Dazzling entertainment, a sumptuous cocktail di'natoire, and exciting live and silent auctions await Centaur Theatre guests at this year's LUMINOUS Gala tonight, September 29.
Dazzling entertainment, a sumptuous cocktail di'natoire, and exciting live and silent auctions await Centaur Theatre guests at this year's LUMINOUS Gala on September 29.
To share an electrifying and distinguished work from Italy with a larger audience, La MaMa E.T.C. will present Teatro Patologico (Pathological Theater) from Rome in 'MEDEA,' adapted and directed by Dario D'Ambrosi, October 8 to 18, 2015 in its Ellen Stewart Theater, 66 East 4th Street.
While prolific movie star, Kevin Costner, commands the microphone and his band, Modern West, accompanies with Americana roots and rock instrumentals, the imagery is nicely atmospheric. The all-American boy persona Costner has perfected effectively complements the whole enterprise. Costner started touring musically in an endeavor to connect with his fans on a more personal level, sharing his love of music and lighting up the stage with a band of musicians that balances perfectly with his laid back, intimate, rock 'n' roll musings.
Darren Criss will conclude his limited 12-week engagement in Broadway's HEDIWG AND THE ANGRY INCH, the Tony Award winning Best Musical Revival, today, July 19.
While prolific movie star, Kevin Costner, commands the microphone and his band, Modern West, accompanies with Americana roots and rock instrumentals, the imagery is nicely atmospheric. The all-American boy persona Costner has perfected effectively complements the whole enterprise. Costner started touring musically in an endeavor to connect with his fans on a more personal level, sharing his love of music and lighting up the stage with a band of musicians that balances perfectly with his laid back, intimate, rock 'n' roll musings.
Avolon (NYSE: AVOL), the international aircraft leasing company, today celebrates the launch of Pioneers and Aviators, A Century of Irish Aviation, its commemorative photographic book. The book was formally launched by An Taoiseach Enda Kenny T.D. at an event at Casement Aerodrome, Baldonnel, Co. Dublin.
The robot shrapnel will fly in the BattleBox this summer, with expert play-by-play analysis from veteran sports broadcaster Chris Rose, and color commentary from former UFC fighter Kenny Florian.
From July 9-19 Japan Society's renowned summer film festival presents 28 features never before seen in New York
Taye Diggs will return to Broadway this summer in Hedwig and the Angry Inch, the 2014 Tony Award winning Best Musical Revival. Diggs will play the title role in the acclaimed musical for a limited 12-week engagement starting Wednesday, July 22 at the Belasco Theatre (111 West 44th Street).
Celebrating the vibrant art of dance, Dance Camera West (DCW) presents the 14th Annual Dance Media Festival, a public event incorporating dance explored through film and live performance.
Celebrating the vibrant art of dance, Dance Camera West (DCW) presents the 14th Annual Dance Media Festival, a public event incorporating dance explored through film and live performance.
?Dallas Theater Center announced today complete details for the rolling world premiere of Colossal, a new play by Andrew Hinderaker. DTC artistic director Kevin Moriarty directs the Kennedy Center Jean Kennedy Smith Playwriting Award-winning play, which is choreographed by founder and artistic director of Dark Circles Contemporary Dance Joshua L. Peugh. Colossal begins with previews tonight, April 2 with a Pay-What-You-Can performance and runs through Sunday, May 3.
What are the chances of three immediate family members surviving separate plane crashes? For the Suerig family, apparently quite high.
Robin Suerig Holleran of Mendham, NJ, survived a near-fatal crash near Atlanta, Georgia in 2005, albeit with a broken back and other injuries. Her father, Karl Suerig of Greenwich, CT survived after the plane he was riding in clipped a tree and nosedived down the side of a cliff just east of Albany, NY in 1997. And her brother Chris Suerig of Flemington, N.J. crashed in an ultralight during a failed takeoff in Plattekill, NY in 2010. Her mother's stepfather was not so lucky-and died, along with forty-nine others when a Pan Am flight crashed in the jungles of northern Brazil on April 29, 1952.
Robin is a co-author of 'Bracing for Impact: True Tales of Air Disasters and People Who Survived Them' being released by Skyhorse Publishing in October 2015. Her family's stories, along with 13 others, cover not just the details of the crash, but how that experience impacted their lives afterward.
About 'Bracing for Impact'
In this collection of true-life survivor tales, people from all walks of life-a freelance writer, a crew member of the Lynyrd Skynyrd band, a naval flight surgeon, a teenager, and a newlywed on her honeymoon, among others-recount their traumatic narrow escapes as engines stalled, fuel ran out, hazardous weather conditions descended, and landings did not go according to plan. In the face of death, as life flashed before their eyes-or not, as some wryly note-these survivors encountered the terrific split of before and after the crash. Their lives, though preserved, would change forever. www.BracingForImpact.net
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?Dallas Theater Center announced today complete details for the rolling world premiere of Colossal, a new play by Andrew Hinderaker. DTC artistic director Kevin Moriarty directs the Kennedy Center Jean Kennedy Smith Playwriting Award-winning play, which is choreographed by founder and artistic director of Dark Circles Contemporary Dance Joshua L. Peugh. Colossal begins with previews on Thursday, April 2 with a Pay-What-You-Can performance and runs through Sunday, May 3.
New York – Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, beloved as one of the world's most popular dance companies, will return to Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts for a two-week 15-performance engagement at the David H. Koch Theater June 10 – 21, 2015. Today, Artistic Director Robert Battle announced repertory for the season highlighted by Exodus, a world premiere from bold hip-hop choreographer Rennie Harris, the company premiere of Battle's No Longer Silent, and new productions of Talley Beatty's Toccata and Artistic Director Emerita Judith Jamison's A Case of You duet from Reminiscin'.
Berkeley Rep is proud to welcome back the beloved team of Dominique Serrand and Steven Epp for a provocative and powerful revival of Moliere's dark comedy about religious hypocrisy.
It will be your loss to miss this incredible show with a top-flight cast that nails every word, every pause, every moment. RADIO GOLF is a spellbinding experience.
The first annual VOW Anthology: Voices of War 2014 will be published by The War Writers' Campaign later this year. An annual publication compiled of authors looking to give something back to their communities. It's a collection highlighting their stories, their words, and an exemplification of their honor to the men and women who've served and their families. The War Writers' Campaign is a literary nonprofit with the mission of generating social change for veterans and their families through written awareness. This book is one of many to come from The War Writers' Campaign a nonprofit publisher that aims to support veteran and family member programs. 100% of all proceeds, beyond a royalty to the authors, is utilized for transformative transitional programs that promote storytelling in our community.
About the Authors
· Amanda Cerreto is the author of several nonfiction pieces as well as a young adult novel, Fall From Grace. She was raised in a military family and has spent much of her free time involved with veterans' advocacy.
· Richard lives in Western New York, where he works as a writer. After six years in the US Navy (1999-2005) he held a series of odd jobs, to include fixing bowling machines and working in an oil terminal. He has a wife, Maria, a daughter, Rachelle, and a dog, two cats, and a hamster. In his spare time he enjoys playing video games, trying new varieties of rye whiskey, lifting weights, and explaining to various house pets why they can't eat what he is eating.
· Amber Flenner (Fluck) is a writer and photographer based outside of Carlisle, Pa. Her educational background is in Communications/Journalism with a concentration in Middle Eastern Studies. She graduated cum laude from Shippensburg University in December of 2011. As a member of the Pennsylvania Army National Guard, Amber has deployed to Iraq twice: once from 20052006 and again in 2009. During her first deployment, she was part of one of the first ever 'lioness' teams established to complete searches on females coming in and out of Baghdad, Iraq. While deployed, Amber had a regular column in her local paper. She is now a Public Affairs Specialist in the 109th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment, located at Fort Indiantown Gap, Pa. Her position allows her to tell the stories of Pennsylvania's National Guard members through stories and photographs. Other work by Amber can be found at http://www.amberfluck.com/.
· Abby Lang is the mother of a Marine veteran who completed three deployments to Iraq as an infantryman between 2003 and 2005. Abby lives with her husband Tim and works as a grant writer. She found Zen meditation toward the end of her son's military service and has been practicing ever since. She contributes to the blog Death and Design (www.deathanddesign.com) and volunteers on the Hospice/Palliative Care wing of the Philadelphia VA Medical Center.
· Michael Lund, Army correspondent (Fort Campbell, Kentucky, 1969-70; Vietnam, 1970-71), is the author of one short story collection, How to Not Tell a War Story (2012), a second, Eating with Veterans (due out early in 2015), and novels such as Route 66 Looking-glass (2014), Route 66 to Vietnam: a Draftee's Story (2004) and Growing Up on Route 66 (1999). More information can be found on his website: At Home and Away Novel Series http://athomeandawaynovelseries.com.
· Meador joined the Army in 2002 and, after training to become a combat medic, he immediately became part of the invasion of Baghdad in 2003 with the Third Infantry Division. He returned to Iraq in 2005, and again in 2008. In 2009 Kenneth began treatment for PTSD and has spoken publicly about his struggles with his memories of his time in Iraq and encourages other veterans to get the help they need.
· Matthew Overton was born in Sterling, Illinois and raised in Sycamore, Illinois for most of his life. The attacks of 9/11 happened during Matthew's senior year of 2001, and in the summer of 2002 he chose a route different than most he joined the Army. Matthew served with 10th Mountain's 187 Infantry Battalion out of Ft. Drum, New York until 2006. Matthew's first deployment was in 2003.
· Glenn Petersen served in the US Navy from 1964 to 1968. In 196667 Glenn flew 70 combat missions as an enlisted radar intercept controller/flight technician in E1B reconnaissance aircraft off the USS Bennington in the Tonkin Gulf. Glenn had a 10th grade education when he enlisted a few weeks after his 17th birthday. Following the war Glenn earned his GED, a bachelor's degree, and a PhD in anthropology. He has been a professor of anthropology and international affairs for nearly 40 years now.
· J. Howard Shannon is a writer and US Army Infantry Officer with over 25 Years of service. He served two tours in Afghanistan the first in 2005 with 3rd Group Special Forces and again in 2008 with the New York Army National Guard. He currently volunteers as an Assistant Instructor with Horses For Heroes, a wellness and skill set restructuring program for OIF and OEF combat veterans. He has just completed a novel, set in Afghanistan, that challenges the conventional notions of modern combat.
· Matthew Snider served with the 1st Battalion, 22nd Infantry, 4th Infantry Division as a combat medic for Delta Company (Armor). Matt deployed in 2006 to Iraq, earning an ARCOM w/Valor and Combat Medic Badge. He served from 20042009 before being medically retired. Matt Lives in Buckley, Michigan with wife Stephanie and two dogs, Roxy and Sammy. Follow Matt @ http://www.mcsniderwriting.com/.
Media Contact: Ryan Weemer
Email: ryan@warwriterscampaign.org
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Web: WarWritersCampaign.org
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Ruslan Biryukov, renowned cellist, mentor and pedagogue will appear as the Cello Soloist in the World Premiere Performance of composer Masatoshi Mitsumoto's 2nd Cello Concerto, Jan. 11, which will be the centerpiece of a program presented by the Cal State LA Department of Music, Theatre and Dance and the Olympia Philharmonic Society in a concert entitled, "FROM BEETHOVEN TO MITSUMOTO," featuring the CalStateLA Symphony Orchestra and Olympia Youth Orchestra performing together in concert under the baton of Fung Ho, Music Director and Conductor.
Sundance Institute announced today the members of the six juries awarding prizes at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival, January 22 to February 1 in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden and Sundance, Utah.
From the home city of manned spaceflight, the Houston Symphony announced today that it has released The Earth-An HD Odyssey on DVD and Blu-ray. The Earth-An HD Odyssey is the highly anticipated second installment of the Symphony's groundbreaking HD Odyssey film trilogy and Music Director Andres Orozco-Estrada's first recording release with the Houston Symphony. This DVD/Blu-ray release follows the world premiere live performance of The Earth-An HD Odyssey in February of 2012 at Jones Hall.
Award-winning singer and PBS/WNET and NY affiliates Host for Andrea Bocelli 'Live From Central Park' and 'Il Volo Takes Flight' CRISTINA FONTANELLI brings her program of Italy's best-loved songs, arias, Neapolitan and Christmas classics during her 11th-Annual 'Christmas In Italy' show at the NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts today, December 6 at 3:00.
The Cincinnati Pops Orchestra announces the release of its latest album, Carnival of the Animals, under the direction of Pops Conductor John Morris Russell. The recording marks the 93rd Pops recording in its history (adding to an abundant legacy including a Grammy-winner) and the third under Mr. Russell. Carnival of the Animals will appear on the Orchestra's own label, Fanfare Cincinnati, and be distributed by Naxos.
THE LAST SHIP - the new musical with music and lyrics by 16-time Grammy Award-winner Sting and book by Tony Award winner John Logan and Pulitzer Prize-winner Brian Yorkey opens tonight, October 26. The Last Ship is directed by Tony Award winner Joe Mantello and choreographed by Olivier Award winner and Tony Award nominee Steven Hoggett. Scroll down to learn more about the full cast and watch the company onstage in a commercial for the show below!
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