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Yale Schwarzman Center Unveils Spring 2026 Season
by A.A. Cristi - Dec 17, 2025

Yale Schwarzman Center has announced its Spring 2026 season, featuring free public performances across dance, music, opera, and interdisciplinary art. The season continues the Center’s commitment to accessible, cross-disciplinary programming in New Haven.

Yale Schwarzman Center Unveils Spring 2026 Season
by A.A. Cristi - Dec 16, 2025

Yale Schwarzman Center has announced its Spring 2026 Season, featuring free public performances in dance, music, opera, and multimedia art. The lineup includes world premieres and appearances by Toni Dove, Andrea Miller and GALLIM, David Lang, Yuval Sharon, and others.

Colombari to Present Theatrical Adaptation of Flannery O'Connor's EVERYTHING THAT RISES MUST CONVERGE
by Blair Ingenthron - Oct 3, 2024

Compagnia de' Colombari will perform Everything That Rises Must Converge in Brooklyn at St. Paul's Roman Catholic Church on October 13 at 6pm.

Long Wharf Theatre Announces Artistic Congress Held Across New Haven In Partnership With Yale Schwarzman Center
by A.A. Cristi - Aug 21, 2024

Long Wharf Theatre has announced its Artistic Congress, which will be a three-day convening dedicated to leaders, artists and civic-minded community members to discuss the vital importance of bringing people together across sectors to preserve democracy.

AMOC* Will Perform EL NINO: NATIVITY RECONSIDERED at Yale Schwarzman Center
by Stephi Wild - Dec 1, 2023

American Modern Opera Company (AMOC*) is heading to Yale Schwarzman Center to perform John Adams's oratorio El Niño: Nativity Reconsidered. Celebrating Latin American poets and the voices of women, this work, will make a one-night-only appearance on December 15 at 7:30 pm in Commons.

FAKING BAD and HALLS Come to The Turbine Theatre This Summer
by Stephi Wild - May 12, 2023

The Turbine Theatre, at Battersea Power Station will bring Halls, a new musical directed by Andy Fickman (Heathers) and written by Jennifer Harrison and George Stroud, to audiences from 07 July.

Opera Philadelphia Films Coming To Five Movie Theaters This Fall
by Stephi Wild - Oct 20, 2022

 Following the success of September's Festival O22 presentation of live opera productions alongside opera films, “redefining opera on stage and screen” according to the Wall Street Journal, Opera Philadelphia will bring its renowned films to five regional movie theaters, offering audiences an opportunity to appreciate the intersection of two art forms.

Review: A Singular Sensation Returns to Philadelphia Opera with the O22 Festival
by Richard Sasanow - Oct 7, 2022

O22, as Opera Philadelphia's festival was called this year, wasn’t exactly “something old, something new” but more like big fat sandwich cookie. On one side, there was a kind of “traditional” contemporary opera, Hosokawa’s THE RAVEN , a big filling of Rossini’s OTELLO opera seria in the middle, and finished with the Little-Waldman BLACK LODGE, a rock opera that was half ear-blasting concert performed live, half film.

BLACK LODGE Premieres in October as Part of Opera Philadelphia's Festival O22 and the 2022 Philadelphia Fringe Festival
by Stephi Wild - Aug 11, 2022

This bold new work with a libretto by legendary poet  Anne Waldman and story, screenplay, and direction by Michael Joseph McQuilken blends opera and rock into an alchemical exploration of magic, mystery, regret, and redemption.  

Roxane Gay, Ty Defoe, Raja Feather Kelly & More to be Feature in Oregon Shakespeare Festival's Inaugural Quills Fest
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Nov 2, 2021

Oregon Shakespeare Festival, in partnership with Artizen and Museum of Other Realities, will present the first-ever Quills Fest, an annual two-day immersive digital festival at the intersection of live theatre and Extended Reality.

Details Announced for AFROFEMONONOMY // WORK THE ROOTS Presented by Performance Space New York
by Chloe Rabinowitz - May 6, 2021

Performance Space New York, with co-production partner New Georges has announced details surrounding AFROFEMONONOMY // WORK THE ROOTS, a group activation of Black femme theater artists in celebration of each other.

AFROFEMONONOMY/Work The Roots Announces Inaugural Programming
by A.A. Cristi - Apr 23, 2021

Performance Space New York, with co-production partner New Georges, announces details surrounding AFROFEMONONOMY // WORK THE ROOTS, a group activation of Black femme theater artists in celebration of each other.

New Georges Announces Upcoming Spring 2021 Programming
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Apr 1, 2021

New Georges announced today two upcoming productions for the Spring 2021 season—Dream/Home, presented as part of Post Theatrical; and All the Different Ways Commodore Matthew Perry Could Have Died Before Opening Japan But Didn’t, a new play commissioned from Julia Izumi, presented in a co-production with Theater in Quarantine.

Performance Space New York Announces Spring 2021 Programming
by Stephi Wild - Feb 17, 2021

Performance Space New York announces its Spring 2021 programming, with collaborative, connective processes and hybrid projects—embracing virtual and audio forms necessitated by the pandemic while safely welcoming the public back into the building.

HALLS The Musical Announces Andy Fickman as Director
by Stephi Wild - Dec 11, 2020

Acclaimed stage and screen director, Andy Fickman, who's West End hit musical Heathers announced a UK tour earlier this year, has joined the Halls creative team after he heard opening number “Flat 15B” which was performed by a West End Cast during the first UK lockdown, earlier this year.

VIDEO: Millie O'Connell, Sophie Isaacs, and More Sing 'Flat 15B' From HALLS
by Stephi Wild - Jun 15, 2020

Current West End stars have come together during lockdown to perform the opening number, 'Flat 15B', from brand new, British musical: Halls.

The HawtPlates' WATERBOY AND THE MIGHTY WORLD Comes to the Bushwick Starr
by Stephi Wild - Sep 3, 2019

The Bushwick Starr will kick off its 2019-20 Season with Waterboy and the Mighty World, a new piece created by Justin Hicks, Kenita Miller-Hicks, and Jade Hicks, the husband-wife-sister trio The HawtPlates (690 Wishes at JACK and PS122). The group features Justin Hicks, composer/performer from Lynn Nottage's Mlima's Tale (The Public Theater), Empire State Works in Progress (The Whitney Museum), and Shasta Geaux Pop(The Highline) among others.

The HawtPlates' Present WATERBOY AND THE MIGHTY WORLD
by A.A. Cristi - Aug 20, 2019

The Bushwick Starr kicks off its 2019-20 Season with Waterboy and the Mighty World, a new piece created by Justin Hicks, Kenita Miller-Hicks, and Jade Hicks, the husband-wife-sister trio The HawtPlates (690 Wishes at JACK and PS122).

The HawtPlates' Present WATERBOY AND THE MIGHTY WORLD
by A.A. Cristi - Aug 6, 2019

The Bushwick Starr is thrilled to kick off our 2019-20 Season with Waterboy and the Mighty World, a new piece created by Justin Hicks, Kenita Miller-Hicks, and Jade Hicks, the husband-wife-sister trio The HawtPlates (690 Wishes at JACK and PS122). The group features Justin Hicks, composer/performer from Lynn Nottage's Mlima's Tale (The Public Theater), Empire State Works in Progress (The Whitney Museum), and Shasta Geaux Pop (The Highline) among others.