Upcoming Performances
THIS SEASON, onStage at Connecticut College is commemorating the College's Centennial with an array of performances that reflect on our past, celebrate the present and look toward our future. Connecticut College has a distinguished history of presenting some of the world's greatest artists, those at the pinnacle of their careers and others who are just beginning. Some of the artists we've invited for the 2011-12 season have direct ties to the College; others are performing works that connect to our unique culture as a place that values ideas and artistic expression.
All Eight Performances
TICKETS: $162, $149, $136; Senior: $145, $134, $122; Student: $81, $74, $68; Faculty/Staff: $145, $134, $122; Senior Faculty/Staff: $130, $119, $109 (Reserved Seating)
The Melody Lingers On - Three Generations of American Popular Song
Mary Foster Conklin
Friday, Sep 9, 2011 — 8 PMand Saturday, Sep 10, 2011 — 8 PM
Tansill Theater
Mary Foster Conklin '79, a third-generation Connecticut College alumna, opens our Centennial celebration season with a cabaret-style evening of popular songs from the Great American Songbook. Special focus will be on the three generations of her family "to not only recreate a piece of the past," she explains, "but to add a little of our own time and perspective to the picture." These songs, written between 1920 and 1960 by commercial composers and lyricists for Broadway, Hollywood and nightclubs, have stood the test of time to emerge as a distinctive American art form. Conklin has performed in jazz clubs, theaters and cabarets in the metropolitan New York area and throughout the United States and Canada.
TICKETS: $26; Senior: $23; Student: $13; Faculty/Staff: $23; Senior Faculty/Staff: $21 (General Admission)
Tickets are no longer available for this performance.
Limón Dance Company
Friday, Sep 30, 2011 — 8 PMPalmer Auditorium
Celebrating their 65th anniversary, Limón Dance Company will perform three works by Limón — "The Emperor Jones," "There is a Time" and "Chaconne" — as well as "La Cathédrale Engloutie" by Jirí Kylián. "The Emperor Jones," which premiered in 1956 and was performed in Palmer Auditorium the following year, is based on a play by Eugene O'Neill. Acclaimed for its dramatic expression, technical mastery, and expansive yet nuanced movement, the company illustrates the timelessness of its namesake's work and vision.
TICKETS: $28, $24, $20; Senior: $25, $21.50, $18; Student: $14, $12, $10; Faculty/Staff: $25, $21.50, $18; Senior Faculty/Staff: $22, $19, $16 (Reserved Seating)
Tickets are no longer available for this performance.
Mingus Big Band
Saturday, Oct 22, 2011 — 8 PMPalmer Auditorium
The Mingus Big Band celebrates the music of Charles Mingus, a composer and bassist. Based in New York, the band travels around the world performing a distinctive Mingus sound that embraces jazz and classical forms. Its unique instrumentation includes bassoon, bass clarinet, French horn and harp — instruments rarely heard in traditional jazz bands.
TICKETS: $28, $24, $20; Senior: $25, $21.50, $18; Student: $14, $12, $10; Faculty/Staff: $25, $21.50, $18; Senior Faculty/Staff: $22, $19, $16 (Reserved Seating)
Tickets are no longer available for this performance.
L.A. Theatre Works
Friday, Nov 4, 2011 — 8 PMPalmer Auditorium
"The Rivalry" brings to life the Abraham Lincoln-Stephen Douglas debates using riveting dialogue from the original transcripts. Grammy Award-winning L.A. Theatre Works (LATW), the foremost radio theater company in the United States for more than two decades, delights audiences with its unique live-radio, theater-style performances. An LATW performance is immediate, spontaneous, and features a first-rate cast, live sound effects, and a connection to the audience rarely felt in a traditional theater setting.
TICKETS: $28, $24, $20; Senior: $25, $21.50, $18; Student: $14, $12, $10; Faculty/Staff: $25, $21.50, $18; Senior Faculty/Staff: $22, $19, $16 (Reserved Seating)
Tickets are no longer available for this performance.
Moby Dick
Sunday, Nov 13, 2011 — 3 PMEvans Hall
This solo performance by Conor Lovett, accompanied by the musician Caoimhin O'Raghallaigh, of this Great American Novel is presented in the style of epic storytellers. Lovett captivates his audience with Melville's language and his own virtuosic performance.
TICKETS: $22; Senior: $20; Student: $11; Faculty/Staff: $20; Senior Faculty/Staff: $18; Mystic Seaport Members: $18 (General Admission)
Tickets are no longer available for this performance.
Fragments: Connecting Past and Present
Friday, Feb 17, 2012 — 8 PMEvans Hall
For this program the Brentano quartet has invited six of today's most imaginative composers to engage with unfinished pieces by Bach, Mozart, Schubert and others to weave compelling new musical works. They will perform the new compositions alongside the original ones to create an exciting evening of dialogue between music of the past and music of our present.
TICKETS: $22; Senior: $20; Student: $11; Faculty/Staff: $20; Senior Faculty/Staff: $18 (General Admission)
Tickets are no longer available for this performance.
AXIS Dance Company
Saturday, Mar 31, 2012 — 8 PMPalmer Auditorium
AXIS Dance Company, one of the country's most acclaimed and innovative ensembles of performers with and without disabilities, will forever change the way you think about the possibilities of the human body. The program includes David Dorfman's "Light Shelter" and Marc Brew's "Full of Words."
TICKETS: $28, $24, $20; Senior: $25, $21.50, $18; Student: $14, $12, $10; Faculty/Staff: $25, $21.50, $18; Senior Faculty/Staff: $22, $19, $16 (Reserved Seating)
Asphalt Orchestra
Thursday, Apr 5, 2012 — 8 PMPalmer Auditorium
Asphalt Orchestra unleashes innovative music from concert halls, rock clubs and jazz basements and takes it to the streets. Choreographed and tight, this is the future of the marching band. The 12-member band brings together some of the most exciting rock, jazz and classical players in New York City whom The New York Times have called "12 top-notch brass and percussion players."
TICKETS: $20; Senior: $18; Student: $10; Faculty/Staff: $18; Senior Faculty/Staff: $16 (General Admission)