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Maria Calderon, a local artist of Peruvian ancestry, has created a visually stimulating, immersive gallery experience at the Mattie Rhodes Gallery in the Kansas City Crossroads District. Calderon’s pastel portraits, in which the subjects sit in a whirling vortex of lines and colors, gazing at the viewer with a meditative expression, are captivating expressions of both the seen and unseen aspects of humanity.
These images are captivating in and of themselves, but Calderon has …more…
Image culled from the BPO web site.
If you love orchestral music, but you’re not sure what the future of the medium in America may hold, EarShot–the National Orchestral Composition Discovery Network–may provide the best clues.
This evening (February 23) at 7 p.m. at Kleinhans Music Hall, the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra (BPO) and Music Director JoAnn Falleta will present the “BPO New Music Readings,” a free, open-to-the-public concert of orchestral readings …more…
The Gablestage at the Biltmore presents the Southeastern Premiere of A Steady Rain by Keith Huff. This production is directed by Joseph Adler, and features local actors Todd Allen Durkin and Gregg Weiner. This hard-hitting drama chronicles love and rage on the streets of Chicago. A domestic disturbance sends two cops, friends since childhood, on a harrowing journey that will test their loyalties and change their lives forever. ...more...
Las Vegas is often thought of as being synonymous with an adult playground. However, there is educational entertainment for children tucked away just a short distance from all the neon, over-sized drinks with neck straps and scantily clad show girls. Since 1990, the Lied Children’s Museum has entertained over 1.6 million visitors. The board recently announced plans to move the current museum to a new location in Las Vegas’ Symphony …more…
Benefiting the exhibitions and educational programs at the Austin Museum of Art and Art House at the Jones Center, the Five x Seven event has come to represent what’s best about springtime–a sense of fun, socializing, and reawakening after a mildly cool Texas Winter. ...more...
As part of Turner Classic’s Road to Hollywood series, Roger Osborne and Spike Lee will host the World Theatrical Premiere Screening of the 50th Anniversary Restoration of To Kill a Mockingbird at New York City’s Ziegfeld Theatre
on March 1.
To Kill A Mockingbird is considered one of the most revered books of our time. It won the Pulitzer Prize and was declared as “Best Novel of the Century” by Library Journal. Films often are unable …more…
An Art Forum will be held in Portland, Oregon on Monday, March 5 giving arts advocates an opportunity to hear from candidates running for the Portland Mayoral seat and City Council discuss their position on the role of local government in the arts community.
The free Art Forum promises to be a lively interaction that will give supporters of the arts a chance to learn more about these candidates and how …more…
The Plaza Theatre in Manalapan, Florida is proud to announce that Breaking Up Is Hard to Do, the fabulous musical comedy featuring the songs of Neil Sedaka will be coming to the theater beginning on March 8, 2012. ...more...
Lynn University and director of theatre arts program development, Jan McArt, today announced two exciting musical performances in March, both presented as part of the Libby Dodson’s LIVE AT LYNN Theatre Series. ...more...
Wim Wenders’ recent movie Pina has opened up a wealth of discussions, panel presentations, commentary, and musings on the artist, as well it should. As one of the best films on Dance covering one of our century’s great Dance artists, Pina is as evocative as the woman it portrays. ...more...
The moment I walked into the Fleming museum, located on the edge of the University of Vermont campus, I felt targeted. They were selling my favorite local coffee, Speeder and Earls. The next signal that I was being stereotyped was the free admission. How did they know I love free things? When I read the title of the current exhibit, “Up in Smoke” I knew, this couldn’t have been a random occurrence. UVM students love to smoke and whoever ran the Fleming museum was taking advantage of this to purposefully draw in UVM students. They knew students wouldn’t be able to resist the temptation of anything having to do with such an activity. ...more...
Stars on Ice has again brought together Olympic, World and National Champions from all over the globe for the 2011-12 season. The show will visit 10 U.S. cities including Seattle, on Saturday for a 5:30 pm performance at Seattle Center.
Last year, Stars on Ice celebrated its 25-year legacy; this year the “Stars on Ice Love ‘n’ Life” tour will try a new direction with skater Kurt Browning, who will co-direct …more…
The Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County is proud to present a special two-night-only engagement showcasing the critically-acclaimed dance troupe, PILOBOLUS DANCE THEATRE. World-renowned for their innovative mix of the human imagination and corporeal dexterity, and memorable performances on widely televised programs such as the Academy Awards and “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” PILOBOLUS is destined to create a wondrous dance spectacle for South Florida audiences. The troupe will make its Arsht Center debut on March 2 and 3, 2012 at 8 p.m., in the Ziff Ballet Opera House as part of the Knight Masterworks Season, Sanford and Beatrice Ziff Dance Series. ...more...
Following a critically acclaimed and sold-out run at the Broward Stage Door Theatre, Neil Simon’s classic comedy, Last of the Red Hot Lovers will open at the Miami Beach Stage Door Theatre on Friday, March 9, with performances each weekend through March 25th.
Last of the Red Hot Lovers is a comedy about Barney Cashman, a middle-aged, married nebbish who wants to have an affair. Barney, pitch-perfectly performed by Len Cashman, selects his mother’s uptown apartment for the rendezvous because of its ambience – and the fact that his mom will be out doing volunteer work two hours every week. ...more...
Unlike 31 other states states, California lacks a “cottage food” law, meaning it is illegal to sell or even give away homemade food at events open to the public. This obviously means concerts, but it extends to events like PTA meetings. In 2011, a Los Angeles Synagogue was fined by the Los Angeles department of Environmental health and threatened with closure for holding a bake sale. ...more...
The AZ gallery is showing oils, photography, jewelry and prints by local women artists. Some standouts include Emily Gray Koehler’s color-reduction woodcuts; Lindsy Halleckson’s oils; and Megan Moore’s giclée prints. ...more...
In this case… everything.
First the stats: from Elgin, South Carolina, he started his career at 12 years old, studying with Radenko Pavlovich and Milena Leben and then getting himself a scholarship at the Kirov in Russia. From there he apprenticed with the Joffrey Ballet of Chicago, joined the American Ballet Studio Company, and danced with a number of other solid companies, winning medals and prizes until today where he is now in his 3rd season with the Washington Ballet. ...more...
Constellation Theatre is one of Washington, DC’s under-the-radar wonders. Founded in 2007, the theater company, in its intimate space, has quietly been doing the big things that theater alone can do. With a BA in religion from Princeton and an MFA in directing from Carnegie Mellon, founding artistic director Allison Stockman set out to do epic, ensemble plays that would engage the audience imaginatively, create a sense of shared ritual …more…
In Regina Scully’s new exhibit, Elemental, mystical environments are portrayed through different avenues of her paintbrush. Colorful, and mesmerizing these paintings will ignite your senses and take you on a journey through an ariel view of fantasy picturesque landscapes. At first glance it appears to be chaos on a canvas, but looking closer, intricate details of land, sea, and objects begin to form. If nothing else Regina’s work will make you see a landscape in a different way. ...more...
The Women’s Theatre Project is the only professional theatre company in the country dedicated to producing theatrical work written by women with all-female casts. Their productions are compelling because their choices break with stereotypical portrayals of women seen in the media, on television and in movies. This letter from Meredith Lasher, the President of The Women’s Theatre Project, brings some sad news to fans of this award winning theatre company. ...more...
This week, NYC-based jazz guitarist Rick Stone answers some of my burning questions! Rick’s album Fractals with the Rick Stone Trio came out in 2011 and has been getting some great notice out on the interwebs, including a great review on AllAboutJazz.com. You can catch The Rick Stone Trio in at the Bar Next Door at La Lanterna in NYC on February 25th. More info at RickStone.com ...more...
Like any other award, the Pulitzer Prize for Drama is not always a 100 percent accurate indicator of superior quality or the “best” of a particular year. I won’t name any of the winners that I consider questionable, but if you’ll peruse the list of plays (and, occasionally, musicals) that have received the award over the years, I’m sure you’ll find some head scratchers. However, the Pulitzer committee sure got it right in 1998, when the honor went to Paula Vogel’s How I Learned to Drive. ...more...
Sean Cox, co-artistic director of Encinitas’ Intrepid Shakespeare Company, took a second’s stock from the lobby of the Clayton E. Liggett Theatre, the stage wing of the city’s new Performing Arts Center on the San Dieguito Academy high school campus. It’s enough that Intrepid, known for its quality shows and its Shakespeare-intensive work in county schools, is the venue’s anchor troupe. And it’s enough that it opened Arthur Miller’s adaptation of An Enemy of the People to positive reviews at the venue earlier in February. ...more...
Gustavo Ramirez Sansano’s choreography is getting a lot of notice, especially right now in the Chicago area where he is Artistic Director of Luna Negra Dance Theater, appointed as of 2009. ...more...
The Sitka Summer Music Festival is coming to Anchorage’s Grant Hall Auditorium this weekend, and earlier this week I wrote about the piano trios (i.e., the pieces written for the piano, violin, and cello together) on Friday night’s program. Because each concert this weekend will present a different program, in this second post I’ll cover the Saturday and Sunday offerings, especially the piano trios. ...more...
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