Divine News

Ragamala Dance Company has announced its 2021-22 season, featuring the world premiere of Fires of Varanasi: Dance of the Eternal Pilgrim, performances of Ashwini Ramaswamy’s Let the Crows Come, podcast episodes, and panel appearances.

New York Butoh Institute presents a free virtual series highlighting women's important contributions to butoh, October 1-30, 2021.

Kent Tritle's 2021-22 season schedule features a full slate of events: he leads five concerts at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine with the Cathedral Choir, four with Oratorio Society of New York, four with Musica Sacra, and three with groups at the Manhattan School of Music.

There’s little time to catch your breath between summer and the High Holiday season this year. With Labor Day and Rosh Hashana sharing the same date on the calendar, it’s not too soon to start thinking about festive meals, gatherings with loved ones, and other traditions that go hand-in-hand with the fall Jewish holidays.

The Muny premiere of On Your Feet! is a satisfying surprise. Director Maggie Burrows and Choreographer William Carlos Angulo fill The Muny stage with an epic celebration of music and movement. This production overcomes a thin book and marginally compelling story to stage a joyful jukebox musical thanks to perfect casting and exceptional performances.

Get ready for some totally outrageous and unfiltered fun! BroadwayHD will be bringing a brand new film capture of the 1970s cult hit Women Behind Bars exclusively to the service on August 26th. 

Producers Nelle Nugent, Ron Simons and Kenneth Teaton announced today that Tony Award nominee Camille A. Brown will direct the upcoming production of Ntozake Shange’s for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf on Broadway in 2022. This will mark Brown’s directorial debut on Broadway.

In a specially curated, self-guided walk containing art exhibits, displays and pop-up performances, visitors will be invited to step into the worlds of opera and ballet, discover our iconic building, enjoy some of the remarkable front-of-house spaces, and see stunning works of art from David Hockney and Tacita Dean. 

There's a new one-woman show in town — rather, deep underground. In INFERNO, Simone Norman (Tooning Out The News) promises a tour of Hell the likes of which no mere mortal has ever known. Assuming the role of Virgil, Simone guides the audience through descending levels of eternal divine retribution.

During the first three weeks of the initial lockdown in 2020, 16 women and children were murdered in the United Kingdom because of domestic violence. Those numbers were only going to rise during the following year. It is said that men were able to gain power and rule the world because murder makes them less uncomfortable.

On Friday, October 8, 2021, Grammy Award-winning pianist Daniil Trifonov releases his new Deutsche Grammophon solo recording, Bach – The Art of Life. Centered around Johann Sebastian Bach's late masterpiece The Art of Fugue, the new double album reflects Trifonov's insight into the family life and music-making of one of the greatest composers of all time.

The Triad Theater, Off-Broadway Theatre, Queen Diva returns to Off-Broadway in “Strength of a Woman: A Phyllis Hyman Tribute” Labor Day Weekend '21 on Saturday, September 4, 2021 at 7:00 pm after a two year hiatus.

This is a free recital. The Great Auditorium is located at Pilgrim and Ocean Pathways in Ocean Grove, NJ. Learn more about the concert and how to attend here!

One of the finest community theatre shows I've ever seen.

The event will feature performances by Broadway's Amber Iman, Tony Award winner Gavin Creel, Sasha Allen, Jo Lampert, Obie Award winner Whitney White, Hoofer Award winner Ayodele Casel, and more.

Selected from a series of 'Spirit Gates', Daniel Kytonen's abstract paintings on transparent plastic sheets transform the spaces they inhabit and invite visitors to approach in-between spaces – between spirit and substance, like divine passageways.

Offering an eclectic and expressive assortment of genres ranging from folk and world, jam, rock and kirtan, to ambient electronic meditations, the upcoming compilation leads listeners through an ethereal and entertaining journey to the heart.

Fairycakes will make its world premiere  this fall at the Greenwich House Theater (27 Barrow Street), beginning Thursday, October 14, 2021. Fairycakes is set to play a limited  engagement through January 2, 2022. 

The Cathedral of St. John the Divine continues its weekly series of online music recitals, Tuesdays at 6, streamed via the Cathedral's Facebook page and YouTube channel.

Eventually – including the focus track, “Step Dog,” a grunge-rock take on a Springsteen-esque escape from this dead-end town song – is available to stream via your preferred platform now.