National Alliance for Musical Theatre (Betsy King Militello, Executive Director) is thrilled to announce the lineup for the SONGWRITERS SHOWCASE and the SONGWRITERS CABARET at the 27th ANNUAL FESTIVAL OF NEW MUSICALS on Thursday, October 15 and Friday, October 16. Both events take place at New World Stages (340 West 50th Street, between 8th and 9th Avenues). Registration for Industry members is free and now open at www.namt.org/festival. (Please note the admission process for each event in the individual descriptions.)
Morning Fall Bird Walks in Central Park
Eight Tuesdays, September 8–October 27, 7–9 am
Eight Wednesdays, September 9–October 28, 7–9 am
Eight Thursdays, September 10–October 29, 7–9 am
Eight Fridays, September 11–October 30, 9-11 am
$85 per person
Observe the exciting fall migration of birds in Central Park with ornithologists Paul Sweet (Tuesdays, 7am and Fridays, 9am) and Joseph DiCostanzo (Wednesdays and Thursdays, 7 am). Learn how to use field marks, habitat, and behavior as aids to identify warblers, thrushes, sparrows, and raptors as they pass through Central Park. Please note: Walks begin across from the Museum at the northeast corner of Central Park West and 77th Street. Enrollment is limited to 15 people per series.
In April of 2015 our play PICKLES was officially selected to be part of The New York International Fringe Festival and that's about the time our seven stages of grief started to manifest. The following is a look into our journey…
Words from the artist's mouth of Adam Allen Berry, MFA:
'After earning my bachelor's degree I remember being terrified that I spent all that time and effort working towards a degree in Painting and Drawing, only to become one of those statistics that has a degree in Art but had given up on making it. This often happens sadly, as a result of everyday ordinary responsibilities, like making a living, raising a family, and putting up with a world that is unsupportive or worse, a general disinterest from others that can soil the desire in yourself. I had met many whom had, so for the coming year I decided to insist on not allowing that to happen to me. I painted everyday feverishly hoping to stave off the possibility that I would become an ex-painter. Well I did paint everyday that year, but once at some point during that year I realized how ridiculous my thoughts were and that this was who I was. That it was something in me that wasn't going to go away. I finally let go of that fear. Even Now, many years later, although I may not paint everyday I laugh about that fear I once experienced. Making Art is something that's always there, always present. I welcome the impulse continuously and in return I'm continuously feeding it with the joy it gives me. That is something that can never run dry.'
Having the privilege to meet Adam Allen Berry and having lengthy conversations about Art amazed his students. They have discovered, through Adam, a lot about art. Artists have various modes of expression, but mostly to love Art in a new way. Adam carries a moleskin notebook pad in his back pocket with a pencil, even paints. He keeps a tiny paintbrush in his wallet just in case the moment strikes. For a man who says he doesn't paint every day, it is believed he does. He paints with his mind. Everyday and every moment. He notices the pinkness in the clouds, the fog in the sky, trees in the forest, and the sunset in the horizon. He brings out his journal at all times of the day and draws what he sees at any given moment. Adam also draws in books, on napkins in restaurants, and when he looks out on the horizon is memorizing and depicting nature around him. Adam is unstoppable. Looking at his paintings always brings out an image that arouses anyone's imagination. Unlike other art, this art renders an emotion people never knew they had. It opens the heart of the viewer. Each person sees something different. Its stunning to see, amazing to watch, and fun to listen to his whys, and why nots. Adam has studied the history of great artists and now has an inner beauty to this love of art that he cannot control, depicted from his mind through the fingers. In some crazy way, its like the painting wants to talk to the viewer. Work like this is to be admired. Its like eating and breathing and communicating when words are not enough. Art, needs to be understood, and like music, fulfills the soul.
Adam is the art director and an illustrator for Whim Publishing. He has designed greeting cards for Randy Kazandy and Heart/Landscape art that is now being sold worldwide.
Adam Allen's Berry Gallery Show will be held at the Create Art 4 Good Studio, in Rochester, NY on March 6, from 6-9PM. Randy Kazandy, Where Are Your Glasses? author, Rhonda Fischer will be there to sign books. Whim Publishing and Create Art 4 Good Studio give a portion of all sales to charity.
'Emission,' a play written by Tom Block and directed by Pitr Strait, is about love, greed and the internal human conflict that clouds reason. An absurdist farce with deeply troubling undertones, the play explores why we humans are unable to take control of our lives vis-a-vis the growing climate disaster. Using humor, a love triangle between three women and a struggle for control of an invention that makes carbon emissions visible, 'Emission' shows how greed, desire, sex and selfishness can overwhelm our ability to master our own fates. Its world premiere will be presented by Theater for the New City's Dream Up Festival September 1 to 13 at Producers' Club Theaters, 358 West 44th Street.
"In American Falls, a doctor can live next to a shoe salesman, and a shoe salesman can be an Indian." The Echo Theater Company introduces L.A. audiences to playwright Miki Johnson when Chris Fields directs the West Coast premiere of American Falls, opening Sept. 11 at the Echo's Atwater Village Theatre home.
The 2015 Cleveland National Air Show presented by Discount Drug Mart takes a sentimental journey with WWII B-25 Mitchell Bomber “Georgie's Gal” and WWII Red Tail P-51 Mustang on Labor DayWeekend (Sept. 5, 6 & 7) at Burke Lakefront Airport in downtown Cleveland.
With new Sunday evening Jazz Party host Carole J. Bufford performing elsewhere last night, the Birdland Jazz Club recruited drummer Ray Marchica and his vocalist wife Nina Hennessy (right), who rounded up some of their talented friends for an evening of vocal and instrumental jazz, new compositions, and golden standards. Marchica's band featured Sean Harkness on guitar, Tom Hubbard on bass, and Bob Quaranta on piano. Special guests included vocalist Marissa Mulder and composer/pianist Ian Herman.
In a program that reflects upon intimacy, subtlety, and all things delicate, The Esoterics will present five brand-new choral works inspired by our innermost dreams, our delight of nature, and the great beyond.
Crockett L. Grabbe PhD is proud to announce the release of his book, 'How the WTC Was REALLY Demolished on 9/11: Image-rich Analysis.' In 'How the WTC Was REALLY Demolished on 9/11,' author Crockett L. Grabbe discusses the full scientific facts and evidence of the Sept. 11, 2001 attack at the World Trade Center in an easy-to-understand manner with 45 color photos. The book trailer for 'How the WTC Was REALLY Demolished on 9/11: Image-rich Analysis' was revealed today on DGT Book Promotion news. In addition, Grabbe shared his insights in an interview this week on the Reading and Writing Addiction blog about 'How the WTC Was REALLY Demolished on 9/11: Image-rich Analysis.' Crockett L. Grabbe's interview can be followed at www.readinwritin.blogspot.com and the official trailer for 'How the WTC Was REALLY Demolished on 9/11: Image-rich Analysis' can be viewed on YouTube.
About The Book
'How the WTC Was REALLY Demolished on 9/11: Image-rich Analysis' demolishes the myriad error-prone reports that the American people have been presented with on the cause of 9/11. Many in the US accept the government claims that planes hijacked by terrorists, and the fires they created when colliding with the Towers, caused the World Trade Center (WTC) buildings to collapse and the resulting destruction in the WTC. Information is presented in this book that shows this conclusion to be fraudulent. Using many images and elementary physics principles, it is shown that neither planes nor fires they created by collisions with the Towers, nor lasers, nor missiles, nor nuclear bombs caused this destruction, but two types of non-nuclear explosions did. One produced the large white dust clouds after each Tower collapsed, whereas the other produced the melted metal observed in the rubble for many days after 9/11.' Crockett L. Grabbe PhD, Author of 'How the WTC Was REALLY Demolished on 9/11: Image-rich Analysis'
Praise for Crockett Grabbe's last book on 9/11 at the WTC:
'Great book that ... tells you what the media never ever will. He presents it in a fashion easy to understand and read! Try it!' Reviewer
About The Author
Crockett Grabbe is a physicist with 40 years research experience. The author received his PhD in Applied Physics from Caltech in 1978. He is also a noted writer and speaker for public audiences, having published three books on 9/11 online. He has presented major invited public addresses on the WTC collapse in New York City, St. Louis, Des Moines, Austin, and Dallas. Grabbe has been interviewed eight times (both on TV and on radio) and has published six books, 30+ articles for general audiences, over one hundred papers and books for scientific audiences and produced two educational public videos that have played several times on over sixty TV stations. Grabbe is a member of the National Speakers Association, American Physical Society, International Union of Radio Science, International Electrical & Electronic Engineers, and Writer's League of Texas and has multiple profiles in Contemporary Authors, Writers Biography and Who's Who in Science & Engineering.
'How the WTC Was REALLY Demolished on 9/11: Image-rich Analysis' (50 pages, ISBN: 978-1511628853) is available online at Amazon.com. It can be ordered as a paperback, or downloaded as an E-book.
Written by Howard L. Craft and presented by StreetSigns, Freight: The Five Incarnations of Abel Green Green tells the story of an African American male who exists in five different dimensions of the same universe at different points in American history.
Nannerl Mozart, the sister of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, was a prodigy, keyboard virtuoso and composer in her own right, who performed throughout Europe with her brother to equal acclaim, but her work and her story faded away, lost to history.
The Hollywood Bowl Orchestra is joined by Cirque Musica as the world premiere of their newest production, Crescendo, is unveiled at the Hollywood Bowl on Sunday, July 19, at 7:30 p.m. Cirque Musica's top circus performers will take the audience on a journey with glorious orchestral music performed by the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra (HBO) led by its Principal Conductor, Thomas Wilkins.
