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The director of Titanic takes us to a spectacular new world beyond our imagination, where a reluctant hero embarks on a journey of redemption, discovery and unexpected love -- as he leads a heroic battle to save a civilization in this epic action adventure fantasy. Conceived 14 years ago and over four years in the making, Avatar breaks new ground in delivering a fully immersive, emotional story and reinvents the moviegoing experience.
The Brothers Size and Marcus; Or the Secret of Sweet
The Brothers Size
When Oshooshie Size is released from jail he goes to work in his brother’s car repair shop. When his best friend from prison also shows up, a tense tug of war results. The Brothers Size is a fierce and honest look at the complex bonds of brotherhood.
Marcus; Or the Secret of Sweet Marcus is sixteen.
He is also coming to terms with his sexuality while uncovering the mysterious secrets of his family’s past. An entrancing coming-of-age story, Marcus is about the difficult quest for identity in an out spoken and strong-willed community.
It’s Harlem in the spring of 1943. Elizabeth and Quilly are sisters of a certain age sharing their quiet lives together, but when they take in Husband Witherspoon, a handsome young boarder, their entire world changes abruptly. Husband, fresh from the country and adjusting to live in the big city, is on a desperate search for his missing fiancée, but ends up finding love in the most unlikely of places. Told with heartwarming sincerity, humor and a touch of poetry, The Old Settler paints a poignant picture of two women testing the bonds of sisterhood and finding the strength and forgiveness only family can offer.
The adaptation of Richard Wagner's four-opera epic, Der Ring des Nibelungen, is The Building Stage's most ambitious project to date and promises to be one of the most talked about productions in the current Chicago theater season. Working from both Wagner's original libretti as well as his orchestral scores, the company is creating a six-hour theater piece driven by an onstage rock band telling the entire story of The Ring Cycle.
This retrospective features 109 pieces including 78 from the King-Tisdell Cottage Foundation, which acquired most of Davis's work after he died. The exhibition title comes from Davis' explanation of why he disliked parting with his work: "They're my treasure. If I sold these, I'd be really poor."
In the early 1950s, Ulysses Davis (1914-1990) began barbering in a shop he built behind his home in Savannah, Georgia. During his lifetime he carved more than 300 works, producing a varied, but unified body of wood sculpture that reflects his deep faith, humor and dignity. The work can be divided into several major categories: religious images, patriotism, works influenced by African forms, abstract decorative objects and portraits of African and American leaders to include his masterwork, a group of forty carved busts of all the U.S. presidents through George H.W. Bush.
A domestic cocktail party goes hilariously and horrifically awry exposing the obsessions, prejudices and petty competitiveness of the party-goers. A suburban comedy of manners and satire on the aspirations and tastes of the new middle class that emerged in Britain in the 1970s and ring oddly true today. The play, developed through lengthy improvisations in which Mike Leigh explored characters in all their beautiful, flawed glory, provides a tremendous opportunity for the entire creative team.
The Long Red Road is a raw and provocative new play about how one person's anguish can tear a family apart. Sam attempts to drink away his past and exorcise his demons on an Indian reservation in South Dakota, where he has been trying to forget his role in a tragic accident with his family. When a visitor from his past arrives on the reservation, Sam is forced to face his guilt and take a harrowing look at the man he has become
Winner of ten Tony Awards, FIDDLER ON THE ROOF has captured the hearts of people across the globe. A powerful and bittersweet celebration of the human spirit, FIDDLER ON THE ROOF is the tale of a family struggling to maintain their balance in a changing world. It is 1905, on the eve of the Russian Revolution, as Tevye, a Jewish milkman, and his wife search for acceptable husbands for their three lively daughters. While the daughters are determined to break with tradition and marry the men they love, Tevye must choose between their happiness and his beloved traditions that keep the outside world at bay. Meanwhile, the family begins to face larger forces as Jews are being persecuted in their homeland, threatening the very life Tevye strives to preserve.
The story follows the on and off stage antics of an inept acting troupe as they stumble from bumbling dress rehearsal to disastrous closing night. Everything that can go wrong does, as actors desperately try to hang on to their lines, their performances, and the furniture.
Dr. Carter G. Woodson initiated a celebration of black history in 1926. Dr. Woodson chose the second week in February because it included the birthdays of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln. In 1976, the Bicentennial (200th birthday) of the U.S.A., the week-long observance was extended to the entire month of February in order to have enough time for celebratory programs and activities. Throughout the month of February, the Chicago Park District celebrates Black History Month by hosting many festivals celebrating African style food, music culture and tradition.
