W.B. Yeats News

Events coming up in the next few weeks for the LA Opera include special celebrations tonight, November 22, Britten's 100th birthday.

Events coming up in the next few weeks for the LA Opera include special celebrations on November 22, Britten's 100th birthday.

Z2 Entertainment will present The Waterboys at the Boulder Theater tonight Monday, October 14th, 2013.

The Waterboys will visit North America twice - once in the summer and again in the fall - with current album An Appointment With Mr. Yeats in hand.

Z2 Entertainment is proud to present The Waterboys at the Boulder Theater on Monday, October 14th, 2013. Tickets go on sale Friday, June 21st at 10am for $25.00 general admission seated, $30.00 reserved and $35.00 gold circle.

A new CD, The Hours Begin to Sing, with songs by American composers performed by soprano Lisa Delan, has just been released on the PentaTone Classics label (PTC 5186 459).

Cornelia Street Cafe proudly presents Happy Birthday W.B. Yeats, an evening of poetry by the famous Irish poet as part of its ongoing poetry series. The Yeats tribute will take place tonight, June 10th at 6 and features Bernadette Quigley, Dee Nelson, Jarlath Conroy and Paul Hecht with original music by composer/pianist Ellen Mandel and tenor Michael Slattery.

59E59 Theaters welcomes the Finborough Theatre production of J.B. Priestley's CORNELIUS, directed by Sam Yates, to Brits Off Broadway. Produced by Jagged Fence, Handsome Dog and 31 Productions, CORNELIUS began performances on Saturday, June 1 for a limited engagement through Sunday, June 30. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!

Cornelia Street Cafe proudly presents Happy Birthday W.B. Yeats, an evening of poetry by the famous Irish poet as part of its ongoing poetry series. The Yeats tribute will take place on Monday, June 10th at 6 and features Bernadette Quigley, Dee Nelson, Jarlath Conroy and Paul Hecht with original music by composer/pianist Ellen Mandel and tenor Michael Slattery.

59E59 Theaters will welcome the Finborough Theatre production of J.B. Priestley's CORNELIUS, directed by Sam Yates, to Brits Off Broadway. Produced by Jagged Fence, Handsome Dog and 31 Productions, CORNELIUS begins performances on Saturday, June 1 for a limited engagement through Sunday, June 30. Press opening is Tuesday, June 11 at 7 PM. The performance schedule is Tuesday - Thursday at 7 PM; Friday at 8 PM; Saturday at 2 PM & 8 PM; Sunday at 3 PM & 7 PM. Single tickets are $70 ($49 for 59E59 Members). To purchase tickets, call Ticket Central at (212) 279-4200 or go to www.59e59.org. For more information, visit www.britsoffbroadway.com.

Legendary singer/songwriter/poet Leonard Cohen has left audiences spellbound night after night on his “Old Ideas World Tour.” His breathtaking, three-hour-plus performances feature a career-spanning set of deep album tracks and hit songs from his latest chart topping release, Old Ideas – all given unique renditions by Cohen and his expert backing band.

Irish poet and playwright W.B. Yeats once said, "Education is not the filling of a pail, it is the lighting of a fire." Indeed, education lays down the foundation for children to grow up and become citizens of good moral character. Author Joseph L. Borowitz stresses the importance of fourth-grade Sunday school and the lessons he learned as he spent Twenty-five Years in the Fourth Grade.

The winners of the 2013 Richard Rodgers Awards for Musical Theater were announced today by the American Academy of Arts and Letters, which administers the Rodgers Awards. The winning musicals are: Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 by Dave Malloy, and The Kid Who Would Be Pope by Tom and Jack Megan. Both shows were awarded studio productions.

Recently compared to pianists Pierre-Laurent Aimard and David Greilsammer by New York Times reviewers Anthony Tommasini and Vivien Schweitzer in reviews of her appearances at New York's Carnegie Hall and Le Poisson Rouge, pianist Jenny Q Chai (www.JennyChai.com) presents her lecture-recital "Dissecting Stroppa" - An Analysis of "Innige Cavatina" from Miniature Estrose by Marco Stroppa -- on Monday Dec. 3rd, 7:30 PM, at The William R. and Irene D. Miller Hall, Manhattan School of Music, 120 Claremont Avenue, in New York City. Tel: 212 749 2802. Free Admission.

Recently compared to pianists Pierre-Laurent Aimard and David Greilsammer by New York Times reviewers Anthony Tommasini and Vivien Schweitzer in reviews of her appearances at New York's Carnegie Hall and Le Poisson Rouge, pianist Jenny Q Chai (www.JennyChai.com) presents her lecture-recital "Dissecting Stroppa" - An Analysis of "Innige Cavatina" from Miniature Estrose by Marco Stroppa -- on Monday Dec. 3rd, 7:30 PM, at Miller Hall, Manhattan School of Music, 120 Claremont Avenue, in New York City. Tel: 212 749 2802. Free Admission.

Pianist Inna Faliks and special guests David Adam Moore and Sandra Beasley are featured at the Music/Words 5th Season opening at Le Poisson Rouge tonight, September 23rd at 7:30pm.

Pianist Inna Faliks and special guests David Adam Moore and Sandra Beasley are featured at the Music/Words 5th Season opening at Le Poisson Rouge on Sunday, September 23rd at 7:30pm.

Die Legende kommt im September 2012 fur zwei Shows nach Berlin und Monchengladbach. Nach Leonard Cohen's bejubeltem zwolften Studioalbum "Old Ideas" kehrt der legendare Sanger, Songschreiber und Poet mit einer großen Welttournee wieder zuruck auf die Buhne. Fur zwei Shows kommt Leonard Cohan nach Deutschland und ist am 5.September 2012 in der Berliner Waldbuhne und am 6.September 2012 im Warsteiner Hockeypark in Monchengladbach zu erleben.

Composer and librettist Martin Halpern will premiere his new chamber opera THE INSEPARABLES this weekend at Shetler Studios. Performances will run June 21-24 at 8 PM, with Sunday's performance at 3 PM.

Roscommon Arts Centre presents Norah McGuinness: Illustrations to the Stories of Red Hanrahan through today, 26th of April, 2012.