One morning, as the sun shone over a tranquil Ethiopian town in all its picturesque rural scenery, the beautiful life of a child was shattered when a gang of brutal kidnappers stole her from her community and forced her to endure a weeklong ordeal of hopelessness and fear. In author Solomon G. Kitaw's The Amazing Rescue, readers will see the series of extraordinary events that led to her salvation, a vividly illustrated portrayal of an incredible true story, a proverbial modern day miracle that promises to astound all with its powerful and undeniable message of divine intervention.
Theatre in the Round Players (TRP) brings the curtain down on its 61st season with APPOINTMENT WITH DEATH by Agatha Christie in weekend performances July 5-28, 2013. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast below!
The Seattle Theatre Group (STG) has announced a new program supported by the City of Seattle Department of Neighborhoods, Neighborhood Matching Fund, Nights at the Neptune: A People's Theatre Joint.
Everyman Theatre closes its historic 2012/13 season with a staging of the rarely produced comedic gem, The Beaux' Stratagem. Founding Artistic Director Vincent M. Lancisi directs the production, which features a large cast of 15 actors and includes Resident Company Members Megan Anderson, Clinton Brandhagen and Bruce Randolph Nelson. Everyman moved into its brand new theatre in January of this year. The production will run now through June 30th. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the production photos below!
In conjunction with the exhibition James Turrell (June 21-September 25), the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum today launched a new mobile app that is free to download at guggenheim.org/apps, providing a unique educational platform for visitors to the Guggenheim and users around the world. The interactive app presents an array of content, including rich multimedia guides to current and past exhibitions; interviews with artists, curators, and exhibition designers; access to more than 1,200 works in the permanent collection; and explorations of the iconic building designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. The app has been designed to be accessible for visitors with disabilities.
Richard Armstrong, Director, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation; Jennifer Blei Stockman, President, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation; and Raf Simons, Artistic Director, Christian Dior Couture, today announced Dior as the lead sponsor of the 2013 Guggenheim International Gala (GIG) which will be held on November 6 and 7, 2013. This year, the annual benefit event will honor artists James Turrell, whose exhibition opens at the Guggenheim on June 21, and Christopher Wool, whose retrospective will be presented at the museum from October 25 to January 22, 2014 and will be on view during the GIG.
HUGO BOSS and the Rockbund Art Museum in Shanghai announce the inauguration of the HUGO BOSS ASIA ART Award. Conceived and curated by the Rockbund Art Museum, the biennial award will focus on contemporary art in Asia in support of the thriving emerging artist community.
COMEDY CENTRAL shares its Best Bets for the Week of June 23. Below, get a sneak peek of INSIDE AMY SCHUMER. Amy visits a psychic to try and speak to her recently deceased grandmother, but only her creepy dead uncle, Dave Attell, shows up!
With intimacy and delicacy, the Indian-born artist Zarina tackles some of the most wrenching themes of the 20th and 21st centuries-exile, dispossession, alienation, and displacement-by transforming complex historical events into deeply personal and abstract works. Organized by the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, ZARINA: PAPER LIKE SKIN traces her career from 1961 to the present with approximately 60 works from the artist's studio as well as from public and private collections. On view at the Art Institute of Chicago June 26 through September 22, 2013 in Galleries 182-184, the exhibition features works rich in associations with the artist's life experiences that also serve as formal explorations of paper, perhaps one of the most humble yet varied of media.
Married to a loving and devoted husband named Adam, blessed with four children named Sami, Solomon, Sabrina and Sara, Naila is living the life of a professional woman and loves it. Life is made more fun and interesting with her friends, who are like her. They are all devout Muslims but are well-assimilated into British culture, the city of London playing a genial and welcoming host. Naila was a teenage wife and their marriage had been arranged. In Into the Light from the Darkness, Ali shows the many phases and details of Muslim life as seldom seen in the West. It is a compelling, eye-opening revelation and shows, in its entirety, how life is a complete sacrament for them.
After conquering the rap world, Solomon is now headed in a new direction musically. The singer-songwriter is not only pursing an alternative pop sound but is genre-bending with his new single The Way We Were.
James Turrell's first exhibition in a New York museum since 1980 focuses on the artist's groundbreaking explorations of perception, light, color, and space, with a special focus on the role of site-specificity in his practice. It will be on view June 21–September 25, 2013. Check out a sneak peek below that was featured in the New York Times.
Sutton Foster, Joshua Henry, Van Hughes, Keala Settle, Christopher Sieber, Emerson Steele and Chris Sullivan have been cast in Jeanine Tesori and Brian Crawley's Violet, the second Encores! Off-Center presentation of the 2013 season, on July 17. Tickets for Violet, directed by Leigh Silverman, with music direction by Michael Rafter, sold out shortly after going on sale. Tickets for the rest of the Encores! Off-Center season are still available; the majority of tickets are $25.
Monterey Jazz Festival has announced the members of its
2013 Next Generation Jazz Orchestra, the Festival's internationally-renowned high school all-star big band, featuring the best high school jazz musicians in the country. Major funding for the Next Generation Jazz Orchestra comes from the Surdna Foundation and generous individuals.
DCNT has announced the 2013 Honors recipients. Passion and dedication are the mark of each recipient. The six dancers will be honored on Sunday September 29, 2013, 2:00 pm. The public is invited to celebrate their achievements, enjoy a showcase of selected 2013 Dance Council scholarship dancers and a Silent Auction featuring an irresistible selection of performance and visual arts items and tickets.
