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West Coast Ensemble presents YENTA: Straight from the Mouth, written and performed by Annie Korzen and Directed by Judy Chaikin. YENTA: Straight from the Mouth will open on Saturday, February 21 at 3:00pm and continue through Sunday, March 22 at the new home of West Coast Ensemble - the El Centro Theatre, 800 N. El Centro Ave. in Hollywood. Annie Korzen (SEINFELD's Doris Klompus) thinks the world would be a better place if everyone would just do what she says. Much to her amazement, the world doesn't seem to agree. An engaging evening of comedy. music and constructive criticism from the creator of the world-wide hit, YENTA UNPLUGGED. Mostly funny, sometimes serious, sometimes naughty: all of it scientifically calibrated to make you a better person!

Week four of Lincoln Center's acclaimed series American Songbook brings to The Allen Room a hot new composer, Broadway's most popular ing?nue, a Disney film and Broadway composer in a rare concert appearance, and a celebration of the music of Richard Rodgers by an acclaimed guitarist/vocalist. On February 18th, young composer Nico Muhly, who wrote the haunting score to the Oscar-nominated film 'The Reader', will collaborate with Thomas Bartlett, alternative folk/country artist Sam Amidon, and designer/illustrator Maira Kalman.

Lincoln Center's acclaimed series American Songbook returns in January for its eleventh season celebrating the diversity of American popular song. For 17 nights of pop, folk, cabaret, R&B, country, rock, show tunes, bluegrass and multimedia, the series will explore the best of the golden age of musical standards through to today's most dynamic contemporary songwriting. The 2009 season - January 14 through March 6 - will bring to the stage some of today's most gifted interpreters of song, including top vocalist Kurt Elling and country's winning Patty Loveless. It will feature the rare opportunity to hear Paulo Szot, star of Broadway's South Pacific, and film and stage star Alan Cumming, in intimate concert settings.

Lincoln Center's acclaimed series American Songbook returns in January for its eleventh season celebrating the diversity of American popular song. For 17 nights of pop, folk, cabaret, R&B, country, rock, show tunes, bluegrass and multimedia, the series will explore the best of the golden age of musical standards through to today's most dynamic contemporary songwriting. The 2009 season - January 14 through March 6 - will bring to the stage some of today's most gifted interpreters of song, including top vocalist Kurt Elling and country's winning Patty Loveless. It will feature the rare opportunity to hear Paulo Szot, star of Broadway's South Pacific, and film and stage star Alan Cumming, in intimate concert settings.

On Friday, October 10th, THE AFTER PARTY hosts the fifth annual Brandon and Ray's Birthday Bash. This annual event celebrates the birthdays of The After Party's own Brandon Cutrell and Ray Fellman. Now going strong its third year, THE AFTER PARTY is billed as 'a weekly schmoozefest for the theatrically inclined.'

Completing its 30th Anniversary Season, Second Stage Theatre (Carole Rothman, Artistic Director; Ellen Richard, Executive Director) will present EVERYDAY RAPTURE, written by Dick Scanlan (Tony nominee for Thoroughly Modern Millie) and Sherie Rene Scott (Tony nominee for Dirty Rotten Scoundrels), with musical supervision by Tom Kitt (Next to Normal, High Fidelity), directed by Michael Mayer (Tony Award winner for Spring Awakening).

This California girl changed coasts 2 years ago, after touring Europe with 'Grease' and the U.S. and Japan with Brian Setzer.

Broadway legend Barbara Cook will make a special appearance at the Barnes & Noble Lincoln Triangle store (Broadway and 66th Street) on Monday, July 9 at 6pm to promote the release of her latest CD, 'No One Is Alone.'

Feinstein at the Regency will present the return of Bistro and two-time MAC Award winner Brandon Cutrell on Monday, June 4 at 8:30 PM

Feinstein at the Regency will present the return of Bistro and two-time MAC Award winner Brandon Cutrell on Monday, June 4 at 8:30 PM.

Tony Award-winning sopranos Barbara Cook and Audra McDonald will sing with the New York Philharmonic during its its 2007-2008 season.

Constantine Maroulis guests at the After Party on February 9th

Legendary Broadway soprano Barbara Cook was presented by the National Arts Club with this year's Medal of Honor

Legendary Broadway soprano Barbara Cook has been selected by the National Arts Club as this year's recipient of their Medal of Honor

Tony Award-winning Broadway legend Barbara Cook will perform the songs of George Gershwin and Irving Berlin as part of January 23rd master class performance at Carnegie Hall

Soprano Barbara Cook, who began 2006 by being the first female pop singer to be presented by the Metropolitan Opera when she made her solo concert debut at the MET in January, will end the year by being the first pop performer to be named Vocalist of the Year when Musical America, the international directory of the performing arts, presents its annual awards at Lincoln Center's Kaplan Penthouse on Wednesday, December 20

Tony Award-winning Broadway sopranos Barbara Cook and Audra McDonald will appear together onstage at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. on March 17th, 2007

On June 19th at 7:30 PM, Broadway legend Barbara Cook and four-time Tony Award-winner Audra McDonald will share the stage of the Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn, NJ for the benefit evening Barbara Cook and Audra McDonald in Concert

Joe Drymala and Eric Svejcar aren't a songwriting team, but they have a few things in common besides the fact that they both write musicals. The songs of both men will be sung by performers such as Euan Morton, Robert Cuccioli, Tyler Maynard, Kate Wetherhead and Amanda Watkins on April 26th for their Stuck in the Zipper concert at the Zipper Theatre, and it's safe to say that both like to take risks with their shows...

Songs by Stephen Sondheim, Rodger and Hammerstein and Harold Arlen will be heard on Barbara Cook's latest CD 'Barbara Cook at the Met,' which will be released by DRG Records on June 6th

On February 27th, legends Barbara Cook and Elaine Stritch will star side by side in the cabaret evening 'In Alphabetical Order' at Lincoln Center

A February 21st master class with Barbara Cook at the New York Library for the Performing Arts will also receive a live webcast on the library's website

Bill Kenwright and Marla Rubin announce that they will present the Almeida Theatre production of FESTEN, the hugely successful London play about a family with a dark secret, on Broadway at the Music Box Theatre (239 W. 45th St.), with performances beginning Thursday, March 23. Larry Bryggman, Michael Hayden, Ali MacGraw and Julianna Margulies have been cast in the Broadway production. Directed by Rufus Norris, in a dramatization by David Eldridge from the Danish 1998 film, FESTEN will have its official press opening on Sunday, April 9.

Two Broadway legends will share a stage when A Cabaret Performance: Barbara Cook and Elaine Stritch 'In Alphabetical Order' comes to Lincoln Center on February 27th