The Sheen Center Announces Spring Lineup Featuring Kate Baldwin, RISEN Premiere & More

The Sheen Center for Thought & Culture, located at 18 Bleecker Street, today announced a Spring Lineup filled with diverse and dynamic programming. The eclectic array of events - including theater, music, film, discourse and more - will explore the heights and depths of the human condition through thought and culture.

The spring programming started with the Special Red Carpet Screening of Columbia Pictures' Risen, with the film's star Joseph Fiennes; and continues with Kate Baldwin & Friends, a three part concert series; a rare NYC appearance by poet Sarah Kay celebrating the release of her latest book, The Type; a screening of the documentary Mercy, followed by a special conversation with the film's director Daniel daSilva; "Manhattan Measure," an audio visual exhibition in the Sheen's Art Gallery of one man's unique creation of a cross in Manhattan; a special limited engagement of The Anarchist and Talk with playwright David Mamet; "The Shamrock and the Madonna," a conversation on the Irish and Italian experience in the US, with Paul Moses (religion reporter), Peter Quinn (author of Banished Children of Eve), and Robert Orsi (winner of the 2000 Guggenheim Fellowship and Religious Studies professor at Northwestern University) and moderated by Edward O'Donnell; and "ballet up close" with company-in-residence Mordance, in the Black Box Theatre.

The Spring Lineup will also debut the new series 2: The Art of the Duo, which will feature two artists traversing the duo form in all its permutations (music, theater, dance, poetry, storytelling and more); the re-opening of the renovated 80-seat Black Box Theatre, which is quickly establishing itself as one of the city's most in demand black box theaters and which will feature Spring productions by companies like Prospect Theatre and Rising Circle Theater Collective; the launch of a residency program, in a continued effort to foster emerging talent, with Mordance, composer Marisa Michelson and sculptor Christopher Alles.

Named after the late Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, best known for his popular radio and TV ministry in the 1950s and 60s, The Sheen Center will showcase works that affirm the highest values of the human spirit through the performing and visual arts, symposia, lectures and exhibits.

The state-of-the-art complex has a 273-seat proscenium theater equipped with five-camera high-definition livestream capability and a multi-track recording studio with thirty-two onstage inputs; an 80-seat black box theater; four rehearsal studios; and an art gallery. This facility is the newest arts center in Manhattan in 35 years and a great addition to the growing artistic community in the East Village/NoHo.

For ticket information and a complete line up of other programs and rentals, please visit www.sheencenter.org or call 212-925-2812.

SARAH KAY AND FRIENDS will also be streamed on www.sheencenter.org.