Drummer, composer, and bandleader E.J. Strickland is most noted for his work with The Ravi Coltrane Quartet, The Marcus Strickland Quartet & Trio, & The Russell Malone Quartet. He currently leads his own bands The E.J. Strickland Quintet & The E.J. Strickland Project. His playing has been described as emitting "fields of cumulative energy, clouds of feather-touch and heavy-handed syncopations, latent with power like an oncoming storm" (Thomas Conrad, Downbeat Magazine).
Art on the Fly kicks off ten days of international dance. Today, June 15th, the streets of South Lake Union become an arts playground featuring the Massive Monkees, a Brazilian parade, an Egyptian wedding procession (including a kazoo sing-along), a live interactive marionette exhibit (where the audience pulls the strings), a Bollywood Flash mob, and FREE open dance classes from Seattle's best studios. South Lake Union will be wall-to-wall events and it's open to all ages.
While walking along the shoreline of his grandparents' beach house, just down the coastline from Raglan, a young boy is deep in thought about how he is going to spend his school holidays. He is thinking about what kind of adventure he would like to have. He is going to be twelve years old and his grandparents had asked him what he would like for his birthday.
Roadrunner Records has announced the eagerly anticipated new album from the legendary Dream Theater. 'DREAM THEATER' the first self-titled collection in the GRAMMY-nominated band's nearly three decade career arrives at last on September 24th.
As the Museum of Arts and Design approaches its five-year anniversary at its Columbus Circle location, the museum is preparing to celebrate this milestone with a diverse roster of exhibitions and programs that emphasize its focus on materials, process, and contemporary creation. Featured exhibitions in 2013 include Fashion Jewelry: The Collection of Barbara Berger, Body & Soul: New International Ceramics, and Out of Hand: Materializing the Postdigital. A further highlight of the year is MAD's annual curated contemporary jewelry exhibition and saleLOOT 2013: MAD About Jewelry.
It's puppy mania when America's favorite talking dog returns for a week of brand-new, pawsitively adorable, tail-wagging fun beginning Monday, June 24,2013, on PBS KIDS (check local listings).
The 88 (www.the88.net) release today their sixth studio album, Fortune Teller. It will be available on CD, digital and for the first time ever, vinyl formats. Tomorrow, on June 12, The 88 will be holding their record release show at the Troubadour, supported by Aaron Embry.
Author Thaddeus Best holds nothing back as he visits his childhood memories and shares his life story with his truly touching memoir, From Here to Where. His is a story that will touch every heart and make the readers understand a boy who has been through a lot in this life, how he dealt with his inner pain and suffering and comes out from the ordeal scathed and scarred, but a whole lot tougher than before.
Today we are continuing BroadwayWorld's 2013 Tony Awards Clip Countdown with a special spotlight focused on one of the most Tony Award-winning artists in history, actor/choreographer/director Tommy Tune!
TEMP Art Space has announced Everything Is TEMP, an exhibition curated by Alex Ahn and Ari Lipkis featuring work by nine emerging artists who explore the fleeting nature of digital art. The idea ultimately reflects the inherent ephemerality of technology and life. Artists include Tyler Healy, Jack Kalish, Rune Madsen, Marisa Prefer, Byron Peter, Matthew Ostrowski, Ryan Raffa, Borna Sammak, and Timo Toots.
Socrates and His Clouds begins tonight, June 4, at Jermyn Street Theatre. With Alexander Andreou (National Theatre, Manchester Royal Exchange) as Socrates, Paul Hutton as Strepsiades (Mack & Mabel Southwark Playhouse), and Jack Montgomery (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Mary Poppins), as Phidippides, this modern day re-interpretation of a classic Greek comedy will also feature Riana Athanasiou, Lucyelle Cliffe and Rahil Liapopoulou as The Chorus.
Today the Edinburgh International Festival launched a new web-based application called 'Cauldron', the next stage in the development of Festival City, a new work commissioned from composer Tod Machover which will premiere at the Usher Hall in August.
The National Hispanic Cultural Center and Camino Real Productions, LLC have announced the world premiere of Secret Things, by award-winning playwright Elaine Romero. The play will open on Thursday, July 25 for a three-week run at the Wells Fargo Auditorium at the National Hispanic Cultural Center, followed by two additional weekends of performances at Teatro Paraguas in Santa Fe.
92nd Street Y announces the 2014 line-up for Lyrics & Lyricists, with Deborah Grace Winer in her sixth season as series artistic director. To offer their unique perspectives on the American Songbook, L&L guest artistic directors this year feature three Tony Award winners-a director (Kathleen Marshall, in her L&L debut), music director (Ted Sperling) and lyricist (David Zippel)--a top musical theater historian (Robert Kimball), and Broadway royalty (Ted Chapin of The Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization).
Guerra: a clown play is a satirical physical comedy created by Mexico City-based company La Piara in collaboration with writers/directors Seth Bockley (February House at The Public Theatre) and Devon de Mayo (The Further Adventures of Hedda Gabler with Dog & Pony Theatre Company). Performed in three languages, Guerracombines slapstick, clown, dance, bouffant and farce to tell the story of a military outpost desperate for recruits, and the cannon fodder that a hapless General sends to war. This contemporary story of war's inhumanity is given a darkly humorous edge through the medium of clown.
Pratt Fine Arts Center has announced the recipients of the 2013 Artist in Residence Program focusing on Printmaking are Piper O'Neill and Chris Crites. Both artists will be working in Pratt's studios this summer from May through July 2013.
Skoolbo announced the release of the special edition of Zalairos Adventures for the iPads without charge. The collection contains all 25 audio books with more than 12 hours of enthralling content.
The Antaeus production highlights the play's universal and timeless themes by staging the play as presentation theater with the actors speaking directly to the audience, rarely to the person onstage to whom they are speaking. It is performed in conservative modern dress on a minimalistic set, making the words ring truer than in any other production of the show I have ever seen.
