FM Cultural Calendar | Starting Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Million Dollar Quartet
In 1956, Sam Phillips united the young Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins for the first and only time for one of the greatest jam sessions of all time. MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET brings that night to life with a  tale of broken promises, secrets, betrayal and celebrations featuring many of their timeless hits.
11/01/2011 - 11/06/2011

Location: Benedum Center
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Michelle Rhee
An outspoken advocate of school reform, Rhee is best known for her years as Chancellor of the D.C. Public Schools from 2007 to 2010. In 1997, she founded The New Teacher Project, recruiting 10,000 teachers in 20 states over 10 years. Most recently, she unveiled StudentsFirst on the Oprah Winfrey Show, with a goal to raise $1 billion to catalyze education reform in the U.S.
11/02/2011
Time: 8:00 pm
Heinz Hall, 600 Penn Ave. Pittsburgh, PA
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Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy
The WWII hit, Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy, recorded by the Andrews Sisters in 1941,spawned a genre of music dedicated to honoring and cheering on those who serve in the Armed Forces. River City Brass will pay tribute to veterans and those currently in service with soul-stirring compositions.
11/03/2011 - 11/16/2011
11/03 - 7:30 pm
11/04 - 7:30 pm
11/05 - 7:30 pm
11/06 - 3:00 pm
11/08 - 7:30 pm
11/10 - 7:30 pm
11/13 - 3:00 pm
11/16 - 7:30 pm

Location: various
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First Thursday Recital
CCAC student musicians share their talent in a free monthly concert presented by Calvary United Methodist Church.
11/03/2011
Time: 6:30 pm

Location: Calvary United Methodist Church, 971 Beech Ave., Pittsburgh, PA

Music on the Edge - Morton Feldman Festival
Pianist Amy Williams, flutist Lindsey Goodman, and cellist Jon Golove perform Feldman's Patterns in a Chromatic Field for cello and piano (11/3) and Crippled Symmetry for flute, piano, and percussion.
11/03/2011 - 11/04/2011
Time: 8:00 pm

Location: Wood Street Galleries, 601 Wood St., Pittsburgh, PA
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Deer Camp - The Musical
Get ready to laugh your antlers off as these four Mighty Hunters head off to their shack in search of the elusive 14 point big buck. Who are they kidding? In all the years of 'hunting' they've never fired a shot. After all, between the beer and the bull, who had time to hunt? What to do: shoot one? Buy one? Steal one? They try it all with hilarious results!
11/03/2011
Time: 7:30 pm
Pasquerilla Performing Arts Center, 450 Schoolhouse Rd., Johnstown, PA
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Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra
Young musicians from the Pittsburgh region narrate Britten's Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra. Principal Guest Conductor Leonard Slatkin also presents PSO Principal Violist Randolph Kelly in Walter Piston's Viola Concerto, Principal Oboist Cynthia DeAlmeda in The Flower Clock by Jean Françaix, and Cindy McTee's Double Play, an “ambitious, imaginative and irresistible essay for large orchestra of head turning brilliance.” -Detroit News
11/04/2011 - 11/06/2011
11/04 - 8:00 pm
11/06 - 2:30 pm
Heinz Hall, 600 Penn Ave., Pittsburgh, PA
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Nuts
A Broadway hit, "Nuts" has been called the best courtroom melodrama since Witness for the Prosecution. A high-priced call girl is incarcerated on a charge of killing a violent "john." A court-appointed psychiatrist and an aggressive prosecutor, say Claudia Faith Draper is unfit to stand trial. As her psyche and childhood dissected, she proves to the judge that she isn't "nuts."
11/04/2011 - 11/13/2011
Time: various
Apple Hill Playhouse, 275 Manor Rd., Delmont, PA
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The Scarlet Letter
In 17th century Boston, a young Puritan adulteress, Hester, is unwilling to name the man who fathered her daughter, so she must wear a scarlet letter A on her dress and remain a humiliated outcast. When Hester's husband, previously assumed dead, comes to Boston to seek revenge for his wife's wrongdoing and reveal the identity of her lover, the entire colony is turned upside down.
11/04/2011 - 11/11/2011
Time: various
New Hazlett Theater, 6 Allegheny Square, Pittsburgh, PA
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Black Dance Festival
The acclaimed Ailey II, Dayton Contemporary Dance Company, Rennie Harris Puremovement and Deeply Rooted join the August Wilson Center Dance Ensemble for three nights of inspired movement. Be mesmerized and revived as these companies merge in a dynamic expression of style, choreography and celebration of the past, present and future of African American dance.
11/04/2011 - 11/06/2011
11/04 - 8:00 pm
11/05 - 3:00 pm
11/05 - 8:00 pm
11/06 - 3:00 pm
August Wilson Center, 980 Liberty Ave., Pittsburgh, PA
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