Datebook: ‘A Taste of Honey’ at Odyssey Theatre, Los Angeles
The controversial and taboo-breaking play of the 1950s ‘A Taste of Honey’ will run through November 27, 2016, at Odyssey Theatre, Los Angeles. Kim Rubinstein the director of the award-winning revival...
View ArticleDatebook: ‘Going… Going… GONE!’ at Hudson Guild Theatre, Los Angeles
‘Going, Going… Gone!’ a new baseball comedy will run through Nov 6, 2016, at Hudson Guild Theatre, Los Angeles. Written by Emmy Award-winning writer (M*A*S*H*, Cheers, The Simpsons) and former ‘Dodger...
View ArticleDatebook: 'One World Many Musics: Celebrating Artistic Plurality' at NCPA,...
The NCPA will be holding a special event "One World Many Musics: Celebrating Artistic Plurality" on October 7, 2016 in Mumbai.This will be the seventh edition of "One World Many Musics: Celebrating...
View ArticleDatebook: 'Martha, Or Richmond Market' at Oper Frankfurt
Oper Frankfurt presents 'Martha, Or Richmond Market', a romantic comic opera in four acts, which will run from October 16 through November 25, 2016 in Frankfurt.This is the story of Lady Harriet Durham...
View ArticleDatebook: Richard Wagner's Lohengrin at Oper Frankfurt
Oper Frankfurt presents 'Lohengrin', a romantic comic opera in three acts, which will run from October 21 through November 11 in Frankfurt.This is the story of a journey of longing, beginning from its...
View ArticleDatebook: Andrea Scartazzini's 'The Sandman' at Oper Frankfurt
Andrea Lorenzo Scartazzini's 'The Sandman' is being staged at Oper Frankfurt and will run through October 23.This opera in ten scenes is based on a short story by E.T.A. Hoffmann, with a libretto by...
View ArticleDatebook: Giuseppe Verdi's 'Stiffelio' at Oper Frankfurt
Giuseppe Verdi's opera, 'Stiffelio' will be staged at the Oper Frankfurt, from October 29 through November 19, 2016.The libretto is set by Francesco Maria Piave, after Émile Souvestre and Eugène...
View ArticleDatebook: Georges Bizet's 'Carmen' at Oper Frankfurt
George Bizet's opera 'Carmen' is currently being staged at the Oper Frankfurt and will run through October 17, 2016. This timeless Opéra-comique is being performed in three acts with a libretto by...
View ArticleQ&A With Christine Ebersole: Cabaret, Elizabeth Arden and Alicia Keys’s War...
Christine Ebersole admits that when she was young, she wanted to be famous. The blond beauty now describes herself as daughter, mother, wife, and animal lover. In that order.Talk about underselling...
View ArticleIan McKellen, Patrick Stewart Nail Pinter’s Classic ‘No Man’s Land’
It’s an obviously promising recipe for an evening out. First, take Sir Ian McKellen, at 77 still treading the boards in style. Then, add another distinguished theatrical knight, Patrick Stewart, 76,...
View ArticleGrowing List of Art Figures, Celebrities Backing Hillary Rodham Clinton for...
Louise Viger Blouin, Chairman of Blouin Artinfo Corp and founder of the Louise Blouin Foundation, is officially endorsing Hillary Rodham Clinton for President of the United States. She explains her...
View ArticleDatebook: Chalk Repertory Theatre’s 4th Biennial, Los Angeles
‘Flash Festival,’ fourth biennial hosted by the Chalk Repertory Theatre will run through October 22, 2016, at Los Angeles’ St. John’s Cathedral.The biennial will feature 15 LA playwrights to create a...
View ArticleReview: Fifty Shades of Green in ‘Don Giovanni’ at ENO
A succession of women, all dressed in exquisite 1950s gowns, walk eagerly into the hotel room of Don Giovanni (a charismatic Christopher Purves). They’re excited and ready for fun and each comes out...
View Article24-Hour 'Bingefest' at the Sydney Opera House
Sydney's iconic Opera House presents its first new festival in five years, BINGEFEST: a 24-hour overnight non-stop celebration spanning across storytelling, performance art, journalism, video games,...
View ArticleBon Jovi Reveals ‘This House Is Not for Sale’ Album
Jon Bon Jovi pauses, close to the end of his concert to unveil his new album. He tells us that he still has “something to say.” Pause. “And nothing to prove.”His band’s 14th studio album, out on...
View ArticleQ&A With Kyle Riabko: How Bacharach Captivated a Canadian Blues Rocker
There wasn’t a lot of Burt Bacharach on the jukebox in Bud’s on Broadway, a blues bar in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, a favorite hangout of local Kyle Riabko, a musician who gravitated to Eric Clapton,...
View ArticleReview: 'The Passion of Joan of Arc' with Portishead and Goldfrapp
On Friday, October 7, Hauser & Wirth showed Carl Dreyer’s silent movie classic “The Passion of Joan of Arc” at the stunning Wells Cathedral, with a new orchestral score composed by members of...
View ArticleFestival/Tokyo 2016 to Open 9th Edition This Weekend
Festival/Tokyo 2016 (F/T 16), Japan’s most popular theater festival, is set to kick off its ninth edition this weekend, bringing together leading international and local performing acts from October 15...
View Article8 Reasons Why Bob Dylan Won the Nobel Literature Prize
Bob Dylan has won the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature over the likes of Japanese writer Haruki Murakami and US novelist Philip Roth. The decision, the first time a singer-songwriter has been honored,...
View ArticleDudamel's Stravinsky Opens Season at Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall’s fall season kicked off to an ebullient start last week with a gala performance of Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring, played by Venezuela’s Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra and...
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