Matt Smith News

TORONTO, ON – Artisanal drumroll, please… Etsy Canada has revealed the 60 finalists for the Etsy Awards, Canada's inaugural design competition in search of the nation's great creative and craft talent. Voting is now open at etsyawards.com/ca, and the public is invited to vote for their Community's Choice Award winner beginning now through June 6.  

CANTON, OHIO (May 24, 2016) – The popular program that combines the spontaneous sounds of nature and people enjoying a park with the orchestrated sounds of musicians is returning this summer.  Serenades in the Park is a free, family-friendly series of brass, woodwind, and string ensembles performing all over Stark County.  Everyone is invited to bring your favorite picnic food, games, and blanket or chair and enjoy the setting and music.  

Vancouver, BC ~ On June 2, four of Canada's most talented singers will join forces with the Vancouver Opera Orchestra and Vancouver Opera Chorus for a celebratory concert featuring timeless opera favourites. BraVO!, a rare treat for music lovers, will be conducted by VO Music Director Jonathan Darlington and will recognize the retirement of VO's General Director James W. Wright, after 17 years at the head of the company.

Mori Art Museum is proud to present “The Universe and Art: Princess Kaguya, Leonardo da Vinci, teamLab” from Saturday, July 30, 2016 to Monday, January 9, 2017.

Philadelphia, PA (May 18, 2016) – Pennsylvania Ballet and Artistic Director Angel Corella will enthrall audiences with passion, poetry, and human emotion in Balanchine and Beyond. This final program of the 2015/2016 Season features Hans Van Manen's Adagio Hammerklavier, Trisha Brown's O zlozony/ O composite, Jean-Pierre Frohlich's Varied Trio (in four), and George Balanchine's The Four Temperaments June 9-12 at The Merriam Theater. 

Adelphi Orchestra's New York City Concert Series continues with “Celebrating a Grand Legacy” June 9th at Merkin Concert Hall with works by Beethoven, Mendelsohn and Tchaikovsky

In recent years, trust in business has been battered. The 2008 global financial crisis, a series of corporate scandals that have eroded organizational trust, including Volkswagen, BP and Enron, and an emphasis on transparency brought about by the combined impact of globalization, technology, and demographic changes have all combined to bring trust in business to what may be an all time low. According to the 2014 Edelman Trust Barometer, only one in five respondents trusted business leaders to tell the truth and make ethical and moral decisions.

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. – (May 16, 2016) – Miami City Ballet (MCB) has announced its 50-member roster for the 2016-17 season, which opens on October 23 in Miami, including the promotions of Nathalia Arja to principal soloist and both Chase Swatosh and Shimon Ito to soloists, and the addition of four new dancers: Lauren Fadeley, formerly a principal with Pennsylvania Ballet (PAB) who is joining MCB as a soloist; Amir Yogev, another dancer from PAB who began his career with MCB; and Alaina Andersen and Luiz Silva, both recent graduates of Miami City Ballet School.

(CHICAGO, IL) The Chicago Dancemakers Forum, together with the New England Foundation for the Arts, is excited to announce a grant of $25,000 from The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation to support the Chicago Regional Dance Development Initiative.  

(New York & London – May 20, 2016) David Zwirner is pleased to announce its exclusive worldwide representation of The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation.   The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation is devoted to preserving and promoting the achievements of both Josef and Anni Albers, and the aesthetic and philosophical principles by which they lived. The Foundation is based in Bethany, Connecticut, near New Haven, where it maintains a central research and archival facility, as well as residence studios for visiting artists.

Queens Shakespeare in partnership with What Dreams May Co. presents THE TERRIBLE TRAGEDY OF PETER PAN by Phillip Klapperich, directed by Christina Sheehan with stage manager Matt Smith. Click below to watch a trailer for the production!

Queens Shakespeare in partnership with What Dreams May Co. presents THE TERRIBLE TRAGEDY OF PETER PAN by Phillip Klapperich, directed by Christina Sheehan with stage manager Matt Smith. BroadwayWorld has a sneak peek at the cast in costume below!

VENICE, ITALY – “Waiting for Qin Feng,” a solo exhibition of work by Chinese ink artist Qin Feng, will be on view in Venice from May 19-June 19, 2016. Installed in three locations including the former Monastery of San Giorgio Maggiore, now home to the Fondazione Giorgio Cini (the first contemporary Chinese art installation), The Armenian Catholic Monastery on San Lazzaro Island and Venice International University (VIU) on San Servolo Island, the exhibition will be presented in collaboration with the Fondazione Giorgio Cini and is curated by Achille Bonito Oliva and Ambassador Umberto Vattani. There will be a Vernissage and performance by Qin Feng at the former Monastery of San Giorgio Maggiore on May 19 beginning at 6pm, a seminar with the artist and curators on May 26 at the Navy Officer's Club at the Arsenale from 4pm-7pmand a press conference at VIU on May 27 at 3pm.

May 11, 2016 – Richmond, Virginia We invite you to join us for two upcoming Richmond Symphony Youth Orchestra Program (YOP) spring concerts. Concerts presented by YOP highlight some of the region's top young musicians in which students from grades 2 to 12 make up four ensembles, ranging from beginner to advanced levels. The first concert will be held on Sunday, May 15 at 7pm and will feature the Youth Concert Orchestra led by Christopher Moseley, Camerata Strings led by Rebecca Jilcott, and String Sinfonietta led by Christie-Jo Adams.

New York, NY (May 13, 2016) - Dan Soder talks about everything, from legal weed connoisseurs to single moms to long distance relationships, on his first stand-up album. Recorded at the Trocadero Theatre in Philadelphia, Dan Soder: Not Special is out Tuesday, May 24 via Comedy Central Records.

HOUSTON (May 11, 2016) – In a world premiere performance, the Houston Symphony will present The Cosmos—An HD Odyssey at 8 p.m. May 26-28 and 2:30 p.m. May 29. Featuring breathtaking images and time-lapse videos of distant galaxies, nebulae and other cosmological wonders, The Cosmos is the final installment of an innovative film trilogy that began with The Planets in 2010, followed by The Earth in 2012.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — May 11, 2016 — The Mexican Museum, the premier West Coast museum of Mexican, Mexican-American, Chicano, Latin American, and Latino art, culture and heritage, presents Cinco y Cinco/Five and Five, an exhibition of works by 10 contemporary artists from the U.S., Mexico, and Latin America.  Opening June 23 and running through November 6, 2016, the exhibition, which is free and open to the public, will be showcased at The Mexican Museum's current facility at Fort Mason Center, Building D, Marina Boulevard and Buchanan Street, in San Francisco. 

When the United States declared war on Germany in April 1917, the Americans were woefully unprepared to wage a modern war. Whereas the Europeans had already three years of experience in using code and cipher systems in a war, American cryptologists had to build a military intelligence unit from scratch. This is described by a collection of articles written by John Matthews Manly, a former cryptologist in the American Military Intelligence Division. In the new Springer book Codes, Ciphers and Spies: Tales of Military Intelligence in WWI by John F. Dooley these articles are published for the first time.

Robert K. Tanenbaum, acclaimed author of twenty-seven mystery novels - including the celebrated Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi crime/legal thriller series - is headlining a hit list of mystery writers and true-crime experts at the 2016 Mystery Writers Key West Fest, set for June 10-12 in Key West, Florida.

May 12, 2016 — To commemorate the 40th anniversary of Lincoln Center Education, a pioneering, international leader in arts education, renowned visual artist John Baldessari has created the limited edition print Four Hands and a Baseball Bat (2015), a clever visual pun on what it means to “play.”