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L'Alliance New York to Present Kimberly Bartosik's BLUR


by Chloe Rabinowitz - December 04, 2025

L'Alliance New York will present upcoming performances of Kimberly Bartosik's bLUr at Le Skyroom. Five performers navigate urgent interventions as time warps and haunts....

Nominations Announced for the 2025 BESSIE AWARDS


by A.A. Cristi - November 24, 2025

The New York Dance and Performance Awards, known as THE BESSIES, will announce the 2024 and 2025 honorees at a ceremony on January 20 at Dixon Place. This year’s nominations span choreography, performance, design, and revival categories....

Nominations Announced for the 2025 BESSIE AWARDS


by A.A. Cristi - November 24, 2025

The New York Dance and Performance Awards, known as THE BESSIES, will announce the 2024 and 2025 honorees at a ceremony on January 20 at Dixon Place. This year’s nominations span choreography, performance, design, and revival categories....

New York Live Arts To Present LIVE ARTERY 2026, Featuring 21 Events Across 11 Days


by A.A. Cristi - November 19, 2025

New York Live Arts will present its largest Live Artery festival to date from January 7–17, 2026, featuring 21 events across theater, studio, lobby, and partner venues citywide. ...

Penn Receives Naming Gift For New Student Performing Arts Center


by Stephi Wild - November 07, 2025

 Penn Live Arts at the University of Pennsylvania announced a gift from Julie Beren Platt and Marc E. Platt, both 1979 graduates of the College of Arts & Sciences, to name the Platt Student Performing Arts Center....

New York Live Arts To Present Tere O’Connor’s 1984 Solo Alongside World Premiere Of New Ensemble Work


by A.A. Cristi - October 24, 2025

New York Live Arts will present choreographer Tere O’Connor’s new ensemble work The Lace alongside a reconstruction of his 1984 solo Construct-A-Guy, December 3–6 and 10–13, 2025....

New York Live Arts To Present Tere O’Connor’s 1984 Solo Alongside World Premiere Of New Ensemble Work


by A.A. Cristi - October 24, 2025

New York Live Arts will present choreographer Tere O’Connor’s new ensemble work The Lace alongside a reconstruction of his 1984 solo Construct-A-Guy, December 3–6 and 10–13, 2025....

Gibney Company Up Close Returns To New York Live Arts This Fall With Works By Johan Inger


by A.A. Cristi - September 11, 2025

Gibney Company, New York City’s creation-based repertory company celebrated for its physicality and humanistic storytelling, will return to New York Live Arts from October 30–November 1, 2025, for its annual Gibney Company Up Close. ...

L'Alliance New York and New York Live Arts Will Bring Wanjiru Kamuyu's FRAGMENTED SHADOWS To Stage


by Emmy Rice - September 06, 2025

L'Alliance New York will present Wanjiru Kamuyu's Fragmented Shadows from October 15-17, 2025 at 7:30pm at New York Live Arts, 219 W 19th Street New York, NY 10011. ...

L'Alliance New York Brings BLUR to New York Live Arts


by Stephi Wild - September 02, 2025

Built in cycles of desire and fierce compassion, bLUr exists within a landscape of physical and emotional crisis. Five performers of exquisite humanity navigate urgent interventions, tender and brutal rescues, inside a space of howling hunger and deeply erotic tenderness....

Past Shows

The Liar
The Liar
5/18 - 6/3/2018


“Ives’s Liar is a treat—and that’s the truth.” – Entertainment Weekly Meet our hero, the rapscallion who raises lying to an art form. Buckle up ...

Fun Home
Fun Home
3/9 - 3/25/2018


“Heart-gripping and cathartic, FUN HOME occupies the place where we all grew up.” – New York Times FUN HOME traces the coming-of-age of young Alison ...

Top Girls
Top Girls
2/2 - 2/24/2018


“A once-daring play has matured over 30 years into a genuine classic, as pertinent and piercing as ever.” – The Hollywood Reporter Caryl Churchill’s ground-breaking ...

Sweet Charity
Sweet Charity
12/1 - 1/6/2018


“It’s slick, it’s funny, but it is also… nudging us towards a question: how to be good, in a world such as this?” – The ...

A Delicate Balance
A Delicate Balance
10/13 - 11/11/2017


“Be prepared for a surprise: an evening of theatrical fireworks that prompt astonished oohs and ahs, genuine laughter and a certain amount of delicious unease.” ...

Videos


Old Crow Medicine Show’s Holiday Hootenanny in Central Virginia Old Crow Medicine Show’s Holiday Hootenanny
Capital One Hall (12/16 - 12/16)
Keyboard Conversations® with Jeffrey Siegel: Poetic Tone Pictures in Central Virginia Keyboard Conversations® with Jeffrey Siegel: Poetic Tone Pictures
Center for the Arts at George Mason University (1/25 - 1/25)
Dance Theatre of Harlem in Central Virginia Dance Theatre of Harlem
Ferguson Center for the Arts (3/24 - 3/24)
Sound Bath Experience with Kayce Laine in Central Virginia Sound Bath Experience with Kayce Laine
Chrysler Hall (4/25 - 4/25)
Peppa Pig: My First Concert in Central Virginia Peppa Pig: My First Concert
Chrysler Hall (4/12 - 4/12)
National Chamber Ensemble - Holiday Cheer! in Central Virginia National Chamber Ensemble - Holiday Cheer!
Unitarian Universalist Church of Arlington (12/20 - 12/20)
Little River Band in Central Virginia Little River Band
Capital One Hall (2/6 - 2/6)
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