Andrew Cuomo News

Joyce SoHo is set to present its Spring/Summer '12 season featuring a riveting line-up of the dance world's most innovative choreographers and companies.

Heralded by The New York Times for its 'good-time funkiness,' David Dorfman Dancereturns to The Joyce Theater from January 24-29, 2012 with the NYC Premiere of Prophets of Funk, a work that reinvigorates 'boomer memories to the sounds of Sly & the Family Stone.' (Boston Phoenix). The Joyce Theater is located at 175 Eighth Avenue (at 19thStreet), NYC. Tickets range in price from $10-$39. Ticket prices are subject to change. Tickets are available by phone at 212-242-0800 or Joyce.org.

Music Director George Rothman will lead Riverside Symphony in a program bridging the Renaissance to the present day on Saturday, February 4 at 7:30 p.m. at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall. The program will open with a rare performance of Vivaldi's Concerto in D for Lute featuring the young Mexican virtuoso Dieter Hennings in his New York concerto debut.

Musical Chairs Chamber Ensemble, Inc. (MCCE) announces its Composer Search 2012, the second year of its energizing initiative.

Lehman Center for the Performing Arts celebrates its 31st season with the return of THE O'JAYS, on Saturday, January 14, 2012 at 8pm.

Lehman Center for the Performing Arts presents a special holiday event, PARRANDA NAVIDEÑA, a Christmas celebration featuring the unique jibaro music from the mountains of Puerto Rico with three celebrated masters of the genre, on Saturday, December 17, 2011 at 8pm. The concert will feature FELITO FELIX Y EL TRIO LOS ANTARES in a tribute to Felipe Rodriguez, ODILIO GONZALEZ "EL JIBARITO DE LARES" and JOSÉ MIGUEL CLASS "EL GALLITO DE MANATÍ." Joining them will be Estampas de Borinquen, William Guzman and many more special guests.

The Finger Lakes Musical Theatre Festival in Auburn, NY received a major boost with $751,450 in state funding awarded by New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo last week.

The National Alliance for Musical Theatre (NAMT) is accepting submissions for its 24th Annual Festival of New Musicals taking place in New York in fall 2012.

Lehman Center for the Performing Arts presents a special holiday event, PARRANDA NAVIDEÑA, a Christmas celebration featuring the unique jibaro music from the mountains of Puerto Rico with three celebrated masters of the genre, on Saturday, December 17, 2011 at 8pm. The concert will feature FELITO FELIX Y EL TRIO LOS ANTARES in a tribute to Felipe Rodriguez, ODILIO GONZALEZ "EL JIBARITO DE LARES" and JOSÉ MIGUEL CLASS "EL GALLITO DE MANATÍ." Joining them will be Estampas de Borinquen, William Guzman and many more special guests.

Director Yuanchen Liu, whose film To the Light traces the lives of Chinese coal miners, received the Margaret Mead Filmmaker Award at the 35th annual Margaret Mead Film Festival on Sunday, November 13.

Brooklyn, once only a thriving 'suburb' of sister borough Manhattan, will honor its reputation of diversity, culture and unity by hosting the City's first major wedding expo for the lesbian, gay, transgender, bisexual and queer (LGBTQ) community on Sunday, January 15, 2012, from 10 AM to 6PM.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has just announced that mass rail transit in and out of New York City will shut down beginning at 12:00pm tomorrow. This includes the New York City subway system, and commuter rail lines that service Westchester, Long Island and Connecticut. If wind intensity does exceed 60mph, all major bridges, including the George Washington Bridge leading into northern New Jersey will be closed, as well.

The off-Broadway icon tells us about creating his two latest solo works.

Thomas Solomon, multi award-winning escape artist and magician, will present his full-evening show, American Escape Artist, as the feature of the Society of American Magicians 102nd Annual Salute to Magic on Saturday, May 14, 2011.

Thomas Solomon, multi award-winning escape artist and magician, will present his full-evening show, American Escape Artist, as the feature of the Society of American Magicians 102nd Annual Salute to Magic on Saturday, May 14, 2011.

On Wednesday, April 13 at 7 p.m., a panel of esteemed Shakespearean and religious scholars and experts will examine Shylock, Shakespeare, and the Jews: Anti-Semitism in The Merchant of Venice.

On Wednesday, April 13 at 7 p.m., a panel of esteemed Shakespearean and religious scholars and experts will examine Shylock, Shakespeare, and the Jews: Anti-Semitism in The Merchant of Venice.

The only press night offered for the Public LAB's premiere production of playwright/director Richard Nelson's That Hopey Changey Thing was this past Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010 at 7pm.  Given that the play actually takes place on Tuesday. November 2nd, 2010 at 7pm (America's Election Night, for my plethora of foreign readers) I was rather hopey that the text might, in fact, wind up being changey, depending on the news of returns coming in during the play's 90 minutes.  No such luck.  But even in its frozen state, the piece is sharp, engrossing and superbly acted.

Andrew Veenstra, currently appearing as John Wilkes Booth in Luigi Creatore's new play "AN ERROR OF THE MOON," is set to do a live interview with Dan Miller on Westchester's WVOX Radio (1460 AM) this Wednesday, September 15th at 6:10 p.m.