Art Institute Presents Mounira Al Solh: I Strongly Believe In Our Right To Be Frivolous
by A.A. Cristi
- Nov 17, 2017
From February 8 through April 29, 2018, the Art Institute of Chicago will present the first solo museum exhibition in the United States of Mounira Al Solh (b. 1978), a visual artist living and working between Beirut, Lebanon, and Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Started in 2012 in response to the humanitarian and political crises in Syria and the Middle East, Al Solh's ongoing series of drawings, or as she prefers to call them, time documents, emerged from deeply personal encounters and conversations between the artist and Syrian refugees, as well as other people from the Middle East who were forcibly displaced to Lebanon, Europe, the United States, and other parts of the world. In the span of five years these conversations have transitioned from hopeful and joyful with the prospect of new opportunities following the popular uprising in Syria to dismal and urgent with the subsequent Syrian Civil War. Each of the drawings made on yellow legal paper to index the bureaucracy that is tied to the status of political refugee is based on the personal story of the people Al Solh meets.
National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene Announces Newly Formed Artistic Council
by Stephi Wild
- Nov 16, 2017
National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene (NYTF) announces the formalized creation of an Artistic Council, comprised of renowned theater artists and producers who will work closely with NYTF CEO Christopher Massimine and NYTF Artistic Director Zalmen Mlotek to help steer and advise on the company's programming. The 103-year-old National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene, in residence at the Museum of Jewish Heritage (36 Battery Pl., NYC, 10280), has a unique place in Theatre History as the last-standing of the professional Yiddish Theatres of the Golden Age of 2nd Avenue.
Tony Bennett Coming to AT&T Performing Arts Center This Spring
by BWW News Desk
- Nov 13, 2017
The nonprofit AT&T Performing Arts Center and AEG Presents announce a one-night-only performance by Tony Bennett - the 19-time Grammy Award-winning musician whose music spans over six decades - at 8 p.m. on Thursday, April 26, 2018 at the Winspear Opera House.
Photo Flash: Jason Robert Brown, Grace McLean, Marsha Norman and More NYMF's 2017 Gala
by BWW News Desk
- Nov 13, 2017
Photo Credit: Michael KushnerThe New York Musical Festival (NYMF) honored Pulitzer Prize-, Tony- and Grammy Award-winning writer Marsha Norman and NYMF Board of Directors Chair Charles Fink at its 2017 Gala last night, November 12, at the Edison Ballroom in Midtown Manhattan (240 W 47th St, New York, NY 10036). BroadwayWorld has photos from the evening below!
Roundabout Underground's TOO HEAVY FOR YOUR POCKET Enters Final Fortnight
by BWW News Desk
- Nov 13, 2017
A friendly reminder that Roundabout Theatre Company will conclude its critically acclaimed New York premiere of Too Heavy for Your Pocket by Jir h Breon Holder, directed by Margot Bordelon, after extending its initial limited run. The extension week will include three special performances reserved for NYC public school students from schools affiliated with Roundabout's expansive education program.
THE CLOAKROOM ATTENDANT Plays One Night Only at The Wallace Collection
by Stephi Wild
- Nov 13, 2017
After previous performances at the Canal Cafe Theatre and the House of International Theatre in Copenhagen, Dimitra Barla's The Cloakroom Attendant now plays for one night only in the museum that inspired its conception, The Wallace Collection, where Dimitra has indeed worked as a cloakroom attendant.
Joffrey Ballet's Reenvisioned NUTCRACKER to Open 12/1
by A.A. Cristi
- Nov 10, 2017
Following a wildly successful world premiere in December 2016, The Joffrey Ballet will present its newly reimagined holiday classic The Nutcracker by Tony Award-winning choreographer Christopher Wheeldon in 33 performances only, at the historic Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University in downtown Chicago at 50 East Congress Parkway, December 1-30, 2017.
BWW Review: THE PAJAMA GAME at Arena Stage
by Elliot Lanes
- Nov 9, 2017
Some musicals from the golden age of Broadway are done to death. Let's face it, how many productions of Guys and Dolls and Fiddler on the Roof can you take? Anytime a theater chooses to produce a show that isn't seen as often as the aforementioned ones I get very excited. When they are presented well, my musical theater geekiness goes into overdrive. Arena Stage has put my geekiness into overdrive with its current production of the 1954 tuner The Pajama Game. With the exception of a production at Roundabout Theatre Company a few years back, this show really isn't performed very often professionally anymore.
AS YOU LIKE IT Headlines Shakespeare & Company's 2018 Shakespeare Lineup
by BWW News Desk
- Nov 8, 2017
Shakespeare & Company has announced its Shakespeare lineup for the 2018 summer season. Under the direction of Artistic Director Allyn Burrows and Managing Director Adam Davis, the season will include three Shakespeare plays: Macbeth directed by Melia Bensussen, As You Like It directed by Allyn Burrows, and Love's Labor's Lost directed by Kelly Galvin. Season FLEXPasses go on sale this afternoon.
Boston Dance Alliance presents ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF MODERN DANCE
by A.A. Cristi
- Nov 8, 2017
Enjoy the experience of traveling back in time to 1903, Isadora Duncan's Narcissus 1906, Ruth St. Denis' Incense , 1920, Ted Shawn's, Mazurka and Tango , 1964, Charles Weidman's Three Brahms Waltzes and 1981 Anna Sokolow's The Pond in the Cage . Break into the harsh realities of modern life with Dance Currents interpretations and adaptations of Donald McKayle's Rainbow Etude (1996), David Parsons Parsons Etude (1999), Carla Maxwell's L m n Etude (2001-2) and Robert Battle's Battle Etude (2003).
AT&T Performing Arts Center Announces RELIANT LIGHTS YOUR HOLIDAYS
by A.A. Cristi
- Nov 8, 2017
The nonprofit AT&T Performing Arts Center today announced that its annual free holiday event, Reliant Lights Your Holidays, will take place Saturday, December 2, 2017. The event, which is held on the AT&T Performing Arts Center campus from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m., will feature:
Equity Jeff Awards 2017 Recipients
by Rebecca Russo
- Nov 7, 2017
The gala 49th Annual Equity Jeff Awards held at Drury Lane Oakbrook on Monday, November 6, celebrated a season of outstanding productions.
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