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The Harkness Dance Center at 92NY celebrates its 90th anniversary with a season of performances, workshops, and events featuring renowned choreographers and dancers, highlighting its rich history and contributions to dance.
Three-time Tony Award nominee Joshua Henry will team up with Michael Feinstein on July 16 for one of the public highlights of the Great American Songbook Foundation’s annual Songbook Academy summer intensive.
The Richard and Karen Carpenter Performing Arts Center will celebrate their 30th anniversary season. See full programming and learn how to purchase tickets.
Birdland has announced jazz programming at Birdland Jazz Club and Birdland Theater running Birdland June 24th - July 7th.
Casting has been announced for Play On!, a co-production with Talawa Theatre Company, that will open at the Belgrade Theatre 23 September – 5 October, with a national press night on Thursday 26 September, ahead of a UK tour.
We talk to Michael Feinstein about his upcoming show at Wolf Trap. You’ll get a kick out of the legendary career of the late Tony Bennett when Michael Feinstein and The Carnegie Hall Big Band perform a powerful tribute concert.
The cast has been announced for the UK premiere of Play On!, the jazz-fuelled, Twelfth Night-inspired musical that will tour the UK from September 2024 – February 2025, including a winter run at Lyric Hammersmith.
ONE FOR JOHNNY MERCER at Dizzy's was another treat in the Songbook Sundays series. Johnny Mercer had a way with words. Stritch, Blackhurst, Stravelli and Lee have a way of singing and winging them. Duke Ellington's turn comes in August.
The Eyal Vilner Big Band released their new album Swingin' Uptown, and will celebrate with performances at Lincoln Center's Summer For The City program and Birdland Jazz Club.
Susan Mack played to a sold-out crowd at Birdland on Monday night. Overall, Mack delivered a wonderful night of music, which transported the audience away from the stresses of the day and melted the blues away.
The American Tap Dance Foundation will be celebrated at Lincoln Center on July 11 with special honors.
The New York Philharmonic has announced updates to its 2024–25 season.
A fabulous string of numbers from what is known as The Great American Songbook.
TAKING NOTES is a cabaret show with laughs and lessons learned in life and school. with a lot of pop and musical theatre along the way. Andrew Bova is the student taking it all in. The May 31st show was a promising NYC cabaret debut by a gregarious guy with teachable moments.
There are no adjectives that can effectively describe the level of greatness in which Samara Joy delivers the sounds of Jazz. She is phenomenal and an 'old soul' in a beautiful contemporary body. She is on the frontline of bringing jazz to a new generation of followers.
The debut of Studio Theatre's innovative new revival of George C. Wolfe's classic play The Colored Museum, including some returning stars from Studio's blockbuster production of Fat Ham earlier this season, will begin rehearsals soon.
From hundreds of applicants nationwide, 40 high school students from 14 states have been selected to participate in this year’s Songbook Academy®, aweeklong summer intensive that immerses young performers in America’s musical heritage and helps them develop as artists under the guidance of Broadway stars and other entertainment professionals and music educators.
Cantus has announced their 2024-25 season featuring five new programs in fourteen Twin Cities venues and a nationwide tour of Wanting Memories.
The Allen Center in Newton, MA, will celebrate Juneteenth with Forever Free, a concert of music that honors freedom and equality on June 19th with performances at 2 pm and 6 pm.
Composers Concordance presents its fifth annual concert at the historic Howland Cultural Center on June 23rd, featuring the CompCord Ensemble with local musicians, vocalists, poets, and a variety of instrumentalists.
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