Fred Ebb Foundation Donates Over $1.6 Million to Broadway Cares/Equity Fights Aids
The Fred Ebb Foundation has announced that its 2016 donation to Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS will total $1.675 million dollars, bringing the foundation's total contribution to BC/EFA to $13.325 million since it began 12 years ago. The foundation, which is funded by royalties from the late award-winning lyricist Fred Ebb's vast catalogue of work, makes an annual donation to BC/EFA.
12th Annual Fred Ebb Award Presented Tonight to Thomas Mizer & Curtis Moore
The Fred Ebb Foundation (Mitchell S. Bernard, Trustee) in association with the Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) will present the twelfth annual Fred Ebb Award for aspiring musical theatre songwriters to Thomas Mizer and Curtis Moore, tonight from 6-8pm at a by-invitation-only ceremony in the Penthouse Lounge of The American Airlines Theater. The award, named in honor of the late award-winning lyricist Fred Ebb, will be presented by Marin Mazzie and Jason Danieley.
Keely Garfield Dance's POW Set for 92Y, 2/26-28
Keely Garfield is described by the New York Times as 'an artist working at the height of her powers' whose choreography 'is worth watching multiple times. There is so much to see, so much to delight in and puzzle through, that once is rarely enough!' Pow, making its world premiere at 92Y's Harkness Dance Festival, is a Frankenstein of a performance in which Garfield's acclaimed dances are radically reconfigured, sutured, amplified and left to run amok, creating a shocking new version of events. In Pow, resilience is palpable as the performers rise to the physical challenge, emotional engagement, and complex sequential contests of the work.
2009 Jonathan Larson Grant Winners Announced
The American Theatre Wing today announced the recipients of the 2009 Jonathan Larson? Grants. The grants, given annually to honor emerging composers, lyricists and book writers, help to continue Tony Award-winning composer Jonathan Larson's dream of infusing musical theatre with a contemporary, joyful, urban vitality.