Performing Arts

Former Co-Artistic and Executive Director of LAByrinth Theater Company, John Gould Rubin is staging a unique production of Hedda Gabler. Beginning on Tuesday August 10th and running thru Saturday, Sept. 4th, Rubin and his team have placed his production in an elegant downtown townhouse. By having the audience and actors mingle in this rarified environment, the play’s central themes and intimaci... Read more

World premiere of Shabana Rehman's one-woman dramatic play "For Kingdom and Fatherland" at the FringeNYC Festival August 13 through 24. Read more

In collaboration with the Embassy of Norway and the New York Opera Society, the National Gallery of Art will present the world premiere performance of a new children's opera, Max und Moritz: A Cartoon Opera in Seven Pranks, by Norwegian composer Gisle Kverndokk. Read more

Norwegian dancer and artistic director Martin Løfsnes presents 360° Dance Company in an evening where older modern dance classics and new cutting edge works fuse together to showcase the dramatic vision and integrity of the great modern dance masterpieces with the creativity and energy of today's exciting choreographers. June 17-19 at Dance Theater Workshop in New York. Read more

August Strindberg's "Miss Julie", adapted by Craig Lucas, will be performed at Scandinavia House in New York on June 10-12, and June 17-19, 2010, at 7:30pm. Read more

The Norwegian National Ballet, the country’s most prestigious dance company, is on their 3rd tour to the Dance Salad Festival in Houston. Festival dates are April 1-3 2010. Read more

The play Terra Nova, written by Academy Award winner Ted Tally, is set i Antarctica and follows the race to the South Pole between Captain Scott and Roald Amundsen. Performed by Wabash College Theater Department in Indiana, Feb 24-27. Read more

The Poetry Project at the famous St. Marks Church will feature a performance of Mina Loy's play "Crystal Pantomime" with Norwegian artist Marthe Ramm Fortun on the 29th of January at 10pm. Read more

Liv Ullmann — whose soul-baring performances in the films of Ingmar Bergman defined an era —directs A Streetcar Named Desire performed at Brooklyn Academy of Music 27 November - 20 December. Special events: 3 December Belle Rêve Gala and 7 December Artist Talk with Ms. Ullmann. Read more

Lina Viste Grønli with 'Effigies' and Nils Bech, Bendik Giske & Lina Viste Grønli with 'Look Back', in New York November 7-27. Read more

Scandinavian performance art is on the move. Live Action New York 09 features in its first edition some of the most important contemporary Scandinavian performance. November 6-11. Read more

Michael Leon Thomas, Founder & Artistic Director of Motion Theatre Lab presents Thoroughly Modern Michael, a contemporary variety show. Read more

"The Baronesse - Karen Blixen", by Jeanne Bøe; A monologue about Karen Blixen's life, her life as an author and her time in Africa performed at the Norwegian Seamens's Church in NYC this October. Read more