James Wetzel

Boosey & Hawkes has announced the loss of American composer David Del Tredici, who passed away at age 86 on Saturday, November 18, 2023, at his Greenwich Village home in New York City, due to complications from Parkinson's disease.

Chenango River Theatre will present the Jeffrey Hatcher's adaptation of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, based on the novella by Robert Louis Stevenson, running October 7 -23.

The Cecilia Chorus of New York will host a remote watch party for The Belshazzar Project on Monday, April 13 @ 7:30 PM.

The Cecilia Chorus of New York will present The Belshazzar Project, a multigenre concert experience devised by Music Director and six-time ASCAP Programming Award winner Mark Shapiro, on March 7 @ 8:00 PM at Church of St. Francis Xavier, 46 W. 16th St., between 5th and 6th Avenues in Manhattan, featuring music and spoken words inspired by the story of Belshazzar, the last king of the ancient Babylonian empire.

This is the true story of Haskell Harelik, a?oethe immigranta??, based on the author's own grandparents. This saga of a Jewish immigrant's assimilation into a town without a single other Jewish family is author Mark Harelik's tribute to his grandparent's courage, industry and ability in adapting to a strange and wonderful new country.

Gideon Media (a new venture from Gideon Productions, producers of the critically-acclaimed The Honeycomb Trilogy, Universal Robots, and Viral) in association with Tor Books & Tor Labs will present Steal the Stars, a noir science fiction thriller by Mac Rogers (award-winning writer of the global hit podcast thrillers, The Message and LifeAfter), released as 14 episodes, airing weekly from August 2 - November 1, 2017, and available worldwide on all major podcast distributors including iTunes, Stitcher, and GooglePlay through the Macmillan Podcast Network.

Gideon Media (a new venture from Gideon Productions, producers of the critically-acclaimed The Honeycomb Trilogy, Universal Robots, and Viral) in association with Tor Books & Tor Labs will present Steal the Stars, a noir science fiction thriller by Mac Rogers (award-winning writer of the global hit podcast thrillers, The Message and LifeAfter), released as 14 episodes, airing weekly from August 2 - November 1, 2017, and available worldwide on all major podcast distributors including iTunes, Stitcher, and GooglePlay through the Macmillan Podcast Network.

This summer, ImprovBoston and the Museum of Science team up for three groundbreaking, innovative, completely improvised out-of-this-world comedy shows for adults in the Charles Hayden Planetarium. On the fourth Thursday of June, July, and August, New England's oldest and biggest comedy theater combines its signature off-the-cuff laughs with the expert technological wizardry of the Planetarium.

Presented for the first time in the Southern Tier, Chenango River Theatre's final show of their 10th season features the regional premiere of Taking Sides, a provocative 1995 Holocaust drama written by Ronald Harwood (Academy-Award winning writer ofThe Pianist and The Dresser).  Set in the ruins of post-war Berlin and loosely based onworld famous German conductor Wilhelm Furtwangler's own diaries, this provocative drama explores Furtwangler's possible complicity in Nazi war crimes.

On Today, June 14, 2014, at 8 pm, Amor Artis will present a concert at New York's go-to choral space, St. Ignatius of Antioch Episcopal Church (entrance on W. 87th between Broadway and West End Avenue). Each of three highly accomplished choral conductors-finalists in Amor Artis's search for a new Music Director-will lead one-third of this free, one-hour, mostly a cappella concert. (The chosen conductor will take the helm next season.) An unusual event deserves intriguing music, so expect some rare gems from Tchaikovsky, Purcell and others.

The world premiere of THE WEAVER OF RAVELOE, a new musical by Erica Glenn and Melissa Leilani Larson based on the classic novel Silas Marner by George Eliot, opens at the OBERON in Boston tonight, May 29, 2014.

On Saturday, June 14, 2014, at 8 pm, Amor Artis will present a concert at New York's go-to choral space, St. Ignatius of Antioch Episcopal Church (entrance on W. 87th between Broadway and West End Avenue). Each of three highly accomplished choral conductors-finalists in Amor Artis's search for a new Music Director-will lead one-third of this free, one-hour, mostly a cappella concert. (The chosen conductor will take the helm next season.) An unusual event deserves intriguing music, so expect some rare gems from Tchaikovsky, Purcell and others.

The casting has been announced for the world premiere of THE WEAVER OF RAVELOE, a new musical by Erica Glenn and Melissa Leilani Larson based on the classic novel Silas Marner by George Eliot, which will be opening at the OBERON in Boston on May 29, 2014.

Machiavelli, a new comic play by Richard Vetere, will close as scheduled at The ArcLight Theatre on November 5th

Richard Vetere's play lacks wit or any kind of empathy, but it might have stood a chance if Evan Bergman's blocking weren't so static

Following a successful Off-Off Broadway run at Manhattan Theatre Source in January, Machiavelli, a new comic play by Richard Vetere, opened Off-Broadway at The ArcLight Theatre on September 24th

Richard Vetere's play Machiavelli, in previews, opens Off-Broadway on September 24th

WHAT: This Won't Take Long, a play by David M. Korn WHERE: The NY International Fringe Festival at 13th Street Repertory Company, 50 West 13th Street WHEN: August 13, 16, 23-26 (Times Vary) INFO: www.thiswonttakelong.net

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Following a successful Off-Off Broadway run at Manhattan Theatre Source in January, Machiavelli, a new comic play by Richard Vetere, will open Off-Broadway at The ArcLight Theatre on Sunday, September 24th