Felice News

Felice Lesser's new dance/drama/video/interactive technology work, Trap Ist will be premiered on December 1st at New York Live Arts in the Felice Lesser Dance Theater's first season in New York City since 2017.

bergenPAC has announced that its Performing Arts School Show Choir will take the stage with MANIA: The ABBA Tribute as part of the theater's grand reopening this Fall.

Arum Rae is the rare artist capable of conveying entire worlds of feeling with the subtlest movement of her voice. On her new album Loose Ends, mainly produced by Wesley Schultz of The Lumineers, the Wisconsin-based singer/songwriter shares a batch of songs rooted in stories of loss and hope and transformation, each delivered with exquisite nuance.

New Amsterdam Opera has announced its spring 2023 opera production: Lucrezia Borgia (Gaetano Donizetti, composer / Felice Romani, librettist). This One-Night-Only performance will be presented on Saturday, May 20, 2023, at 7:00 PM, at The Center at West Park

Singer / songwriter / violinist / actress extraordinaire Eszter Balint is releasing her long-overdue fourth album, I HATE MEMORY! The album was recorded by Andy Taub at Brooklyn Recording with additional recording by Kato Hideki and Bryce Goggin at Trout Recording, produced by Balint and Hideki.

It's another Big Gay Weekend in Atlantic City, New Jersey on Saturday the 12th of November at 8PM at the Ocean Resort and Casino, when 'My Big Gay Italian Funeral' will set as the third of Anthony J. Wilkinson's Productions to play in Ovation Hall. 

The Heavy Hours return to release their new single “You Say My Name.” “You Say My Name” was recorded in the Catskill Mountains of upstate New York and produced by Simone Felice & David Baron. The song marks the group’s first new music since releasing their full length album, Gardens, back in February of this year. 

New York City Opera will present Romance in Opera on Monday, September 12, 2022 at 7pm at Wollman Rink in Central Park. Stars of the New York City Opera stage bring romance to life, with love stories as passionate as the music itself.

Theater Resources Unlimited (TRU) in association with John Lant and Tamra Pica of Write Act Repertory announced additional theater companies who will be casting through the annual VIRTUAL TRU Audition Weekend 2022 on Saturday & Sunday, September 17 & 18, 2022, from 10a - 6p ET via Zoom.

The 92nd Street Y, New York will present their highly anticipated free screening of the new documentary PS DANCE! THE NEXT GENERATION followed by a talkback with filmmakers Jody Gottfried Arnhold and esteemed guests on Friday, September 30, 2022 at 5pm at Kaufmann Concert Hall.

San Diego Opera will present the world premiere of Gabriela Lena Frank's El último sueño de Frida y Diego (The Last Dream of Frida and Diego) on Saturday, October 29, 2022 at the San Diego Civic Theatre for four performances.

Each year, a well-known celebrity is part of the KC SuperStar final event. Broadway Star Matt Doyle will be joining the Aug. 28 event as host and performer.

Las obras de compositores europeos del periodo barroco integran el programa del Ciclo de Música Antigua que presentará la Coordinación Nacional de Música y Ópera (CNMO), del 20 de agosto al 11 de septiembre en el Salón de Recepciones del Museo Nacional de Arte (Munal), como parte de la estrategia #VolverAVerte de la Secretaría de Cultura del Gobierno de México y del Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura (Inbal). 

Theater Resources Unlimited (TRU) in association with John Lant and Tamra Pica of Write Act Repertory announced the annual VIRTUAL TRU Audition Weekend 2022 on Saturday & Sunday, September 17 &18, 2022, from 10a - 6p ET via Zoom.

The Sun, the Mountain, and Me is an equally dark and vibrant look at men's mental health, tactfully showing the path to recovery for those who need it.

The American Theatre Critics Association and Foundation ATCA have announced the first recipient of the ATCA Helbing fellowship for LGBTQ+ theater writers. Members of the Helbing Committee selected journalist Billy McEntee of New York City for the program that will begin September 1, 2022 and run for a year. It carries a stipend of $5,000.

The Bryant Park Reading Room announced August’s lineup. The 2019 African American Literary Award’s Break Out Author Of The Year, LaTonya Yvette, joins on August 10th with her children’s book, “The Hair Book,” along with Emily St. John Mandel, who has just been added to Barack Obama’s Summer Reading List, on August 3rd to discuss her latest book.

The Orchestra of Teatro Real (the Royal Opera of Madrid), Spain's national opera house and winner of “Best Opera Company” at the 2021 International Opera Awards, makes its U.S. debut at Carnegie Hall in “A Celebration of Spanish Music” on September 15, 2022 at 8:30 pm. The concert celebrates the music of Spain, with the first half devoted to piano and orchestral music by Falla and Albéniz. 

The Greek National Opera’s 2022-23 season curated by GNO Artistic Director Giorgos Koumendakis will feature ten new opera and ballet productions, one newly commissioned opera, five revivals of past productions, music concerts, major co-productions with some of the world’s foremost opera houses, collaborations with leading conductors and more.

I Hate Memory, an anti-musical co-starring the streets of New York and the late 20th century, will have its second performance at Joe’s Pub on Friday, July 8 at 9:30PM, part of an ongoing bi-monthly series and eventually an album release.