Walt Whitman News

Wayne R. Reynolds, Chairman of the Board of Trustees for Ford's Theatre Society, Paul R. Tetreault, Director of Ford's Theatre Society, and Kym Elder, Superintendent of Ford's Theatre National Historic Site, announced today that Ford's Theatre will reopen in February 2009 after an 18-month renovation. Ford's Theatre will celebrate with one week of public and private events honoring Abraham Lincoln's life and legacy. The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Campaign, a $50 million capital campaign to support the renovation of Ford's Theatre and its museum as well as the building of the new Center for Education and Leadership, has raised $43 million to date.

Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College kicks off its 2008-09 World of Dance series with the return of the Argentine company Tango Fire on Saturday, November 15, 2008 at 8pm.

Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College opens its 2008-2009 season with a sci-fi double bill, War of the Worlds and The Lost World, presented by America's premiere radio theatre company, L.A. Theatre Works, on Sunday, October 26, 2008 at 3pm. This performance is the first in Brooklyn Center's Theater series.

Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College kicks off its 2008-09 World of Dance series with the return of the Argentine company Tango Fire on Saturday, November 15, 2008 at 8pm.

The Third Eye Theatre Company's production of ''Notes on New York: The Musicalized Observations of Tim Di Pasqua'' will open Monday, Oct. 6, at 7 p.m. at the Metropolitan Room, 34 W. 22nd St., New York City. Directed by Andrew Glant-Linden, it will play Mondays throughout October.

The Third Eye Theatre Company's production of ''Notes on New York: The Musicalized Observations of Tim Di Pasqua'' will open Monday, Oct. 6, at 7 p.m. at the Metropolitan Room, 34 W. 22nd St., New York City. Directed by Andrew Glant-Linden, it will play Mondays throughout October.

Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College kicks off its 2008-09 World of Dance series with the return of the Argentine company Tango Fire on Saturday, November 15, 2008 at 8pm.

So far at this evening's Emmy Awards, theater stars Jeremy Piven, Dianne Wiest, Laura Linney, Dame Eileen Atkins and Zeljko Ivanek are among the winners.

Judith Owen, Euan Morton, Klea Blackhurst & Billy Stritch, Tim DiPasqua, and Jeff Harnar return to the Metropolitan Room in the coming weeks. Neile Adams, Gay Marshall and Jill Whelan are among those making their Metropolitan Room debuts.

Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College opens its 2008-2009 season with a sci-fi double bill, War of the Worlds and The Lost World, presented by America's premiere radio theatre company, L.A. Theatre Works, on Sunday, October 26, 2008 at 3pm. This performance is the first in Brooklyn Center's Theater series.

Award-winning singer/composer/lyricist Tim Di Pasqua brings his thrilling new musical theater revue to New York's Metropolitan Room, every Monday in October.

A daring new interpretation of Walt Whitman's most groundbreaking poem, 'Song of Myself', as realized by a chorus of 25 diverse and fully nude performers.

Andrew Bergh's KISSES Starring Tony Award Winner Marian Seldes, directed by Steven Ditmyer and Maxine Kern's EMILY'S WILL Will Cumpsty (Copenhagen, Sunday in the Park), directed by Obie Award Winner Ching Valdes Aran will both play at the Ensemble Studio Theatre, 549 West 52nd Street, 2nd Floor

They came from around the corner and as far away as London, Italy and New Zealand to pay tribute to a legend of film and stage and a good friend and neighbor, Roy Scheider.

The Illinois Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission announced that Ravinia Festival has been awarded a $50,000 grant in support of the festival's newly commissioned work A Good Man, by dancer, choreographer and Tony Award winner Bill T. Jones.

Ravinia Festival has commissioned award-winning choreographer Bill T. Jones, who most recently won a Tony for his choreography for Spring Awakening, to create a new full-evening work, tentatively titled A Good Man, inspired by Abraham Lincoln and celebrating the slain president's 2009 bicentennial.

Arden Theater's Producing Artistic Director, Terrance J.Nolan, is always inventing ways to entertain us.

TV and film star Lindsay Crouse as Emily Dickinson, Paul O'Brien as George Bernard Shaw, and Sandra Shipley as famed actress Mrs. Patrick Campbell share intimate conversations in 'The Belle of Amherst' and 'Dear Liar' performing in repertory at Massachusetts' Gloucester Stage

Talkinbroadway.com reports that The Whitman Project is celebrating the 188th birthday of Walt Whitman with a reading of his poetry and prose at Theater Ten Ten, 1010 Park Avenue between E. 84th and E. 85th Streets in Manhattan.