DAVE MATTHEWS BAND

SATURDAY & SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 1 & 2 @ 9:00PM

When the Dave Matthews Bandtook the ACL stage three years ago, it was the culmination of a long courtship process that finally allowed producer Terry Lickona to put a check mark on his wishlist. The long-running pop/jam band was touring its acclaimed record Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King, its first following the death of founding member LeRoi Moore, and was ready to prove it wasn’t going to let tragedy slow it down.  Firing on all cylinders, the band turned in a triumphant set including the raucous “Shake Me Like a Monkey,” the whimsical “Funny the Way It Is” and the life-affirming anthem “Why I Am,” a direct tribute to Moore.

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VIENNA PHILHARMONIC

SUMMER NIGHT CONCERT 2012

FRIDAY, AUGUST 31 @ 7:00PM & 12:00AM

The outdoor concert under the stars in the magnificent baroque gardens of Imperial Schönbrunn Palace is free to thousands of attendees in Vienna, and serves the Orchestra’s objective of making classical music accessible to a broad spectrum of concertgoers beyond its usual, core audience. Dancers of the Vienna Ballet join the orchestra for the celebration.

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A NEWSHOUR SPECIAL REPOR

DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4 – THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 6

6:00PM – 9:00PM

Dems gather in Battleground N.C.

This week’s Democratic National Convention in Charlotte is an example of the party’s southern strategy – carry at least some of the Southern battlegrounds the party won in 2008. NewsHour talks to two North Carolina political observers about whether that can work.

Award-winning political journalists Judy Woodruff and Gwen Ifill will co-anchor gavel-to-gavel broadcast coverage from the PBS Skybox at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, NC (September 4 – 5) as well as the Bank of America Stadium (September 6).

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INSPECTOR LEWIS

THE MIND HAS MOUNTAINS

SUNDAY, AUGUST 26 @ 7:00PM & 11:00PM

“Call the guinea pigs, would you,” directs the brilliant psychiatrist Dr. Alex Gansa. The assorted subjects pile in to get their medication — all part of a week-long antidepressant drug trial taking place on the Oxford campus. The drug being tested is a form of ketamine — a horse tranquilizer and party circuit favorite. When trial subject Amy Katz is found dead, the drug-induced veil of contentment starts to tear.

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TWILIGHT: LOS ANGELES

SATURDAY, AUGUST 25 @ 7:00PM

When Anna Deavere Smith’s drama Twilight: Los Angeles premiered in Los Angeles at the Mark Taper Forum, it made national news for its unique and unflinching look at the fallout from the 1992 Los Angeles riots.  Not only did Smith capture the tumultuous aftermath of the Rodney King trial verdict, she created a searing, innovative and truly American piece of theater.

On April 22, 2012, David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Timesbook critic, assessing the literature of those riots, wrote, “the most comprehensive literary response to the riots remains Anna Deavere Smith’s “Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992,” a theater piece, written and performed by an outsider who channels the cacophony of voices at the city’s heart.”

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SUNDAY, AUGUST 19 @ 7:00PM & 11:00PM

Rediscovering Alexander Hamilton, by director/producer Michael Pack and writer/host Richard Brookhiser, re-invents the documentary biopic. Following the style of their acclaimed Rediscovering George Washington(2002), they take us to the Caribbean islands where Hamilton was born, to Yorktown and Wall Street where he fought and worked, to Harlem and Weehawken, New Jersey, where he lived and died. We hear a Treasury Secretary and a Supreme Court Justice, publishers, pornographers, lawyers, warriors, calypso singers and urban gang members talk about money, rights, news, battle, sex and honor—all the themes that shaped Hamilton’s life, led him to his early death, and helped him make modern capitalist America.

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LET ME DOWN EASY

SATURDAY, AUGUST 18 @ 7:00PM

Conceived, written, and performed by Smith in her signature one person performance style, the play examines the miracle of human resilience through the lens of our current national debate on health care. To create Let Me Down Easy Smith interviewed an eclectic group of people (300 on three continents) and performs several in an evening that is funny, moving and engaging.

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