Terrain, choreography by Rebecca Lazier, premieres two dance installations at Joyce SoHo Theater, 155 Mercer Street (between Houston and Prince) January 29th - 31st, 2009. The evening, created in collaboration with composer Gregory Spears, lighting designer Aaron Copp, costume designers Mary Jo Mecca and Heidi Barr, and the performers Jennifer Lafferty, Rommel Salveron, Emily Stone, Storme Sundberg, and Christopher Williams, is conceived as a way to encourage audience reaction and discourse. There will be a reception after each performance. Terrain is presented in association with Joyce SoHo.
West Coast Ensemble (WCE) announces its 2009 Season, their 'BIG'-gest Season Ever! The 2009 season of this award-winning theatre company will present two stage adaptations starting with THE GRADUATE and the musical version of the 1987 film, BIG; followed by the West Coast premiere of ANITA BRYANT DIED FOR YOUR SINS and Edward Albee's THREE TALL WOMEN. Additionally, WCE will produce a bonus show YENTA: Straight from the Mouth,that will be a FREE BONUS SHOW for Season Subscribers.
It may be cold outside but it will feel like summer inside North Shore Music Theatre (NSMT) as it is transformed into the Lava Springs Country Club for DISNEY HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL 2. Following the first Disney High School Musical success last summer, NSMT is pleased to present the second regional production and the New England premiere of DISNEY HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL 2 from December 18, 2008 through January 11, 2009. Press Night scheduled for Friday, December 19th.
Fidelity Investments, coupled with the Viertel/Frankel/Baruch/Routh Group and LEAP (Learning through an Expanded Arts Program), have announced the ten plays written by New York City students enrolled in arts education program Fidelity Futurestage, which have been chosen to perform at New World Stages, 340 W. 50th Street, on May 21 and May 23, 2007.
On July 11th, The Color Purple offered a special performance to benefit the Actors' Fund of America, and stars such as Fran Drescher turned out to catch the show
For its 25th Anniversary Season, Performance Space 122 has re-vamped its longstanding series New Stuff to create a brand new residency program for emerging artists working in the fields dance, theater and multi-disciplinary performance. Over the course of the year, six of New York's most promising and innovative emerging artists have created new works which will culminate in repertory presentations during The New, New Stuff, April 28-May 15, 2005.
