Lori Bookstein Fine Art is pleased to announce a group exhibition of works by Eve Aschheim, Olive Ayhens, Sharon Horvath, Tine Lundsfryd, Janet Malcolm, Susannah Phillips, Elena Sisto and Helen Miranda Wilson.
Clinton Hill cultural hub and OBIE award-winner JACK launches its winter/spring 2016 season with an a cappella opera set in Zimbabwe by composer Tanyaradzwa Tawengwa, a weekend of curated works by Modesto "Flako" Jimenez, the premiere of the dirty and bracing play Tom & Eliza, by Celine Song, the English-language premiere of Argentinian playwright Rafael Spregelburd's SPAM, The Geneva Project by Jennifer Harrison Newman, Antonio Ramos' Thirsty Mind, love and starvation sitting in a lonely tree and an exploration in minimalist/pop art performance by the No Face Performance Group. JACK also engineers the return of Walter Dundervill's ARENA (which had two sold-out runs at JACK in 2014 and 2015).
Voting has opened for the 2015 BroadwayWorld Seattle Regional Awards! Check out the latest live stats as of November 27th. Nominations were reader-submitted and after the nomination period ended, BroadwayWorld's local editors proofed the list for eligibility and errors. Voting runs through December 31.
From the Pulitzer and Tony Award-winning composer and lyricist of Fiddler on the Roof comes the perfect holiday confection, SHE LOVES ME, based off a play Miklos Laszlo, which also inspired the Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks romcom You've Got Mail. Performances run December 4-20, 2015 at Seattle Musical Theater. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!
New York|Miami… From today, December 3 through 6, 2015, Dominique Lévy will present You Must Go On. I Can't Go On. I'll Go On. in the gallery's booth (K11) at Art Basel Miami Beach. Featuring works by David Hammons, Robert Mangold, Agnes Martin, Senga Nengudi, Thomas Schütte, Frank Stella, Rudolf Stingel, Günther Uecker, and Christopher Wool, this exhibition explores how, with Minimalist painting in the 1960s, the medium reached an endgame, a breaking point. After critics and curators alike decried painting as dead, however, artists continued to create, to go on, pushing past the previously conceived limits of the medium.
Red Bull Theater today announced that their Twelfth Season will continue with Cyril Tourneur's The Atheist's Tragedy, directed by Ben Prusiner, with live music by Alexander Sovronsky. The cast features Jeremy Bobb, Johnny Lee Davenport, Jacob Fishel, Ryan Garbayo, Philip Goodwin, Miriam A. Hyman, Whit Leyenberger, Kathryn Meisle, Bhavesh Patel, Raphael Nash Thompson, Alexander Sovronsky, Sam Tsoutsouvas, Alejandra Venancio, and Lisa Wolpe. A post-show discussion will follow, with Gail Kern Paster, Director Emerita of the Folger Library. Monday December 7th at 7:30 PM, at the Lucille Lortel Theatre (121 Christopher Street, between Bleecker and Hudson). Purchase tickets at www.redbulltheater.com or by phone at (212) 352-3101.
Author Gary W. Neidhardt has always been interested in the subject of recovery from alcoholism and drugs for many years. At one time, he started researching William James, Sam Shoemaker, and Charles Towns. But as he continued to look at Charles Towns, the story became larger. As he continued to search information regarding Towns, the more he found. He then realized just how big this story really was, the story of Charles Towns has never been told before.
Centaur Theatre meets the urgent need for an effective antidote to the holiday frenzy of plush toys and department store Santas with URBAN TAILS: AN EROTIC CHRISTMAS from December 10 to 19, 2015.
The Old Globe will present WHEN IT COMES with free public workshop presentations, marking the culmination of Mike Sears's 2015 San Diego Foundation Creative Catalyst Grant. Inspired by writer Sears's real-life experiences, the piece was developed in collaboration with a team of local artists: four San Diego actors, puppetry by Animal Cracker Conspiracy (Iain Gunn and Bridget Rountree), music by Clinton Davis, and direction by Sears's wife, Lisa Berger.
Today, Broadway's favorite anonymous internet personality, Annoying Actor Friend (@Actor_Friend) released his/her second book #GRATEFUL: EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR A REASON. The 'Create Your Own Show Business Destiny' novel is a follow up to the immensely popular 2013 #SOBLESSED: THE ANNOYING ACTOR FRIEND'S GUIDE TO WERKING IN SHOW BUSINESS.
Due to critical acclaim and popular demand, Playwrights Horizons (Tim Sanford, Artistic Director; Leslie Marcus, Managing Director) has announced a third and final extension of their hit New York premiere production of HIR, a new play by Obie Award-winning theater artist Taylor Mac (A 24-Decade History of Popular Music, The Lily's Revenge, The Walk Across America for Mother Earth, The Be(a)st of Taylor Mac, The Young Ladies Of). Directed by theater director and performance artist Niegel Smith (Artistic Director of The Flea), HIR is the second production of the theater company's 2015/2016 Season.
The 16th edition of Malibu International Film Festival presented by Yelp proudly unveils the full lineup of films and special events that kicks off December 3 at Regal Cinemas Malibu with Chip Croft's powerful documentary Lost Compassion followed by the Opening Night Party at Cafe Habana.
DADDY LONG LEGS has just announced that it will be the first ever Broadway or Off-Broadway performance to be broadcast online to the world for free on December 10, 2015.
Voting has opened for the 2015 BroadwayWorld Seattle Regional Awards! Check out the latest live stats as of November 27th. Nominations were reader-submitted and after the nomination period ended, BroadwayWorld's local editors proofed the list for eligibility and errors. Voting runs through December 31.
The Armenian-American pianist Kariné Poghosyan will be paying tribute to Ludwig van Beethoven (b. Dec. 16, 1770 - d. March 26, 1827) with a birthday celebration that will also benefit the Armenia Fund USA's Tchaikovsky School Renovation in Yerevan, Armenia. This celebration will take place on Wednesday, December 16 at 7pm at the Armenian Evangelical Church located at 152 East 34th Street.