By Casey Craig, National Jewish Theater Foundation/Holocaust Theater Archive National Jewish Theater/Holocaust Theater Archive, Producing Artistic Director Arnold Mittelman, is proud to present a limited Off-Broadway run of The Soap Myth, by Jeff Cohen, from March 23 – April 22 at the Black Box Theatre at the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre (111 West [...]
Miami’s Silvia Karman Cubiñá and San Jose’s Anjee Helstrup-Alvarez have been named to the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation’s National Arts Advisory Committee. The committee of recognized artists and art advocates guides Knight Foundation on the best ways to promote artistic excellence that engages, inspires and brings communities together. Knight Foundation’s arts program invests [...]
By Kate Durnan, The Philadelphia Dance Company (PHILADANCO) After a dance company has celebrated its 42nd birthday, there aren’t that many “firsts” left to encounter. But Philadelphia’s legendary The Philadelphia Dance Company (more affectionately known worldwide as PHILADANCO) enjoyed one more milestone last month: the company had two different performances—in two different countries—on the same [...]
By Matthew Stiffler, Arab American National Museum On Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012, the Arab American National Museum hosted blogger, playwright, and researcher Wajahat Ali for a staged reading of his Off-Broadway hit, Domestic Crusaders. The play focuses on a day in the life of a modern multi-generational Muslim Pakistani American family who convene at the [...]
Here’s a compelling reason to go out on a school night: starting late last month, the Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library and James J. Hill Reference Library partnered up to offer “Book It: Loud at the Library,” a series of Thursday night shindigs that begin with a little friendly trivia competition (hosted by [...]
It takes tremendous imagination to conceive a program like the one that the Calder Quartet and singer/violinist Iva Bittová presented in such satisfying style on the FUZE! series at the Akron Art Museum on Feb. 17. The warmth of Hungarian/Czech/Moravian folk-infused writing miraculously folded into the rhythmic complexity and subtleties of a contemporary classical [...]
Hello IKEA! Opera Carolina took the Charlotte IKEA by storm Sunday, Feb 19 as part of Knight Foundation’s Random Acts of Culture™ program. Shoppers were surprised by five performances from La Boheme and La Traviata throughout the day – and the Charlotte Observer caught all the action. Video coming soon, in the meantime enjoy a [...]
Word had clearly gotten out about the opening of the latest addition to the alt art scene, Mercenary Square, in Little Havana. The art complex at Sixth Street and 12th Avenue was packed with art lovers and partiers, youngsters and oldsters who had come to see graf artist Ahol Sniffs Glue’s inauguration of the Mercenary [...]
By Sphinx staff It is a cold February morning in Detroit as scores of musicians from around the country prepare to arrive at Orchestra Hall for Sunday’s sold-out Finals Concert of the 15h Annual Sphinx Competition for young Black and Latino String Players Presented by the DTE Energy Foundation. Just as Maestro Michael Morgan, the Sphinx Symphony Orchestra, Catalyst Quartet and a group [...]
Think beauty exists in a junkyard? Well, a team of artists took to the piles of junk at Revolution Recovery recycling center in Philadelphia as part of the Recycled Artist-in-Residence program (RAIR) in order to find some. The project is called “The Taxonomy of Trash” and involves a multidisciplinary team of individuals who explored the [...]
