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If you’re looking to get your hands on some great art for your own collection you need to mark Friday, June 8th on your calendar. The Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts hosts its $100 Art Sale for BemisUNDERGROUND from 7-9 PM.
Get some art!
The art offered for sale is from artists all over the place, but the proceeds from the sale benefit the local art scene here in Omaha. You might …more…
Once when I was a student at Binghamton University, I was taking a taxi cab back to campus from the Greyhound Station. The gregarious driver and I struck up a conversation about music and he asked what genre I enjoyed. “Mostly jazz” I answered, to which he became very excited and asked if I liked Art Pepper and John Coltrane. I immediately answered in the affirmative so we took our …more…
Uniting the talents of Sigourney Weaver, Robert De Niro, Cillian Murphy and relative newbie Elizabeth Olsen, the paranormal thriller, “Red Lights” addresses ghost whispering, faith healing and various psychic phenomena from a debunker’s standpoint.
Weaver and Murphy play paranormal researchers who seek to detect “red lights,” the mind games behind staged supernatural events. Enter De Niro, as blind psychic Simon, who emerges out of retirement and prepares to debunk the debunkers. …more…
As a former New Yorker now living in Chicago, it is always great when old New York jazz friends come to town. This month was especially a treat with bassist Tal Ronen rolling through the windy city. Ronen, who is easily one of the best bassists of his generation, is a regular at New York stalwart clubs, such as Smalls, 55 Bar, and the Fat Cat. Recently, he has been …more…
Los Herederos
Thursday night, May 25th, Los Herederos (The Inheritors) graced the stage of PAX, Miami Performing Arts Exchange in Little Havana. Founder and vocalist Philbert Armenteros eloquently says that the music of the ensemble is a way to channel messages from the gods of his African ancestors, putting listeners in another dimension that allows them to experience a cleansing, purity, and inner peace.
Cuban émigré Armenteros was born in Havana. …more…
Just a quick note today: If you’ve been procrastinating about signing up your little ones and teens for summer theater camp, rejoice! For once, procrastination pays off! Groupon just offered a deal for Austin Children’s Theater camps, which start as early as June 4. There are lots of options for these one-week camps, and if you have a Groupon, they’re all at half price! Take a look at the camps …more…
David Parsons Dance
On June 6th at 7 PM at the Manhattan Movement and Arts Center, David Parsons will be showing a mixed program of greatest hits plus his new work, Round My World. Known for his kinetic approach to dance married to a unique approach to lighting, Parsons will remind us again of his humor and his openness to a variety of musical inspirations.
Round My World, which made its …more…
It’s amazing how much of our experience of the world is predicated on expectation. I can’t count the number of comedies I’ve been disappointed by because I’d heard how amazing they were, and how many events I’ve loved because I hadn’t been expecting much. Crescent City, the first production from The Industry, LA’s new opera company, suffers from this unfortunate effect of impossibly high expectations. It is, however, a pretty …more…
A few more musical opportunities for Seattle’s classical music fans this summer. For those amateur musicians looking for something fun to do, the biggest event of the summer is likely to be the Midsummer Musical Retreat. Now in its 30th year of operation, MMR brings together both musicians and vocalists for a week of intensive music making. Orchestra, band, chamber ensembles, choral singing, madrigal, jazz improv, MMR covers it all. …more…
One of the best things about the annual Philly Fringe festival is the opportunity to see several works of performing arts in one day or evening. I remember a few years ago catching a show by a troupe named after Andy Warhol’s shooter in an old city coffee shop at 6pm then wandering behind Carpenter’s Hall for an 8pm show of two short plays set on a park bench, acted …more…
Bay Area Composer Lou Harrison, who passed away in 2003, wrote several works for instruments he built and designed himself, known as an American Gamelan, modeled on the Balinese gamelan ensemble. These instruments, ranging from highly complex chimes to very simplistic hanging garbage cans, have a unique sound unattainable by standard percussion ensembles.
From May 23 and 25th, Harrison’s original instruments will be on display at the UC Berkeley Art Museum, …more…
This summer, comic book heroes, beautiful women, and colorful explosions will invade the Art Institute of Chicago with Roy Lichtenstein: A Retrospective. The blockbuster show is the first to examine the life’s work of the famous Pop artist, bringing together a collection of his famous comic-inspired paintings, in addition to lesser-known but equally striking works from the length of his career – early abstractions, landscapes, sculpture, and much more. In …more…
Frank Britton in "The Bacchae"
Until the drumming began and the guitars wound their gypsy music across the stage and members of the chorus began to gyrate, I didn’t realize how much I was longing to see something new.
I shouldn’t be surprised that I found it at WSC Avant Bard’s production of “The Bacchae.” Although the play premiered in 405 BC, WSC Avant Bard managed to infuse it with energy, excitement, …more…
The cast of OLD JEWS TELLING JOKES (Photo: Joan Marcus)
The great thing about a show like Old Jews Telling Jokes is that the title tells you pretty much exactly what you’re getting. No basis for a consumer fraud lawsuit here, that’s for sure!
This delightful revue at the Westside Theatre features veterans Marilyn Sokol, Lenny Wolpe, and Todd Susman as the “old Jews,” along with younger actors Audrey Lynn Weston …more…
The Plaza Theatre in Manalapan is presenting their latest show, I Am Music – The Songs of Barry Manilow, now through May 27th. The revue style show, directed by award-winning director Kevin Black, features eight singer/dancers performing the hit songs of one of the most prolific and popular adult contemporary singer and songwriters – Mr Barry Manilow. This production at the Plaza Theatre marks it’s World Premiere.
The storyline revolves around eight …more…
As the warming sun heralds summer in the D.C. metropolitan area, it’s time to begin searching for the right music to infuse the balmy nights that will inevitably follow. And what better way to enjoy a warm summer evening than with free, quality music concerts?
Moe Bertran
The Empire Stage in Fort Lauderdale presents the Florida Premiere of David Pumo’s Love Scenes from June 7th – July 1st. Starring actor Moe Bertran, Love Scenes was voted Best Play of San Francisco Fringe Festival, and called “An irresistible sextet of solo slices of lavender life.” By the Chicago Free Press.
Love Scenes comes direct from sold out runs in New York, L.A., San Francisco, Chicago, London, Dublin …more…
The Delray Beach Playhouse presents the powerful play Twelve Angry Men now through June 3rd. Written by Reginald Rose, Twelve Angry Men was originally presented as a televised play on CBS’s Studio One in 1954. The 1957 film adaptation starring Henry Fonda, brought the powerful story much notoriety. The play adaptation being presented by the Delray Beach Playhouse had its Broadway debut at the Roundabout Theatre on October 28, 2004.
The …more…
Watch for Moonlight and Magnolias in Penfold Theatre Company's 2012-13 season.
Making plans for the future can be difficult once Austin’s summer begins. It gets so hot, Austinites’ brains turn to survival mode, and can develop nothing more than plans to strategically place mini-fridges throughout their home so they’re never more than two feet from a cool beverage.
Before the thermometers burst, take some time to consider the upcoming seasons of …more…
Have you ever heard a song that makes your tummy do a little flip just because the music is so lovely? And the pearly tones of the voices meld in a harmony so sweet and warm that you fear for the melting sensation down the back of your spine?
Have you ever heard a song that expresses ideas, pains, longings that seem to be pulling directly from your own …more…
Though it closed its doors in 1963, a half-dozen classic recordings made at San Francisco’s Blackhawk nightclub have ensured a secure, lasting renown for the club in jazz lore. Along with other, long-gone clubs such as New York’s Royal Roost, Chicago’s Blue Note, and Philly’s Showboat and Peps’, the Blackhawk enjoys a mythic status as a club where all of the great post-war small groups played; Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, …more…
The University of Nevada Las Vegas is currently featuring the Western Federation of Watercolor Societies’ annual juried show. The exhibit shows the work of over 100 artists who live and work in one of the eleven states that are part of the WFWS: the Arizona Watercolor Association, the Colorado Watercolor Society, the Idaho Watercolor Society, the Nevada Watercolor Society, the New Mexico Watercolor Society, the San Diego Watercolor Society, the Southern …more…
Davis Robertson, Artistic Director of the Joffrey Ballet School Performance Company and former soloist with the Nederlands Dans Company, Helen Heineman are presenting original choreography on the 23rd and 34th of May at New York Live Arts in New York.
Founded by Robert Joffrey in 1953, the Joffrey Ballet School has been an important training ground for dancers, with classes in classical ballet and contemporary dance styles. Robertson, who studied at …more…
Last night at the Jazz Standard, some of Gil Evans’ finest, and least known, compositions and arrangements graced the stage again. Led by Ryan Truesdell, an all-star lineup of New York’s finest played some of the most wonderfully complex and challenging arrangements in the late Mr. Evans’ vast catalog.
Truesdell and the group played all weekend at Jazz Standard, each night featuring a different aspect of Evans’ career. Sunday night featured …more…
As expected the weekend at the Mahalia Jackson Theater for the Performing Arts turned out to be a bonanza for music fans of the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO). It is true that the crowd that experienced a breathtaking evening of choral work from Johannes Brahms (Shicksalied or “Song of Destiny”) and a magnificent reading of Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 9 on Saturday night was vastly different than the rockers that …more…
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