Manhattan Movement & Arts Center presents a Lar Lubovitch workshop with Attila Csiki from Tuesday, April 5 to Saturday, April 9, 2011, from noon to 1:30pm from Tuesday - Friday and from 1:30 - 3pm on Saturday.
Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company continues its 31st Season by welcoming back critically acclaimed storyteller Mike Daisey with his new show, The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, directed by New York powerhouse Jean-Michele Gregory.
Lehmann Maupin Gallery announces the inaugural solo exhibition of Angel Otero, entitled Memento, on view 17 February - 17 April, 2011 at 201 Chrystie Street. Otero interweaves traditional Spanish Baroque imagery with personal subject matter, employing unconventional techniques to create large-scale, dynamic expressionistic abstractions.
Littlejohn Contemporary is pleased to present WORK THAT WILL NOT WAIT FOR YOU, an exhibition of paintings and drawings by Irish-born Timothy Hawkesworth.
Madison Opera continues its 50th anniversary season with the company premiere of Kurt Weill's The Threepenny Opera in The Playhouse at the Overture Center for the Arts. The Threepeny Opera will close on Feb. 13, 2011. The production is Madison Opera's second venture in the intimate Playhouse and features a stellar cast from across theater and opera.
How has Chicago theatre developed from a grassroots movement to a global phenomenon over the past 50 years? What is the current state of 'the beating heart of American theatre,' as British critic Michael Billington recently described Chicago? And what is the future of theatre in Chicago - in America and around the world - in a time of rapidly escalating technological innovation and globalization?
Clive Davis and The Recording Academy will continue the tradition of the annual Pre-GRAMMYGala, and this year's event will take place on Saturday, Feb. 12, 2011 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif., the evening before the 53rd Annual GRAMMY Awards.
American choreographer Reggie Wilson's collaboration with Congolese choreographer Andréya Ouamba comes to The Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago, 1306 S. Michigan Ave., when Reggie Wilson/Fist & Heel Performance Group performs March 31, April 1 and 2.
After large-scale partnership collaborations in 2010 with the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago ('Astronaut's Birthday'), The City of Chicago / The Chicago Park District at Belmont Harbor (FESTIVAL J.O.E.), tour of Brazil with 'The Cabinet', a successful WINTER PAGEANT, Redmoon returns to their home to celebrate the annual benefit gala SPECTACLE LUNATIQUE 2011.
MILLER THEATRE AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY honors founding fathers of American Music with its acclaimed series
Madison Opera continues its 50th anniversary season with the company premiere of Kurt Weill's The Threepenny Opera in The Playhouse at the Overture Center for the Arts, Feb. 4 - 13, 2011.
Previews begin Friday, February 25 for the Playwrights Horizons (Tim Sanford, Artistic Director; Leslie Marcus, Managing Director) World Premiere production of KIN, a new play by Bathsheba Doran (Living Room in Africa, her adaptation of Great Expectations at The Lortel).
Mesmerizing, contemplative, hypnotic and dramatic are ways to describe the Icelandic landscape. The latest exhibition at The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust's Wood Street Galleries evokes this imagery through the works featured in White Light-Black Light.
About Face Theatre Artistic Director Bonnie Metzgar and Executive Director Jason Held are pleased to announce that LET THEM EAT CAKE, a piece conceived and developed by Holly Hughes, Mo Angelos and AFT Artistic Associate Megan Carney in the 2009 XYZ Festival of New Work, has been nominated in the category of «Outstanding New York Theatre: Off-Off Broadway» for this year's GLAAD Media Awards.
Alexandre Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of recent paintings by Lois Dodd that focus on the motif of shadows. For over fifty years Dodd has painted her immediate everyday surroundings at the places she has chosen to live and work - the Lower East Side, rural Mid-Coast Maine, and the Delaware Water Gap. This show will include thirty-five paintings, both small-scale panel pieces and larger-scaled works on linen, completed during the past seven years in which shadows and their semi-abstract patterns are a dominant element in the compositions. Featured will be two new paintings in which the subject is Dodd's own shadow on the grass, painting with an easel and artist's materials, on a bright summer day, and two variant versions of a newly completed intaglio print Night House (2010).
On Wednesday, March 9, 2011, the Harris Theater for Music and Dance presents Fanfare for an Uncommon Woman: A Celebration of Joan W. Harris on Her Birthday, an extraordinary performance that is certain to be the musical event of the season. Preeminent soprano Renée Fleming and virtuoso violinist Pinchas Zukerman headline this exceptional concert to benefit Harris Theater programs. They will be joined by the spectacular Emerson String Quartet, acclaimed cellist David Finckel and impassioned pianist Wu Han of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the electrifying Escher String Quartet, and Stephen Burns, brilliant trumpeter and artistic director of the Fulcrum Point New Music Project. The evening begins at 5:30 pm with a champagne reception for all guests in the Theater lobby and is followed by a 75-minute concert at 6:30 pm. Tickets for this once-in-a-lifetime performance begin at $100 and are on sale now at the Harris Theater box office located in Millennium Park at 205 E. Randolph Dr., by calling 312-334-7777 or by visiting www.HarrisTheaterChicago.org.
Australian stars of stage and screen feature in a glitzy cabaret extravaganza next Sunday evening as a fab fund-raiser for Queensland flood victims.
The Goodman Theatre is proud to present their 2010-2011 Season Dates. Tickets for these shows can be bought online at www.goodmantheatre.org, by phone at (312) 443-3800, or in person at 170 North Dearborn Street, Chicago, IL 60601.
Amity Foundation is honored to announce that Dr. Lisa Fogle, a local Tucson Dentist in private practice for over 25 years, long-time Tucson philanthropist, and advocate for at-risk youth, has joined Amity's, Foundation Board of Directors, known as 'Dragonfly.'
Mesmerizing, contemplative, hypnotic and dramatic are ways to describe the Icelandic landscape. The latest exhibition at The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust's Wood Street Galleries evokes this imagery through the works featured in White Light-Black Light.
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