The Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) announces the appointment of Benjamin Strauss as Deputy Director, Institutional Advancement, effective April 5, and the recent promotions of Lydia Brawner and Ryan Collins to leadership roles.
A line of mysterious, black-cloaked, hooded figures on a procession through Greenwich Village, guided by the words of Irish playwright and poet Samuel Beckett – this is Cascando, the North American premiere of Beckett's a 1963 radio play, presented by NYU Skirball and produced by the Dublin-based Pan Pan theater.
This series of staged readings of new works from Asian American playwrights is an artistic incubator for thoughts and ideas looking to be born onto the stage. For the 2022 festival, our playwrights are our Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Playwright-in-Residence Saymoukda Duangphouxay Vongsay, Katie Ka Vang and composer Melissa Li, and Keiko Green, who was one of our inaugural Mu Tang Clan members this past year.
Periapsis Music and Dance's tenth season culminates in UNBEKNOWNST, a program of five new works by our resident and guest choreographers, in collaboration with our resident composers.
The New Jersey Performing Arts Center has announced a free musical celebration in honor of International Jazz Day 4/30 featuring performances by 100+ young New Jersey musicians with special guest Newark Mayor Ras Baraka.
The Chocolate Factory Theater presents the world premiere of as of it, a new performance by Justin Cabrillos.
The Global Theater Initiative (GTI), a partnership between Theatre Communications Group (TCG) and The Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics (The Lab) at Georgetown University, invites all theatres, individual artists, institutions, and audiences to celebrate the 61st annual World Theatre Day on March 27, 2022.
Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra (LACO) adds a decidedly contemporary twist to its programming with “CURRENT: Equilibrium,” a visually and aurally immersive program of electro-acoustic classical music, including three world premieres, curated by composer/Artistic Advisor Derrick Skye and led by guest conductor Vincent Womack, on Sunday, April 10, 2022, 5 pm, at Boomtown Brewery in downtown Los Angeles.
New Music USA's Amplifying Voices program, which fosters collaboration toward racial and gender equity in new orchestral music, has over thirty orchestras from across the United States signed up to premiere new works co-commissioned from nine of today's leading composers: Valerie Coleman, Juan Pablo Contreras, Vijay Iyer, Tania León, Jessie Montgomery, Brian Raphael Nabors, Nina Shekhar, Tyshawn Sorey, and Shelley Washington.
The League of American Orchestras has awarded a $75,000 grant to The Chicago Philharmonic Society to help create a more equitable organizational culture.
From May 5-8 and May 10-12, Gibney Center will present the world premiere of Last Ward, a new work by Yaa Samar! Dance Theatre that follows one man’s journey towards death in a hospital room.
LACO will host its “2022 Gala Celebration: Simple Gifts” honoring esteemed nine-time Oscar-nominated film composer James Newton Howard and celebrating the musicians of LACO on Friday, April 29, 2022, 6:00 pm, at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills. Multi-platinum recording artist Josh Groban will introduce Howard at the gala.
The American Modern Opera Company (AMOC), led by Artistic Director Zack Winokur, has received a $750,000 grant from the celebrated Andrew W. Mellon Foundation “to support visionary artists in collaborative processes that re-envision a long-enduring art form in an artist-centric and contemporary manner.”
Dallas Black Dance Theatre has announced its 2021-2022 CATALYST Supporters as it celebrates its 45th season as the largest and oldest professional dance company in Dallas. Dallas Black Dance Theatre is the fourth-largest Black dance company in the nation, the ninth-largest contemporary modern dance company in the U.S., and is considered 42nd among the nation's leading ballet companies.
Contra Costa Civic Theatre concludes its live, in-person Main Stage season with the musical Crowns by Regina Taylor, adapted from the book “Crowns: Portraits of Black Women in Church Hats” by Michael Cunningham and Craig Marberry. Directed by Kimberly Ridgeway, with music direction by Branice McKenzie and choreography by Jennifer Frazier, Crowns plays for 15 performances from April 15-May 15.
Works & Process, the performing arts series at the Guggenheim, has announced Federal Hall: The Democracy Project with Larissa FastHorse, Michael R. Jackson, and Bruce Norris on April 4, 2022 at 7:30pm at the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Peter B. Lewis Theater at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
Bassist and composer Michael Feinberg will showcase his talents across the United States this April as he heads South for his upcoming tour.
Works & Process, the performing arts series at the Guggenheim, will present the world premiere of Music From The Sole: I Didn't Come to Stay choreographed and composed by Leonardo Sandoval and Gregory Richardson, with additional contributions from company members on April 11 and 12, 2022 at 7:30 pm.
The Harriet Beecher Stowe Center has announced Dr. Clint Smith as the 2022 Stowe Prize winner for his New York Times bestselling book, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery across America (Little, Brown and Company, 2021). This year's events will be both in-person and virtual.
Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, led by Music Director Jaime Martín, presents the highly anticipated U.S. debut of Franco-Serbian violin sensation Nemanja Radulović performing Tchaikovsky's incomparable Violin Concerto in back-to-back concerts on Saturday, April 23, 8:00 pm, at Glendale's Alex Theatre, and Sunday, April 24, 2022, 7:00 pm, at UCLA's Royce Hall.
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