for 2016. The Grant, launched in 2000 by Neotrope(R), helps worthy causes raise visibility to media and public for the charity's good works.
Pioneer Theatre Company presents the musical comedy COWGIRLS, running tonight, March 25, through April 9, 2016. COWGIRLS features Book by Betsy Howie and Music & Lyrics by Mary Murfitt.
Now in its 11th year, Latitude Festival once again sets the bar high for summer festivals with the largest comedy line up in the UK, offering festival goers an unrivalled opportunity to see some of the biggest names in the industry, all over the same weekend.
Bravo Media's Emmy and James Beard Award-winning 'Top Chef' crowned its thirteenth season winner Jeremy Ford (Miami, FL) last night after an epic gastronomic showdown in Las Vegas, Nevada. On the heels of the finale, the network just announced that the hit culinary competition series will pack its knives and head to Charleston, South Carolina for season fourteen. Set to premiere later this year, production will begin this spring with host Padma Lakshmi, head judge Tom Colicchio along with Gail Simmons and Richard Blais returning to the judges table.
Philip Dawkins' CHARM is the story of Mama Darleena, an African American trans woman in her 60s teaching an etiquette class to trans youth experiencing precarious housing in a LGBTQI Chicago community center. Her students range in sexuality, race, and gender identity from a Latina trans woman, to a cisgender couple, to a member of a local gang, to a gay suburban teen. They fight each other and their instructor in equal measure, struggle through their daily battles with poverty, prejudice, and personal identity, seek solace in each other, succeed and fail separately and together.
On the next episode of ABC's MARVEL'S AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D titled "Watchdogs", when a radical group called The Watchdogs emerges with plans to eliminate the Inhumans, Agent Mack and his brother become caught in the crossfire.
A slate of 4 vibrant and kinetic new LGBTQ+ plays and 1 musical have emerged as finalists in Pride Films and Plays' 2016 Great Gay Play and Musical Contest. They come from writers across the United States, and were selected by a reading team from across the country doing blind readings of the manuscripts. Those five scripts will be performed as Enhanced Staged Readings at the Center On Halsted's Hoover-Leppen, 3540 N Halsted, during Gay Play and Musical Weekend which is April 22 to 24, 2016. Tickets for the event are pay-what-you-can (suggested $10). Find more information at www.pridefilmsandplays.com or 1 800 737 0984.
The Joyce Theater Foundation, Inc. (Linda Shelton, Executive Director) is proud to present one of the hottest tickets in tap (and concert) dance right now, 2015 MacArthur Foundation “Gernius” Fellow Michelle Dorrance and her internationally renowned company Dorrance Dance. The company, under Dorrance's artistic leadership and choreography, will perform the world premiere of ETM: Double Downfrom April 26 to May 1 at The Joyce Theater. Tickets range in price from $20-$50 and can be purchased at www.Joyce.org, or by calling JoyceCharge at 212-242-0800. Please note: ticket prices are subject to change. The Joyce Theater is located at 175 Eighth Avenue at 19th Street. For more information, please visit www.Joyce.org.
Bergen Performing Arts Center located at 30 North Van Brunt Street in Englewood, New Jersey presents: Cinderella's Tom Keifer-Friday, April 29, 2016 at 8PM. Purchase tickets at www.ticketmaster.com or Box Office at 201.227.1030.
Birdland Jazz Club has announced its lineup for March 28-April 3, featuring Ben Allison Trio, ShowBiz After Hours with Frank DiLella, Alicia Olatuja, and more. Scroll down for details!
Bravo Media's Emmy and James Beard Award-winning TOP CHEF crowned its thirteenth season winner Jeremy Ford (Miami, FL) last night after an epic gastronomic showdown in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Have you ever heard of an entrepreneur/ author/ publisher that has released 22 new books in only six weeks? Well, that's exactly what Dante Lee, founder of Urban Ebooks ( http://www.UrbanEbooks.com ), has done!
Put on your swankiest outfit, grab a cocktail and join us for a glamorous evening of entertainment as our 85 singers and dancers and a hot seven-piece band recreate some of the most memorable musical moments from the silver screen.
On the next episode of ABC's Marvel's Agents of SHIELD titled 'Parting Shot" - Bobbi and Hunter become ensnared in an assassination plot after tracking Malick to Russia.
Georgia May Foote will play the role of Holly Golightly in the UK tour of BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S from September 19 to November 19. She will be sharing the role with Pixie Lott and Emily Atack, whose dates have been announced previously.
"Poetry is a house with enough rooms for all." Award-winning poet Sarah Kay doesn't put her art on a pedestal. As she and fellow critically acclaimed poet, Phil Kaye, take to the stage (or the classroom), they reach for the poet in everyone while entertaining, educating and inspiring. Kay, Kaye -- and their young, spoken word peers -- are redefining what it means to be an American poet and delivering funny, poignant performance in the process. Spoken Word with Sarah Kay and Phil Kaye comes to The Eccles Center on March 26. Show begins at 7:30 p.m.
