MacArthur today named its 2014 class of MacArthur Fellows, recognizing 21 exceptionally creative individuals with a track record of achievement and the potential for significant contributions in the future.
Raven Theatre Co-Artistic Directors Michael Menendian and JoAnn Montemurro have announced the appointment of Cody Estle as Associate Artistic Director. Estle, a Raven ensemble member, has directed five of the theatre company's productions over the past three seasons, including Dating Walter Dante, Boy Gets Girl, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Good Boys and True and Vieux Carre'. He is set to direct the company's Chicago premiere of Horton Foote's Dividing the Estate in January.
Cheryl King, Artistic Director at Stage Left Studio, announces the line-up for the 9th Annual Women at Work Festival, a benefit for the Girl Effect, taking place at Stage Left Studio, today, September 17-27, 2014.
Tickets go on sale to the general public and rehearsals begin today, Tuesday, September 16 for the Playwrights Horizons World Premiere production of GRAND CONCOURSE, a new play by playwright and two-time Obie Award-winning actress Heidi Schreck (There Are No More Big Secrets, Creature). Directed by Kip Fagan (The Revisionist, Asuncion), the play is the second production of the acclaimed theater company's 2014/2015 Season. It follows the critically-acclaimed Bootycandy, a new play written and directed by Robert O'Hara, now playing on the Mainstage.
Award-winning filmmaker Darryl Roberts takes an unflinching look at the insidious effects of our culture's preoccupation with sex in 'America the Beautiful 3: The Sexualization of Our Youth' premiering this fall across the United States.
The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust announces the Music SPACE fall concert series, featuring all-ages shows inviting audience members to experience a wide variety of musical talent based in the Pittsburgh area at SPACE gallery.
The New York Philharmonic will pay tribute to the 125th anniversary of the birth of film legend and auteur Charlie Chaplin, as well as to the 100th birthday of his most famous character, The Little Tramp, in 'Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times: The Tramp at 100,' September 19-20, 2014, conducted by Timothy Brock in his Philharmonic debut. The program is part of the second season of THE ART OF THE SCORE: Film Week at the Philharmonic, which opens with the previously announced La Dolce Vita: The Music of Italian Cinema, led by Music Director Alan Gilbert (today and tomorrow, September 16-17).
According to TV Line, Luke Perry has joined the cast of CBS' upcoming series CSI: CYBER.
This was yet another great build-up episode of MASTERS OF SEX and ended with a bang! Let's talk about it. The entire episode had taken a look at various storylines, giving us a hint of what's to come, but never giving us the bigger picture.
Deadline writes that Brian d'Arcy James has joined the cast of Open Road's SPOTLIGHT, directed by Tom McCarthy. James will star alongside Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Aaron Eckhart, Liev Schreiber, Rachel McAdams and Stanley Tucci in the film, which centers on the Boston Globe's real-life investigation into pedophile priests in the Catholic Church.
MiCasa, the premiere English-language entertainment network catering to Latino viewers, selected Vidillion as its advertising and content distribution partner. The Texas-based broadcasting network selected Vidillion as a partner in distributing and monetizing its programs on Internet-connected televisions and devices.
There's something to be said for seeing a company of incredible dancers performing the classic "A Chorus Line" especially when they're doing much of the original Michael Bennett choreography as is currently being presented at the 5th Avenue Theatre. Even better when you've got an entire company of incredible singers as well. You've almost got the triple threat that the show needs to be great. Unfortunately it's that third element, the acting, where the 5th Avenue's production falls a little short and so the story of these Broadway gypsies suffers a bit.
The Met's Rush Tickets program will move entirely online in its ninth season, 2014-15, allowing expanded, more democratic access to prime Met tickets for $25. As in past seasons, Rush Tickets will be available for every performance in the Met season, with the exception of the Opening Night and New Year's Eve galas; a total of 219 performances of 26 operas. Moving the Rush Tickets program online is part of the Met's continuing mission to further develop the opera audience by broadening access to the company's performances.
According an announcement on his official website, Bob Crewe, songwriter behind many of Frankie Valli and the Four Season's hit tunes, has passed away. He died peacefully, with his brother Dan Crewe by his side, on Wednesday, September 11, 2014 in Scarborough, Maine. He was 83.
Today OZ, Nashville's first contemporary arts center, announces its 2014-15 season, which runs today, September 12, 2014 - June 27, 2015. The season is bookended by premieres, beginning with two performances (September 12 & 13) of Tim Robbins' interpretation of A Midsummer Night's Dream, produced and acted by the company he founded and leads, The Actors' Gang, in the production's first U.S. engagement outside of the company's home theater in Los Angeles. OZ's 2014-15 program will conclude with the world premiere (June 18-20) of Memory Rings, the latest multi-media stage production from innovative New York City-based puppetry collective Phantom Limb Company.
Hidden portraits - and even a dead animal - have been discovered lurking underneath some of the most iconic portraits of the Tudor monarchs. They are revealed for the first time in a major display opening at the National Portrait Gallery today 12 September.
Lyric Opera of Chicago's 60th anniversary season continues with Capriccio, starring Renée Fleming and conducted by Sir Andrew Davis, longtime collaborators in performance and colleagues as Lyric's creative consultant and music director respectively. Richard Strauss's final opera “reunites Renée in a signature role with Sir Andrew, in a lovely production previously seen here in 1994,” says Anthony Freud, Lyric's general director.
Raven Theatre is the recipient of a $100,000 gift from a single donor, Executive Director Kelli Strickland announced today - the largest gift the theatre has received for general operations. The donor, who chooses to remain anonymous, is a Chicagoan who regularly attends performances of all types of performing arts produced by institutions of varying sizes. In making this contribution, the donor said, 'It reflects my belief in general that storefront theaters are an important aspect of the Chicago cultural environment and in particular that Raven Theatre is an integral part of that community. In my judgment, Raven Theatre has been taking the kind of steps that will move it forward to the next level in providing superb theatrical productions and education. I trust this contribution will help the theater reach that level more rapidly than it otherwise would have.'
Troubled by the news here at home and coming out of the Middle East, Noor Theatre's leadership grappled with how to engage artistically and meaningfully with the world around them. Their programming is a direct response to these questions - questions that they look to their community of artists and audience to help answer.
From the anonymous bedroom producer who sent demos to Triple J, to the Billboard-tipped, Hottest Newcomer nominee (InTheMix), it's been a debut year beyond anyone's expectations for Golden Features – least of all, the man himself.
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