Nashville Ballet announced its upcoming performance season today, which includes a new partnership with pop musician extraordinaire Ben Folds and a world premiere of a new production of Peter Pan.
This April, The National Jazz Museum in Harlem continues to offer a wide range of top quality free programming and affordable concerts from jazz's most celebrated musicians, educators and historians. With International Jazz Day on April 30th our Jazz For Curious Listeners series this month focuses on international artists discussing and demonstrating jazz from around the world and culminates with an international jazz jam blowout with Jonathan Batiste on April 30th at MIST Harlem.
WaterTower Theatre today announced the cast for Black Time, running May 31 - June 23, 2013 at the Addison Theatre Centre on the Main Stage. The cast includes Stan Graner as Curtis, John S. Davies as Curtis' Father, Marcia Carroll as Mimi, Katherine Bourne as Elsie, Jordon Brodess as Teddy and Jake Buchanan understudying the role of Teddy.
James 'JJ' Jones has been deaf since birth, but can partially hear with his hearing aid. He first discovered 'pantomime' at an early age by watching the Red Skelton show, which was not captioned at the time. 'JJ' first performed mime in school at the age of 10.
James and the Giant Peach, the beloved and well-read Roald Dahl story returns to Imagination Stage and teams up with the world premiere of The Magic Finger, one of Dahl's lesser known stories. Both shows, performed on the same stage and using the same set and cast, will create an exciting, hilarious, and Dahl-icious spring repertory at Imagination Stage.
From the highly acclaimed authors of The Trials of Lenny Bruce, Ron Collins and David Skover's Mania: The Story of the Outraged & Outrageous Lives That Launched a Cultural Revolution (Top Five Books; 3/1/2013; $26.00) tells the mad, manic, drug-and-sex-fueled story of the writers and artists who shaped the cultural revolution that followed-Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, and the others in their circle who rebelled against every norm society had to offer.
The Cleveland Orchestra and the Cleveland Museum of Art collaborate in the presentation of California Masterworks, two intimate Cleveland Orchestra concerts at the museum featuring works by groundbreaking composers inextricably associated with California. James Feddeck, Cleveland Orchestra assistant conductor, will conduct performances Wednesday, May 1 and Friday, May 3 in the museum's Gartner Auditorium. The programs include works by John Adams, Henry Cowell, Lou Harrison, Terry Riley, James Tenney, and, in a posthumous world premiere, Dane Rudhyar. The concerts are part of the museum's VIVA! & Gala Performing Arts series, which explores extraordinary performing arts from around the world.
Stage One, the charity that supports new UK theatre producers and productions, has just announced the latest recipient to receive its Start-Up Investment Fund. James Quaife has been awarded £50,000 by the charity to co-produce alongside established producers MJE Productions, a new comedy, Barking in Essex by Clive Exton. The production will open at London's Wyndham Theatre on the 6th September 2013 and will star Lee Evans, Sheila Hancock and Keeley Hawes.
Finding the "fountain of youth" is a centuries old pursuit and women today have more choices than ever to turn back the clock. 'The Fountain of Truth! - Outsmart Hype, False Hope and Heredity to Recalibrate Your Age,' the latest installment from health and wellness medical experts Genie James, MMSc and C.W. Randolph, Jr. M.D., released today, cuts through the confusion and offers fresh solutions for turning back your inner clock.
The Public Theater (Artistic Director, Oskar Eustis; Executive Director, Patrick Willingham) will continue its popular Public Forum season this month with SONNETS FOR THE CITY on Friday, April 26 at 7 p.m. at Joe's Pub at The Public. Presented in association with New York Magazine, this one-night-only event will feature insights from notable writers, contemporary artists, and members of the community, including celebrated young novelist Tea Obreht, New York Magazine book critic Kathryn Schulz, Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro, and acclaimed actor Sam Waterston.
Roald Dahl's classic tale of a boy and his magic peach comes to life on The Rep stage! After the smashing success of PAPA's (Portsmouth Academy of Performing Arts) collaboration with the Rep's Adult Resident Company's production of Winnie The Pooh A Christmas Tale, director Miles Burns felt as though he should continue the tradition of combining youth apprentices with seasoned adult actors to put on a youth production. James and The Giant Peach was an "obvious choice" says Burns "The story lends itself to the adult actors being able to portray many different roles, and to have some fun while doing it. And it allows the youth company to work with adult actors they look up to and 'step up their game'. The combination is a winning match."
Lori Bookstein Fine Art announces a new installation by James Weingrod. This will serve as the inaugural exhibition of The Open Window Project and the artist's first solo-exhibition with Lori Bookstein Fine Art and his first solo-exhibition in New York.
Mad Horse Theatre Company pays tribute to one of America's greatest playwrights, while recognizing many of Maine's premier performing artists, with A SIX PACK OF MILLER, running tonight, April 2-14 at the Mad Horse Theater at The Hutchins Schoolhouse, 24 Mosher Street, South Portland.
Learn Photoshop Now is a new and helpful course created by David Peters, who claims to teach users how to use Photoshop quickly and effectively. The helpful program covers a step-by-step video tutorials training that shows viewers how to use Photoshop effectively. When people become members of this guide, they can use well Photoshop software without any headaches. In other words, viewers will discover how to use functions such as "Grow" and "Layering" to produce seamless works of art every time. They also will discover how to create teeth looking nearly white. They will learn about how to eliminate winkles, blemishes and double chins and how to make logos and other graphics designs in Adobe. Viewers will find out tips and tricks, which can support them in the Photoshop job quickly. After the author introduced the new guide, he received a lot of ideas from clients regarding their success with Learn Photoshop Now as a result, the site Vkool.com tested this program and has given a full review.
Kentwood Players presents RAGTIME - the quintessential American musical - through Saturday, April 20 on Fri/Sat at 8pm, Sun at 2pm at the Westchester Playhouse, located at 8301 Hindry Avenue, Westchester, CA 90045.The production is directed by Susan Goldman Weisbarth, with Musical Director Bill Wolfe, Choreographer Victoria Miller, and produced by Margie Bates and Gail Bernardi.
Randy James' new dance company, 10 Hairy Legs, will hold its first annual week long, all-day Summer Intensive Workshop July 8-12 at Gina Gibney Dance, 890 Broadway in New York City. The Intensive will focus on preparing dancers (male and female) to explore and challenge themselves as complete artists in preparation for a professional career in the field.
Mad Horse Theatre Company pays tribute to one of America's greatest playwrights, while recognizing many of Maine's premier performing artists, with A SIX PACK OF MILLER, running April 2-14 at the Mad Horse Theater at The Hutchins Schoolhouse, 24 Mosher Street, South Portland.
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New York Theatre Ballet presents the second installment of Legends and Visionaries: Program B on March 22-23 at 7pm at Florence Gould Hall, 55 East 59th Street, NYC. The evening features works by Richard Alston, Antony Tudor, James Waring, and a world premiere by Gemma Bond, commissioned by New York Theatre Ballet. Tickets start at $30 and are available for purchase at www.ticketmaster.com or by calling 800-982-2787.
