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Events in Art and Archaeology

Agnolo Bronzino (Italian, 1503–1572)<EM>Standing Nude Seen from the Rear</EM>, ca. 1541–42Black chalk on paper prepared with mustard or yellow ocher colorSheet: 16 15/16 x 6 1/4 in. (43 x 15.9 cm)Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe degli Uffizi, FlorencePhoto courtesy of Metropolitan Museum of Art
Agnolo Bronzino (Italian, 1503–1572)
Standing Nude Seen from the Rear, ca. 1541–42
Black chalk on paper prepared with mustard or yellow ocher color
Sheet: 16 15/16 x 6 1/4 in. (43 x 15.9 cm)
Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe degli Uffizi, Florence
Photo courtesy of Metropolitan Museum of Art
Sunday at the Met: The Drawings of Bronzino
NEW YORK, UNITED STATES  •  Metropolitan Museum of Art  •  28 March 2010
 

A panel of lectures on the work of leading Italian Mannerist Agnolo Bronzino (1503–1572), by James Fenton, Elizabeth Cropper, Lucia Meoni, Deborah Parker, and Louis A.Waldman.

At left: Drawn from life, though inspired by a small Roman bronze, the Idolino (Museo Archeologico, Florence), this magnificent study is among the best published of Bronzino's drawings. The technique of subtle parallel hatching and cross-hatching, selectively blended for a soft sfumato effect on paper prepared with color, seems to emulate the surface of metal sculpture. The drawing was preparatory for the youth in the left foreground of The Crossing of the Red Sea and Moses Appointing Joshua, the lunette fresco on the south wall of the Chapel of Eleonora di Toledo, which was the first of the walls to be painted. It is precisely datable, given that the inscription scratched on the marble door frame by the Brazen Serpent fresco in the chapel states: "On Tuesday on the 6th day of September [1541], the story of the pharaoh was begun; on the 30th day of March 1542, the story of pharaoh was finished."

 



Metropolitan Museum of Art Website



Detailed schedule information:
1:00 pm

Contact: Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue
New York, New York 10028
Tel: (1) 212 535 77 10

William KentridgePhoto courtesy of World Financial Center Winter Garden
William Kentridge
Photo courtesy of World Financial Center Winter Garden
Sounds from the Black Box
NEW YORK, UNITED STATES  •  World Financial Center Winter Garden  •  21 - 22 March 2010
 
 

Arts World Financial Center screens Sounds from the Black Box, South African artist Willima Kentridge’s most recent animation work and the latest in his long series of collaborations with South African composer Philip Miller.

A follow-up to and expansion of Kentridge and Miller's 9 Drawings for Projection project, Sounds from the Black Box combines the artist's  animations with scores by Miller, which is performed live by the New York City-based Ensemble Pi.

The screenings coincide with a major Kentridge exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art (Feb 24–March 17) and a Kentridge-directed-and-designed production of Shostakovich’s The Nose at the Metropolitan Opera (March 5–25).

Based in Johannesburg , South Africa , William Kentridge began his "Drawings for Projections" series in 1989, introducing what would become his trademark technique of animating sequences of charcoal drawings that are rubbed out and sketched over on one piece of paper. He has since established himself as one of South Africa 's top artists, and his work has been exhibited in major institutions throughout the world.

Philip Miller is a South African composer and music producer who creates music and sound for television, video, live performance, and film, including director Philip Noyce's 2006 feature film "Catch a Fire." Ensemble Pi is a socially conscious new music group dedicated to performing the works of living and undiscovered composers.



World Financial Center Winter Garden Website



Detailed schedule information:
8:00 pm

Contact: World Financial Center Winter Garden
220 Vesey Street
New York, NY
Tel: (1) 212 945 05 05

Your History is Not Our History
NEW YORK, UNITED STATES  •  Haunch of Venison  •  5 March - 1 May 2010
 
 
This is a group exhibition organized by artists David Salle and Richard Phillips of works produced in the 1980s by artists working in New York City. These two painters from two different generations share the belief that the different manifestations of art in the 1980s – painting as well as the so called critique art came out of a shared feeling for life in extremis and the oppositional characterization of those ways of making art, as if one is an antidote to the other, is wrong and obscures the deeper structures of meaning at work.

Artists whose works are on view: Jean-Michel Basquiat, Ross Bleckner, Francesco Clemente, Carroll Dunham, Eric Fischl, Robert Gober, Nan Goldin, Jenny Holzer, Jeff Koons, Barbara Kruger, Louise Lawler,  Sherrie Levine, Malcolm Morley, Richard Prince, David Salle, Julian Schnabel, Cindy Sherman, Laurie Simmons, Phillip Taaffe, Terry Winters


Haunch of Venison Website


Contact: Haunch of Venison
1230 Avenue of the Americas
20th floor
New York, NY 10020
Tel: (1) 212 259 00 81

Aurel Schmidt (b. 1982, Kamloops, British Columbia) : <EM>The Fall</EM>, 2010Photo courtesy of Whitney Museum of American Art
Aurel Schmidt (b. 1982, Kamloops, British Columbia) : The Fall, 2010
Photo courtesy of Whitney Museum of American Art
2010 Whitney Biennial
NEW YORK, UNITED STATES  •  Whitney Museum of American Art  •  25 February - 30 May 2010
 

2010 is the 75th edition of the Whitney Museum's signature survey of the latest in American art. Curated by Francesco Bonami and Gary Carrion-Murayari, this year's exhibition features 55 artists from across the country and includes well-established and emerging artists from all over the country, with works ranging from film and video to photography, paiting, sculpture, drawing, installation, performance, and architecture.

On the 5th floor of the Museum, the exhibition Collecting Biennals gathers works from the permanent collection by past biennal artists, looking at the way these previous exhibitions have formed the basis for the Whitney and the story it continues to tell about American art.



Whitney Museum of American Art


Contact: Whitney Museum of American Art
945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street
New York, NY 10021

Tel: (1) (800) WHITNEY

Tseng Kwong Chi: <EM>Body Painting with Bill T. Jones and&nbsp; Keith Haring</EM>&nbsp;Photo courtesy of Paul Kasmin Gallery
Tseng Kwong Chi: Body Painting with Bill T. Jones and  Keith Haring 
Photo courtesy of Paul Kasmin Gallery
Tseng Kwong Chi
NEW YORK, UNITED STATES  •  Paul Kasmin Gallery  •  11 February - 27 March 2010
 
 

Entitled Tseng Kwong Chi: Body Painting with Bill T. Jones and  Keith Haring, this is an exhibition of photographs taken by the American artist Tseng Kwong Chi in 1983 in collaboration with the choreographer Bill T. Jones and the artist Keith Haring.

Shown in commemoration of the 20th anniversary of Tseng's and Haring's deaths, these large-format photographs document the spirit of interconnected creativity that pulsed throughout the East Village in the 1980's.

Tseng Kwong Chi (1950-1990) was born in Hong Kong and immigrated with his family to Vancouver, Canada as a teenager. He studied art in Paris before moving to New York in 1978. His work is included in numerous public collections, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Walker Museum of Art in Minneapolis, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. In 2010, his photographs will be included in Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington D.C. and in Dreamlands at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, France.



Paul Kasmin Gallery Website


Contact: Paul Kasmin Gallery
293 Tenth Ave.
New York, NY 10001
Tel: (1) 212 563 44 74

Anonymous<EM>Portrait of Confucius as Minister of Justice in Lu State</EM>Ming dynasty (1368–1644)Hanging scroll; ink and color on paperShandong Provincial MuseumPhoto courtesy of China Institute
Anonymous
Portrait of Confucius as Minister of Justice in Lu State
Ming dynasty (1368–1644)
Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper
Shandong Provincial Museum
Photo courtesy of China Institute
Confucius: His Life and Legacy in Art
NEW YORK, UNITED STATES  •  China Institute Gallery  •  11 February - 13 June 2010
 

This exhibition is devoted to the extraordinary philosopher, statesman and teacher known as Confucius (551- 479 BCE ). Entitled Confucius: His Life and Legacy in Art focuses on the life, teachings and continuing influence of Confucius, who has become increasingly synonymous with Chinese culture.  Nearly 100 objects from the world of Confucius and his ennobled descendants are on view, including hanging scrolls, album leaves, bronze vessels, stone carvings, jade ceremonial implements, wood-block prints and textiles.  The works are on loan for the first time in the U.S. from the Shandong Provincial Museum in Jinan and the Confucius Museum in his hometown of Qufu. Confucius: His Life and Legacy in Art is the first exhibition in the U.S. to explore the culture of Confucius.  The show incorporates images and artifacts that were created to venerate the man himself, as well as the ideas associated with him, loosely called Confucianism.  A fully illustrated scholarly catalogue accompanies the exhibition.

Confucius was born into humble circumstances in 551 BCE in Qufu, capital of the feudal state of Lu, which now forms part of the province of Shandong.  Although he held a series of minor offices in his home state and for a brief period served as minister of justice (with the responsibilities of a prime minister), he eventually became frustrated with conditions in Lu.  In middle age, Confucius left home to travel among the contending feudal states of North China, searching for an ideal ruler who would govern with benevolence and according to proper ritual.  After 14 years, he returned to Lu and from the age of 65, devoted himself to teaching and scholarship.  After his death at age 73, his most devoted disciples observed three years of mourning for him, as if for a father.  Confucius’s own house became a memorial shrine, the precursor to the great Confucius Temple in Qufu today.

Pithy remarks attributed to Confucius have been transmitted from one generation to the next, and his advice still resonates today. “Study as if you will never learn, as if you were afraid of losing what you wish to learn,” the great teacher once said.  He believed in the moral purpose of humanity and in the individual’s duty to strive to improve: “The only ones who do not change are sages and idiots.”  Confucius’s practical approach to moral cultivation and his reflections on the personal and social basis of ethics and politics are exemplified in such sayings as “Do not inflict on others what you yourself would not wish done to you,”  “Anyone who does not know the value of words will never understand men,” and “The full life seeks what is in itself; the empty life seeks what appears in others.”  The humanity of his ideas and their ability to adapt to a great variety of needs and contexts have made Confucianism an enduring force in the cultural heritage of China and the world. 

The exhibition is curated by Lu Wensheng, Director, Shandong Provincial Museum, and Julia K. Murray, Professor of Art History and East Asian Studies, University of Wisconsin, under the directorship of Willow Hai Chang, Director, China Institute Gallery.



Contact: China Institute
125 East 65th Street
New York City
Tel: (1) 212 744 81 81

<P>Agnolo Bronzino: <EM>Head of Young Man</EM>, circa 1550-55Photo courtesy of Metropolitan Museum of Art </P>

Agnolo Bronzino: Head of Young Man, circa 1550-55
Photo courtesy of Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Drawings of Bronzino
NEW YORK, UNITED STATES  •  Metropolitan Museum of Art  •  20 January - 18 April 2010
 
This exhibition is the first ever dedicated to Agnolo Bronzino (1503–1572), and presents nearly all the known drawings by, or attributed to, this leading Italian Mannerist artist, who was active primarily in Florence. A painter, draftsman, academician, and enormously witty poet, Bronzino became famous as the court artist to the Duke Cosimo I de’ Medici and his beautiful wife, the Duchess Eleonora di Toledo. This monographic exhibition will contain approximately 60 drawings from European and North-American collections.

Metropolitan Museum of Art Website


Contact: Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue
New York, New York 10028
Tel: (1) 212 535 77 10

<P class=gray-type id=desc>Still from Tim Burton MoMA Spot, 2009 Photo courtesy of Museum of Modern Art</P>

Still from Tim Burton MoMA Spot, 2009
Photo courtesy of Museum of Modern Art

Tim Burton
NEW YORK, UNITED STATES  •  Museum of Modern Art (MOMA)  •  22 November 2009 - 26 April 2010
 
 
This exhibition explores the full range of Tim Burton's (American, b. 1958) creative work, tracing the current of his visual imagination from early childhood drawings through his mature work. It brings together over seven hundred examples of rarely or never-before-seen drawings, paintings, photographs, moving image works, concept art, storyboards, puppets, maquettes, costumes, and cinematic ephemera from such films as Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Batman, Mars Attacks!, Ed Wood, and Beetlejuice, and from unrealized and little-known personal projects that reveal his talent as an artist, illustrator, photographer, and writer working in the spirit of Pop Surrealism. The gallery exhibition is accompanied by a complete retrospective of Burton’s theatrical features and shorts, as well as a lavishly illustrated publication.


Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) Website


Please click here for a Culturekiosque review of TIM BURTON at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York.

Contact: The Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53 Street,
between Fifth and Sixth avenues
New York, NY 10019-5497

Tel: (1) 212 708 94 00

1969
LONG ISLAND CITY, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES  •  P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center  •  25 October 2009 - 5 April 2010
 
 

Exploring a cross section of art made during a period marked with revolution and socio-political tumult, this exhibition also embraces five interventions by a current generation of artists whose work reflects the concerns of 1969 and brings the exhibition into the present. This exhibition includes examples of painting, sculpture, photography, print, illustrated books, design, drawing, media, and film as well as a wealth of documents drawn from MoMA's archives. 

Diverse artistic practices, concerns, and themes are presented ranging from the minimalist sculpture of Sol LeWitt and Carl Andre, abstract painting and drawing of Helen Frankenthaler and Gego, to films by Walter de Maria and Michael Snow, and politically charged works of the Art Workers Coalition and Martha Rosler.



P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center Website


Contact: 22-25 Jackson Ave at the intersection of 46th Ave
Long Island City, NY 11101
Tel: (1) 718 784 20 84

Franz West: <EM>The Ego and the Id</EM>Photo courtesy of Public Art Fund
Franz West: The Ego and the Id
Photo courtesy of Public Art Fund
Franz West: The Ego and the Id
NEW YORK, UNITED STATES  •  Doris C. Freedman Plaza at Central Park.  •  15 July 2009 - 31 March 2010
 
 
Internationally acclaimed artist Franz West has been creating large-scale aluminum sculptures for the past decade. Consistent with the artist’s overarching desire to produce sociable environments for viewing art, these sculptures with their playful combination of whimsy and monumentality have become a signature element of his wide-ranging body of work. The Ego and the Id is West’s newest and largest aluminum sculpture to date. Soaring 20 feet high, the piece consists of two similar but distinct, brightly colored, looping abstract forms, one bubble gum pink and the other alternating blocks of blue, green, orange, and yellow. Each of the forms curve up at the bottom creating stools that invite passersby to stop, take a seat, and directly engage with the work.

Public Art Fund Website


Contact: Doris C. Freedman Plaza
60th Street and Fifth Avenue
at the entrance to Central Park
New York, NY 

Tel: (1) 212 980 45 75

Mastering the Art of Chinese Painting: Xie Zhiliu (1910–1997)
NEW YORK, UNITED STATES  •  Metropolitan Museum of Art  •  6 February 2009 - 25 July 2010
 
 

This exhibition includes a selection of around one hundred and fifty works by Xie Zhiliu (pronounced "shay jer-leo"), one of modern China's leading traditional artists and a preeminent connoisseur of painting and calligraphy.

Xie Zhiliu received a traditional Chinese artistic education, which combined the two disciplines of copying the work of earlier masters and drawing directly from life.

Xie Zhiliu was a native of Changzhou, a city with a strong tradition of bird-and-flower painting, a genre in which Xie excelled. Moving to Chongqing to escape the Japanese occupation in 1937, he became a close friend of a renowned painter Zhang Daqian (1899–1983), who introduced him to the Buddhist cave murals of the Silk Road oasis of Dunhuang. After the war, he became an advisor and preeminent connoisseur on painting and calligraphy for the Shanghai Museum as well as a professor of painting. Thanks to his access to the rich holdings of the museum, Xie expanded his style through the study of Tang, Song, and Yuan dynasty painting, a topic on which he published. Between 1983 and 1990 he led a team of scholars in evaluating the collections of China’s leading cultural institutions, which resulted in a twenty-four-volume illustrated index of more than seventy thousand paintings and calligraphies.



Metropolitan Museum of Art Website


Contact: Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue
New York, New York 10028
Tel: (1) 212 535 77 10

The New Greek Galleries: Greek and Roman Art Galleries
NEW YORK, UNITED STATES  •  Metropolitan Museum of Art  •  20 April 1999 - 1 January 2011
 
Following several years of planning and construction, seven completely renovated and reinstalled galleries for Greek art are open to the public on the Museum's first floor. This latest stage in a three-phase expansion of the exhibition space devoted to Greek and Roman art comprises the Mary and Michael Jaharis Gallery—the grand vaulted gallery that was formerly known as the Cypriot corridor, now fully skylit from above and clad in limestone walls as originally envisioned by McKim, Mead and White in 1917—and the six flanking galleries for Archaic and Classical Greek art, restored.

Metropolitan Museum of Art Web Site


Contact: Tel: (1) 212 535 77 10

Events in Classical Music

The Philadelphia Orchestra: Piotr Anderszewski, piano
NEW YORK, UNITED STATES  •  Carnegie Hall  •  13 April 2010
 
Szymanowski: Symphony No. 4, Op. 60 "Symphonie concertante
Debussy: La mer
Stravinsky: Le sacre du printemps

The Philadelphia Orchestra
Charles Dutoit, coonductor
Piotr Anderszewski, piano

Carnegie Hall Website



Detailed schedule information:
8:00 pm

Contact: Carnegie Hall
57th Street & 7th Avenue
New York, NY
Tel: (1) 212 247 78 00

Sondra Radvanovsky, soprano Dmitri Hvorostovsky, baritone
Sondra Radvanovsky, soprano
Dmitri Hvorostovsky, baritone
Sondra Radvanovsky, soprano : Dmitri Hvorostovsky, baritone
NEW YORK, UNITED STATES  •  Carnegie Hall  •  1 April 2010
 

Verdi, Dvorak, Mascagni, Tchaikovsky, Leoncovallo

Sondra Radvanovsky, soprano
Dmitri Hvorostovsky, baritone
National Philharmonic
Marco Armiliato, conductor



Carnegie Hall Website



Detailed schedule information:
8:00 pm

Contact: Carnegie Hall
57th Street & 7th Avenue
New York, NY
Tel: (1) 212 247 78 00

Till Fellner, piano
NEW YORK, UNITED STATES  •  Metropolitan Museum of Art  •  26 March 2010
 
 

Beethoven Piano Sonatas:

Sonata in E Major, Opus 14, No. 1
Sonata in G Major, Opus 14, No. 2
Sonata in C Minor, Opus 13, “Pathétique”
Sonata in B flat Major, Opus 22
Sonata in E flat Major, Opus 81a, “Les adieux”

Till Fellner, piano



Metropolitan Museum of Art Website



Detailed schedule information:
7:00 pm

Contact: Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue
New York, New York 10028
Tel: (1) 212 535 77 10

Events in Dance

Hold the Clock
NEW YORK, UNITED STATES  •  92nd Street Y  •  19 - 21 March 2010
 
 
New York premiere of Hold the Clock, the latest installment of Yoshiko Chuma's ten-year project, Page Out of OrderHold the Clock uses a combination of text, movement and media in a live installation to confront the personal and public histories of The School of Hard Knocks and its experience in Eastern Europe for the last 20 years.

Inspired by the writing of Japanese author Genichiro Takahashi, Hold the Clock continues Chuma's multi-year investigation of the aesthetic and philosophical questions and responses that arose during the revolutionary movements across the globe during the 60's and 70's. Takahashi was arrested as a student radical and spent half a year in prison.

92nd Street Y Website



Detailed schedule information:
8:00 pm

Contact: 92nd Street Y
Lexington Avenue at 92nd Street
New York, NY
Tel: (1) 212 415 55 00

Events in Jazz

Ben Webster & Lester Young Centennial Concert
NEW YORK, UNITED STATES  •  TRIBECA Performing Arts Center  •  15 April 2010
 

Ben Webster & Lester Young Centennial Concert featuring Jimmy Heath, Joe Lovano, Harry Allen, Jeb Patton, David Wong, Winard Harper.

Jimmy Heath has long been recognized as a brilliant instrumentalist,  composer and arranger.  Jimmy is the middle brother of the legendary Heath Brothers (Percy Heath/bass and Tootie Heath/drums), and is the father of Mtume.   He has performed with nearly all the jazz greats of the last 50 years, from Howard McGhee, Dizzy Gillespie, and Miles Davis to Wynton Marsalis.
http://www.jimmyheath.com/

Joe Lovano is one of the most accomplished saxophonists in all of jazz. This Grammy nominated artist has recorded over twenty albums for the Blue Note label. 
http://www.joelovano.com/

Saxophonist Harry Allen has over thirty recordings to his name. Three of Harry's CDs have won Gold Disc Awards from Japan's Swing Journal Magazine, and his CD Tenors Anyone? won both the Gold Disc Award and the New Star Award.
http://www.harryallenjazz.com/



TRIBECA Performing Arts Center Website



Detailed schedule information:
8:00 pm

Contact: TRIBECA Performing Arts Center
Borough of Manhattan Community College
199 Chambers Street
New York, NY
Tel: (1) 212 220 14 60

Dianne Reeves: Ivories & Strings
NEW YORK, UNITED STATES  •  Metropolitan Museum of Art  •  15 April 2010
 
Four-time Grammy winner ("Best Jazz Vocal Performance") Dianne Reeves teams with two of her favorite collaborators for a lively evening of popular song.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Website



Detailed schedule information:
7:00 pm

Contact: Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue
New York, New York 10028
Tel: (1) 212 535 77 10

Beatnik Cafe
NEW YORK, UNITED STATES  •  Richmond Shepard Theater  •  11 April 2010
 
 
Beatnik Cafe is a musical revue which features the music of Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Dave Brubeck, Cannonball Adderley, and other prominent musicians from the mid l940’s through the early sixties. It is a journey through the Bebop to the Beatnik era; songs including Twisted, Yip Rock, and the scathing social commentary of Nina Simone’s Mississippi Goddamn.

Richmond Shepard Theater Website



Detailed schedule information:
7:00 pm

Contact: Richmond Shepard Theater
309 E 26th St. (@ 2nd Ave)
New York, NY 10010
Tel: (1) 212 262 65 88

Freda Payne Sings Ella Fitzgerald
NEW YORK, UNITED STATES  •  Iridium Jazz Club  •  25 - 28 March 2010
 
 
R&B and jazz vocalist Freda Payne Sings Ella Fitzgerald.

Iridium Jazz Club Website



Detailed schedule information:
8pm & 10pm

Contact: Iridium Jazz Club (51 street)  
1650 Broadway
New York, NY
Tel: (1) 212 582 21 21

<P>Jonathan Butler</P>

Jonathan Butler

HSBC Jazz Festival
NEW YORK, UNITED STATES  •  Nokia Theater  •  25 - 28 March 2010
 
 

The first annual HSBC Jazz Festival features Spyro Gyra, Jonathan Butler, Al Jarreau, Christian Scott, Patti Austin, Tuck and Patti.

Jonathan Butler has led a life few could imagine. Born under the shadow of South African apartheid and raised in poverty, Butler while still in his teens, became the first non-white artist to be played on white mainstream radio and appear on national South African television. Nelson Mandela credits Butler's music as having inspired him during his long days of imprisonment. He has three decades of international acclaim and has topped the Billboard charts with Contemporary Jazz, R&B, and Gospel albums.

Twenty six year old, New Orleans native, Christian Scott is a GRAMMY nominated jazz trumpeter, composer and producer.

Native New Yorker Patti Austin made her professional debut at the Apollo Theater when she was 5 years old. Quincy Jones and Dinah Washington have proclaimed themselves her Godparents. She's had over twenty songs on the Billboard charts. She has sung duets with George Benson, Michael Jackson, Luther Vandross. In 2008, fifty-three years after getting her first record contract, Patti Austin was awarded her first Grammy, winning Best Jazz Vocal Album for Avant Gershwin at the 50th annual Grammy Awards. The award came for her ninth nomination in that category.




Detailed schedule information:

March 25, 2010   8:00pm (Spyro Gyra and Jonathan Butler)

March 27, 2010    8:00pm (Al Jarreau with Christian Scott)

March 28, 2010    7:30pm (Patti Austin with Tuck & Patti)

Contact: Nokia Theater
Times Square
1515 Broadway
New York, NY
Tel: 1-800-745-3000

Events in Opera

Ildar Abdrazakov in <EM>Attila</EM>Photo courtesy of Metropolitan Opera
Ildar Abdrazakov in Attila
Photo courtesy of Metropolitan Opera
Atilla: By Giuseppe Verdi
NEW YORK, UNITED STATES  •  Metropolitan Opera  •  23 February - 27 March 2010
 
 

Verdi: Attila
Librettist: Temistocle Solera
Sung in Italian with Met Titles in English, German and Spanish

Riccardo Muti, conductor

Cast: 
Odabella: Violeta Urmana
Foresto: Ramón Vargas
Ezio: Carlos Alvarez
Attila: Ildar Abdrazakov

Production: Pierre Audi
Set and Costume Designers: Miuccia Prada, Herzog and de Meuron
Lighting Designer: Jean Kalman



Metropolitan Opera Website



Detailed schedule information:
8:00 pm

Contact: Metropolitan Opera
Lincoln Center
New York, NY 10023
Tel: (1) 212 362 60 00

Events in Pop Culture and Cinema

The Ides of March
NEW YORK, UNITED STATES  •  Italian Cultural Institute  •  26 March 2010
 
 
Italian writer Valerio Massimo Manfredi presenting his historical novel The Ides of March From the pen of the international bestselling author of The Last Legion comes a new political thriller set during the tempestuous final days of Julius Caesar's Imperial Rome.

Please click here for Culturekiosque article, "Julius Caesar: Man, Feats and Myth."


Detailed schedule information:
6:00 pm

Contact: Italian Cultural Institute
686 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10065
Tel: (1) 212 879 42 42

The Seagull: By Anton Chekov
NEW YORK, UNITED STATES  •  Gene Frankel Theatre  •  10 - 21 March 2010
 
 
Anton Chekov: The Seagull
Alan Langdon, director 

Anton Chekhov's tale of sex, celebrity, and inspiration in turn-of-the-century Russian society continues to reveal as much about audiences today as it did at its sensational 1898 opening.

Directed by Alan Langdon, Locus Theatre Company's production of The Seagull stars Matthew Healy (Trigorin), Jonathan Judge-Russo (Konstantin), Stacey Kelleher (Arkadina), Rena Krumholz (Nina) and Jeff Todesco (Dorn).

Locus Theatre Company Website



Detailed schedule information:
7:30 pm

Contact: Gene Frankel Theatre
24 Bond Street
New York, NY 10012
Tel: (1) 212 868 44 44

Mr. & Mrs. Fitch : By Douglas Carter Beane
NEW YORK, UNITED STATES  •  Second Stage  •  26 January - 4 April 2010
 
 

Douglas Carter Beane: Mr. & Mrs. Fitch
Scott Ellis, director

According to the press release: Meet gossip columnists Mr. & Mrs. Fitch. When the social circuit no longer provides any scandalous news, they find that great celebrity can appear out of thin air. Tony Award nominee Douglas Carter Beane's wicked new comedy is a scathing look at who is in, who is out and who may not even exist at all.

Cast
John Lithgow, Jennifer Ehle

Previews begin 26 January 2010. Opening night 22 February 2010



Second Stage Website



Detailed schedule information:
Tue at 7:00pm
Wed at 8:00pm
Thu at 8:00pm
Fri at 8:00pm
Sat at 2:00pm
Sat at 8:00pm
Sun at 3:00pm
Sun at 7:00pm

Contact: 307 West 43rd Street
New York, New York 10036
Tel: (1) 212 246 44 22

Eric BogosianPhoto: (© Susan Johann)
Eric Bogosian
Photo: (© Susan Johann)
Time Stands Still: By Donald Margulies
NEW YORK, UNITED STATES  •  Samuel J Friedman Theater  •  5 January - 28 March 2010
 
 

Donald Margulies: Time Stands Still 
Daniel Sullivan, director

Cast:
Laura Linney, Alicia Silverstone, Eric Bogosian, Brian d'Arcy 

From the Geffen Playhouse press release for the world premiere:

"Time Stands Still focuses around a longtime couple and journalistic team – she a photographer, he a reporter – who return to New York from an extended stint in the war-torn Middle East. Sarah is a headstrong visionary who must negotiate re-entry into a domestic realm she no longer recognizes; James, a foreign correspondent whose chaotic profession threatens his personal life. Complicating Sarah and James’ readjustment to domestic life is the appearance of Sarah’s one-time mentor and editor Richard and his new, much younger, and 'very hot' girlfriend, Mandy"



Manhattan Theatre Club Website



Detailed schedule information:
Tuesday evenings at 7:00 pm
Wednesday – Saturday evenings at 8:00 pm
Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday matinees at 2:00 pm

Contact: Samuel J Friedman Theater
263 W 47th Street
between Broadway & 8th Avenue
New York, NY
Tel: (1) 212 239 62 00

<EM>Billy Elliot</EM>
Billy Elliot
Billy Elliot
NEW YORK, UNITED STATES  •  Imperial Theatre  •  13 November 2008 - 31 March 2010
 
Billy Elliot is a funny, heart-warming and feel-good celebration of one young boy's dream in a gripping tale of triumph over adversity. Based on the enormously popular film, this powerful new musical is the story of a boy who discovers he has a special talent for dance, while the boys all around him are more interested in boxing. An unprecedented smash in the West End, where it has won 9 Best Musical awards, broken UK box office records and continues to sell out nightly, Billy Elliot has been created by the film's director (Stephen Daldry), writer (Lee Hall) and choreographer (Peter Darling), who are joined by music legend Elton John, one of the most celebrated pop songwriters of the last 30 years.

Billy Elliot on Broadway Web Site



Detailed schedule information:
Tuesday 8:00pm
Wednesday 2:00pm & 8:00pm
Thursday 8:00pm
Friday 8:00pm
Saturday 2:00pm & 8:00pm
Sunday 3:00pm

Contact: Imperial Theatre
249 West 45th Street
New York, NY 10036

Tel: (1) 212 239 62 00

<EM>South Pacific</EM>
South Pacific
South Pacific: By Rodgers & Hammerstein
NEW YORK, UNITED STATES  •  Vivian Beaumont Theater  •  4 April 2008 - 31 March 2010
 

Now in its first Broadway revival, South Pacific features  Kelli O'Hara (The Light in the Piazza) and baritone Paulo Szot in the leading roles with direction by Bartlett Sher (The Light in the Piazza and Awake and Sing).

Music by Richard Rodgers
Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
Author, Tales of the South Pacific
James Michener

Cast:

Kelli O'Hara , Paulo Szot
Matthew Morrison , Danny Burstein , Loretta Ables Sayre , Sean Cullen , Victor Hawks , Luka Kain , Li Jun Li , Laurissa Romain , Skipp Sudduth , Noah Weisberg, Becca Ayers , Wendi Bergamini , Genson Blimline , Grady McLeod Bowman , Charlie Brady , Matt Caplan , Christian Carter , Helmar Augustus Cooper , Jeremy Davis , Margot De La Barre , Christian Delcroix , Laura Marie Duncan , Mike Evariste , Laura Griffith , Lisa Howard , Maryann Hu , Zachary James , Robert Lenzi , Garrett Long , Nick Mayo , George Merrick , William Michals , Kimber Monroe , Emily Morales , Darius Nichols , George Psomas , Andrew Samonsky , Jerold E. Solomon



Lincoln Center Theater Web Site



Detailed schedule information:
Tuesday @ 7pm, Wednesday - Saturday @ 8pm, Wednesday & Saturday @ 2pm, Sunday @ 3pm

Contact: Vivian Beaumont Theatre
150 West 65th Street,
New York, NY 10023

Tel: (1) 212 239 62 62

Jersey Boys
NEW YORK, UNITED STATES  •  August Wilson Theatre  •  4 October 2005 - 31 March 2010
 

Michael Longoria 
Christian Hoff - Tony Award Winner
Sebastian Arcelus
J Robert Spencer

Book by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice
Music and Lyrics by Bob Gaudio and Bob Crewe
Directed by Des McAnuff
Choreography by Sergio Trujillo



Jersey Boys is a new Broadway musical based on the life story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons that chronicles the lives of a group of blue-collar boys from the wrong side of the tracks who became one of the biggest American pop music sensations of all time. Jersey Boys features their hit songs "Sherry," "Big Girls Don't Cry," "Rag Doll," "Oh What a Night," and "Can't Take My Eyes Off of You," among others.


Detailed schedule information:
Tuesday 7:00pm
Wednesday 2:00pm & 8:00pm
Thursday 8:00pm
Friday 8:00pm
Saturday 2:00pm & 8:00pm
Sunday 3:00pm

Contact: August Wilson Theatre
245 West 52nd Street
New York, NY 10019
Tel: (1) 212 239 62 00

Theatre: Wicked: The Untold Story of the Witches of Oz
NEW YORK, UNITED STATES  •  Gershwin Theatre  •  30 October 2003 - 31 March 2010
 
Long before Dorothy dropped in, two other girls meet in the Land of Oz. One, born with emerald-green skin, is smart, fiery and misunderstood. The other is beautiful, ambitious and very popular. How these two unlikely friends end up as the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good Witch is the basis for this new musical based on a novel by Gregory Maguire.

Wicked the Musical Web Site


Contact: Tel: (1) 212 307 41 00



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