The Shed, led by Artistic Director and CEO Alex Poots, has just begun its 2019 inaugural season in Manhattan with Norma Jeane Baker of Troy led by Ben Whishaw, with soprano Renee Fleming. Let's see what the critics had to say.
The Shed, New York City's new arts center dedicated to commissioning, develops, and presents original works of art, across all disciplines, for all audiences, will open to the public on April 5 with the world premiere of Soundtrack of America. The five-night concert series, conceived and directed by Steve McQueen with a creative team led by Quincy Jones and Maureen Mahon, celebrates the unrivaled impact of African American music on contemporary culture with performances by a new generation of artists. A free live stream of the April 5 concert will be available on The Shed's website, TheShed.org, and its social media channels.
Like Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, ANTIGONICK reveals the fate of the characters immediately. ANTIGONICK is award winning poet and Classics professor Anne Carson's reinterpretation of Sophocles' Antigone, part three in his famous Theban plays. Antigone continues the story of eye-gouging tragedy Oedipus Rex, perhaps the most well-known in the Theben plays. Carson's deep knowledge of ancient Greek literature, culture, and history makes her the ideal person to translate and reimagine Sophocles' revered work. She gives the story modernity but holds fast to its universal and still relevant themes of tragedy, grief, and fate. Director Diana Small of Salvage Vanguard Theater puts an experimental spin on Carson's play to make for a truly unique theatrical experience in ANTIGONICK.
The Daily Mail has reported that Ben Whishaw (Mary Poppins Returns) is preparing to to portray Marilyn Monroe in a new play opening in New York City this spring.
The Tank (Meghan Finn and Rosalind Grush, Artistic Directors) in association with Anna & Kitty, Inc. will present the World Premiere of The Russian & The Jew, a political fairy tale about anti-semitism and female friendship in the Soviet Union in 1968, co-written by Liba Vaynberg and Emily Louise Perkins and directed by Ines Braun at The Tank (312 West 36th Street between 8th and 9th Avenues), December 4-20.
THE MILE-LONG OPERA's composer David Lang says he is trying to expand the definition of what an opera is. Well, AIDA this ain't. If you live in New York, you might know the High Line, a modern elevated walkway built over abandoned railroad tracks that stretches from the West Village to the Westside Highway at 34th Street. It is a voyeur's paradise--but the production does the voyeuristic aspects one better. It's a whale of a show.
For six consecutive nights, October 3-7, 2018, 1,000 singers from across New York City will come together on the High Line for the first-ever performances of The Mile-Long Opera: a biography of 7 o'clock. Audience members will be active participants in this ambitious, collective, free choral work. As they move along the park, in and out of groups of singers, audience members will immerse themselves in hundreds of stories inspired by the accounts of a wide range of New Yorkers, about life in our rapidly changing city.
This October, 1,000 singers from across New York City's five boroughs will come together on the High Line for the premiere performances of The Mile-Long Opera: a biography of 7 o'clock. Due to overwhelming demand for tickets to the previously announced performances (October 3-7), an encore performance will be added on October 8.Tickets for this additional night will be made available first to members of the public currently on the waitlist, on a first come, first served basis, beginning Thursday, September 27, at noon. Those interested in accessing these tickets may join the waitlist at milelongopera.com. Tickets for The Mile-Long Opera are free, but advance registration is required. A standby line will open 30 minutes prior to the 7:00pm time slot on all performance dates.
The Mile-Long Opera: a biography of 7 o'clock, the project bringing together 1,000 singers from across New York City for five free, ambitious choral performances on the High Line,today announces a schedule of community engagement events leading up to and surrounding its October 2018 premiere.
Mount Tremper Arts presents Percolate: (The Thirst, the Hum, the Trickle, the Bubble), an evening of new performance curated Monstah Black and produced in partnership with Dixon Place. Taking place on Saturday, August 11 at 8pm, the evening includes performances by Baira, The Illustrious Blacks, Courtney J. Cook, and Greg Purnell. Expect the unexpected as three couples percolate the power of duos balanced between artists genres, communing to conjure a night of unapologetic sounds and ferocious kinesthetics. Percolate: (The Thirst, the Hum, the Trickle, the Bubble) is part of Mount Tremper Arts's Watershed Laboratory 2018, which features contemporary performance and artists residencies in the Catskills.
In 1893, social work and public health pioneer Lillian Wald (1867-1940) founded Henry Street Settlement on Manhattan's Lower East Side to serve New York City's most vulnerable people through social service, healthcare, and arts programs. Since that day, Henry Street Settlement has been a crucial force for progressive reform and a leading advocate for social change, serving 60,000 New Yorkers each year.
Hope Mohr Dance is proud to announce the world premiere of extreme lyric I featuring Anne Carson's translations of Sappho. Co-presented by ODC Theater, extreme lyric I runs October 4 to 6 with two shows nightly at 7 and 9 p.m.
McDaniel College theatre arts students perform in new translation of 'The Bakkhai,' Euripides's classical Greek tragedy about the struggle to the death between freedom and restraint, the rational and the irrational, man and God. Performances are Wednesday, April 18-Saturday, April 21, 7:30 p.m., in WMC Alumni Hall at McDaniel College, 2 College Hill, Westminster, Md.
The Shed's Artistic Director and CEO Alex Poots today unveiled the first group of commissions for the 2019 inaugural season in its future home on Manhattan's west side, and provided major updates about the organization's leadership, program, and capital campaign. New York City's first arts center dedicated to commissioning, producing, and presenting new work across the performing arts, visual arts, and popular culture, The Shed will open to the public in spring 2019 with commissioned programs filling its iconic and expansive multi-use hall, two floors of column-free galleries, and versatile and intimate theater.
Cold Air is due out March 9 via The Flenser; listen to the album's first single today. Drowse, the nom de plume of Kyle Bates, will be returning to the public eye with a second album, Cold Air. Due out March 9 via The Flenser, Cold Air continues to exorcise the demons that sent Bates spiraling into mental turmoil years ago.
McDaniel College students perform Eve Ensler's iconic play, The Vagina Monologues. Directed by McDaniel senior Megan Smith of Federalsburg, Md., the performance is in association with V-Day, a global movement to stop violence against women and girls.
Columbia University School of the Arts is proud to present Isabelle Kettle's (Columbia MFA Directing Candidate 2018) production of MACHINAL.
In partnership with House of Trees, Times Square Arts presents Word on the Street, a public art commission of political and poetic banners created by female artists and writers that speak directly to the urgent, timeless concerns of the individual, the community, and the requirements of citizenry. The exhibition will appear on street pole banners and Bigbelly solar-powered trash and recycling receptacles in Times Square from August 29, 2017 - February 2018.
In partnership with House of Trees, Times Square Arts presents Word on the Street, a public art commission of political and poetic banners created by female artists and writers that speak directly to the urgent, timeless concerns of the individual, the community, and the requirements of citizenry. The exhibition will appear on street pole banners and Bigbelly solar-powered trash and recycling receptacles in Times Square from August 29, 2017 - February 2018.
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