Andrew Cuomo News

Penguin Rep Theatre's 2015 season officially begins May 15, 2015, with the New York premiere of Small World by Frederick Stroppel, directed by artistic director Joe Brancato.

The New York Philharmonic Ensembles, composed of musicians from the Orchestra, will give its sixth and final performance of the 2014-15 season on Sunday, June 7, 2015, at 3:00 p.m. at Merkin Concert Hall with a concert featuring Respighi's Il tramonto, poemetto lirico for Mezzo- Soprano and String Quartet; A. Busch's Quintet for Alto Saxophone and Strings; and Dvor?a?k's String Quartet in C major, Op. 61.

Producers of the new Broadway musical FINDING NEVERLAND, announced today plans for a U.S. tour launching in Upstate New York on October 7, 2016 in association with Albert Nocciolino, President and CEO of NAC Entertainment.

HERE's Dream Music Puppetry Program presents Short Stories. This production from the internationally acclaimed Teatro Hugo & Ines plays 6 performances from today, April 21 - Saturday, April 25 in the Dorothy B. Williams Theatre at HERE (145 Sixth Avenue).

RIOULT Dance NY, a leading American modern dance company with a classic sensibility, will perform on Sunday, May 3, at 3:00 pm at The Performing Arts Center, Purchase College, 735 Anderson Hill Road, Purchase, NY as a part of The Center's DANCE Series. Ticket prices are $45 and $55; tickets are available at www.artscenter.org or by calling the box office at 914-251-6200.

Dixon Place's new commission THE FLATIRON HEX, starring Award-winning puppeteer/performance & visual artist James Godwin, will have its world premiere on Friday, May 15th. Godwin's previous collaborations include Julie Taymor, David Bowie, the Muppets & even Aerosmith. A 2014 Jim Henson Award recipient, Godwin utilizes remarkable puppets, masks & mystical neo-noir visuals to tell a story set in a parallel, near-future NYC filled with ghosts, elemental spirits & evil demigods. THE FLATIRON HEX will play six performances only -- May 15th, 16th, 22th, 23th, 29th, and 30th at 7:30PM, at Dixon Place (161A Chrystie Street).

Penguin Rep Theatre, under the leadership of founding artistic director Joe Brancato and executive director Andrew M. Horn, announces its 2015 season, the professional Equity company's 38th at its home in Stony Point (Rockland County), New York.

?The New York Virtuoso Singers Presents Distinguished Queens College Composers Past and Present Concert on April 25 at Kaufman Center's Merkin Concert Hall

Milstein Science Series: Sea Turtles Sunday, May 3, 11 am–4:30 pm Milstein Hall of Ocean Life Free for Members or with Museum admission Sea turtles are simply astounding: they lived alongside dinosaurs 150 million years ago, and still survive today. Playing a crucial role in our oceans' ecosystems, this incredible animal group is now endangered due to climate change, poaching, habitat destruction, and accidental capture in fishing gear. Learn more about these resilient aquatic creatures and the conservation efforts in place to protect them with Eleanor Sterling, chief conservation scientist for the Museum's Center for Biodiversity and Conservation; Wallace J. Nichols, scientist and New York Times-bestselling author of Blue Mind; Michael Coyne, executive director of seaturtle.org and moderated by Curator Mark Siddall. The event includes a live music performance by Bash the Trash, playing instruments made out of reused and repurposed materials.

Dixon Place's new dance commission and the feath3r theory's production of, COLOR ME, WARHOL, will have its world premiere tomorrow, April 10th. Conceived, choreographed and directed by Raja Feather Kelly, this piece is the latest installment of an ongoing series jump-started by Mr. Kelly's interest in Andy Warhol, pop culture, and identity.

Dixon Place's new dance commission and the feath3r theory's production of, COLOR ME, WARHOL, will have its world premiere tonight, April 10th.

Roundabout Theatre Company has announced that 17-year-year senior at Repertory Company High School Darleny Suriel will pen a world premiere play for the ninth annual Student Production Workshop, under the mentorship of Elizabeth Dunn-Ruiz

ACT UP New York will be holding a protest and press conference on April 1 st ,2015 at Noon Located at(633 Third Avenue New York, New York 10016), challenging Governor Cuomo, the New York AIDS Institute and all of New York State's elected officials to release the blueprint now and prove that the promise to end AIDS in New York state by 2020 will be kept.

Roundabout Theatre Company have announced that Smith & Kraus has published the workshop edition of the new play, PROSPECT HIGH: BROOKLYN, by Daniel Robert Sullivan and a team of New York City teenagers, developed in partnership with Education at Roundabout and the Fox Foundation Resident Actor Fellowships.

New York – Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, beloved as one of the world's most popular dance companies, will return to Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts for a two-week 15-performance engagement at the David H. Koch Theater June 10 – 21, 2015. Today, Artistic Director Robert Battle announced repertory for the season highlighted by Exodus, a world premiere from bold hip-hop choreographer Rennie Harris, the company premiere of Battle's No Longer Silent, and new productions of Talley Beatty's Toccata and Artistic Director Emerita Judith Jamison's A Case of You duet from Reminiscin'.

HERE's Dream Music Puppetry Program presents Short Stories. This production from the internationally acclaimed Teatro Hugo & Ines plays 6 performances from Tuesday, April 21 - Saturday, April 25 in the Dorothy B. Williams Theatre at HERE (145 Sixth Avenue).

Ailey II's 'indefatigable, virtuosic, and relentlessly sexy' dancers (Los Angeles Times) return to The Joyce Theater from tonight, March 17 - 22 with two programs of premieres and recent audience favorites.

Playwrights Horizons is now accepting entries for its popular LIVEforFIVE online lottery for up to two $5 tickets each to the world premiere of IOWA, a new musical play written by Susan Smith Blackburn Prize finalist Jenny Schwartz (God's Ear, Somewhere Fun), music by Todd Almond (Stage Kiss at PH, Kansas City Choir Boy, The Tempest, On the Levee) and lyrics by Mr. Almond and Ms. Schwartz. Directed by two-time Obie Award winner Ken Rus Schmoll (Red Dog Howls, Middletown, What Once We Felt; next season's just-announced Antlia Pneumatica by Anne Washburn at PH), the musical play will be the fifth production of the theater company's 2014/2015 Season.

The fourth annual First Niagara Rochester Fringe Festival opens its submission process to all artists who are interested in presenting shows in the 2015 Fringe (Thursday, September 17 - Saturday, September 26) on Wednesday, March 11 at noon. Once again, submissions will be accepted by venues only via rochesterfringe.com through Wednesday, April 22 at 5 p.m.

The Joyce Theater Foundation, Linda Shelton Executive Director, proudly presents the U.S. debut of Le Centre National de Danse Contemporaine-Angers (CNDC) from March 10 - 15. For this highly anticipated debut, CNDC, under the artistic direction of former Merce Cunningham dancer and prote?ge? Robert Swinston, will perform Event, a compilation of excerpts from pieces choreographed by Cunningham from 1965-1990. Tickets range in price from $10-$49 ($26-$37 for Joyce Theater members), and can be purchased through JoyceCharge online at www.Joyce.org , by calling 212-242-0800, or at The Joyce Theater box office at 175 Eighth Avenue at 19th Street.