Performing Arts

Grace Lee Boggs Talks About The Revolutionary Life

The Huffington Post | Kathleen Massara | Posted 04.20.2012

Read More: Cooper Union Talks, Video, Cooper Union, Grace Lee Boggs, Revolution, Foundry, Performing Arts, Andrea Smith, Amy Goodman, Cooper Union Events, Nelson Johnson, Grace Lee Boggs Cooper Union, Grace Lee Boggs Activist, Memories of the Future, Arts News

Grace Lee Boggs is approaching the ripe old age of 97, but she doesn't seem to be tiring a bit these days It could be argued that there hasn't been a...

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Jesse Tyler Ferguson To Appear In Theater Sitcom

AP | MARK KENNEDY | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Video, Kristin Chenoweth, Performing Arts, Submissions Only, Theater, Kate Wetherhead, Andrew Keenan-Bolger, Modern Family, New York, Sitcom, Arts News

NEW YORK — Jesse Tyler Ferguson of "Modern Family" might be a star now, but he remembers those awful days sweating it out in front of casting di...

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Q&A: Playwright Amy Herzog on Family History, Political Activism, and the Culture of Capitalism

ARTINFO | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: Lincoln Center, Communism, Amy Herzog, Artinfo, 4,000 Miles, Playwright, Family, Performing Arts, Arts News
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Amy Herzog, a promising young American playwright, is pregnant and due to give birth to a daughter on May 1 of this year. The date has more than a lit...

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Flyover Country? Not This Kansas City

Jason Grill | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: Taxes, Performing Arts, Google, Kauffman Foundation, Economic Development, Travel, Innovation, Sporting Kc, Culture, Kansas City, Mls, Education, Kansas, Soccer, Arts, Missouri, Technology, Entrepreneurship, Midwest, Small Business, Travel Blogs, Business News
Jason Grill

The City of Fountains has been praised as a great place to live, work and visit for many years, but recently it is becoming a hot bed for entrepreneurial investment, high culture and the innovations of the future.

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Exclusive: "Holler If Ya Hear Me" and "Super Fly: The Musical" Take Wing

ARTINFO | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Tupac Shakur, Broadway, Musicals, Gordon Parks Jr., Super Fly, Artinfo, Performing Arts, Arts News
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The buzz among actors in New York, especially in the African-American community, is about the workshops of two promising projects: "Holler If Ya Hear ...

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Q&A: Linda Emond on "Death of a Salesman," Working With Mike Nichols, and Life Being "Temporary"

ARTINFO | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Acting, Artinfo, Linda Emond, Performing Arts, Death of a Salesman, Arts News
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Linda Emond has been an "actor's actor" and a critical darling since she made her New York stage debut, in 1996, in Leslie Ayvazian's "Nine Armenians...

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"It Reflects Her Obsession": OMA's Shohei Shigematsu on Building Marina Abramovic's Performance Palace

ARTINFO | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Center for the Preservation of Performance Art, Shohei Shigematsu, Office of Metropolitan Architecture, Marina Abramovic, Performing Arts, Art, Artinfo, Arts News
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NEW YORK -- Marina Abramovic, the reigning champion of high-endurance performance art, announced last week that she would be gutting a former cinema-t...

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New York City and the School-to-Prison Pipeline

Alan Singer | Posted 03.28.2012

Read More: Latinos, Public Schools, Metal Detectors, Rudy Giuliani, Lourdes LaGuardia High School, Performing Arts, School to Prison, Students, New York City, New York Civil Liberties Union, African Americans, New York Public Schools, Criminal Justice System, School Safety, New York News
Alan Singer

Metal detectors at school entrances make many New York City schools feel more like prisons than places where young people want to be and contribute to the sense that these are not a place where people are respected.

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YoungArts Comes to LA

Hoyt Hilsman | Posted 01.29.2012

Read More: Performing Arts, Warner Bros, Doug Aitken, Film, Los Angeles, Education Cuts, California, Television, Education, Raul Esparza, Visual Arts, Roy Hargrove, Kerry Washington, Arts, High School, Viola Davis, Vanessa Williams, John Currin, Arts Education, Kennedy Center, Los Angeles News
Hoyt Hilsman

The level of professionalism from these young artists was both stunning and inspirational, and provided great hope for those of us devoted to the future of the arts in America.

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The New Season

Michael Kaiser | Posted 11.12.2011

Read More: Performing Arts, Arts Management, Arts, Artists, Arts Volunteers, Boards, Donors, Kennedy Center, Arts News
Michael Kaiser

While very public debates about the value of arts funding rage in statehouses across America, we must remember that our communities need the arts now more than ever.

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PHOTOS: The Inner Eye, Leprechauns and Assemblage: Haiku Reviews

Posted 11.09.2011

Read More: Art, Peter Frank, Theater Reviews, Reviews, Performing Arts, Theatre, Arts, Theater, Artists, George Heymont, Musicals, Art Galleries, Haiku Reviews, Arts News

HuffPost Arts' Haiku Reviews is a weekly feature where invited critics review exhibitions and performances in short form. Some will be in the traditio...

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'Naked Army' Takes Over Wall-Street (NSFW)

ARTINFO | Posted 10.03.2011

Read More: Artinfo, Wall Street, Activism, Performing Arts, Art, Provocative, New York City, Zefrey Throwell, Slidepollajax, Arts News
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NEW YORK--New Yorkers pride themselves on their blasé -- nothing will phase a well-trained city pedestrian. But artist Zefrey Throwell's urban interv...

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New York City Opera Musicians Protest

AP | Posted 09.11.2011

Read More: New York City Opera, Nyc, NYC Opera, Opera, Performing Arts, Placido Domingo, Musicians, Music, Unions, Maggie Mckeon, New York, Arts News

NEW YORK — Musicians of the New York City Opera are staging a protest as the company announces its new season. The union members say they're be...

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French Choreographer Roland Petit Dies At 87

AP | Posted 09.10.2011

Read More: Performing Arts, Choreography, France, Death and Dying, Paris National Opera, French, Ballet, Dance, Roland Petit, Paris, Death, Arts News

PARIS -- Acclaimed choreographer Roland Petit, whose creations dazzled stages from Paris to Hollywood and inspired dancers, writers and designers has ...

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Berlin Opera House Keeps Director

AP | Posted 09.05.2011

Read More: Performing Arts, Art, German Opera, Daniel Barenboïm, Germany, Berlin Germany, Opera, Klaus Wowereit, Unter Den Linden, Conductor, Berlin Opera, Staatsoper, Barenboim, Culture, Berlin, Arts News

BERLIN — Renowned conductor Daniel Barenboim signed a new contract Wednesday to remain musical director of the city's Staatsoper opera house for...

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Stradivarius Violin Sold For $16M To Aid Japan

AP | Posted 08.21.2011

Read More: Classical Music, Japan Earthquake, Japan Relief, Japan Aid, Japan Earthquake 2011, Charity, Violin, Stradivarius Violin, Performing Arts, Auction, Japan, Music, Good News, Arts News

TOKYO -- A Japanese music foundation has sold a renowned Stradivarius violin for $16 million at a London auction to raise money for tsunami disaster r...

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'Spider-Man' Star Speaks About The Drama Behind The Scenes

AP | By MARK KENNEDY | Posted 08.08.2011

Read More: Peter Parker, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, Performing Arts, Theatre, Spider-Man, Broadway, U2, Julie Taymor, Musicals, t.V. Carpio. Bono, Spiderman, Limitless, New York, Arts News

NEW YORK -- T.V. Carpio must have either the best luck in the world or the very worst. Consider all that she's endured these past months: She lands a...

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Clap Between Movements: Classical Music From Dresden To Minneapolis

Laurence Vittes | Posted 07.23.2011

Read More: Music Festivals, Classical Music Marketing, Classical Music Investing, Performing Arts, Five Elements, Classical Music, Dresden Music Festival, Minneapolis, Music, League of American Orchestras, Gewandhaus Orchestra of Leipzig, Arts News
Laurence Vittes

If your Spring this year is resisting being sprung, here are three springtime events which are guaranteed to get you in the mood. Check out the youtub...

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WATCH: Steve Martin & His Banjo To Head To U.S. Capitol On 4th Of July

AP/The Huffington Post | By SANDY COHEN | Posted 07.23.2011

Read More: Pbs, Paul Revere, Video, National Public Radio, Steep Canyon Rangers, Performing Arts, Capitol, Jordin Sparks, Washington DC, Fourth of July, Josh Groban, Steve Martin, Npr, Matthew Morrison, US Capitol, Radio, Little Richard, American Forces Network, Jimmy Smits, Arts News

LOS ANGELES -- Steve Martin and his banjo are taking on the U.S. Capitol on July 4. The 65-year-old entertainer is set to perform from the Capitol'...

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World's Biggest Art Prize: The £175,000 Gulbenkian

The Independent | Posted 07.09.2011

Read More: National Theatre of Wales, Performing Arts, Gulbenkian, Art, Somali Poets, World's Biggest Art Prize, Art Prize, Gulbenkian Art Prize, Turner Prize, Theater, Artprize, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Shetlanders, Poetry, Andrew Barnett, Arts News

The biggest art prize in the world is launched tomorrow, with a shortlist of potential winners that is almost certain to cause controversy. Called sim...

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Lauryn Hill Performs At New Orleans Jazz Fest To Mixed Reviews

AP | CHEVEL JOHNSON | Posted 07.08.2011

Read More: Performing Arts, Lost Ones, Bob Marley, New Orleans, New Orleans Jazz Fest, Jazz, Lauryn Hill, Everything Is Everything, Music, Jazz Fest, The Sweetest Thing, Arts News

NEW ORLEANS -- In a rare appearance, Lauryn Hill commanded a stage Saturday at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival as thousands of spectators loo...

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The Super Bowl Of Poetry

Patrick Pressl | Posted 07.05.2011

Read More: Slidepollajax, Slam Poetry, Poetry, Performing Arts, New York, New York City, Washington DC, Brave New Voices, Youth Slam, National Poetry Slam, Busboys & Poets, Teen Poetry Slam, 11th Hour Slam, Youth Speaks, Nuyorican Poets Café, Track and Field, San Francisco, Marc Smith, Arts News
Patrick Pressl

Slam poetry is, in itself, a conundrum. Slams are competitions in which poets are judged by random audience members on their poem's content, delivery,...

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Study: Americans Spend More On Art Than On Movies

AP | BRETT ZONGKER | Posted 06.29.2011

Read More: Arts Spending, Economics, Performing Arts, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Broadway, Theatre, Film, National Endowment for the Arts, Movies, US Economic Census, Recession, Yahoo News, Arts News

WASHINGTON -- The National Endowment for the Arts has released a new study showing that although more Americans regularly go to the movies, they spend...

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Nick Adams Keeps on the Drag for Broadway's Priscilla Queen of the Desert

James Sims | Posted 06.29.2011

Read More: Broadway Direct, Nick Adams, Drag Queens, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Performing Arts, Broadway, Musicals, Will Swenson, Interview, La Cage Aux Folles, Lgbt, Arts News
James Sims

Priscilla is the story of three friends who head out on an adventure across the Australian outback, each in search of something missing in their lives.

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Mister President: The Kennedy Center for What?

Freddie Gershon | Posted 06.19.2011

Read More: Education, President Obama, Qunicy Jones, Musical Theatre, Budget Cuts, Arts Funding Cuts, Performing Arts, Arts Funding, Arts Education, Theatre for Young Artists, Federal Budget; Politics, Kennedy Center, Entertainment News
Freddie Gershon

The Kennedy Center is a physical, tangible as well as an organic living reminder of the Kennedy years and a legacy of a President who brought idealism...

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