Margaret Mead News

FEINSTEIN'S AT LOEWS REGENCY, the nightclub proclaimed 'Best of New York' by New York Magazine, and 'an invaluable New York institution' by The New York Post, continues its Fall 2010 season with the debut of Broadway star ANDREW KOBER on Sunday, December 12. His new show 'The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year' will include seasonal favorites like 'Sleigh Ride' and 'The Christmas Song,' as well as newer songs by Jamie Cullum and Rockapella. He will be joined by a jazz quartet led by Music Director Jason Sherbundy and Megan Lawrence, the Tony Award nominated actress and singer, as special guest vocalist. The show taks place at 8:30 PM at the Loews Regency Hotel (540 Park Avenue at 61st Street).

The producers of the Public Theater's Tony Award-winning production of HAIR: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical are pleased to announce casting for the National Tour, which is coming to the Marcus Center on February 22 and runs through February 27, 2011. This Milwaukee engagement is presented by Broadway Across America-Milwaukee and the Marcus Center as part of the Time Warner Cable Broadway at the Marcus Center Series. Tickets go on sale at NOON on Sunday, December 5, 2010.

The first-ever Margaret Mead Filmmaker Award was given to the brothers Marc and Nick Francis for their film When China Met Africa at closing night ceremony of the 34th annual Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival on Sunday, November 14, 2010. Representing the best in documentary, animation, experimental nonfiction, and archival footage, the Mead Festival offers an intimate look at worlds rarely revealed, furthering its mission of bringing awareness of cultural anthropology.

The 34th Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival, the longest-running documentary film festival in the United States, will screen an outstanding selection of titles culled from more than 1,000 submissions.

The 34th Annual Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival at the American Museum of Natural History presents the world premiere of Roscoe Holcomb: From Daisy Kentucky (2010) on November 13, 2010 at 8:30 pm.

Representing the best in documentary, animation, experimental nonfiction, and archival footage, the 34th annual Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival offers an intimate look at worlds rarely revealed, furthering its mission of continuing to illuminate cultural anthropology.

The 34th Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival, the longest-running documentary film festival in the United States, will screen an outstanding selection of titles culled from more than 1,000 submissions.

O que poderia escrever um crítico de arte estando cara a cara com a MONALISA no Museu do Louvre? E um crítico literário analisando os defeitos e as qualidades de OS MAIAS de Eça de Queiroz? Um crítico de música teria como criticar a NONA de Bethoven? Pois é. Seria muita pretensão. Essas divagações associadas à crítica de um espetaculo de Teatro Musical, ou melhor de um musical da Broadway de 40 anos de idade, montado e interpretado por brasileiros em 2010, pode parecer uma GRANDE E DESPROPORCIONAL tolice. Mas não é. O HAIR de Claudio Botelho e Charles Möeller só estreou há dois dias mas, podem acreditar, já entrou para a História. História de uma manifestação teatral ou de uma 'preferencia', vamos assim definir o musical, que no Brasil teve uma penosa trajetória para os que faziam de suas vidas uma sacrificada 'defesa' (no sentido jurídico da palavra) do genero, argumentando, tentando explicar ao pai, a mãe, aos vizinhos (numa era que INTERNET bem poderia ser o nome esquisito de um inferninho em Copacabana) o 'porque' de se amar uma coisa tão descabida, esquisita e 'suspeita'.Eu, por exemplo, não tenho pejo em dizer, saía muitas vezes da minha casa em Laranjeiras, às quatro da manhã das terças feiras, para esperar ansioso na Banca da General Osório a kombi que trazia, de uma 'tacada', o VARIETY e o NEW YORK TIMES de domingo, que ia, num gesto de desmedida alienação todo para o lixo, com excessão é claro do suplemento ARTS & LEISURE que era folheado e refolheado durante por toda a semana. Isso até a proxima madrugada de terça feira chegar. E os Lps? Biblioteca do IBEU!!!! Quantas vezes THE MUSIC MAN, BYE BYE BIRDIE e OLIVER sumiam do grande arquivo cheio de gavetões e as multas à uma simpática bibliotecária, chegavam a abalar o orçamento doméstico. Depois veio a 'portinha' de uma loja chamada MODERN SOUND, que era mesmo moderna: vendia,acreditem ou não, musicais da Broadway!!! Nesta época o CD poderia tambem ser o título de uma ópera rock, pois simplesmente não existia em nenhum dicionário (e desconfio, materialmente, no mundo). Tempos mágicos para nós eram aqueles, que seríamos bem capazes de esbofetear uma bisavó se ela ousasse falar mal de MINHA QUERIDA LADY ou de IRMA LA DOUCE.

PUBLIC PROGRAMS NOVEMBER 2010 kick off with SciCafe Hungry for Parasites: Expeditionary Gastronomy with Mark Siddall

Monday, October 18 at 10:30pm marks the return of one time Tony-eligible (and now out-of-work) actor Andrew Kober's totally self-indulgent one man show, KOBERET. After storming Joe's Pub in February, KOBERET now comes to an exciting new downtown NYC venue: (Le) Poisson Rouge.

Evan Ziporyn's dynamic new multimedia opera A House in Bali is a vibrant tableau of visceral contradictions.

Evan Ziporyn's dynamic new multimedia opera A House in Bali is a vibrant tableau of visceral contradictions.

PUBLIC PROGRAMS NOVEMBER 2010 kick off with SciCafe Hungry for Parasites: Expeditionary Gastronomy with Mark Siddall

The producers of the Public Theater's Tony Award-winning production of HAIR: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical are pleased to announce casting for the National Tour, which will come to Chicago's Oriental Theatre for a limited, two-week engagement March 9 - 20, 2011. Oskar Eustis, Artistic Director of the Public Theater, commented, 'The National Tribe of Hair are the most beautiful beasts in the forest, an amazingly talented group who will be bringing HAIR'S message of peace and justice across the United States. Let the sun shine in!'

Monday, October 18 at 10:30pm marks the return of one time Tony-eligible (and now out-of-work) actor Andrew Kober's totally self-indulgent one man show, KOBERET. After storming Joe's Pub in February, KOBERET now comes to an exciting new downtown NYC venue: (Le) Poisson Rouge.

UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS- The Butterfly Conservatory: Tropical Butterflies Alive in Winter October 16, 2010-May 30, 2011

Evan Ziporyn's dynamic new multimedia opera A House in Bali is a vibrant tableau of visceral contradictions.

The 34th Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival, the longest-running documentary film festival in the United States, will screen an outstanding selection of titles culled from more than 1,000 submissions.

'A small play confronting profound ideas,' Underneath the Lintel by Glen Berger comes to the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival for one night only, Monday, July 26, at 7:30pm on the Main Stage of the Labuda Center for the Performing Arts at DeSales University.

'A small play confronting profound ideas,' Underneath the Lintel by Glen Berger comes to the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival for one night only, Monday, July 26, at 7:30pm on the Main Stage of the Labuda Center for the Performing Arts at DeSales University.