By Adria Greenhauff, Miami City Ballet Its 2013-2014 season may have come to a close just a few weeks ago, but Miami City Ballet is already gearing up for the new season ahead. Our dancers returned to the studios on June 9th to begin learning next season’s ballets. They’re beginning with choreographer Justin Peck’s new […]
Article · June 23, 2014 by Valerie Nahmad
By Serlin Quah, ZERO1: The Art & Technology Network Opening the BRING IT! Performance Art Series is a live performance double feature by animator, designer, and multimedia artist Miwa Matreyek. Internationally recognized, Matreyek is based in Los Angeles and creates animated short films that integrate animation, performance, and video installation. Arriving to animation from a […]
Article · June 21, 2014 by Valerie Nahmad
By Carrie Chapter, Philadelphia Theatre Company On June 13th Philadelphia Theatre Company celebrated Colin Quinn’s solo show, UNCONSTITUTIONAL, with a dazzling, packed Opening Night performance. Up until curtain, a winding swath of latecomers stood in line by the box office asking to buy any remaining tickets – a testament to the force field Quinn tends […]
Article · June 21, 2014 by Valerie Nahmad
By Carrie Chapter, Philadelphia Theatre Company On Wednesday, May 7th at 7pm, Philadelphia Theatre Company presented a staged reading of the Terrence McNally Award-winning play, AMERICAN CANVAS, by Bill Cain. With a cast comprised of some of Philadelphia’s finest intermingled with a few PTC faves from New York, AMERICAN CANVAS sets out to tell the […]
Article · June 21, 2014 by Valerie Nahmad
By Carrie Chapter, Philadelphia Theatre Company It is not every day that a lauded playwright pays more than one visit to a regional production of a Tony Award-winning play. For the PTC production of the side-splitting comedy, VANYA AND SONIA AND MASHA AND SPIKE, playwright Christopher Durang was kind enough to come in to not […]
Article · June 21, 2014 by Valerie Nahmad
By Carrie Chapter, Philadelphia Theatre Company On Saturday, March 1st at 7pm, Philadelphia Theatre Company presented a public staged reading of the Terrence McNally Award-winning play, THE URBAN RETREAT by A. Zell Williams. The reading was a Philly-centric experience – the director, Matt Pfeiffer, and the cast all talented locals. In the words of playwright, […]
Article · June 21, 2014 by Valerie Nahmad
By Adrienne Kenton, Blackstar Fest What do Juneteenth and the 25th Anniversary of Spike Lee’s “Do The Right Thing” have in common? The obvious answer is that both events occur this month, with national celebrations of Juneteenth and month long bi-coastal celebrations of Lee’s groundbreaking film at Brooklyn Academy of Music and Los Angeles County […]
Article · June 20, 2014 by Valerie Nahmad
By Renee Prola, Ordway Center for the Performing Arts There was a mantra going around earlier today…Rain, Rain Go Away! Unfortunatley, for the first Ordway Summer Dance of the 2014 season the rain continued. The festivities were moved inside to the Marzitelli Foyer at the Ordway. The Foyer provided a lovely dry replacement on this […]
Article · June 20, 2014 by Valerie Nahmad
By Michael D. Bolden, Knight Foundation Hattie Mae Williams, a 2013 Knight Arts Challenge Miami winner, recently launched a Kickstarter campaign for her Miami Sites Project. The first component, of the project, a site-specific dance and film at historic Miami Marine Stadium, is scheduled for July, she said. Williams hopes to raise $4,000 for to […]
Article · June 18, 2014 by Valerie Nahmad
By Peter E. Leggett, Walker West Music Academy On Saturday, June 7 Walker West Music Academy opened the doors of its new facility at 760 Selby Avenue. The 26 year old non-profit community music school has spent the last year developing the 5,938 square foot space on Selby Avenue in Saint Paul’s Summit-University community. The […]
Article · June 17, 2014 by Valerie Nahmad
By Nicholas Mirra, Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia The evolution of bicycle parking in Philadelphia is poised to take a big step forward this month as City Council considers a bill codifying the process for the installation of bike corrals (news articles here and here). Bike corrals are collections of bike racks placed in the […]
Article · June 17, 2014 by Valerie Nahmad