John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts News

Donald McCullough, a Jacksonville native who was the conductor of the highly regarded Master Chorale of Washington at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts for more than a decade, has been named the new director of the Jacksonville Symphony Chorus.

The nominees for the 2011-2012 Cappies have been announced. The Awards will be presented June 10th at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Concert Hall at 7:00pm. Laura & Mike Clark started ShowBizRadio in August 2005 because they love live theater.

Today, the U.S. Department of State announced it will raise the curtain June 19 on its groundbreaking cultural diplomacy initiative, Center StageSM , which brings performing artists from Haiti, Indonesia, and Pakistan to the United States to engage American audiences in 60 medium- and small-sized towns and cities.

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Here's a roundup of performances in and around Montgomery County, through Wednesday, May 23: A DanceFest at BlackRock GERMANTOWN-ClancyWorks opens BlackRock Center for the Arts' inaugural DanceFest weekend with a site-specific piece set in the theater's lobby atA 8 p.m. on Friday, May 18, atA BlackRock Center for the Arts, 12901 Town Commons Drive.

Ellen DeGeneres is to be presented with the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts announced Tuesday.

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Slip on your dancing shoes, Ellen DeGeneres , because you have something to celebrate.

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts will give her the 15th annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor on Oct.

After the Moller Organ Co. in Hagerstown, Md., closed, Irving Lawless and a fellow former employee decided to start their own company.

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So on Tony Awards night, two-time Tony winning actress and chanteuse Bernadette Peters will have to sit and the audience and watch while her fellow "Follies" mates Jan Maxwell, Danny Burstein, Ron Raines and Jayne Houdyshell sweat it out over the competition.

The Chihiro Yamanaka Trio will perform May 10, 2012 at the 17th Annual Mary Lou Williams Women In Jazz Festival at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC.

Until the release of What's Going On , Marvin Gaye 's best-known songs focused on love and relationships.