Jean-Marie Besset News

The Dramatists Guild previously announced that playwright Christopher Durang will receive a Lifetime Achievement award at this year’s ceremony. He will be joined by two additional recipients, George C. Wolfe and Emily Mann.

Eighteen séances in April, May and June did not do the trick, so award-winning actress/playwright/comedian Nancy Redman will join forces with iconic director Austin Pendleton for 18 more sessions of 'A  Séance With Mom' from August 21 to September 3 at Chain Studio Theatre.

 Eighteen séances in April, May and June did not do the trick, so award-winning actress/playwright/comedian Nancy Redman will join forces with iconic director Austin Pendleton for 18 more sessions of 'A Séance With Mom' from August 21 to September 3 at Chain Studio Theatre.

Steppenwolf Theatre Company will conclude its 47th season with Harold Pinter’s celebrated masterwork No Man’s Land directed by Les Waters. Learn how to purchase tickets!

Four April seances did not do the trick, so Award winning actress/playwright/comedian NANCY REDMAN joins forces with iconic director AUSTIN PENDLETON for more sessions of 'A SEANCE WITH MOM'.

Steppenwolf Theatre Company, the nation's premier ensemble theater company, will conclude its 47th season with Harold Pinter's celebrated masterwork No Man's Land directed by Les Waters (In the Next Room..(or the vibrator play), Dana H., Middletown), playing July 13 – August 20, 2023 in Steppenwolf's Downstairs Theater.

Award winning actress/playwright/comedian Nancy Redman  joins forces with iconic director Austin Pendleton for their fourth collaboration, 'A SEANCE WITH MOM'.

Steppenwolf Theatre Company will continue its 47th season with ensemble member Rajiv Joseph’s Chicago premiere of Describe the Night, directed by ensemble member Austin Pendleton.

Steppenwolf Theatre Company will continue its 47th season with ensemble member Rajiv Joseph’s Chicago premiere of Describe the Night, directed by ensemble member Austin Pendleton. See who is starring in the production!

Award-winning Broadway playwright Theresa Rebeck will write the book for the Broadway-aimed Working Girl. While she's had more plays produced on Broadway than any female playwright of our time, Working Girl would mark Rebeck's Broadway debut as a book writer for a musical.

Calling all chocoholics! From April 1 - 21, Velas Resorts pays tribute to one of Mexico's most traditional ancestral delights - cacao - during it Sabor Cacao festival. Offerings dedicated to the main ingredient range from themed menus and cocktails to special resort activities and an over-the-top Easter Brunch. Master Chocolatier Jean Marie Auboine has designed 14 chocolate candies unique to Velas Resorts that will be delivered nightly on turndown. Special spa treatments are also on tap such as Coffee & Cocoa Experience that features a coffee exfoliation followed by an antioxidant massage with cocoa oil and a Chocolate Mole Massage that employs the main ingredients of mole in a unique treatment.

Jean Marie Ivey, an author who is no stranger to the publishing world with co-author and illustration credentials from the books 'Maine Paradise' and 'Facts and Fancy: Acadia National Park, Mount Desert Island,' has completed her first novel 'Cassie's Dream': an enthralling voyage through time and location as explored through the dreams and visions of the main character, Cassandra Wright.

'Gogen' is an epic tale of good versus evil. Set in the mid-1400s, this supernatural fantasy evokes universal fear on every page. Accompanied by dynamic fusion artwork, the novel plays out as a horror story on a grand scale.

Music Director Carl St.Clair and Pacific Symphony today unveil the 2016-17 Hal and Jeanette Segerstrom Family Foundation Classical and Sunday Casual Connections series and special events. This season celebrates the orchestra's 38th season and its 10th year in the Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall. Inaugurated by the Symphony in September 2006, this magnificent venue—with its exceptional acoustics and beautiful architecture—changed the world of symphonic music forever in Orange County. Both the orchestra and its audiences suddenly felt the ceiling to their musical opportunities open up to limitless possibilities. The trajectory of the orchestra sped up, allowing for broader choices in repertoire, greater ensemble excellence and immersive audience experiences—culminating, 10 years later, in this momentous season. 

NEW YORK, Dec. 7, 2015 /PRNewswire/ Jean-Marie Dru, TBWA Worldwide Chairman and celebrated global advertising veteran, today announced the U.S. launch of his sixth book, entitled The Ways to New: 15 Paths for Disruptive Innovation (WILEY; 2015).

El Complejo Teatral de Buenos Aires y la Fundacion Cinemateca Argentina han organizado un ciclo denominado Jean-Marie Straub y Daniele Huillet: el cine de la resistencia, que se llevara a cabo del jueves 28 de febrero al domingo 10 de marzo en la Sala Leopoldo Lugones del Teatro San Martin (Avenida Corrientes 1530).

Family, friends, and colleagues will gather to celebrate the life and voice of Broadway librettist Mark O'Donnell on Monday, November 12 at 3pm at Manhattan Theatre Club's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, 261 West 47th Street, between Broadway and Eighth Avenue. Doors will open at 2:30pm and the event is open to the public.

CSO Music Director Jean-Marie Zeitouni will lead the Columbus Symphony in a celebration of orchestral virtuosity with an unmistakable French accent and allure, featuring guest mezzo-soprano Jennifer Rivera and the Columbus Symphony Chorus. The program includes Debussy's Prélude a I'Après-midi d'un faune (Prelude to 'The Afternoon of a Faun'), Fauré's Pavane, excerpts from Chausson's Poeme de l'amour et de la mer for Voice and Orchestra, Ravel's Suite No. 2 from Daphnis et Chloe, and Duruflé's Requiem.

Columbus Symphony Music Director Jean-Marie Zeitouni has accepted the appointment of Principal Conductor and Artistic Director Designate of the prestigious Canadian chamber orchestra I Musici de Montreal.

Subscriptions go on sale today for the Columbus Symphony's 2011-12 Masterworks and Pops Seasons, the first full schedule under the leadership of recently installed Music Director Jean-Marie Zeitouni.