Dad of Divas' Reviews: Stars of Disney Channel’s “SHAKE IT UP” at TIMESTALKS Sat, 3/12

Monday, March 7, 2011

Stars of Disney Channel’s “SHAKE IT UP” at TIMESTALKS Sat, 3/12

In the coming weeks, some of the brightest names in film, television, theater, books, advocacy and awareness will sit down with New York Times journalists for TimesTalks events at TheTimesCenter, 242 West 41^st Street, New York City. Participants include Yale University professor David W. Blight, filmmaker Ken Burns, and historian Adam Goodheart; the stars of Disney Channel’s comedy dance show “Shake It Up,” Davis Cleveland, Kenton Duty, Roshon Fegan, Adam Irigoyen, Caroline Sunshine, Bella Thorne and Zendaya with executive producer Rob Lotterstein; actor-producer Bradley Cooper; Tony Award-winning stars of the upcoming Roundabout Theatre revival of “Anything Goes,” Sutton Foster and Joel Grey with director/choreographer Kathleen Marshall; Paul Krugman, winner of the 2008 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences and New York Times Op-Ed columnist; Tony Award-winning British playwright and Academy Award-winning screenwriter Tom Stoppard; and Academy Award-winning director Gerardine Wurzburg with the two men featured in her new documentary “Wretches & Jabberers,” Larry Bissonnette and Tracy Thresher, and Autism Society president and CEO Lee Grossman. Moderators for upcoming TimesTalks offerings include theater reporter Patrick Healy; arts columnist Dave Itzkoff; Jamie Malanowski, lead writer of NYTimes.com’s award-winning Opinionator series, “Disunion;” and Editorial Page editor Andrew Rosenthal.

The following TimesTalks event will be of particular interest to family audiences:

Saturday, March 12

11 AM - 12:30 PM

Shake it Up!

Tweens Alert! See the stars of Disney Channel’s comedy dance show “Shake It Up” on stage live and in person. Don’t miss Davis Cleveland (Flynn Jones), Kenton Duty (Gunther Hesenheffer), Roshon Fegan (Ty Blue), Adam Irigoyen (Deuce Martinez), Caroline Sunshine (Tinka Hesenheffer), Bella Thorne (CeCe Jones) and Zendaya (Raquel “Rocky” Blue) with executive producer Rob Lotterstein.

The above TimesTalks event takes place at TheTimesCenter, 242 West 41st Street, New York City. For additional information or to purchase advance tickets, which are $30 for each interview plus service fees, please call: 1.888.NYT.1870 or visit www.TimesTalks.com.

About TimesTalks

For 13 years, TimesTalks events have been evoking intelligent and entertaining conversations among some of the world’s most engaging speakers. TimesTalks was created in 1998 to help enhance relationships with existing readers, who would be able to see and hear from the faces behind the bylines, and to introduce new readers to these talented journalists. TimesTalks brings members of The Times’s prize-winning editing, reporting and writing staff together with today’s most celebrated talents and thinkers in thought-provoking and entertaining discussions. As wide-ranging and diverse as The Times and its readers throughout the world, TimesTalks has been designed to speak to many interests in a range of categories.

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