May 2, 1997



Textiles at the Lentz Center

This Miao woman's sash is among items on display in the Lentz Center exhibit, "Textiles of the Hill Tribes of Southwest China," on display through July 6. The Lentz Center is located in 329 Morrill Hall.


Perlman to Kick Off New Lied Season

The Lied Center for Performing Arts announced its eighth full season with more than 30 events beginning in September with the incomparable violinist, Itzhak Perlman, and ending next May with the popular musical, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.

"The new season has a good variety of artistic talent and entertainment. There will be theater, puppets and acrobats in the family series, which is as affordable as any other family entertainment option in town," said Charles Henry Bethea, Lied executive director.

Superstar violinist Itzhak Perlman will open the season with the incomparable artistry that has earned him 15 Grammy Awards. With the talent, charm and humanity that have made him a favorite of worldwide audiences, Perlman will appear Sept. 14 with the 85-member Omaha Symphony.

In a heralded return engagement, Broadway's Les Misérables presents the sweeping three-decade saga of Victor Hugo's hero, Jean Valjean, which is told through stirring song. This musical spectacular is the classic story of good and evil and personal redemption set against the backdrop of revolution. Eight performances will be staged Sept. 23-28.

Single tickets for the first two shows, Itzhak Perlman and Les Misérables, will be sold by mail order through the season brochure until July 14. Individual tickets for all other events will be sold beginning Aug. 25.

Season brochures will be available through the mail and at the Lied Box Office May 15. Call the Lied Box Office at 472-4747 or 800-432-3231 to receive a free season brochure.

New this season is the Family Series. Special pricing of $9 for adults and only $4 for youth (18 and under) has been made available by a grant from the Lied Foundation Trust.

The first of three shows in the new family series will be presented Oct. 10 and 11 when The Magic School Bus - Live! rolls onto the Lied Center stage with Arnold's Favorite Field Trip, an original musical based on the award-winning PBS television series. Children will fasten their seatbelts for a rollicking ride with Ms. Frizzle and her reptilian sidekick, Liz, in this 65-minute performance.

Opera returns Oct. 15 when the San Francisco Opera's more than 30-year-old Western Opera Theater Company presents Carmen.

Looking for Richard? Find Him at the Ross

Self-confessed Shakespeare addict Al Pacino has come up with a witty and revealing movie, Looking for Richard, opening May 8 at the Mary Riepma Ross Film Theater.

Looking for Richard is a film about the making of a play, a story that blurs the genres of documentary and costume drama, a behind-the-scenes documentary that often mistakes itself as its subject of inquiry. Pacino's objective behind the making of his film is, "to reach an audience that would not normally participate in this kind of language and world," which he realizes in a way that is surprisingly Shakespearean.

Al Pacino's Looking for Richard is a unique feature film that both presents Richard III by William Shakespeare (complete with an exceptional cast and certainly singular settings) while also scrutinizing, dissecting, questioning, even criticizing it at every level.

Looking for Richard will show May 8 through 11 and May 15 through 18. There are no screenings May 17. Screenings are at 7 and 9:15 p.m. on Thursdays and Fridays; at 12:30, 2:45, 7, and 9:15 p.m. on Saturday; and at 2:30, 4:45, 7, and 9:15 p.m. on Sundays. Admission is $6; $5 for students; and $4 for senior citizens, children, and members of the Friends of the Mary Riepma Ross Film Theater.

Great Plains Literature Symposium on 'Connections'

A series of programs from the recent Great Plains Literature Symposium willbe broadcast in May on Connections, the cultural and humanities series funded by the Nebraska Humanities Council and heard statewide at 3 p.m. Sundays on the Nebraska Public Radio Network.

Sponsored by the Center for Great Plains Studies at UNL and underwritten with a grant from NHC, the three-day symposium featured an international group of scholars and writers who read and discussed literature connected to the Great Plains.

The Connections broadcast schedule for early May is as follows: The Nebraska Public Radio Network is a service of Nebraska Educational Telecommunications. The complete program schedule for NPRN is available on NET's World Wide Web site, http://net.unl.edu.


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