(1/7/2009) In its Los Angeles Regional Premiere, the Tony Award winning musical The Light In The Piazza will open at the Covina Center for the Performing Arts on January 23, 2009.
The Covina Center for the Performing Arts is proud to present a brand new production of this Tony award winning musical, directed by Brady Schwind. (read story...)
(1/7/2009) Thomas Warner, who joined the Center in 1999, two years before its opening, has been named Vice President of Programming. Warner who first served as Program Manager, then as Director of Programming, will be responsible for the "Kimmel Center Presents" series in the Kimmel Center and the Academy of Music-ranging across performance genres including classical, dance, jazz, world and popular entertainment. Warner will also be responsible for "Free at the Kimmel," a popular series of programs in Commonwealth Plaza open to the public free of charge. (read story...)
(1/7/2009) Tonight Wednesday January 7th, 2009 film star Anne Hathaway will be a guest on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno tonight, the program airs 11:30pm (EST) on NBC. (read story...)
(1/7/2009) Critics John Heilpern of The New York Observer, Mike Kuchwara of The Associated Press and Jacques le Sourd of CBS radio, discuss the profound impact of the economy on their profession and whether professional drama critics are, in Riedel's words, "doomed." This program was taped 4 days after le Sourd, the theater critic at Gannett Newspapers for 35 years, was laid off. (The company is not planning to replace him, but will eliminate his position.) (read story...)
(1/7/2009) At a media conference this morning, the Manitoba Theatre Centre and 11 partners from the arts community launched the 9th annual Master Playwright Festival. Theatre-goers will have the opportunity to experience the unforgettable plays and films of American playwright Arthur Miller from January 22 to February 8. (read story...)
(1/7/2009) On December 17, 2008 the Dicapo Opera Theatre presented a holiday concert called "Yuletide Classics", a two hour show which included holiday songs, carols and opera classics. The cast featured the Dicapo Opera Children's Chorus and The Dicapo Opera Theatre's Resident Artists. The sold out show was performed in The Dicapo Opera Theatre's 220 seat theater in New York City under the direction of Diane Martindale, and General Director Michael Capasso.
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(1/7/2009) Shaw's ultimate test of a mother-daughter relationship is one of his most enduring and provocative plays. Kitty Warren has worked hard to provide the comfortable upbringing she never had for her daughter Vivie. Now that Vivie is about to embark on her own career, her mother decides that it is time for the feminist daughter to finally learn the truth about her mother's profession. Recommended for general audiences. (read story...)
(1/7/2009) Oscar Night America (ONA), the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' grassroots program that enables local charities to host glamorous Oscar viewing parties and raise money for their organizations, kicks off its 16th year in 2009. (read story...)
(1/7/2009) On Wednesday, January 14th, IN THE HEIGHTS and GHOSTLIGHT RECORDS will host a TALKBACK event for GRAMMY UNIVERSITY Students. The evening begins with an 8pm performance of the Tony Award Winning 'In The Heights' at the Richard Rodgers Theatre. (read story...)
(1/7/2009) Monday night's Broadway at Birdland saw a sea of theater glitterati, cheering the hilarious rantings of Julie Halston. The star of Hairspray, Gypsy, The Women, Twentieth Century, and founding member of Charles Busch's Theater-in-Limbo, decided, for one night only, to throw caution to the wind and just go crazy with new material, old material and of course new clothes! Our BWW cameras were there, of course, to catch all the fun! (read story...)
(1/7/2009) Susan Hilferty, costume designer for the Broadway musicals Spring Awakening and Wicked, among many other theatrical productions, will discuss her career at the Bruno Walter Auditorium in The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, at 40 Lincoln Center Plaza, on Monday, January 12, at 6 p.m. Hilferty's appearance, presented in conjunction with the League of Professional Theatre Women, is free to the public on a first come, first served basis, and kicks off a series of programs and panel discussions held in connection with the exhibition, Curtain Call: Celebrating a Century of Women Designing for Live Performance, currently on view until May 2, 2009. (read story...)
(1/7/2009) Axis Company will present an encore engagement of EAST 10TH STREET: SELF PORTRAIT WITH EMPTY HOUSE, a play by and about Downtown performance icon Edgar Oliver. Originally presented in November of 2008, this stark and enigmatic look at a life on the fringes of New York's Lower East Side was acclaimed by critics and embraced by record-breaking audiences at Axis. The production comes on the heels of what could be Oliver's breakthrough role in the upcoming film from Napoleon Dynamite's Jared Hess, Gentlemen Broncos, opposite Sam Rockwell as well as a national advertising campaign for mobile phones in Ireland that has also become a cult phenomenon. Directed by Randy Sharp, and presented on an Off-Broadway contract, performances of this limited engagement begin February 12. (read story...)
(1/7/2009) Broadway star Charlotte D'Amboise will be taking on the role of Principal Dickinson on One Life To Live. She will appear on January 16. (read story...)
(1/7/2009) The Broadway company of CHICAGO held the first January 2009 installment of "Talkback Tuesdays," the new monthly series offering a post-show discussion and audience Q&A session with members of the Broadway company of the record-breaking hit musical. Designed to provide theatergoers with an exclusive, behind-the-scenes glimpse into the world of CHICAGO, the recent "Talkback Tuesdays" featured a post-show conversation with actress Melora Hardin. (read story...)
(1/7/2009) LA Times The Envelope reports that Woody Allen has received his 19th screenplay nomination from the Writers Guild of America Wednesday for his romantic comedy " Vicky Cristina Barcelona.Allen, 73, has previously won the WGA award for original screenplay for "Annie Hall," "Broadway Danny Rose," "Hannah and Her Sisters" and "Crimes & Misdemeanors." (read story...)
(1/7/2009) Page 73 proudly announces that Heidi Schreck is the recipient of the 2008 P73 Playwriting Fellowship. As part of her fellowship year, For her fellowship year, Heidi will be working on a new play inspired by her own experience as a reporter in Siberia and St. Petersburg; this new play questions the limits of friendship and explores the mythic power still ascribed to the relationship between t he United States and Russia. (read story...)
(1/7/2009) The Kennedy Center presents the world premiere of Unleashed! The Secret Lives of White House Pets written by Allyson Currin and directed by Nick Olcott. Co-produced and co-commissioned with the White House Historical Association, the play appears in the Family Theater January 30 - February 22, 2009 and is recommended for audiences aged seven and up. (read story...)
(1/7/2009) Director-choreographer Mark Morris's much-lauded 2007 production of Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice returns to the repertoire, with Stephanie Blythe taking on one of the pinnacles of the mezzo-soprano repertory, the role of Orfeo, for the first time in her career. Soprano Danielle de Niese, an acclaimed singer of eighteenth-century music and a graduate of the Met's Lindemann Young Artist Development Program, sings Euridice for the first time at the Met. Heidi Grant Murphy returns as Amor, which she performed at the production's premiere in 2007. (read story...)
(1/7/2009) Australia Week 2009 proudly presents Australia Plays Broadway, a celebration of Australia's most acclaimed musical artists on Tuesday, January 20 at Carnegie Hall. The one-night-only concert event features Grammy award-winning star of stage and screen, Olivia Newton-John and performances by star of Melbourne's Wicked Amanda Harrison, acclaimed stage and screen performer Simon Burke (host), singer and chart sensation Lior, singer/songwriter Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu, iconic rocker Jimmy Barnes, vocalist Ursula Yovich, crooner David Campbell, twin cellists Pei-Jee and Pei-Sian Ng and many more. (read story...)
(1/7/2009) Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) is continuing to enhance the experience of Roundabout's subscribers with the launch of MYROUNDABOUT.org on January 7, 2009. (read story...)
(1/7/2009) Andrew Schmertz reports on how Broadway is impacted by the bleak economic times on the premiere episode of It's the Economy, NY: What's Happening and What it Means to You, a new seven-part series from WNET.ORG hosted by New York Times business columnist and editor Andrew Ross Sorkin. The series premieres Thursday, January 8 at 8 p.m. on THIRTEEN and at 11:30 p.m. on WLIW21. (read story...)
(1/7/2009) The new musical features a book written by the TV series' creator Garry Marshall. Music and Lyrics are by Academy Award-winning composer Paul Williams. (read story...)
(1/7/2009) Bay Street Theatre is proud to announce the winter line up of its ever-popular classic films series, the Picture Show at Bay Street, presented by BookHampton. These classic films are presented as they were meant to be seen-on the big screen, and will run every Friday and Saturday evenings. The doors open at 7:30 and films start at 8pm. $5 tickets are available at the door. (read story...)
(1/7/2009) Broadway in South Africa (BSA) is a new, not-for-profit organization that works to provide the average child from underadvantaged South African communities, with little or no access to a formal arts education, the tools of self-awareness and self-empowerment through art, so that they may begin to discover a future beyond disease and poverty. Ultimately, BSA?s ongoing work is designed to have lasting effects in the lives of these children, as opposed to single, disjointed efforts. (read story...)
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Photo Flash: Dicapo Opera Theatre's YULETIDE CLASSICS
Alley Theatre Presents 'MRS. WARREN'S PROFESSION' 1/9
'OSCAR NIGHT AMERICA' Benefit Expands To 52 Cities
IN THE HEIGHTS And Ghostlight Records Host Talkback Event 
Photo Coverage: Broadway at Birdland Hosts Julie Halston
Costume Designer Susan Hilferty Discusses Her Career On 1/12
EAST 10TH STREET: SELF PORTRAIT WITH EMPTY HOUSE Begins 2/12
Charlotte D'Amboise To Take A Lead Role On ONE LIFE TO LIVE
Photo Coverage: 'Talkback Tuesdays' at CHICAGO with Melora Hardin
Shanley and Morgan Among Writers Guild Nominees
Page 73 Announces Heidi Schreck Receives P73 Fellowship
The Kennedy Center Presents The World Premiere Of UNLEASHED 
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Newton-John Leads AUSTRALIA PLAYS BROADWAY At Carnegie Hall On 1/20
Roundabout Theater Company Launches MYROUNDABOUT.org 1/7
'IT'S THE ECONOMY' Series Features Broadway on First Episode 1/8
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