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Tuesday, October 28, 2014
Friday, October 24, 2014
Bruce Cockburn returns to Ithaca on May 3rd, 2015
So incredibly excited to keep our intimate series at the Hangar Theatregoing and announce ANOTHER Spring show...
The inimitable Bruce Cockburn returns to Ithaca on May 3rd On sale right now...
Love how quiet this massive crowd was at Live 8... And excited to announce this of all shows on United Nations DAY!
On Nov 8th, Linda Case will take centerstage with the Piazzolla
On Nov 8th, Linda Case will take centerstage with the Piazzolla, but later in the program with the Bartok Divertimento, the string principals are frequently featured together as a solo quartet. It's the perfect opportunity to introduce our new Principal Violist, Victoria Miskolczy, pictured here. Victoria has been active in the Los Angeles area for many years with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, a number of other regional orchestras and different chamber music series, and as a teacher. From Sydney, Australia (where she was born and raised) to Los Angeles, to Ithaca, NY, she's had quite a variety of hometowns. Please join us in welcoming her on 11/8 as she begins her tenure with the CCO
Thursday, October 23, 2014
New York City Commuters Nightlife News -: Disgraced On Broadway
Happy opening night to Disgraced On Broadway, new play by Ayad Akhtar starring Josh Radnor, Gretchen Mol, Karen Pittman, Hari Dhillon, and Danny Ashok - a "provocative tale of big city aspiration and cultural assimilation dares to face the truth hiding just below the deception."
Need weekend plans?
Wednesday, October 22, 2014
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Cayuga Chamber Orchestra Event.
Enjoy one of the most diverse programs you’ll ever encounter, including Piazzolla’s Four Seasons of Buenos Aires, which will serve as a wonderfully spirited and virtuosic showcase for our own LINDA CASE in her final season as our concertmaster. Also on the program is Bartok's Divertimento for Strings and a short opening work by Nepomuceno. We're continuing the fun tradition of a "Guess the Composer" piece so bring your pencils for a chance to win the prize this year!
Tuesday, October 21, 2014
Musician Birthdays: Report / Share [ facebook widget ] by Ithaca Guitar Works
Steve Lukather’s and Julian Cope’s (1957),
Jon Carin’s (1964), Nick Oliveri’s (1971)
and Josh Ritter’s (1976) birthday.
“Dear White People”
The Exorcist "1974 Original Trailer "
Who's got plans for mischief night this year?
Come see 1974's The Exorcist in the last remaining SPOOKY theatre in Tompkins County.
Thursday, October 30th at 8pm.
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Monday, October 20, 2014
Sunday, October 19, 2014
Cornell University Concert Season 2014 - 2015
FALL 2014
So Percussion
8:00 PM / Friday October 24, 2014
Prague Philharmonic Choir
8:00 PM / Sunday November 2, 2014
Tafelmusik: The Galileo Project
8:00 PM / Saturday November 15, 2014
SPRING 2015
Nrityagram Dance Ensemble
8pm / Wednesday February 4, 2015
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
8:30PM / Thursday February 19, 2015
Pierre-Laurent Aimard & Tamara Stefanovich
8:00PM / Sunday March 8, 2015
Ravi Coltrane Quartet
8:00 PM / Friday March 20, 2015
Jordi Savall & Concert des Nations
8:00 PM / Wednesday April 15, 2015
Thursday, October 16, 2014
“This season – our fifth season – we’re taking more risks from WRECKS
READERS’
THEATRE PRESENTS OFF-BOOK PRODUCTION OF ‘WRECKS,’ NEIL LABUTE’S
ONE-MAN PLAY, A LOOSE ADAPTATION OF A GREEK MYTH
The
Readers’ Theatre of Ithaca (RTI) will present Neil LaBute’s
one-man play: WRECKS from Friday, November 21 to Sunday,
November 23 at Cinemapolis. The production will star Chris
Nickerson and is being directed by Anne Marie Cummings,
RTI’s Founder and Artistic Director. The 80-minute play,
with the music of Hank Roberts, will be performed OFF-BOOK, a new
move for RTI’s season of performance readings.
“This
season – our fifth season – we’re taking more risks from WRECKS
being off-book, with the same limited amount of rehearsals that we
have for our on-book performances, to presenting CHATROOM on screen,”
said Cummings. “I like to push the boundaries with what we do
and to keep our audiences immensely entertained by offering them a
variety of ways that theatre can be presented, and always with the
least number of frills.”
WRECKS
opened at the Everyman Theatre in Cork, Ireland in November, 2005,
and had its American premiere at the Public Theatre in New York City,
almost a year later, in October, 2006. By the time WRECKS made it to
NYC, the text was only slightly modified, but was performed with the
same actor, Ed Harris who received nominations for his performance
from the Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, and Lucille Lortel Awards.
LaBute directed both productions.
WRECKS
is a play that LaBute wrote as a further investigation into the Greek
theater and, more specifically, how the themes and plots of those
plays might be utilized in a contemporary way. Many elements from the
myth of Oedipus have been applied to his play – WRECKS - of a man
and the one great love of his life.
Wrote
Ben Brantley in his New York Times review
of the play: "Whether you gasp or merely sigh wearily will
depend on your familiarity with, and fondness for, the prolific Mr.
LaBute’s bleak moral vision of humankind. (Gasp or sigh, you’re
still likely to think, ‘Well, he’s done it again.’)."
Linda Winer of Newsday wrote: "WRECKS
is bound to and identified by its shock value, but it must also be
cherished for the moment-by-moment pleasure of its masterly
portraiture. There is not an extraneous syllable in LaBute's
enormously moving love story."
In
WRECKS, the middle-aged Edward Carr, loving father, successful
businessman, and a newly bereaved widower, reflects on his long and
happy marriage in a conversational stream of consciousness,
addressing the audience, as he stands by his wife’s coffin - his
wife who lost her life to cancer. What the audience hears is in fact
what’s happening inside Carr’s head. Can someone honestly love a
person whom they have deceived for thirty years? This is the central
question behind WRECKS as LaBute limns the boundaries of love,
exploring the limits of what society will accept versus what the
heart desires.
Despite
LaBute’s assurance that “There’s none of the kind of cruelty
that some of the male characters have perpetrated in other pieces,”
it is reminiscent not only of his earlier plays, but also of
Browning’s poisoned encomiums as love turns out to be the source of
more than consolation and transcendence.
At
the heart of WRECKS, as of so many of LaBute’s plays and stories,
is the question of power. Beyond the fact that power in a
relationship is unequal - the deeper the love the more vulnerable the
individual – there is a special power which derives from knowledge
withheld as there is from knowledge revealed. It’s a game the
protagonist in WRECKS plays and a game LaBute plays with his audience
– taking a special pleasure not merely in discommoding those who
watch his plays, but in manipulating expectations – the power of
storytelling.
DATES & TIMES:
Friday, November 21 – Sunday,
November 23; 11/21 & 11/22, Friday and Saturday at 8pm.
11/23, Sunday at 6:30pm.
LOCATION:
Cinemapolis, 120 East Green
Street, downtown Ithaca
TICKET PRICES:
Advanced tickets, $10 for
students/$12 for all adults. Tickets at the door, $12 for
students/$15 at the door.
HOW TO PURCHASE TICKETS:
Go to www.thereaderstheatre.com
or buy in-person or day-of at Cinemapolis.
MEET THE PLAYWRIGHT:
There will be a free 15-minute
On-Screen Skype interview with Neil LaBute following all three
performances.
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