Andy Warhol News

In a Festival first, Adelaide Cabaret Festival Artistic Director Kate Ceberano has secured internationally acclaimed artist David Bromley as Cabaret Festival Designer. In her debut role Ceberano has big ambitions to take the Festival to even greater heights and ensure it retains its reputation for excellence not only through its stellar performers but also with a design that matches its international reputation.

Celebrating a lifetime of artistic achievement by one of the world's most important contemporary choreographers, the Merce Cunningham Dance Company's Legacy Tour comes to Chicago in a co-presentation by The Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago and the Harris Theater for Music and Dance in Millennium Park.

Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture, the first major museum exhibition to explore how gender and sexual identity have shaped the creation of American portraiture, organized by and presented at the National Portrait Gallery last fall, will be on view at the Brooklyn Museum from November 18, 2011, through February 12, 2012.

The legendary Mario Montez, one of the most well-known and beloved figures of New York's underground film and theater scene of the 1960s and 1970s, will make a very rare personal appearance at Museum of the Moving Image, on Sunday, November 13, at 6:30 p.m., as part of the day-long program 'Mario Montez, Superstar.'

The Public Theater (Oskar Eustis, Artistic Director; Joey Parnes, Interim Executive Director), Producer Mark Russell, and the Association of Performing Arts Presenters (APAP President and CEO Mario Garcia Durham) announced the exciting line-up today for the eighth annual UNDER THE RADAR FESTIVAL, running January 4-15, 2012 at The Public Theater as well as at partner venues around the city.

Charlotte Street Foundation will present the world premiere of STRANGER FRIEND. This multi-media production weaves together choreography and video by Leralee Whittle, music compositions by Paul Sprawl, and performance by Whittle, Sprawl and Stephanie Fellner, all currently based in Minneapolis.

Porchlight Music Theatre, American Musicals. Chicago Style, presents the Chicago premiere of John Bucchino and Harvey Fierstein's A Catered Affair, directed by Nick Bowling with music direction by Doug Peck, at Stage 773, 1225 W. Belmont Ave.

The Aspen Art Museum presents artist Slater Bradley's Look Up and Stay in Touch-a collaborative exhibition of video, film, and photographic work with Academy Award-nominated cinematographer Ed Lachman.

Performance Space 122's 2012 COIL Festival to premiere experimental dance, theater and performance works from around the world, January 5-29.

Amphibian Stage Productions, in association with the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, is proud to announce the next in its series of National Theatre Live screenings, The Kitchen by Arnold Wesker. Screenings will take place at 2pm and 7pm on Thursday, November 3 at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth.

REDCAT announces the postponement of A Missionary Position, originally scheduled for November 9-13, 2011. Due to unforeseen scheduling conflicts the world premiere at REDCAT will be rescheduled for 2012; dates to be announced.

Today, R.E.M. posted two videos for their brand-new song 'We All Go Back To Where We Belong' on their official website www.remhq.com. R.E.M. frontman Michael Stipe and co-director Dominic DeJoseph (who has directed previous films for R.E.M.) recruited actress Kirsten Dunst to star in one of the videos for 'We All Go Back To Where We Belong.' Dunst is a Golden Globe-nominated performer who has starred in such movies as Sophia Coppola's The Virgin Suicides, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Marie Antoinette, and the Spider-Man trilogy. She recently received the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress for her role in the current film Melancholia, directed by Lars von Trier.

This fall the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum presents two focused exhibitions selected from the museum's permanent collection, one exploring Pop art and the other featuring 1960s monochrome works.

Charlotte Street Foundation will present the world premiere of STRANGER FRIEND. This multi-media production weaves together choreography and video by Leralee Whittle, music compositions by Paul Sprawl, and performance by Whittle, Sprawl and Stephanie Fellner, all currently based in Minneapolis.

MSG Entertainment and The Bowery Presents announced today that singer-songwriter Barry Manilow has added a final show on Valentine's Day at Radio City Music Hall, due to overwhelming demand. Barry Manilow's now four-night in New York City includes February 10, 11, 12, and 14, 2012. Tickets for the February 14th show will go on-sale on Monday, October 31 at 9AM. American Express cardmembers can get advance tickets beginning Monday, October 24 at 10AM through Sunday, October 30 at 10PM.

Chop Shop/Atlantic recording artist Anya Marina has announced the release of her new album 'FELONY FLATS' on Valentine's Day, February 14th, 2012.