![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDkT0B7vk-pDDJFvY4gtQl-QbRoP9X9Jyccx7REw33V2pnNP4y-UMiccfdVeIRVnk9b-AznZxjV4KuG11U9MrQUT5Um2DBcXT56KP060Ggq2sKHpLW80SV3prBbMj4WdA2GlxFk76cEes/s280/feb+2+2009+016.jpg)
By: Dan Bacalzo · Feb 11, 2009 · Virginia
The Virginia Arts Festival has announced programming for its 13th annual festival, to run April 14-May 31 in more than two dozen venues in ten cities across the region.
Three-time Tony Award winner Liza Minnelli will perform at Norfolk's Chrysler Hall on April 24, while two-time Tony winner Patti LuPone will perform at the Williamsburg Lodge on May 24.
Choreographer Mark Morris will present Sergey Prokofiev's Romeo & Juliet, On Motifs of Shakespeare, May 8-10. Dance performances will also include appearances by the Czech National Theatre Ballet, Richmond Ballet, Israel's Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company, and Ballroom with a Twist, a show that gathers world champion ballroom dancers, American Idol star singers, and a celebrity host.
The festival will also include a wide range of music performances from the likes of the Kronos Quartet, Jerusalem Quartet, Tokyo String Quartet, Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio, Miami String Quartet, Imani Winds ensemble, Virginia Symphony, Ravi Shankar with his daughter Anoushka Shankar, Ralph Stanley and the Clinch Mountain Boys, and more. 12-time Grammy Award winner Emmylou Harris will perform during the festival's final weekend at Newport News' Ferguson Center for the Performing Arts, May 30.For more information, call 757-282-2822 or visit http://www.vafest.org/.
Three-time Tony Award winner Liza Minnelli will perform at Norfolk's Chrysler Hall on April 24, while two-time Tony winner Patti LuPone will perform at the Williamsburg Lodge on May 24.
Choreographer Mark Morris will present Sergey Prokofiev's Romeo & Juliet, On Motifs of Shakespeare, May 8-10. Dance performances will also include appearances by the Czech National Theatre Ballet, Richmond Ballet, Israel's Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company, and Ballroom with a Twist, a show that gathers world champion ballroom dancers, American Idol star singers, and a celebrity host.
The festival will also include a wide range of music performances from the likes of the Kronos Quartet, Jerusalem Quartet, Tokyo String Quartet, Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio, Miami String Quartet, Imani Winds ensemble, Virginia Symphony, Ravi Shankar with his daughter Anoushka Shankar, Ralph Stanley and the Clinch Mountain Boys, and more. 12-time Grammy Award winner Emmylou Harris will perform during the festival's final weekend at Newport News' Ferguson Center for the Performing Arts, May 30.For more information, call 757-282-2822 or visit http://www.vafest.org/.
No comments:
Post a Comment