My Shows
News on your favorite shows, specials & more!
Ayanna  Headshot
News Alerts

Ayanna News

Get Ayanna Email Alerts

Be the first to get news, photos, videos & more.
The Crossing to Return To Montana For Residency July 24 – August 1

Grammy-winning new-music choir The Crossing, led by conductor Donald Nally, will return to its summer home in Montana this July for its annual residency in partnership with the Warren Miller Performing Arts Center (John Zirkle, Executive Director) in Big Sky.

The Crossing Announces 2021-2022 Season

Grammy-winning new-music choir The Crossing, led by conductor Donald Nally, today announces its 2021-2022 season, marking our time of isolation, grief, confusion, hope, returning, emerging, and remembering. During their 20-month exile, the singers of The Crossing could not gather conventionally indoors.

Chineke! Announces Summer Debuts

On Saturday 10th July, Chineke! Orchestra presents its second Royal Festival Hall concert as part of Southbank Centre's Summer Reunion series. Conducted by Matthew Kofi Waldren, it features two symphonies by African-American composers and the debut of an exciting emerging pianist on the classical music scene.

M.A.D.D. Rhythms Announces June Events For Chicago Dance Month, Juneteenth And More

M.A.D.D. Rhythms, Chicago’s premier tap collective, continues its 20th Anniversary with appearances and performances throughout the Midwest with See Chicago Dance’s Chicago Dance Month, a COVID-19 vaccination event in Appleton, Wisconsin, Juneteenth Celebrations and its monthly “2nd Fridays Tap Jams” on Friday, June 11.

VIDEO: The Crossing Releases New Film OBLIGATIONS

The Crossing today released a new 13-minute film Obligations, recorded at home by the artists in isolation. In-house sound designer Paul Vazquez worked with composer Paul Fowler to overlay over 300 sound files and text by Oglala Lakota poet Layli Long Soldier to bring to life Fowler’s chamber-like, transparent score for 24 individual voices

The Crossing Releases New Film OBLIGATIONS

Obligations completes a trilogy of pandemic-time collaborations with filmmaker Brett Snodgrass and serves as a transition from works produced in isolation to the return of live singing as The Crossing prepares for The Month of Moderns 2021, opening June 3 and running through June 19 - all in person outdoors in Pennsylvania.

Boston Children's Chorus Presents LIFT EVERY VOICE AT THE TABLE

Boston Children's Chorus will present the culminating streaming concert of the season, 'Lift Every Voice: At the Table' on May 30, 2021 at 4pm ET in conjunction with a pre-show singer-moderated interview, 'Belonging in America,' focusing on race, immigration and identity at 3:30pm ET.

Casting Announced For THE GLOBAL PLAYGROUND From Theatre-Rites

Casting has been announced for the return to the stage of Theatre-Rites, the highly acclaimed children’s theatre company who celebrate their 25th anniversary this year. Amplifying diverse voices from a team of international collaborators, The Global Playground will premiere at the Manchester International Festival and online this July. 

THE MONTH OF MODERNS 2021 to be Presented by The Crossing and the Annenberg Center

The Crossing has announced the return of its annual summer festival of new music, The Month of Moderns 2021, co-presented with the Annenberg Center from June 3-19, 2021. Each of the three outdoor programs will be performed with singers and audience spatially distanced using The Crossing’s Echoes Amplification Kits.

Chicago Dance's Ninth Annual Chicago Dance Month Returns This June

See Chicago Dance, the dance industry's nonprofit service organization, is proud to announce that this June will see the return of its popular annual offering, Chicago Dance Month. Now on its ninth iteration, Chicago Dance Month honors the artists and companies that are eager to get back in front of audiences. Chicago Dance Month is excited to highlight a full slate of live and virtual performances, classes and more from Chicago's dance community.

OPEN CALL Exhibition and Performance Series to be Presented by The Shed

Open Call is The Shed’s large-scale commissioning program for early-career NYC-based artists. For its second iteration, 27 artists have been selected by interdisciplinary professionals and leaders in their fields, including artists and Shed staff, to present work starting this June through next year.

BWW Feature: ONLINE VIRTUAL OPERA TOUR N0. 51 at Home Computer Screens

Have you watched Los Angeles Opera’s digital short Brown Sounds yet? Brown Sounds celebrates Black history by beginning with the Garden of Eden. Conceived by Raehann Bryce-Davis, a rising star in the LA firmament, it's a stunning vocal piece. Composer Ayanna Witter-Johnson set poet Henry Dumas's evocative verses to music with Bryce-Davis’s ravishing mezzo-soprano in mind.

BWW Feature: Opera Streaming Online No. 49 For The Week of 3/19

Wagner’s Siegfried is online from San Francisco Opera on March 20 and 21, 2021. Siegfried, a warrior without fear comes of age and prepares for battle in the third opera of Richard Wagner’s Ring Cycle. Tenor Daniel Brenna stars as the Siegfried, the son of Siegmund and Sieglinde who was born to retrieve the almighty ring of power from the dragon.

LA Opera's New Digital Short BROWN SOUNDS Premieres March 26

Beginning March 26, LA Opera, in collaboration with the African American Art Song Alliance, Aural Compass Projects, Black Opera Alliance, National Association of Negro Musicians and the Philadelphia Dance Company, presents the online premiere of Brown Sounds, a new Digital Short by French filmmaker Jérémy Adonis starring mezzo-soprano Raehann Bryce-Davis.

Who Won Awards at the GRAMMYS? See the Full List of Winners Here!

The awards honored six musicals from Broadway, Off-Broadway, and the West End with nominations for Best Musical Theatre Album - 'Jagged Little Pill,' 'American Utopia,' 'Little Shop of Horrors,' 'The Prince of Egypt,' 'Soft Power,' and Amélie.'

  …        14       …    

Get Ayanna Email Alerts

Be the first to get news, photos, videos & more.

Videos


TICKET CENTRAL
Hot Show
Tickets From $87
Hot Show
Tickets From $84
Hot Show
Tickets From $59
Hot Show
Tickets From $99