WHERE: Singletary Center for the Arts at the University of Kentucky. WHEN: Thursday, March 22, 2012, 7:30 pm. TITLE: Don Quixote BRIEF ABOUT: Performed by the returning Moscow Festival Ballet, founded in 1989 when legendary principal dancer of the Bolshoi Ballet, Sergei Radchenko, sought to realize his vision of a company which would bring together [...]
WHERE: Matrix Theatre, 7657 Melrose Avenue – www.matrixtheatre.com WHEN: Previews Admission Special Ticketing is $20.00 for Thursday, March 29, Friday, March 30, Saturday, March 31, all times at 8:00 pm and Sunday, April 1 at 2:00 pm. The play will run through May 6 at General Admission ticketing. TITLE: No Time To Weep BRIEF [...]
“Shop of Horrors” A Broadway performance can deliver a real punch with the performers set under the right background and lighting. There are many aspects in bringing a great show together and teaching students how to create a mood from backdrops is one of the first processes in understanding the art of acting in theatre. [...]
The art of acting has seen few practitioners more passionate than John Wilkes Booth (1838-1865). During his acting career he was called “the handsomest man in America” and a “natural genius”, with an “astonishing memory”. Certainly he fit the description of “tall, dark and handsome.” Booth stood 5 feet 8 inches, had jet-black, curly [...]
(PNAN-CA) - “Opera is not for everybody,” said Blanche Thebom (1915-2010), co-founder of the Opera Arts Training Program in San Francisco, California. “The feeling today is that the average young person doesn’t have much discipline because with TV and computers, everything is so facile, so easy.” Criticized at times for her lack of compassion [...]
Does Ballroom Dancing remind you of an era when the world was simplistic and sincere? When people were cultured and courteous, naïve and polite? Music was pleasant, well balanced and rhythmic. Movie enthusiasts may recall the 1994 film “True Lies” with Arnold Schwarzeneggar and Tia Carrere in their ballroom scene, creating [...]
(PNAN-USA- Recently in Washington, D.C., at the 173rd meeting of the National Council on the Arts, NEA Chairman Rocco Landesman made known the artists receiving lifetime honorific awards for their significant contributions to their respective fields of jazz, folk and traditional arts, or opera. “These artists represent the highest level of artistic mastery and [...]
There are no marked passageways for those that straddle the black lines of Theatre Arts, music, film and media. Throw in a taste for performance art and you have a talented individual that is headed for creating more than just the norm. Art in movement is beginning to explode with leaders like Jason Jenn who [...]
Have you ever wondered whatever happened to that little boy on a favorite TV commercial or the nine-year old girl that could sing soprano like a nightingale? Tony Clark was one of these gifted youngsters that danced his way into hearts of many on a grand scale. Born to cultured Norwegian parents, Tony [...]
(PNAN-USA) – The steps in becoming an actor takes much more than ‘I can do that’ confidence, however to achieve one’s rightful place on the marquee, in order to not lose it, he/she must continue to use it, as well as following a lifetime path of academic classes or ‘dress rehearsal’ workshops, and Victoria [...]
(PNAN-NY) – A fresh, dynamic group of musicians has emerged to create a new angle on classical music and storytelling, making the art of music-telling stories a delightful learning experience for the young and old. Imani, Swahili for “faith” was started in 1997 by five talented young adults, eager to share their passion [...]
A kaleidoscope of vivid color uniformly flows across the dance floor, creating the impression of an opening flower on a warm summer day. Blues, reds, violets, and a splash of yellow, flutter to an upbeat song, awaiting the caller’s next command. Suddenly, the voice of the caller utters a few words that sound like [...]
After Tufts University in Boston, where she majored in Music, International Relations and Russian and East European studies and with a minor in Philosophy, Julia Torgovitskaya performed dozens of recitals, including the concert stage circuit. Born Russian and raised in Los Angeles, California, Julia lives and breathes the beauty of opera. In addition to [...]
No one can say that his lifetime goal was to rise quickly to stardom. Mac McAnally just loves music. As an artist loves to paint, the sculptor lives to mold and the dancer envelopes movement as a work of art, Mac’s media of music is just who he is. If you have trouble [...]
(PNAN-CA) – Perhaps his greatest success in life was not to him as what the public knows: a professional Japanese dancer who took “Butoh,” a dance form that has no set style and left his own artistic imprint; an author of “The Palace Soars through the Sky,” “Dessin,” “Words of Workshop,” and “Food for [...]
(PNAN-WA) – It was in 1924 when the first foundation was laid for the Liberty Theater, which then in a 1948 renovation it became the Olympic Theater, however it eventually got stripped and only a few exterior walls were left, linking the past to the future home of the Washington Center for the Performing [...]
(AAPNW-OH) – Theater can be an art of storytelling and music combined to create a lively adventure portrayed by talented actors and actresses. Mad River Theater Works is a rural professional repertory theater company based in West Liberty, Ohio that not only brings entertaining and professional plays to expectant audiences, but also has proven [...]
(NWPR) – The Grammy-award winning couple of Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis Jr. opens the Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra’s 2010-2011 Kettering Health Network SuperPops Series on Friday, October 8 and Saturday 9, both nights at 8:00 pm in the Schuster Center. They will join with the DPO to perform all their chart-topping songs. To [...]
(AAPNW) – Our commitment to music education is strong, and we are looking forward to participating in Nashville’s music education community,” said President of KHS America, Tabor Stamper. “Together with the public school systems, with the private music education programs, with the strong university music performance and education programs, with the Nashville Symphony and [...]
(AAPNW) – Nashville resident Ben Folds wants to help the Nashville Symphony, which sustained an estimated $40 million in losses after its concert hall, Schermerhorn Symphony Center, was severely damaged by flooding in May. He will perform the benefit, “Keys to Music City” for the Nashville Symphony at Tennessee Performing Arts Center’s Andrew Jackson [...]
(NWPR) – Since 1988, New World Arts have been dedicated in their mission in the production of quality plays. As the only all-volunteer theater in Northeastern Indiana, this Goshen based has been unrelenting also in their quest of collaborative creativity not only for the entire community, but also by providing the Michiana area with [...]
(NWPR) – Over four decades ago, Bob Lyon, who then was an Asbury Seminary professor and along with some of his students, started what is known today as “Ichthus”, a Greek word for fish in the original language of the New Testament. The founding platform of this group was not based on music [...]
(APPNW) – “Creating dance works in the outdoors presents an exciting challenge and opportunity to collaborate with the most expert and talented of all artists – nature,” said choreographer Julie Fox, who will direct a free public performance entitled “Gravity’s RippleII” on Thursday, September 16 at 6:30 pm on the ‘banks’ of the [...]