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FM Cultural Calendar | Starting Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Azar Nafisi
An avid believer in the "republic of the imagination," her best known book, Reading Lolita in Tehran, spent 117 weeks on The New York Times Bestseller List, and has been translated into 32 languages. It paints a vivid portrait of the Islamic Revolution in Iran and its effect on Nafisi as a secular woman and university professor, and its effect on her students.
02/29/2012
Time: 8:00 pm
Heinz Hall, 600 Penn Ave. Pittsburgh, PA
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Gaelic Storm
The "ever-feisty" (Phila. Daily News) Celtic rock quintet seen in James Cameron's "Titanic" (re-releasing soon in 3D) takes its musically dynamic and engaging sound on tour, performing songs from their #1 album 'Cabbage.'
02/29/2012
Time: 7:30 pm
Location: Palace Theater, 21 West Otterman St., Greensburg, PA
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Freud’s Last Session
Psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud pioneered the Id, the Ego and the Superego. Writer C.S. Lewis created The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Two men, both brilliant, yet vastly different: Freud the atheist, Lewis the believer. In Mark St. Germain's new play, they meet in 1939 as England goes to war against the Nazis. Their evening of electrifying conversation about God, love, sex, and the meaning of life will spark controversy long after the show is over. Mary Robinson directs.
03/01/2012 - 04/01/2012
O'Reilly Theater, 621 Penn Ave., Pittsburgh, PA
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Everything is Fine
Pittsburgh-area teen Demi Brae Cuccia was murdered in 2007 by her ex-boyfriend one day after her 16th birthday. She was a victim of teen dating violence. There were warning signs, but neither Demi, her friends, nor her family were aware of them. Unfortunately, this is not uncommon. Demi's story inspired this 45-minute play created by Prime Stage Theatre's Teen Board to address this urgent, but silent, epidemic.
03/01/2012
Time: 7:30 pm
New Hazlett Theater, 6 Allegheny Square, Pittsburgh, PA
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Emanuel Ax & the Enigma Variations
The Washington Post describes Emanuel Ax as “an extremely satisfying pianist… always thoughtful, lyrical, lustrous.” Ax returns for Mozart's engaging Piano Concerto #22. Renowned violinist Nikolaj Znaider makes his PSO conducting debut with music from Wagner's exquisite story of insatiable desire, Tristan und Isolde. Elgar's Enigma Variations is a clever series of musical puzzles containing portraits of the composer's friends that left audiences guessing for years
03/02/2012 - 03/04/2012
03/02 - 2:30 pm
03/02 - 8:00 pm
Heinz Hall, 600 Penn Ave., Pittsburgh, PA
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Conservatory Dance Company
Featuring the works of accomplished dance faculty including Kiesha Lalama, Garfield Lemonius, Peter LeBreton Merz, Nicolas Petrov and Ron Tassone, our students shine on the stage at Point Park University.
03/02/2012 - 03/04/2012
Location: White Performance Studio, Point Park University, 201 Wood St., Pittsburgh, PA
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Pirates of Penzance
The Pittsburgh area's oldest theater company presents its 73rd annual spring production, Gilbert & Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance.
03/02/2012 - 03/11/2012
Location: Carnegie Music Hall, Carnegie, PA
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Carnegie Mellon Contemporary Ensemble
FREE.
03/03/2012
Location: Kresge Theatre, College of Fine Arts, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
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Armitage Gone! Dance in Three Theories
Celebrated "punk ballerina" and artistic director Karole Armitage is renowned for pushing boundaries. In Karole Armitage's hands, classical dance receives a needed shock to its system with speed and fractured lines, abstractions and symmetry countermanded by asymmetry. Three Theories is an evening-length work inspired by physicist Brian Greene's best-selling book, The Elegant Universe, which Armitage uses as a means for exploring new possibilities in movement and patterning.
03/03/2012
Time: 8:00 pm
Location: Byham Theater, 101 Sixth St., Pittsburgh, PA
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Rachmaninoff's Vespers
Music Director Susan Medley conducts Sergei Rachmaninoff's a cappella choral work, the All Night Vigil (also known as Vespers), considered by many to be his finest musical achievement. The soloists will be mezzo-soprano Eva Rainforth and tenor Joseph Gaines.
03/03/2012 - 03/04/2012
Time: various
Location: various
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