Lincoln Center Festival Of 2009 Announces Pop & Music Lineup For Summer
by Gabrielle Sierra - May 27, 2009
The music lineup at Lincoln Center Festival 09 includes US debuts by Algerian music icon Idir and Moroccan Chaabi singer Najat Aatabou; a double bill with Justin Adams and Juldeh Camara, and Issa Bagayogo; and a tribute to celebrated New Orleans songwriter Wardell Quezergue, featuring a roster of noted musical artists from that city's annual Ponderosa Stomp music festival.
Celebrate The Living Theatre W/ Events & More 3/23, 3/25
by Reynard Loki - Mar 16, 2009
Join the members of the Martin E. Segal Theatre for a two-day celebration of The Living Theatre, including screenings of work, documentaries, panel discussions, staged readings, and more. Invited participants include: Thomas Walker, Alisa Solomon, Carlo Altomare, Kenneth Brown, Joan MacIntosh, Cyndy Rosenthal, Marvin Carlson, and David Savran. The event will cuminate in the presentation of the Edwin Booth Award by the Doctoral Theatre Students Association to Judith Malina.
Cameron Mackintosh Honored At The South Bank Show Awards
by Reynard Loki - Jan 20, 2009
Cameron Mackintosh has been honoured for his contribution to musical theatre at this year's South Bank Show awards.
The Awards other big winners included:
Film
This Is England
Comedy
Gavin and Stacey (BBC Three)
TV Drama
The Mark of Cain (Channel 4)
Theatre
Saint Joan at the National Theatre
Pop
Arctic Monkeys: Favourite Worst Nightmare
Literature
Mohsin Hamid: The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Classical Music
Traced Overhead: The Musical World of Thomas Ades at the Barbican
Visual Arts
Andy Goldsworthy at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park
Opera
The Turn of The Screw at the ENO
Dance
Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company: Programmes 1 and 2 at Sadler's Wells
Literature
Mohsin Hamid: The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Arts Council England - decibel Award
Daljit Nagra: Look We Have Coming To Dover
Outstanding Achievement Award
JK Rowling
Metropolitan Opera to Present Adams' 'Doctor Atomic'
by Faetra Petillo - Sep 30, 2008
For the first time, the Metropolitan Opera will present a work by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer John Adams: Doctor Atomic, his opera about J. Robert Oppenheimer and the creation of the atomic bomb. The piece is set in New Mexico in the summer of 1945, as scientists, led by Oppenheimer, and the military prepare to test the first nuclear bomb, events that will radically change the course and fabric of history. The new production, starring Gerald Finley in the title role, will open at the Met on Monday, October 13, at 8:00 p.m. When the opera premiered in San Francisco in October of 2005, The Guardian said, 'Adams's ecstatically lyrical writing and the music's visionary eloquence make this a modern masterpiece.' The New York Times later wrote that Doctor Atomic was 'the most complex and inventive of Mr. Adams's works, an engrossing operatic drama.'