Playwrights Horizons (Tim Sanford, Artistic Director; Leslie Marcus, Managing Director) begins accepting entries today, Wednesday, October 3, for its popular LIVEforFIVE online lottery for $5 tickets to the New York premiere of THE WHALE, a new play by Obie Award winner Samuel D. Hunter (A Bright New Boise), directed by Davis McCallum (February House, A Bright New Boise, the upcoming Water By the Spoonful at Second Stage). Due to the overwhelming response to Playwrights Horizons' 2012/2013 season, all productions are now playing longer runs to accommodate the larger subscription base. The limited engagement of THE WHALE, originally announced through Sunday, November 18, will now play through Sunday, December 2.
The unrivaled British a cappella vocal ensemble pays tribute to camaraderie across the ages in this charming afternoon delight. The concert will be held at the Wilkins Theatre, (Kean University, 1000 Morris Avenue, Union, NJ 07083) on Sunday, November 11, 2012, 3pm. Tickets $20 and $30.
The NATIONAL NEW PLAY NETWORK (NNPN), the country's alliance of non-profit theaters that champions the development, production, and continued life of new plays, announces its 33rd Rolling World Premiere: Sean Christopher Lewis' Manning Up will receive three productions through the Network's Continued Life of New Plays Fund in the 2012/13 season, the Network's 15th. Manning Up will begin its Rolling World Premiere at Riverside Theatre (Iowa City, IA, October 12 - 28, 2012), followed by performances at Salt Lake Acting Company (Salt Lake City, UT, November 7 - December 9, 2012) and Actors' Summit (Akron, OH, May 16 - June 2, 2013). Lewis - a former NNPN Playwright-in-Residence - kicks off the festivities by directing the Riverside production.
The NATIONAL NEW PLAY NETWORK (NNPN), the country's alliance of non-profit theaters that champions the development, production, and continued life of new plays, announces its 32nd Rolling World Premiere: Steve Yockey's Wolves will receive four productions through the Network's Continued Life of New Plays Fund in the 2012/13 season, the Network's 15th. Wolves will begin its Rolling World Premiere at Actor's Express (Atlanta, GA, November 8 - December 2, 2012), followed by performances at Southern Rep (New Orleans, LA, November 14 - 25, 2012), Stray Cat Theatre (Tempe, AZ, November 30 - December 16, 2012), and Celebration Theatre (Los Angeles, CA, March 8 - May 1, 2013).
Linda Shelton, Executive Director of The Joyce Theater Foundation, today announced that the multi-venue institution has entered into two real estate transactions that will both permanently secure its future in the Chelsea theater that it has occupied since 1982 and made famous around the world, as well as allow it to relocate and upgrade its rehearsal studio / performance space currently located in SoHo.
Revered in his own time as a 'monarch' of painting, Piero della Francesca (1411/13-1492) is acknowledged today as a founding figure of the Italian Renaissance. In early 2013, The Frick Collection will present the first monographic exhibition in the United States dedicated to the artist. It brings together seven works by Piero della Francesca, including six panels from the Saint' Agostino altarpiece-the largest number from this masterwork ever reassembled. They will be joined by the Virgin and Child Enthroned with Attendant
As part of its commitment to intercultural artistic initiatives, The Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago presents a collaboration between New York-based Japanese choreographer Kota Yamazaki and dancers from Africa and the U.S. Performances are tonight, September 27-29 at The Dance Center, 1306 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago.
The NATIONAL NEW PLAY NETWORK (NNPN), the country's alliance of non-profit theaters that champions the development, production, and continued life of new plays, will produce six American and two Australian new plays in staged reading format at its National Showcase of New Plays, hosted November 29 - December 2 in Washington, DC by Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company.
Singer-songwriter, instrumentalist, and composer Gabriel Kahane performs the world premiere of his composition The Fiction Issue, commissioned by Carnegie Hall, on Thursday, October 25 at 7:30 p.m. in Zankel Hall on a program entitled Don't Even Listen.
Orchestra of St. Luke's (OSL) has just announced the release of the seventh album on its record label St. Luke's Collection: a live recording of Schoenberg and Riehn's masterful chamber arrangement of Gustav Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde. The work was performed to great acclaim in September 2011 by St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble with conductor George Manahan, mezzo-soprano Jennifer Johnson Cano and tenor Paul Groves at Baryshnikov Arts Center (BAC).
MUSIQA, Houston's leading contemporary classical music organization, opens its fall season with the world premiere of Grawemeyer-award-winning composer Sebastian Currier's Deep Sky Objects at the Hobby Center's Zilkha Hall tonight, September 22 at 7:30 PM. The concert offers a dynamic celebration of the intersection of music, poetry and dance.
Texas Performing Arts presents an extraordinary evening of chamber music featuring the Canadian String Orchestra, Les Violins Du Roy, Bernard Labadie, Artistic & Music director, with world-renowned flutist, Emmanuel Pahud on Friday, October 26, 2012 at Bass Concert Hall, 8:00 pm. Preceding this will be a pre-performance lecture by Dr. Guido Olivieri in the Bass Concert Hall Lobby at 7 pm.
Due to popular demand, Playwrights Horizons (Tim Sanford, Artistic Director; Leslie Marcus, Managing Director) has announced an extension of its critically-acclaimed, sold-out New York premiere production of DETROIT, the new play by Obie Award winner Lisa D'Amour.
Miller Theatre at Columbia University School of the Arts opens the 2012-13 season of its Composer Portraits series with a 100th birthday celebration of the influential composer John Cage, starring International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), Jessica Aszodi, mezzo-soprano, and Steven Schick, conductor. The event will take place tonight, September 20, 2012, at 8:00 PM at the Miller Theatre (2960 Broadway at 116th street). Tickets are $25-30, or $15-$18 for students with valid ID.
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra returns to Jorgensen this season to perform the first of four in its 40th anniversary commissioned works, Earth Echoes by Pulitzer Prize nominee Augusta Read Thomas, in a Connecticut premiere that will include Metropolitan Opera stars Sasha Cooke and Nathan Gunn. The concert, fresh from its Carnegie Hall debut the night before, will be performed Friday, Oct. 12, at 7:30 p.m., preceded by a concert talk by UConn music historian Glenn Stanley at 6:45 p.m.
MUSIQA, Houston's leading contemporary classical music organization, opens its fall season with the world premiere of Grawemeyer-award-winning composer Sebastian Currier's Deep Sky Objects at the Hobby Center's Zilkha Hall on Saturday, September 22 at 7:30 PM. The concert offers a dynamic celebration of the intersection of music, poetry and dance.
The Co-Founder and former Chairman of IMG Artists Charles Hamlen will become Orchestra of St. Luke's (OSL) new Vice President for Artists & Programs, effective October 2012. In this role, Mr. Hamlen will plan repertoire and artistic collaborations for OSL's annual orchestra series at Carnegie Hall, chamber music series at The Morgan Library & Museum and Brooklyn Museum, summer residency at Caramoor International Music Festival, Subway Series, OSL@DMC and other special projects. Mr. Hamlen will follow Elizabeth Ostrow, the current Vice President, Artistic Planning, who has worked at OSL for the past 16 years.
This month marks the return of Dance Theatre of Harlem (DTH) to stages across the United Sates. With what's being described as 'a carefully selected and diverse group of new dancers with awe-inspiring talent and promising careers, DTH is poised to reclaim its rightful place in the world of ballet.'
MUSIQA Houston opens its 2012-13 season on September 22, 2012, with the world premiere of Deep Sky Objects by the internationally acclaimed American composer Sebastian Currier. Set to poetry by Sarah Manguso, whose libretto imagines an intergalactic romance, Deep Sky Objects is scored for soprano, piano quintet and electronics; the performance will feature soprano Karol Bennett. The program includes Divided and Scatter-brained from Currier's QuartetSet with the world premiere of choreography by Tina Bohnstedt, danced by Houston Ballet II; and Secret Alchemy for piano quartet by Pierre Jalbert , as well as a set of violin-piano preludes by Lera Auerbach.
Tonight, September 7 and September 8 and 9, 2012, Long Beach Opera (LBO) will take audiences on a magical voyage beneath the sea with multimedia performances of English composer Gavin Bryars' THE PAPER NAUTILUS at the Aquarium of the Pacific, Long Beach, California. Written for six percussionists, two pianos and two singers, Bryars' exotic score will be performed in front of the Aquarium's three-story 142,000 gallon tank of vibrant sea life and coral, the perfect setting for merging the wonders of the ocean with human artistic creativity.
