Carnegie Hall News

Dozens of local teachers will be at the Holland Performing Arts Center this month to attend a two-day workshop for the pilot year of the Carnegie Hall program, Musical Explorers. Musical Explorers is a semester-long, curriculum-based program for children in kindergarten through second grade presented by Omaha Performing Arts in partnership with Carnegie Hall's Weill Music Institute. More than 600 Omaha Public School students and educators from Gilder Elementary, Walnut Hill Elementary and Harrison Elementary will take part in the inaugural year, which culminates with an interactive concert at the Holland Center on May 3, 2016. The program is supported by Bank of the West, the Richard Brooke Foundation, Dr. C.C. and Mabel L. Criss Memorial Foundation, Nebraska Arts Council and the Nebraska Cultural Endowment, and The Presenters.

CABARET, the musical masterpiece, returns direct from Broadway!

Old School Square has just announced its events, performances, exhibits and classes for January through March, 2016. Scroll down for details!

Lifetime's competition series, CHILD GENIUS: BATTLE OF THE BRIGHTEST (#ChildGenius) returns for season two, featuring America's most extraordinary and gifted children as they prep for the ultimate battle of the brains.

After bursting onto the cabaret scene in a high-powered sold-out show last February, Jessica Vosk (Fiddler on the Roof, Finding Neverland) is making her solo Joe's Pub debut on February 1st. This all-new show is Jessica's quest to achieve gay icon status in 70 minutes (plus encore), and no high belting will get in her way! Featuring special guests Zak Resnick (Once Upon a Mattress, Mamma Mia) and 2Scoops, the legendary, chart topping, entirely fictional 90's R&B girl group (comedy duo Aaron Fuksa and Adam Enright), all we promise is the greatest time you will ever have in your life. Ever.

HOUSTON (January 5, 2015) – Widely acclaimed young conductor, composer and pianist Teddy Abrams will lead the Houston Symphony in a free community concert at the Dunham Theater in Houston Baptist University's Morris Cultural Arts Center at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, January 15.

BroadwayWorld is saddened to report that Tony nominee Elizabeth Swados, composer of Broadway's RUNAWAYS, theatre educator, off-Broadway director and more, has passed away. She was 64.

Back by popular demand - Apollo's Fire reprises its latest creative crossover program by Artistic Director Jeannette Sorrell, in collaboration with guest co-director Nell Snaidas.  “Sephardic Journey: Wanderings of the Spanish Jews” premiered in five sold-out concerts in February 2014.  The program will be performed during February 4-7 at several venues, including an important debut at the new Maltz Performing Arts Center of Case Western Reserve University. The performances will coincide with a highly anticipated release of the program on CD, for British record label AVIE.

The Cincinnati Pops Orchestra under the direction of Pops Conductor John Morris Russell presents two concerts January 9-10 at Cincinnati Music Hall, dubbed I'M EVERY WOMAN, starring three powerhouse vocalists.

Broadway's Darling N'Kenge (Motown: The Musical and Sondheim and Sondheim) will bring Motown hits and more in a series of performances and master classes on Monday, January 11, 2016 at the Cranbrook Academy of Art.

NJTV, New Jersey's public television network, and the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) announced that the 3rd Season of the award-winning American Songbook at NJPAC series will be broadcast on NJTV beginning tonight, January 6, 2016 (check local listings).

Lynn University and Producer Jan McArt, producer and director of theatre arts program development, are launching the popular Mabel Mercer Foundation's Cabaret at Lincoln Center comes to Live at Lynn Series early next year. From January through May five of Manhattan's leading cabaret headliners will appear in concert in Lynn's Amarnick-Goldstein Concert Hall.

The third show in Laguna Playhouse's 2015-2016 season will be the U.S. Premiere of ACT 3..., written by David Ambrose and Claudia Nellens and directed by Martin Bergman. Rita Rudner and Charles Shaughnessy will star.

Beth Morrison Projects (BMP) and HERE present the fourth annual PROTOTYPE: Opera/Theatre/Now festival, running today, January 6, through January 17, 2016, in New York City.

KINKY BOOTS star Ellyn Marie Marsh asks, 'What if Adele wrote uptempo songs?' with her new, upbeat, 1950s rendition of the singer's hit 'Hello,' performed as part of Marsh's January 3rd concert -- 'Ellyn Marie Marsh. Live! From Carnegie Hall' -- at Joe's Pub. Check it out below!

Producer Daniel Nardicio will present the eclectic and electric Tony Award-winning performer ALAN CUMMINNG in his headlining debut at Carnegie Hall on Monday, February 8 at 8:00 PM. The show Alan Cumming Sings Sappy Songs with Friends features guest stars Darren Criss and Ricki Lake, in addition to a special performance by the New York City Gay Men's Chorus.

German conductor Christoph Konig leads the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and American violinist Tim Fain in a program featuring the Pittsburgh premiere of Philip Glass's "The American Four Seasons," during BNY Mellon Grand Classics: Beethoven's Pastoral on January 15, 16 and 17 at Heinz Hall.

Mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe returns to Carnegie Hall with pianist Alan Louis Smith to lead an audience sing-slong concert, Sing, America!, on Saturday, January 23 at 2:00 p.m. in Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage as part of Carnegie Hall's annual series The Song Continues. Audience members have the opportunity to join in and sing along to some of America's most popular songs from the early 1900s including "Oh, You Beautiful Doll," "Let Me Call You Sweetheart," "By the Beautiful Sea," and many more.

Four dynamic bandleaders make this season at Miller an exhilarating world tour of jazz. Drawing inspiration from Rio and Puerto Rico, Southern India and Harlem, these artists breathe new life into a uniquely American art form. Together, they show us the endless possibilities and infectious energy of jazz. Stefon Harris & Sonic Creed come to the Miller Theatre (2960 Broadway at 116th Street) on Saturday, January 30, 2016 at 8:00 p.m.

New Musicals at 54 is a series presented by Feinstein's/ 54 Below Programming Director Jennifer Ashley Tepper. Some of the 10 new and diverse musicals by a selection of today's most talented writers have had out-of-town productions, some have had workshops... now's your chance to be first to see them in NYC! Join us at New Musicals at 54 for one-night-only concerts celebrating each new show with songs, behind-the-scenes stories, and all-star casts!