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Porchlight Music Theatre, nationally recognized for developing innovative new works, reimagining classic productions, and showcasing musical theater's rising stars, announces its 2011-2012 season.

The Synapse Theatre Company announces that rehearsals are now in full swing for Paula Vogel's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, How I Learned to Drive.

Following a heartfelt and entertaining memorial for Sidney Lumet at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall with speakers and performers including Lauren Bacall, Walter Bernstein, Bobby Cannavale, Glenn Close, Jonathan Demme, James Gandolfini, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jenny Lumet, David Mamet, Phylilis Newman and Christopher Walken among others, the Film Society of Lincoln Center has announced the details today for a retrospective of the admired and beloved director's work, Prince of the City: Remembering Sidney Lumet which will screen at the Walter Reade Theater July 19 - 25.

Following a heartfelt and entertaining memorial for Sidney Lumet at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall with speakers and performers including Lauren Bacall, Walter Bernstein, Bobby Cannavale, Glenn Close, Jonathan Demme, James Gandolfini, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jenny Lumet, David Mamet, Phylilis Newman and Christopher Walken among others, the Film Society of Lincoln Center has announced the details today for a retrospective of the admired and beloved director's work, Prince of the City: Remembering Sidney Lumet which will screen at the Walter Reade Theater July 19 - 25.

It is 1100 BC, in the hill country of Manasseh, west of the Jordan River in Biblical Palestine.

It is 1100 BC, in the hill country of Manasseh, west of the Jordan River in Biblical Palestine.

Porchlight Music Theatre, nationally recognized for developing innovative new works, reimagining classic productions, and showcasing musical theater's rising stars, announces its 2011-2012 season.

Stage and screen scribe Aaron Sorkin won the 83rd Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Social Network. Read his ontage speech and the transcript from his backstage interview below!

Ernest Borgnine, who is exuberantly entering his seventh decade of creating memorable characters and award-winning performances, will receive Screen Actors Guild (SAG)'s most prestigious accolade-?the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award for career achievement and humanitarian accomplishment.

Celebrated actress and two-time Tony Award-winner Frances Sternhagen will be joining the confluence of artists and audiences for Florida Stage's 5th Annual 1st Stage New Works Festival. Ms. Sternhagen will be featured in a staged reading of legendary playwright Israel Horovitz' new play Beverley on Saturday, February 5, 2011. On Friday, February 4, in place of the Festival's usual Keynote speech, Ms. Sternhagen will take part in what is being called 'A Conversation with Frances Sternhagen.' Florida Stage Producing Director Louis Tyrrell will conduct a public interview with Sternhagen on stage in the Persson Hall at the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts. The Florida Stage 1st Stage New Works Festival takes place February 3-6, 2011. Tickets and packages for all Festival events are available online at www.floridastage.org or by calling the box office at (561) 585-3433.

Tired yet of candy canes, plum pudding, and sugar plums? If so, come taste EARTh's a-typical Holiday fare- Kaufman & Hart's THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER, Monday night, December 13th, at St. Teresa's Academy.

The December Talk Cinema film, to be screened next Thursday, December 9 at 7pm, is Casino Jack (Rated R). Starring Kevin Spacey as as convicted Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff and directed by the late George Hickenlooper, the film is about a hot shot Washington DC lobbyist and his protégé falling hard as their schemes to peddle influence lead to corruption and murder.

The December Talk Cinema film, to be screened next Thursday, December 9 at 7pm, is Casino Jack (Rated R). Starring Kevin Spacey as as convicted Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff and directed by the late George Hickenlooper, the film is about a hot shot Washington DC lobbyist and his protégé falling hard as their schemes to peddle influence lead to corruption and murder.

Tired yet of candy canes, plum pudding, and sugar plums? If so, come taste EARTh's a-typical Holiday fare- Kaufman & Hart's THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER, Monday night, December 13th, at St. Teresa's Academy.

By the time of his untimely death at 57 in 1981, Paddy Chayefsky was known as one of the most daring and talented American screen writers. His sharply satiric films-like Network, The Hospital, and Altered States-manage to combine laughs and tender moments of intimacy with his habitually wry and critical view of humanity. But cinema was a late frontier for Chayefsky, ventured into only after the writer had conquered television, with such classics of live TV as the drama Marty, and stage, where he had his second Broadway hit in 1959 with an unusual comedy called The Tenth Man. Now The American Century Theater is reviving The Tenth Man to open the company's 2010-2011 season.

By the time of his untimely death at 57 in 1981, Paddy Chayefsky was known as one of the most daring and talented American screen writers. His sharply satiric films-like Network, The Hospital, and Altered States-manage to combine laughs and tender moments of intimacy with his habitually wry and critical view of humanity. But cinema was a late frontier for Chayefsky, ventured into only after the writer had conquered television, with such classics of live TV as the drama Marty, and stage, where he had his second Broadway hit in 1959 with an unusual comedy called The Tenth Man. Now The American Century Theater is reviving The Tenth Man to open the company's 2010-2011 season.

Ernest Borgnine, who is exuberantly entering his seventh decade of creating memorable characters and award-winning performances, will receive Screen Actors Guild (SAG)'s most prestigious accolade-the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award for career achievement and humanitarian accomplishment.

The new theatrical season of Arlington's American Century Theater celebrates a Broadway masterpiece by a giant of TV's Golden Age, the first Pulitzer Prize-winning tragedy by America's greatest tragedian, a return to the stage by the funniest Ziegfeld Girl, a grand comic classic by Ferber and Kaufman, and a science fiction social satire.