Celebrating One Hundred Years of Rabindranath Tagore’s Gitanjali
The Great Hall AuditoriumA celebration of the thoughts, poetry, music, and artistry of Rabindranath Tagore, and a commemoration of one hundred years of his Nobel Prize for Literature, for his ‘Gitanjali’ an Offering in Songs.
Jan Beatty
Jan Beatty’s fourth full-length book, The Switching/Yard, was published by the University of Pittsburgh Press in February, 2013. A limited edition chapbook, Ravage, was published by Lefty Blondie Press in 2012. Other books include Red Sugar, finalist for the 2009 Paterson Poetry Prize; Boneshaker, finalist, Milton Kessler Award; Mad River, Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize—all published by the University of Pittsburgh Press. Her chapbook, Ravenous, won the 1995 State Street Prize.
Art Now: Geotagging the Omissions
MAC At MonmouthNate Larson and Marni Shindelman. Our workshop empowers participants to create and upload photographic documentation of overlooked communities to Google maps, building a public document of the community from within.
National Theatre of London: Macbeth
Pollak TheatreNational Theatre Live will broadcast Manchester International Festival’s production of Macbeth, with Kenneth Branagh (My Week With Marilyn, Hamlet) in his first Shakespeare performance in over a decade as Macbeth, and Alex Kingston (Doctor Who, ER) as Lady Macbeth. Directed by Rob Ashford and Kenneth Branagh, this electrifying new production of Shakespeare’s tragic tale of ambition and treachery unfolds within the walls of an intimate deconsecrated Manchester church.
Julian Sands (In Person) in A Celebration of Harold Pinter
Pollak TheatreSpecial Live Appearance!! With personal anecdotes and reflections drawn from their work together, Julian Sands (24, A Room with a View, The Killing Fields, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Impromptu, Leaving Las Vegas) combines Harold Pinter’s poems and political prose to create a very fresh and intimate insight into the Nobel laureate’s literary legacy.
Met Opera: EUGENE ONEGIN Encore (Broadcast in HD)
Pollak TheatreAnna Netrebko and Mariusz Kwiecien star as the lovestruck Tatiana and the imperious Onegin in Tchaikovsky’s fateful romance.
On Screen/In Person: Furever
Pollak TheatreAt once disquieting and sympathetic, Furever provides a nuanced look at the actions of grieving pet owners attempting to come to terms with the loss of their pets and confronts America’s conflicted attitudes towards death and dying. There will be a Q & A with the filmmaker Amy Finkel following the screening.
Bunnicula
Lock up your lettuce! Protect your parsley! Rescue your rutabaga! A floppy-eared bunny with mysterious habits is staking out its place in Theatreworks USA’s spine-tingling new musical co-written by Tony-nominated playwright Charles Busch and based on the best-selling books by James & Deborah Howe: BUNNICULA!
An Evening with Keller Williams and Jake Shimabukuro
Pollak TheatreIn this double-header concert ukulele wizard Jake Shimabukuro is joined by singer, songwriter and musician Keller Williams