Divine News

Shotgun Carousel's Christmas extravaganza The Grotteaux will be bringing Christmas merriment to Time Out Award-winning new venue Woolwich Works.  Named as 'Best New Culture Spot in London' by Time Out Best of the City Awards 2021, Woolwich Works is an incredible cultural hub and mixed arts venue in restored heritage Royal Arsenal buildings right on the river. 

The Smallest Objective (New Star Books), Sharon Kirsch's Montreal memoir, has won a Vine Award for Canadian Jewish Literature (History). The Vine Awards is an annual national program that honours both the best Canadian Jewish writers and non-Jewish Canadian authors who deal with Jewish subjects.

Deborah Zecher's new cabaret show is a tribute to three women... and community.

Mills College Music Department and the Center for Contemporary Music present X Sound, a Mills Music Now concert on Saturday December 11,of works by Maryzelle Ungo and Maisha Lani, Mills student composers.

EM/NY's men's voices and a versatile quartet of instruments will present five performances of 'medieval carowles,' 'masquing' tunes from Henry VIII's Book, ca. 1515 (Green Grow'th the Holly and Pastime with good company), and Advent, Nativity and Epiphany motets by William Cornysh, Christopher Tye and William Byrd.

With The Green Room 42's mission statement to give a space to the young and experimental comes great theater like FRIPP.

Jonathan Larson's posthumous success may be a unique story, but tick, tick... Boom! deals with a universal truth most artists must deal with sometime in their lives.

Kiki Dranias burst onto the Montreal theatre scene in 2019 with her theatrical work, GOING UP, which went on to receive seven nominations at the 2020 Montreal English Theatre Awards (METAs), winning three for Outstanding New Text, Outstanding Emerging Playwright & Producer and Outstanding Independent Production. Her follow-up play, WHERE IS ANTON, which she also directed, was performed live at the Montreal Fringe Festival in June 2021, with six sold-out performances. Dranias' new play, THE LOVE TRIAL, a play she wrote and is producing with full support from Canada Council for the Arts, runs December 2 - 11, 2021 at the Masonic Temple Hall in Montreal.

Today, the Royal Opera House has announced that Resident Choreographer Wayne McGregor's celebrated new work The Dante Project will be available to stream from 20 December. The production will follow The Royal Ballet's Giselle, on-demand from 3 December, and adds to a host of other ROH content across BBC channels too.  

Baritone David John Pike and celebrated organist David Briggs present music that looks back on our experience over the last twenty months and forward to Advent, on Sunday, December 12 at 4 pm at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, 1047 Amsterdam Avenue (at 112th Street).

Symphony San Jose presents 'Amadeus LIVE”    with Live Orchestra and Chorale, Saturday, February 12 at 8pm and Sunday, February 13.

Music Theatre of Connecticut MainStage, Fairfield County's professional, award-winning theatre company continues its 35th Anniversary Season with the one-woman comedy, Who's Holiday!, written by Matthew Lombardo. The play re-introduces audiences to Cindy Lou Who many years after How The Grinch Stole Christmas as she drinks, jokes, and stumbles her way through the rocky retelling of her life since then.

Ember Choral Arts, formerly known as Schola Cantorum on Hudson, founded in 1995 by Artistic Director Dr. Deborah Simpkin King, announces two holiday concerts titled Ember December.

Bharatanatyam choreographers Ranee Ramaswamy and Aparna Ramaswamy's Fires of Varanasi: Dance of the Eternal Pilgrim evokes an elaborate ritual where time is suspended and humans merge with the divine. Through images that reflect the cosmic trinity of Varanasi, India - sacred pilgrimage routes, the Ganges River, and the patron deity Shiva, heightened by the chants of Vedic priests - the choreographers imagine a metaphorical crossing place where one may leave the mundane and enter into the world of immortality.

The Canadian College of Performing Arts' Studio Ensemble continues its 2021/2022 season on December 2 with a production of Stephen Adly Guirgis' The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, directed by Cherissa Richards.

“The Death and Life of William Born Adelin” — the fourth monologue by Stuart Bousel in his Anarchy Quartet  about the period of English history known as The Anarchy — features Kyle McReddie as the Crown Prince William Adelin, doomed by a premature death in a shipwreck to an eternity on a rock in the middle of the English Channel.

Hell in a Handbag Productions has announced its 20th anniversary benefit: Bette's Bawdy Brunch, a festive afternoon of food, drink and show-stopping entertainment from Handbag diva Caitlin Jackson, reprising her popular role as Bette Midler.

The Cathedral of St. John the Divine will celebrate the holiday season with Joy of Christmas, part of the 2021-2022 season of Great Music in a Great Space concerts, on Friday, December 10 and Saturday, December 11 at 7 pm at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, 1047 Amsterdam Avenue (at 112th Street).

Purple Divine will present the premiere of THE LOVE TRIAL, a modern Greek tragedy written and created by Kiki Dranias and directed by Diana Fajrajsl. 

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