On April 7, 2022, the Board of Trustees of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation approved the awarding of Guggenheim Fellowships to a diverse group of 180 exceptional individuals. View all of this year's recipients.
Nancy Manocherian’s the cell theatre and Nightclub Cantata LLC, by special arrangement with Concord Theatricals, have announced the cast of Elizabeth Swados’ 1977 breakout sensation Nightclub Cantata, a provocative, eclectic and heralded theatrical creation rarely seen since its inception decades ago.
On Thursday, April 21, 2022 at 8:00pm, experimental percussion and piano quartet Yarn/Wire performs two world premieres by Australian-born, Berlin-based composer Thomas Meadowcroft at Columbia University's Miller Theatre.
On Thursday, April 21, 2022 at 8:00pm, experimental percussion and piano quartet Yarn/Wire will perform two world premieres by Australian-born, Berlin-based composer Thomas Meadowcroft at Columbia University's Miller Theatre.
The intrepid Yarn/Wire, longtime champions of the composer, performs the world premiere of a pair of commissioned works, in which Thomas Meadowcroft pulls from an array of influences to create his own unique take on pop songs.
The program features a new work by 2021-22 Artist-in-Residence Katherine Young, We are all lichens for bass flute, tenor saxophone, violin, cello, feedback piano, drum kit, and live electronics, in which improvisation permeates the piece as musicians improvise extended passages based on carefully workshopped materials.
With Ava: The Secret Conversations, written by and starring Elizabeth McGovern, currently running at Riverside Studios until 16 April 2022, the West London cultural hub today launches a charity auction in collaboration with The Art Hound Gallery to bid for a single, rare, co-signed Diamond Dust Silkscreen portrait of Elizabeth McGovern by renowned British artist David Studwell.
With Parallel Prints - the fourth release in the Editions Verde series Seeing the Forest in a Tree - artist and researcher Marcel Zaes explores one conceptual idea through 38 iterations realized by the prolific and idiosyncratic new music group Yarn/Wire.
Nominations were announced today for the Sydney Theatre Awards for 2021, which will be presented at an industry gala ceremony on Monday 31 January 2022 at 7pm at the York Theatre, Seymour Centre.
The cast and creatives have been announced for AVA: The Secret Conversations, the spellbinding new play from Elizabeth McGovern based on the book by Peter Evans and Ava Gardner. Taking to the stage with Academy Award-nominee McGovern (Downton Abbey, ITV), who stars as Ava, is Anatol Yusef (Boardwalk Empire, HBO; Punisher, Netflix) as Peter Evans, the journalist Ava hired to write her autobiography when she lived in 1980s London.
Bell Shakespeare has announced Philip Crutchfield QC has been appointed the new Chair of Bell Shakespeare, commencing 1 January 2022. He succeeds Anne Loveridge who steps down after seven years on the Bell Shakespeare Board and five in the role of Chair.
Audiences will be treated to the premiere of The Lovers, a new contemporary musical adaptation of A Midsummer Night's Dream, the unveiling of the company's first theatre space The Neilson Nutshell at their new home at Pier 2/3, a tour of The Comedy of Errors, and revivals of Hamlet and company founder John Bell's solo performance of One Man In His Time.
Opening in January 2022, AVA: The Secret Conversations is a spellbinding new play from Elizabeth McGovern based on the book by Peter Evans and Ava Gardner. Produced by Karl Sydow, the production will star Elizabeth McGovern, with design by 59 Productions.
This is the largest single gift Bell Shakespeare has received in its 31-year history, and it is delighted to name its new studio The Neilson Nutshell in recognition of the Neilson Foundation's support.
On Friday, September 10, 2021, the percussion and piano quartet Yarn/Wire will release two albums: Tonband, world premiere recordings of music by Enno Poppe and Wolfgang Heiniger out digitally on WERGO Records, and legendary sound artist and experimental composer Annea Lockwood's Becoming Air.
Brooklyn performance and civic space JACK announces concerts in unusual spaces by acclaimed experimental composer and musician Lea Bertucci. The first, on July 31, involves an afternoon of concerts on the handball courts at Riis Park Beach. The second, on August 14, is a performance in the DUMBO Archway underneath the Manhattan Bridge.