The Off-Broadway League has announced their choices for the 31st annual Lucille Lortel Awards; coming out on top with six nominations was Stephen Karam’s chilling family drama “The Humans.” In the 18 categories, César Alvarez’s “Futurity,” Rajiv Joseph’s “Guards at the Taj,” and Annie Baker’s “John” also fared well, earning five nominations apiece. The voting committee—made up of academics, journalists, and representatives of the Off-Broadway League, Actors’ Equity Association, Stage Directors & Choreographers Society, and Lucille Lortel Foundation—also recognized such Off-Broadway hits as “The Robber Bridegroom,” “The Legend of Georgia McBride,” and “Preludes.” The 2016 Lucille Lortel Awards ceremony will be held May 1 at the Jack H. Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, with all proceeds going to The Actors Fund. James Houghton, founding artistic director of Signature Theatre, will be honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award, while Pulitzer Prize winner Suzan-Lori Parks will be inducted onto...
- 3/30/2016
- backstage.com
Bright Lights! Shining Stars! – a gala event to benefit the NYC Dance Alliance Foundation – will honor the legendary Roberta Flack with the Nycdaf’s First Ambassador for the Arts Award on August 1, 2011 at the Jack H. Skirball Center for the Performing Arts at Nyu. 566 Laguardia Place, New York.
The star-studded evening of song and dance directed by renowned choreographer, dancer and instructor Joe Lanteri will also feature the awarding of $50,000+ in college scholarships to promising young dancers.
The NYC Dance Alliance Foundation is dedicated to empowering the next generation of professional dancers by advocating education and offering scholarships for secondary and college training. For the past 16 years, the Nycda has lead the industry in offering professional weekend conventions exposing young dancers to the best of the New York City dance world in a supportive, positive and fun environment and helping them take their first steps into the professional world.
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The star-studded evening of song and dance directed by renowned choreographer, dancer and instructor Joe Lanteri will also feature the awarding of $50,000+ in college scholarships to promising young dancers.
The NYC Dance Alliance Foundation is dedicated to empowering the next generation of professional dancers by advocating education and offering scholarships for secondary and college training. For the past 16 years, the Nycda has lead the industry in offering professional weekend conventions exposing young dancers to the best of the New York City dance world in a supportive, positive and fun environment and helping them take their first steps into the professional world.
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- 7/7/2011
- Look to the Stars
Fatherhood is fast approaching for Jason Schwartzman — what’s he looking forward to?
“I just can’t wait to hold that bundle in my arms and show it Jersey Shore,” joked the actor at the premiere of Bored to Death, held at the Jack H. Skirball Center for the Performing Arts on Tuesday in N.Y.C.
The star of the HBO series and his wife, Brady Cunningham, are expecting their first child in December.
“I’m trying to expect nothing actually,” Schwartzman, 30, told People. “I think the more you expect, perhaps you can be thrown off.
“I just can’t wait to hold that bundle in my arms and show it Jersey Shore,” joked the actor at the premiere of Bored to Death, held at the Jack H. Skirball Center for the Performing Arts on Tuesday in N.Y.C.
The star of the HBO series and his wife, Brady Cunningham, are expecting their first child in December.
“I’m trying to expect nothing actually,” Schwartzman, 30, told People. “I think the more you expect, perhaps you can be thrown off.
- 9/26/2010
- by Sarah
- People - CelebrityBabies
Press Release Film At Redcat Presents Joanna Priestley: Fighting Gravity Mon Apr 20 | 8:30 pm Jack H. Skirball Series $9 [students $7, CalArts $5] Los Angeles premiere Dubbed “the queen of independent animation” by Bill Plympton, Joanna Priestley unveils her new short Missed Aches, a humorous rant about the need for proofreading. This can’t-miss program for animation buffs also includes a series of animated gems representing the range of the artist’s techniques: Voices, Grown Up, All My Relations, Streetcar Named Perspire, Utopia Parkway, Candyjam, She-Bop, Pro and Con, and Dew Line. Mentored by Jules Engel at CalArts, Priestley had previously made 19 award-winning films about subjects as varied as relationships, plants, magic, menopause, abstraction and prison. Retrospectives of her work have been presented at The Museum of Modern Art, the Walker Art Center, and American Cinematheque, among other venues. In person: Joanna Priestley “The exquisite animated world of Joanna Priestley has been one of...
- 4/6/2009
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Press Release Film At Redcat Presents Zoe Beloff: Conjuring Specters Mon Apr 27 | 8:30 pm Jack H. Skirball Series $9 [students $7, CalArts $5] New York artist Zoe Beloff’s unique and mesmerizing films are philosophical toys: objects with which to think. Her work has especially borne on “phantoms,” on images that are “not there,” and on a precinematic version of the virtual, created by means of a stereoscopic Bolex camera that produces spectral 3-D images. Shadowland Or Light From The Other Side [above], starring Kate Valk of The Wooster Group, locates a link between Victorian spiritualism and the birth of cinema in late-19th century “Ghost Shows,” where actors interacted with magic lantern slides and stereoscopic views. Charming Augustine is an experimental narrative inspired by one of Charcot’s most famous patients at the Salpétrière in turn-of-the-century Paris. It explores connections between photographic documentation of hysteria and the prehistory of narrative film: Augustine captivates the doctors...
- 4/6/2009
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
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