Richard John News

Chicago Opera Theater (COT) presents the final production of their 2010 Spring Festival Season - Jake Heggie's, THREE DECEMBERS on May 8, 12, 14, and 16 at the Harris Theater in Millennium Park. COT will also be presenting a one-night only concert with Frederica von Stade and Jake Heggie on May 10, also at the Harris Theater.

The Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County proudly announces the premiere of ROCK ODYSSEY, a spectacular theatrical production that will be seen by every fifth-grader in the Miami-Dade County Public School System. In total, more than 26,000 fifth graders will participate in the pilot program, which was created by the Adrienne Arsht Center in conjunction with Miami-Dade County Public Schools. The show will afford young people the opportunity to experience live theater in Miami's premier performing arts center, at no cost to them or their schools. ROCK ODYSSEY will run from April 27 - May 8, 2010 in the John S. and James L. Knight Concert Hall. This arts education program is made possible with the generous support of Miami-Dade County and additional funding from Funding Arts Network.

MiraCosta College's production of William Shakespeare's Tempest, will close on March 14.

Bass-clarinetist / ethnomusicologist Dr. Paul Austerlitz will be presenting three concerts featuring music from his CDs, 'Journey' and 'The Fret Cycle.' His band will be augmented with the super-star percussionist of Dominican roots music, José Duluc and renown poet Michael S. Harper. Performances take place February 26 at 7:30PM (Gettysburg College), March 4 at 6PM (Esperanza Academy), and March 5 at 6PM (Bracetti Academy).

Bass-clarinetist / ethnomusicologist Dr. Paul Austerlitz will be presenting three concerts featuring music from his CDs, 'Journey' and 'The Fret Cycle.' His band will be augmented with the super-star percussionist of Dominican roots music, José Duluc and renown poet Michael S. Harper. Performances take place February 26 at 7:30PM (Gettysburg College), March 4 at 6PM (Esperanza Academy), and March 5 at 6PM (Bracetti Academy).

Bass-clarinetist / ethnomusicologist Dr. Paul Austerlitz will be presenting three concerts featuring music from his CDs, 'Journey' and 'The Fret Cycle.' His band will be augmented with the super-star percussionist of Dominican roots music, José Duluc and renown poet Michael S. Harper. Performances take place February 26 at 7:30PM (Gettysburg College), March 4 at 6PM (Esperanza Academy), and March 5 at 6PM (Bracetti Academy).

Bass-clarinetist / ethnomusicologist Dr. Paul Austerlitz will be presenting three concerts featuring music from his CDs, 'Journey' and 'The Fret Cycle.' His band will be augmented with the super-star percussionist of Dominican roots music, José Duluc and renown poet Michael S. Harper. Performances take place February 26 at 7:30PM (Gettysburg College), March 4 at 6PM (Esperanza Academy), and March 5 at 6PM (Bracetti Academy).

MiraCosta College is proud to present William Shakespeare's Tempest, opening February 26. Starring nationally recognized Shakespearean actor and scholar Jonathan McMurtry*, this special event is co-produced by the North Coast Repertory Theatre (NCR) and will feature a cast of seasoned professional actors mixed with top aspiring MiraCosta student actors. NCR's artistic director, David Ellenstein will direct; assistant director is MiraCosta's Tracy Williams.

Bass-clarinetist / ethnomusicologist Dr. Paul Austerlitz will be presenting three concerts featuring music from his CDs, 'Journey' and 'The Fret Cycle.' His band will be augmented with the super-star percussionist of Dominican roots music, José Duluc and renown poet Michael S. Harper. Performances take place February 26 at 7:30PM (Gettysburg College), March 4 at 6PM (Esperanza Academy), and March 5 at 6PM (Bracetti Academy).

MiraCosta College is proud to present William Shakespeare's Tempest, opening February 26. Starring nationally recognized Shakespearean actor and scholar Jonathan McMurtry*, this special event is co-produced by the North Coast Repertory Theatre (NCR) and will feature a cast of seasoned professional actors mixed with top aspiring MiraCosta student actors. NCR's artistic director, David Ellenstein will direct; assistant director is MiraCosta's Tracy Williams.

In celebration of the new decade, Open Stage of Harrisburg, the Capital area's professional regional theatre, is offering special New Year's incentives during the run of CURSE OF THE STARVING CLASS.

In celebration of the new decade, Open Stage of Harrisburg, the Capital area's professional regional theatre, is offering special New Year's incentives during the run of CURSE OF THE STARVING CLASS.

Full casting has been announced for the Royal Court's JOHN MORTIMER AT THE COURT...AND LATER AT THE BAR. The cast will include Broadway stars Jeremy Irons, Alan Rickman, and Harriet Walter. Further casting includes Sinead Cusack, Joanna David, Edward Fox, Tom Hollander, Richard Johnson, Emily Mortimer, Alessandro Nivola, and Dominic West. The evening will be curated by Stephen Jeffreys and Nina Raine will direct. The evening will take place November 15th.

The Royal Court Theatre will celebrate the life of its late chairman and president Sir John Mortimer with an evening of readings, performances and music by some of British theatre's biggest names in the Jerwood Theatre Downstairs, followed by further events in the Royal Court Café Bar.

It's said that there are no worse fates that can befall a man as when his dreams don't come true and when they do. Reno, an apartment 'super' superintendent with a dysfunctional past, discovers the truth of this saying in Julie Lewis' play, SMOLDER, now at The Strand Theater.