Dinner With Dickens A Dickensian Christmas dinner, with a performance based on "A Christmas Carol" given by Gerald Charles Dickens, a great-great grandson of the author, will be served on Dec. 11 at 5 30 p.m. at the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, N.Y.
By The New Yorker September 9, 2011 This week in the magazine, Ian Parker writes a Talk of the Town story on "A City Reimagined," a performance based on interviews recorded after the September 11th attacks by a team from the Columbia Center for Oral History.
And we're devising a non-traditional live experience called IRL, where people will come to a venue and see a performance based on music and entertainment.
For Upward Bound, a program for disadvantaged students, she created a performance based on the poetry of Langston Hughes after listening to recordings of his work by Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis; the program also took her to Washington, where she saw James Earl Jones in "Of Mice and Men" onstage, which solidified her desire to act.
Releasing tear gas instead of fog as planned, a Berlin theater sent its audience fleeing from a performance based on the 1928 German children's book "Emil and the Detectives," Agence France-Presse reported.
A performance based on the short stories of Mark Twain to benefit Animal Outreach.
"NEW YORK TOY STORIES: THE MUSICAL," Sunday at 2 p.m. in the auditorium of the Museum of the City of New York, is a performance based on stories about toys in the museum's collection, including the tale of the first teddy bear's creation.
A three-piece band will do an improvised performance, based on the recordings, at the Barbican later this month.
