Esperanza Spalding News

The African-based creative arts charity Dramatic Need and Carnegie Hall today announced that Academy Award nominee Andrew Garfield, Academy Award winner Common, Tony Award winner Jason Alexander, and rising star McKinley Belcher III (Mercy Street, Ozark) will join the extraordinary line-up of acting talent assembled for The Children's Monologues, a one-night-only theatrical event, presented in New York for the first time, on Monday, November 13, 2017 at 7:30 p.m. in Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage.

Andrew Bird adds new tour dates in February and March, further supporting his latest piece Echolocations: River (out now via Wegawam Music), with stops in Buffalo, NY, Roanoke, VA and at the iconic Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, NY among others. Tickets go on sale this Friday. These shows follow Bird's nearly sold-out Gezelligheid winter series, taking place in Chicago and debuting this year in Nashville. Of the seven December dates, limited tickets remain for December 8 in Nashville. Bird also adds a December 15 benefit show in Chicago for Foundations of Music, whose mission is to bring music to underserved Chicago neighborhoods where there are no music education programs.

Birdland Jazz Club has announced its November 2017 lineup, featuring Veronica Swift with the Benny Green Trio, Ann Hampton Callaway, Memo Acevedo, Django Reinhardt NY Festival Allstars, Thana Alexa's Tribute to Ella Fitzgerald, Diane Schurr, Marcus Roberts Trio, Jim Caruso's Cast Party, and more. Scroll down for details!

Birdland Jazz Club has announced its lineup for November 6-November 12, featuring the Django Reinhardt NY Festival Allstars, Denise Reis, Thana Alexa's Tribute to Ella Fitzgerald, and more. Scroll down for details!

Sleep will make its world premiere, October 27-28, at the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Pennsylvania and will have its New York premiere at BAM Fisher as part of the 2017 Next Wave Festival, November 29 - December 2.

Blurring the lines between jazz, classical, and folk music, this spectacularly virtuosic trio returns to Bainbridge to light their special brand of musical fireworks. 9 Horses is in concert one night only at BPA. Don't miss the Bainbridge stop on their national tour!

The African-based creative arts charity Dramatic Need and Carnegie Hall today announced that Academy Award winner Catherine Zeta-Jones and rising star Gugu Mbatha-Raw (Beauty and the Beast, Belle) will join the extraordinary line-up of acting talent assembled for The Children's Monologues, a one-night-only theatrical event, presented in New York for the first time, on Monday, November 13, 2017 at 7:30 p.m. in Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage. They are part of an all-star cast that has been brought together for this benefit performance, including Charlize Theron, Trevor Noah, James McAvoy, Audra McDonald, Daniel Kaluuya, Daveed Diggs, Ewan McGregor, Javier Mu oz, Susan Sarandon, and Sienna Miller. Also announced today: Tony Award-winning Broadway starCynthia Erivo (The Color Purple) joins leading artists offering musical performances as part of the production.

Birdland Jazz Club has announced its lineup for October 30-November 5, featuring Ann Hampton Callaway, Alexis Cole in Now's the Time, Veronica Swift and more!

Howl! Happening in association with The New York Butoh Institute and Vangeline Theater present Queer Butoh 2017, a free three-hour evening of site-specific Butoh performances with three LGBT/Q Butoh artists from San Francisco, Chicago and New York: Angela Newsham, Holly Chernobyl, and Will Atkins. The event will take place today, October 19, 2017 at 6pm at Howl! Happening, 6 E. First Street, NYC. For more information, visit www.vangeline.com.

The African-based creative arts charity Dramatic Need will collaborate with Carnegie Hall to present The Children's Monologues in a one-night-only benefit performance on Monday, November 13, 2017 at 7:30 p.m. in Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage. This special theatrical performance-presented in New York for the first time-brings together an extraordinary line-up of acting talent with an all-star cast to include Charlize Theron, Trevor Noah, James McAvoy, Audra McDonald, Daniel Kaluuya, Daveed Diggs, Susan Sarandon, Ewan McGregor, Javier Mu oz, plus Sienna Miller who has just been added to the production.

Sleep will make its world premiere, October 27-28, at the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Pennsylvania and will have its New York premiere at BAM Fisher as part of the 2017 Next Wave Festival, November 29 - December 2.

Following a critically U.S. and International tour, Vangeline Theater presents BUTOH BEETHOVEN: ECLIPSE (Admiring Tatsumi Hijikata) tonight, October 14, 2017 at 8pm at Theater For the New City, 155 First Avenue, NYC.

Birdland Jazz Club has announced its November 2017 lineup, featuring Veronica Swift with the Benny Green Trio, Ann Hampton Callaway, Memo Acevedo, Django Reinhardt NY Festival Allstars, Thana Alexa's Tribute to Ella Fitzgerald, Diane Schurr, Marcus Roberts Trio, Jim Caruso's Cast Party, and more. Scroll down for details!

Birdland Jazz Club has announced its lineup for October 23-29, featuring Lea DeLaria with special guests Norm Lewis, Sandra Bernhard, Janis Siegel, Jennifer Nettles and Danielle Brooks, Frank Perowsky Jazz Orchestra, Arianna Neikrug, and more. Scroll down for details!

One of the most acclaimed and innovative of all contemporary vocal groups, The Manhattan Transfer as first lauded for its pop success in the 1970s and 1980s, including chart-topping hits like 'Boy from New York City' and 'Operator.'

Fear the Walking Dead star and Philadelphia native Colman Domingo partners with nationally-acclaimed theatre-maker Patricia McGregor to co-author Lights Out: Nat 'King' Cole, a surprising and unsettling exploration of race and the American Dream. McGregor will also direct.

Ricochet Collective presents the World Premiere of Harrison David Rivers' ONLY YOU CAN PREVENT WILDFIRES, co-conceived and directed by Sherri Eden Barber, at Teatro Circulo (64 East 4th Street between 2nd Avenue and Bowery), tonight, October 7, through October 28.

Howl! Happening in association with The New York Butoh Institute and Vangeline Theater present Queer Butoh 2017, a free three-hour evening of site-specific Butoh performances with three LGBT/Q Butoh artists from San Francisco, Chicago and New York: Angela Newsham, Holly Chernobyl, and Will Atkins. The event will take place on Thursday, October 19, 2017 at 6pm at Howl! Happening, 6 E. First Street, NYC. For more information, visit www.vangeline.com.

Ping Chong + Company has announced that founder and artistic director Ping Chong is one of the recipients of the 2017-2018 Ford Foundation Art of Change Fellowship.

Howl! Happening in association with The New York Butoh Institute andVangeline Theater present Queer Butoh 2017, a free three-hour evening of site-specific Butoh performances with three LGBT/Q Butoh artists from San Francisco, Chicago and New York: Angela Newsham, Holly Chernobyl, and Will Atkins.