Below are the official dates for the 2011 MAE Awards:

These are the official rules and regulations for 2011 MOSAEC Audience Excellence Awards. The MAE Awards will be announced on Mosaec.com on January 31, 2012.

The MAE Awards were created to spotlight some of the best in arts and entertainment. Awards are given in two categories – Artistic and Entertaining – with the former category being similar to traditional “best of” honors. MOSAEC’s Entertaining awards vary from year to year.

All entrants must read the rules and regulations in their entirety prior to filling out the submission form.

The Nominations Manager at maeawards@mosaec.com can make clarification of rules and regulations. Final interpretation of all rules and regulations and eligibility of submissions shall be made by the MAE Awards Nominating Committee.

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New York, NY 10108-2605
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Feld Entertainment’s newest ice spectacular is a colossal party on ice and a celebration of shared special occasions that will delight audiences! Features the live debut on ice of Princess Tiana from Walt Disney Pictures’ The Princess and the Frog

Vienna, Va. (August 18, 2009) — Celebrate with Disney On Ice and turn an ordinary day into an extraordinary one! Disney On Ice presents Celebrations! kicks off this fall as Feld Entertainment’s newest ice production featuring a magical montage of Disney characters celebrating holidays and festivals from around the world. Launching September 2009, Disney On Ice presents Celebrations! will be the first time audiences see Princess Tiana and Prince Naveen, live on ice, from the upcoming film, Walt Disney Pictures’ The Princess and the Frog, opening November 25, 2009, in New York and Los Angeles, and nationwide on December 11.

Classic and contemporary Disney songs, an original storyline, brilliant costumes and high energy action will have audiences celebrating some of the world’s most popular events right in their hometown — from Halloween with the Disney Villains, to a Valentine’s Day Royal Ball, featuring the Disney Princesses. In a fun-packed, ice extravaganza, more than 50 characters from 16 Disney stories will converge and take audiences on a thrilling world tour to exotic destinations like Brazil for a Carnivale parade, Hawaii for a luau party and Japan for a Cherry Blossom festival.

“Disney On Ice presents Celebrations! gives families a reason to celebrate no matter what time of year it is,” says Producer Kenneth Feld. “This uplifting and unforgettable spectacle showcases different celebrations around the globe, and families will walk away remembering to celebrate the everyday joys and successes in their lives.”

“Audiences are going to love this colossal celebration,” says Producer Nicole Feld. “We take the most exciting holidays and special events and pack them into one monumental show. You can travel the world in style and experience all the fun and excitement with your favorite Disney characters, including the newest Disney Princess, Tiana.”

Disney On Ice presents Celebrations! will entertain audiences in more than 30 U.S. cities through May 2010, including: Atlanta, Chicago, Philadelphia and the New York area. After its debut season, Disney On Ice presents Celebrations! will tour the West Coast in 2010-2011 before traveling overseas in the fall of 2011.

New York, NY (August 6, 2009) — Displaying the bold spirit of celebrated poet and Black Arts Movement playwright Sonia Sanchez, The Riverside Theatre and BeBop Theatre Collective are presenting performances of two one-act plays from early in Sanchez’ career that have not been performed since the late ’60s, running from Thursday, August 6 to Monday, August 17, at the Riverside Theatre, 91 Claremont Ave. (bet. 120th & 122nd St.), Morningside Heights.

Sanchez’s first play, The Bronx Is Next, is a provoking commentary on interracial racism and interracial sexism that premiered in The Drama Review in 1968. The play follows Charles, Roland and Jimmy, three Black Revolutionaries forcing tenants into the streets as part of their organization’s protest plan to burn out the horrible tenements of Harlem. The play typifies Sanchez’s bold spirit as it illustrates her early capacity to celebrate the Black Power Movement and critique it at the same time. The patriarchal oppression of women within the Black Power Movement is thus central to the play’s impact both in the ’60s and today.

Sister Son/Ji, in part, explores the vital role in the movement of college students whose personal interactions often mimicked confrontational, unhealthy male/female relationships derived from sexist behavior within the larger black (militant) community. Descriptions of social and personal divisions among characters in the play emphasize Sanchez’s criticisms of black paternalism within the movement–continuing Sanchez’s unflinching examination of paradoxical notions of liberation in the Black Power Movement. This BeBop Theatre Collective production marks the 40th anniversary of Sister Son/Ji.

Showtimes are August 6, 7, 8, 13, 14, 15 and 17 at 8:00 p.m.; and August 9 and 16 at 3:00 p.m. Tickets are $30 general admission for the Opening Night Performance & Reception Celebration (August 6) and $20 for all other performances. Order tickets online here. For more information, call 212-870-6784 or visit www.theriversidetheatre.org.

(December 8, 2007) Sean Combs, who reprises the role of Walter Lee, Jr. which brought him acclaim, stars in the highly anticipated, special three-hour television movie adaptation from Sony Pictures Television of “A Raisin in the Sun,” along with the cast of the award-winning Broadway revival who recreate their roles for the new film, including Emmy and Tony Award winner Phylicia Rashad, four-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald, Tony Award nominee Sanaa Lathan, plus “ER” star John Stamos. Based on Lorraine Hansberry’s play that inspired a generation, “A Raisin in the Sun” will air as an “ABC World Premiere Movie Event,” Monday, February 25 (8:00-11:00 p.m., ET), on the ABC Television Network, the night after ABC’s live telecast of the 80th Annual Academy Awards.

The “ABC World Premiere Movie Event: A Raisin in the Sun” has been selected to be screened (out of competition) at the prestigious Sundance Film Festival in January. This will be the first time that a broadcast network film will be featured at the celebrated festival.

“A Raisin in the Sun” tells the story of a family living and struggling on Chicago’s South Side in the 1950s. A fiercely moving portrait of people whose hopes and dreams are constantly deferred, Ms. Hansberry’s “A Raisin in the Sun” was the first play written by an African American woman to be produced on Broadway. It premiered in 1959 with a cast that included Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeil, Diana Sands, Ruby Dee and Louis Gossett Jr. The critically acclaimed work was honored with the 1959 New York Drama Critics Circle Award for best American play. A Columbia Pictures feature with the same cast followed in 1961. The classic, still-relevant story now will be showcased in this totally new television movie adaptation.

Phylicia Rashad won the Best Actress Tony Award for her role in “Raisin,” becoming the first African American actress to ever win the Tony in this category. Audra McDonald won the Best Featured Actress Tony Award for her role in the play, and Sanaa Lathan was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress for her performance.

Sean Combs appeared opposite Halle Berry in “Monster’s Ball” and made his acting debut in the film “Made.”

The ground-breaking drama portrays a brief period of time in the life of the Younger family as they anxiously await the arrival of a $10,000 life insurance check made out to Lena Younger (Phylicia Rashad, “The Cosby Show”), the family matriarch, from the estate of her late husband, Walter Lee. Everyone in the family has their own ideas about how they plan to use their new¬found wealth and are eager for their new lives to start.

Lena, who would like to retire from her job as a domestic for a white family, dreams of escaping the claustrophobic, one-room tenement apartment to, at long last, own a house, a dream she shared with her late husband. Her son, Walter Lee, Jr. (Sean Combs), who currently works as a chauffeur, longs to prove his manhood by owning his own business and is obsessed with investing in a liquor store, which he thinks will solve the family’s money problems. His wife, Ruth (Audra McDonald, HBO’s “Wit,” ABC’s “Annie,” the recent Broadway production of “110 in the Shade”), is also a domestic in a white household and shares the ambition of living in a larger home. His sister, Beneatha (Sanaa Lathan, “Out of Time,” “Something New”), is desperately seeking her own identity and ways to express herself. On one hand, she looks to having a new, independent life and wants to go to medical school. ‘But she also is being pursued by two very different men: George Murchison (Sean Patrick Thomas, “Barbershop 2: Back in Business”), a wealthy black man who is more interested in the superficial aspects of life, and Joseph Asagai (David Oyelowo, “The Last King of Scotland”), a fellow classmate who peaks her interest in exploring her intellectual and spiritual roots in Africa.