http://www.american.edu/calendar en-us Concert of Tükrös Ensemble: Tunes from Hungary Thursday, June 27, 7 p.m. Abramson Family Recital Hall, Katzen Arts Center Tickets: $15 Purchase tickets online at american.tix.com Tükrös Folk Ensemble: A Festival of Hungarian Folk Music The Tükrös Folk Music Ensemble was founded in 1986 and today is one of Hungary's most respected revival folk bands specializing in collecting authentic folk music from remote villages of Hungary and Transylvania and from archival recordings and preserving and presenting this music in its most authentic form, yet in a style most entertaining and suitable for all audiences. Their performance is a voyage back to historical times, when traditional folk music was an integral and crucial part of the village community's daily life. TÜKRÖS CDs have been very popular, especially their disc of folk music collection from Szatmár county [North Eastern Hungary], which became a landmark release. They are a regular band at the FONÓ, a popular folk music café in Budapest. In addition to performing, the band members are dedicated to teaching folk music in schools and organizing an annual folk music camp in Hungary. Tükrös members are professional musicians with decades of performing experience. The band has toured throughout Europe, twice in Australia and once in North America. Members include: Attila Halmos, violin ? became attracted to folk music at an early age through the activities of his father's who was an ethnomusicologist; Gergely Koncz, violin ? one of Hungary's youngest and most talented folk violinists; Péter Árendás, brácsa [viola] ? a key figure in the collection of folk music for FONÓ Records and the musical director of the BUDAPEST Folk Ensemble; Endre Liber, brácsa and cimbalom ? a prominent musician in the Budapest folk music scene with many years of experience; András Lelkes, bogo [double bass] ? a talented musician with experience in folk music as well as jazz. Norbert Busai and Zsuzsanna Busai, two much loved folk-dancers and teachers will complete the list of performers, they will make the performance an unforgettable experience. https://www.american.edu/calendar/?id=4604856 Mon, June 03, 2013 12:50:37 Szalonna and his Band featuring Bob Cohen Monday, July 1, 7 p.m. Abramson Family Recital Hall, Katzen Arts Center Tickets: $15 Purchase tickets online at american.tix.com Szalonna and his Band are musicians of the Hungarian National Folk Ensemble. Their concerts feature the beautiful tunes of the Danubian basin. Apart from authentic interpretations of folk music, they also work with their material in innovative ways. Band members all consider the preservation of traditions an important task to which they are committed, and thus teach folk music as instructors. They are regular participants of the most popular festivals in Hungary and have toured extensively in Europe and overseas in the past years, including Venezuela, India, Greece, the UK, Ukraine, Romania, Slovakia and the United States. In 2006, they represented Hungary at the commemoration of the revolution of 1956, joining the ranks of such exceptional artists as Academy Award-winner Jeremy Irons, pianist Tamás Vásáry and Grammy Award-winning folk singer Márta Sebestyén. A very special acknowledgement is the audience award of the 2007 Prima Primissima Gala, which they won as members of the Hungarian National Folk Ensemble. Bob Cohen approaches klezmer music as a living folk art, and presents it in the style it would have been performed in its heyday. In addition to Hungarian, Romanian, Moldavian, and Yiddish music, his repertoire also includes traditional Hasidic tunes. Cohen was born in New York in 1956. His mother was Hungarian and his father Moldavian. As a child, he visited Hungary several times, where he experienced the music of the Sebo Ensemble and dance houses. In the United States, his homeland, he played several styles of music, and worked for a radio as well as an ethnographer. When he returned to Hungary in the late 1980s, he commenced his research on the region's Jewish musical heritage, including songs, dances and musical instruments. He often traveled to Transylvania to expand his research collections. In 1993, he founded Di Naye Kapelye (The New Band) with accordionist Christina Crowder and bassist Géza Pénzes; the band's line-up has changed several times over the following years. Their 2008 album, Traktorist, ranked high on Songline World Music Magazine's "Top of the World" list of best new albums. The joint performance of Szalonna and his Band and Bob Cohen is a unique and exlusive opportunity to experience the multicultural heritage of Hungary and Eastern Europe. https://www.american.edu/calendar/?id=4605164 Mon, June 03, 2013 12:49:38 Washington Women in Theatre Presents 10th Anniversary Celebration With New Plays and Music by Women from July 2-10, 2013 Tuesday, July 2, 8 p.m. Wednesday, July 3, 8 p.m. Tickets: $12 general admission; $10 for students and seniors Purchase tickets online: american.tix.com www.washingtonwit.org Funnel Cake Flowers & The Urban Chameleons written and directed by HaJ Fresh from the Atlanta Fringe Festival, this young urban black woman turns her autobiography into an interactive exposé of black-white relations by outing the lives of people of color who, as code-switchers, choose when to reveal their accents and attitudes in front of white people, creating a shocking and hysterical Saturday Night Live style mock of the human condition while "living in color in a white man's world." Showhouse a new comedy-drama written and directed by Washington, D.C. native Linda Sherbert When a perfection-obsessed interior designer becomes chair of a decorator showhouse, she must work side-by-side with both her estranged architect-husband and his mistress. Needless to say, putting all three under one roof takes a toll on both décor and decorum. "Perfection" goes out the window! https://www.american.edu/calendar/?id=4604198 Thu, May 23, 2013 15:47:56 Washington Women in Theatre Presents 10th Anniversary Celebration With New Plays and Music by Women from July 2-10, 2013 Tuesday, July 2, 8 p.m. Wednesday, July 3, 8 p.m. Tickets: $12 general admission; $10 for students and seniors Purchase tickets online: american.tix.com www.washingtonwit.org Funnel Cake Flowers & The Urban Chameleons written and directed by HaJ Fresh from the Atlanta Fringe Festival, this young urban black woman turns her autobiography into an interactive exposé of black-white relations by outing the lives of people of color who, as code-switchers, choose when to reveal their accents and attitudes in front of white people, creating a shocking and hysterical Saturday Night Live style mock of the human condition while "living in color in a white man's world." Showhouse a new comedy-drama written and directed by Washington, D.C. native Linda Sherbert When a perfection-obsessed interior designer becomes chair of a decorator showhouse, she must work side-by-side with both her estranged architect-husband and his mistress. Needless to say, putting all three under one roof takes a toll on both décor and decorum. "Perfection" goes out the window! https://www.american.edu/calendar/?id=4604199 Thu, May 23, 2013 15:47:56 Washington Women in Theatre Presents 10th Anniversary Celebration With New Plays and Music by Women from July 2-10, 2013 Saturday, July 6, and Sunday, July 7, 4 p.m. Saturday, July 6, 8 p.m. Tickets: $12 general admission; $10 for students and seniors Purchase tickets online: american.tix.com www.washingtonwit.org How I Became a Bennington Girl by Sidra Rausch and Directed by Susan Lynskey and Karen Berman Arriving at Bennington College, a young woman embarks on a journey to find her unique inner voice, only to be confronted by the anti Semitism of her faculty advisor in this semi-autobiographical account. https://www.american.edu/calendar/?id=4604204 Thu, May 23, 2013 15:47:38 Washington Women in Theatre Presents 10th Anniversary Celebration With New Plays and Music by Women from July 2-10, 2013 Saturday, July 6, and Sunday, July 7, 4 p.m. Saturday, July 6, 8 p.m. Tickets: $12 general admission; $10 for students and seniors Purchase tickets online: american.tix.com www.washingtonwit.org How I Became a Bennington Girl by Sidra Rausch and Directed by Susan Lynskey and Karen Berman Arriving at Bennington College, a young woman embarks on a journey to find her unique inner voice, only to be confronted by the anti Semitism of her faculty advisor in this semi-autobiographical account. https://www.american.edu/calendar/?id=4604203 Thu, May 23, 2013 15:47:19 Washington Women in Theatre Presents 10th Anniversary Celebration With New Plays and Music by Women from July 2-10, 2013 Saturday, July 6, and Sunday, July 7, 4 p.m. Saturday, July 6, 8 p.m. Tickets: $12 general admission; $10 for students and seniors Purchase tickets online: american.tix.com www.washingtonwit.org How I Became a Bennington Girl by Sidra Rausch and Directed by Susan Lynskey and Karen Berman Arriving at Bennington College, a young woman embarks on a journey to find her unique inner voice, only to be confronted by the anti Semitism of her faculty advisor in this semi-autobiographical account. https://www.american.edu/calendar/?id=4604205 Thu, May 23, 2013 15:47:38 Washington Women in Theatre Presents 10th Anniversary Celebration With New Plays and Music by Women from July 2-10, 2013 Sunday, July 7, 8 p.m. Monday, July 8, 8 p.m. Tickets: $12 general admission; $10 for students and seniors Purchase tickets online: american.tix.com www.washingtonwit.org Frances Perkins written and performed by Mary Suib Author, labor movement champion, and politico, Frances Perkins was the first woman to hold a cabinet position in the U.S. and thus first woman to enter the presidential line of succession. This solo show is a funny and poignant look at her life under Franklin D. Roosevelt and her family plagued by manic-depression. Some Like it Hot performed by Barbara Papendorp and Amy Conley Songs of love and hope and women by the great composers of jazz and cabaret standards sung by the D.C. chanteuse and her piano accompanist who return to WWIT to help us celebrate our 10th anniversary. https://www.american.edu/calendar/?id=4604206 Thu, May 23, 2013 15:47:01 Washington Women in Theatre Presents 10th Anniversary Celebration With New Plays and Music by Women from July 2-10, 2013 Sunday, July 7, 8 p.m. Monday, July 8, 8 p.m. Tickets: $12 general admission; $10 for students and seniors Purchase tickets online: american.tix.com www.washingtonwit.org Frances Perkins written and performed by Mary Suib Author, labor movement champion, and politico, Frances Perkins was the first woman to hold a cabinet position in the U.S. and thus first woman to enter the presidential line of succession. This solo show is a funny and poignant look at her life under Franklin D. Roosevelt and her family plagued by manic-depression. Some Like it Hot performed by Barbara Papendorp and Amy Conley Songs of love and hope and women by the great composers of jazz and cabaret standards sung by the D.C. chanteuse and her piano accompanist who return to WWIT to help us celebrate our 10th anniversary. https://www.american.edu/calendar/?id=4604207 Thu, May 23, 2013 15:47:01 Washington Women in Theatre Presents 10th Anniversary Celebration With New Plays and Music by Women from July 2-10, 2013 Tuesday, July 9, 8 p.m. Wednesday, July 10, 8 p.m. Tickets: $12 general admission; $10 for students and seniors Purchase tickets online: american.tix.com www.washingtonwit.org Cream Soda & Creme de Menthe written and directed by Caleen Sinnette Jennings Performed by Rachel Foley It's the fall of 1962, and Jacqueline Marie Butler walks a tightrope between two worlds. In her black neighborhood, she and her friends jump double dutch, make up routines to the Supremes, and sip cream soda. In her progressive, Greenwich Village school she and he white friends read Hesse, debate political issues, and sip Creme de Menthe. This newly expanded comedy explores race, class and coming of age in the 60s. https://www.american.edu/calendar/?id=4604208 Thu, May 23, 2013 15:46:40 Washington Women in Theatre Presents 10th Anniversary Celebration With New Plays and Music by Women from July 2-10, 2013 Tuesday, July 9, 8 p.m. Wednesday, July 10, 8 p.m. Tickets: $12 general admission; $10 for students and seniors Purchase tickets online: american.tix.com www.washingtonwit.org Cream Soda & Creme de Menthe written and directed by Caleen Sinnette Jennings Performed by Rachel Foley It's the fall of 1962, and Jacqueline Marie Butler walks a tightrope between two worlds. In her black neighborhood, she and her friends jump double dutch, make up routines to the Supremes, and sip cream soda. In her progressive, Greenwich Village school she and he white friends read Hesse, debate political issues, and sip Creme de Menthe. This newly expanded comedy explores race, class and coming of age in the 60s. https://www.american.edu/calendar/?id=4604209 Thu, May 23, 2013 15:46:40