Episcopal Actors' Guild Presents BLACK DOVES By Reynaldo Piniella
by BWW News Desk - March 14, 2019 Loosely inspired by Chekhov's The Seagull, Black Doves by Reynaldo Piniella follows a middle-class African-American family in present-day Brooklyn, New York. When a loved one commits an unforgivable crime, will the family deal with the generational trauma that has shaped their lives, or will they ch...
Photo Flash: Stars Come Out for Good Causes at SPEAK UP, RISE UP
by Julie Musbach - August 19, 2017 Speak Up, Rise Up, runs until Sunday, August 20 at the historic Connelly Theater in the East Village. The inaugural festival has featured 18 diverse solo and storytelling shows, and 7 community workshop performances over the past week....
OUR/VODKA Opens OUR/NEW YORK: The First Distillery In Manhattan Since Prohibition
by Marina Kennedy - May 21, 2018 Our/New York is a new, small batch, high-quality vodka from the first legal distillery to open in Manhattan since Prohibition. Our/New York is a subsidiary of Our/Vodka,a global family of local vodkas made in micro-distilleries in cities around the world, which was started in 2010 by a group of Swed...
New Study Shows How Arts and Culture Improve Health, Safety and Well-being in New York City's Less Prosperous Neighborhoods
by A.A. Cristi - March 09, 2017 Low- and moderate-income residents in New York City neighborhoods with many cultural resources are healthier, better educated, and safer overall than those in similar communities with fewer creative resources, according to a groundbreaking study by the School of Social Policy & Practice at the Unive...
DANCE PARADE Announces Grand Marshals
by Julie Musbach - April 12, 2018 Dance Parade New York is pleased to announce four Grand Marshals will kick off its street parade and festival with a ribbon cutting ceremony at 12:45pm on Saturday May 19, 2018 at 21st Street and Broadway....
Jamestown Revival's New Album SAN ISABEL Out 6/14, THIS TOO SHALL PASS Premieres At Rolling Stone
by Tori Hartshorn - March 22, 2019 Jamestown Revival's highly anticipated new album, San Isabel, will be released June 14 onThirty Tigers and is now available for pre-order. In advance of the release, the band's new song, “This Too Shall Pass,” premiered yesterday at Rolling Stone (listen/share HERE). Of the track, Rolling Stone prai...
NeON Arts Summer Showcase Celebrates Creative Work From Young People Across The City
by BWW News Desk - September 06, 2018 On Today, September 6 at 6:00 p.m., youth from across New York City will present original music, dance, poetry, visual art, and more in Carnegie Hall's Resnick Education Wing as part of the NeON Arts summer showcase. A program of the NYC Department of Probation (DOP) in partnership with Carnegie Hal...
BRIC's 'This Land Is...' Presents Contemporary Multimedia Art by 800 Brooklyn Students
by BWW News Desk - April 27, 2017 BRIC is pleased to present This Land Is…, the 29th Annual Contemporary Art Exhibition developed by BRIC's Education team, Teaching Artists and students from throughout Brooklyn....
Anaya Lee Willabus, Age 11, Talks With Brooklyn Kids About Her Book ' A Bully's Disguise'
by A.A. Cristi - November 27, 2017 Author Anaya Lee Willabus, who at age 9 became America's youngest chapter book author, talked with elementary students from Brooklyn Community Services Gary Klinsky Children's Centers (GKCC) After-School program in November about her book A Bully's Disguise and shared insights on children's l...
GENERATION RISE to be Presented by PCC and Urban Word NYC
by Chloe Rabinowitz - June 11, 2021 Ping Chong and Company, founded by the influential theater-maker Ping Chong and a home for a diverse, intergenerational group of affiliated artists, partners with Urban Word NYC for a preview presentation of the latest Undesirable Elements work, Generation Rise, commissioned by New Victory Theater/N...
Finding Movement Through Meditation Class Series Announced by Project.KB
by Chloe Rabinowitz - July 06, 2021 Kristina Bermudez Creative Developments LLC, also referred to as Project.KB, aims to create both environmental and social change by utilizing the creative process to build a sustainable economy for dance....
Reynaldo Piniella's BLACK DOVES Wins the 12th Anniversary Barbour Playwrights Award
by Rebecca Russo - April 08, 2019 After three staged readings of three new plays by innovative emerging playwrights of color were presented to enthusiastic audiences at Guild Hall, the votes for the Episcopal Actors' Guild's 12th Annual Barbour Playwrights Award are in. The judges have selected Reynaldo Piniella's Black Doves as thi...
Dance Brooklyn! Free Concert to Celebrate Cultural Diversity at the Kings Theater Tomorrow, June 15
by Macon Prickett - June 14, 2018 In commitment to honoring the differences and commonalities of Brooklyn's global community through arts and sciences, Purelements, an Evolution in Dance founders, Lakai Worrell and Kevin Joseph, issue Dance Brooklyn! A World Celebration as an expression of cultural enlightenment and unification in t...
9th Annual Juneteenth Festival to Celebrate Cultural Unity in NYC
by Robert Diamond - June 16, 2018 The 9th annual Juneteenth NYC celebration is set to draw over 3,200 people to celebrate the 153rd anniversary of 'Freedom Day,' with a vendor marketplace featuring craft goods and food, community talent show, local small business exhibitors, health and wellness screeners, raffle prizes, plus a full ...
Pulitzer Winner Hilton Als to Stop by STATE OF THE ARTS NYC This Friday
by BWW News Desk - April 11, 2017 On Friday April 14th, Hilton Als, writer, photographer, curator and now Pulitzer Prize-winning theatre critic, will talk with host/producer Savona Bailey-McClain at 5 p.m. on WBAI FM Radio....
BROOKLYN PHOTOGRAPHS, BRIC TV, The Knights and More Set for BRIC's Fall 2017 Season
by BWW News Desk - August 10, 2017 BRIC, the largest presenter of free cultural programming in Brooklyn, has announced the fall 2017 season at BRIC House, the organization's 40,000 SF home in Downtown Brooklyn....
New York Premiere of Bruce Norris' DOWNSTATE to be Presented at Playwrights Horizons in October
by Chloe Rabinowitz - September 16, 2022 Playwrights Horizons will present the New York premiere of Bruce Norris’s Downstate, directed by Pam MacKinnon, October 28–December 11 (opening November 15). This provocative work surrounds a registered address in downstate Illinois, where four men convicted of sex crimes share a group home, living ...
Bizzy Banks Is 'Extra Sturdy' In Latest Single And Video Release
by A.A. Cristi - August 28, 2020 Bizzy Banks, the rising rapper taking the drill scene by storm is back to announce the release of a video for his brand new single “Extra Sturdy.” ...
T-MOBILE Becomes Exclusive Presenting Sponsor Of TDF's CREATE NEW YORK Community Engagement Program
by Stephi Wild - September 16, 2019 TDF, the not for profit organization bringing the power to the performing arts to everyone announced that T-MOBILE will be this year's exclusive presenting sponsor of TDF's CREATE NEW YORK (CNY) Community Engagement Program. T-Mobile has given a gift of $25,000 to support the program for the 2019-20...
Nia Calloway, Rachel Lin & More To Develop New Solo Plays For AFO's 2022 Solo Collective
by Chloe Rabinowitz - January 04, 2022 All For One Theater has selected 5 playwrights who will create and develop five brand new solo plays as part of All For One's 2022 Solo Collective development series: Nia Calloway (HOMEBODY: A Ritual Party), Rachel Lin (Dear John), Matthew Paul Olmos (the un'admiring), Reynaldo Piniella (Black and B...
Reynaldo Piniella and Pierre Marais Announced as Abingdon Theatre Company Artists in Residence
by Chloe Rabinowitz - August 02, 2022 Abingdon Theatre Company has announced two new Artists in Residence for their upcoming 30th Season beginning in the fall. Reynaldo Piniella and Pierre Marais are set to be the next participants in the Carolyn Halpert Artist in Residence Program, which began in 2017....
GENERATION NYZ Returns to La MaMa Beginning Jan. 24th
by BWW News Desk - January 24, 2019 La MaMa presents a limited encore engagement of Ping Chong + Company's critically-acclaimed Generation NYZ at La MaMa's Ellen Stewart Theatre (66 E 4th St) from January 24 through February 3....
ONE BROOKLYN JAZZ FESTIVAL Begins December 4
by A.A. Cristi - November 20, 2020 Plan to experience the One Brooklyn Jazz Festival, December 4 to 13, 2020. The event is produced by the Central Brooklyn Jazz Consortium (CBJC). The series is a blend of in-person, livestream, and pre-recorded music for the holiday season. ...
Azuka Theatre Will Kick Off Their Season With the World Premiere of YOUNG MONEY Next Month
by Stephi Wild - October 22, 2021 Azuka Theatre presents the World Premiere of Young Money by Philadelphia playwright Erlina Ortiz, directed by Briana Gause. ...
Jaamil Olawale Kosoko to Explore Loss, Paranormal Activity and More in SEANCERS at Abrons Arts Center
by BWW News Desk - December 06, 2017 Abrons Arts Center will present the world premiere of S ancers, a new dance-based performance work by Jaamil Olawale Kosoko featuring performances by Kosoko, performance artist IMMA and a live sound score by Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste. Setting the fugitive experience afforded Black people on fire wit... |