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Marcel Proust

Date of Death: November 18, 1922 (51)

Birth Place: Auteuil, FRANCE

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Cast and Creatives Announced For Rachel O'Riordan's Revival of OUR COUNTRY'S GOOD

Lyric Hammersmith Theatre has announced the full cast and creative team for Olivier Award-winning classic Our Country's Good, written by Timberlake Wertenbaker,  and directed by Artistic Director Rachel O'Riordan.
Lyric Hammersmith Reveals 2024-25 Season, Including Revival of OUR COUNTRY'S GOOD and More!

The Lyric Hammersmith Theatre has announced its new 2024/2025 season, featuring a revival of the Olivier Award-winning play Our Country’s Good. Learn more about the full season here!
Lisa Batiashvili & Giorgi Gigashvili Come to Bozar

Lisa Batiashvili & Giorgi Gigashvili come to Bozar on November 16. Learn more about the show here!
Newport Classical Hosts Violinist Chad Hoopes and Pianist Anne-Marie McDermott in Concert

As part of its Chamber Series, Newport Classical presents a special evening featuring two internationally renowned soloists and chamber musicians – violinist Chad Hoopes and pianist Anne-Marie McDermott. Learn more about the concert here!
GROUNDHOG DAY Will Return to the West End in 2023 Starring Andy Karl

The Old Vic has announced the return of the critically acclaimed hit show, Groundhog Day, directed by Matthew Warchus, with book by Danny Rubin, and music and lyrics by Tim Minchin.
Festival Bloomsday Montréal Celebrates 100 Years of ULYSSES Next Month

Festival Bloomsday Montréal is the largest Bloomsday Festival outside Dublin with events spread over six days. This year most events will be hybrid: accessible in person and/or online through Zoom livestreaming.
New England Conservatory Announces Spring Programming

New England Conservatory has announced their spring 2022 Season. Highlights include NEC Wind Ensemble and Choirs offer a 50th anniversary celebration of the Wind Ensemble by presenting Igor Stravinsky's 'Symphony of Psalms,' and the world premiere commission of Chris Brubeck's first wind ensemble piece, 'Fifty'.
Steven Sater talks SPRING AWAKENING at the Almeida Theatre

As the Almeida revival of Spring Awakening opens in London, writer Steven Sater talks about his relationship with the show over the years, as well as his new Grammy-nominated concept album with Burt Bacharach.
THE HARE WITH AMBER EYES Exhibition to Open at The Jewish Museum in November

The Jewish Museum will present The Hare with Amber Eyes, an exhibition that tells the story of the Ephrussi family—celebrated in the 2010 memoir and The New York Times bestseller of the same name by Edmund de Waal—and showcases the breadth and depth of their illustrious collection.
Margarita Michelena, Una De Las Voces Poéticas Y Periodísticas Más Auténticas Del Siglo XX

Margarita Michelena (1917-1998), a quien se recuerda este 21 de julio, es considerada una de las voces poéticas más auténticas que dejó el siglo XX. Su talento lírico y su formación periodística la llevaron a abrirse paso a través de la poesía y la escritura en la concepción de un mundo más independiente y comprometido con el entorno y la libertad.  
VASLAV Comes to The Drama Factory

The Drama Factory will present the theatrical tour-de-force that is Godfrey Johnson in 'Vaslav'. Harnessing the potential of three arts-in-one, Johnson ignites the spirit of Nijinsky in this celebration of the magnificent power of sheer performance. Nominated for three Fleur du Cap Awards in 2015, 'Vaslav' has been hailed by critics and audiences alike, with demand for this one-person play extending theatrical runs on more than one occasion.
Programme Announced For The London International Mime Festival

For 2020, the 44th year of London's annual festival of contemporary visual theatre, 10 overseas companies join 8 British groups, including 4 LIMF co-commissioned productions: This Time, a tender take on relationships and ageing from aerial theatre company Ockham's Razor; Romancing the Apocalypse from multi award winning dance duo Thick & Tight; Dead Good, a funny and poignant story of dying from full mask theatre company Vamos Theatre; and the story of one of showbiz's long overlooked partnerships, The Strange Tale of Charlie Chaplin and Stan Laurel performed by Told by an Idiot at new festival venue, the iconic Wilton's Music Hall.
BWW Review: LETTERS LIVE, Royal Albert Hall

Almost six years since its first outing at the Tabernacle, Letters Live last night put on its biggest show yet: in the grandiose and historic setting of the Royal Albert Hall. As well as celebrating the joy and emotion of the written word, with the help of a stunning array of talent, the shows also seek to support charitable causes - this time it was the turn of the National Literacy Trust. Over the course of three hours, the audience was treated to a wide-ranging selection of correspondence, including everything from noisy neighbours and Albert Hall shenanigans, to a prolifically flatulent dog.
Arts Management Veteran Marcus L. Overton Passes Away At Age 75

Marcus L. Overton, a passionate and colorful 54-year veteran of the performing arts management world as well as an actor, director, writer, teacher, scholar, linguist and Emmy-award winning radio and TV host, died at age 75 on June 9 in San Diego after a long battle with kidney failure. He is survived by his husband Raymond A. Fluta. Overton left instructions that his ashes were to be taken to Paris, a city he visited yearly, and scattered on the graves of Oscar Wilde, Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, Marcel Proust and Francois Poulenc.
Third Annual El Barrio's Shakespeare Festival Begins This Week

The Shakespeare Forum, a nonprofit organization dedicated to creating empowered communities through education and performance, announces the 2019 El Barrio's Shakespeare Festival. The three-week festival will present professional and student performances and seeks to help foster the actors and audiences of tomorrow.
Boston Court Pasadena Announces Fall 2018 Music Season

Boston Court Pasadena presents another daring season of music events to Southern California - 14 Uncommon Performances -- this fall starting September 7 with a program of all new work in Poets, Prophets and Philosophers - with The Lyris Quartet and soprano Hila Plitmann.
Film Society of Lincoln Center Announces 'Life Is A Dream: The Films of Raul Ruiz Part 2'

The Film Society of Lincoln Center announces Life Is a Dream: The Films of Ra l Ruiz (Part 2), February 9-18. Following a memorable first part in December 2016, FSLC is pleased to present the next edition of an ongoing retrospective devoted to Ruiz, among the great visionaries in film history and perhaps its most intrepid explorer of the unconscious.
FSLC Announces Life Is a Dream: The Films of Raul Ruiz (Part 2)

The Film Society of Lincoln Center announces Life Is a Dream: The Films of Raul Ruiz (Part 2), February 9-18. Following a memorable first part in December 2016, FSLC is pleased to present the next edition of an ongoing retrospective devoted to Ruiz, among the great visionaries in film history and perhaps its most intrepid explorer of the unconscious.
Sarah Rothenberg's A PROUST SONATA at FIAF Starts Tonight

The French Institute Alliance Fran aise (FIAF), New York's premiere French cultural center, and Da Camera of Houston Productions present the New York Premiere of A Proust Sonata, Today through Friday, January 10 12 at 7:30pm in FIAF's Florence Gould Hall.
Sarah Rothenberg's A PROUST SONATA Gets New York Premiere At FIAF

The French Institute Alliance Fran aise (FIAF), New York's premiere French cultural center, and Da Camera of Houston Productions present the New York Premiere of A Proust Sonata, Today through Friday, January 10 12 at 7:30pm in FIAF's Florence Gould Hall.

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