Playbill - The 2009-10 City Center Encores! series of American musicals will give wing to shows with scores by the Gershwin brothers, Harold Rome and Stephen Sondheim. The season begins Nov. 19 with Girl Crazy, the hit-packed Depression-era musical by George and Ira Gershwin.
Reuters - Cuba on Saturday opened its first big group exhibit of American art since the 1980s amid hopes it would inspire better relations between the United States and the communist-run island.
Playbill - Natacha Roi and Don Reilly will play the historical roles of Emilie Du Ch’telet and Voltaire in the South Coast Repertory’s world premiere of Lauren Gunderson’s Emilie - La Marquise Du Ch’telet Defends Her Life at the Petit Thé’tre at Cirey Tonight.