Charles Rice News

Another revival of a beautifully realised crowdpleaser that works perfectly in the difficult days of February 2022.

One of opera’s most popular and unforgettable stories, Puccini’s La bohème is an exceptional musical and theatrical treat. When Mimì knocks at the door of four impoverished friends, Rodolfo answers and it’s love at first sight.

This January, the English National Opera (the ENO) revives Jonathan Miller’s staging of Puccini’s best-loved opera at the London Coliseum.

 The NY Dance and Performance Awards, The Bessies, New York City's premier dance awards honoring outstanding creative work in the field, announced the 2021 Bessie Award recipients tonight at the 37th annual Bessie Awards ceremony, held again this year on the virtual stage.

The NY Dance and Performance Awards, The Bessies, New York City’s premier dance awards honoring outstanding creative work in the field, announced the presenters for the 37th Annual Bessie Awards ceremony. The virtual ceremony will take place on Monday, October 11, at 7:30pm.

The Hemispheric Institute at New York University and the Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance present Naked Vanguard: The Arthur Avilés Archive in Motion — a series of conversations and performances in September, October, and November 2021 that will celebrate the publication of the Arthur Avilés Collection in the Hemispheric Institute Digital Video Library.

Arthur Avilés, the award-winning, Bronx-based dancer/choreographer and co-founder of BAAD! The Bronx Academy of Arts & Dance will perform in two events and will be celebrated by NYU's Hemispheric Institute.

The National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures has announced the 38 artists, cultural workers, and arts administrators participating in the 21st edition of the NALAC Leadership Institute. The NLI is an intensive weeklong professional development program taking place July 12-16, 2021.

Museum Hue, The Laundromat Project, and Hester Street, three People of Color-led and centered organizations in NYC, have announced their collaboration on a comprehensive online platform for New York City arts entities.

One year after New York City’s arts and cultural sector suddenly shut down over the period of one week in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, events in each borough will mark the somber anniversary.

The 36th Annual NY Dance and Performance Awards, The Bessies, reconceived this year to honor all of the 2019/20 nominated artists, took place tonight as a virtual ceremony.

Grange Festival Opera is now streaming Bernstein's Candide.

'We bear witness and mourn for the continued violence against yet another Black life at the hands of police, and we speak from the deepest impulses of our hearts to uplift Black Lives. We are enraged by the blatant hatred and inhumane disregard by police for George Floyd's life as he pleaded for breath.

The Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance proudly presents Los Nutcrackers: A Christmas Carajo, written by Charles Rice-González and directed by Fernando Vieira. This year marks the play's 16th year at BAAD!, and the second time that Vieira helms the work. The play interweaves two holiday classics, The Nutcracker and A Christmas Carol, to create a queer, Latino play about a couple who go on a psychedelic trip through their lives one Christmas Eve.

Performance Space New York continues The Stages Seriesa?"rethinking the dominant form and aesthetics that have informed the stage for centuriesa?"with Martine Gutierrez's Circle (November 20, 22-23).

Performance Space New York continues The Stages Seriesa?"rethinking the dominant form and aesthetics that have informed the stage for centuriesa?"with the world premiere of ray ferreira's to spiral seems to be the only option (December 19-21). ray ferreiraa?"a blaqlatinx performer, born in Queens, via the Caribbean, the Greater Antilles, Hispañola, the Dominican Republica?"uses her so-informed body to make and remake histories with movement and language.

Performance Space New York continues The Stages Seriesa?"rethinking the dominant form and aesthetics that have informed the stage for centuriesa?"with Martine Gutierrez's Circle (November 20, 22-23).

Performance Space New York presents the Stages Series (September 2019-January 2020), inviting artists to propose new platforms and conditions that transgress the black box and its institutional walls, positioning performance as an act of creation for and towards the future.

The National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures (NALAC) announces the selection of 31 Latinx artists and cultural workers who will participate in the NALAC Leadership Institute taking place July 15-20, 2019, in San Antonio, TX. In its 19th edition, the annual arts management program focuses on building the capacity of arts professionals through the lens of Latinx arts and cultures.