The Broad Stage at the Santa Monica College Performing Arts Center is entering the second month of a new summer pre-season to its exciting third year line-up. Alan Cumming: Uncut and the celebrities-skewering-celebrity-authors show Celebrity Autobiography anchor July while a roster of internationally acclaimed music, dance and theatrical artists such as Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, director Peter Brook, F. Murray Abraham, Bill T. Jones, Joshua Bell, Branford Marsalis, Diavolo, Christine Ebersole and Paulo Szot fill out the center’s expanded season beginning in September. The official opening weekend is Oct. 8-10 featuring one-night only performances by three acclaimed female music stars — jazz vocalist Esperanza Spalding, folk legend Judy Collins and cellist Lynn Harrell.
New programs this year include The Films 4 Change Festival, a showcase for some of the most lauded documentaries of the past year plus Saturday Morning Mash-Ups: The Multimedia Concerts, a re-imaging of the classic children’s concert that blends different sounds, genres, beats and eras to create a new way for kids to experience music.
Visit TheBroadstage.com for more season details or call 310.434.3200.
2010-2011 EVENT CALENDAR
(All listings are at The Broad Stage unless otherwise noted. Artists/events listed as scheduled to date.)
July
July 9: Alan Cumming: Uncut
July 19: Celebrity Autobiography, The Edye Second Space
Starring Scott Adsit (30 Rock), Lesley Ann Warren, Fred Willard, Dayle Reyfel, Eugene Pack, Brooke Shields and more.
September
September 11: Sussan Deyhim
September 17: Musica Angelica
September 19: ¡VIVA Mexico! Mariachi Divas, The Broad Stage & Plaza
Free community fiesta celebrating the Mexican Independence Bicentennial featuring the Grammy-winning all female mariachi group.
September 26: Celebrity Autobiography, The Edye
October
Opening Weekend:
- October 7: Esperanza Spalding
- October 8: Judy Collins
- October 9: Lynn Harrell
October 14-24: Shakespeare’s Globe Theater, The Merry Wives of Windsor
October 17: Celebrity Autobiography, The Edye
October 29: No Impact Man, Films 4 Change Festival, The Edye
October 30: Angel Romero & String Quartet
November
November 12: Nneena Freelon
November 13: Christine Ebersole
November 14: Celebrity Autobiography, The Edye
November 20 -December 19: Dickens Unscripted, The Edye
November 27-28: Paulo Szot
December
Dickens Unscripted, continues in The Edye
December 4: Jane Austen Unscripted – The Broad Winter Fling & Feast
December 19: Sweet Honey in the Rock
January 2011
January 8: Saturday Morning Mash-up, Camille Saint-Saens’ The Carnival of the Animals
January 14: Food, Inc., Films 4 Change Festival, The Edye
January 21-22: Diavolo
February
February 9: Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg w/ the New Century Chamber Orchestra
February 10: Joshua Bell
February 11: Joyce di Donato
February 12: Saturday Morning Mash-up, Sergei Prokofiev’ Peter and the Wolf
February 18-19: String Theory
February 20: Musica Angelica
February 24: Nino Machaidze
March
March 5: Lea Salonga
March 12: Saturday Morning Mash-up, Benjamin Britten’s The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra
March 18-19: Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, Between Us
April
April 1: Dirt! The Movie, Films 4 Change Festival, The Edye
April 2: Branford Marsalis and Terrence Blanchard
April 4: Musicians from Marlboro
April 6-11: Peter Brook / Centre Internationale de Créations Théâtrale
Fragments by Samuel Beckett
Directed by Peter Brook, Co-Directed by Marie-Hélène Estienne
The Grand Inquisitor by Fyodor Dostoevsky from The Brothers Karamazov
Adapted by Marie Hélène Estienne
Directed by Peter Brook
April 14-24: Theatre for a New Audience
The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
Starring F. Murray Abraham, directed by Darko Tresnjak
2007 Royal Shakespeare Company Complete Works Festival
May
May 22: In the Spirit of Woody Guthrie: Ribbon of Highway, Endless Skyway
The Broad Stage & Plaza
11am – 4:30pm
A daylong tribute to America’s troubadour, Woody Guthrie, focusing on the songs he wrote and the contributions he made during 1930s Los Angeles. Free lectures, demonstrations and sing-alongs plus a tribute concert featuring folk music legends including Sara Lee, Guthrie’s granddaughter.
For a pdf of the Broad’s season please click here.
Feature image of the Broad Stage Theater by Benny Chan.
