the best in the world of entertainment this march

The Dandelion Chandelier Luxury Entertainment Calendar highlights notable new events in theater, film, popular music and television in March 2018. It’s a quick read, after which you’ll be pop-culturally literate all month! For the rest of the Luxury Calendar, click here. And for a list of fantastic new books being published this month, click here.

March is a big month in cinema, with the 90th Academy Awards hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, as well the 25th edition of the South by Southwest Film Festival. There are also a slew of new films led by award-winning actresses to check out, including Red Sparrow and Tomb Raider. On television and the stage, everything old is new again, thanks to a television remake of the cult classic Heathers; the return of Roseanne to network TV; and the revivals of Children of a Lesser God and My Fair Lady on Broadway. This month also promises to be a treat for the ears, with the return of the South by Southwest Music Festival in Austin and the kickoff of numerous concert tours, including Lorde and P!NK. And to top it all off, Marvel is launching its first-ever podcast. No excuse for boredom this month, people. No sleep ’till April.

Film

Murder abounds in the newest film starring Jennifer Lawrence; based on a trilogy written by Jason Matthews, Red Sparrow follows a former Russian ballerina (Lawrence) forced into a KGB covert intelligence program – March 2

The Independent Spirit Awards celebrate indie filmmakers the day before the Oscars – March 3

Jimmy Kimmel will host the 90th Academy Awards, his 2nd consecutive stint as emcee. This year’s event is sure to be an interesting one: several nominees could shatter records related to race, age and gender. For example, 22-year old Timothee Chalamet (Call Me By Your Name) could break a record that’s belonged to Adrien Brody for almost 15 years and become the youngest Best Actor winner ever. Director Yance Ford (Strong Island) has already made history as the first transgender director to receive an Oscar nod, but he could go one step further and become the first to win. Greta Gerwig (Lady Bird) could wind up becoming just the second woman named Best Director; Jordan Peele (Get Out) could be the first African-American to win Best Director. Lastly, Christopher Plummer (All the Money in the World) may set another benchmark for oldest acting winner: he was 82 years old when he won Best Supporting Actor at the 2012 Oscars – March 4

Thoroughbreds follows two teenage girls, Lily and Amanda, in suburban Connecticut who rekindle their unlikely friendship after years of growing apart; the film has been described as “American Psycho meets Heathers” – March 9

Ava DuVernay directs A Wrinkle in Time, an adaptation of the classic sci-fi novel by Madeleine L’Engle about two siblings and their friend who are sent through a tesseract to find the siblings’ long-missing father; Reese Witherspoon, Mindy Kaling and Oprah Winfrey play three mystical beings – March 9

Emily Blunt and John Krasinski’s supernatural horror film A Quiet Place will launch the 25th edition of the South by Southwest Film Festival.  The film is one of 132 features – including 86 world premieres – playing at the 10-day festival in Austin, Texas. Movies starring Armie Hammer, Olivia Wilde, Neil Young, and Molly Shannon also made the cut.  The festival’s speakers series participants include Star Wars: The Last Jedi director Rian Johnson, Girls creator Lena Dunham, actor Ethan Hawke and director Spike Lee – March 9-17

The Sun Valley Film Festival kicks off – March 14-18

Lara Croft is back, this time with Oscar-winner Alicia Vikander at the helm; Tomb Raider tells the heroine’s origin story, as she works to uncover what became of her missing father – March 16

A historical 1976 airplane hijacking serves as the inspiration for 7 Days in Entebbe, which stars Daniel Brühl and Rosamund Pike – March 16

The sequel to Guillermo del Toro’s 2013 sci-fi saga Pacific Rim, entitled Pacific Rim Uprising, premieres this month starring John Boyega (of Star Wars fame) as Jake Pentecost; he’s waging a war against the gigantic sea monsters known as Kaiju by co-piloting Transformers-like robots called Jaegers. Cool! – March 23

Steven Soderbergh’s latest film Unsane is a thriller about a stalking victim who has been committed to a mental institution against her will; it was shot entirely on an iPhone; Clare Foy stars – March 23

Television

Atlanta returns to FX for its 2nd season with a new title: Atlanta: Robbin’ Season – March 1

The TV reboot of the 1988 cult classic film Heathers debuts on Paramount – March 7

NBC’s new drama Rise focuses on the students and administrators at a high school; the story’s main focus is on the school’s the drama department, led by a determined English teacher (Josh Radnor) and his colleague (Rosie Perez), who are attempting to mount a production of Spring Awakening. If you miss Friday Night Lights or Glee (and we really, really do!) this could be your favorite new show – March 13

Roseanne returns to ABC nearly 20 years after it went off the air; the 9-episode revival brings back all of its original stars, as well as a roster of new faces, as it revisits the middle-class Connor family from Lanford, Illinois – March 27

The final season of The Americans on FX begins – March 28

Theater

Arriving from London is Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts 1 and 2. The play continues the story of former boy wizard Harry Potter, his friends, and his son, in a time-traveling adventure to save the world from the evil Lord Voldemort – Previews March 6, Opens April 22

The musical adaptation of the hit 2004 comedy about rivalries among high school girls, Mean Girls,  opens for previews this month at the August Wilson Theater – previews March 12, opens April 8

Caroline, or Change debuts at the Hampstead Theatre in London – previews March 12, opens March 19

For the first time in 25 years My Fair Lady returns to Broadway at the Vivian Beaumont Theater; Lauren Ambrose, Harry Hadden-Paton, Norbert Leo Butz, and Diana Rigg lead a stellar cast – previews March 15, opens April 19

Two-time Tony nominee Daphne Rubin-Vega plays Beatriz, a flawed mom to 16 year-old Olivia, and an undocumented immigrant on the verge of deportation in Miss You Like Hell at The Public Theater – previews March 20, opens April 10

Heading to Studio 54 is the revival of the 1980s play, Children of a Lesser God; the show stars Joshua Jackson and Lauren Ridloff in the story of an unconventional teacher at a school for the deaf and the remarkable woman he meets there – Previews March 22, Opens April 11

Denzel Washington (!!!) returns to Broadway in The Iceman Cometh, Eugene O’Neill’s harrowing tale of a group of drunks, prostitutes and radicals hopelessly caught in the web of their pipe dreams- previews March 22, opens April 26

Academy Award-winner Cuba Gooding Jr plays Billy Flyn in Chicago at the Phoenix Theatre in London – opens March 26

Travesties returns to the stage at the American Airlines Theater; in 1917 Zurich an artist (Tristan Tzara), a writer (James Joyce) and a revolutionary (Lenin) collide in a kaleidoscopic thrill-ride – previews March 29, opens April 24

Matthew Broderick stars in The Seafarer at the Irish Repertory Theater in a classic meditation about the sea, Ireland, and the power of myth – previews March 30, opens April 18

Popular Music

Lorde kicks off the North American leg of her Melodrama Tour in Milwaukee, WI – March 1

Prepare yourself for pop bangers, emotional ballads, plenty of attitude and aerial stunts as P!NK starts her Beautiful Trauma world tour in Phoenix – March 1

Ed Sheeran is starts his 2018 tour in Perth, Australia – March 2

Following the release of their 2nd album, Extralife, the indie folk group Darlingside kicks off their latest North American tour in Vancouver – March 3

The 5th iHeartRadio Music Awards will be hosted by DJ Khaled and includes performances by Ed Sheeran and Cardi B – March 11 at 8 p.m. on TBS, TNT and truTV

The iconic SXSW Music Festival returns to Austin with a curated mix of artists performing in bars, clubs, parks, churches, hotels, and more – March 12-18

The annual Big Ears Festival, held in Knoxville, Tennessee, features jazz, folk, country, rock, chamber music, Chinese zither music, orchestral music, spirituals, and EDM; it obliterates boundaries between traditional musical forms.

After releasing a collage of snippets in December 2017, Jack White will finally release his latest album Boarding House Reach. If the samples give any indication of the album, we can expect lots of stomp, woozy synthesizer jams, and dramatic piano – March 23

Podcasts

Marvel is launching a 10 episode podcast around the legendary mutant Wolverine as he hunts down a serial killer in a fictional Alaskan town. Wolverine: The Long Night’s first episode airs on March 12th exclusively on Stitcher Premium, with a new one dropping every week – March 12

See other March 2018 Events:

— Travel

— Food & Drink

— Planes, Yachts & Autos

— Fitness & Sports

— Fashion & Design

— Entertainment

— The Arts

 

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