John Hopkins News

Thirty-eight recipients of the 71st Annual Peabody Awards were announced today by the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication. The winners, chosen by the Peabody board as the best in electronic media for the year 2011, were named in a ceremony in the Peabody Gallery on the University of Georgia Campus. (more...)

Bad behavior has never been so much fun. Artistic director caryn desai [sic] jump starts International City Theatre’s 27th season at the helm of Yasmina Reza’s scathingly funny, Tony Award-winning God of Carnage. The limited, four-week engagement runs January 27-February 19, with low-priced previews on January 24, 25 and 26. Here’s a chance to see this hilarious comedy in ICT’s more intimate setting and watch the fur fly up close! (more...)

Today is “Georgia Music Day,” as recognized by both the Georgia House of Representative and the State Senate, to identify the impact of Georgia’s music industry on this great state. Partners for this event include Georgia Music Partners (GMP), a nonprofit organization which promotes the music industry in Georgia, The Recording Academy®Atlanta Chapter, and the The Film, Music and Digital Entertainment Office of the Georgia Department of Economic Development (GDEcD). (more...)

Bad behavior has never been so much fun. Artistic director caryn desai [sic] jump starts International City Theatre’s 27th season at the helm of Yasmina Reza’s scathingly funny, Tony Award-winning God of Carnage. The limited, four-week engagement runs January 27-February 19, with low-priced previews on January 24, 25 and 26. Here’s a chance to see this hilarious comedy in ICT’s more intimate setting and watch the fur fly up close! (more...)

Kristy Lee is a soul singer/songwriter from Alabama whose raw music is connecting with hearts around the country. (more...)

This fall's India Studies lecture series at Indiana University will again bring leading historians, anthropologists, political scientists and musicologists knowledgeable about India and South Asia to the IU Bloomington campus. (more...)

This fall's India Studies lecture series at Indiana University will again bring leading historians, anthropologists, political scientists and musicologists knowledgeable about India and South Asia to the IU Bloomington campus. (more...)

The Hartt School Guitar Department presents the 2011 Hartt School Guitar Festival from Monday, July 18, through Friday, July 22. (more...)

The Hartt School Guitar Department presents the 2011 Hartt School Guitar Festival from Monday, July 18, through Friday, July 22. (more...)

The Hartt School Guitar Department presents the 2011 Hartt School Guitar Festival from Monday, July 18, through Friday, July 22. (more...)

Northern Stage (formerly Newcastle Playhouse) and Sheffield Theatres today announce their first collaboration, a new production of Edward Albee’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”. The production will be directed by Northern Stage’s Artistic Director Erica Whyman. “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” will play at Sheffield’s Crucible Theatre (Wednesday 16 March – Thursday 7 April) and then continue to Northern Stage (Tuesday 12 April – Saturday 30 April). (more...)

Northern Stage (formerly Newcastle Playhouse) and Sheffield Theatres today announce their first collaboration, a new production of Edward Albee’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”. The production will be directed by Northern Stage’s Artistic Director Erica Whyman. “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” will play at Sheffield’s Crucible Theatre (Wednesday 16 March – Thursday 7 April) and then continue to Northern Stage (Tuesday 12 April – Saturday 30 April). (more...)

Northern Stage (formerly Newcastle Playhouse) and Sheffield Theatres today announce their first collaboration, a new production of Edward Albee’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”. The production will be directed by Northern Stage’s Artistic Director Erica Whyman. “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” will play at Sheffield’s Crucible Theatre (Wednesday 16 March – Thursday 7 April) and then continue to Northern Stage (Tuesday 12 April – Saturday 30 April). (more...)

The Laurel Mill Playhouse (LMP) will present Said and Meant: Ten Short Plays About Language and Misunderstanding written by Randy Wyatt and produced by special arrangement with Playscripts, Inc. (www.playscripts.com) on Sat., Oct. 23, at 8 p.m. (more...)

The Laurel Mill Playhouse (LMP) will present Said and Meant: Ten Short Plays About Language and Misunderstanding written by Randy Wyatt and produced by special arrangement with Playscripts, Inc. (www.playscripts.com) on Sat., Oct. 23, at 8 p.m. (more...)

The Cleveland Play House is pleased to announce that Pamela DiPasquale has been selected as the Education Director. DiPasquale comes to Cleveland from Kentucky Shakespeare Festival in Louisville, KY where she served as Education Director since 2006. (more...)

More than 25 years after defying long odds, harsh wintry conditions, scant supplies of food and little money to invest, members of the Cooperative Artists, the group that established professional theater at a then-closed 1920s Art Deco movie house in the old Borscht Belt region of the Lower Catskill Mountains are returning for a July 4th weekend reunion celebration at Shadowland Theatre, the Actors' Equity theater in downtown Ellenville, NY, 90 miles northwest of Broadway. (more...)

Due to the forecast winter storm the Johns Hopkins University Theatre has canceled their weekend performances of John Guare's The House of Blue Leaves at theHomewood campus Merrick Barn. There are four performances scheduled for next Thursday-Saturday, 2/11-13, at 8pm and Sunday, 2/14, at 2pm. For ticket info and reservations please call JHUT's box office, 410-516-5153, or email inquiries and/or reservations to JHUT@jhu.edu. (more...)

Producers of the smash hit stage comedy The 39 Steps which is based on Alfred Hitchcock's 1935 classic film thriller, are celebrating their 3rd birthday in the West End by launching a nationwide contest to discover Britain's best Alfred Hitchcock lookalike. (more...)

A new cast has been announced for Patrick Barlow's adaptation of The 39 Steps, directed by Maria Aitken, currently in its third year at the Criterion Theatre. The new cast will feature John Hopkins as Richard Hannay. Other cast members include Stephen Critchlow, Stephen Ventura, and Natalie Walter. The new cast members of the hilarious 100-minute whodunnit begin July 13. (more...)