Shows & Nightlife & Activities

Trygve Wakenshaw & Barnie Duncan: Mad Office in Shanghai

Date: Dec 14-15 - 2 pm/7:30 pm

Venue: 1862 Theater

"Imagine a room made of skin". Picture the most mundane place imaginable descending into a world of absurdist fantasy. That's what physical comedians Trygve Wakenshaw and Barnie Duncan have created for their new show, Mad Office (formerly known as Different Party). Business drones Grareth Krubb and Dennis Chang whittle away the minutes in the barren office of Ruck's Leather Interiors, patiently waiting for the phone call that may or may not give them something to actually do. In between the drudgery of the 9-5, the minutiae of office existence are transformed into incredible slapstick as these two clown and comedy performers come together to create something greater than the sum of its parts. Dialogue is minimal, but jokes are plentiful, in this extraordinary celebration of the banal.

Salzburg Philharmonic Orchestra New Year's Concert 2019

Date: Dec 31-Jan 1 - 7:30 pm

Venue: Great Hall of the People

The Salzburg Philharmonic Orchestra gets more and more attention for its unconventional programs, cross-over projects and for performing rarely played works such as Schmidt's "The Book With Seven Seals" or Bernstein's "Mass". Whether in their own concert series or at numerous concerts for families, students and children the Philharmonic Orchestra aims to appeal to people of any age and get them into classical music. Alexei Kornienko is an outstanding musician whose work is characterized both by an unconditional and joyful attention to text and also a boldness in interpretation. This, seeming contradiction, in fact, stands the Austrian conductor Kornienko in very good stead. His work as a pianist of the Russian school, with his extraordinarily wide Classical and Romantic repertoire, is combined profoundly with his work as a conductor, which he has steadily expanded in recent years.