Detroit steps into spring with the Marche du Nain Rouge

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Detroit steps into spring with the Marche du Nain Rouge

Published March 20, 2014 by Valerie Nahmad

By Francis Grunow, Marche du Nain Rouge Francis Grunow is the organizer of Marche du Nain Rouge, an annual festival and parade supported by Knight Foundation, planned for Sunday, March 23, in Detroit. Imagine more than 4,000 revelers coming together on the streets of Detroit, dressed in the spirit of...

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Zoetic Stage launches premiere by Miami playwright

Published March 19, 2014 by Valerie Nahmad

By Kerry Shiller, Zoetic Stage This week, Zoetic Stage opens its fifth world-premiere production, Clark Gable Slept Here, a Hollywood satire by award-winning playwright Michael McKeever (who talks about the play in the above video.) Directed by Zoetic Stage’s artistic director Stuart Meltzer and starring Carbonell Award winners Michael McKeever...

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Library Acts of Culture: Studio Sendero at St. Paul’s Highland Park library

Published March 19, 2014 by Valerie Nahmad

Studio Sendero performed flamenco at St. Paul's Highland Park library branch as part of Knight Foundation's Library Acts of Culture program. Enjoy the performance above. Highland Park -->About Knight Foundation's Library Acts of Culture program Knight Foundation’s Library Acts of Culture brings artists out of performance halls and into libraries...

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Looking back at our 2013-2014 season….TRIBES at Philadelphia Theatre Company

Published March 19, 2014 by Valerie Nahmad

By Carrie Chapter, PTC Dramaturg In a co-production with City Theatre in Pittsburgh, PTC presented Nina Raine’s fiery, powerful family drama, TRIBES, which follows a garrulous family of intellectuals and their son, Billy, who was born deaf. The ideas of language and effective communication are vehemently challenged once Billy brings...

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Looking Back at our 2013-2014 season….NERDS at Philadelphia Theatre Company

Published March 19, 2014 by Valerie Nahmad

By Carrie Chapter, PTC dramaturg Philadelphia Theatre Company welcomed back a revitalized version of the musical, NERDS, this season. The show comically re-imagines the early days of tech titans Bill Gates and Steve Jobs in Silicon Valley. Here is an excerpt of an interview we conducted with the creators. A...

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Looking back at our 2013-2014 season….4000 MILES at Philadelphia Theatre Company

Published March 19, 2014 by Valerie Nahmad

By Carrie Chapter, PTC Dramaturg Why we chose 4000 MILES: Much of the American theatre’s most memorable work centers on a homecoming. Yet, rather than a family fortune or dinner table skirmish, in Amy Herzog’s 4000 MILES, , the act of coming home arrives by way of a road-weary bicycle...

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Phillips Children Performing Arts Studio combines hip hop and jazz

Published March 19, 2014 by Y-O Latimore

Phillips Children's Performing Arts Studio at the Douglass Theatre. Phillips Children’s Performing Arts Studio teaches dance classes to students beginning at age three. Most of the lessons consist of dance from all genres. The young ones also learn music, basic manners and oratorical skills. The combination...

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10th annual Fresh Art exhibit at Summit Artspace

Published March 19, 2014 by Roger Durbin

These days when one thinks that just about everything has been done artistically, some artists come up with something fresh. That process has been working for a decade now as Summit Artspace, a Knight Arts grantee, launched its annual Fresh Art exhibition. Forty nine regional artists will have their newly...

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A weekend for orchestral bigness

Published March 19, 2014 by Gregory Stepanich

One of the moons of Jupiter, from NASA's images for Holst's "The Planets." If you want to go big in orchestral repertoire, this is your weekend to stop by the Knight Concert Hall. Begin with the Cleveland Orchestra, which wraps its Miami residency on Friday and...

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World-class dance comes to a St. Paul firehouse for an intimate performance this weekend

Published March 19, 2014 by Susannah Schouweiler

Photo of Netta Yerushalmy courtesy of "5.2x3.4" series. If you follow contemporary dance, there’s an intimate performance coming up this weekend you should know about. Writer and curator Sandra Teitge, a recent transplant to Minneapolis-Saint Paul from Berlin, has begun a new art and conversation series...

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Strong showings from two strong female visions

Published March 18, 2014 by Anne Tschida

"Be" from Antonia Wright. “You Make Me Sick: I Love You” couldn’t be a better title for the solo show opening up at Spinello Projects from Antonia Wright. Primarily a performance and video artist, Wright’s work is gripping, disturbing, humorous, emotional and at a level that...

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Keith Crowley and the shadows of the familiar at Tiger Strikes Asteroid

Published March 18, 2014 by CSchwartz

Keith Crowley at Tiger Strikes Asteroid provides a step into a hazy world that breathes uneasily between the snap of a shutter and the stroke of a brush. For his show “Unseen,” Crowley provides a mere five paintings, which prove to open themselves up to the viewer with seemingly endless...

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Motor City literary scene stirs to life with the coming of spring

Published March 18, 2014 by Rosie Sharp

Organizer Kim Hunter introduces readers at a previous Woodward Line Poetry event. As Detroit shakes off a record-worst winter, new voices can be heard within the usual springtime chorus of robins, pheasants and snowmelt, carried in by a rising tide of literary events and venues. On...

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The Soap Myth screened at Jewish Museum London while audiences around the world watch along online

Published March 18, 2014 by Valerie Nahmad

By Arnold Mittelman, National Jewish Theater Foundation Digital Theatre, National Jewish Theater Foundation of America and Jewish Museum London are proud to present the London premiere screening of Jeff Cohen’s play The Soap Myth at the Jewish Museum London. Those who are unable to attend the screening at Jewish Museum...

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‘Play it! Play it!’ Trumpet-carrying teen joins impromptu jam with Dirty Dozen Brass Band

Published March 18, 2014 by Valerie Nahmad

By Jodi Farrell, Adrienne Arsht Center Miami Carol City High School senior Lorenzo Jones played with The Dirty Dozen Brass Band before 1,500 people in the Arsht Center’s Knight Concert Hall on March 14. Wherever Miami Carol City High senior Lorenzo Jones goes, so does his...