This fall, the Rubin Museum of Art will present a dramatic sweep of cultural programming relating to Himalayan narrative, expressed through both the art of traditional storytelling and contemporary media such as film.
On Sunday, October 2, 4pm and 7:30pm, American Opera Projects will present the world premiere of Model Love, a humorous staged song-cycle about contemporary relationships with jazz and rock elements by composer J. David Jackson based on texts by British comedian Henry Normal, and the one-act opera monodrama Nora, In the Great Outdoors, music by Daniel Felsenfeld and libretto by Will Eno, that continues the final scene of Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House moments after Nora abandons her family.
I LOVED SAM STONE - winner of the SLAM Playwriting Competition - follows two college freshmen through the boundaries of friendship and the consequences of confronting the truth.
In Mrs. Perfect! A 10-Minute Episodic Rock Musical in a Van! Episode One: "The Unexpected Visit of Evil!," an ex -super heroine disgraced from her "indie" superhero community, finds herself drawn back into the "Super Game" by her old arch lady villains to fight a new common enemy: her ex and only love, Mr. Perfect.
Superheroes. Space opera. True romance. Hijinks. History. Literature. Autobiography. Lines. Dots. Shapes. Pencil. Sound. Ink. Movement.
In Mrs. Perfect! A 10-Minute Episodic Rock Musical in a Van! Episode One: "The Unexpected Visit of Evil!," an ex -super heroine disgraced from her "indie" superhero community, finds herself drawn back into the "Super Game" by her old arch lady villains to fight a new common enemy: her ex and only love, Mr. Perfect.
Superheroes. Space opera. True romance. Hijinks. History. Literature. Autobiography. Lines. Dots. Shapes. Pencil. Sound. Ink. Movement.
Superheroes. Space opera. True romance. Hijinks. History. Literature. Autobiography. Lines. Dots. Shapes. Pencil. Sound. Ink. Movement.
This summer The Brick Theater, Inc. will invite one of history's newest art forms to meet one of its oldest as part of the first ever Comic Book Theater Festival.
AMERICAN OPERA PROJECTS (AOP) is excited to collaborate with acclaimed Turkish-American Composer Kamran Ince on his latest work and operatic 'first', Judgment of Midas.
AMERICAN OPERA PROJECTS (AOP) is excited to collaborate with acclaimed Turkish-American Composer Kamran Ince on his latest work and operatic 'first', Judgment of Midas.
AMERICAN OPERA PROJECTS (AOP) is excited to collaborate with acclaimed Turkish-American Composer Kamran Ince on his latest work and operatic 'first', Judgment of Midas.
AMERICAN OPERA PROJECTS (AOP) is excited to collaborate with acclaimed Turkish-American Composer Kamran Ince on his latest work and operatic 'first', Judgment of Midas.
May 1959. A New York club is the stage for a stunning night of music - the last performance of the soulful, incomparable Billie Holiday. Now critically acclaimed jazz vocalist Vanessa Rubin portrays the legend in a night of song and story, featuring Billie's unforgettable classics including 'My Man', 'Strange Fruit', and 'God Bless the Child'.
Jazz and blues singer Billie Holiday had a hard and tragic life, and her addictions have become almost as well known as her musical contributions. YESTERDAYS: AN EVENING WITH BILLIE HOLIDAY illuminates the high and low points of her career, while framing them in guise of her last concert appearance in May 1959. As a musical presentation, it succeeds with a lively assortment of some of Holiday's best material offered up with the crack backing of a talented three piece ensemble.
May 1959. A New York club is the stage for a stunning night of music - the last performance of the soulful, incomparable Billie Holiday. Now critically acclaimed jazz vocalist Vanessa Rubin portrays the legend in a night of song and story, featuring Billie's unforgettable classics including 'My Man', 'Strange Fruit', and 'God Bless the Child'.
May 1959. A New York club is the stage for a stunning night of music - the last performance of the soulful, incomparable Billie Holiday. Now critically acclaimed jazz vocalist Vanessa Rubin portrays the legend in a night of song and story, featuring Billie's unforgettable classics including 'My Man', 'Strange Fruit', and 'God Bless the Child'.
AMERICAN OPERA PROJECTS (AOP) 'a valuable company [that] offers a chance to look in on operas in progress by talented composers.' (The New Yorker) will begin its 21st season of commissioning, developing and presenting new opera and musical works this fall.
AMERICAN OPERA PROJECTS (AOP) will present a concert workshop of scenes from Judgment of Midas, the first opera by Turkish-American composer Kamran Ince, on Saturday, May 9, 8pm and on Monday, May 11, 7:30pm at South Oxford Space, 138 South Oxford Street in Fort Greene, Brooklyn.
The Walnut Street Theatre's 2008-2009 Independence Studio on 3 season continues with O Captain, My Captain: Whitman's Lincoln, the story of two great men with one grand vision for America. Directed by Barrymore Award winner Bruce Lumpkin and featuring Bill Van Horn as Walt Whitman, O Captain, My Captain: Whitman's Lincoln starts on January 20, opens on January 22 and closes February 8.
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