Vincent Peale News

The Kennedy Center invites you to enjoy a sexy, suave, and swinging time by celebrating Valentine's Day a day early with vocalist Ann Hampton Callaway and her Trio, as they take a cosmopolitan romp through the Cole Porter songbook. The New York Times raves 'for sheer vocal beauty, no contemporary singer matches Ms. Callaway!'

Two of the Twin Cities' most accomplished actors, Wendy Lehr and Christina Baldwin, will play the indomitable mother and daughter, 'Big' Edie and 'Little' Edie, in the Park Square Theatre and the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts co-production of GREY GARDENS, opening March 25, 2009 (previews begin March 17). The show, by librettist Doug Wright, lyricist Michael Korie and composer Scott Frankel, earned widespread critical acclaim and three Tony? Awards during its nine-month run on Broadway. GREY GARDENS runs through May 17 in the Ordway's McKnight Theatre, 345 Washington St., Saint Paul.

Acclaimed Singer and Songwriter ANN HAMPTON CALLAWAY Finds true love on new CD from Telarc Jazz 'AT LAST'

The Kennedy Center invites you to enjoy a sexy, suave, and swinging time by celebrating Valentine's Day a day early with vocalist Ann Hampton Callaway and her Trio, as they take a cosmopolitan romp through the Cole Porter songbook. The New York Times raves 'for sheer vocal beauty, no contemporary singer matches Ms. Callaway!'

Acclaimed Singer and Songwriter ANN HAMPTON CALLAWAY Finds true love on new CD from Telarc Jazz 'AT LAST'

Artistic Director BJ Jones and Executive Director Timothy J. Evans announce the Chicago premiere of the Tony Award-winning musical Grey Gardens, book by Doug Wright, lyrics by Michael Korie and music by Scott Frankel. The production, directed by BJ Jones with musical direction by Doug Peck, choreography by Marla Lampert and featuring Hollis Resnik, Tempe Thomas and Ann Whitney, has already been extended and will now run November 12-December 28, 2008, at Northlight Theatre, 9501 Skokie Blvd in Skokie.

Artistic Director BJ Jones and Executive Director Timothy J. Evans announce the Chicago premiere of the Tony Award-winning musical Grey Gardens, book by Doug Wright, lyrics by Michael Korie and music by Scott Frankel. The production, directed by BJ Jones with musical direction by Doug Peck, choreography by Marla Lampert and featuring Hollis Resnik, Tempe Thomas and Ann Whitney, has already been extended and will now run November 12-December 28, 2008, at Northlight Theatre, 9501 Skokie Blvd in Skokie.

Northlight Theatre's 33rd Season and Artistic Director BJ Jones' 10th Anniversary Season broke attendance and box office records, surpassed all revenue and fundraising goals and celebrated its first-ever international production with Better Late at the Galway Arts Festival. The theatre is well-poised to kick-off its season in September with its 5-play season and Interplay, its staged reading series of new plays.

The producers of the new hit Broadway musical Grey Gardens- East of Doheny, Staunch Entertainment, Randall L. Wreghitt/Mort Swinsky, Michael Alden and Edwin M. Schloss, in association with Playwrights Horizons - have announced that the musical's acclaimed leading lady, Tony Award-winner Christine Ebersole, has been invited to make a special appearance at The Kennedy Center Honors Gala in Washington, D.C. on Sunday, December 3

Legendary film-maker Albert Maysles is now at work on a new documentary that returns him to the world of Grey Gardens

Tony Award-winners Victoria Clark and James Earl Jones will be among those honored on Thursday, October 12th at the Blanton-Peale Institute's 2006 Norman Vincent Peale Awards for Positive Thinking

Maureen Moore, the respected performer who has previously gone on for such stars as Bernadette Peters, will serve as the standby for Christine Ebersole in the upcoming Broadway musical Grey Gardens; Dale Soules and Megan Lewis are among the other standbys, as well

The Boston Symphony Orchestra will present its annual Labor Day Weekend Tanglewood Jazz Festival September 1-3 at the Orchestra's summer home in the Berkshire Mountains in Lenox, Massachusetts.