Author: Liam Otten

Robert EtcheverryDynamo Theatre CompanyEach year, the Edison Theatre OVATIONS! Series presents nationally and internationally known artists performing works designed to challenge, educate and inspire. The 2007-08 season — the Edison’s 35th — will highlight the interdisciplinary, the multicultural and the experimental through a mix of returning favorites and St. Louis premieres.

The 2007-08 OVATIONS! Series season — Edison Theatre’s 35th — will highlight the interdisciplinary, the multicultural and the experimental through a mix of returning favorites and St. Louis premieres.

The Hoffman Triangle in New Orleans lies below sea level, sandwiched between the levees of Lake Pontchartrain on the north and the high banks of the Mississippi River to the south. During Hurricane Katrina, floodwaters rose about 9 feet, destroying two-thirds of the neighborhood’s housing. Yet even before Katrina, “the Hoffman Triangle was facing lots […]

The Kemper Art Museum presents “Andrea Fraser, ‘What do I, as an artist, provide?'” — the artist’s first Midwest solo exhibition — opening May 11.

Courtesy photoDiane ReevesDianne Reeves, one of the pre-eminent jazz vocalist in the world today, will conclude Edison Theatre’s 2006-07 OVATIONS! Series with a performance at 8 p.m. Saturday, May 19. Reeves is the only artist to ever win three consecutive Grammy Awards for “Best Jazz Vocal Album” — a first in any category — for A Little Moonlight (2003), The Calling: A Tribute to Sarah Vaughan (2001) and In the Moment (2000). In 2006 she received her fourth Grammy, for the soundtrack to George Clooney’s critically acclaimed film Good Night, And Good Luck.

El Museo Cultural de Santa FePeter Elsbeck, Cristina Greavu and Eric Rang, all graduate students in architecture in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, have won an international competition to create a sculptural façade for El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe. The group’s winning design was selected from more than 100 entries submitted by architects, artists and designers representing 10 countries. The team will receive a $5,000 first-place cash award.

Trout Fishing in America — the long-standing musical partnership between 5-foot-5-inch bass player Keith Grimwood and 6-foot-9-inch guitarist Ezra Idlet —brings its infectious blend of folk, pop and family-friendly music to Edison Theatre at 11 a.m. May 5.

The Washington University Opera will perform Richard Wagner’s “Ride of the Valkyries” — one of the most recognized motifs in Western music — as part of its Evening at the Opera concerts 8 p.m. May 4-5 in Umrath Hall.

The Kemper Art Museum will present “Ansel Adams: Reverence for Life,” an exhibition of photographs showcasing works from the personal collections of the Adams family, in conjunction with the International Symposium on Energy and Environment, sponsored by the McDonnell International Scholars Academy.

Preview of Edison Theatre’s 2007-08 OVATIONS! Series.