Experience a one-of-a-kind interdisciplinary performance at Taliesin featuring the award-winning Minneapolis dance company, Black Label Movement. This immersive evening explores the compelling premise that architecture can move—and that movement can design and construct space.
oin Heartland Marimba at Taliesin's Hillside Theater for an exciting program drawing from the eclectic repertoire they've built over the last 10 years of touring. The program will include works by company artists Matthew Coley and Marco Schirripa from the "Dark Skies and Distant Worlds" production, as well as captivating adaptations of music by Bach, Mendelssohn, and Liszt. All the music Heartland Marimba tours with is published by HM Publications and supports their cyclical mission, ensuring a sonorous future for the marimba art form.
One of the most beloved films of all time, this sizzling masterpiece by Billy Wilder set a new standard for Hollywood comedy. After witnessing a mob hit, Chicago musicians Joe and Jerry (Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon, in landmark performances) skip town by donning drag and joining an all-female band en route to Miami. The charm of the group’s singer, Sugar Kane (Marilyn Monroe, at the height of her bombshell powers), leads them ever further into extravagant lies, as Joe assumes the persona of a millionaire to woo her and Jerry’s female alter ego winds up engaged to a tycoon. With a whip-smart script by Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond, and sparking chemistry among its finely tuned cast, Some Like It Hot is as deliriously funny and fresh today as it was when it first knocked audiences out several decades ago.
Celebrate the Rural Musicians Forum's (RMF) 40th Anniversary season with an evening of "beautiful music in a beautiful place." This program features the talented Madison-based trio—pianist Alyona Waldo, violinist Dawn Dongeun, and cellist James Waldo—performing remarkable piano trios by prominent American composers Astor Piazzolla, Jennifer Higdon, and Paul Schoenfield. Together, these pieces showcase diverse musical voices spanning different generations, styles, and traditions from across the Americas.
Mike Block is a Grammy Award-Winning multi-style cello player, composer, singer, and educator with a passion for cross-cultural collaborations. His solo show offers a rich mixture of classical repertoire, folk music, original compositions, and songs that draw inspiration from his diverse collaborations. An admirer of Frank Lloyd Wright's architecture since childhood, this performance will include works directly inspired by Wright and Taliesin.
Screwball sparks fly when Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn let loose in one of the fastest and funniest films ever made—a high-wire act of invention that took American screen comedy to new heights of absurdity. Hoping to procure a million-dollar endowment from a wealthy society matron for his museum, a hapless paleontologist (Grant) finds himself entangled with a dizzy heiress (Hepburn) as the manic misadventures pile up—a missing dinosaur bone, a leopard on the loose, and plenty of gender-bending mayhem among them. Bringing Up Baby’s sophisticated dialogue, spontaneous performances, and giddy innuendo come together in a whirlwind of comic chaos captured with lightning-in-a-bottle brio by director Howard Hawks.
