Biography - 1980 - Off-Broadway Articles Page 13

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced today that their board of governors have voted to give Jerry Lewis the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award. Lewis is to be presented with the special Oscar statuette on February 22, 2009 during the 81st Annual Academy Awards.

In February of 2009, in honor of the bicentennial of Joseph Haydn's death, Gotham Chamber Opera will present the New York City stage premiere of L'isola disabitata (Desert Island) in a new production staged by Mark Morris at the Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College.

REVIEW: Drug abuse drama shows its age at Vagabond Players through March 30.

REVIEW: Drug abuse drama shows its age at Vagabond Players through March 30.

In 1990 Penny Arcade created the now legendary Bitch! Dyke! Faghag! Whore!, her sex and censorship show, in response to the Senator Helms/National Endowment For The Arts censorship crisis. Now it returns in an exclusive Spiegeltent season for the first time in over a decade on Tuesday, September 11 at 10 p.m.

Complete scheduling information has been announced for the New York Musical Theatre Festival

Cyrano is Trinity Rep's final production of the theater season.

A Chorus Line, the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning musical, proudly announces the 2006 cast.

Award winning filmmaker Taylor Hackford will make his Broadway debut as director of the new musical, Leap of Faith, to premiere in the 2007-2008 season.