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It looks like the American Repertory Theatre’s Artistic Director Diane Paulus is heading to a pretty swanky soiree in New York this May. And by “pretty swanky soiree,” I mean to say the 78th Annual Drama League Awards. Paulus will receive the Drama League’s 2012 Founder’s Award for Excellence in Directing.
Paulus, who also teaches at Harvard University, has added her own distinct directorial flair to her shows at the A.R.T. Her …more…
With the new year comes fresh and exciting opportunities to experience the wonderful options for classical music lovers in Houston,Texas.
One of the most prominent and long-awaited performances of the spring is on April 13th-15th, when conductor Pablo Heras-Casado and pianist Jon Kimura Parker combine forces for a magnificent series of old school and new school sounds, as they tackle Beethoven, Schumann and Stravinsky in the Houston Symphony’s Petrouchka & Beethoven.
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Palm Beach’s longest residing professional theatre, Palm Beach Dramaworks, continues its 12th anniversary season Athol Fugard’s play “Master Harold”…and the boys on Friday, April 6th at the Don & Ann Brown Theatre in West Palm Beach.
Based on Anthol Fugard’s early life in South Africa, “Master Harold”…and the boys tells the story of Willie and Sam, two black waiters who work in the St. George’s Park Tea Room, and Hally, the …more…
I was attending a wonderful show by vocalist Arlene Bardelle and I reflected on the unique perspective that my wife and I (as well as a few others) have from observing the jazz scenes of both the windy city and the big apple. As jazz clubs continue to financially tread water, refine their lineups to fit more popular tastes, or simply close down, many in the jazz community question what …more…
Just prior to next weekend’s major Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO) concerts with renowned violinist Joshua Bell, the nation’s only major musician-run symphony orchestra presents two very different performances in as many nights.
Tonight’s “March Madness” performance features the return to the podium of artistic director Carlos Miguel Prieto. It has been nearly a month since he put the LPO through its musical paces with a program of Russian music.
As its title …more…
The 2012 theater season for Shotgun Players in Berkeley, CA is off to a roaring start with The Coast of Utopia: Voyage by Tom Stoppard. Shotgun Players is a theater company which prides itself on 20 years of experience performing little-known works by well-known playwrights, and sometimes this takes a bit of legal legwork on their part to secure the rights to some of these masterpieces. The Coast of Utopia: …more…
I recently spent an evening with some good friends, enjoying a terrific paella and a few bottles of Cabernet. The conversation turned to music, and the host said something to the effect that jazz must be the most liberating and fun type of music to play, because jazz musicians are able to make everything up as they go along. Although she isn’t a professional musician, she is substantially better-informed than …more…
“365D, Three Hundred and Sixty-Five Days of a Woman” at the Icebox Gallery may seem like an exhibition of photographs of 365 Italian women. Indeed, there are 365 photos pinned to the walls of the tiny gallery in the Northrup King Building in Northeast Minneapolis. But the original intent of the project, the brainchild of creative director Marzia Messina, was to present an alternative view of women through their “photographs …more…
Beginning this evening, the San Francisco Symphony will perform their multi-concert “American Mavericks Festival” series in Ann Arbor, which features an assortment of works by various pioneering American composers. This concert festival, having begun in San Francisco, and traveled to Chicago before coming to Ann Arbor, has received heaps of praise for its sold-out concerts.
This evening’s concert at Hill Auditorium features Orchestral Variations, Aaron Copland’s orchestration of his own 1930 Piano …more…
The University of Michigan’s University Opera Theatre will be presenting a production of “The Rake’s Progress,” featuring music by Igor Stravinsky, and libretto by W.H. Auden and Chester Kallman. There will be four performances at the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre in Ann Arbor, spanning March 22-25. Please visit the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre, and Dance events page here for more details.
Stravinsky’s 1951 opera, considered to be one of …more…
Portions of Andre Previn’s “A Streetcar Named Desire” will get a rare public hearing from a historic balcony on Friday evening and it’s all part of the ongoing Tennessee Williams New Orleans Literary Festival that kicks off tonight.
Previn’s modern opera made its debut in San Francisco in 1998 and was given its second outing in New Orleans later that year a month before Houston Grand Opera’s slated performances. Both of …more…
The apparent death of the Coconut Grove Playhouse is an open wound that may soon become a mortal blow ...more...
Journey into the dark side of Happily Ever as Slow Burn Theatre invites you to a twisted fairy tale land, deep in the world of Stephen Sondheim’s popular musical Into The Woods. With music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and book by James Lapine, it is a story complete with dead giants, less-than-charming princes and one particularly ambivalent witch. Enjoy the exquisite score as your favorite fairy tale characters learn …more…
Lauren Cuthbertson and Federico Bonelli in the Royal Ballet production of Romeo & Juliet
Well, not exactly. But it is just this sort of headline that Ballet in Cinema, a project of alternate content theater network Emerging Pictures, inspires. On March 22 at 12:30 pm, for $25, you can take a seat in the Grand Lake Theater, an Oakland, California movie house, and enjoy the Royal Ballet’s production of Romeo …more…
The current exhibit at The Museum of Russian Art (TMORA) is a pleasure for the senses but a challenge for the intellect. “From Thaw to Meltdown: Soviet Paintings of the 1950s-1980s” presents a narrow view of Soviet art, focusing on the theme of industrialization in paintings during the post-Stalin era. This thematic restriction might give the impression that artistic subject matter in the USSR was severely limited during this time …more…
I have known for some time that the Twin Cities is a strong incubator of arts and culture. ...more...
When Mike Daisey first began developing his theater piece on the Chinese laborers who make the shiny gadgets that we Westerners hold so near and dear, he probably didn’t anticipate that it would lead to an explosive discussion on truth in theater. ...more...
Middle C Music, Washington D.C.’s only full service music store, is celebrating its 10-year anniversary this month. In addition to providing music lessons and selling instruments, Middle C functions as a space to foster creativity, musical growth and community outreach. ...more...
This month began the special exhibit, Youth and Beauty: Art of the American Twenties, at the Dallas Museum of Art. This collection features works of art by Georgia O’Keefe, Thomas Hart Benton, Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Hopper and many others. ...more...
4SW Productions is launching onto the Philadelphia theater scene with a showcase of short comedic plays next Monday in the third-floor space at Plays & Players theater. ...more...
At present The Broadway Collection may perhaps be an undiscovered jewel to many in South Florida, but that is all about to change! ...more...
Last month, this blog reported that Theatre in the Square, the acclaimed Marietta playhouse, was in dire financial straits and in danger of closing its doors. ...more...
In Shay Kun’s painted world the onlooker is forced to see pure, delicate environments invaded by their human counterparts. ...more...
The George Abbott Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Arts will be presented to commercial theater producer Jay H. Harris. ...more...
All eyes are focused on the upcoming ULTRA MUSIC FESTIVAL, one of the nation’s largest electronic music festivals. The fest returns to Miami’s downtown Bayfront Park area and will be happening from March 23 – 25, 2012 as part of Music Week in Miami. The lineup for Miami’s annual Ultra Musical Festival promises to be an absolutely stacked affair.
Aficionados de la música electrónica y festivales artísticos esperan ansiosamente por el …more…
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