By Peter Rozek Canadian Residency is pleased to announce that Canadian Artist Shary Boyle is coming to Detroit through our Knight Arts Challenge-funded program! Boyle starts off her stay in Detroit, Wednesday April 2nd at 6 p.m. speaking as a part of the Cranbrook Art Museum’s [Spring] Edition Lecture Series. Shary Boyle: Burden I, 2010. […]
Article · March 26, 2014 by Valerie Nahmad
By K. Obolensky, Ten Thousand Things Ten Thousand Things performs plays for everyone. The word “everyone” encompasses people in shelters, prisons, chemical dependency centers, immigrant centers, ELL learners, teens in juvenile detention centers, homes for the aged, tribal colleges. adult ed centers, community colleges, detox centers, housing projects, libraries in small towns, and a paying […]
Article · March 24, 2014 by Valerie Nahmad
By Stacey Holland, Forecast Public Art In 2013 The Public Art Scrambler began convening self-defined public art professionals connect with their peers in the Twin Cities. The meetings focus on issues and ideas related to public art creation – temporary and permanent – and are determined collectively at an annual community meeting. Past meetings explored […]
Article · March 24, 2014 by Valerie Nahmad
By Stephen Sokolouski, The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Internationally celebrated pianist Jeremy Denk has been named The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra’s newest Artistic Partner. Denk’s tenure will begin in the 2014-15 season. SPCO President Bruce Coppock is thrilled to announce that this Artistic Partnership marks Denk’s first appointed position with an orchestra. “Jeremy’s star is […]
Article · 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 raw, creative energy to shake […]
Article · March 20, 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 and Lela Elam, Clay Cartland, […]
Article · 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. 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 and people’s everyday lives. As libraries continue […]
Article · 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 home his new girlfriend, Sylvia, […]
Article · 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 Very NERD-y Homecoming: Downloading with […]
Article · 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 and a loss – what […]
Article · March 19, 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 London are invited stream or […]
Article · March 18, 2014 by Valerie Nahmad