Twyla Tharp

McCarter Theatre Center is pleased to announce its full schedule of 2016-17 dance, music, and signature presented series. An eclectic mix of the world’s greatest musicians, dance companies, and performing artists are on tap, including several returning favorites and McCarter debuts. 

All McCarter presented series bring artists of the highest caliber to Princeton, and is curated by Special Programming Director William W. Lockwood, the driving force behind McCarter Theatre Center’s reputation as one of the premiere arts presenters in the country.

Twyla Tharp’s 50th Anniversary Tour on February 28 will include several new works. The first, Preludes and Fugues, is set to music from Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier; while the second, Yowzie, is a wildly comic work whose music is New Orleans jazz,
largely old Jelly Roll Morton songs recently recorded by the pianist Henry Butler, Steven
Bernstein, and
the Hot 9. Tharp characterizes Preludes and Fugues as “the world as it ought to be,” and Yowzie as “the
world as it is.”

Other notable performances include Fela! The Concert, Chris Botti, Anoushka Shankar, Imogen Cooper, Kirill Gerstein, Jessica Lang Dance, State Ballet Theatre of Russian, A Year with Frog and Toad, New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, Laurie Berkner Band, and much more.

Single tickets covering presented events from September through December 2016 will go on sale to the general public on July 25, 2016. On-sale dates for 2017 will be announced later. To learn more, visit www.mccarter.org.

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