The Frist Art Museum presents Do Ho Suh: Specimens, an exhibition of astonishingly detailed sculptures, installations, and drawings that poetically reflect on the meanings and messages contained in domestic spaces, both real and imagined. The exhibition will be on view from October 12, 2018, through January 6, 2019.
The Music Center today announced the opening of its 2018-2019 dance season with the Los Angeles premiere of Company Wayne McGregor's Autobiography (October 5-7, 2018), a contemporary dance portrait that fuses science and the human form. Known for choreography that examines life through the experience of the body, British choreographer and director Wayne McGregor, CBE based Autobiography on the sequencing of his own genome, compiling 23 different sequences that are performed in varying order each night. McGregor uses a computer algorithm to determine the selection and order of the 23 sections prior to each performance, ensuring audiences will experience a performance that will never be repeated.
The Eli and Edythe Broad Stage in Santa Monica presents The Reverend Shawn Amos today, September 7 at 8:00pm, inaugurating the blackbox @ the edye at The Broad Stage. blackbox @ the edye transforms The Edye into a club featuring up-and-coming jazz and blues artists.
Trinity Rep will open its 2018-19 Season with Pride and Prejudice by Kate Hamill, adapted from the novel by Jane Austen. This classic "will they or won't they" romance between Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy is infused with fresh vitality and hilarity in this effervescent new comedic adaptation, directed by Birgitta Victorson.
Coinciding with the 20th anniversary of the impeachment proceedings of former President Bill Clinton, A&E Network will premiere the comprehensive six-part documentary series 'The Impeachment of Bill Clinton' (w.t.) from Academy Award(R) and Emmy(R)-winning producer Alex Gibney's Jigsaw Productions and Emmy(R)-winning director Blair Foster. Weaving together never-before-seen archival footage with exclusive new interviews, the series examines the biggest political scandal of a generation and its lasting influence and reverberations on our country. Exploring broader topics including media, feminism, politics and power, the documentary investigates the history leading up to the impeachment trial and chronicles the role each of these forces played in this story of sex, power, money, lies and ideological warfare.
'RENT,' the highly acclaimed, award-winning rock musical will be performed on the Hamilton Stage of UCPAC in Rahway for a six-show run. With music, lyrics and books by Jonathan Larson, it is based on Giacomo Puccini's opera La Boheme. Broadwayworld.com had the opportunity to chat with Brian Remo, UCPAC's Executive Director and the Director of the Center's production of 'RENT.'
The Hungarian State Opera (HSO), one of the world's busiest opera companies, comes to the United States this fall for the first time ever, presenting four operas by Hungarian composers, including two U.S. premieres, at Lincoln Center's David H. Koch Theater, October 30 to November 3. This week of opera is followed by another week of performances presented by the Hungarian National Ballet, November 6 to 11, as well as an opera and ballet gala on November 4 and the Carnegie Hall debut of the HSO Orchestra on November 5. These U.S. performances build upon the HSO's rich history of touring, which stretches back 100 years and includes performances in numerous European capitals including Amsterdam, Helsinki, Moscow, Paris, Rome, Stockholm, and Vienna, and in countries including Canada, China, Egypt, Japan (ten times), Mexico, Taiwan, and Peru. Ongoing renovations to the Hungarian State Opera House have presented an opportunity for increased touring this season, including the chance to introduce American audiences to the company and its repertoire, much of it rarely seen or heard.
Producers Paul Blake and Sony/ATV Music Publishing announce that the Tony & Grammy Award-winning Broadway hit Beautiful-The Carole King Musical, about the early life and career of the legendary and groundbreaking singer/songwriter, will make its Calgary premiere at Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium for one week only, October 30-November 11, 2018. To purchase tickets, visit BroadwayAcrossCanada.ca, ticketmaster.ca, or call 1-855-985-5000. Group orders of 10 or more may be placed by calling 1-800-889-8457. Broadway Across Canada Subscribers can visit BroadwayAcrossCanada.ca or call 1.866.542.7469. Ticket prices start at $30.50 and are on sale to the public starting Monday September 17, 2018.
Works & Process, the performing arts series at the Guggenheim, presents Emma Portner with Hubbard Street Dance Chicago / Devonte Hynes & Third Coast Percussion, and Anne Plamondon on Sunday and Monday, September 9 and 10, 2018 at 7:30pm.
Tony & Grammy Award-winning Broadway hit Beautiful-The Carole King Musical, about the early life and career of the legendary and groundbreaking singer/songwriter, will make its Edmonton premiere at Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium for one week only, November 6-11, 2018.
Warehouse Theatre will present The Sam Shepard Festival, a theatre repertory series honoring the American playwright Sam Shepard. The Festival will include fully staged productions of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Buried Child, the Tony Award winning play True West, and the semi-autobiographical play Cowboy Mouth, as well as readings on Curse of the Starving Class, Heartless, and Fool for Love.
GWB McFarlane Theatres is pleased to announce that Arts South Australia has awarded it the management contract for the Queen's Theatre in Adelaide. GWB McFarlane Theatres has also secured the return of the Unsound Adelaide event to the venue.
Musica Viva NY kicks off its 2018-19 season with Songs of Love, an evening of lieder by Johannes Brahms, Robert Schumann, and P.D.Q. Bach, on Sunday, September 23 at 5:00 p.m. at All Souls Church. The concert features soprano Devony Smith, mezzo-soprano Michele Eaton, tenor Nathan Siler, and baritone Brian Mextorf, accompanied by Artistic Director Alejandro Hernandez-Valdez and Trent Johnson.
The North American tour of Beautiful - The Carole King Musical will welcome Dylan S. Wallach (Gerry Goffin) and Alison Whitehurst (Cynthia Weil) beginning September 4 in Denver, CO. The two artists join Sarah Bockel (Carole King), Jacob Heimer (Barry Mann), James Clow (Don Kirshner) and Suzanne Grodner (Genie Klein).
Today, Golf Channel announced the field for the 2018 East Lake Cup collegiate match play championship at historic East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta, Oct. 29-31. This elite field of the country's top collegiate golf programs each earned an invitation by advancing to the semifinals of team match play at the 2018 NCAA Men's and Women's Golf Championships in May.
Works & Process, the performing arts series at the Guggenheim, presents Bel Canto: Inside the Music with Renee Fleming, David Majzlin, Anthony Weintraub, and Elena Park on Sunday, September 16, 2018 at 7:30pm.
The Muny concludes its century of celebration with the seventh installment of its bi-annual concert series, Muny Magic at The Sheldon.
The San Francisco Conservatory of Music (SFCM) today announces the fourth biennial gathering of the Stephen and Cynthia Rubin Institute for Music Criticism, a groundbreaking initiative for educational and financial support that identifies and engages emerging young writers in the art of classical music criticism and creates a sustainable funding model for professional journalists at news organizations across the United States. Taking place October 25-29 at SFCM and surrounding Civic Center venues, the Rubin Institute will, for the first time in its history, include jazz in its lineup of world-class concerts. Award-winning author, critic, essayist, and producer Gary Giddins will join the cadre of industry-leading journalists as guest critic.
HBO Documentary Films presents THE PRICE OF EVERYTHING, a fascinating deep dive into the contemporary art world directed by Oscar® nominee Nathaniel Kahn, filmmaker (HBO's My Architect). The film premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival and has since traveled to top festivals around the world. It will open theatrically through HBO Documentary Films at the Quad Cinema in New York on Friday, Oct. 19, followed by openings on Oct. 26 in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Washington, D.C., Boston, Minneapolis, Dallas and Miami, and on Nov. 2 in Philadelphia, Seattle and Portland. THE PRICE OF EVERYTHING will debut Monday, Nov. 12 on HBO.
PEN America has a packed roster of events this September, from the first couple in a series of essential cultural conversations ahead of the 2018 midterms, to celebrations of the winnings works from our Prison Writing Contest, and more. You can find out more about a few of them below, and all our upcoming events here.
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