The Book of Mormon Tickets – National Tour to Start in Denver Four Months Early

Divinely inspired? The Book of Mormon may be too risqué for that, but since opening at New York’s Eugene O’Neil Theatre, the musical has become the toast of Broadway, earning creators Trey Parker, Matt Stone and Robert Lopez plenty of praise.

New Yorkers won’t be able to keep the spectacle to themselves. Playbill reports that The Book of Mormon tickets for the play’s national tour can be expected in 2012 – and in fact, it will be opening four months earlier than expected. Read more

Church of St. Mary of the Mongols :: Istanbul, Turkey

Consecrated in the thirteenth century, Istanbul’s Church of St. Mary of the Mongols is the city’s only church to have continuously remained in the hands of the Greek Orthodox community. Unlike many of Istanbul’s old churches, St. Mary of the Mongols was never to be converted to a mosque according to an order given by the Sultan Mehmet the Conqueror; in fact, the order is still kept within the historic church today. Read more

Chelsea Art Museum :: Manhattan, New York

Located in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood, the Chelsea Art Museum is devoted to showcasing twentieth and twenty-first-century art. The museum also shares part of its renovated historic building with the Miotte Foundation, which collects and celebrates the work of the modern artist Jean Miotte. Miotte is a French artist of the L’Art Informel movement and the Chelsea Museum shows exhibits of Miotte’s work on a regular basis alongside the work of other influential contemporary artists. Read more