International Artists News

Last night, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center artist Sean Lee announced the ensemble's upcoming season at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance from the Elizabeth Morse Genius Stage. The 2018-19 series will mark the eighth year of CMS's ongoing residency in Chicago.

Six of Melbourne's best improvisers will create a completely unique and utterly absurd parody of "cutting-edge" theatre. Comedy, tragedy, Dada, Brecht and Beckett collide in a one-off theatrical masterpiece never before seen and never to be seen again.

Norfolk & Norwich Festival has today announced the full programme for its 2018 Festival (11 - 27 May). The programme, which spans performance, theatre, music, visual arts, literature, circus, outdoor and family events, includes world and UK premieres, one-off spectaculars, and a host of free events across the Festival. The Festival will showcase renowned international artists from across the globe and countries as widespread as Syria, Australia and India, alongside the best local Norfolk and UK talent presented across the county, from Norwich city centre and Great Yarmouth to Wells-next-the-Sea.

Gallery 30 South, Pasadena's popular gallery for internationally renowned artists has announced the first-ever solo art exhibition of multiple Platinum recording artist and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Chuck D from Public Enemy and Prophets of Rage. The exhibition titled "Behind the Seen" features some of Chuck D's most prolific artwork to date. The exhibit opens Sunday, March 4, 2018 and runs through the month. Chuck D will appear at Gallery 30 South on Sunday, March 4, 2018 from 3:00-6:00 p.m. to meet and greet patrons and collectors. Gallery 30 South is located at 30 S. Wilson Avenue, Pasadena,  California, 91106. The hours for the gallery are Wednesday-Friday 11:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. and Saturday/Sunday from 12 Noon - 6:00 p.m.

Dixon Place presents a celebration of international women artists from history and the here and now on International Women's Day.

The French archipelago of Guadeloupe welcomes its first edition of the SAINT-GEORGES International Music Festival from Friday, March 2 through Sunday, March 4. The festival celebrates the musical heritage of Saint-Georges, a historical Guadeloupean figure of the French Revolution; a series of spectacular classical music and Opera concerts will take place all across the butterfly-shaped islands. Highlights of the festival include 'A Night of French Opera' at the Saint Pierre & Saint Paul Cathedral in Pointe--Ptre, one of Guadeloupe's landmarks.

The Tony® and Grammy Award®-winning Broadway hit, Beautiful-The Carole King Musical, makes its Walton Arts Center debut April 24-29, 2018 for a limited eight-show run as part of the P&G Broadway Series.

Walton Arts Center is now accepting applications for the new VoiceJam Varsity Singers, a week-long learning and performance opportunity for up to 25 high school or college-aged vocalists who are interested in a cappella.

Beck Center Teen Theater continues their 2017-2018 season with The Laramie Project, March 2-11 in the Studio Theater. Show times are 7:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, and 3 p.m. Sundays. A student matinee will take place at 10 a.m. on Thursday, March 8. Tickets are on sale now at 216.521.2540 x10 or beckcenter.org. The Laramie Project contains strong language and adult content.

PostSecret: The Show is bringing audience-sourced storytelling to the Walton Arts Center stage for a limited three-show engagement at 7:30 pm on Friday, March 9 and at 2 pm and 8 pm on Saturday, March 10.

Do not worry grown ups. The tapping and stomping you hear you hear is not wild horses or the latest zombie apocalypse. It is the sound of happy little feet dancing to the Shamrock Beat at FunikiJam' s SHENANIGANS: Celebration of Ireland! What's more? The latest dance craze to hit the five and under set is just in time for St. Patrick's Day so bring the kids and get your (Sham) 'Rock on!

New York City based theatre podcast, Your Program Is Your Ticket, presents a special series of theatre interviews with artists from the 2018 Frigid Festival in New York. Award-winning playwright and podcast creator, Sean Chandler, hosts the interviews which include playwrights, directors, and actors, and features local, national, and Canadian artists.

Due to an emergency medical procedure, Itzhak Perlman, who was scheduled to perform with Pinchas Zukerman and Rohan De Silva at the Kravis Center on Monday February 26, regrets that he is unable to appear for the performance. The performance has been cancelled.

The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, located at The Graduate Center, City University of New York, announces its Spring 2018 season of public programs. The season features free public programs throughout the fall and winter, with contemporary theatre and performing artists from around the world.

Museum of Art and Design at Miami Dade College (MOAD MDC) will present Excess & Enchantment: Arts of Resistance, a lecture by the prominent New York-based scholar Dr. Ann Pellegrini at 7:30 p.m., Friday, March 9, at the MDC Live Arts Lab. A leading expert in the field of performance studies, Pellegrini's work traverses disciplines, but a constant theme is an abiding interest in exploring how feelings are lived, experienced, and communicated, and what potential risks and possibilities result. Another is the value of art and the aesthetic for repairing democratic social life.

The UK's critically-acclaimed show BEYOND THE BARRICADE, a glittering concert of musical showstoppers, will make its debut in Australia this year, touring to 24 cities from 1st June.

The 2018 Auckland Fringe is the first annual iteration of the festival - an organic result of the momentum created from the success of the 2017 Fringe. The Auckland Fringe has existed in various guises since 2009, but it wasn't until the current Festival Director Lydia Zanetti took over during make-or-break times, and carried off an explosive Auckland Fringe in 2017 that we've seen it start to show its teeth.

On the heels of a highly successful multi-city tour and run on Broadway, the world's best-selling touring magic show, THE ILLUSIONISTS - LIVE FROM BROADWAY (www.theillusionistslive.com), will play The Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts in West Palm Beach on March 6 - 11 as part of its North American tour in 2018. Tickets for THE ILLUSIONISTS are on sale now.

On Saturday, March 10, technology will meet tradition as cutting-edge live electronica and digital technologies combine with the traditional sounds of Punjab when Flushing Town Hall presents PunjabTronix.

Museum of Art and Design at Miami Dade College (MOADMDC) will present Disorganizing Mimesis, a lecture-performance by members of the award-winning cutting-edge Mexican theater collective Teatro Ojo. In Disorganizing Mimesis, two of Teatro Ojo's founding members, Hector Bourges and Patricio Villareal, give an immersive introduction to one of Mexico's most avant-garde theatrical companies, while taking their audience on an idiosyncratic and twisting tour of Mexican history itself. Disorganizing Mimesis will have one performance at the MDC Live Arts Lab on at 7:30 p.m., March 10.