Cirque du Soleil's AMALUNA Begins 9/6 in TorontoAugust 13, 2012Time is fast approaching forCirque du Soleil's big top return to Toronto with its latest production directed by Diane Paulus. Amaluna premieres on Thursday, September 6 for a limited engagement under the blue-and-yellow Big Top at Port Lands.
KC Rep's PIPPIN Opens 9/14August 13, 2012Kansas City Repertory Theatre opens its 48th season with the Tony Award-nominated musical Pippin, which features a score by Grammy-winner Stephen Schwartz and book by Roger O. Hirson. The Rep's artistic director Eric Rosen will direct the musical, which runs September 14-October 7 in Spencer Theatre.
Megan Scully Joins Tara Cuzzi on WFUV’s Sunday Irish ProgramAugust 13, 2012Megan Scully, a Fordham University sophomore, will make her debut as co-host with Tara Cuzzi of Ceol na nGael on Sunday, August 26 between 12:00-4:00 p.m. Megan replaces Colleen Taylor, whose last program will be on Sunday, August 19.
Martha Graham Dance Co. Added to Carolina Performing Arts' RITE OF SPRING AT 100August 13, 2012Carolina Performing Arts (CPA) at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-Chapel Hill) today announced the addition of an exceptional two-night program to the performance season of The Rite of Spring at 100. Presented at 8pm on Friday, April 26 and at 9pm on Saturday, April 27,Myth & Transformation by the renowned Martha Graham Dance Company will bring to a conclusion the performance season of this unprecedented nine-month festival celebrating the centennial of the premiere of the Stravinsky-Nijinsky-Roerich masterpiece.
THE FANTASTIC SHADOWS to Tour GermanyAugust 13, 2012Ausverkaufte Häuser, Standing Ovations und ein begeistertes Publikum: Die Kunstform der Schatten-Akrobatik erobert Deutschland! 'The Fantastic Shadows - Die Welt der Schatten' ist das neue Unterhaltungsphänomen, das Publikum darf sich auf etwas freuen, das es in dieser Form auf deutschen Bühnen noch nicht gesehen hat.
Kat Wildish Presents Performing in NY Showcase at The Ailey Citigroup Theater, 8/25 & 26August 13, 2012Master ballet teacher Kat Wildish presents the semi-annual Performing in NY Showcase at The Ailey Citigroup Theater August 25 & 26, 2012 with over 150 local and international dancers. The spring program features guest companies Felice Lesser Dance Theater, Ballet Neo, and Arrhythmia Dance Company, in addition to multilevel adult students from all styles of open dance classes across the city.
Wycliffe Gordon Plays SUMMERFEST 2012, 8/18August 13, 2012The Central Park Conservancy welcomes New York Metropolitan area jazz buffs, swing dancers and nature lovers to "Great Jazz on the Great Hill," a free concert and celebration of jazz in one of New York City's most iconic locations.
Met Museum Presents The Met Reframed - DJ Spooky in Residence in the 2012-13 SeasonAugust 13, 2012The Met Reframed, an unprecedented Metropolitan Museum artist residency, breaks new ground as a collaboration between artist and institution. The Met's Limor Tomer, General Manager of Concerts & Lectures, conceived this year-long association as an opportunity to engage the curiosity and talents of the composer, multimedia artist, and writer, Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid with the extensive artistic and human resources of the Museum to create both new work and dialogues between artists, scholars, curators, and museum visitors.
Legacy Recordings & AEG Celebrate 40 Years Of Blue Oyster Cult With 10/30 ReleaseAugust 13, 2012Legacy Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment, will celebrate the 40th anniversary of Blue Oyster Cult--unleashed in 1972, the eponymous debut album from America's heaviest psychedelic metal band presaged punk, thrash and hardcore--with the release of Blue Oyster Cult - The Columbia Albums Collection, a monumental career-spanning BOC library comprised of 16 CDs (the full official canon plus two discs of rarities) and the mythic Some OTHER Enchanted Evening DVD (a blistering concert video from 1978). The highly-collectible boxed set will be available Tuesday, October 30.
Reckless Kelly Comes to the Morrison Center in FebruaryAugust 13, 2012For fifteen years Reckless Kelly 'has been doing things their way, bucking the mainstream system and playing by their own rules, straddling the fence between country and rock as if they built it themselves. Throughout the years their old school approach to recording has always adhered to one main objective: make each record better than the last. Their latest effort, 'Good Luck & True Love' is no exception to this rule.'
Charing Cross Theatre Announces Upcoming SeasonAugust 13, 2012Charing Cross Theatre has announced its second season, opening with the world premiere of THE MAN ON HER MIND, followed by the Olivier Award-winning OperaUpClose production of LA BOHEME, and concluding with the UK premiere of the 1969 Jerry Herman musical DEAR WORLD.
POTTED POTTER Tickets Go On Sale in Chicago 8/17August 13, 2012Broadway In Chicago has announced that single tickets for the Starvox Entertainment and Potted Productions' hit off-Broadway show, Potted Potter: The Unauthorized Harry Experience - A Parody by Dan and Jeff, will go on sale to the public Friday, Aug. 17, 2012 at 10 a.m. POTTED POTTER will play the Broadway Playhouse at Water Tower Place (175 East Chestnut) beginning Nov. 13, 2012.
John Legend, Anita Baker Announce Van Wezel PerformancesAugust 13, 2012John Legend will make his Sarasota premiere, opening the Van Wezel season, Fri. Oct. 19, 2012 @ 8 PM. Powerhouse Anita Baker makes her appearance Sun. Nov. 18, 2012 @ 7 PM. Tickets go ON SALE this Friday, August 17 at 10 AM.
North Carolina Symphony Announces Broadcast SchedulesAugust 13, 2012The North Carolina Symphony and WUNC 91.5FM have partnered to present great music for a summer evening all season long. Newly announced this week, the schedule has been extended to run every Monday, now through Sept. 3. Favorite Symphony performances from the past concert season will be broadcast on Monday night, 10:00 p.m. to midnight.
The Jewish Museum Installs WORD SYMBOL SPACE ExhibitionAugust 13, 2012Word Symbol Space, a selection of works by six contemporary artists, will be on view at The Jewish Museum in the final gallery of its permanent exhibition, Culture and Continuity: The Jewish Journey, from August 11 through October 7, 2012. These post-1970 works from the Museum's collection all respond to mid-twentieth-century modernism. Each uses the language of abstraction - areas of pure color, geometric shapes, and gestural brushwork - and adds to it, incorporating words and symbols with specific personal, historical, and cultural meanings. Artists represented include William Anastasi, Ross Bleckner, Dana Frankfort, Alain Kirili, Brigitte NaHoN and Frank Stella. In addition, a related work by Ori Gersht will be on view in the third floor elevator lobby of the Museum.
Actors Theatre Opens 2012-13 Season With THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY OF STEVE JOBS, 9/21August 13, 2012Apple junkie Mike Daisey's controversial first-person retelling of stories from the Foxconn factory in China where most of the world's electronic gadgets are produced, The Agony and The Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, will open Actors Theatre's 2012-13 season, Sept. 21 to Oct. 7, on Stage West of the Herberger Theater Center, 222 E. Monroe.