THE 2009-2010 PAGE SERIES IS NOW IN PROGRESS.
The second half of the Page Series is on sale now.
This second half of the season you will experience the world at your door, again. You, your family, and friends can share the best in live performing arts from the Page Series.
You hear of courage and doing the right thing when Underground Railroad Theatre tells the story of Harriet Tubman, January 15. Then a tale of thwarted love in ballet slippers, when Moscow Festival Ballet performs Giselle, January 26. Go on a journey written by JRR Tolkien about the ring lost and found with Bilbo, when Theatre Sans Fil presents The Hobbit, February 9. Hear sweet harmonies from the popular Canadian new folk/bluegrass group, Wailin’ Jennys (pictured on right), February 24. Just in time for Saint Patrick's Day enjoy traditional Celtic country tunes from Ireland with award winning Danú (pictured lower right), March 10. Our season ends with Beethoven piano pieces that enliven the soul played by Ned Kirk, March 13-14.
More information about the Page Series' artists can be viewed by going to the PERFORMANCES drop down menu above and clicking on the Page Series.
COMING NEXT ON THE PAGE SERIES:
DANÚ
Wednesday, March 10, 7:30pm in the Page Theatre
Tickets: $25 Adults, $20 Seniors and Students
Tickets are unavailable at this time. We anticipate that some tickets will be available the evening of the performance.
Described as an all-star ensemble of traditional Irish musicians their virtuosity on multiple instruments combined with their approach to presenting historical or cultural background for each of their selections makes for a musical and cultural journey through Celtic history. Must hear vocals of Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh (pronounced "mur-in nik-all-iff"), Benny McCarthy, Button Accordion; Eamonn Doorley, Bouzouki; Oisin McAuley, Fiddle; Donal Clancy, Guitar; Donnchadh Gough, B odhran and Uillean Pipes; and Tom Doorley, Flute and Whistles.
In 1994, Benny McCarthy, Donal Clancy and Donnchadh Gough from Co.Waterford with Dubliner Daire Bracken were invited to the renowned festival Lorient Inter-celtic Festival in France. In Lorient the band became an instant success and they were immediately invited to return in 1996. The band was named Danú after the Celtic Goddess by a good friend Trisha Hutton This was the simple beginning to what was to become one of the most important Traditional Irish ensembles of recent years.
Support for the performance by Danu is provided in part by a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, through an appropriation by the Minnesota State Legislature from the Minnesota arts and cultural heritage fund money from the vote of the people of Minnesota on November 4, 2008, and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
The presentation of Danú is supported in part by the Performing Arts Fund, a program of Arts Midwest funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts with additional contributions from Minnesota State Arts Board, General Mills Foundation, and Land O’Lakes Foundation.
Pre-Show Dinner reservations have closed.
SMU Department of Theatre and Dance presents:
Talking With by Jane Martin
March 4-6, 7:30pm, March 7, 3:00pm, March 8, 7:30pm in the Valencia Academy Theatre at the Valencia Arts Center, 1164 W. 10th (corner of Vila and 10th Street)
Tickets: $10 Adults, $5 Seniors and Students. SMU Student Rush available.
Talking With is eleven monologues for women. These extraordinary monologues received a standing ovation at Louisville’s Actors Theatre. Idiosyncratic characters amuse, move, and frighten, always speaking from the depths of their souls. They include a baton twirler, a fundamentalist snake handler, an ex-rodeo rider, a bag lady wish to live in McDonalds, and an actress willing to go to any length to get a job. It was the 1982 winner of the American Theatre Critics Association Award for Best Regional Play.
“A dramatist with an original voice…(and) gladsome humor.”-- N.Y. Times
“With Jane Martin the monologue has taken on a new poetic form, intensive in its method and revelatory in its impact.” – Philadelphia Inquirer
Please Note: This production has a live snake and a live cat in different scenes. We have rated the play as PG-13 because of adult language in one incident.
NED KIRK
Saturday, March 13, at 7:30pm and Sunday, March 14, at 3:00pm in the Figiulo Recital Hall of the Performance Center
Tickets: $22 Adults, $18 Seniors and Students. Student Rush, $10.
Known locally as the artistic and managing director of the Minnesota Beethoven Festival and as the chair of Saint Mary’s Department of Music, Ned Kirk is an electrifying and sensitive interpreter of Beethoven. His piano technique is “impeccable” and his musicianship has been described as “marvelous.”
For the past 25 years, Kirk has performed extensively as a soloist and chamber musician, and the 2009-2010 concert season has included performances on four continents. In the United States he is appearing on concert series from coast to coast, with recital performances in California, Nevada, Nebraska, Minnesota, Illinois, North Carolina and Florida. Other highlights include concerto engagements with the Minnesota Orchestra and music director Osmo Vänskä at both Sommerfest and the Minnesota Beethoven Festival, as well as a concerto performance with the Eau Claire Chamber Orchestra in Wisconsin. Overseas performances include 10 recitals in Kenya, Denmark, France, Hong Kong, and China. For the 2010-2011 season, Kirk will be performing in Germany, Singapore and China, as well as the United States.
Support for the performance of Ned Kirk is provided in part by a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, through an appropriation by the Minnesota State Legislature from the Minnesota arts and cultural heritage fund money from the vote of the people of Minnesota on November 4, 2008, and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. |
