Under the directorship of Stefan Kalmar it has recently presented a string of solos by artists who, if not discoveries, are low on the New York radar.
The subseries Visionary Voices will present a string of shows at Rose Theater, including concerts by Bobby McFerrin (Nov. 12-13), Dianne Reeves (Feb. 10-11) and Sweet Honey in the Rock (April 15-16, 2011).
Mr. Mendes was given a special achievement award for his 10-year tenure as head of London's tiny Donmar Warehouse Theater, which has presented a string of unorthodox hits.
The astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson was called onstage to present a string of trophies, including one to the art director Lawrence Azerrad, who won Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package, for "The Voyager Golden Record: 40th Anniversary Edition," a reissue (of sorts) of the golden phonograph records placed aboard Voyager I and II, the two exploratory spacecraft launched by NASA in 1977.
In quietly and beautifully telling the story of one imaginary young artist, it presents a string of theatrical veterans at their best and introduces (to me at least) a seriously talented young artist for real in lead actor Ari Brand.
Having been head of his country's FA since 2002 and present at a string of Fifa tournaments, he has been kicking around the lower rungs for a while.
Instead, the reader is presented with a string of romantic fuck-ups and fallouts, in which the protagonist eventually learns, if not how not to cheat, then how to empathise with and humanise women.
In the years since the Human Genome project revealed our genetic blueprint, when the option of owning your personal sequence seems just round the corner, DNA is often presented as a string of chemical information that can be played like a tape.
This comprised a short arithmetic task in which participants were presented with a string of three randomly generated digits.
Captchas are the puzzles on many Web sites that present a string of distorted letters and numbers.
