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Doug Varone and Company impress at Bates Dance Fest with new and classic work.

The French Institute Alliance Francaise (FIAF), New York's premiere French cultural center, is thrilled to announce the full program for the Crossing the LineFestival 2016, the tenth annual edition of its celebrated fall arts festival, presenting interdisciplinary works and performances by artists from around the world. Crossing the Line runs from September 22 through November 3 in venues and public spaces throughout New York City. Tickets will go on saleAugust 15.

On February 12, 1915, the Abrons Arts Center's Henry Street Settlement Playhouse opened its doors on the Lower East Side. Since that day, it has remained a vital cultural resource, providing audiences with artistically bold work while offering artists opportunities to dynamically grow. Since becoming Artistic Director in 2006, Jay Wegman has done much more than maintain "one of the last standing locations for avant-garde performance downtown" (The New York Times, 2009). He has created an arts venue that is unique to the city's cultural landscape, presenting an international mix of cutting-edge performing and visual artists, both established and emerging, from across the country and around the world, as well as from New York City. In a 2015 New York Times profile, Wegman says Abrons is "a place for people to succeed or fail or land somewhere in between."

Abrons Arts Center presents Colin Gee and Angie Smalis in Chaplet of Roses and They Go Out in Joy, two works developed from fragments of the past. In the case of Chaplet of Roses, it is a 15th-century tapestry; in They Go Out in Joy, it is a collection of photos of Irish emigrants. The performance is part of Abrons' Travelogues dance series, curated by Laurie Uprichard. Performances will take place Friday and Saturday, May 6 and 7, at 7:30pm, and Sunday, May 8, at 3pm, at Abrons Arts Center's Experimental Theater.  Promotional support provided by Irish Arts Center.

The Film Society of Lincoln Center and The Museum of Modern Art announce the initial eight official selections for the 45th edition of New Directors/New Films (ND/NF), a festival dedicated to the discovery of new works by emerging and dynamic filmmaking talent.

Abrons Arts Center and UK's Live Art Development Agency (LADA) in collaboration with Chelsea Theatre present Just Like a Woman, (October 23-25), a three day program of performances, installations, cabarets, screenings, panels and book launches that examine the performance of identity - the ways femininity can be 'performed' and how representations of gender can be queered through performance.

Abrons Arts Center and UK's Live Art Development Agency (LADA) in collaboration with Chelsea Theatre present Just Like a Woman, (October 23-25), a three day program of performances, installations, cabarets, screenings, panels and book launches that examine the performance of identity - the ways femininity can be 'performed' and how representations of gender can be queered through performance.

In the heart of the wildly characterful Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, the Joyce Theater marquee entrances with a retro ambiance. Opening in 1982, the Joyce Theater has come to represent the magnanimous foundations of modern performing arts in New York. None so embodies this history as authentically as choreographer and dancer Doug Varone.

Author Doug Rice and Soprano Ann Moss will be giving a collaborative presentation, reading and discussion of 'Between Appear and Disappear' at the Center for New Music (55 Taylor Street, San Francisco, CA 94102) tonight, December 9, 2014 at 7:30 pm. Admission is free and open to the general public.

Applauded worldwide for its athleticism, kinetic artistry, and deep humanity, Doug Varone and Dancers returns to The Joyce Theater from tonight, December 2, through the 7th with a program featuring a world premiere, a beloved revival, and a new solo performed by Doug Varone himself.

Author Doug Rice and Soprano Ann Moss will be giving a collaborative presentation, reading and discussion of 'Between Appear and Disappear' at the Center for New Music (55 Taylor Street, San Francisco, CA 94102) on Tuesday, December 9, 2014 at 7:30 pm. Admission is free and open to the general public.

'House of DVF' premieres tonight, November 2 at 10pm ET/PT on E! 'House of DVF' will also come to E! in 100 countries, premiering in November internationally - the same month as the US premiere.

Applauded worldwide for its athleticism, kinetic artistry, and deep humanity, Doug Varone and Dancers returns to The Joyce Theater from December 2-7 with a program featuring a world premiere, a beloved revival, and a new solo performed by Doug Varone himself.

'House of DVF' premieres Sunday, November 2 at 10pm ET/PT on E! 'House of DVF' will also come to E! in 100 countries, premiering in November internationally - the same month as the US premiere.

In an all-new episode of E!'s Fashion Police, host Joan Rivers, Kelly Osbourne and George Kotsiopoulos, along with guest co-host Orly Shani and guest George Takei break down the 5 must-see looks from the previous week including red carpet hits and misses from the biggest events in entertainment, and promise to bring big laughs with a special, very cold surprise for Joan.

Westport Country Playhouse announces its 2015 season, featuring a celebration of playwright Arthur Miller's centennial, as well as plays by Alan Ayckbourn, David Ives, and C. P. Taylor, to be staged next year from May through October. Under the artistic direction of Mark Lamos, 2015 will mark the Connecticut professional theater's 85th season.

The Crowded Fire Theater (CFT) concludes its 2014 season with the World Premiere of THE LATE WEDDING by Christopher Chen opening with a press night on September 22 (Previews Sept. 18, 19, 20) running through October 11 at the Thick House in San Francisco's Potrero Hill. THE LATE WEDDING is both inspired by and a homage to Italian fabulist novelist Italo Calvino whose stories 'Invisible Cities' and 'If on a Winter's Night a Traveler' have become Chen's launching pad into a shadowy exploration into themes of distance, dislocation, and transience in internet-age relationships. A Crowded Fire Theater commission, in THE LATE WEDDING 'Chen channels our society's collective unconscious with dizzying urgency...' remarks director Marissa Wolf. 'He is peeling back layer after layer of cultural practices and rituals, revealing a raw, pulsing interior of longing and hope.' Directed by Marissa Wolf THE LATE WEDDING features Michele Leavy*+, Lawrence Radecker+, Lauren Spencer, Michael Anthony Torres*, Kathryn Zdan*, Ogie Zulueta*. (*Actors Equity, +CFT company member)

Tail! Spin!, the breakout hit of the 2012 New York International Fringe Festival, earning unanimous rave reviews, with its entire run selling out in record time, is the outrageously entertaining verbatim reenactment of the preposterous sex scandals that brought down former Congressman Anthony Weiner (D-NY), former Governor / current Congressman Mark Sanford (R-SC), former Congressman Mark Foley (R-FL), and former Senator Larry Craig (R-ID).

E! announced today the launch of “E! Now” giving fans unprecedented access to live streaming of E!'s popular hits

E!, the multiplatform pop culture powerhouse, is rolling out an innovative new cross-platform digital product that incorporates Instagram photos to help bring fans closer to the celebrities and event content they crave, but in a completely different way.

ERIC & JESSIE: GAME ON Among E!'s May Programming HIghlights

On this week's The Fabulist, Kristin Cavallari and Orly Shani were joined by Sports Illustrated model (not to mention John Legend wife) Chrissy Teigen and celebrity chef/author Rocco DiSpirito

E! announces a dynamic original programming slate with new series, specials and live events, and successful ongoing and returning franchises.

E! does a little spring cleaning as “E! News” correspondent Alicia Quarles and “The Fabulist” host Orly Shani take viewers exclusively inside the extraordinary wardrobes of some of today's hottest celebrities

E! does a little spring cleaning as “E! News” correspondent Alicia Quarles and “The Fabulist” host Orly Shani take viewers exclusively inside the extraordinary wardrobes of some of today's hottest celebrities