The Other Place 2011 - Articles Page 29

Luminato, Toronto Festival of Arts and Creativity, today announced the Festival's 2011 programs. The fifth edition of Luminato's annual multi-disciplinary celebration of theatre, dance, music, literature, food, visual arts, fashion, film, and more takes place from June 10-19, 2011 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Logo, the entertainment network for gays, lesbians and their families and friends announced today James Van Der Beek as the host for the 'NewNowNext Awards' 2011.

From July 5 to 25, 2011, the 63rd season of Festival d'Aix-en-Provence will offer six new opera and musical theater productions including two world premieres; a concert series featuring symphonic works, chamber music and recitals; and the programs of the 14th Academie Europeenne de Musique.

Following the immense success of the previous two festivals of jazz piano duos, which began in 2009 to celebrate the arrival of a new Steinway to Dean St and the launch of an ongoing relationship with Steinway, a stellar lineup of UK and international giants of jazz piano come to Dean St over four days to perform on 2 Steinways.

Broadway In Chicago's proudction of William Shakespeare's tragiccomedy 'The Merchant of Venice' from the acclaimed Theatre for a New Audience, will close March 27 2011, at the Bank of America Theatre (18 West Monroe St.).

In today's The New York Post, Michael Riedel is reporting on one of the plans under consideration, which is to limit the attendence of producers in the orchestra section (to 2 per show he reports) while others will be seated in the balcony and at a potential simulcast tent in Central Park. The Tonys have previously been broadcast live in Times Square, and there's no official word yet if there will be a public simulcast in Central Park or if it'd a private event.

The Tony Awards have announced the calendar for the upcoming 2010-2011 Tony Award season. The American Theatre Wing's 65th Annual Antoinette Perry 'Tony' Awards, which are presented by The Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing, will air on CBS on Sunday, June 12th from 8:00 - 11:00 PM (ET/PT time delay).

Broadway In Chicago is thrilled to announce that individual tickets for William Shakespeare's tragiccomedy 'The Merchant of Venice' from the acclaimed Theatre for a New Audience, are on sale now for its Chicago debut during a limited, two-week engagement, March 15-27 2011, at the Bank of America Theatre (18 West Monroe St.).

South Coast Repertory's 14th Annual Pacific Playwrights Festival (PPF) will take you through time and across the map, from tornado-tossed Kansas to not-quite-past, not-quite-future London, from a ramshackle trailer in the Colorado desert to the visiting area of a Massachusetts prison.

MCC THEATER (Robert LuPone, Bernard Telsey, William Cantler, Artistic Directors; Blake West, Executive Director) has announced fabulous additions to their all-star line-up for the company's highly anticipated 25th anniversary gala honoring a host of MCC artists past and present at Miscast 2011. Complementing the glittering, previously announced Miscast will be Christian Borle (Angels In America, Legally Blonde), Justin Guarini ('American Idol,' American Idiot, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown) and Josh Henry (Scottsboro Boys, American Idiot). Andy Cohen (Host of Bravo TV's 'Watch What Happens Live') will host the evening, which will take place Monday, March 14, 2011 at The Hammerstein Ballroom (311 West 34th Street between 8th and 9th Avenues).

BAAD! - The Bronx Academy of Arts & Dance presents BAAD! ASS WOMEN 2011, its eleventh annual cultural festival celebrating the empowerment of women through art, culture and performance. The festival opens on Monday, March 7, 2011 and continues through March 26 with dance, film, self-defense classes and workshops in dance and comic drawing and three sensational evenings of theater including new work from Marga Gomez.

Tickets are now on sale for the 5th Annual FRIGID New York Festival, presented by Horse Trade Theater Group (Erez Ziv, Managing Director, Heidi Grumelot, Artistic Director), February 23-March 6

The Susan Smith Blackburn Prize has announced Katori Hall as the winner of its prestigious playwriting award, now celebrating its thirty-third year. The Houston-based Prize received the 2010 Theatre Communications Group's National Funder Award. The annual honor goes to a company, foundation or other entity for 'leadership and sustained national support of theater in America.

With over 30 new productions opening on DC area stages, 4 large festivals, and 2 world premiere musicals, it may still be chilly outside, but DC area stages are sizzling and bursting with great theatre. So come visit the Nation's Capital and visit our vibrant theatre scene.

BAAD! - The Bronx Academy of Arts & Dance presents BAAD! ASS WOMEN 2011, its eleventh annual cultural festival celebrating the empowerment of women through art, culture and performance. The festival opens on Monday, March 7, 2011 and continues through March 26 with dance, film, self-defense classes and workshops in dance and comic drawing and three sensational evenings of theater including new work from Marga Gomez.

Ordway Center for the Performing Arts today unveiled its 2011-2012 performance season. The diverse schedule will offer a full menu of entertaining experiences, from dinner with The Addams Family to the amusingly intimate car ride during a blind date, and transport audiences from the streets of Africa to the darkened stage of a Parisian opera house.

Antarctica. A blinding world of slowly melting ice. A world where the horizon is boundless, where one can forget one's past and embrace a clean fresh start, where one can frolic with the penguins and breathe in cool, blue air. The perfect place for a recovery centre.

The Bakehouse Theatre will be cooing up no less than six treats a night during the 2011 Adelaide Fringe. With a huge variety of shows, being around the corner from the Hutt St restaurant strip, and only 5 mins walk from the Garden of Unearthly Delights, the BAKEHOUSE is the only place you need to be during the FRINGE.

From February 8-13, 2011, saxophonist Steve Wilson's 50th Birthday will be celebrated at New York's Jazz Standard.

The Bakehouse Theatre will be cooing up no less than six treats a night during the 2011 Adelaide Fringe. With a huge variety of shows, being around the corner from the Hutt St restaurant strip, and only 5 mins walk from the Garden of Unearthly Delights, the BAKEHOUSE is the only place you need to be during the FRINGE.

Following six weeks of fierce competition among 20 of California's finest young musical theatre performers, LA's Next Great Stage Star 2011 celebrated Judy Mora's outstanding victory at the 5th annual competition's glittering Finale on Sunday, February 6, presented by Sterling's Upstairs at Vitello's, the most critically acclaimed, award-winning supper club of its kind in greater Los Angeles. Runners up included San Francisco's Michael David (2nd place); Matthew McFarland (3rd place); Emily Goglia (4th place); and Reba Buhr (5th place). Broadway World's Dean Butler was there to capture the three and a half hour event ... off and on stage - which also included a Special Guest Star performance by musical theatre, television star and pop composer/singer Blake McIver Ewing.

Always unpredictable and full of surprises, actor/comedian Jack Black will take viewers on a wild ride as he returns to host Nickelodeon's 2011 Kids' Choice Awards, premiering live on Saturday, April 2, at 8:00 p.m. (ET/Tape delayed for West Coast).

Executive Producer Lou Spisto today announced principal casting for the Globe's 2011 Shakespeare Festival, performed in repertory in the Lowell Davies Festival Theatre.

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MCC Theater (Robert LuPone, Bernard Telsey, Artistic Directors; William Cantler, Associate Artistic Director; Blake West, Executive Director) today announced complete casting for the world premiere production of Sharr White's The Other Place, MCC's second offering of their 25th Anniversary season.