Paul Thompson

Materials for the Arts unveils new logo and visual identity, launches campaign to raise awareness of the wide-ranging services it provides to NYC's cultural community.

Commissioner Laurie Cumbo has highlighted the accomplishments of the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA) for 2023.

After nine sold-out performances this past April, Garden Party, a collaborative work by choreographer Douglas Dunn, visual artist/designer Mimi Gross, and lighting designer Lauren Parrish, will return this fall.

Schools Chancellor David C. Banks has announced the release of the 2021-22 Annual Arts in Schools Report.

Canada’s Theatre Museum announced today that it will have a new home located in the Elgin and Winter Garden Theatre Centre beginning this Fall. In addition, Colm Feore has signed on as honorary patron for Canada’s Theatre Museum. 

Ballet Hispánico will host an NYC Arts in Education Roundtable with Paul Thompson, Executive Director of the NYC DOE's Office of Arts and Special Projects, on December 5, 2022 at 10 a.m.

The 92nd Street Y, New York (92NY) held a highly anticipated free screening of the new documentary PS DANCE! THE NEXT GENERATION on Friday, September 30, 2022 at Kaufmann Concert Hall.

On September 13, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs Commissioner Laurie Cumbo, Materials for the Arts (MFTA) Executive Director Tara Sansone, and NYC Department of Education Office of Arts and Special Projects Executive Director Paul Thompson officially kicked off MFTA's annual Back to School Shopping Spree. 

Marking the very first time a ROXY MUSIC collection has been made available on vinyl, this iconic collection of songs will be available on 2LP 180-gram black vinyl and limited yellow vinyl D2C exclusive editions. Both include restored and enhanced artwork, lyrics, and have been remastered at half-speed by Miles Showell at Abbey Road Studios.

Roxy Music, one of the most influential and exhilarating music acts in history, will tour for the first time in more than a decade to mark the 50th year since their groundbreaking debut album.B ryan Ferry, Andy Mackay, Phil Manzanera and Paul Thompson, will be together on stage for the first time since their sold-out 2011 For Your Pleasure tour.

ESCAPE TO MARGARITAVILLE at Broadway Palm Dinner Theatre tells the love story of a free-spirited island singer and a job-focused tourist who meet at Margaritaville. The story is told through many famous Jimmy Buffett songs along with some songs original to the show.

Opening night of the first play of the Shoreside's Auckland Shakespeare in the Park - and it's a clever comedy, its controversy eloquently driven by polarised emotions: friendship, revenge, love, hate, justice, mercy. Whether this is your first time or another of many viewings, there is much to surprise, engage and amuse you in the superb and imaginative direction by the director, Trevor Sharpe. Shakespeare meant his audiences to be addressed directly and to feel as if the thoughts being spoken, are being spoken immediately and spontaneously to us. His text is dialogue not poetry.

The Royal College of Art, the world's leading university of art and design, will launch its new campus in Battersea, London, on 11 January 2022. The state-of-the-art building, designed by internationally renowned Swiss architects, Herzog & de Meuron, will provide a new home for innovation and design, embodying the RCA's academic vision to interweave art and design with STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths).

On Sunday 16 May The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama's Keep Creating Gala, featuring appearances from alumni including Riz Ahmed, Dame Judi Dench, Sonia Friedman, Michael Grandage, Jason Isaacs, Rebecca Lenkiewicz, Toby Olié, Sir Tony Robinson, Catherine Tate and more, raised over £26,000 to support Central students impacted by the Coronavirus pandemic. 

The Round Barn Theatre at the newly re-named Barns at Nappanee will present A Musical Christmas Carol, a brand new adaptation with a book by RBT Artistic Director, Bethany Crawford, and music and lyrics by RBT Executive Director,

Pauline Murray, singer, songwriter and performer with iconic first-wave punks Penetration and 80s pop ensemble the Invisible Girls releases her third solo album ‘Elemental’ on 25th September.

The Round Barn Theatre at the newly re-named Barns at Nappanee presents Stephen Sondheim's Into the Woods as the second show in the 2020 season.

The cast and crew of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum are deep into rehearsals and preparation for the show's November 23rd opening.  Forum, an MNM Theatre Company co-presentation with the Kravis Center, will run in the venue's Rinker Playhouse through December 8th.

The Kravis Center for the Performing Arts and MNM Theatre Company are pleased to announce that casting is complete for their upcoming co-production of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, which will run from November 22 -  December 8 in the Kravis' Rinker Playhouse.

Bread Winners Association recording artist Kevin Gates has unveiled a powerful new companion visual for “Great Man,” featured on the multi platinum rap superstar's just-released new mixtape LUCA BRASI 3. The video features cameos by Gates' own immediate family as well as his close friend, New York Giants wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. “Great Man” is streaming now, watch HERE.