The Modlin Center for the Arts at the University of Richmond has announced its 20th season.
Season subscriptions are on sale now, available at modlin.richmond.edu,the Modlin Center box office, or by phone at (804) 289-8980. Single performance tickets go on sale Friday, Aug. 12 at 10 a.m.
Among the highlights this year are master guitarist and songwriter Richard Thompson with Sam Amidon, composer and pianist Philip Glass, jazz singer Dianne Reeves, the Milk Carton Kids, the Martha Graham Dance Company, and the Grammy-winning Eighth Blackbird performing with Bonnie “Prince” Billy (Will Oldham).
Below is the complete list via a recent press release:
2016-2017 MODLIN ARTS PRESENTS CALENDAR:
SEPTEMBER
FRI. 9 • 7:30PM – The SteelDrivers
FRI.-SAT. 16-17 • 7:30PM – The Ricochet Project, Smoke and
Mirrors
WED.-THU. 21-22 • 7:30PM – Martha Graham Dance Company
THU. 22 • 2PM – NT Live Broadcast: TBA (Live Broadcast)
SUN. 25 • 3PM – NT Live Broadcast: TBA (Encore Broadcast)
SUN. 25 • 7:30PM – The Second City, Free Speech (While
Supplies Last)
OCTOBER
WED. 5 • 7:30PM – Havana Cuba All-Stars, Cuban Nights
THU. 13 • 7:30PM – Richard Thompson with special guest Sam Amidon
SUN. 16 • 3PM – Puppet State Theatre Company of Scotland, The Man Who Planted Trees
SUN. 16 • 7:30PM – Sphinx Virtuosi with Catalyst Quartet, Latin Voyages: Viajes Latinos
THU.-FRI. 20-21 • 7:30PM – Gravity and Other Myths, A Simple Space
FRI. 21 • 7:30PM – Bolshoi Ballet Broadcast: Golden Age
SUN. 23 • 2PM – L.A. Theatreworks, Judgment at Nuremberg
THU. 27 • 7:30PM – NT Live Broadcast: Frankenstein with
Benedict Cumberbatch as the
Creature + Johnny Lee Miller as Dr. Frankenstein (Encore Broadcast)
FRI. 28 • 7:30PM – The Milk Carton Kids
SAT. 29 • 7PM – Paula Poundstone
NOVEMBER
WED. 9 • 7PM – Contemporary Circus Arts with Yohann Floch
THU. 10 • 7:30PM – Roomful of Teeth with special guest UR
Schola Cantorum
WED. 16 • 7:30PM – Inside Science with Radiolab’s Robert Krulwich
FRI. 18 • 7:30PM – Steep Canyon Rangers
DECEMBER
FRI. 2 • 3PM – NT Live Broadcast: Hamlet (Encore Broadcast)
SAT. 3 • 7:30PM – Josh Ritter
SUN. 4 • 12:55PM – Bolshoi Ballet Broadcast: Bright Stream (Previously Recorded)
SUN. 11 • 3PM – NT Live Broadcast: War Horse (Encore Broadcast)
WED. 14 • 7:30PM – John Pizzarelli, Jessica Molaskey, + the Swing 7, Holiday Concert
THU. 15 • 2PM – NT Live Broadcast: TBA (Live Broadcast)
THU. 15 • 7:30PM – NT Live Broadcast: TBA (Encore Broadcast)
JANUARY
THU. 19 • 7:30PM – Balé Folclórico da Bahia, Bahia of All Colours
SAT. 21 • 7:30PM – Jeremy Denk, piano
SUN. 22 • 12:55PM – Bolshoi Ballet Broadcast: The Sleeping Beauty
WED.-THU. 25-26 • 7:30PM – Lucinda Childs Dance Company, DANCE
SAT. 28 • 7:30PM – Yosvany Terry and the Afro-Cuban Sextet
FEBRUARY
SAT. 4 • 7:30PM – Philip Glass 80th Birthday Celebration! The Complete Piano Études featuring Philip Glass, Maki Namekawa, Aaron Diehl, Timo Andres, + Lisa Kaplan
FRI. 17 • 7:30PM – Cory Henry + the Funk Apostles
SUN. 19 • 7:30PM – Shanghai Quartet with Wu Man
THU.-FRI. 23-24 • 7:30PM – Clay McLeod Chapman, The Pumpkin Pie Show: 20 Year Anniversary
MARCH
WED. 1 • 7:30PM – Manual Cinema, Mementos Mori
THU. 2 • 7:30PM – Dianne Reeves with Peter Martin, Romero Lubambo, Reginald Veal,+
Terreon Gully
FRI. 10 • 7:30PM – Russian National Ballet Theatre, Swan Lake
WED.-THU. 15-16 • 7:30PM – Wendy Whelan, Brian Brooks, + Brooklyn Rider, Some of a Thousand Words
FRI. 17 • 7:30PM – Kodo, DADAN 2017
FRI. 24 • 7:30PM – The Nile Project
WED. 29 • 7:30PM – Eighth Blackbird with Will Oldham (Bonnie “Prince” Billy)
APRIL
WED. 5 • 7:30PM – Les 7 Doigts De La Main (The 7 Fingers), Cuisine & Confessions
THU. 13 • 7:30PM – Gerald Clayton and the Assembly, Piedmont Blues featuring Lizz Wright,
Logan Richardson, Tivon Pennicott, Dayna Stephens, Becca Stevens, Joe Sanders, Kendrick Scott,+ Joseph Wiggan
THU. 20 • 7:30PM – Takács Quartet
SUN. 23 • 7:30PM – The Gloaming
SUN. 30 • 12:55PM – Bolshoi Ballet Broadcast: Contemporary Evening
SUN. 30 • 3PM – Enchantment Theatre Company, Peter RabbitTM Tales
MAY
SUN. 14 • 12:55PM – Bolshoi Ballet Broadcast: A Hero of Our Time
Video our arts editor took of Bonnie “Prince” Billy and Angel Olsen the last time they were in Richmond in 2010 at the National:
