New York Live Arts is set to present several Re: Awakenings performances as part of the inaugural Live Ideas festival. New York Live Arts' newest program initiative, Live Ideas is an annual humanities festival that will explore a different theme each year over several days. The inaugural festival, The Worlds of Oliver Sacks, will take place from April 17 through 21, 2013 and is comprised of more than 20 events, including performances, films and discussions that showcase works of art and spark conversations that engage the prevalent themes in the acclaimed neurologist's works.
Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College (BCBC) will host a Season Wrap Party, celebrating its 2012-2013 performance season, on Thursday, May 23, 2013 from 6pm-8pm. The party will take place on the stage of the magnificent Walt Whitman Theatre on the Brooklyn College campus and include hors d'oeuvres and a complimentary martini bar provided by The Brownstone, fabulous door prizes including Broadway theater tickets, and a special performance by the flamenco trio Flamenco: inside/out. Business festive attire requested.
On the next episode of CBS's VEGAS titled 'Little Fish,' Sheriff Lamb and FBI Agent Byrne butt heads when Byrne prevents Lamb from pressing charges against a pimp in order to get info on Savino instead. Get a sneak peek below!
For the first time, 10 celebrated authors of Titanic historical books and novels will make their public appearances together today, April 1 through Sunday, April 7 from 10am - 5pm at the Titanic Museum Attraction's First annual Titanic Authors' Week in Pigeon Forge, Tenn., announces Titanic Museum Attraction's co-owner, Mary Kellogg-Joslyn.
On VEGAS' upcoming episode, titled 'Hollywood Ending,' Lamb, Jack and Katherine take advantage of the phone tap in Savino's office and try to get evidence on how Savino works the skim, making District Attorney Reynolds very nervous. Meanwhile, Dixon and Yvonne arrive in Los Angeles to visit Violet at a movie studio, and Yvonne finally gets the chance to show off her beautiful singing voice at a big Hollywood party. Also, Mia is shocked when her presumed dead mother, Lena, arrives at the Savoy and sets her sights on Savino, on Friday, April 12 (9:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT) on CBS. Series star Michael Chiklis directed the episode.
A desire for liberty spans across time, race and gender. This new novel, set in the 1700s in West Africa, eastern North America and the British West Indies, centers on a runaway slave woman trained to use herbal medicine and in African religion who joins a group of American Indians fighting to keep their land. The book highlights a quest for liberty among blacks, American Indians and whites. Defying masters in loving whomever they please, whites, blacks and American Indians rebel against society by falling in love.
The Manhattan Association of Cabarets & Clubs has just announced the winners of the 2013 MAC Awards, which were presented last night at the 27th Annual MAC Awards Show. The awards ceremony was held at B.B. King Blues Club, and the show was directed by Lennie Watts and produced by Julie Miller. Lifetime Achievement awards were presented to Tom Wopat and Penny Fuller. The Board of Directors Award was presented to 54 Below, and a special award was presented in memory of Ruth Kurtzman. The Hanson Award was presented to Elaine St. George. The show was hosted by KT Sullivan, with music direction by Tracy Stark, and stage management by Amy Wolk.
HTC, a global leader of mobile innovation and design, is pleased to present Rhizome's Seven on Seven Conference, an annual event that brings together figures at the forefront of art and technology to create innovative new ideas. Over the course of a single day, seven teams, each comprised of a foremost artist and a leading technologist, are challenged to develop a new idea, concept, or prototype to premiere at the conference. Now in its fourth year, and to accommodate the demand for a larger audience, the conference will move from its former location at the New Museum and will take place at the Tishman Auditorium at The New School in New York on Saturday April 20, 2013, from 12-6 p.m.
Musical theatre composer/ lyricist and cabaret performer Seth Bisen-Hersh returns to Don't Tell Mama with a brand new song cycle: If Adele Can Do It, So Can I: an evening of mostly sorrow, tonight, March 21st at 8PM and Friday, March 22nd at 9:15pm.
When Yvonne's husband, Victor, seems to lose interest in the carnal aspects of their relationship, her friend suggests that Victor might be finding satisfaction elsewhere. To test Victor's fidelity, Yvonne's friend convinces her to send a letter from an imaginary admirer suggesting a hotel assignation. When the letter falls into the wrong hands, it touches off a dizzying string of madcap mix-ups.
New York Theatre Ballet presents the second installment of Legends and Visionaries: Program B on March 22-23 at 7pm at Florence Gould Hall, 55 East 59th Street, NYC. The evening features works by Richard Alston, Antony Tudor, James Waring, and a world premiere by Gemma Bond, commissioned by New York Theatre Ballet. Tickets start at $30 and are available for purchase at www.ticketmaster.com or by calling 800-982-2787.
Metropolitan Playhouse, OBIE Award winner, presents the fourth annual East Village Theater Festival, a three-week celebration of the ever-vital life and lore of the East Village. The festival features four different evenings of new plays and solo-performances, as well as the work of local artists, and a panel discussion on the neighborhood's changing identity.
Following the success of Pyramids & Pimm's at the 2012 Comedy Festival, character comedienne Yvonne Malik returns to the stage, as the belly dancing Bo-gyptian, Lay-lah Wazir.
Cecil B. DeMille's massive film spectacle, THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, one of the most popular box-office movies of all time, will air as an "ABC Special Presentation," SATURDAY, MARCH 30 (7:00-11:44 p.m., ET), on The ABC Television Network.
BEING TOMMY COOPER, a new play by Tom Green, will begin a 39-date national tour at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre on Friday 3 May starring Damian Williams as Tommy Cooper.
TVGuide reports that the upcoming season of the Showtime hit DEXTER may be its last. At yesterday's Deutsche Bank Media, Internet and Telecom conference, Les Moonves, president and CEO of CBS Corp., which owns Showtime, commented that the drama will begin its final season this summer.
Velocity celebrates the 20th Anniversary of the Seattle Festival of Improvisation (SFDI) with an all-star faculty line-up, performances by world-class innovators, and daily community events. One of the world's leading festivals of dance and improvisation, SFDI brings together renowned dance artists and teachers to perform, collaborate and share their creative processes. SFDI is a week of intensives, classes, jams, somatic workshops, performances and discussions focused on fostering the study, practice and appreciation of dance improvisation.
If Adele Can Do It, So Can I, an evening of mostly sorrow, a new song cycle by Seth Bisen-Hersh, will play Don't Tell Mama on Thursday, March 21 at 8 p.m. and Friday, March 22 at 9:15 p.m. Directed by Shana Solomon.
Picture this: a seventeenth century comedy of manners set in 1920's France. That's what audiences are in for Rider University's Westminster College of the Arts production of the Molière classic, The Misanthrope. Although not a hit first after its publication in 1666, The Misanthrope today is Molière's best known work. The Rider production, under direction of Rider faculty Miriam Mills, is a modernized adaptation written by author Timothy Mooney.
