Shakti, the popular fusion band formed by English guitarist John McLaughlin, Indian violin player L. Shankar, percussionists Zakir Hussain and T. H. Vinayakram in 1974, is celebrating its 50th anniversary in the music biz with an international tour.
The band, which performs acoustic fusion music combined with Indian music and elements of jazz, will commemorate its anniversary at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center on Aug. 25, with McLaughlin, Hussain and newer member, Shankar Mahadevan.
The show will also feature special guest Béla Fleck.
This summer, Shakti released its first studio album in 45 years. “This Moment” is a collection of new music that intermingles with Eastern and Western influences and traditions.
Expect both old hits and new music at the 50th anniversary celebration.
Photo: Jazz-Indian fusion band Shakti coming to Atlanta this summer.
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Shakti, the popular fusion band formed by English guitarist John McLaughlin, Indian violin player L. Shankar, percussionists Zakir Hussain and T. H. Vinayakram in 1974, is celebrating its 50th anniversary …
We couldn't be more thrilled that Atlanta theatre is coming back in full force with a wide array of shows every month! We've rounded up a few of our top picks from our partner venues in the near future, so check them out below, and be sure to grab a copy of Encore while you're at the performances.
The Barber of Seville
Atlanta Opera
March 5-13, 2022 at the Cobb Energy Centre
“Figaro! Figaro! Figaro!” From composer Gioachino Rossini and librettist Cesare Sterbini, everyone’s favorite barber pulls all the levers in this comedic romp featuring a fiery young girl, her lecherous old guardian, and a smitten young nobleman. It’s all up to the wily Figaro to stay one step ahead of the shenanigans, and see to it that true love wins in the end. From the famous overture to its rapid-fire vocalism, this laugh-out-loud opera is a winner that works its charms on all ages. Visit CobbEnergyCentre.com for more information and to purchase tickets.
Ain’t Too Proud – The Life and Times of The Temptations
Broadway in Atlanta
March 8-13, 2022 at The Fox Theatre
Featuring the Grammy® winning songs and Tony® winning moves, Ain’t Too Proud is the electrifying new musical that follows The Temptations’ extraordinary journey from the streets of Detroit to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. This thrilling story of brotherhood, family, loyalty, and betrayal is set to the beat of the group’s treasured hits, including “My Girl,” “Just My Imagination,” “Get Ready,” “Papa Was a Rolling Stone,” and so many more. Visit www.FoxTheatre.org for more information and to purchase tickets.
Bina’s Six Apples
Alliance Theatre
March 11-27, 2022 on the Coca-Cola Stage
Bina’s family grows the finest apples in all of Korea. But when war forces her to flee her home, Bina is alone in the world with just six precious apples to her name. Can these meager possessions help her find her family? Encountering new challenges at every turn, Bina is forced to rely upon her apples and their important legacy as she begins to discover the power of her own resilience. Often mesmerizing, always heartwarming, Bina will discover that she’s not the only one on a difficult quest for a place to call home. Visit AllianceTheatre.org for more information and to purchase tickets.
Giselle
Atlanta Ballet
March 18-20, 2022 at the Cobb Energy Centre
After a young peasant girl named Giselle is deceived by her true love, Albrecht, she falls into a fit of despair and dies of a broken heart. A woman scorned, she is destined to rise from the grave with the vengeful otherworldly beauties known as the Willis, entrapping men who unwittingly cross their paths. At once beguiling and maleficent, the Willis capture Albrecht and condemn him to dance until his death, but the power of Giselle’s enduring love protects him and ultimately sets them both free. Visit CobbEnergyCentre.com for more information and to purchase tickets.
Pandora Presents Disney Princess: The Concert
April 2, 2022 at the Fox Theatre
‘Be our guest’ as an all-star quartet of Broadway and animated film performers, their magical Music Director, and enchanting Prince celebrate all the Disney Princesses in an unforgettable evening of songs, animation, and stories. Featuring: Susan Egan (original Belle in Broadway’s Beauty and the Beast, Meg in the film Hercules), Anneliese van der Pol (Broadway's final Belle and Disney Channel star from That's So Raven and Raven's Home), Courtney Reed (original Jasmine in Broadway’s Aladdin) and Syndee Winters (Nala in Broadway's The Lion King, Hamilton). Fans are encouraged to dress up in their best royal attire for the show. Visit www.FoxTheatre.org for more information and to purchase tickets.
We couldn’t be more thrilled that Atlanta theatre is coming back in full force with a wide array of shows every month! We’ve rounded up a few of our top …
Above: The Atlanta Opera's Porgy and Bess starts March 7.
With February already halfway over, Encore is especially excited for the coming weeks in Atlanta.
With the number of exciting shows Atlanta has coming up, we think the year couldn't move faster! Below, take a look at four shows we at Encore can't wait to see.
Courtesy of the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre
The Beach Boys: 12 Sides of Summer Where: The Cobb Energy Centre When: February 26 at 7:30 p.m. What: The iconic voices of the West Coast are still going strong. Led by original band member Mike Love, the legacy of the group continues with longtime member Bruce Johston and more to bring audiences some of the greatest American hits of all time including, “Surfin’ USA,” “Surfer Girl,” “California Girls,” “Fun, Fun, Fun,” “Good Vibrations,” “Wouldn’t it be Nice,” and so many more.
About those tickets…
Click here to purchase from $47-$120 (plus applicable fees).
Courtesy of the Fox Theatre
Dancing with the Stars: Live! Where: The Fox Theatre When: February 27 at 8pm What: Fresh off their 28th season, the pros from Dancing with the Stars are bringing their lavish ballroom dance showcase to Atlanta. Filled with sparkly costumes and exceptional dancing, the evening welcomes audience members of all ages, featuring the talents of Val Chmerkovskiy, Jenna Johnson, Alan Bersten, Lindsay Arnold, and more favorites.
About those tickets…
Click here to purchase from $59.50-$125 (plus applicable fees). VIP and Meet and Greet packages are also available.
Seize the King Where: The Alliance Theatre When: February 14-March 8 What: Will Power’s modern retelling of Richard III makes its East Coast debut. Under the direction of Michael John Garcés, Shakespeare’s tale of ruthless ambition comes to life using a cast of five playing multiple roles and billed simply as “Actor 1,” “Actor 2,” etc. Click here to get a sneak peek at the rehearsal photos.
About those tickets…
Click here to purchase discounted tickets from $10-$22.50.
Courtesy of The Atlanta Opera
The Atlanta Opera’s Porgy and Bess Where: The Cobb Energy Centre When: March 7-15 What: “The great American opera” from none other than George and Ira Gershwin soars again, bringing its Depression-era tale of love, injustice, and music to a modern audience. Each performance will include a special talk from Morehouse College voice professor Dr. Uzee Brown, Jr., D.M.A one hour before curtain time.
About those tickets…
Click here to purchase from $45-$160 (plus applicable fees).
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Above: The Atlanta Opera’s Porgy and Bess starts March 7. With February already halfway over, Encore is especially excited for the coming weeks in Atlanta. With the number of exciting …
Tickets are on sale now for the 20th annual Atlanta Jewish Film Festival, featuring the star power of Helen Mirren, Billy Crystal, Parks and Recreation’s Ben Schwartz, and more.
Pictured above: Jonathan Philbert and Juliana Missano (photo by Gene Schiavone)
Atlanta Ballet’s February programs will bring a rich combination of Gospel and jazz music as the company premieres Alexander Ekman’s Tuplet, Lar Lubovitch’s Elemental Brubeck, and Sunrise Divine, a unique fusion of live song and dance by Dwight Rhoden. Featuring original music by Kevin Johnson and performed live by members of Spelman College Glee Club, it also features Golden Gate Singers, Lydia Pace of the Anointed Pace Sisters and more.
“I wanted to find a way to present ballet in a way that
would resonate with and bring together diverse audiences within the metro
Atlanta community,” says Atlanta Ballet Artistic Director Gennadi Nedvigin.
“Featuring digital innovations as well as modern-day arrangements of
traditional jazz and gospel, the works in this program will give patrons the
chance to experience a special collaboration of new movement in music and
dance.”
Quick Facts Atlanta Ballet’s mixed repertory program, Heart/Beat, runs for six performances from Friday, February 7 to Sunday, February 15 at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre – 2800 Cobb Galleria Parkway, Atlanta, GA 30339.
About Tuplet* Following Atlanta Ballet’s popular performance of Cacti last season, Alexander Ekman returns with Tuplet, an explosive and inventive work. Using their own bodies as percussion instruments, the dancers generate driving tempos that, when intermixed with popular jazz standards and an original electronic track, create an immersive, symphonic experience.
About Elemental Brubeck* In Lar Lubovitch’s Elemental Brubeck, swaying hips, breathtaking leaps and powerful turns channel the iconic style of Dave Brubeck’s rhythmically complex music. Atlanta Ballet is presenting Elemental Brubeck as part of the Dave Brubeck Centennial – a world-wide celebration of the 100th birthday of Dave Brubeck, the jazz composer, pianist, cultural ambassador and visionary musician, which takes place on December 6, 2020.
About Sunrise Divine* Described as a performance for the soul, Atlanta Ballet welcomes Complexions Contemporary Ballet’s Co-Founder Dwight Rhoden for a special world premiere, Sunrise Divine. Under the direction of Kevin Johnson, members of the Spelman College Glee Club and the Golden Gate Singers will share the stage with Atlanta Ballet dancers, along with appearances from sopranos Hanan Davis and Julia Dennis, recording artist Kevin Thomas, and Lydia Pace of the well-known gospel group The Anointed Pace Sisters. The performance will feature traditional and beloved gospel songs such as “Steal Away,” “Deep River,” and “Wade in the Water,” as well as a gospel tribute to Walter Hawkins and new music commissioned for this performance. Also included in the work is an arrangement of music originally performed by the Golden Gate Quartet.
About those tickets… Click here to purchase from $20-$130.
Pictured above: Jonathan Philbert and Juliana Missano (photo by Gene Schiavone) Atlanta Ballet’s February programs will bring a rich combination of Gospel and jazz music as the company premieres Alexander …
Atlanta is going back to Bethlehem and picking up some Gospel along the way.
The Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre welcomes song, dance,
and spiritual holiday performance, Black
Nativity December 13-15. Poet and playwright Langston Hughes combines a modern
African-American church with old-fashioned spirituals in this adaptation by Robert
John Connor.
Performance details Friday, December 13 at 8:00pm Saturday, December 14 at 2:00pm Saturday, December 14 at 8:00pm Sunday, December 15 at 3:00pm
About the show This one act musical opens in a modern day African-American church on Christmas day, filled with testifying deacons, sanctified ladies, and down-home preaching. Under the musical direction of Keith Wilson, the show takes us on a journey back to the Bethlehem of Mary and Joseph, resplendent in African costumes, and moving songs of worship, magnificent dance choreographed by Dawn Axam, and old-fashioned spirituals. The African-American viewpoint and the gospel music make Black Nativity a truly unique and entertaining theatrical experience.
About those tickets…
Click here to purchase from $36-$66 (plus fees).
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Atlanta is going back to Bethlehem and picking up some Gospel along the way. The Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre welcomes song, dance, and spiritual holiday performance, Black Nativity December …
Next weekend, the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center welcomes The Hip Hop Nutcracker for a limited, one-night engagement on November 29 at 7:30pm. Advertised as “a holiday mashup for the whole family,” the piece features twelve dancers, a DJ, a violinist, and a “hip hop founding father,” MC Kurtis Blow.
About Hip Hop Nutcracker Just like the original, in The Hip
Hop Nutcracker, Maria-Clara and the
Nutcracker Prince go on a dream adventure battling a gang of mice, visiting the
land of sweets and learning the lessons of the holiday season. Innovative
digital graffiti and visuals transform the landscape of E.T.A. Hoffmann’s
beloved story from traditional 19th Century Germany to the vibrant, diverse
sights and sounds of contemporary New York City.
About those tickets… Click
here to purchase tickets from $31-$81 (not including fees).
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Next weekend, the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center welcomes The Hip Hop Nutcracker for a limited, one-night engagement on November 29 at 7:30pm. Advertised as “a holiday mashup for the …
Want to run away and join the circus? That’s just what Therese Curatolo has done. You’ll find her
in the spotlight when “A Magical Cirque Christmas” comes to the Cobb Energy
Centre, but she won’t be handling elephants or getting shot out of a cannon.
Curatolo is the soloist whose vocal artistry brings the
music of Christmas to the magical assembly of aerialists, acrobats, and
illusionists who make up the 2019 production of “A Magical Cirque Christmas.”
“I perform throughout the show, singing while the acts and
sets change and during some performances,” Curatolo says.
This Cirque has no animal acts. Instead, it builds on
traditional human-powered circus skills like aerial and acrobatic performances
in a theatrical setting to create a show for all ages.
“We equate our show to the Radio City Music Hall’s Christmas
extravaganza, minus the Rockettes,” she says.
The 2019 tour includes 40 dates and winds its way across the
United States from the East Coast to the Midwest, down to Atlanta and points
south, then over to Arizona before wrapping up in California. Like circuses of
old, it’s never in the same city twice and is always on the move.
That might exhaust an average person, but Cirque’s
performers are circus folk, and they roll with it, Curatolo says.
“You get used to it,” she says. “Last year, we did six to
seven shows a week, with matinees. It just works. The idle mind is the devil’s
workshop, and we don’t do well when we just sit still. That’s what makes us a
circus.”
Her repertoire includes carols, classical and contemporary holiday songs, and novelty songs, along with sing-alongs. “We do everything from Celine Dion and Mariah Carey to Bing Crosby and Nat King Cole,” she says.
Audience participation is a regular feature of the show. No,
you won’t have to swing on a trapeze or spin around on a giant wheel. But this
year’s emcee, English magician/comedian John Archer might pull willing
spectators up on stage for – well, anything is possible!
Curatolo’s musical contributions stitch together a wide
variety of performances in the air and on the ground, and also give her a
close-up view that can be a little unnerving to the earthbound.
Oleksiy "Alex" Mruz
“The show, visually, is very stimulating, with people on
wheels, jugglers, people in the air ... I love watching everything, but we have
one artist (Oleksiy “Alex” Mruz) who performs on the rola bola. It’s a
balancing act where he’s always in motion, and I have to hold my breath while
he’s performing. Sometimes I just can’t watch!”
Mruz, like Curatolo, is returning for a second year with the
Cirque. Along with Mruz’s rola bola, a collection of boards rolling on
cylinders, acts in this year’s tour will include Yusaku-Mochizuki, who will
perform the diabolo juggling act that American TV audiences viewed first on
“America’s Got Talent.”
Who else will be flying through the air, balancing on one
hand, or otherwise inspiring awe on the 2019 tour? Featured acts will also
include cyr wheel dancer Rachel Salzman and female trapeze duo Virginie Gerbeau
and Zoé Sanscartier.
Emcee John Archer, one of the UK’s top comedy magicians, has
17 years of experience entertaining audiences all over the world. He was most
recently featured on “Britain’s Got Talent” and named “Magic Circle Stage
Magician of the Year.”
Roberto Carlos
“A Magical Cirque Christmas” has roots on Broadway as well
as in traditional circus and illusionism – its creators Simon Painter, Tim
Lawson, and MagicSpace Entertainment produced “The Illusionists” on Broadway,
which also has its own holiday show this season.
This year’s, the “A Magical Cirque Christmas” tour is
choreographed by Richard Peakman, associate director on Cirque’s 2018 tour and
a veteran of circus-themed shows like “Circus 1903.”
“He’s brilliant,” Curatolo says. “He choreographs every
move, from entrances and exits to group numbers. I love working with him.”
Curatolo’s “A Magical Cirque Christmas” performances come right on the heels of her debut with another act familiar to Cobb Energy Centre audiences, Post-Modern Jukebox. The fan-favorite show’s tour concluded just before Cirque Christmas goes into rehearsal.
“I’m moving right from one show to another,” she says. “I’m
having a blast [on the Post-Modern Jukebox tour], but I can’t wait to see my
Cirque family. It’s so rewarding to perform together.”
Any chance she’s put down her microphone and reach for a trapeze? “No way! I’m in 5-inch heels. I’m strictly on the ground!”
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Story by Janet RobertsPhotos by Lou Baldanza Want to run away and join the circus? That’s just what Therese Curatolo has done. You’ll find her in the spotlight when “A …
Atlanta audiences get to experience “comedy’s most enduring team” next week.
Quick facts On October 10, Penn & Teller will grace the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center stage with their comedic magic show. The duo’s appearance comes on the heels of the fifth season of their CW show, Penn & Teller: Fool Us!
Bonus tidbits Penn & Teller have sold out Broadway runs, won Emmys, and made appearances on countless shows including Jimmy Fallon, The Simpsons, Modern Family, and The Big Bang Theory. They have also hosted the Creative Arts Emmys twice.
Performance info One night only- October 10 at 8pm.
About those tickets… $38-$78, click here to purchase.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lo5BRAKvJoA
Penn & Teller For over 40 years Penn & Teller have defied labels—and at times physics and good taste-- by redefining the genre of magic and inventing their own very distinct niche in comedy. With an amazing eight wins as “Las Vegas Magicians of the Year,” their 18-year run at The Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino makes them the longest running and one of the most-beloved headline acts in Las Vegas history, outselling every other resident magician on The Strip. Currently they host the hit series Penn & Teller: Fool Us! for The CW Network, on which up-and-comers and magic veterans try to fool Penn & Teller for a chance to star in the duo’s hit Las Vegas stage show. The show was nominated for a 2017 Critic’s Choice Award and will return for a sixth hit season in June 2019.
When you see Penn & Teller, make sure to post a photo
of your copy of Encore with the hashtag #EncoreOnTheTown so we can connect with
you!
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