On June 25, The Resident Acting Company (www.racnyc.org), a new troupe drawn from the performing ensemble of The Pearl Theatre Company, will present a staged reading of 'The Big Night' (1928) by humorist Dawn Powell, a harsh, biting comedy about a woman whose husband has been fired from an advertising agency. The play was the author's masterpiece but failed on Broadway in a production of The Group Theatre. The version to be offered is a restoration by Michael Sexton from the author's original notes and drafts. It retains some of the Group Theatre's 'improvements' but includes the author's original ending. The reading will be at 7:00 PM at The Players Club, 16 Gramercy Park South, directed by Bradford Cover, Artistic Director of the troupe.
Legendary Downtown New York artist Penny Arcade is now 50 years into a career in which she continues to turn a mirror back on society with highly original and entertaining investigations into the human condition that perhaps best described as cultural criticism you can dance to. She revives her international hit Bitch! Dyke! Faghag! Whore!: The Penny Arcade Sex and Censorship Show, May 11-19 at Performance Space New York, as part of the institution's East Village Series.
UCLA's Center for the Art of Performance (CAP UCLA) today unveiled its 2018-19 season lineup honoring heritage artists and featuring pioneering champions for social justice and diverse world views in bold programs by leading innovators and acknowledged masters in contemporary dance, music, theater and spoken word.
Abrons Arts Center is pleased to present the world premiere of Aloha, Aloha, or When I Was a Queen (April 4-21), a solo play written and performed by Eliza Bent and directed by Knud Adams. In 1996, a young Eliza Bent, along with a friend, created, directed and starred in an amateur historical film for a school project. In it, Bent portrayed Hawaii's last reigning monarch, Queen Liliuokalani. 22 years later, Bent uses her home movie as a jumping off point to lead audiences on a journey that grapples with personal history, legacy, and cultural appropriation. In the tradition of Spalding Gray, Fran Lebowitz, and David Sedaris, Bent's humorous cringe-inducing stories chart a young Bostonian's education in race and appropriation.
Director and playwright Stan Zimmerman has found his quartet of actors for his new comedy Knife to the Heart, co-written with Christian McLaughlin. The show will play a limited run of 3 WEEKS ONLY for 9 performances (May 4-20) at the Dorie Theatre, part of The Complex on LA's famed Theatre Row (6476 Santa Monica Blvd, LA CA 90038). Show times are Friday and Saturday at 8pm and Sunday at 3pm. The cast includes Chelsea Kane ('Baby Daddy'), Todd Sherry ('Parks & Recreation'), Josh Zuckerman (A Delicate Ship) and four-time Emmy-nominee Patricia Richardson ('Home Improvement'). Tickets are $35 for Reserved Seating /$25 General Admission/$30 at the door, if available, and can be purchased at www.brownpapertickets.com. A special preview performance is Friday May 4 with an Opening Night of Saturday May 5.
Over the course of ten days in April, The Koffler Centre of the Arts presents three literary luminaries in conversation with compelling hosts at three different Toronto venues: 2017 Man Booker Prize-winning Israeli author David Grossman appears at the Glenn Gould Studio on April 12; Governor General's Literary Award-winning Metis author Katherena Vermette - together with Coast Salish poet and author Lee Maracle - appears at CSI Annex on April 18; and author, cultural satirist, and American cultural icon Fran Lebowitz appears at Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema on April 21 and 22 (sold out).
The Koffler Centre of the Arts announced today that due to overwhelming demand, a second show has been added on Saturday April 21 at 6 PM for Fran Lebowitz: In Conversation, an intimate chat with the author, raconteur, cultural satirist and American cultural icon. The event on Sunday April 22 at 4 PM, which has almost sold out, will be hosted by the award-winning journalist and host of CBC Radio's The Current, Anna Maria Tremonti. Both events take place at Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema, and tickets are available through the Koffler Centre of the Arts by calling 647-925-0643 or online at kofflerarts.org.
Berkeley Repertory Theatre announced that writer and Chancellor's Professor of English and Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley Mark Danner and Director and Chief Curator of the University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) Lawrence Rinder will join author and playwright Daniel Handler as hosts of the upcoming Fran Lebowitz in Conversation series.
Berkeley Repertory Theatre is proud to announce a special presentation of Fran Lebowitz in Conversation. In three separate events, the cultural icon will hold court for unique off-the-cuff conversations sharing her insights and experiences on literature, politics & money, and nostalgia (Warhol, New York, and arts & culture in the '70s and '80s).
Steve Abrams and Kicky Productions announce that a brand new cabaret-concert, Lettin' the Good Times Roll featuring the dynamic duo, E. Faye Butler, Felicia P. Fields and a host of renowned musicians in a very special limited engagement for 9 performances at The Biograph Theater, 2433 N. Lincoln Avenue in Chicago.
Steve Abrams and Kicky Productions announce that a brand new cabaret-concert, Lettin' the Good Times Roll featuring the dynamic duo, E. Faye Butler, Felicia P. Fields and a host of renowned musicians in a very special limited engagement for 9 performances at The Biograph Theater, 2433 N. Lincoln Avenue in Chicago.
The Sydney Opera House today announced the line-up for its sixth All About Women festival on Sunday 4 March 2018. For next year's All About Women, a stellar cast of international and local storytellers, thinkers and game-changers will explore the issues and ideas important to women in 2017.
The Koffler Centre of the Arts is thrilled to present an afternoon with author, raconteur, cultural satirist, and American cultural icon Fran Lebowitz, on Sunday April 22 at 4 PM at Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema. Tickets are available though the Koffler Centre of the Arts by calling 647-925-0643 or online at kofflerarts.org.
The New Jersey Hall of Fame (NJHOF) has announced 50 nominees in five categories for its Class of 2017: Arts & Letters, Enterprise, Performing Arts, Public Service and Sports. Public voting is now underway online at njhalloffame.org/2017-nominees.
Steve Abrams and Kicky Productions announce that a brand new cabaret-concert, Lettin' the Good Times Roll featuring the dynamic duo, E. Faye Butler, Felicia P. Fields and a host of renowned musicians in a very special limited engagement for 9 performances at The Biograph Theater, 2433 N. Lincoln Avenue in Chicago.
Live @ Benaroya Hall dazzles with more than a dozen new lectures and concerts this winter and spring. Tickets for Alan Cumming, Ang lique Kidjo, Fran Lebowitz, Jake Shimabukuro, The Wailin' Jennys, Howard Jones and L nasa will go on sale Friday, November 3, at 10am. All other tickets are available now. Additional spring and summer shows for the 2018 season will be announced in late January. Tickets for most shows listed are on sale now, prices vary. Visit www.benaroyahall.org or call (206) 215-4747.
Country star Josh Turner brings his deep baritone voice and high-energy performance style, to close out the summer season at the St. Regis Big Stars, Bright Nights Concert Series, on the Deer Valley Resort stage, Sunday, September 3 at 7pm.
Symphony Space, one of New York's best-loved cultural destinations, is pleased to announce a new season of lively and diverse programming, running from October 2017 through June 2018. Returning this season are Projects conceived by Artistic Director Andrew Byrne, each uniting Symphony Space's multidisciplinary events around a shared theme. A month-by-month listing of featured events follows.
Park City Institute presents American Acoustic: Punch Brothers, I'm With Her and Julian Lage, on August 15, 2017, part of the St. Regis Big Stars, Bright Nights Concert Series. The multi-faceted show, will blend genres ranging from folk to bluegrass, rock to jazz, on the Deer Valley Resort stage.
The nonprofit AT&T Performing Arts Center announced today that the Fran Lebowitz show has been rescheduled. Previously scheduled for two shows on March 31 and April 1, the show was canceled due to a malfunction of the fire suppression system in the Wyly Theatre. Author, journalist and social observer Fran Lebowitz will now appear for one night only at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, August 1 at the Winspear Opera House in the downtown Dallas Arts District. Moderator for the evening will be Michael Granberry, arts writer, The Dallas Morning News.
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