International Artists News

The Flea Theater presents Kurotama Kikaku's production of KUTSUKAKE TOKIJIRO conceived, adapted, and directed by Jun Kim (The Flea's Obie Award-winning Benten Kozo) based on the popular 1928 Japanese play by Shin Hasegawa.

The Chicago Human Rhythm Project (CHRP), the world's longest-running year-round presenter of American tap dance and contemporary percussive arts, opens its 22nd season with Global Rhythms, its annual community-building, shared-revenue performances that spotlight national and international artists.

La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club has announced that the New York premiere of Now the Cats With Jewelled Claws by Tennessee Williams and directed by Jonathan Warman, will begin performances Thursday, October 27, at 10pm, at The Club at La MaMa, (74A E 4th Street between 2nd Avenue and Bowery).

JPAS and Theatre 13 will present the final performance of THE DROWSY CHAPERONE on stage at the Westwego Performing Arts Theatre October 16, 2011.

The Jefferson Performing Arts Society brings the laugh-out-loud comedy THE HALLELUJAH GIRLS (A James Hope Wooten Comedy) to the stage at Teatro Wego! Theatre (177 Sala Ave. in Westwego, LA) October 21-November 6, 2011 with performances Friday and Saturday at 7:30PM, and Sundays at 2PM.

La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club has announced that the New York premiere of Now the Cats With Jewelled Claws by Tennessee Williams and directed by Jonathan Warman, will begin performances Thursday, October 27, at 10pm, at The Club at La MaMa, (74A E 4th Street between 2nd Avenue and Bowery).

This November, the Harris Theater for Music and Dance will feature iconic artists and eclectic performances by some of the finest musicians and dancers in Chicago and the nation.

Conductor, arranger, pianist, and vocalist Matt Catingub returns to pay tribute to the music of Frank Sinatra with Ol' Blue Eyes standards including 'I've Got You Under My Skin,' 'Come Fly With Me,' 'I've Got the World on a String,' and 'It Had to Be You.'

The Second Annual United Solo, the world's largest solo theatre festival, opens on October 20, 2011 at Theatre ROW on 42nd Street in Manhattan.

Celebrate the holidays this year at Bergen Performing Arts Center with the following programs.

Pace University is set to unveil the inaugural season of Pace Presents, a new annual series of performing and visual arts programs at the school's Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts.

La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club has announced that the New York premiere of Now the Cats With Jewelled Claws by Tennessee Williams and directed by Jonathan Warman, will begin performances Thursday, October 27, at 10pm, at The Club at La MaMa, (74A E 4th Street between 2nd Avenue and Bowery).

The Flea Theater presents Kurotama Kikaku's production of KUTSUKAKE TOKIJIRO conceived, adapted, and directed by Jun Kim (The Flea's Obie Award-winning Benten Kozo) based on the popular 1928 Japanese play by Shin Hasegawa.

On Monday, November 7, 6pm, Kansas City based photographer Deanna Dikeman will present an artist talk at la Esquina, 1000 W. 25 St. KCMO, about her experience at Art Omi International Artists Residency program in Upstate New York, which she attended this summer through a partnership between Art Omi and Charlotte Street Foundation.

Following a New York summer filled with critical acclaim and audiences on the edge of their seats, Cirque du Soleil's acrobatic spectacle, Zarkana, will complete its limited engagement tonight at Radio City Music Hall.

The Harris Theater for Music and Dance kicks off the 2011-2012 Hear the Music season with the highly-anticipated Harris Theater debut of Fabio Luisi, recently appointed principal conductor of the Metropolitan Opera. Mr. Luisi will lead the acclaimed Vienna Symphony Orchestra and Grammy-nominated Eroica Trio in a program of classical blockbusters on November 7, 2011 at 7:30 pm.

Conductor, arranger, pianist, and vocalist Matt Catingub returns to pay tribute to the music of Frank Sinatra with Ol' Blue Eyes standards including 'I've Got You Under My Skin,' 'Come Fly With Me,' 'I've Got the World on a String,' and 'It Had to Be You.'

Vibrant rhythms and rhymes will resound in Seattle when Sankusem's African Music Festival comes to Seattle Pacific University, holding a concert at First Free Methodist Church on October 31, 2011 and at University of Washington's Meany Hall on November 1, 2011. Both concerts are at 7:30 pm.