A&E Network is scheduling in some summer drama this Memorial Day, premiering back-to-back new seasons of its popular scripted series 'Longmire,' from Warner Horizon Television, and 'The Glades,' from FOX Television Studios. Season Two of the contemporary crime thriller 'Longmire' premieres tonight, May 27th at 10 PM ET/PT immediately following the fourth season premiere of the hit drama 'The Glades' at 9 PM ET/PT. This year, crime doesn't get a holiday.
Art on the Fly kicks off ten days of international dance. On 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.
In 1802 a chemist and amateur meteorologist named Luke Howard presented a paper recommending a new system of classifying clouds, using the names cumulus, stratus and cirrus. Fast forward to 2013 and his namesake, pianist and composer Luke Howard is set to launch a sublime new solo album, appropriately enough called 'Sun, Cloud'.
The Antaeus Company, L.A.'s multiple award-winning classical theater company, presents an untraditional staging of Arthur Miller's The Crucible. Armin Shimerman and Geoffrey Wade co-direct the fully partner-cast production now through July 7, 2013. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the double-cast production below!
How strong family ties help the zebras overcome obstacles in their epic search for food and water is revealed when NATURE follows the Great Zebra Exodus, airing tonight, May 15 at 8 p.m. (ET) on PBS (check local listings).
An insightful glimpse into history, Twilight of the White Rajahs shares the political power struggles that had shaped Sarawak's present. Created by author Alex Ling, this informative new book traces the fascinating events that had veered the path of Sarawak and the White Rajahs who have greatly influenced its political and historical framework.
Five months… FIVE MONTHS after their previous musical comedy, Jumbo, opened at the Hippodrome, the trio of Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart and George Abbott had a brand new one at the Imperial. But far from seeming a rush job, their 1936 On Your Toes can easily be argued to be a huge step forward in refining musical comedy into a sophisticated art form.
The cast has been announced for Socrates and His Clouds 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.
In the modern theater, unsung artists called Sound Designers are quietly engaged to flesh out theatrical productions with recordings of crickets, doorbells and phone rings. They fill your Tempests with winds, your Streetcars with street noise and your Vanyas with gunshots. They mix your incidental music with your offstage voices and invisibly support the director's vision. If they're doing their job correctly, you won't even notice their contribution.
How strong family ties help the zebras overcome obstacles in their epic search for food and water is revealed when NATURE follows the Great Zebra Exodus, airing Wednesday, May 15 at 8 p.m. (ET) on PBS (check local listings).
On the premiere, "Episode 901," Desiree begins her Cinderella journey when Chris Harrison welcomes her to her new home, a cliffside Malibu estate, and gives her the keys to a brand new Bentley convertible.
Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra (LACO), considered one of the nation's premier orchestras as well as a leader in presenting wide-ranging repertoire and adventurous commissions, announces its 2013-14 season, its 45th, featuring a compelling mix of beloved masterpieces and genre-defying premieres from firmly established and notable up-and-coming composers programmed by Jeffrey Kahane, one of the world's foremost conductors and pianists, who marks his 17th season as the Orchestra's music director.
Stop by the BPA Gallery in May for 'Light, Glass, and Crows,' an exhibit of oil on canvas by Kent Holloway. Kent's recent works in oils cover a variety of subject matter - some loose impressionistic works, and some more refined, but all exploring the play of light on a range of surfaces. He's been particularly interested in the brush strokes, and the impasto or smooth applications needed to create the illusion of different surfaces ranging from flower petals, to glass, and clouds. Studying the surfaces of his subject matter, he imagines the brush strokes and paint texture he'll apply to the canvas, saying, 'This prepares my vision before I pick up the brush.'
In 1802 a chemist and amateur meteorologist named Luke Howard presented a paper recommending a new system of classifying clouds, using the names cumulus, stratus and cirrus. Fast forward to 2013 and his namesake, pianist and composer Luke Howard is set to launch a sublime new solo album, appropriately enough called 'Sun, Cloud'.
For as long as I can remember, traveling has been a part of my life. My parents took us everywhere from summer cross-country road trips to Caribbean cruises to tours of Israel. Whether by boat, plane, train or automobile, my family loved to take off on adventures and we rarely went to the same place twice. Each trip exposed us to new and exhilarating sights, sounds, cuisines and cultural experiences and although we returned home exhausted, it was always with warm hearts and enriched spirits with lots of memories to recall and stories to tell. Fortunately, I am lucky enough to have found myself involved in a life and career that allows me to continue to travel all over the world and often. Not only that, but now I am part of a much larger community of people who share my itinerant lifestyle. It's strange but fun to have friends and colleagues who travel as frequently as me-people with whom I can discuss my favorite countries, cities and airports and which of those places have the easiest transit systems, best shopping, yummiest restaurants, nicest terminals, and most extensive duty-free stores. It's a delight to know that wherever I am in the world, I will most likely run into someone I know.
Misha Bouvion takes on Shakespeare's epic poem Venus and Adonis in a one-woman theatrical production presented by The New Circle Artists, Saturdays through May 11.
The Center Players of Bayonne have assembled Tribe members that are gearing up and preparing a theatrical presentation of HAIR: The Rock Musical at the JCC of Bayonne. Lyrics are by James Rado & Gerome Ragni, Music by Galt MacDermot. The production is Directed and Choreographed by Alex Perez (De La Guarda, Ultimate Drag Off, Oz) and Musical Direction by Luisa Sauter. The performance will be presented in full including the wonderful hits of the 1960's rock era including 'Let the Sunshine In', 'Aquarius', 'Easy to be Hard', 'Donna' and the title song 'Hair'.
All elements of the evening's performance were stunningly crafted and stand individually as great works of art, but the pieces lack certain cohesiveness that binds all aspects of a performance together. Melding two worlds to create one work of art is a beautiful challenge, and the Leon/Lightfoot effort exhibits abundant ideas between the two of them. What is missing is an agreed upon through line that serves to streamline the work and become the stamp of polish and finesse that Jiri Kylian left on the company many years ago.
