Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts Announces Patti LuPone & More in 2012

Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts has announced the following upcoming events.

Fran Lebowitz
Thursday, March 1, 2012, 7:30 p.m.
Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts, Virginia G. Piper Theater
Tickets: $39, $49

Purveyor of urban cool, witty chronicler of the ”me decade” and the cultural satirist whom many call the heir to Dorothy Parker, Fran Lebowitz remains one of the foremost advocates of the Extreme Statement. Now the subject of the Martin Scorsese-directed HBO documentary Public Speaking, she offers her insights on timely issues such as gender, race, gay rights and the media as well as her own pet peeves, which include celebrity culture, tourists and strollers. Lebowitz converses on stage with a local host and answer questions from the audience.

Native Trails
January 19, 21, 26 & 28, 2012
February 9, 11, 16, 18, 23 & 25, 2012
March 1, 22, 24, 29 & 31, 2012
April 5, 7, 12 & 14, 2012
Thursdays and Saturdays, Noon – 1:30 p.m.
Outdoors at Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts
Free Admission

Celebrating its 10^th season, Native Trails explores the rich and varied cultures of the first nations of Arizona and North America through traditional native music, dance and art. Delicious light snacks and beverages are available for purchase.

Presented by the Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation and produced by the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts in collaboration with the Scottsdale Convention & Visitors Bureau.

Late Nite Catechism
January 20 – March 23, 2012
January 20 & 27, 2012
February 3, 10, 17 & 24, 2012 
March 2, 9, 16 & 23, 2012
Fridays, 8 p.m.
Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts, Stage 2
Tickets: $39

Spontaneous, clever and outrageously fun, Late Nite Catechism stars AriZoni Award-winning actress Patti Hannon as quick-tempered Sister. Ruling her classroom with an iron fist, she teaches her students – who happen to be the audience – everything she knows about sins and saints while doling out rewards and reprimands with lightning speed. Each Late Nite performance is unique and will appeal to people of all ages and faiths.

Presented with support from Rubino West Photography.

 

Patti LuPone: The Gypsy in My Soul
Saturday, March 3, 2012, 8 p.m.
Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts, Virginia G. Piper Theater
Tickets: $69, $79, $159

Two-time Tony Award winner Patti LuPone performs songs from her life both on and off the Broadway stage, from timeless numbers from Gypsy, Anything Goes and Oliver to her personal pop favorites.

Part of the Broadway Series sponsored by Natalie and Ed Gaylord. Presented by Franca Oreffice with additional support from Linda and Sherman Saperstein and Felice Appell.

Sunday A’Fair
January 15 & 22, 2012
February 12, 19 & 26, 2012
March 4 & 25, 2012
April 1, 8 & 15, 2012
Sundays, Noon – 4 p.m.
Outdoors at Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts
Free Admission

Celebrating its 25th season, Sunday A’Fair features free concerts by the Valley’s top musicians along with fine arts and crafts and fun activities for children and families. Seating is available on the lawn, and portable chairs and picnic baskets are welcome. Delicious foods from the grill, snacks and a selection of soft beverages and full bar service are available for purchase.

Presented by Scottsdale Insurance Company and Nationwide Foundation.

ASU Concerts at The Center
A Trumpet Festival
Monday, March 5, 2012, 7:30 p.m.
Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts, Virginia G. Piper Theater
General Admission: $10 (Free for students with valid I.D.)

Trumpeter and ASU Regents Professor David Hickman, the ASU Trumpet Ensemble, Mariachi Trumpets and pianist Miriam Hickman perform the music of legendary trumpet virtuoso Rafael Méndez and other Spanish and Mexican composers.

Close Encounters with Music:
Grand Piano Quartets – Brahms and Schumann
Thursday, March 8, 2012, 7:30 p.m.
Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts, Virginia G. Piper Theater
Tickets: $29, $39

Cellist Yehuda Hanani offers insightful commentary from the stage before joining pianist Lydia Artymiw, violinist Arnaud Sussmann and violist Toby Appel in a performance of Piano Quartets by Robert Schumann and Johannes Brahms.

Presented by FMH Foundation through Linda Hirshman and David Forkosh with additional support from Deborah and Richard Felder and Linda and Alan Englander.

 

42^nd Scottsdale Arts Festival
March 9–11, 2012
Friday and Saturday, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Sunday, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Outdoors at Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts
Admission: $7 ($5 for students, free for members and children 15 and under)

In a community renowned for its devotion to the arts, Scottsdale has one arts festival that rises above them all. The award-winning Scottsdale Arts Festival features 200 jury-selected artists from throughout the United States, top-notch live music and entertainment, delicious fare from the Valley’s gourmet specialty food trucks, fun activities for kids and families and much more.

Presented with support from SRP Earthwise Energy.

Bruce Hornsby
Saturday, March 10, 2012, 8 p.m.
Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts, Virginia G. Piper Theater
Tickets: $39, $49

Bruce Hornsby and the Range skyrocketed to fame with the hit song The Way It Is and the 1987 Grammy Award for “Best New Artist.” Known for his versatility and improvisational flair, Hornsby embraces many musical styles, from classical and jazz to folk and bluegrass, and he has collaborated with The Grateful Dead, Ricky Skaggs and Branford Marsalis, to name a few. This intimate solo concert features him on piano.

Presented with support from Nussbaum, Gillis & Dinner, P.C.

Late Nite Catechism III: ‘Til Death Do Us Part
January 21 – March 23, 2012
January 21 & 28, 2012
February 4, 11, 18 & 25, 2012
March 10, 17 & 24, 2012
Saturdays, 8 p.m.
Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts, Stage 2
Tickets: $39

In this popular sequel to Late Nite Catechism, Sister offers up the latest dogma fresh off the Web, some hilarious lessons on love and marriage and her own outrageous version of The Newlywed Game. Each Late Nite performance is unique and will appeal to people of all ages and faiths.

Presented with support from Courtyard by Marriott Scottsdale Old Town and Rubino West Photography.

 

Keyboard Conversations® with Jeffrey Siegel:
Russian Rapture – Rachmaninoff and Tchaikovsky
Tuesday, March 13, 2012, 7:30 p.m.
Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts, Virginia G. Piper Theater
Tickets: $29, $39

Hailed by the Chicago Tribune as “the Leonard Bernstein of the keyboard,” pianist Jeffrey Siegel offers witty insight into the lives of the great composers, explaining each composition before performing it in its entirety. Russian Rapture – Rachmaninoff and Tchaikovsky features soaring melodies and sumptuous sonorities of these ever-popular composers, including the colorful Preludes, captivating Etudes and the scintillating Humoresque. The performance also includes the Center’s Keyboard in the Sky video display, which enables the audience to see the pianist’s hands moving across the keyboard in real time from any seat in the house.

Presented with support from Vi at Silverstone, a Vi and Plaza Companies Community.

Circa
Directed by Yaron Lifschitz, presented in association with ArKtype
Friday, March 16, 2012, 8 p.m. (Adult Content)
Saturday, March 17, 2012, 2 p.m. (Family Matinee*)
Saturday, March 17, 2012, 8 p.m. (Adult Content)
Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts, Virginia G. Piper Theater
Tickets: $29, $39 (*$19 matinee price for children 12 and under)

Internationally recognized as one of Australia’s most innovative ‘new circus’ companies, Circa offers a bold new vision blending bodies, light, sound and new media. Synchronized to stylish music, the troupe’s seven members perform daredevil acrobatics and tumbling, thrilling dance moves, impossible contortions and more.

 

Virginia G. Piper Piano Series: Yefim Bronfman

Sunday, March 18, 2012, 7:30 p.m.

Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts, Virginia G. Piper Theater
Tickets: $26

A Grammy Award winner, Israeli-American pianist Yefim Bronfman is acclaimed worldwide for his commanding technique and exceptional lyrical gifts. He performs Brahms’ Sonata No. 3 in F minor, Op. 5, a selection of Liszt’s Transcendental Etudes and Prokofiev’s Sonata No. 8 in B-flat major, Op. 84. The performance also includes the Center’s Keyboard in the Sky video display, which enables the audience to see the pianist’s hands moving across the keyboard in real time from any seat in the house.

Presented by the Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust with support from Linda and Alan Englander

Talk Cinema

Tuesday, October 18, 2011, 7 p.m.

Tuesday, November 8, 2011, 7 p.m.
Wednesday, December 7, 2011, 7 p.m.
Tuesday, January 10, 2012, 7 p.m.

Tuesday, February 7, 2012, 7 p.m.
Tuesday, March 20, 2012, 7 p.m.

Tuesday, April 17, 2012, 7 p.m.
Tuesday, May 8, 2012, 7 p.m.
Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts, Virginia G. Piper Theater
General Admission: $19

Audience members are the critics at this sneak-preview film series that screens award-winning indie and foreign films before their theatrical release. Always a surprise, the films are selected from leading festivals by critic Harlan Jacobson. Screenings are introduced and followed by moderated conversations hosted by distinguished guest speakers.

Sponsored by Yelp.

Batsheva Dance Company

Thursday, March 22, 2012, 7:30 p.m.

Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts, Virginia G. Piper Theater
Tickets: $39, $49

Founded in 1964 by Martha Graham and Baroness Batsheva De Rothschild, Israel’s Batsheva Dance Company has been embraced as one of the world’s most exciting contemporary dance troupes. Now under the direction of visionary choreographer Ohad Naharin, the company has won praise for its fearless and moving performances that utilize Naharin’s innovative movement vocabulary.

 

Cubano Be, Cubano Bop:
Poncho Sanchez and his Latin Jazz Band featuring Terence Blanchard

Friday, March 23, 2012, 8 p.m.

Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts, Virginia G. Piper Theater
Tickets: $29, $39

 

Two Grammy Award-winning jazz legends share the stage in one sizzling concert! Trumpeter Terence Blanchard joins with percussionist Poncho Sanchez and his Latin Jazz Band in a red-hot tribute to the Afro-Cuban jazz pioneered by the Original Conga King Chano Pozo and Dizzy Gillespie, whose 1947 concert at Carnegie Hall forever changed the face of American music.

Presented with support from Arlene and Michael Lanes and The Drinkwater.

Jeffrey Tambor: Performing Your Life

Saturday, March 24, 2012, 8 p.m.

Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts, Virginia G. Piper Theater
Tickets: $49, $59

 

With acting credits in more than 100 films and hit television series such as Arrested Development and Entourage, Jeffrey Tambor has mastered the art of the character actor. He also has taught acting for nearly 40 years. A stimulating and entertaining one-man theater work, Performing Your Life is part seminar and part interactive Q-and-A that encourages audience members to identify their stories and discover their hidden talents and inner artists.

Presented in laughing memory of Steve Simon by his family.

San Francisco Opera
Grand Opera Cinema Series: Lucia di Lammermoor
Wednesday, March 28, 2012, 7 p.m.
Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts, Virginia G. Piper Theater
General Admission: $12

One of the world’s foremost producers of opera, San Francisco Opera brings films of its renowned productions to audiences in Scottsdale through its Grand Opera Cinema Series. In Lucia di Lammermoor, the emotionally fragile Lucia is driven to madness when manipulated to marry a man she does not love. Featuring the most famous mad scene in opera and full of ravishingly beautiful melodies, this timeless masterpiece by Donizetti evokes the passion and desperation of a woman used by her brother as a political pawn. Recorded in 2008 at San Francisco’s War Memorial Opera House.

 

Selected Shorts: Springtime, Sex and Baseball
Thursday, March 29, 2012, 7:30 p.m.
Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts, Virginia G. Piper Theater
Tickets: $29, $39 

This long-running, highly acclaimed public radio series, which has been delighting listeners from Maine to California for years, features top Broadway and Hollywood actors performing hilarious and unforgettable short stories about America’s favorite pastimes.

Jane Krakowski
Saturday, March 31, 2012, 8 p.m.
Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts, Virginia G. Piper Theater
Tickets: $59, $69, $149

Part sex kitten, part All-American girl, actress and singer Jane Krakowski has a knack for scene-stealing roles, from hit television shows like Ally McBeal and 30 Rock to Broadway, where she earned a Tony Award for the revival of Nine. Backed by a quartet, she performs a selection of her favorite songs and standards, including a few from her recent album, The Laziest Gal in Town.

Part of the Broadway Series sponsored by Natalie and Ed Gaylord. Presented with support from China Mist Iced Tea.

LOCATION AND PARKING
Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts is located at 7380 E. Second St. in downtown Scottsdale, four blocks south of Indian School Road and three blocks east of Scottsdale Road. Free parking is available in the public parking garage located to the west of Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts on Wells Fargo Avenue. Additional free parking is available at the Old Town Parking Corral at East Second Street and Brown Avenue and at the Civic Center Library parking garage located on Drinkwater Boulevard at East Second Street.

ACCESSIBILITY
Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts offers performance accommodations to enhance audience members’ experience, including: American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation or live audio description with two weeks advance notice. Assistive-listening devices and wheelchair seating are always available. Visit www.ScottsdalePerformingArts.org or contact the Patron Services Box Office at (480) 499-TKTS (8587) [TDD: (480) 874-4694] for further details. Please inquire about services when ordering tickets.

GROUP DISCOUNTS
Attend with family and friends, or bring a group from your business, civic or religious organization. Save $4 per ticket and at least $27.50 in handling fees when purchasing 15 or more tickets to the same event (subject to availability; some restrictions apply). Instead of $2.50 per single ticket, the facility fee is only $10 total for group orders.

THE STORE
The Store @ Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts offers a unique selection of art-related merchandise, including handmade jewelry, imaginative toys, decorative objects from around the world, original furnishings for the home and office and music, books and greeting cards. Members receive a 10-percent discount, and gift-wrapping and shipping also are available. Purchases are tax-free and support the programs of Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts. The Store is open seven days a week: Monday – Saturday, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.; Sunday, noon – 5 p.m.; and throughout most evening performances (30 minutes after final curtain). Phone: (480) 874-4644.

SCOTTSDALE CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
One of the premier performing-arts halls in the western United States, Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts showcases a diverse season of dance, jazz, classical and world music, theater and film from around the world. More than 1,000 performances, educational programs, festivals and other events are presented and hosted at The Center each year serving 200,000+ visitors and contributing substantially to Scottsdale’s high quality of life and vibrant arts scene. The Center’s education and outreach programs reach more than 20,000 children and adults each year. Most performances take place in the state-of-the-art, 853-seat Virginia G. Piper Theater, recognized for its intimacy, superior acoustics and comfort. Additional venues include the 137-seat Stage 2 theater and neighboring 2,000-capacity Scottsdale Civic Center Amphitheater. Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts is located on a beautifully landscaped, 21-acre urban park, a short walk from Scottsdale’s Old Town and gallery districts.

Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Arts (SMoCA) and Scottsdale Public Art are managed by the nonprofit Scottsdale Cultural Council.

HOW TO REACH US
Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts
7380 E. Second St.
Scottsdale, AZ 85251
Patron Services Box Office: (480) 499-TKTS (8587) 
TDD: (480) 874-4694
Web: www.ScottsdalePerformingArts.org
Facebook: www.facebook.com/ScottsdalePerformingArts
Twitter: www.Twitter.com/ScottsdaleArts
Email: info@sccarts.org
Fax: (480) 874-4699

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