Ahn Trio brings sister power to new music

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Ahn Trio brings sister power to new music

Published July 18, 2012 by Gregory Stepanich

The Ahn Trio, from left: Maria, Angella and Lucia. It isn’t every arts group that specializes in new music, particularly when it’s a piano trio, a tried-and-true staple of the world of chamber music. But the Ahn Trio sees things a little differently. “We started out...

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Nature, cosmology and fable blur in Amy Leach’s imaginative collection of essays, “Things That Are”

Published July 18, 2012 by Susannah Schouweiler

Reviewers just aren’t sure what to make of award-winning author Amy Leach. And she is hard to pin down; her wry, outrageously inventive nonfiction pieces have earned her comparisons with writers as diverse as Emily Dickinson, Lewis Carroll, Thoreau. Reading her debut book, “Things That Are,” a collection of short...

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“The Bingo King” wins first place at 8 x 10 Theatrefest

Published July 18, 2012 by Roger Durbin

Eight plays that all use a vintage microphone as part of their narrative gave some funny and ironic takes on the device in Weathervane Playhouse's 8 x 10 Theatrefest held July 13-15 — a precious historical object of the dethroned Tsars in Joe Lauinger's "The Silver Bullet," a brandished sword...

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Grey Henson honed his craft in Macon before landing role in “Book of Mormon” tour

Published July 18, 2012 by Jonathan Harwell-Dye

GREY HENSON (Elder McKinley). Professional and touring debut. Grey is a recent Carnegie Mellon graduate (2012), holding a BFA in Acting/Musical Theatre. Now in his third week of rehearsals for the national tour of "Book of Mormon," Macon native Grey Henson is just beginning his professional...

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Alex Tyson and Jesse Kudler improvise Tuesday Tune-Out

Published July 17, 2012 by CSchwartz

Every week at PhilaMOCA, Tuesday night becomes a multimedia mixture of live music and film. The event is called Tuesday Tune-Out, which brings in a local musical act to perform followed by a film or video screening of their choice. Generally, the film selection is some type of inspiration or...

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Summer shapes up at the Olympia Theater at the Gusman Center

Published July 17, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad

By Julia Ford-Carther, Gusman Center Miami Lyric Opera (MLO) returned to the Olympia Theater stage last month for the company’s second Red Curtain Series presentation. Artistic and general director Raffaele Cardone brought some of opera’s most promising rising stars and recognized voices to downtown Miami for a rendition of Madama...

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Drive-in Radio Theater returns to MOCAD

Published July 17, 2012 by Jeremy Schmall

Last Wednesday, the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (a Knight Arts grantee) hosted the second installment of Drive-in Radio Theater, a performance in MOCAD’s parking lot that involves piping a live broadcast hyper locally into the assembled cars. The previous installment showcased the theater group, The Hinterlands Ensemble, as well...

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Broken Crow: The Bigger Picture Project

Published July 16, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad

The Bigger Picture Project, an Artplace grantee, is a set of four murals painted on locations along St. Paul's central corridor. Artists John Grider and Mike Fitzsimmons (known together as Broken Crow), designed the images to fit together to create one Bigger Picture along the route of the light rail....

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Peanut Butter Jelly Time at MOCA Art Institute’s creative arts summer program

Published July 16, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad

By Valerie Ricordi, MOCA Campers in MOCA’s Creative Arts Summer Program created their own music video last week as part of the two-week session “Art and Rock and Roll”. Set to the popular song ‘Peanut Butter Jelly Time’ by the Buckwheat Boyz, 30 children ages 6 to 12 danced to...

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Enjoy Sipping & Showing with Locust Projects

Published July 16, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad

By Chana Budgazad Sheldon, Locust Projects Tickets are still available to tomorrow night’s Riesling Pizzeria extravaganza at Harry’s Pizzeria to celebrate Summer of Riesling, the annual occasion from June 20 through September 21 when hundreds of the finest dining establishments across the nation celebrate the world's most misunderstood and versatile...

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Fairytales and dance: a great summer camp combo

Published July 16, 2012 by Katherine Balcerek

Photo by Jeff Cravotta, courtesy of NC Dance Theatre The last North Carolina Dance Theatre Summer Camp for children ages 5-6 is fast approaching. At the Patricia McBride & Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux Center for Dance, fairytales have been coming to life all summer long through dance, music,...

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The floating ‘River City Revue’ cruises through art, science and Mississippi River history

Published July 16, 2012 by Susannah Schouweiler

When guests board the Jonathan Padelford Riverboat on Harriet Island for the “River City Revue” this Wednesday night, they’ll be greeted by the lively, New Orleans-style jazz of the Southside Aces brass band, who’ll continue playing throughout the evening from the boat’s top deck. The "Revue" is a joint project...

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Summer offerings fill the air with music at Macon’s two community theaters

Published July 16, 2012 by Jonathan Harwell-Dye

"Legally Blonde: The Musical" is the first productions of Macon Little Theatre's 2012-13 season. There is no shortage of great community theater in Macon, and this summer is no exception. Theatre Macon, located downtown, and Macon Little Theatre, located on Forsyth Road, have both featured entertaining...

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Teatro Prometeo misses with “Infieles”

Published July 16, 2012 by Neil de la Flor

Sometimes love and marriage are monumental Sisyphean phenomenons that can often feel like rolling a boulder up Mount Everest and riding a bed on wheels down the backside 'til death do us part. Sometimes love and marriage can transform the hardest of hearts into softies and even the kindest most...

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Knight Arts chats with Barry’s Blog

Published July 16, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad

Dennis Scholl, Knight Foundation VP/Arts, chats with Barry's Blog about thinking out of the box, the evolving needs and trends in arts philanthropy and the challenges facing the arts philanthropic community. Enjoy an excerpt from the interview below and click here to read the interview in its entirety. BARRY: In...