The Music Man follows fast-talking traveling salesman Harold Hill as he cons the people of River City, Iowa, into buying musical instruments and uniforms for a boy's band he vows to organize - despite the fact he doesn't know a trombone from a treble clef. His plans to skip town with the cash are foiled when he falls for Marian, the town librarian, with chaos ensuing as the townsfolk get wind of his scheme. Filled with classical musical fun, tender romance and show tune favorites, including 'Ya Got Trouble,' 'Seventy-Six Trombones,' 'Goodnight My Someone,' 'Gary, Indiana' and 'Till There Was You,' THE MUSIC MAN is the perfect All-American Musical.
Josh Kornbluth, whose monologue style was shaped by his mentor and monologue pioneer Spalding Gray, will perform his first commissioned piece, Andy Warhol: Good for the Jews? from March 4-20 on Stage West at the Herberger Theatre.
'UNFORGETTABLE: Selections from the Emily Fisher Landau Collection', on view February 10 - April 4 in the 1st floor gallery. The exhibition highlights a selection of paintings, sculpture and photography, including such iconic pieces as Ed Ruscha's 'Securing the Last Letter' 1964, Louise Bourgeois' 'Nature Study' 1984, Robert Rauschenberg's 'Sundog' 1962, Georgia O'Keeffe's 'Dry Waterfall' 1951 and Agnes Martin's 'Grey Stone II' 1961, along with additional artworks by Willem de Kooning, April Gornik, Jasper Johns, Barbara Kruger, Vera Lutter, Richard Prince, James Rosenquist, Kiki Smith, Rudolf Stingel, Mark Tansey, Andy Warhol and others.
Now in the final year of its Legacy Tour, the Merce Cunningham Dance Company (MCDC) returns to New York City for a weeklong engagement at The Joyce Theater from March 22 through 27, 2011, with a newly added Saturday matinee on March 26.
Actors Theatre will celebrate its 25th season by bringing back one old friend, saying goodbye to another and opening the theatrical door to vibrators, Andy Warhol and 'This.'
The first major museum survey of the work of illustrator, author and designer Maira Kalman (b. 1949, Tel Aviv), known for her whimsical yet probing imagery, opens at The Jewish Museum on March 11 and remains on view through July 31, 2011.
In December, 2010 Fourth Arts Block (FAB) launched the pilot of Dance Block, a new program designed to increase the amount of affordable dance rental space in the East 4th Street Cultural District, East Village and Lower East Side.
'UNFORGETTABLE: Selections from the Emily Fisher Landau Collection', on view February 10 - April 4 in the 1st floor gallery. The exhibition highlights a selection of paintings, sculpture and photography, including such iconic pieces as Ed Ruscha's 'Securing the Last Letter' 1964, Louise Bourgeois' 'Nature Study' 1984, Robert Rauschenberg's 'Sundog' 1962, Georgia O'Keeffe's 'Dry Waterfall' 1951 and Agnes Martin's 'Grey Stone II' 1961, along with additional artworks by Willem de Kooning, April Gornik, Jasper Johns, Barbara Kruger, Vera Lutter, Richard Prince, James Rosenquist, Kiki Smith, Rudolf Stingel, Mark Tansey, Andy Warhol and others.
Public Theater Artistic Director Oskar Eustis, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Alec Baldwin, Linda Emond, Taylor Mac, Mandy Patinkin and Lapham's Quarterly Editor Lewis Lapham will celebrate the release of Lapham's Quarterly's Winter 2011 issue 'Celebrity' on Thursday, January 20 at 7 p.m. at Joe's Pub. The evening will feature a discussion about celebrity, a performance by Mandy Patinkin and Taylor Mac of 'Unworthy of Your Love' from Assassins, and lively selections from the magazine, which will include excerpts from Charles Lindbergh, Lillie Langtry, John Hinckley, Billy Wilder, Andy Warhol, John Adams, and tales from the Thousand and One Nights, among others.
Public Theater Artistic Director Oskar Eustis, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Alec Baldwin, Linda Emond, Taylor Mac, Mandy Patinkin and Lapham's Quarterly Editor Lewis Lapham will celebrate the release of Lapham's Quarterly's Winter 2011 issue 'Celebrity' on Thursday, January 20 at 7 p.m. at Joe's Pub.
Sir Elton John will perform a concert on Wednesday, January 19 at a private home in Beverly Hills to raise funds for the American Foundation for Equal Rights. The Foundation's case, Perry v. Schwarzenegger, is the federal constitutional challenge against Prop. 8. The Foundation was victorious in federal district court earlier this year, and will argue before the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on December 6.
