San Francisco, CA, April 9, 2015 – Opera Parallèle has announced its 2015--2016 season, which will feature its first collaboration with SFJAZZ, a new production of Peter Maxwell Davies' riveting and mysterious The Lighthouse, and the world premiere of a new children's opera by Chris Pratorius. Opera Parallèle and SFJAZZ will present their first collaboration: a new, fully staged production of Champion: An Opera in Jazz by Terence Blanchard, SFJAZZ Resident Artistic Director, with eight performances to be given February 19-28, 2016 at SFJAZZ Center. Based on the life of African-American boxing champion Emile Griffith (1938-2013), the production marks both Opera Parallèle's first foray into an operatic jazz idiom and SFJAZZ's first opera. The complete schedule of performances will be announced and tickets go on sale to the general public mid-July, 2015. For more information, visit www.operaparallele.org and www.sfjazz.org. Peter Maxwell Davies' three-character opera, The Lighthouse, based on the mysterious and unsolved disappearance of three people off the Scottish coast in 1900 will be given a new production April 29-May 1, 2016 at Z Space in San Francisco. The season will open with the world premiere of a new children's opera by Chris Pratorius entitled Amazing Grace, featuring San Francisco fourth graders and soloists, November 12-14, 2015, at a venue to be announced. For more information about the Opera Parallèle season, visit www.operaparallele.org .
The Temple of Music and Art transports its audience this time to circa 1957. We are somewhere on the southern coast of France, in a private studio known as "Le California," where we spend A Weekend with Pablo Picasso.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art will launch its first season of programming in the landmark building by Marcel Breuer on Madison Avenue at 75th Street in New York, when The Met Breuer opens to the public on Thursday, March 10, 2016. Encompassing major monographic and thematic exhibitions, new commissions, performances, and an artist-in-residence series, the inaugural season at The Met Breuer will enable visitors to engage with the art of the 20th and 21st centuries through the global breadth and historical reach of the Met's unparalleled collection and scholarly resources.
On Friday, May 8 at 8:00 p.m., in Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage, Carnegie Hall presents three-time Grammy Award-winning singer Diego el Cigala, who brings his signature blend of flamenco, bolero, and Argentine tango, creating a one-of-a-kind musical experience. His recent exploration of the Argentine tango was the subject of his 2013 Latin Grammy Award-winning album Romance de la luna Tucumana and will be the focus of this concert.
Few authors are better known than Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, yet, to this day, his Secret Art and his fantastical Hat Collection are virtually unknown to the general public.
This Spring at New Conservatory Theatre Center, it's the end of an era and a battle of the sexes, with the San Francisco Premiere of a sumptuous and wildly theatrical comedic drama, Compleat Female Stage Beauty by Jeffrey Hatcher, directed by Founder & Artistic Director Ed Decker.
Peter Brook's pared down LA TRAGEDIE DE CARMEN is perfect for Opera in the Heights, but it lacks the magic and richness of Georges Bizet's CARMEN. However, if you combine all that is good about Brook's LA TRAGEDIE DE CARMEN with the talented cast and crew of Opera in the Heights, you have a good time on your hands.
UNthink author and inspirational speaker Erik Wahl created a graffiti-styled painting of Magic Johnson and is hiding it in plain sight in Las Vegas on Friday, March 27th for one lucky treasure hunter. Magic autographed the 36"x 48" painting at the UltiConnect Conference in Las Vegas, where he and Wahl keynoted.
?What happens when a genius meets a genius at a bar? The Pennington Players are ready to answer that question as they present "Picasso at the Lapin Agile," written by Steve Martin, the iconic comedian/actor/screenwriter/banjo-aficionado. Dates and show times for this delightful comedy are: Fridays, April 24 and May 1 at 8 p.m.; Saturdays, April 25 and May 2 at 8 p.m.; and Sundays, April 26 and May 3 at 2 p.m. Kelsey Theatre is located on MCCC's West Windsor campus, 1200 Old Trenton Road.
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., March 27, 2015 /PRNewswire/ Andy Warhol, Keith Haring and countless other pop and contemporary artists revered the late Dorothy Blau, a visionary Miami art dealer whose estate collection will be auctioned on March 30th. Auction Gallery of the Palm Beaches will conduct the sale at their West Palm Beach gallery, with Internet live bidding through LiveAuctioneers. More than 325 lots will be auctioned, with additional consignments of fine art and antiques from South Florida and the Palm Beaches.
Minneapolis, MN (March 25, 2015) – Northrop at the University of Minnesota presents the Martha Graham Dance Company on Fri, Apr 10 and Sat, Apr 11 at 8:00 pm. The renowned company performs two evenings of different programming, including Graham's rarely performed Rite of Spring, and works by international choreographers Nacho Duato and Andonis Foniandakis. U of M student dancers will perform Graham's Panorama both nights as the culmination of an extended teaching residency. Each evening ends with Northrop's announcement of its 2015-16 season, and a reception that follows.
Find out what could have happened if Picasso and Einstein had met once in a bar in Paris in 1904. Presented by the Pennington Players, Picasso At The Lapin Agile, by Steve Martin (yes, THAT Steve Martin), comes to Mercer County Community College's Kelsey Theatre, playing Fridays, April 24 and May 1 at 8 p.m.; Saturdays, April 25 and May 2 at 8 p.m.; and Sundays, April 26 and May 3 at 2 p.m. BroadwayWorld has a sneak peek at the stars below!
Concluding a season of comedy mixed with a little drama, the Saint Sebastian Players (SSP) present The Sisters Rosensweig by Wendy Wasserstein, running April 24-May 17, 2015 at St. Bonaventure, 1625 W. Diversey, Chicago.
Salt Lake Acting Company (SLAC) presents the World Premiere of MR. PERFECT by playwright William Missouri Downs, April 8 through May 3, 2015. SLAC is excited to once again premiere Downs' brilliant work in Utah after the successful run of his hit raucous comedy, THE EXIT INTERVIEW, as well as readings of MAD GRAVITY and HOW TO STEAL A PICASSO, as a part of SLAC's New Play Sounding Series.
"Revealed" by Sofitel, a photography exhibition that takes an intimate look at the world's greatest modern artists at work, will open to the public at Sofitel Los Angeles at Beverly Hillson April 15 th and will run through June 30 th, 2015. The 30-plus compelling images were curated by Olivier Widmaier Picasso, grandson of Pablo Picasso and author of Picasso: Portrait Intime, from the collection of French weekly magazine Paris Match. The photos are on display in the hotel's restaurant, bar and lobby.
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