Karen Mason, Colleen Zenk to Play CAP21 Benefit Concert, 6/21May 18, 2012Ten Time MAC Award Winner, Karen Mason (Wonderland, Mamma Mia!) and Three Time Emmy Nominee, Colleen Zenk (As The World Turns) will be kicking off the first two events at CAP21 this summer, as part of their benefit series Concerts for CAP21.
AMNH Honors Centenarian Philanthropist for MAT GiftMay 18, 2012The American Museum of Natural History will celebrate 105-year-old philanthropist Kathryn W. Davis at a special ceremony and luncheon today to celebrate her generous support of the Museum's new Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) Program, the first freestanding master's degree program offered by a museum to prepare science teachers. The ceremony will also include the official dedication of the new Kathryn W. Davis Science Teaching Classroom, which will be the main educational center for candidates in the MAT program.
Brooklyn Film Festival Announces DECOY LineupMay 18, 2012Brooklyn Film Festival (BFF) today announced the film line up for its 2012 festival, themed DECOY. The competitive event will run from June 1st through 10th at indieScreen and Brooklyn Heights Cinema.
Westchester Broadway Theatre Presents GEORGE M, 6/7-7/1May 18, 2012GEORGE M! tells the life story of George M. Cohan, a giant of the American Musical Theater who gave us such songs asYankee Doodle Dandy, Over There, You're A Grand Old Flag, and Give My Regards to Broadway. The show follows him over a 60-year period period from the late 1880s until 1937. Beginning with his childhood in Rhode Island on the vaudeville circuit with his parents and sister as 'The Four Cohans,' to New York, where he starts his 25-year absolute reign of the Broadway stage.
Maude Maggart Brings INTO THE GARDEN to Feinstein's, 6/5-16May 18, 2012FEINSTEIN'S AT LOEWS REGENCY will continue its Spring 2012 season with Maude Maggart and her new show "Into The Garden." Inspired by the recent centennial of the Titanic, the evening will focus on landmark events, music, cultural shifts one hundred years ago.
Riverfront Theater Opens in Chicago, 5/30May 18, 2012Riverfront Theater will welcome - direct from Dublin - The Twelve Tenors. The five-day production is the first of a series of summer programming in the 70-foot tall, 22,000 square foot temperature-controlled tent along the scenic Chicago River.
THEATREWORKS HONORS Raises $407,000 for TheatreWorksMay 18, 2012TheatreWorks, the nationally-acclaimed theatre of Silicon Valley, presented its annual TheatreWorks Honors Gala. The event honorees were Chairman and Former CEO of Silicon Valley Bank Ken Wilcox and Tony-nominated Broadway composer Paul Gordon (Jane Eyre), both of whom have dedicated their lives to bringing forth vision, innovation, and creativity.
Surfside Players to Present A WASP'S NEST, 6/8-10May 18, 2012Surfside Players will present the winner of its twelfth annual Playwriting Contest, A WASPS' NEST. David Beyer, retired artistic director for the Indian River Players, has crafted a comedy about an elderly widower dating a younger women whom his children suspect may have Mafia connections. This play runs ONE WEEKEND ONLY, June 8 - 10, Friday and Saturday 8:00pm and Sunday 2:00pm. Directed by Troy Jones. May contain mild profanity.
UCB's FREAK DANCE to be Followed by Matt Besser Q&A TonightMay 18, 2012Freak Dance is described as 'amusical comedy with dance numbers and catchy songs that rival the very films it parodies. Adapted by Upright Citizens Brigade co-founder, Matt Besser (Bad Teacher), from the stage show that ran for more than a year at the UCB Theatre, the comedy skips cheap reference humor and goes right for absurdity and outrageous characters (a UCB specialty).'
Luna Theater Announces IDENTITY CRISIS Play Festival, 5/29-6/3May 18, 2012Luna Theater Company will present their inaugural world premiere 10-Minute 'Identity Crisis Play Festival' from May 29 - June 3, 2012 at the PlayGround at the Adrienne Theatre 2030 Sansom Street. Tickets are $18.00-$28.00 and are available at www.LunaTheater.org.
L.A. Theatre Works & The James Bridges Theater to Screen FRANKENSTEIN, 6/3 & 17May 18, 2012Frankenstein in HD - Adapted for the stage by Nick Dear and realized by Academy Award-winner Danny Boyle (Best Director, Slumdog Millionaire), Frankenstein is an encore presentation of National Theatre Live's smash hit and will be presented with a rotating cast-on June 3, Benedict Cumberbatch will appear as Victor Frankenstein and Jonny Lee Miller as The Creature; on June 17, Jonny Lee Miller takes the role of Victor Frankenstein and Benedict Cumberbatch is The Creature.
Ovation to Air US Premiere of THE RUNAWAY, 6/9May 18, 2012Ovation will air the U.S. premiere the six-part mini-series The Runaway, novelist Martina Cole's tale of star-crossed lovers struggling for redemption against a background of crime and corruption. Part one of the mini-series premieres on Saturday, June 9 at 10:00p/EST & 7:00p/PST and runs for each consecutive Saturday night thereafter.
Pam Ann to Play XL Cabaret, 5/25-6/2May 18, 2012PAM ANN is coming back to NYC with a brand new one-woman comedic show, PAM ANN: Cockpit, for two weekends only on May 25 & 26 and June 1 & 2 at XL Cabaret.