Bill Bragin

Discover the must-see performances and events at JanArtsNYC 2024, including the highly anticipated Under the Radar Festival and Winter Jazz Fest. Get all the details on this exciting showcase of talent and creativity in the entertainment industry.

New York’s globalFEST makes its highly anticipated return for its 21st year to Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (LCPA) with a full day of music and performances on Sunday, January 14, 2024, as part of Lincoln Center Presents.

The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) has announced its ninth season. Under the theme Arts at the Center, an eclectic array of global and local talent is showcased through shows, talks, and workshops. The aim is to invite audiences to experience something new, unfamiliar, and exciting.

The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) has announced its eighth season's lineup of performances, talks, and workshops centered around the theme 'Stories'. The events will showcase local, regional, and global artists whose works build on inspiring storytelling, inviting audiences to participate in the process of creative expression on and off the stage.

Theatre For One: We are Here (Nairobi Edition) will make its world premiere at The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) on September 15, running online on Wednesdays, Saturdays, and Sundays until September 26.

Echoing the UAE's 50th Anniversary Jubilee and the future orientation of EXPO 2020, the theme for the season is Now and into the Future. The planned events speak to this theme, showcasing music, theater, dance, film, poetry, and interdisciplinary performances which take stock of our current moment, as well as lay the groundwork for future artistic development.

On May 25, 2021 at 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern in a free virtual stream, a group of arts institutions across the nation will premiere the short film 'They Still Want To Kill Us', an aria by composer and activist Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR), performed by mezzo-soprano J’Nai Bridges, and directed by filmmaker Yoram Savion.

The program will include the premiere of the piece by Savion, a discussion with DBR and Bridges, moderated by Jamilla Deria and a statement by Damario Solomon-Simmons of the Justice for Greenwood Foundation. 

​​​​​​​Theater For One: Here We Are will make its Middle East premiere at The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) on April 7 at 8pm, running online for five nights until April 11.

The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi has announced the return of Barzakh Festival for its fifth edition; the event will be streamed online for three nights on February 1, 3, and 6. The cross-cultural lineup features three globally renowned groups who encapsulate The Arts Center’s theme for the season.

The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) has announced a diverse schedule of performances, talks, and workshops for January and February. Centered around the season’s continuing theme, ‘A Bridge’, the events will feature artists from across the world who will present work and engage in conversation with the UAE and the wider global community.

Tiny Desk Meets globalFEST, a collaboration between long-running New York music festival globalFEST and NPR Music’s Tiny Desk concerts, set for January 11 – 14, 2021, has announced its full schedule of performances: 

New York music festival, globalFEST, set for January 11 –14, 2021 has announced additional performances by alumni artists for its 17th edition. The newly announced artists include Ukrainian avant-folk group Dakhabrakha (2014), Tunisian born experimentalist Emel Mathlouthi (2015), visionary Malian singer Rokia Traore (2005) and more.

Long-running and widely influential New York music festival, globalFEST, has announced dates for its 17th edition set for January 11 – 14, 2021.

Amidst global uncertainty and change, The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) has sought to make one thing constant a?" making contemporary performing arts more accessible.  

This September, Joe's Pub at The Public kicks off its 20th Anniversary year, celebrating two decades of presenting the best in live music and performance nightly with a commitment to diversity, production values, community, and artistic freedom. The fall season is comprised of Joe's Pub debuts like Max Vernon and The Tiger Lillies; familiar faces like Justin Vivian Bond, John Kelly, and Shaina Taub; and two New York Voices commissions: Refrigerated Dreams, a collaboration from Nona Hendryx and Carrie Mae Weems, and Murray Hill's About To Break, directed by Scott Wittman. There will also be a change in leadership at Joe's Pub - Alex Knowlton will become Director of Joe's Pub, as Shanta Thake will inaugurate a new role at The Public Theater as Senior Director of Artistic Programs.

Sundance Institute's Theatre Lab kicks off on May 6th, and today announced this year's participating acting company and creative advisors. The Lab, which runs through May 27 at the Fellah Hotel outside Marrakech, Morocco, is supervised by Artistic Director Philip Himberg and Producing Director Christopher Hibma, and is the centerpiece of the Institute's year-round work with the theatre community, alternating locations between Sundance Resort in Utah and a venue in the Middle East/North African region, as part of a multi-year commitment to international work and a means of facilitating cultural exchange between artists writing in English and Arabic.

The Orpheum Theatre Group is pleased to announce that President & CEO Brett Batterson has been named NAPAMA's (North American Performing Arts Managers and Agents) 2017 Presenter of the Year. The official awards presentation will take place at the Association of Performing Arts Professionals' (APAP) annual conference on Monday, January 15, 2018 at the New York Hilton Midtown. Batterson's award will be presented by NAPAMA president, David Wannen.

Bang on a Can's 2016-2017 season continues the "relentlessly inventive" (New York Magazine) new music collective's mission to create an international community dedicated to innovative music, wherever it is found, with performances throughout the U.S., Canada, and Europe.

Bang on a Can's 2016-2017 season continues the "relentlessly inventive" (New York Magazine) new music collective's mission to create an international community dedicated to innovative music, wherever it is found, with performances throughout the U.S., Canada, and Europe.