Babcock Season Home

September 8, 2010 | 7:30 p.m.
Memorial Chapel
Ticket Information | Tickets go on sale September 5^th 

Recognized for its electrifying performances in international competitions, and hailed by critics as a grand departure from the usual (News Herald), the Manhattan Piano Trio has quickly become one of the most creative, exciting, and dynamic young ensembles in the US. With more than 300 concerts in its first five seasons alone, MPT is one of the most active groups in the classical music scene, welcomed by enthusiastic audiences in over 30 states, Australia and South Africa.

“Excellent...Outstanding...An Impressive Accomplishment.” -Washington Post

December 2, 2011 | 7:30 p.m.
Murchison Lane Auditorium, Babcock Fine Arts Center
Ticket Information | Tickets go on sale November 28^th

Founded by Artistic Director Billy Siegenfeld, Jump Rhythm Jazz Project is a Chicago-based, Emmy Award-winning dance theater company. The rhythmically explosive ensemble celebrates dancing and singing to the beat-driven sounds of swinging jazz and the blues, hard-hitting funk and hip-hop, and world music. Jump Rhythm performs its rich blend of percussive musicality and story-based dance theater in annual festivals in Chicago as well as on tour nationally and internationally. 

“Billy Siegenfeld is on to something with the Jump Rhythm Jazz style, a matter of taut, precise, fast and far-moving jazz dancing…The dancers are like hard little projectiles hurtling through space…each step and gesture are clear, and soon the hurtling becomes a kind of ground-skimming flight that captures the exuberant physicality of good dancers when moments of extreme control and abandon are seamlessly combined.” -The New York Times

February 15, 2012 | 7:30 p.m.
Murchison Lane Auditorium, Babcock Fine Arts Center
Ticket Information | Tickets go on sale February 6^th

The winner of both the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Play, Proof by David Auburn is a remarkable and luminous play about fathers and daughters, genius and insanity, legacy and truth. Exploring the delicate nature of genius, this compelling and tautly beautiful play is graceful, clever and often funny. Presented by the oldest continuously operating theatre in the US. Founded in 1809, Walnut Street Theatre has stood the test of time to become a staple of Philadelphia’s, and for that matter, America’s cultural community.

“Spectacular, electrifying, stupendous.” -Philadelphia Weekly

This project is partially supported by a grant from Pennsylvania Performing Arts on Tour, a program developed and funded by the Heinz Endowment; the William Penn Foundation; the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency; and The Pew Charitable Trusts; and administered by Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation.

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