Tracing the development of artistic director Sydney Skybetter's formalism, Brooklyn-based skybetter and associates will perform Near Abroad (2008), The Laws of Falling Bodies (2009), Temporary Matters (2011), Little Boy (2012) and the World Premiere of For Want of Sleep, featuring a commissioned score by composer Sxip Shirey.
The International City Theatre will host a staged reading of INNOCENCE, a new musical by British team Jonathan Dove and Alasdair Middleton. The reading will be held on Monday, April 24, at 7 PM and will be free and open to the public.
Emmy, Grammy and Tony Award-winning actress Cynthia Nixon will join soprano Lisa Delan and pianist Kristin Pankonin in an evening that features Gordon Getty's The White Election, a song cycle based on the poetry of Emily Dickinson. Ms. Nixon will read selections from Emily Dickinson's letters. The event will take place on Thursday, April 19, 2012, at 7:30 p.m. at The Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse (Samuel B. & David Rose Building, 70 Lincoln Center Plaza, 165 West 65th Street, Manhattan).
Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts has invited kids and their families to take part in a free interactive performance of Polyglot Theatre's We Built This City on Mother's Day weekend, Saturday and Sunday, May 12-13. Two 120-minute performances will take place outdoors in Scottsdale Civic Center Park on each day at 10:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. Admission is free and tickets are not required. Refreshments from Shine Coffee and picnic foods are available for purchase.
The Stoller-Filer Health Center, the newest Planned Parenthood Los Angeles facility, to be located at 11722 South Wilmington Avenue, Compton, CA 90059, will celebrate its Grand Opening on Tuesday, April 24, 2012, Sue Dunlap, President of Planned Parenthood Los Angeles announced today. "The new health center will be named after the renowned Jazz Pianist, Harpist and Singer, Corky Hale Stoller and her Grammy Award winning husband, Mike Stoller of Leiber & Stoller fame, along with the late Compton Civic Leader, Maxcy Dean Filer, who was affectionately known as 'Mr. Compton,'" Dunlap said.
The Los Angeles Philharmonic devotes a week to celebrating Franz Schubert's contributions to symphonic, chamber and vocal music with Sublime Schubert, presenting performances beginning Monday, April 16 and ending Sunday, April 22, at Walt Disney Concert Hall.
Artistic Director Sean Murray is proud to announce Cygnet Theatre's second World Premiere production - acclaimed local writer Richard Platt's RIPPLES FROM WALDEN POND - An Evening with Henry David Thoreau. This production, which began as a staged-reading in collaboration with Write Out Loud, will once again feature Cygnet Resident Artist Francis Gercke as Thoureau, and will be directed by Eric Poppick. RIPPLES FROM WALDEN POND will run for four performances only, April 16th, 17th, 23rd, and 24th at 7:30pm. All four performances will take place at Cygnet Theatre in Old Town State Historic Park.
As the 50th anniversary approaches in 2013 for one of the darkest, saddest days in modern American history - the assassination of President John F. Kennedy - plans have been announced for production of a major motion picture based on the New York Times bestselling book, The Kennedy Detail, written by former Secret Service agent Gerald Blaine and award-winning journalist Lisa McCubbin, with a foreword by former agent Clint Hill.
The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center will conclude the inaugural season of its critically-acclaimed three-year concert series and residency at the Harris Theater with French Virtuosity on Tuesday, May 22, 2012 at 7:30 pm. Pianists Inon Barnatan & Juho Pohjonen; violinists Jessica Lee, Kristin Lee, & Elmar Oliveira; violist Beth Guterman; and cellist Andreas Brantelid will perform this exceptional all-French program that features the best known and most virtuosic works of France's most famous composers. Saint-Saens' timeless First Piano Trio and virtuosic First Violin Sonata, as well as Chausson's intensely passionate Concerto for Piano, Violin, and String Quartet, Op. 21 will be featured.
A Noise Within (ANW) is seeking volunteer ushers for productions of Shakespeare's ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA, Tony Kushner's adaptation of Pierre Corneille's THE ILLUSION, and Moliere's THE BUNGLER through May 2012 in its stunning new 33,000 square-foot, state-of-the-art Pasadena venue.
CNN journalist Christiane Amanpour, former UMass professor and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Chair Sheila Bair, playwright and gay-rights activist Martin Duberman, Iran hostage crisis negotiator Ulric Haynes Jr. '52, chemist David K. Lewis '64, New York Public Library President and former Amherst College President Anthony W. Marx, acclaimed narrative nonfiction writer John McPhee and hit songwriter Jim Steinman '69 will all receive honorary degrees from Amherst College during its 191st Commencement exercises on Sunday, May 20, at 10 a.m. on the school's main quad. Amherst President Biddy Martin will deliver the address during the May 20 ceremonies, and seven of the eight honored guests will speak to the approximately 443 members of Amherst's Class of 2012, their families and friends and the college and Western Massachusetts communities in a series of conversations that are free and open to the public on Saturday, May 19. The schedule of discussions with the honorary degree recipients is available on the Commencement website, www.amherst.edu/commencement.
The music that ignited a generation and heats up Broadway every night in ROCK OF AGES is coming to American Airlines Terminal 8 at John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) on Friday, April 13.
The Los Angeles Philharmonic devotes a week to celebrating Franz Schubert's contributions to symphonic, chamber and vocal music with Sublime Schubert, presenting performances beginning Monday, April 16 and ending Sunday, April 22, at Walt Disney Concert Hall.
A Noise Within (ANW), the acclaimed classical repertory theatre company, presents MOLIÈRE's THE BUNGLER, translated by RICHARD WILBUR, a careening cavalcade of wily servants, dim-witted young lovers and avaricious old men opening Saturday, April 7 and closing Sunday, May 27, 2012.
Artistic Director Sean Murray is proud to announce Cygnet Theatre's second World Premiere production - acclaimed local writer Richard Platt's RIPPLES FROM WALDEN POND - An Evening with Henry David Thoreau. This production, which began as a staged-reading in collaboration with Write Out Loud, will once again feature Cygnet Resident Artist Francis Gercke as Thoureau, and will be directed by Eric Poppick. RIPPLES FROM WALDEN POND will run for four performances only, April 16th, 17th, 23rd, and 24th at 7:30pm. All four performances will take place at Cygnet Theatre in Old Town State Historic Park.
Emmy, Grammy and Tony Award-winning actress Cynthia Nixon will join soprano Lisa Delan and pianist Kristin Pankonin in an evening that features Gordon Getty's The White Election, a song cycle based on the poetry of Emily Dickinson. Ms. Nixon will read selections from Emily Dickinson's letters. The event will take place on Thursday, April 19, 2012, at 7:30 p.m. at The Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse (Samuel B. & David Rose Building, 70 Lincoln Center Plaza, 165 West 65th Street, Manhattan).
Northern Stage, the pioneering New England theater company, announces its new production of Chicago. The company obtained special permission from the show's creators to produce an intimate ensemble-based version of the hit musical, directed by Northern Stage Producing Director Catherine Doherty and award-winning New York director-choreographer Connor Gallagher, who also developed original choreography for the show.
Tracing the development of artistic director Sydney Skybetter's formalism, Brooklyn-based skybetter and associates will perform Near Abroad (2008), The Laws of Falling Bodies (2009), Temporary Matters (2011), Little Boy (2012) and the World Premiere of For Want of Sleep, featuring a commissioned score by composer Sxip Shirey.
SARTA presents various classes, workshops, playwright groups and reading groups this spring and summer in the Sacramento region.
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts will host more than 120 outstanding theater students from colleges and universities across the nation as part of the 44th annual Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (KCACTF), April 16-21, 2012. In January and February of this year, these artists from eight regions presented their outstanding work and were selected to travel to Washington, D.C. for an expense-paid trip to participate in National Festival events taking place at the Kennedy Center.
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