Alan Kaufman News

On Monday, June 1 (4 - 8 pm EDT), the entire Kaufman Music Center community will come together for a Day of Musical Action, a special online event featuring performances by students and faculty from all of the Center's programs, including Special Music School, Lucy Moses School, Face the Music and Luna Composition Lab.

Kaufman Music Center's 2017 Broadway Playhouse season concludes with a celebration of Alan Menken on Sunday, March 5th at 11am. A whole generation of children has grown up singing his songs from beloved musicals and films including The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin and Pocahontas. His music has captured the imagination of millions and won him eight Academy Awards, eleven Grammys and a Tony Award.

LONG ISLAND, N.Y., July 18, 2014 /PRNewswire/ American Pop Art, Inc. is delighted to announce new developments four years following the death of American pop artist Steve Alan Kaufman (SAK), former assistant to Andy Warhol, and an activist, humanitarian, and tireless advocate for the homeless. Steve Kaufman is known for painting iconic images, famous people, recognizable brands, currency, and historic figures.

Delving into the darkly absurd corners of corporate America and middle-man-purgatory, director Michael Sladek makes his NYC stage debut with a fresh production of Below the Belt by acclaimed playwright, Richard Dresser. Presented by Black Lodge Theater, the work will be staged in the old boiler room of the iconic Westbeth Center for the Arts.

Delving into the darkly absurd corners of corporate America and middle-man-purgatory, director Michael Sladek makes his NYC stage debut with a fresh production of Below the Belt by acclaimed playwright, Richard Dresser. Presented by Black Lodge Theater, the work will be staged in the old boiler room of the iconic Westbeth Center for the Arts.

Delving into the darkly absurd corners of corporate America and middle-man-purgatory, director Michael Sladek makes his NYC stage debut with a fresh production of Below the Belt by acclaimed playwright, Richard Dresser. Presented by Black Lodge Theater, the work will be staged in the old boiler room of the iconic Westbeth Center for the Arts.

Alan Kaufman recently appeared at the Osher Family Jewish Community Center in Marin County in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he spoke about his mother's letters which detailed how she fled from the Nazis during World War II. He also discussed his memoir, Drunken Angel, the story of his descent into alcoholism and how he finally overcame it.

Springer Publishing Company is proud to announce the publication of its first eBook sampler, which is free to download and includes excerpts of each book in the popular Psych 101 Series.

New York's own, The Young Things are excited for their hometown show tonight, July 18th at Bowery Electric with Field Mouse and Twinsmith.

The internationally celebrated San Francisco-based author Alan Kaufman will be presenting the new paperback edition of his widely popular and critically acclaimed memoir, Drunken Angel, at Badger Books on July 18 at 5:30pm.

The first time Alan Kaufman met Ginsberg, in the early '70s, the younger writer was an undergraduate at Queens College and heard that the poet would be reading at Columbia and rushed over to hear him. Later, Kaufman worked with Ginsberg throughout the '90s, occasionally traveling with him to conferences abroad. In Kaufman's memoir, Drunken Angel, he featured Allen Ginsberg as a mentor and friend.

Kaufman spoke about his headlong plunge into the life of a Jewish literary outlaw, a restless quest for Jewish identity that has taken him from the frontlines of the Israeli-Arab conflict and the homeless streets of New York to the Dachau Concentration Camp and the Spoken Word/Slam poetry underground.

Eight-time Academy Award-winning composer Alan Menken will take us on a unique musical journey through his renowned and beloved songs. This special performance will include a Q&A with the artist and will be followed by a dessert reception with desserts donated by Fairway Market and cheese donated by Murray's Cheese. Mr. Menken will be joined by three distinguished Belvoir Terrace alumnae: Deborah Grausman, Emma Rosenthal, and Nora Menken, who will each sing a Menken song, accompanied by Diane Marcus, Camp Director and Belvoir Alumna. The benefit performance will take place in the Kaufman Center's beautiful concert venue, Merkin Hall, tonight, February 28th at 7pm. The money raised will go to the Edna Y. Schwartz Scholarship Fund for talented young women to attend the prestigious arts camp, nestled in the heart of the Berkshires, in Lenox, MA.

Eight-time Academy Award-winning composer Alan Menken will take us on a unique musical journey through his renowned and beloved songs. This special performance will include a Q&A with the artist and will be followed by a dessert reception with desserts donated by Fairway Market and cheese donated by Murray's Cheese. Mr. Menken will be joined by three distinguished Belvoir Terrace alumnae: Deborah Grausman, Emma Rosenthal, and Nora Menken, who will each sing a Menken song, accompanied by Diane Marcus, Camp Director and Belvoir Alumna. The benefit performance will take place in the Kaufman Center's beautiful concert venue, Merkin Hall, on Thursday, February 28th at 7pm. The money raised will go to the Edna Y. Schwartz Scholarship Fund for talented young women to attend the prestigious arts camp, nestled in the heart of the Berkshires, in Lenox, MA.

Award-winning Actors Scene Unseen is auditioning by appointment-only for one female and one male singer for its production of Crystal Ballroom at the Booth Playhouse in March 2011.

Award-winning Actors Scene Unseen is auditioning by appointment-only for one female and one male singer for its production of Crystal Ballroom at the Booth Playhouse in March 2011.

Award-winning Actors Scene Unseen is auditioning by appointment-only for one female and one male singer for its production of Crystal Ballroom at the Booth Playhouse in March 2011.

Award-winning Actors Scene Unseen is auditioning by appointment-only for one female and one male singer for its production of Crystal Ballroom at the Booth Playhouse in March 2011.

Pedro, a cockroach from the low-income housing projects in NYC, is about to commit suicide. He has been married seven times, and each of his wives has been killed! He lost his best friend, he lost his job... he has nothing and he hates the world!

A circus theatre spectacle exploring the themes of exile and the birth of a new subculture in America, putting a comic twist to the existential dilemma of being an immigrant in the U.S.