Robert Fairchild Cancels Performance At The Kennedy Center
by Stephi Wild - January 11, 2019 Due to a scheduling conflict, the Wednesday, March 13 performance by Robert Fairchild, as part of the Renee Fleming VOICES series at the Kennedy Center Terrace Theater, has been canceled....
Nora Lyn Kennedy Presents THIS IS THE REMIX
by BWW News Desk - September 15, 2018 NORA LYN KENNEDY PRESENTS 'THIS IS THE REMIX!' Remixing and Remastering some of Broadway's and Top 40's favorite hits, as well as premiering brand new parodies and original pieces! Today September 15th at 7 PM At Don't Tell Mamma's NYC Cabaret, https://www.donttellmamanyc.com/...
Kennedy Center Announces 2018 Spring Gala: An Evening With Mavis Staples And Special Guests
by Stephi Wild - February 22, 2018 Legendary singer and 2016 Kennedy Center Honoree Mavis Staples will headline and curate a special evening for the 2018 Kennedy Center Spring Gala on Sunday, May 6, 2018, in the Concert Hall. An Evening with Mavis Staples and Special Guests will lead guests through her 60-plus year catalog of genre-d...
The John F. Kennedy Center For The Performing Arts Announces A New Partnership With The Second City
by Stephi Wild - March 13, 2018 The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts today announced a new partnership with The Second City, the famed Chicago-based sketch comedy company. The partnership draws on the respective strengths of each organization to extend the creative capacity, reach, and impact of both brands, and will...
Lineup Announced for 2018 Kennedy Center Arts Summit
by Julie Musbach - March 01, 2018 The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, in collaboration with the Annenberg Foundation, the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, the Aspen Institute Arts Program, and Citizen University, presents the 2018 Kennedy Center Arts Summit: The Future States of America: Using the Art...
Photo Flash: Tony Winner Rebecca Taichman Directs THIS FLAT EARTH At Playwrights Horizons
by A.A. Cristi - March 23, 2018 Playwrights Horizons (Tim Sanford, Artistic Director; Leslie Marcus, Managing Director) presents the world premiere production of THIS FLAT EARTH, a new play by Lindsey Ferrentino (Ugly Lies the Bone, the current Amy and the Orphans). Directed by Tony Award winner Rebecca Taichman (Familiar, Stage K...
Nigel Kennedy Announces Return To Australia
by Stephi Wild - October 14, 2018 Virtuoso violinist and living legend, Nigel Kennedy, returns to Australia this January to perform works of his much loved Johann Sebastian Bach and George Gershwin, including the immortal "Summertime" "Porgy and Bess' and "Rhapsody in Blue" as well as Kennedy's own composition "The Magician of Lubli...
Decades to Premiere RFK ASSASSINATION: 50 YEARS LATER TV Special June 4th, 2018
by Macon Prickett - May 23, 2018 DECADES Network, the multicast TV network from Weigel Broadcasting Co. and CBS Television Stations, recalls the heroism and tragedy of Robert F. Kennedy in the 6th installment of “Decades Presents: 1968” which premieres nationwide onMonday, June 4th at 9P ET/6P PT. This hour-long look at the poignan...
Niki Kennedy Makes A Grand Entrance With New EP
by Julie Musbach - December 04, 2018 Pop songstress Niki Kennedy left her home in New Zealand at 16 to move to Toronto, Canada and become part of the Randolph Academy for the Performing Arts. The gifted songwriter has just dropped her latest EP 'The Weather Up Here this Fall.'...
The Kennedy Center Presents A World Premiere Commission: LONG WAY DOWN
by A.A. Cristi - October 10, 2018 The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts presents a world premiere Kennedy Center commission, Long Way Down, running October 27 - November 4, 2018 in the Family Theater. Based on Jason Reynolds's New York Times best-selling book, this timely and compelling production follows Will, a fiftee...
Jessie Mueller Will Star as Marian in Kennedy Center's THE MUSIC MAN
by Alan Henry - December 10, 2018 BroadwayWorld has learned Tony Award®-winning actress Jessie Mueller (Waitress, Carousel) will reunite with Beautiful director Marc Bruni (Broadway Center Stage: How to Succeed...) for the Broadway Center Stage production of Meredith Willson's The Music Man at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Perf...
VIDEO: Check Out the Official Trailer for Upcoming Netflix Documentary BOBBY KENNEDY FOR PRESIDENT
by Macon Prickett - April 11, 2018 On March 16, 1968, Robert F. Kennedy declared his candidacy for President of the United States in the U.S. Senate Caucus Room, the exact location where his late brother John F. Kennedy had proclaimed his candidacy in 1960. Today, which marks 50 years to that day, Netflix announced that acclaimed dir...
The Kennedy Center Announces Arts Across America
by Julie Musbach - April 17, 2018 The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts announces Arts Across America, a campaign that leverages the resources of the nation's cultural center to recognize thriving arts communities across the country. Through community outreach and one-day events, Arts Across America will spotlight every...
Kathleen Kennedy Townsend Speaks On 'Strength Of Service' At Elizabethtown College 4/24
by A.A. Cristi - March 26, 2018 Former Maryland lieutenant governor Kathleen Kennedy Townsend speaks at Elizabethtown College at 11 a.m. Tuesday, April 24, as the keynote for the College's Scholarship and Creative Arts Days....
Kennedy Center Revokes Bill Cosby Honors and Mark Twain Prize
by A.A. Cristi - May 07, 2018 This afternoon, the Kennedy Center released a statement regarding the criminal conviction of Bill Cosby and announced their intentions to revoke all honors and awards given to Cosby throughout his career....
Liz Kennedy Features Blues Legend Taj Mahal On New Single And Music Video
by Julie Musbach - March 13, 2018 San Francisco based singer-songwriter Liz Kennedy finds fresh ways to define rootsy - including bringing in legendary bluesman Taj Mahal who contributes his inimitable vocals and banjo to the buoyant tune 'Everyone Knows How It Goes.'...
A SARTA Soiree at the Kennedy Gallery Pairs Wine Tasting with Art Appreciation and Live Entertainment
by Stephi Wild - April 04, 2018 The Sacramento Area Regional Theatre Alliance (SARTA) is delighted to announce a new kind of fundraising event called A SARTA Soiree. This delicious event combines the visual arts with live community theatre performances, wine tasting and exciting raffle prizes to create a special blend of arts app...
Watch Slash Ft. Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators On Jimmy Kimmel Live! Tomorrow
by Tori Hartshorn - September 11, 2018 SLASH and his band, SLASH FT. MYLES KENNEDY AND THE CONSPIRATORS will perform their new single "Driving Rain" this Wednesday, September 12 on"Jimmy Kimmel Live!" Tune-in tomorrow night (Sept. 12) to watch the episode airing at 11:35PM (ET/PT)/10:35PM (CT) on ABC TV....
Cher, Reba, HAMILTON Creators, And More To Receive Kennedy Center Honors
by Alan Henry - July 25, 2018 The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts today announced the selection of four Honorees who will receive the 2018 Kennedy Center Honors for lifetime artistic achievements, and a special Honors distinction for a work of art and its co-creators. Recipients to be honored at the 41st annual na...
The Kennedy Center Presents Amanda Gookin's Forward Music Project
by Kaitlin Milligan - February 13, 2019 Cellist Amanda Gookin takes a major step forward in her mission to make classical music an active force for political good with her Forward Music Project on March 29 at 9:00 p.m. inside Dupont Underground. Praised for "Gookin's focus and ferocity-coupled with expert technical work" (The Strad), For...
BWW Poll: Which Broadway Legend Should Receive a Kennedy Center Honor Next?
by BWW Polls - August 01, 2018 Just last week, The John F. KENNEDY Center for the Performing Arts announced the selection of four Honorees who will receive the 2018 KENNEDY CENTER HONORS, including the co-creators of Hamilton-writer and actor Lin-Manuel Miranda, director Thomas Kail, choreographer Andy Blankenbuehler, and music d...
Nora Lyn Kennedy Presents THIS IS THE REMIX
by A.A. Cristi - August 27, 2018 NORA LYN KENNEDY PRESENTS 'THIS IS THE REMIX!' Remixing and Remastering some of Broadway's and Top 40's favorite hits, as well as premiering brand new parodies and original pieces! Saturday September 15th at 7 PM At Don't Tell Mamma's NYC Cabaret, https://www.donttellmamanyc.com/...
Kennedy Center to Award Julia Louis-Dreyfus the 2018 Mark Twain Prize for American Humor
by Julie Musbach - May 23, 2018 The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts will present the 21st annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor to Julia Louis-Dreyfus on Sunday, October 21, 2018 in the Kennedy Center Concert Hall. The Prize, which is named to honor one of the world's greatest humorists, will be given at a gala...
Nora Lyn Kennedy Presents THIS IS THE REMIX
by BWW News Desk - September 15, 2018 NORA LYN KENNEDY PRESENTS 'THIS IS THE REMIX!' Remixing and Remastering some of Broadway's and Top 40's favorite hits, as well as premiering brand new parodies and original pieces! Today September 15th at 7 PM At Don't Tell Mamma's NYC Cabaret, https://www.donttellmamanyc.com/...
SHEAR MADNESS Resumes Performances At The Kennedy Center
by Julie Musbach - August 28, 2018 The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts's production of Shear Madness, the uproarious 'whodunit' that holds the Guinness World Record as the longest-running play in America, resumes performances tonight in the Theater Lab. The zany production, which opened at the Kennedy Center in August ... |