Ittai Shapira

Festival Theater Hudson today announced its inaugural 2021-2022 season, beginning with a Gala Inaugural Concert featuring the US premier of Israeli composer Ittai Shapira's Magyar: A Concerto for Two Violins, followed by Act l of Richard Wagner's Die Walkure.

On May 24, 2019 at 7:00 PM at National Sawdust (80 North 6th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11249), violinist, composer, and psychotherapist Cornelius Dufallo (ETHEL, Flux Quartet), violinist and composer Ittai Shapira, pianist and composer Emir Gams z, neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux, and psychoanalyst Ruth Oscharoff will offer a provocative investigation of how composers use silence and how it affects us with Silence and Memory: An Exploration of Music, Mind and Brain.

Voices Carry, Inc. will present the World Premiere of Strings Attached, a multidisciplinary project, involving contemporary dance, abstract puppetry, an original score, and performance art, for two weekends opening on Thursday, October 6, 2016 at The Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles in Downtown LA. The work, which has been in development for three years, is a window into the human capacity to love, with a focus on the universal feelings of grief, forgiveness, devotion, entrapment, and joy. Voices Carry, a nonprofit corporation guided by Artistic Director Madeline Leavitt, is dedicated to breaking down cultural barriers and embracing diversity through dance, theatre, and performance art. 

Tonight, Monday, April 30, 2012 at 7:30pm, Robert Sirota's The Clever Mistress (New York premiere) and Theodore Wiprud's My Last Duchess (world premiere) will be presented in a double bill as part of the 15th anniversary season of the Cutting Edge Concerts New Music Festival at Peter Norton Symphony Space (95th St. and Broadway, NYC). These fully staged, one-act operas - a tragedy and a comedy inspired by two Renaissance stories - will be performed with a chamber ensemble conducted by Victoria Bond, artistic director of Cutting Edge Concerts, and will be directed byTom Dulack.

On Monday, April 23, 2012 at 7:30pm and Monday, April 30, 2012 at 7:30pm, Robert Sirota's The Clever Mistress (New York premiere) and Theodore Wiprud's My Last Duchess (world premiere) will be presented in a double bill as part of the 15th anniversary season of the Cutting Edge Concerts New Music Festival at Peter Norton Symphony Space (95th St. and Broadway, NYC). These fully staged, one-act operas - a tragedy and a comedy inspired by two Renaissance stories - will be performed with a chamber ensemble conducted by Victoria Bond, artistic director of Cutting Edge Concerts, and will be directed byTom Dulack.

On Monday, April 23, 2012 at 7:30pm and Monday, April 30, 2012 at 7:30pm, Robert Sirota's The Clever Mistress (New York premiere) and Theodore Wiprud's My Last Duchess (world premiere) will be presented in a double bill as part of the 15th anniversary season of the Cutting Edge Concerts New Music Festival at Peter Norton Symphony Space (95th St. and Broadway, NYC). These fully staged, one-act operas - a tragedy and a comedy inspired by two Renaissance stories - will be performed with a chamber ensemble conducted by Victoria Bond, artistic director of Cutting Edge Concerts, and will be directed byTom Dulack.

Molloy College has just announced the opening of the new Madison Theatre, located in the Public Square building on the College's Rockville Centre campus.

Molloy College is set to announce the opening of the new Madison Theatre, located in the Public Square building on the College's Rockville Centre campus.

Molloy College has just announced the opening of the new Madison Theatre, located in the Public Square building on the College's Rockville Centre campus.

Glen Roven's World premiere of 'The Runaway Bunny' debuts at Carnegie Hall on April 29 with Brooke Shields graciously appearing as the soloist. Roven discussed how he and Shields got to Carnegie Hall...

Brooke Shields will star in the premiere concert of The Runaway Bunny, a concerto for reader, violin and orchestra at Carnegie Hall on Tuesday, April 29 at 8PM in the Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage; conducted by Glen Roven. Tickets are on sale now at www.carnegiehall.org

A CD featuring Glen Rover's The Runaway Bunny, narrated by Brooke Shields was recently released in the UK and will soon be released in the US

Brooke Shields will narrate Glen Roven's concert piece The Runaway Bunny on CD; the piece will also air on the 'Jerry Lewis Telethon'

On Thursday, May 25th, Queer Songbook presented an evening of songs by Glen Roven, featuring Donna McKechnie, Douglas Sills, Sandy Duncan and more, at the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center

Donna McKechnie, Douglas Sills, Sandy Duncan and Kaitlin Hopkins will be among the stars performing in the Queer Songbook's Glen Roven concert on May 25th