From October 6 to 9, 2016, the Hostos Center for the Arts and Culture at Hostos Community College will present BomPlenazo 2016, the 9th biennial celebration of Afro-Puerto Rican music and dance, the leading bomba and plena event in the continental United States.
From October 6 to 9, 2016, the Hostos Center for the Arts and Culture at Hostos Community College will present BomPlenazo 2016, the 9th biennial celebration of Afro-Puerto Rican music and dance, the leading bomba and plena event in the continental United States.
The Brooklyn-based web series East WillyB, which premiered in 2011, was created by Julia Grob and Yamin Segal, and stars Flaco Navaja, Shirley Rumierk, Rick Gonzalez, Julia Grob and Danny Hoch. Tonight, September 27, at 7:00 p.m. Museum of the Moving Image presents a theatrical screening of the first full season of the web series, plus the premiere of a never-shown musical episode, with Grob, Segal, and cast members in person. This free event is part of the Museum's ongoing series Changing the Picture, sponsored by Time Warner, Inc., that celebrates and explores the work of film and television artists of color who are bringing diverse voices to the screen.
The Brooklyn-based web series East WillyB, which premiered in 2011, was created by Julia Grob and Yamin Segal, and stars Flaco Navaja, Shirley Rumierk, Rick Gonzalez, Julia Grob and Danny Hoch. On Friday, September 27, at 7:00 p.m. Museum of the Moving Image presents a theatrical screening of the first full season of the web series, plus the premiere of a never-shown musical episode, with Grob, Segal, and cast members in person. This free event is part of the Museum's ongoing series Changing the Picture, sponsored by Time Warner, Inc., that celebrates and explores the work of film and television artists of color who are bringing diverse voices to the screen.
The Santa Barbara Film Festival has announced its 2013 lineup. The 28th edition features films from 49 countries and runs January 24-February 3. The festival will open with DISCONNECT, a drama starring Jason Bateman and will conclude with Rowan Athale's Wasteland.
INTAR (Eduardo Machado, Artistic Director/John McCormack, Executive Director) today announced the appointment of Louis D. Moreno as their new Artistic Director effective immediately.
On Monday September 21, 2009, the IT Awards (New York Innovative Theatre Awards), the organization dedicated to celebrating Off-Off-Broadway, and host Julie Halston, announced the 2009 recipients at the Fifth Annual IT Awards Ceremony at New World Stages. Those unable to attend joined the OOB theatre community's biggest night of the year online, and also followed theatre critic Aaron Riccio's (Theater Talk's New Theater Corps, That Sounds Cool) live-blogging at www.nyitawards.com/live.
The New York Innovative Theatre Awards announced on Monday that terraNOVA Collective has been nominated for seventeen NYIT Awards including Outstanding Solo Performance (Martin Dockery, Leigh Evans, Jeff Grow, Abena Koomson, Micia Mosley) and Outstanding Production of a Play (Blue Before Morning).
On July 20, 2009, The New York Innovative Theatre Foundation, the organization dedicated to celebrating Off-Off-Broadway, celebrated it?s fifth birthday and announced the 2009 nominees at its annual sold-out event at the Carmine Street Recreation Center located at 25 Carmine Street.
At dawn, a New York cabbie picks up a teenage girl headed for the bus station. Before long, they're driving to South Carolina, accompanied by a very pregnant, foul-mouthed hitchhiker. The three strangers hit I-95 and find themselves on a journey of unusual coincidences and second chances that straddle past and present while leading them toward an unlikely future.
Community Works, a trailblazer in arts education, announces its 2008-2009 Theater Connections calendar of events. Its eighteenth year of arts programming will present a spectacular line-up of over 130 events featuring multi-cultural dance companies, musical artists, poets and performers at 13 sites citywide. All performances are low cost, and average seven dollars per person. Performing sites include: Symphony Space; Merkin Concert Hall; Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts at Pace University; Kumble Theater for the Performing Arts in Brooklyn; Hostos Center for Arts & Culture in the Bronx; East Harlems Julia de Burgos Cultural Center; National Black Theatre; and the soon to be opened Dwyer Cultural Center in Harlem.
The Town Hall, Times Square's landmark concert venue, is pleased to present Nuyorican Poets Café Third Millennium Celebration: Aloud and Alive at 35! This special evening of spoken word and music hosted by Rosie Perez and Flaco Navaja features more than a dozen poets and musicians in a celebration from the iconic institution and many of its illustrious and luminary alumni
La Jolla Playhouse is bringing urban rhythm from the streets to the stage this February when hip-hop pioneer and theatrical visionary Will Power fuses lyrical verse and hip-hop breaks into a fresh, vibrant take on the classic Greek tragedy Seven Against Thebes.
Culture Project (Allan Buchman, Artistic Director) has announced the full cast for its world premiere presentation of Till The Break of Dawn, a new play written and directed by Hip-Hop theater icon Danny Hoch