Alan Cumming: Lincoln Center Festival and Dublin documentary

Lincoln Center has announced the lineup for this year's Lincoln Center Festival, to run in various venues July 5-August 5. There will be a total of 72 performances by artists and ensembles from seven countries.

Theatrical offerings include dance legend Mikhail Baryshnikov in Dmitry Krymov's staging of a new play, In Paris; the Sydney Theatre Company's acclaimed production of Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya, starring Cate Blanchett, Hayley McElhinney, Richard Roxburgh, and Hugo Weaving; the National Theatre of Scotland's one-person Macbeth, starring Alan Cumming and directed by John Tiffany and Andrew Goldberg, and DruidMurphy, a cycle of plays by Tom Murphy to be staged by Tony winner Garry Hynes.

Also on tap is Émilie, a one-woman opera by Kaija Saariaho and Amin Malouf, about French Enlightenment thinker Émilie du Châtelet, to star Elizabeth Futral and be directed by Marianne Weems, and Feng Yi Ting, a chamber opera by Chinese composer Guo Wenjing, which will be directed by Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan.

For more information, visit www.lincolncenter.org.

Source: Theater Mania 

Also reported by Playbill

Hidden city gems to be revealed in offbeat TV series

The hidden sights of Dublin are set to be revealed in a new documentary by Sky Atlantic.

City Secretsplans to delve into the underground aspects of various cities across Ireland and the UK. Filming in Dublin, which takes place next month, will see presenter Alan Cumming unveil some of Dublin's less famous landmarks.

"We don't want to cover the classic tourist spots, we want to look at more underground, niche aspects," Aimee Johnston of TwoFour told the Herald.

"What we really want to do is scratch beneath the surface and find unique parts of the city and interesting people that are harder to find, or interesting facts that are lesser known," said Ms Johnston.

"The aim of the programme is to make Dublin look as appealing as possible and to paint the city in a really positive light. We're looking for interesting people, quirky stories, beautiful obscure buildings and hidden parts of the city," Ms Johnston added.

"Ideally we want our presenter Alan to embark on a kind of a tour of the city, looping back around by the end."

Filming begins on April 28. Anyone with information on a quirky piece of Dublin is recommended to email TwoFour at enquiries@twofour.co.uk The series will be screened on Sky Atlantic in early July.

Source: Herald.ie