Into the Woods, Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s witty and daring reimagining of classic fairy tales, leaves behind the binary world of good versus evil and right versus wrong to explore what really happens after “happily ever after.”
Christine Sun Kim is a Berlin-based artist who works with sound, language, and the complexities of communication. She uses musical notation, infographics, and language—both in her native American Sign Language (ASL) and written English—to create drawings, site-specific murals, paintings, video installations, and sculptures. In her lecture-performance Deaf Death, Kim explores the frequent autocorrection of “deaf” to “death” in text-based technologies.
GRAMMY®-nominated pianist Aaron Diehl has quietly re-defined the lines between jazz and classical, and built a global career around his nuanced, understated approach to music-making. Join us for this very special performance by his trio at The Prior, presented by Music Worcester.
Courage to Remember will honor African royalty and our elderly living legends through generational storytelling, while also raising awareness about Alzheimer’s & Dementia in the African American community. The evening will feature a powerful blend of theater, music, art and dance, all designed to preserve black history and celebrate black heritage.
Composer, drummer and dhol player Sunny Jain celebrates cultural diaspora and the interconnectedness of global styles with his band in Wild Wild East, a raucous, powerful, and jubilant recognition of a truly American spirit.
Acclaimed choreographer Caleb Teicher brings the best of the swing dance world to The Prior. With live music by the Eyal Vilner Big Band, SW!NG OUT features exciting Lindy Hop choreography and improvisation. Each performance concludes with an on-stage jam session, inviting audiences to join in the fun!
yMusic is a genre-leading American chamber ensemble renowned for its innovative and collaborative spirit. Praised by NPR Music as “deeply, profoundly skilled,” yMusic has been tapped to lend their orchestral sound and instantly-recognizable style to recordings and concert projects by a dizzying array of popular artists from John Legend to Paul Simon.
In Curiouser and Curiouser, inspired by Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll, creator and director Lynn Kremer collaborates with Balinese artists for an evening that is sure to charm audiences of all ages.
The highly anticipated annual dance concert grows in variety and excitement with the addition of hip-hop, breaking, Afro-Haitian dance and Broadway dance styles to a repertoire featuring contemporary dance and ballet.
At the end of each semester, the students in I Nyoman Catra’s Balinese dance and gamelan classes display what they have learned in a delightful evening showcasing the Balinese performing arts.
