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Barbra Streisand, Morgan Freeman, George Jones, Twyla Tharp and Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey of the Who this weekend became the latest recipients of the Kennedy Center Honors for lifetime achievement in the performing arts. The ceremony, now in its 31st year, is one of Washington's few red carpet events. Celebrities came from New York, Los Angeles and Nashville to pay tribute to the honorees. The weekend celebration included a dinner hosted by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Saturday at the State Department. On Sunday, stars including the musician B. B. King and the actor Denzel Washington appeared on stage at the annual gala at the John F. Kennedy Center.
The gala will be broadcast on CBS on Dec. 30.
Drama group partners with high school performers Five years ago, Lakeland High School students performed their last school play and the stage went dark. With no drama program, there were no more acts to follow. A few miles down the road, the community theater group the Lakeland Players performed in a makeshift theater in the auditorium of Central United Methodist Church in Waterford Township. The school had the facilities, the Players had the resources. It seemed like a match made in heaven, and now, the two groups have formed a partnership that has brought life back to the high school theater in two ways.
"They needed us and we needed them," said Mike Brody, who works with the Lakeland Players and is directing Lakeland High School"s current production of "Grease." The classic musical is the first production of what Brody hopes will be a lasting collaboration between the two groups.
The Educational Theatre Association is excited to announce the the creation of an essay contest for its student members in support of the 2009 Arts Advocacy Day training and lobbying activities in Washington D.C., March 30-31. The annual event, organized by Americans for the Arts, draws arts advocates from throughout the country lobbying on behalf of legislative initiatives and financial support for the arts, including education. The wave of student interest in the recent presidential election, and the educational challenges connected to the current economic crisis prompted EdTA to create the contest. The topic for the essay is, "Why arts education is important to America's future." EdTA will choose one winning essay and provide $1,500 toward the travel and attendance costs at Arts Advocacy Day for the winner and their chaperone. Americans for the Arts will waive the event registration fees for the winner and chaperone. The winning essayist will:
For the first time in its 53 year history the annual Samuel Goldwyn Writing Awards, which recognize excellence in dramatic writing, have been swept by students from a single program. The Samuel Goldwyn Writing Awards were founded by Samuel Goldwyn Sr. in 1955 to encourage young writers. The awards competition is open to all University of California students. This year's winners were selected from a field of more than 120 feature-length script submissions from eight UC campuses. But when the winner and finalists were announced Monday by Samuel Goldwyn Jr., president of the Samuel Goldwyn Foundation, during a ceremony at UCLA, which turned out to be the School all of them attended. Read More...
For fans of "In The Heights" who have yearned to see the hit underdog Broadway musical turned into a motion picture, it won't be long now: Universal Pictures has acquired the film rights to the show, the studio announced Friday. The story of a community in Manhattan's Washington Heights neighborhood, "In The Heights" won four Tony Awards this year, including best musical, as well as best score, for Lin-Manuel Miranda, who also stars in the show. Mr. Miranda will be a producer of the film adaptation, and Quiara Alegria Hudes, who wrote the show's book, will write the screenplay. Universal scored a blockbuster hit this summer with its film adaptation of the musical "Mamma Mia!", and is also working on a film of the Broadway show "Wicked."
THE scene comes at the very end of "Equus," now playing at the Broadhurst Theater on Broadway. After more than two hours of anticipation a young man named Alan, played by Daniel Radcliffe, blinds six horses in a nightmarish dance that leaves the audience disturbed and stunned. It lasts only 20 seconds, but the blinding, which onstage is manifest as a kind of equine ballet, has become one of the most memorable parts of this drama, making the men who portray the horses a vital part of "Equus" since its premiere in 1973.
It's been said before, but when the America's Best Dance Crew Live Tour hit Los Angeles' Nokia Theatre on Thursday night, it couldn't have rung truer: JabbaWockeeZ is the best dance crew ever, period, the end. OK, so maybe I'm exaggerating a bit, but judging from the jam-packed theater, with teens decked out in white masks, gloves, and colorful Jabba t-shirts, it was clear that the people came to see JabbaWockeeZ, and luckily for them, that's exactly what they got and then some!
Dude. It's an important word in the lexicon of the average, beer-swilling American male, employed frequently as a term of endearment, exclamation (Duuuude!) or even informal title (First Dude). So when Bill (Josh Lucas), a graphic designer who has settled down in a life of marriage and nightly episodes of "Charlie Rose," tells his old friend Jim (Dominic Fumusa), still single and sleeping around, to stop calling him "dude," it feels like a harsh break-up. Looking shocked and even a bit hurt, Jim replies exasperatedly, "You don't see yourself as a dude?" David Schwimmer and Stephen Belber talk about the play.
What may be largest high school senior class ever in the United States is applying to college this fall. And thousands of students will look beyond their high school guidance counselors to help them get into the schools of their choice. Private educational consultants take up where overburdened high school guidance counselors leave off. Charging by the hour or offering a package of services, these consultants usually meet multiple times with a student to talk about goals for college and beyond. They synthesize information from parents, transcripts and other sources to help create a list of colleges that might be a good match. Then they guide students through the application process, reviewing essays, preparing them for interviews and keeping them organized to meet deadlines. Read More...
It's hard to do everything you need to for school, friends, homework, and dance class. We're now a few weeks into a new school year, and your packed schedule is probably starting to wear you out. If you're thinking of freeing up some time by giving up activities, don't drop dance. Even though it requires time and energy, research shows that your participation in dance can actually help you succeed in school. Read More...
Before the Jabbawockeez rocketed to world-wide fame during their "America's Best Dance Crew" stint, Kevin Brewer and a few of his crew members started laying the foundation for expanding their reach to dance students and enthusiasts around the country. Brewer and Larot, his "brother from another mother," began brainstorming and sessioning for hours at a time, hoping to set a new standard for freestyle dance. "There was one point in time where we wanted to train a lot to set our own mark and our own tone," Larot said. "We would just lock ourselves up in the studio filming ourselves freestyling. That's kind of how Beat Kune Do came about." Brewer began documenting ideas about how to improve musicality and tap into a dancer's inner ear and natural movement. He took his fledgling philosophy into the classroom, teaching at Culture Shock Dance Center in San Diego and overseeing a new crew called Super Galactic Beat Manipulators, which he no longer manages though the crew continues to operate with his occasional involvement. Read More...
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After all these years, Broadway comes callingSF Gate In 36 years on Bay Area stages, Charles Dean has played drunks and dreamers, rock stars and lonely old men. He's broken a toe onstage, acted with a case of conjunctivitis and fallen offstage into a man's lap when he lost control of a motorized wheelchair. A journeyman actor, Dean has appeared in more than 150 local stage productions. For 20 years, from 1977 to 1997, he did 80 plays at Berkeley Rep alone, both lead roles and character turns. He's accomplished something most actors find impossible - he's made a living as a Bay Area stage actor, without taking outside jobs to supplement his income. Read More...  Television's BestNew York Times Ginia Bellafante discusses some of the best performances from the last TV season. Read More...  The Rest Was Silence, but Then Came the SequelNew York Times Hamlet 2 belongs to the school of free-for-all satiric farce whose creators ball up wads of ideas, apply chewing gum and hurl them against the wall to see what sticks. If the style smacks of desperation, enough of the jokes cling to make Hamlet 2, directed by Andrew Fleming, intermittently funny. Read More...
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