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Events in Art and Archaeology

Per Dybvig: Untitled (detail)Colored pencil on paper82 5/8 x 118 1/8 in.209.87 x 300.04 cm.2008 Photo courtesy of Priska C. Juschka Fine Art
Per Dybvig: Untitled (detail)
Colored pencil on paper
82 5/8 x 118 1/8 in.
209.87 x 300.04 cm.
2008
Photo courtesy of Priska C. Juschka Fine Art
Per Dybvig: Drawings
NEW YORK, UNITED STATES  •  Priska C. Juschka Fine Art  •  16 October - 15 November 2008
 
 

By spontaneously fusing fragments of fleeting conversations, news reports and random encounters, Norwegian artist Per Dybvig (b. 1964, Stavanger) creates dense drawings rooted in his immediate surroundings and in the ongoing and ever-fluctuating stream of information.

For this particular series, Dybvig chose to inhabit New York City to capture American culture and social behavior as it is portrayed in the media and the public eye.

Per Dybvig is an artist and illustrator who currently lives and works in Stavanger, Norway. He has been included in a number of museum shows—most recently at the Lillehammer Art Museum and The Stenersen Museum, both in Oslo, Norway. His works are in several public collections in Norway: the National Gallery in Oslo, the Rogaland Museum of Fine Arts in Stavanger and the Arts Council Norway.



Priska C. Juschka Fine Art Web Site


Contact: Priska C. Juschka Fine Art
547 West 27th Street
2nd Floor
New York, NY 10001
Tel: (1) 212 244 4320

Vincent van Gogh: <EM>The Starry Night</EM>, 1889The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Vincent van Gogh: The Starry Night, 1889
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night
NEW YORK, UNITED STATES  •  Museum of Modern Art  •  21 September 2008 - 5 January 2009
 

Throughout his career, Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853–1890) attempted the paradoxical task of representing night by light. The exhibition Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night seeks to present new insight into Van Gogh's depictions of night landscapes, interior scenes, and the effects of both gaslight and natural light on their surroundings. Representing all periods of the artist's career, the exhibition comprises over two dozen works of which have never been seen together. This exhibition will be shown at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, February 13–June 7, 2009. The show is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue.

Please note: Gallery occupancy is limited and timed entry is necessary to visit this exhibition.



The Museum of Modern Art Web Site


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

The Dead Sea Scrolls: Mysteries of the Ancient World
NEW YORK, UNITED STATES  •  The Jewish Museum  •  21 September 2008 - 4 January 2009
 

The exhibition at The Jewish Museum includes six Dead Sea Scrolls.  These fragments of parchment documents consist of the Book of Jeremiah (225-175 BCE), one of the earliest copies of the Hebrew Bible in existence; an early example of prayers from the Words of the Luminaries; the Book of Tobit, a Jewish text that was not included in the Hebrew canon but later accepted into some versions of the Christian Old Testament (Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox); the Aramaic Apocryphon of Daniel, which mentions a son of God; the Community Rule, which lays out the regulations for joining and being a member of a sect; and the War Rule, which describes a great war at the end of days. Each represents an aspect of the diverse religious milieu in which they were created more than 2,000 years ago. In an adjoining gallery, visitors will learn that scholars still do not agree about the origins and meaning of the scrolls decades after their discovery.

The Dead Sea Scrolls date from the late third century BCE through the first century CE. The texts consist of biblical books and commentary, poetry and prayers, and the communal rules and writings of one or more dissident Jewish religious groups.  The scrolls were in use during a period of successive political upheavals, from the Maccabean revolt for Jewish independence to the reign of King Herod to the Roman destruction of Jerusalem and its Temple in 70 CE.  This was also a time that saw the development of two religions – early Judaism and Christianity.

At some point in the first century CE, the people who treasured these scrolls placed them in eleven caves along a five-mile stretch of cliffs in the barren Judean Desert, close to the Dead Sea.  Nearby was a small settlement at Khirbet Qumran, inhabited from the late second century BCE to the first century CE. No one returned to collect the scrolls from the caves, and they lay there undisturbed until their discovery in 1947.

Scholars have two basic theories about who used the scrolls. The first posits that the scrolls all belonged to a single religious sect that probably lived at the settlement of Qumran.  Most scholars identify this group as the Essenes described in the writings of ancient historians, although other groups such as the Sadducees and even proto-Christians have been proposed.

The second theory proposes that the scrolls were a random collection of texts reflecting the beliefs of many Jewish groups of the period. They represented either a single priestly repository or public library, or the sacred texts of various Jewish communities from Jerusalem and elsewhere in the Land of Israel. During the Jewish revolt against Rome beginning in 68 CE, refugees from further north hid their precious texts in the Dead Sea caves. This hypothesis holds that there is no connection between the scrolls and the settlement at Qumran, and that the site was a fortress, a villa, a farm, an industrial site, or a commercial center.

Some scholars remain cautious about adopting either theory, and await more information from new publications of the scrolls and the Qumran excavations.

Still other scholars remain cautious about adopting either theory, and await more information from new publications of the scrolls and the Qumran excavations. The display also includes some artifacts from the site of Qumran and its vicinity. A jar and linen wrapper that protected the scrolls, the earliest phylacteries, dishes and vessels, and objects of daily life such as sandals, hairnets, and combs will illuminate the current scholarly debates over who used and who hid the scrolls.

According to the press release, Susan L. Braunstein, Curator of Archaeology and Judaica, selected texts that illustrate the diversity and transformations in Judaism during the Second Temple Period, when the written word and prayer were rivaling sacrifice in worship, as well as early Christianity’s connections to Judaism. The exhibition was created by the Israel Antiquities Authority from the collections of the National Treasures.



The Jewish Museum Website


Contact: The Jewish Museum
1109 Fifth Avenue at 92nd Street
New York, NY
Tel: (1) 212 423 32 00

The Struggle for HealthcarePhoto courtesy of Exit Art
The Struggle for Healthcare
Photo courtesy of Exit Art
Signs of Change: Social Movement Cultures 1960s to Now
NEW YORK, UNITED STATES  •  Exit Art  •  20 September - 22 November 2008
 
 
In Signs of Change: Social Movement Cultures 1960s to Now, hundreds of posters, photographs, moving images, audio clips, and ephemera bring to life over forty years of activism, political protest, and campaigns for social justice.

Organized thematically, the exhibition presents the creative outpourings of social movements, such as those for Civil Rights and Black Power in the United States; democracy in China; anti-apartheid in Africa; squatting in Europe; environmental activism and women's rights internationally; and the global AIDS crisis, as well as uprisings and protests, such as those for indigenous control of lands; against airport construction in Japan; and student and worker revolution in France. The exhibition also explores the development of powerful counter-cultures that evolve beyond traditional politics and create distinct aesthetics, life-styles, and social organization.



Exit Art Web Site


Contact: EXIT ART
475 10th Ave at 36th Street
New York,  NY 10018

 


Tel: (1) 212 966 77 45

<P>Josef BREITENBACH <EM>For Ever and Ever</EM>, 1938 Vintage toned gelatin silver print13 1/2 x 10 5/8 inchesPhoto courtesy of Gitterman Gallery</P>

Josef BREITENBACH
For Ever and Ever, 1938
Vintage toned gelatin silver print
13 1/2 x 10 5/8 inches
Photo courtesy of Gitterman Gallery

Josef Breitenbach
NEW YORK, UNITED STATES  •  Gitterman Gallery  •  18 September - 22 November 2008
 
 
Gitterman Gallery presents a collection of vintage prints by the German photographer Josef Breitenbach (1896-1984).  The exhibition highlights Surrealist-influenced work from the 1930s and 1940s that he kept from public view and was only discovered during a routine appraisal of his estate.  Many of the images rely on bleaching, toning and pigment printing processes that work color in muted hues into black-and-white prints--a form of manipulation that was extreme to the point of being discredited at the time but which, in the era of Photoshop, has slipped comfortably into the esthetic mainstream.  The effect at times is of a more humanistic Man Ray.  Included are portraits of Josef Albers, Wassily Kandinsky, Bertolt Brecht and Max Ernst.

Gitterman Gallery Website


Contact: Gitterman Gallery
170 East 75th Street
New York, New York 10021
Tel: (1) 212 734 08 68

Jewish wedding ring from the Erfurt Treasure. Photo courtesy of &nbsp;Yeshiva University Museum
Jewish wedding ring from the Erfurt Treasure.
Photo courtesy of  Yeshiva University Museum
Erfurt: Jewish Treasures from Medieval Ashkenaz: Rare Jewelry and Judaica from the Late 13th and Early 14th Centuries
NEW YORK, UNITED STATES  •  Yeshiva University Museum  •  9 September 2008 - 29 January 2009
 

This exhibition of gold and silver jewelry, tableware, and rare coins, all  from the Medieval period, is culled from a personal Jewish treasure hoard uncovered in Erfurt, Germany.  The 167 objects offer a glimpse into Jewish life and culture in medieval Europe before the Black Death and anti-Semitic violence decimated this small but thriving population in 1349.

Located approximately 70 miles southwest of Kassel, Erfurt is the capital city of the central German state of Thuringia. For centuries Erfurt served as a historical center of Ashkenazim, the Jewish communities that originated along the Rhine River in Germany and later emigrated to Eastern Europe and throughout the Diaspora. According to Yeshiva University Museum in New York, over 85 percent of American Jews can trace their ancestral roots to this group of Jews. In 1998, a team of archaeologists made an unexpected discovery during an excavation on Michaelisstrasse in the medieval Jewish quarter of the city. Carefully hidden under the wall of a private home’s stone cellar was a personal treasure hoard containing over 3,000 silver coins, 14 silver ingots and over 600 pieces of jewelry. Jewish merchants and moneylenders often buried their wealth because of the Black Death and other persecutions.  

Exhibition highlights include a hand-crafted gold Jewish wedding ring (left) from the early 14th century, one of few medieval Ashkenazi wedding rings in existence. Well-preserved artifacts from this period are extremely rare, as jewelry was often melted down when it was deemed out of style. This ring features an ornate, miniature version of a gothic tower and six engraved Hebrew letters spelling out mazal tov, meaning “good luck,” written on the tower’s roof. Scholars have interpreted the tower as symbolizing the Temple of Jerusalem, destroyed by the Romans in 70 CE.  Jewish tradition still mandates that wedding bands be made of plain gold without the addition of stones. Silver double cups housed the jewelry found in the treasure and are noteworthy for their colorful enameled images from Aesop’s fables of The Fox and the Eagle and The Fox and the Raven



Yeshiva University Museum Website


Contact: Yeshiva University Museum
15 West 16th Street
New York, NY
Tel: (1) 212 294 83 30

Kehinde Wiley: <EM>Place Soweto</EM> (National Assembly), 2008Oil on canvas, 8 x 6 ft.Courtesy artist and Deitch Projects, New YorkPhoto courtesy of The Studio Museum in Harlem
Kehinde Wiley: Place Soweto (National Assembly), 2008
Oil on canvas, 8 x 6 ft.
Courtesy artist and Deitch Projects, New York
Photo courtesy of The Studio Museum in Harlem
Kehinde Wiley: The World Stage: Africa, Lagos - Dakar
NEW YORK, UNITED STATES  •  The Studio Museum in Harlem  •  17 July - 26 October 2008
 

The exhibition features ten new paintings from Kehinde Wiley’s multinational “World Stage” series, a global extension of his signature examinations of power and portraiture.

For this ongoing series, Wiley relocates to other countries and opens satellite studios to become familiar with local culture and history and include them in his practice. The paintings in The World Stage: Africa, Lagos ~ Dakar were created during Wiley’s extended visits to Nigeria and Senegal in 2007, where he found new subjects, inspirations and insights.

Wiley’s well-known, stylized paintings of urban African-American male youths started during his residency at the Studio Museum. He placed his subjects in poses borrowed from eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European figurative paintings to investigate the ways that portraiture has been used historically to create and enforce power and privilege.

For the “World Stage” series Wiley continues to paint young black men, but uses poses based on regional sources. Paintings from the first “World Stage” site, China, featured poses from Communist propaganda art, and were shown in an exhibition at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Wisconsin last year. For The World Stage: Africa, Lagos ~ Dakar Wiley turns to public monuments built to celebrate independence and the end of colonialism. Future sites for the series include Brazil and Turkey.

The exhibition is accompanied by a full-color hardcover catalogue, the second in a series of catalogues about the “World Stage” series. The catalogue includes essays by scholars Robert Hobbs, Tavia Nyong’o and Krista Thompson, as well as a conversation between curator Christine Y. Kim, Wiley and artist/writer/performer Malik Gaines.

Kehinde Wiley (b. 1977, Los Angeles) received a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1999 and an MFA from the Yale School of Art in 2001. His work is represented in the collections of several museums, including the the Walker Art Center, Brooklyn Museum, Denver Art Museum and Virginia Museum of Fine Art. Recently, his work was featured in exhibitions in Belgium, Los Angeles, Chicago and Ohio.



The Studio Museum in Harlem Web Site


Please click here for the Culturekiosque report on Kehinde Wiley: Urban Baroque.

Contact: The Studio Museum in Harlem
144 West 125th Street
New York, New York
Tel: (1) 212 864 45 00

Mounted porcelain ewer China, 1736–95 (ewer); Paris, France, 1745–49 (mounts)Hard-paste porcelain, underglaze, gilt bronzeThe J. Paul GettyMuseum, 78.DI.9.1Photo © The J. Paul Getty Museum
Mounted porcelain ewer
China, 1736–95 (ewer); Paris, France, 1745–49 (mounts)
Hard-paste porcelain, underglaze, gilt bronze
The J. Paul GettyMuseum, 78.DI.9.1
Photo © The J. Paul Getty Museum
The Continuing Curve, 1730–2008
NEW YORK, UNITED STATES  •  Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum  •  7 March - 6 July 2008
 
The Continuing Curve, 1730–2008, a groundbreaking exhibition that fully explores rococo style and its continuing revivals up to the present day in multiple fields, including furniture, decorative arts, textiles, prints, and drawings. The exhibition  charts the progress of rococo style as it radiates out from Paris, travels to the French provinces, migrates to other European countries, and later crosses over to the United States.

Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum Web Site


Contact: 2 East 91st Street
New York, NY 10128
Tel: (1) 212 849 84 00

Gods, Myths and Mortals: Discover Ancient Greece
NEW YORK, UNITED STATES  •  Children’s Museum of Manhattan  •  25 May 2007 - 1 December 2008
 

A national hands-on exhibition for children ages 6 and older.

Budding archaeologists can visit the Temple of Zeus at Olympia and assist in the reconstruction of a 3-D temple, learn about column construction, sculptures, and the giant statue of Zeus (one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World).

The tour guides are the great gods Zeus, Poseidon and Athena who reminisce about their powers and responsibilities. Visitors can also climb inside a 12½ foot tall Trojan Horse before stepping into Homer’s great epic poem, The Odyssey. Plus, visitors explore actual examples of ancient Greek artifacts: painted pottery, coins, votives, drinking cups, loom weights, arrowheads and sling bullets.



Children’s Museum of Manhattan Web Site


Contact: 212 West 83rd Street
New York, NY
Tel: (1) 212 721 12 34

Reopening of The Museum of Modern Art
NEW YORK, UNITED STATES  •  The Museum of Modern Art  •  20 November 2004 - 1 January 2010
 
Designed by architect Yoshio Taniguchi (Japanese, b. 1937), the new Museum integrates new construction and renovation to extend and enhance the presentation of the Museum’s evolving collection as well as its temporary exhibitions. Taniguchi worked closely with the Museum’s staff over the course of the project to develop a series of reconceived, architecturally distinctive galleries and public spaces that allow MoMA to tell the story of modern and contemporary art in a new context.

Yoshio Taniguchi came to international acclaim in 1997 when he won both his first invited competition and his first international commission for the expansion of The Museum of Modern Art. Previously he had designed nine museums in Japan.

The Museum of Modern Art Web Site


Click here for a Culturekiosque article about the reopening of The Museum of Modern Art

Contact: Tel: (1) 212 708 94 00

Female Figure. Egypt, from Ma’mariya. Predynastic Period, Naqada IIa (circa 3500-3400 B.C.). Terracotta, painted. Brooklyn Museum of Art, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund   • Photo courtesy of Brooklyn Museum of Art  • 
Female Figure. Egypt, from Ma'mariya. Predynastic Period, Naqada IIa (circa 3500-3400 B.C.). Terracotta, painted. Brooklyn Museum of Art, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund
Photo courtesy of Brooklyn Museum of Art
Egypt Reborn: Art for Eternity
BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES  •  Brooklyn Museum of Art  •  20 October 2004 - 1 January 2010
 
Completing the final phase of the reinstallation of the Egyptian Galleries, nearly 600 objects, including some of the most important works of ancient Egyptian art in the world, are on view in four newly designed galleries on the Museum's third floor. These works, some not on view since the early 20th century, date from the Predynastic Period (circa 4400 B.C.) to the 18th-Dynasty reign of Amenhotep III (circa 1353 B.C.). Included are such treasures as an exquisite chlorite-stone head of a Middle Kingdom princess, an early stone deity from 2650 B.C., a relief from the tomb of Akhty-hotep, and a highly abstract female terracotta statuette created over 5,000 years ago. The new galleries are arranged chronologically, starting with the oldest pieces, and include thematic displays exploring such topics as the connection between art and writing and the relationship between Egyptians and other ancient peoples. Additionally, computers and video monitors provide in-depth information about the objects.

Brooklyn Museum of Art Web Site


Contact: Tel: (1) 718 638 50 00

Colossal head of a bearded figure wearing a conical helmet, Beginning of the 6th century B.C. • Limestone; H. 34 3/4 in. (88.3 cm) • Said to be from near the temple at Golgoi • The Cesnola Collection, Purchased by subscription 1874–76
Colossal head of a bearded figure wearing a conical helmet, Beginning of the 6th century B.C.
Limestone; H. 34 3/4 in. (88.3 cm)
Said to be from near the temple at Golgoi
The Cesnola Collection, Purchased by subscription 1874–76
The New Cypriot Galleries
NEW YORK, UNITED STATES  •  Metropolitan Museum of Art  •  5 April 2000 - 1 January 2010
 
With the opening of the new Cypriot Galleries, a selection of 600 outstanding works from the Museum's Cesnola Collection—comprising approximately 6,000 sculptures, bronzes, vases, terracottas, gems, glass, and jewelry from Cyprus dating from ca. 2500 B.C. to ca. A.D. 300—returns to public view. The collection was acquired by Luigi Palma di Cesnola (1832–1904) while he was serving as American consul in Cyprus and was purchased by the newly formed Metropolitan Museum between 1874 and 1876; in 1879, Cesnola was named the Museum’s first director. The reinstallation of this major collection, the finest outside of Cyprus, marks the end of Phase II in the renovation of the Greek and Roman Art Galleries.

Metropolitan Museum of Art Web Site


Contact: Tel: (1) 212 535 77 10

Head of a Ruler, 2300–2000 B.C.Iran (?)Arsenical copper; H. 13.5 in. (34.3 cm)Rogers Fund, 1947 Photo courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Head of a Ruler, 2300–2000 B.C.
Iran (?)
Arsenical copper; H. 13.5 in. (34.3 cm)
Rogers Fund, 1947
Photo courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Ancient Near East Galleries: Shining New Light on an Assyrian Palace
NEW YORK, UNITED STATES  •  Metropolitan Museum of Art  •  19 October 1999 - 1 January 2010
 
 
Recently renovated and reinstalled, with natural light now illuminating the Assyrian reliefs within, these galleries house the Museum's outstanding collection of Ancient Near Eastern art, including sculpture, metalwork, ivories, seals, and other objects dating from 8000 B.C. to A.D. 700 from ancient Mesopotamia, Iran, and their neighbors. The Raymond and Beverly Sackler Gallery for Assyrian Art, which recreates an audience hall of an Assyrian palace, has been renovated with reconstructed ceiling beams and is now dramatically lit from a skylight above.

Metropolitan Museum of Art Web Site


Contact: 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 2010
 
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

András Schiff, piano
NEW YORK, UNITED STATES  •  Carnegie Hall  •  30 October 2008
 
Beethoven

Carnegie Hall Web Site



Detailed schedule information:
8:00 pm       

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

Maurizio Pollini, piano
NEW YORK, UNITED STATES  •  Carnegie Hall  •  26 October 2008
 
Beethoven, Schumann, Chopin

Carnegie Hall Web Site



Detailed schedule information:
8:00 pm

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

Events in Dance

ODC/Dance
NEW YORK, UNITED STATES  •  The Joyce Theater  •  21 - 26 October 2008
 
 
The San Francisco-based ODC/Dance performs a selection of contemporary dance, featuring the work of choreographers, Brenda Way and KT Nelson.

The Joyce Theater Web Site



Detailed schedule information:
Tue–Wed 7:30pm; Thu–Fri 8pm; Sat 2pm & 8pm; Sun 2pm & 7:30pm

Contact: The Joyce Theater
175 Eighth Avenue
New York, NY
Tel: (1) 212 242 08 00

Ballet Hispanico
Ballet Hispanico
Ballet Hispanico
NEW YORK, UNITED STATES  •  The Joyce Theater  •  7 - 19 October 2008
 

A fusion of ballet, modern and Latin dance shapes a spirited image of the contemporary Hispanic world.

Ballet Hispanico premieres an exploration of Carmen — a trio adaptation choreographed by Carlos Sierra-Lopez.

 


 



The Joyce Theater Website



Detailed schedule information:
Tue–Wed 7:30pm; Thu–Fri 8pm; Sat 2pm & 8pm; Sun 2pm & 7:30pm

Contact: The Joyce Theater
175 Eighth Avenue
New York, NY
Tel: (1) 212 242 08 00

Focus on the 70s: The Fabulous Photography of Kenn Duncan
NEW YORK, UNITED STATES  •  New York Public Library  •  30 July - 26 October 2008
 
 

This retrospective of Duncan’s 20-year career features approximately 400 photographs and includes his iconic images of Mikhail Baryshnikov, Eartha Kitt, Angela Lansbury, Peter Martins, Bette Midler, the cast of Hair, as well as selections of his nudes, his fashion portfolios, and his work with hundreds of celebrities including shock rock legend Alice Cooper, Al Pacino, and Christopher Walken.

Kenn Duncan (1928-1986) was born in New Jersey and became a roller-skating champion at an early age. In order to perfect his form, he took ballet lessons and eventually abandoned skating for a dance career. The injury that put an end to his dancing career set him on a new course that eventually won him international acclaim as a portrait and fashion photographer. Duncan was a prominent force in the photography world of the late 1960s through the early 1980s, notably as a principal photographer for the entertainment magazine After Dark and for Dance Magazine, which chronicled the world of dance and choreography.Photographs by Kenn Duncan also appeared in Vogue,Harper’s Bazaar, Life, Time, and Newsweek. He was photographer for such performers as Peter Allen, Carol Channing, Judith Jamison, Eartha Kitt, Bernadette Peters, Christopher Plummer, Chita Rivera, Tommy Tune and Twiggy, and for leading dance companies such as the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, American Ballet Theatre, the Bolshoi Ballet, and the Paul Taylor Dance Company. 

Duncan published three volumes of his own photographs: Red Shoes, Nudes, and More Nudes.



New York Public Library Web Site


Contact: Donald and Mary Oenslager Gallery
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
40 Lincoln Center Plaza
New York, NY
Tel: (1) 212 930 08 00

Events in Jazz

Arturo Sandoval
Arturo Sandoval
Arturo Sandoval World Tour
NEW YORK, UNITED STATES  •  Iridium Jazz Club  •  24 - 26 October 2008
 

A protégé of the legendary jazz master Dizzy Gillespie, Arturo Sandoval was born in Artemisa, a small town in the outskirts of Havana, Cuba, on November 6, 1949, just two years after Gillespie became the first musician to bring Latin influences into American Jazz. Sandoval began studying classical trumpet at the age of twelve, but it didn’t take him long to catch the excitement of the jazz world. He has since evolved into one of the World’s most acknowledged guardians of jazz trumpet and flugelhorn, as well as a renowned classical artist. 

Sandoval was a founding member of the Grammy Award-winning group Irakere, whose explosive mixture of jazz, classical, rock and traditional Cuban music caused a sensation throughout the entertainment world. In 1981, he left Irakere to form his own band, which garnered enthusiastic praise from critics and audiences all over the world. Sandoval was voted Cuba’s Best Instrumentalist from 1982 to 1990.

Since his arrival to the United States, Arturo Sandoval has recorded seven albums as a soloist, six of which are jazz, Latin jazz, and one classical album. In 2000, HBO produced a movie about his life with Andy Garcia in the role of Mr. Sandoval entitled For Love or Country. Arturo won an Emmy for his music in the film.

Arturo Sandoval World Tour
Robert Rodriguez, Dennis Marks, Samuel Torres, Felipe Luis LaMoglia, Ernesto Simpson



Iridium Jazz Club Website



Detailed schedule information:
Sets at 8:30 & 10:30 pm

Contact: Irdium Jazz Club
1650 Broadway (Corner of 51st)
New York, NY 10023
Tel: (1) 212 582 21 21

Jarrett, Peacock, DeJohnette
NEW YORK, UNITED STATES  •  Carnegie Hall  •  18 October 2008
 
Keith Jarrett, Piano
Gary Peacock, Bass
Jack DeJohnette, Drums

Carnegie Hall Web Site



Detailed schedule information:
8:00 pm

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

Dana Gioia
Dana Gioia
NEA Jazz Symposium: The Future of Jazz
NEW YORK, UNITED STATES  •  Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture  •  17 October 2008
 
 

Dana Gioia, Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, invites the public to participate in a forum on the future of jazz, jazz education, and jazz audiences.

Panelists will include:
Dr. David Baker, NEA Jazz Master
Dr. Billy Taylor, NEA Jazz Master
Adrian Ellis, Executive Director, Jazz at Lincoln Center
Nicole Mitchell, flutist and composer
Loren Schoenberg, Executive Director, The National Jazz Museum in Harlem
Helen Sung, pianist and composer

Moderated by A.B. Spellman, author, poet, and critic

This symposium launches the 2009 NEA Jazz Masters celebration, taking place in partnership with Jazz at Lincoln Center. The event is free, however, a RSVP should be sent to the e-mail address below by 10 October. 



The National Jazz Museum in Harlem Web Site


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Detailed schedule information:
9:00 – 11:30am

Contact: Langston Hughes Auditorium
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
515 Malcolm X Boulevard
New York, NY

e-mail: neajazzsymposium@arts.endow.gov
Tel: (1) 212 348 83 00

Events in Opera

Gerald Finley as J.&nbsp;Robert OppenheimerPhoto courtesy of Metropolitan Opera
Gerald Finley as J. Robert Oppenheimer
Photo courtesy of Metropolitan Opera
Doctor Atomic: By John Adams
NEW YORK, UNITED STATES  •  Metropolitan Opera  •  13 October - 13 November 2008
 
 

John adams: Doctor Atomic

First seen and heard in Amsterdam at the Holland Festival and then at the San Francisco Opera, this new opera by John Adams and Peter Sellars about the development of the first atomic bomb. Renewed cooperation between Adams and Sellars after Nixon in China and The Death of Klinghoffer.  Director Penny Woolcock makes her Met debut.

Conductor: Alan Gilbert
Kitty Oppenheimer: Sasha Cooke
Pasqualita: Meredith Arwady
J. Robert Oppenheimer: Gerald Finley
Edward Teller: Richard Paul Fink
General Leslie Groves: Eric Owens

Production: Penny Woolcock
Set Designer: Julian Crouch
Costume Designer: Catherine Zuber



Metropolitan Opera Web Site



Detailed schedule information:

13, 18, 21, 25, 30 October 2008, 8:00 pm

1, 5, 8, 13 November 2008, 8:00 pm

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

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Karita Mattila as Salome
Photo: Richard Avedon
© 2008 the Richard Avedon Foundation
Salome: By Richard Strauss
NEW YORK, UNITED STATES  •  Metropolitan Opera  •  23 September - 16 October 2008
 
 

Richard Strauss: Salome
Libretto: Hedwig Lachmann after Oscar Wilde

Salome: Karita Mattila
Herodias: Ildikó Komlósi
Herod: Kim Begley
Narraboth: Joseph Kaiser
Jokanaan: Juha Uusitalo

Patrick Summers, conductor

Production: Jürgen Flimm
Set & Costume Designer: Santo Loquasto
Lighting Designer: James F. Ingalls
Choreographer: Doug Varone



Metropolitan Opera Web Site



Detailed schedule information:
8:00 pm

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

Events in Pop Culture and Cinema

John Brown's Body
NEW YORK, UNITED STATES  •  Bowery Ballroom  •  6 November 2008
 
 
One of reggae's modern acts, John Brown's Body.  JBB's brand of reggae is a more hybrid take on the genre combing elements of dub, electronica, hip hop and rock. The eight-member group (from Ithaca, NY and Boston) has developed a strong reputation for it's originality and energetic live show during its ten-year career.


The Bowery Ballroom Web Site



Detailed schedule information:
8:00 pm

Contact: The Bowery Ballroom
6 Delancey
New York, NY 10002
Tel: (1) 212 533 211

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Angelique Kidjo

Angelique Kidjo
NEW YORK, UNITED STATES  •  Carnegie Hall  •  1 November 2008
 
The daughter of an actress, dancer, and theatrical producer, Angelique Kidjo was born in Quidah, a coastal city in the West African country of Benin. Inheriting her mother's love of performing, she made her stage debut with her mother's theatrical troupe. Inspired by the rock, pop, and soul music of Jimi Hendrix, Santana, Miriam Makeba, James Brown, and Aretha Franklin, she was singing professionally by her 20th birthday. Although she recorded an album, Pretty, produced by Cameroon-based vocalist Ekambi Brilliant that yielded a hit single, "Ninive," the oppressive political environment of Benin led her to relocate to Paris in 1980. Kidjo's husband, Jean Hébrail, a French bass player and composer she met in 1987, has played a major role in the recording of her albums.


Carnegie Hall Web Site


Please click here for a Culturekiosque interview with Angelique Kidjo.


Detailed schedule information:
8:30 pm

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

Lykke Li
NEW YORK, UNITED STATES  •  The Bowery Ballroom  •  21 October 2008
 
 

Lykke Li is a 21 year old girl from Stockholm, Sweden. Just released her debut EP "Little Bit" over there to great success. Swedish media have had a hard time describing her: from singer songwriter and soul to electro and electro pop - and name dropping Feist, Beth Gibbons, Joni Mitchell, Alicia Keys, Lily Allen, Vanessa Paradis.

Show also includes Friendly Fires / Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson / Micachu. 



The Bowery Ballroom Web Site


Contact: The Bowery Ballroom
6 Delancey
New York, NY 10002
Tel: (1) 212 533 21 11

Natural Progression : Act II: Let There be Soul / Soul Deconstructed
NEW YORK, UNITED STATES  •  Harlem Stage  •  19 October 2008
 
 
The second installation of Natural Progression explores the evolution of soul music, including the stirrings of soul, funk and neo-soul music and vocalists, anchored by UBIQUITA NYC with live music by RAHJ, featuring Taylor McFerrin, Brockett Parsons, and special guest vocalists. Live painting by Crystal Clarity.

Harlem Stage Gatehouse Website



Detailed schedule information:
6:00 - 10:00 pm

Contact: Harlem Stage Gatehouse
150 Convent Avenue
(at W. 135th Street
& Convent Ave.)
New York, NY
Tel: (1) 212 281 9240 x 19/20

Janet Jackson
Janet Jackson
Janet Jackson
NEW YORK, UNITED STATES  •  Madison Square Garden  •  16 October 2008
 

Janet Jackson, with over 100 million albums sold, countless hit singles, awards and accolades, brings her Rock Witchu tour to Madison Square Garden. This is Jackson's first tour in over seven years and features the hit songs and dance routines.

LL Cool J is the special guest for the evening.



Madison Square Garden Web Site



Detailed schedule information:
7:30 pm

Contact: Madison Square Garden
Pennsylvania Plaza
Seventh to Eighth Avenues and 31st to 33rd Streets
New York, New York
Tel: (1) 212 239 62 00

Bill Maher
Bill Maher
Religulous
NEW YORK, UNITED STATES  •  Angelika Film Center  •  15 - 23 October 2008
 
 
BORAT director and champion cynic Larry Charles returns to directing for the big screen with Religulous, a documentary from and starring inquisitive skeptic and controversial comic Bill Maher. No religion is safe from the sharp aim--and still sharper wit--of Maher in this comic cross-examination of organized belief systems around the world.

Angelika Film Center


Contact: 18 West Houston St.
(@ Mercer St.)
New York, NY 10012
Tel: (1) 212 995 20 00

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Black Watch
Photo: Manuel Harlan

Black Watch: By Gregory Burke
NEW YORK, UNITED STATES  •  St. Ann's Warehouse  •  9 October - 30 November 2008
 
National Theatre of Scotland

Gregory Burke: Black Watch
John Tiffany, director

Black Watch follows the disassembling of Scotland's most esteemed regiment over the course of its final tour in Iraq, written from the personal testimonies of ten men on the ground. Black Watch reveals what it really means to be part of the War on Terror and what it means to make the journey home again.



St. Ann's Warehouse Web Site


Click here for the Culturekiosque editorial: Iraq: Would It Be So Wrong to Get Out?

Contact: St. Ann's Warehouse
38 Water Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Tel: (1) 718 254 87 79

Kristin Scott Thomas as Arkadinain Chekov’s ’The Seagull’Photo courtesy of Walter Kerr Theater&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Kristin Scott Thomas as Arkadina
in Chekov's 'The Seagull'
Photo courtesy of Walter Kerr Theater   
The Seagull: By Anton Chekov
NEW YORK, UNITED STATES  •  Walter Kerr Theater  •  16 September - 21 December 2008
 

Kristin Scott Thomas reprises her Olivier Award-winning role of Arkadina in the critically acclaimed Royal Court Theatre production of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull. The production, featuring a new version by Christopher Hampton, is directed by Ian Rickson. The play concerns the romantic entanglements and regrets of a group of actors, writers and artists gathered on a Russian estate. One of the theatre's great plays about writing, The Seagull conveys the struggle for new forms and the frustrations and fulfillment of putting words on a page.

Starring
Kristin Scott-Thomas as Arkadina
Peter Sarsgaard as Trigorin
Mackenzie Crook as Konstantin
Art Malik as Dorn
Carey Mulligan as Nina
Pearce Quigley as Medvedenko
Peter Wight as Sorin
Zoe Kazan as Masha
Christopher Patrick Nolan as Yakov
Mary Rose as Maid



Walter Kerr Theater Website



Detailed schedule information:
8:00 pm

Contact:

Walter Kerr Theater
219 W 48th St
New York, NY 10036


Tel: (1) 212 239 62 00

Wig Out !: By Tarell Alvin McCraney
NEW YORK, UNITED STATES  •  Vineyard Theatre  •  11 September - 19 October 2008
 
 
Directed by Tina Landau, Wig Out! tells “the story of two competing ‘houses’ of drag queens, and the loyalties and dreams which pull their members together and apart,” according to a press release. “The play is a deeply human and moving story set in a world that is larger-than-life.” The cast includes Daniel T. Booth (aka Sweetie), Joshua Cruz, Glenn Davis, Sean Patrick Doyle, McKenzie Frye, Nathan Lee Graham, Angela Grovey, Andre Holland, Rebecca Naomi Jones, Erik King, and Clifton Oliver.

Vineyard Theatre Website


Contact:

Vineyard Theatre & Workshop
108 E 15th St
New York, NY 10003


Tel: (1) 212 353 33 66

Rodarte: Evening dressHand-dyed silk gauzeFall 2008, USAMuseum purchase, 2008.55
Rodarte: Evening dress
Hand-dyed silk gauze
Fall 2008, USA
Museum purchase, 2008.55
Gothic: Dark Glamour
NEW YORK, UNITED STATES  •  The Museum at FIT  •  5 September 2008 - 21 February 2009
 
 

According to the Museum at FIT Gothic: Dark Glamour is the first exhibition devoted to the gothic style in fashion. Set in a dramatic mise-en-scene suggesting iconic gothic settings, such as the labyrinth, the ruined castle, and the laboratory, more than 75 ensembles will be on display. Fashion designers featured include Alexander McQueen, Ann Demeulemeester, Boudicca, Comme des Garçons, Karl Lagerfeld for Chanel Haute Couture, John Galliano for Christian Dior, Jean Paul Gaultier, Hussein Chalayan, Francisco Costa for Calvin Klein, Christian Lacroix, Derek Lam, Gareth Pugh, Kei Kagami, Riccardo Tisci for Givenchy, Thierry Mugler, Rick Owens, Rodarte, Anna Sui, Olivier Theyskens, Jun Takahashi of Undercover, and Yohji Yamamoto.

Also on display will be a range of subcultural styles, such as “old-school goth” (associated with the heyday of the goth subculture, 1979-83), Victorian-style goth, industrial, steam punk, and cyber-goth, by designers such as Kambriel, Morphius and Plastik Wrap, as well as Japanese Elegant Gothic Lolitas by Tokyo-based brands Moi-Même-Moité and h.Naoto Blood.

Related public events include a Goth Talk panel discussion on October 30 (with speakers including Fred H. Berger, editor of Propaganda, Mistress McCutchan, and Evan Michelson of Obscura), gallery readings of Bram Stoker and Edgar Allan Poe gothic classics, exhibition tours, and more. The program series will culminate in the museum’s annual Fashion Symposium on February 13-14, 2009, which takes as its theme Subculture and Style. Internationally recognized scholars, curators, and designers will gather at the symposium to discuss the gothic influence on fashion and visual culture, as well as goth, punk, hip-hop, and other music-oriented youth styles.



The Museum at FIT Web Site


Contact: The Museum at FIT
Seventh Avenue at 27 Street
New York City 10001-5992
Tel: (1) 212 217 45 85

Focus on the 70s: The Fabulous Photography of Kenn Duncan
NEW YORK, UNITED STATES  •  New York Public Library  •  30 July - 25 October 2008
 
 

This retrospective of Duncan’s 20-year career features approximately 400 photographs and includes his iconic images of Mikhail Baryshnikov, Eartha Kitt, Angela Lansbury, Peter Martins, Bette Midler, the cast of Hair, as well as selections of his nudes, his fashion portfolios, and his work with hundreds of celebrities including shock rock legend Alice Cooper, Al Pacino, and Christopher Walken.

Kenn Duncan (1928-1986) was born in New Jersey and became a roller-skating champion at an early age. In order to perfect his form, he took ballet lessons and eventually abandoned skating for a dance career. The injury that put an end to his dancing career set him on a new course that eventually won him international acclaim as a portrait and fashion photographer. Duncan was a prominent force in the photography world of the late 1960s through the early 1980s, notably as a principal photographer for the entertainment magazine After Dark and for Dance Magazine, which chronicled the world of dance and choreography.Photographs by Kenn Duncan also appeared in Vogue,Harper’s Bazaar, Life, Time, and Newsweek. He was photographer for such performers as Peter Allen, Carol Channing, Judith Jamison, Eartha Kitt, Bernadette Peters, Christopher Plummer, Chita Rivera, Tommy Tune and Twiggy, and for leading dance companies such as the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, American Ballet Theatre, the Bolshoi Ballet, and the Paul Taylor Dance Company. 

Duncan published three volumes of his own photographs: Red Shoes, Nudes, and More Nudes.



New York Public Library Web Site


Contact: Donald and Mary Oenslager Gallery
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
40 Lincoln Center Plaza
New York, NY
Tel: (1) 212 930 08 00

Political Memorabilia: Campaigning for President
NEW YORK, UNITED STATES  •  Museum of the City of New York  •  24 June - 4 November 2008
 

Coinciding with the 2008 election and providing insight into New York’s often pivotal role in American electoral politics, Campaigning for President:  New York and the American Election covers presidential politics from the inauguration of George Washington on lower Manhattan’s Wall Street, to the current volatile and unpredictable campaign.

The show features selections from the nation's largest and most comprehensive collection of campaign artifacts alongside objects from the Museum’s collection, notably selections from a monumental, 1.25 million artifact collection amassed by Jordan Wright, a media entrepreneur and devotee of American politics who died on 11 May at his home in Atlantic Beach, New York at the age of 50. His collection reveals not only the key platforms of particular candidates, but also the subtle and not-so-subtle strategies employed by vote-seekers.  Wright's collection forms the basis of the Museum of Democracy and is richly portrayed in a book titled Campaigning for President (available in the Museum’s shop).  Highly expressive buttons, banners, posters, hats, dresses, and other campaign materials on view highlight the role of visual propaganda in the electoral process (especially from times when many voters were illiterate).  Collectively they reveal the underpinnings of today’s mass-media campaigns, demonstrating that U. S. politics has for centuries been characterized by sloganeering, promissory mantra-making, and abundant, often gleefully vicious mud-slinging, which prevails from the 19th century through today.

On view are examples of alternately inspiring, thought-provoking, scandalous, hilarious, and plain-old corny campaign huckstering, including (among many others):

 - a poster lampooning “King Andrew” that asks the question: shall Andrew Jackson “reign over us, or shall the people rule?”
a translation of Abraham Lincoln and Aesop’s Fables into the Santee Sioux language

 - mechanical “nose-thumbers” produced for James Garfield’s campaign
a one-of-a-kind porcelain and cloth doll depicting, when held upright, William McKinley, and when turned upside-down, an African-American baby, in vicious response to accusations that the candidate had fathered an illegitimate black child

 - a cloth rose lapel pin bearing the likeness of Theodore Roosevelt an anti-Republican Party door hanger in the shape of a teapot, referencing President Warren Harding and the infamous Teapot Dome scandal

 - a campaign button with Socialist candidate Eugene Debs identified as “convict no. 9653”

 - Al Smith pins in the shape of his signature derby hat
a “negative-campaigning” poster for Thomas Dewey associating vice-presidential candidate Harry Truman with the Ku Klux Klan

 - “I Like Ike” socks

 - a paper mini-dress promoting Robert Kennedy

 - Good Humor Ice Cream wrappers promoting Richard M. Nixon (and John F. Kennedy)

 - a yarmulke promoting Al Gore and a Time magazine cover picturing him as President-elect



Museum of the City of New York Web Site


Contact: Museum of the City of New York
1220 Fifth Avenue at 103rd St.
New York, NY 10029
Tel: (1) 212 534 16 72

<EM>Bash’d</EM>Photo: David Morgan
Bash'd
Photo: David Morgan
BASH'd! The Gay Rap Opera
NEW YORK, UNITED STATES  •  The Zipper Factory  •  23 June - 23 October 2008
 

The award-winning gay rap opera Bash'd, created and performed by Chris Craddock and Nathan Cuckow in the charachters of Feminem & T-Bag, the show features music by Aaron Macri and is directed by Ron Jenkins.

Bash'd chronicles the tale of Jack and Dillon; two star-crossed lovers who must cope with the reality of hatred when one is brutally beaten. Fuelled by the increase of gay bashings that happened during Premier Ralph Klein's refusal to legalize gay marriage in Alberta, Canada, one of the lovers decides to reverse the discrimination and go out and bash innocent heterosexuals. It is told entirely through rap, spoken word and poetry, turning the often-homophobic musical genre on its ear. Even though the topic is serious, the musical is high energy, irreverent, and provocative. Bash'd was a smash hit at the 2007 Toronto International Fringe Festival.



The Zipper Factory Web Site



Detailed schedule information:
Mon at 8 pm; Thu at 8 pm; Fri at 7:30 pm, 10 pm; Sat at 8 pm

Contact: The Zipper Factory
336 West 37th Street
New York, NY 10018
Tel: (1) 212 352 31 01

Catholics in New York 1808-1946
NEW YORK, UNITED STATES  •  Museum of the City of New York  •  16 May - 21 December 2008
 
 

Catholics in New York 1808-1946 explores the social and political history of the diverse group of people who established the formidable Catholic presence in New York.
The exhibition is organized around three central themes:

- How Catholic community life revolved around New York's parishes, starting with the earliest, such as St. Peter's, old St. Patrick's, and St. Brigid's in Manhattan, and the distinctive subculture that arose in their heavily Catholic neighborhoods;

- The creation of a vast system of health, education, and social welfare institutions, including parochial schools, the New York Foundling Hospital, and healthcare centers such as St. Vincent's Hospital in Manhattan and St. Mary’s Hospital in Brooklyn, originally founded by Catholics to provide services that embraced their religion and that would be insulated from anti-Catholic prejudice; and

- The rise of Catholics as a force in New York politics, framed by such New York figures as William R. Grace (1832-1904), the Irish-born businessman who in 1880 was elected the first Catholic mayor of New York City; Alfred E. Smith (1873-1944), the governor from the Lower East Side who became the first Catholic to be nominated by a major political party for President of the United States, in 1928; Vito Marcantonio (1902-1954), the Congressman and American Labor Party leader from East Harlem; and many others.

Woven throughout all three sections is how this "community of immigrants" defended its Catholic identity in response to widespread anti-Catholicism.  The exhibition begins with a prologue that looks at anti-Catholicism in the colonial period; it concludes with the implementation of the G.I. Bill, which paved the way to higher education, low-cost home mortgages, and ultimately the migration to the suburbs for many of New York’s Catholics, and with an epilogue that presents the new face of Catholic New York since World War II.

Highlights of the exhibition include:

- over 100  family photographs showing the diverse people of pre-war Catholic New York, collected through a massive outreach to New Yorkers conducted by Museum of the City of New York curatorial staff; also included will be parochial school report cards and yearbooks from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, sports uniforms and trophies, parish publications, and audio interviews with New Yorkers recalling their experiences growing up Catholic;

- documents related to the life of Pierre Toussaint (1766-1853), a former slave who supported church organization and whose charitable works have earned him consideration for sainthood;

- an original Test Book from the Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank, listing the name of Archbishop John Hughes (1797-1864) as one of the first depositors in 1850;

- a handwritten note from a Catholic mother who left her child with the New York Foundling Hospital in 1877.



Museum of the City of New York Web Site


Contact: Museum of the City of New York
1220 Fifth Avenue at 103rd St.
New York, NY 10029
Tel: (1) 212 534 16 72

The 39 Steps
NEW YORK, UNITED STATES  •  Cort Theatre  •  8 May - 1 November 2008
 
 

Alfred Hitchcock meets Monty Python in this whodunit, part espionage thriller and part slapstick comedy, adapted for the stage from the famous film and novel. This production had its NYC premiere earlier this season by the Roundabout Theatre Company.

Cast: Arnie Burton, Charles Edwards, Jennifer Ferrin, Cliff Saunders

Adapted by Patrick Barlow
Maria Aitken, director
Sets: Peter McKintosh




Detailed schedule information:
Tue at 7pm; Wed- Sat at 8pm; Wed & Sat at 2pm; Sun at 3pm

Contact: Cort Theatre
138 West 48th Street
New York, NY 10036
Tel: (1) 212 239 62 00

South Pacific: By Rodgers & Hammerstein
NEW YORK, UNITED STATES  •  Vivian Beaumont Theater  •  4 April 2008 - 4 January 2009
 

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 Str