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: 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...
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, ...
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'...
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....
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 ...
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....
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...
THE MASTER AND THE MARGARITA to Make World Premiere at Bard SummerScape 2013, 7/11-21
by BWW News Desk - June 04, 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...
Capital Stage to Present Sacramento Premiere of THE NORTH PLAN, 1/23-2/24
by BWW News Desk - January 03, 2013 Capital Stage continues its 2012-13 'Season of Power Plays' with the Sacramento premiere of Jason Wells' THE NORTH PLAN, a dizzying dark comedy that asks: What would ordinary Americans do if the U.S. government fell into tyranny? THE NORTH PLAN runs from January 23 through February 24th with a press...
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...
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)...
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, ...
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....
OLD GHOSTS, NEW DREAMS Cambodia Program Set for Film Society of Lincoln Center, 4/19-25
by Movies News Desk - March 12, 2013 The Film Society of Lincoln Center announced today Old Ghosts, New Dreams: The Emerging Cambodian Cinema (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 of films fr...
Wat Bo Shadow Puppet Troupe Comes to SEASON OF CAMBODIA, 4/25-28
by BWW News Desk - April 25, 2013 As the final offering of the current theater season, Season of Cambodia will present the definitive masters of the dazzling ancient art form of Cambodian shadow puppetry with four free public, waterfront performances in Lower Manhattan (Brookfield Place Winter Garden, 200 Vesey Street) Today, April ...
Marin Alsop to Lead Baltimore Symphony Orchestra in Shostakovich's FIFTH SYMPHONY, 11/13
by Matt Smith - November 02, 2014 Baltimore, Md. (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 p...
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'...
OLD GHOSTS, NEW DREAMS Cambodia Program Set for Film Society of Lincoln Center, 4/19-25
by Movies News Desk - March 12, 2013 The Film Society of Lincoln Center announced today Old Ghosts, New Dreams: The Emerging Cambodian Cinema (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 of films fr...
BWW CD Review: Boston's Nelsons Shows his Love for Shostakovich
by Erica Miner - September 16, 2015 Reasons for his close link to the 20th century Russian composer...
Marin Alsop Leads Baltimore Symphony Orchestra 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...
Clarissa Ward to Speak with Syrian Rebels on Tonight's CBS EVENING NEWS
by Tyler Peterson - April 01, 2013 CBS News Foreign Correspondent Clarissa Ward reports from inside Syria and speaks with the first rebel commander to shoot down a government fighter jet. The report will be broadcast tonight, April 1 on the CBS EVENING NEWS WITH SCOTT PELLEY (6:30-7:00 PM, ET) on the CBS Television Network....
BWW CD Review: Boston's Nelsons Shows his Love for Shostakovich
by Erica Miner - September 16, 2015 Reasons for his close link to the 20th century Russian composer...
Burning Coal Theatre Company's 2012/2013 Season Continues With GOOD, 1/31-2/17
by Kelsey Denette - January 02, 2013 Burning Coal Theatre Company's 2012/2013 season continues with C.P. Taylor's drama Good, directed by Ian Finley, January 31 through February 17, 2013 at the Murphey School, 224 Polk Street, Raleigh. Performances are Thursdays through Saturdays (1/31 to 2/2, 2/7 - 9 and 2/14 - 16) at 7:30 pm and Sund... |