The Warhol theater – The Andy Warhol Museum https://www.warhol.org Wed, 28 Feb 2024 17:46:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 Sound Series: Patrick Higgins https://www.warhol.org/events/sound-series-patrick-higgins/ Thu, 15 Feb 2024 15:00:33 +0000 https://www.warhol.org/?post_type=warhol_events&p=14876 We welcome guitarist, composer, and producer, Patrick Higgins, for a solo performance in the museum’s intimate theater. Known for his work in experimental and contemporary classical music, “Higgins composes with a scholar’s historical perspective and a punk’s sense of abandon” (Pitchfork). His work bridges genres and traditions including baroque chamber music, contemporary noise, and 20th century minimalism and has been performed in over 25 countries internationally at venues and festivals including SFMOMA, Unsound Festival (Poland), Monom Berlin, Sony Ginza Park (Tokyo), and ReWire (Holland). Higgins‘ forthcoming album planned for release in early spring on Nicolas Jaar’s Other People label, marks a new direction and development of acclaimed work as a guitarist and composer, drawing on electronic music, free improvisation, and avant-garde modern composition.

  • Doors open at 7 p.m.
]]> Sound Series: Talujon with Jamie Jordan & Franz Nicolay https://www.warhol.org/events/sound-series-talujon-with-jamie-jordan-franz-nicolay/ Mon, 12 Feb 2024 19:36:26 +0000 https://www.warhol.org/?post_type=warhol_events&p=14900 The Warhol and the Music on the Edge series of the University of Pittsburgh’s Department of Music present the New York-based Talujon Percussion (“edgy, unflagging energy”- NY Times), soprano Jamie Jordan, and Franz Nicolay (from the band The Hold Steady) performing works by Paula Matthusen, Frederic Rzewski, Franz Nicolay, and Mathew Rosenblum.

  • Doors open at 7 p.m.

 

]]> Sound Series: KMRU with special guest Low Lumens https://www.warhol.org/events/sound-series-kmru-with-special-guest-low-lumens/ Tue, 12 Dec 2023 17:00:26 +0000 https://www.warhol.org/?post_type=warhol_events&p=14622 We welcome Nairobi-born, Berlin-based sound artist, KMRU (aka Joseph Kamaru), who has carved out a unique place in ambient, experimental electronic music often featuring field recordings of environmental sounds. KMRU carries with him a repository of listening experiences from Nairobi and beyond expanding his sonic practices, bringing an awareness of surroundings through creative compositions, installations and performances. He has earned international acclaim from his performances at the Barbican, Berlin Atonal and Présences électronique, and releases on Editions Mego, Subtext and Seil Records. Pittsburgh-based sound artist, Low Lumens (aka Danny Bracken), opens the evening.

  • Doors open at 7 p.m.

 

]]> Warhol’s Unseen Television https://www.warhol.org/events/warhols-unseen-television/ Mon, 04 Dec 2023 20:58:12 +0000 https://www.warhol.org/?post_type=warhol_events&p=14684 This program presents two television episodes produced by Andy Warhol T.V. Productions in the early 1980s that never aired on Manhattan Cable TV. Warhol and company used the New York public access channel as the platform for Fashion, their first foray into television. They followed soon after with the first season of Andy Warhol’s T.V. The two episodes include Tommy Pashun, Julie Hagerty, Phobe Cates, Fernando Sanchez, and David Sylvian.

  • Doors open at 6:30 p.m.
]]> Sound Series: Katy Kirby with special guest Allegra Krieger https://www.warhol.org/events/sound-series-katy-kirby/ Tue, 24 Oct 2023 13:00:31 +0000 https://www.warhol.org/?post_type=warhol_events&p=14464 We welcome singer/songwriter Katy Kirby, originally from a small-town outside of Austin, Texas, and currently living in Brooklyn. Kirby recently joined ANTI Records, and her 2021 release Cool Dry Place was featured in several best albums of the year lists including Pitchfork, NPR Music, and Paste. She has recently been touring with artists such as Waxahatchee, Andy Shauf, and Pinegrove. Singer/songwriter Allegra Krieger opens the evening.

  • Doors open at 7 p.m.
]]> Sound Series: An Evening with Sunny War https://www.warhol.org/events/sound-series-sunny-war/ Tue, 10 Oct 2023 17:00:17 +0000 https://www.warhol.org/?post_type=warhol_events&p=14288 We welcome folk/blues/punk songwriter Sunny War (aka Sydney Lyndella Ward) to the museum’s intimate theater. Originally from Nashville, she released her debut album, Worthless, in 2014. Her most recent album, Anarchist Gospel, released in early 2023 on New West Records, has already made several Best of 2023 lists, and according to Rolling Stone, “It all amounts to a powerful statement from a singer-songwriter poised to become one of the year’s most vital voices in roots music.”

  • Doors open at 7 p.m.
  • Sunny War’s performance begins at 8 p.m.

 

]]> Reel Q LGBTQ+ Film Festival: Carla https://www.warhol.org/events/reel-q-lgbtq-film-festival-carla/ Tue, 19 Sep 2023 16:29:01 +0000 https://www.warhol.org/?post_type=warhol_events&p=14161 Join us and the Reel Q LGBTQ+ Film Festival for the world premiere of Carla, a new documentary directed by Pittsburgh native Mara Rago. Tickets also include admission to the museum on the day of the screening. A happy hour reception with Mara Rago and members of Carla’s family will be held in The Warhol entrance space from 7–8 p.m.

The screening will be followed by a Q & A panel and a very special performance from renowned local vocalist Phat Man Dee and guests.

About Carla

Carla is a new documentary from Pittsburgh native Mara Rago. Carla Beck looks back on the rocky road which led her from being womanizing rock n’ roll front man Carl Beck, lead singer of Rubaiyat, to becoming a woman, finding love and happiness.

  • Doors open at 6:30 p.m.

 

]]> Sound Series: An Evening with Nellie McKay https://www.warhol.org/events/sound-series-an-evening-with-nellie-mckay-2/ Thu, 17 Aug 2023 14:00:34 +0000 https://www.warhol.org/?post_type=warhol_events&p=13866 We welcome back the inimitable singer/songwriter, Nellie McKay for a special CD release show for Hey Guys, Watch This, her first album of original material in 13 years. Since Get Away from Me, Nellie’s debut record, she has released a number of well-received albums with as many different sounds, ranging from pop to jazz to rock & folk, always defying categorization. Her music has been used on radio, TV, and in the movies, and she has appeared on many shows, from Letterman to A Prairie Home Companion, as well as writing & performing acclaimed bios of Barbara Graham, Rachel Carson, Billy Tipton, and Joan Rivers.

A nominee for The Ovation award for Ethan Coen’s A Play is a Poem, Nellie won a Theatre World award for her work on Broadway in The Threepenny Opera, & Drama Desk award for off-Broadway’s Old Hats. She has written and activated for humans, animals, and the environment since childhood, and continues to push for peace & justice for all.

“A renegade songwriter with an ultraflexible Great American Songbook sensibility. McKay finds modern resonances everywhere.” – Rolling Stone

  • Nellie McKay performance begins at 8 p.m.
  • Doors open at 7 p.m.
]]> Sound Series: Slauson Malone 1 with special guest Colloboh https://www.warhol.org/events/sound-series-slauson-malone-1/ Wed, 19 Jul 2023 16:00:48 +0000 https://www.warhol.org/?post_type=warhol_events&p=13594 Slauson Malone 1 is a performance piece created by artist and musician Jasper Marsalis, exploring the possible intersections of popular music and performance art. His past releases include A Quiet Farewell (2016-2018), Vergangenheitsbewältigung, and “for Star (Crater Speak)”. Slauson Malone is accompanied by cellist Nicky Wetherell. Experimental, electronic musician, Colloboh, opens the evening. 

  • Doors open at 7 p.m.
]]> MS PGH Leather 1997 Screening with Tammy Resnick https://www.warhol.org/events/ms-pgh-leather-1997-screening-with-tammy-resnick/ Mon, 15 May 2023 19:47:37 +0000 https://www.warhol.org/?post_type=warhol_events&p=13603 MS 89 returns to The Warhol with a once in a lifetime reunion of Pittsburgh’s Leather Grrrls! Join us for a screening of MS PGH Leather 1997, hosted by the contest winner herself, Tammy Resnick. 25 years since her year of service to community and kink, Tammy is the guide to a local leather story. Come early to join the crowd at the bar before The Warhol hits the lights and sink in for a treasure from the collection of the Pittsburgh Eagle. As a special reunion, all are invited after the show to PTown bar for a special surprise ceremony with the Three Rivers Leather Club. 

The MS 89 series is a live & in-person only nightclub archives screening event that pays community members to host screenings and discussions of tapes that they had a hand in creating. Pushing back against the tendency to consume archives, MS 89 packs together to watch and rewatch as a ritual in creating new intergenerational friendships via our shared desire for a shared past.

  • Registration is required
  • Doors open at 6 p.m.

 

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