Leonardo News

Freedom to ACT, developed by Ann Rodiger and Belinda Mello, is in its 8th year! This year's conference topic is The Actors Audition: Preparation for Success and will focus on how actors use the Alexander Technique to maintain their presence throughout the audition process. The conference will take place on January 4th-6th, 2019 at Balance Arts Center: 151 West 30th Street, 3rd Floor, New York, NY. Register for the full conference or sign-up for individual workshops.

The Friends of the Erben Organ, the Basilica of Saint Patrick's Old Cathedral, and the Teatro Lirico di Cagliari (Italy) are pleased to present a unique concert fundraiser to raise money for our 1868 Henry Erben pipe organ, celebrating 150 years of beautiful music this year.

As part of its Open Spectrum series, New York Live Arts is hosting a discussion on creating safety in an age of aggression. The panel will include photojournalist Amr Alfiky, organizer/journalist/award-winning author asha bandele, journalist Kali Holloway, and Loren Miller, executive director of the Center for Anti-Violence Education.  The conversation will be moderated by visual artist/activist Shaun Leonardo.

The Empress Theatre present DaVinci & Michelangelo: The Titans Experience Theatre Performance today, October 12th, 8pm. Doors open at 7pm.

'DaVinci & Michelangelo: The Titans Experience,' an original, nationally touring theater performance makes its Vallejo, CA. debut at the Empress Theatre on October 12, 2018 at 8:00pm.

Salvage Vanguard Theater (SVT) presents MainStage world premiere of Tryouts by Adara Meyers, a Boston-based experimental playwright. Directed by co-Artistic Director Diana Lynn Small, Tryouts casts a satirical gaze on women, femininity, and motherhood, inspired by Leonardo Da Vinci's 'The Virgin and Child with St. Anne,' and Freud's debunked maternal psychosexual essay on the painting.

En el marco del 40 Foro Internacional de Música Nueva Manuel Enríquez, se llevará a cabo el estreno de tres piezas: dos que se presentan en México por primera vez y una de manera mundial, el miércoles 10 de octubre a las 17:00 en la Sala Manuel M. Ponce del Palacio de Bellas Artes.

This November at Teatro alla Scala, conductor Markus Stenz leads the world premiere of the highly-anticipated world premiere performance of Fin de Partie, the first and only opera by the beloved, visionary composer Gyorgy Kurtag, composed at the age of 91.  Based on the famous Samuel Beckett play, commonly performed in English as Endgame, the operatic version, to be sung in French, has been more than seven years in the making. At 450 pages, Fin de Partie is by far the largest score ever composed by the reputed "master of the miniature," who has for several decades maintained the desire of writing a musical treatment for the sparse, sardonically existential work. This production is staged by internationally-acclaimed artistic and theater director, Pierre Audi.

Smugbug Productions presents the New York Premiere of The Eleventh Hour!, a new rock musical comedy by David Seamon now running throughDecember 1, 2018 at Town Stages, 221 West Broadway, NYC. Performances are at 8pm, with preshow bands starting at 7:30pm. Tickets are $35 and are available at https://www.eleventhhourmusical.com/performance-tickets/the-eleventh-hour.

Tribute to a famous Brazilian Popular Music singer, Isaura Garcia, is a musical about love and revolution in a woman's daily life.

Salvage Vanguard Theater (SVT) presents MainStage world premiere of Tryouts by Adara Meyers, a Boston-based experimental playwright. Directed by co-Artistic Director Diana Lynn Small, Tryouts casts a satirical gaze on women, femininity, and motherhood, inspired by Leonardo Da Vinci's 'The Virgin and Child with St. Anne,' and Freud's debunked maternal psychosexual essay on the painting.

The Friends of the Erben Organ, the Basilica of Saint Patrick's Old Cathedral, and the Teatro Lirico di Cagliari (Italy) are pleased to present a unique concert fundraiser to raise money for our 1868 Henry Erben pipe organ, celebrating 150 years of beautiful music this year.

The LA Film Festival, produced by Film Independent, announced the winners of the 2018 Festival at the Awards Reception at the W Hotel in Hollywood presided over by Festival Director Jennifer Cochis and Film Independent President Josh Welsh. Cochis and Welsh also took the opportunity to thank the more than 50 generous sponsors, funders and media partners without whom the Festival would not be possible.

If you're looking for the perfect mix of campiness, catchy lyrics, and a clever plot, tied together by a cast oozing with talent, The Eleventh Hour may just be your one-stop shop. But get ready to not take this one too seriously.

Artist Series Concerts of Sarasota is pleased to present baritone John Brancy and pianist Peter Dugan performing "Armistice: The Journey Home," Saturday, November 3, 7:30 p.m., and Sunday, November 4, 3:00 p.m., at the Historic Asolo Theater, 5401 Bay Shore Road, Sarasota. The program, which tells the story of men and women who must find their way back home, literally and figuratively, from the ravages of war, features a compelling selection of music by Holst, Schubert, Rachmaninoff, Irving Berlin, Pete Seeger, and more. Reserved seat tickets are $25 to $45 and are available online at www.artistseriesconcerts.org or by calling 941-306-1202. $10 student tickets are available at the door with current student ID.

Bruce Dern will take over for the late Burt Reynolds in Quentin Tarantino's upcoming film, according to Variety.

Goodman Theatre and the Chicago Latino Theater Alliance (CLATA) present the U.S. premiere of Mendoza by Los Colochos Teatro of Mexico City, appearing in a limited engagement October 2-7 at the Goodman. The production is produced as part of Destinos-the 2nd Chicago International Latino Theater Festival, a seven-week festival of Latino theater artists and companies from Chicago, the U.S. and Latin America in shows, panels and student performances at venues citywide. An adaptation of William Shakespeare's Macbeth, Mendoza is a thrilling, fast-paced and blood-soaked ensemble production by Antonio Zuñiga and Juan Carrillo, directed by Carrillo and presented in Spanish with English supertitles. The limited engagement of Mendoza appears October 2-7 (Opening Night is October 2) at Goodman Theatre (170 N. Dearborn); Tickets ($25) are available by telephone 312.443.3800 or online GoodmanTheatre.org/Mendoza. Destinos takes place through November 4; complete festival programming and ticket information available at www.clata.org. Chicago Community Trust is the Sponsor Partner of Mendoza and Corona Extra is the Official Beverage Sponsor of Mendoza and Destinos. NOTE: this production contains a live animal and is intended for mature audiences.

'DaVinci & Michelangelo: The Titans Experience,' an original, nationally touring theater performance makes its Basalt, CO. debut at the Arts Campus at Willits - Temporary Theater on Sat. Dec. 15th at 8:00pm.

The fourth edition of New York Queer Tango Weekend, NYQTW, will offer an opportunity to the international Queer Tango community to convene in New York City, September 27-30, to hone their craft at workshops and master classes taught by the leading tango teachers, explore the endless variety of tango at milongas - tango social parties - and mix and mingle with the New York tango community.

The world masters of magic are returning to Brisbane with their spectacular production, The Illusionists: Direct From Broadway materialising in the Concert Hall, Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC) for a strictly limited season from 9 January 2019, with tickets on sale from Friday 28 September 2018.