OLD GHOSTS, NEW DREAMS Cambodia Program Set for Film Society of Lincoln Center, Now thru 4/25
by Movies News Desk - April 19, 2013 The Film Society of Lincoln Center previously announced Old Ghosts, New Dreams: The Emerging Cambodian Cinema (today, April 19-25). To be presented in conjunction with the citywide Season of Cambodia arts festival, FSLC will team with the great documentarian Rithy Panh to screen a fascinating survey...
Photo Flash: Steppenwolf for Young Adults' Production of Orwell's 1984 Begins Tonight
by BWW News Desk - October 21, 2015 On the heels of a sold-out production of George Orwell's Animal Farm last season, Steppenwolf for Young Adults (SYA) begins the 2015/16 season with another Orwellian masterpiece, 1984. Adapted by Andrew White and directed by SYA Artistic and Educational Director Hallie Gordon, Orwell's 1984 receives...
WHBPAC Presents FINEST IN WORLD CINEMA SERIES
by Sally Henry Fuller - February 21, 2015 Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center continues its Finest in World Cinema Series this March on most Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays! Screening the best current release art house, foreign, independent and documentary films that run concurrently at the most prominent film houses in New York City, ...
Photo Flash: Meet the Cast of Trustus Theatre's THE VELVET WEAPON, Opening Tonight
by BWW News Desk - August 08, 2014 Internationally produced playwright Deborah Brevoort premieres her new farce The Velvet Weapon at Trustus Theatre in The Vista. This script is the winner of the Trustus Playwrights' Festival, an annual competition that gives a full production to a new original work. This world premiere production of...
NBC Exclusive: Ann Curry Speaks with Turkish PM Recep Tayyip
by Caryn Robbins - May 09, 2013 In an exclusive interview that took place this afternoon in Istanbul, Ann Curry, NBC News' National and International Correspondent and Anchor at Large, sat down with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan who asserts that Syria's President Bashar Hafez al-Assad has used chemical weapons and th...
Chicago Opera Theater to Present MARÍA DE BUENOS AIRES, 4/20-28
by BWW News Desk - March 11, 2013 Chicago Opera Theater's Chicago Stage Premiere production of Astor Piazzolla's MARÍA DE BUENOS AIRES evokes Argentina's 'Dirty War', the period between 1976 and 1983 when the country was governed by military juntas which controlled the populace through state-sponsored terrorism. This 'tango operita'...
Bard SummerScape 2013 Presents THE MASTER AND MARGARITA Stage Premiere, Now thru 7/21
by BWW News Desk - July 11, 2013 The Bard SummerScape festival in New York's Annandale-on-Hudson presents the world premiere of an original stage adaptation of The Master and Margarita (1937) by Mikhail Bulgakov. The Master and Margarita is widely recognized as one of the greatest and most beloved Russian novels of the 20th century...
Smithsonian Channel to Premiere THE LOCKERBIE BOMBING, 12/21
by Caryn Robbins - December 13, 2013 On December 21st 1988, Pan American World Airways Flight 103 exploded in the skies above Lockerbie, a small town in Scotland. All 259 people on board the Boeing 747 were killed, as were 11 people on the ground....
Marin Alsop Leads BSO in Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony Tonight
by BWW News Desk - November 13, 2014 Music Director Marin Alsop will lead the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (BSO) in Shostakovich's Symphony No. 5 tonight, November 13 at 8 p.m. at the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall and Sunday, November 16 at 3 p.m. at The Music Center at Strathmore. Also on the program are Tchaikovsky's tone poem March...
BWW Reviews: POL POT Is a Precocious Puzzlebox
by Alan Katz - August 12, 2014 As the strange and sharp-turning story unfolds, it becomes clear that there are eerie similarities between the regime of the genocidal dictator and the living arrangements of these six men. They are a group of urban creatures who have moved out into the country to live a self-sufficient life. They ...
IL PRIGIONIERO to Highlight GILBERT'S PLAYLIST with NY Phil, Beg. 6/6
by BWW News Desk - May 31, 2013 Italian modernist composer Luigi Dallapiccola's serialist opera Il Prigioniero, featuring bass- baritone Gerald Finley as The Prisoner and soprano Patricia Racette (in her Philharmonic debut) as The Mother, highlights the next installment of Gilbert's Playlist - four weeks of programs conducted by A...
Dallas Opera and Dallas Holocaust Museum Presents KORNGOLD, THE LOST COMPOSER? Panel Today
by BWW News Desk - February 25, 2014 The Dallas Opera and Dallas Holocaust Museum are the proud partners of what promises to be an extraordinary panel discussion on the life, the work and the legacy of exiled twentieth-century composer Erich Wolfgang Korngold, who went from Viennese 'wunderkind' to one of the founding fathers of the 'G...
Marin Alsop to Lead BSO in Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony, 11/13 & 11/16
by Tyler Peterson - October 31, 2014 Music Director Marin Alsop will lead the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (BSO) in Shostakovich's Symphony No. 5 on Thursday, November 13 at 8 p.m. at the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall and Sunday, November 16 at 3 p.m. at The Music Center at Strathmore. Also on the program are Tchaikovsky's tone poem M...
Oliver 'Tuku' Mtukudzi Drops New Album SARAWOGA Today
by BWW News Desk - May 21, 2013 Oliver Mtukudzi, affectionately called 'Tuku' by fans worldwide, has weathered storms with his sharp observations and gracious emphasis on the basic human experiences that unite us all: childhood and aging, respect and hope, women's rights and AIDS, community and connection....
MoMA to Open Eastern European & Latin American Art Exhibition 'TRANSMISSIONS' This Fall
by BWW News Desk - July 13, 2015 The Museum of Modern Art presents Transmissions: Art in Eastern Europe and Latin America, 1960-1980, an exhibition on view from September 5, 2015, through January 3, 2016, that focuses on the parallels and connections among international artists working in-and in reference to-Latin America and Easte...
MoMA to Open Eastern European & Latin American Art Exhibition 'TRANSMISSIONS' This Fall
by BWW News Desk - September 05, 2015 The Museum of Modern Art presents Transmissions: Art in Eastern Europe and Latin America, 1960-1980, an exhibition on view from September 5, 2015, through January 3, 2016, that focuses on the parallels and connections among international artists working in-and in reference to-Latin America and Easte...
Free Reading of SHOSTAKOVICH Set for ACT, 5/12-13
by Tyler Peterson - April 11, 2014 A Contemporary Theatre's New Play Award recipient: Shostakovich by Jason Grote. Best known for his play 1001 (a deconstruction of Arabian Nights) and Maria/Stuart, Jason Grote's newest work focuses on the life and work of celebrated Russian composer, Dmitri Shostakovich. Commissioned through the New...
Clarissa Ward & Elizabeth Palmer to Provide Reports from Inside Syria on Tonight's CBS EVENING NEWS WITH SCOTT PELLEY
by Tyler Peterson - September 05, 2013 CBS NEWS FOREIGN CORRESPONDENTS CLARISSA WARD AND ELIZABETH PALMER PROVIDE RARE REPORTS FROM INSIDE THE SYRIAN WAR – TONIGHT ON THE “CBS EVENING NEWS WITH SCOTT PELLEY” (6:30-7:00 PM, ET)...
Highlights from SNL's 'Weekend Update' with Seth Meyers and Cecily Strong
by Caryn Robbins - December 23, 2013 Below, check out highlights from SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE 'Weekend Update' with Seth Meyers and Cecily Strong'. The show aired Saturday, December 21, 2013....
Bookworks' IT'S ABOUT BOOKS For January
by BWW News Desk - January 31, 2014 Without a doubt Alexandra Fuller is one of my most favorite authors. Her first book, Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, is a delightfully funny yet poignant backward look at her childhood in Africa. The latest,Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness, is, at first glance a charming, delightful...
Pacific Symphony and Chapman University's Global Arts Program Present DECODING SHOSTAKOVICH
by BWW News Desk - December 03, 2013 Orange County, Calif.—Dec. 3, 2013—One of Russia's most fascinating and complex composers—Dmitri Shostakovich—goes under the magnifying glass when Pacific Symphony partners with Chapman University's Global Arts Program to present “Decoding Shostakovich,” a festival dedicated to the iconic composer, ...
Film Society of Lincoln Center Announces Cartoonists, Foot Soldiers of Democracy Special Screening
by Caryn Robbins - January 16, 2015 The Film Society of Lincoln Center, in partnership with the Cultural Services of the French Embassy NY, Unifrance Films, Distrib Films, and Kinology, will host a special screening and the North American premiere of Stephanie Valloatto's Cartoonists, Foot Soldiers of Democracy...
Chicago Opera Theater Presents MARÍA DE BUENOS AIRES, Now thru 4/28
by BWW News Desk - April 20, 2013 Chicago Opera Theater's Chicago Stage Premiere production of Astor Piazzolla's MARÍA DE BUENOS AIRES evokes Argentina's 'Dirty War', the period between 1976 and 1983 when the country was governed by military juntas which controlled the populace through state-sponsored terrorism. This 'tango operita'...
Oliver 'Tuku' Mtukudzi to Drop New Album SARAWOGA, 5/21
by BWW News Desk - April 05, 2013 Oliver Mtukudzi, affectionately called 'Tuku' by fans worldwide, has weathered storms with his sharp observations and gracious emphasis on the basic human experiences that unite us all: childhood and aging, respect and hope, women's rights and AIDS, community and connection.... |