Gabriel Kahane News

Mimesis Ensemble's 2011-12 season opens with 'Young Voices,' a program bringing together three of the foremost young composers for voice.

NEW YORK FESTIVAL OF SONG (NYFOS) opens 2011-12 season with 'IN THE MEMORY PALACE'

Long Wharf Theatre completes its 2011-12 season offerings by adding a classic work by one of the world's great playwrights.

Composer Lisa Bielawa's Breakfast in New York will have its world premiere on Thursday, October 6 at 8pm at Galapagos Art Space (16 Main Street, Brooklyn).

Single tickets are now on sale for Long Wharf Theatre's 2011-12 season, one replete with innovative new plays, classic dramas and great musicals.

Violinist Jennifer Koh and cellist Alisa Weilerstein will perform Brahms's Concerto for Violin, Cello and Orchestra, in A minor, Op. 102 together for the first time with the Orchestra of St. Luke's, on Saturday, July 30 at 8:00 p.m. at the Venetian Theater as a part of the 2011 Caramoor International Music Festival in Katonah, NY.

NEW YORK FESTIVAL OF SONG (NYFOS) creates intimate concerts that breathe new life into an art form that is rich and emotionally resonant, yet is too often treated as genteel, intellectual, and predictable.

Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra (LACO) has received a 2010-2011 ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming, presented recently at the League of American Orchestras' 66th National Conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota, marking its fifth such honor in six years.

On Friday, July 29 at 8:00pm in the Spanish Courtyard, Caramoor presents a seemingly unlikely encounter between singer-songwriter and polymath Gabriel Kahane and cello virtuoso Alisa Weilerstein.

Collaboraction's critically acclaimed '1001' is a provocative, funny and fast-paced post-modern retelling of 'The Arabian Nights' which made its Chicago premiere last September.

The hilarious documentary 'One Night Stand' gives an unbridled and candid look behind the Broadway curtain, as some of New York's top theatre, film and television actors, writers and directors are given 24 hours to write, cast, rehearse and perform four short musicals. Likened to 'A Chorus Line' meets 'Project Runway', 'One Night Stand' captures the excitement, anxiety, camaraderie, and sheer panic that leads to the final thrill of the finished performance. From the blank page to the live stage: 'One Night Stand' unveils the magic as talented artists take the dare to create something from nothing. BroadwayWorld was there for the premiere, and brings you full coverage below!

Signature Theatre's 22nd season kicks off by making musical theatre history with its American Musical Voices Project: Next Generation 'World Premiere Repertory Series' - the first time in the history of the American theatre that two world premiere musicals will be presented in rotating repertory, in full production. The eight-week series, beginning previews on August 23rd, will produce The Hollow (book by Hunter Foster; music and lyrics by Matt Conner), to be directed by Signature Theatre's Associate Artistic Director Matthew Gardiner; and The Boy Detective Fails (book by Joe Meno; music and lyrics by Adam Gwon), directed by Signature Theatre Artistic Associate Joe Calarco. Both musicals have been commissioned by Signature Theatre as part of its groundbreaking American Musical Voices Project: The Next Generation.

Virginia's Signature Theatre heats up during the dog days of summer with their annual Sizzlin' Summer Cabaret, a 3-week series featuring thirteen individual acts sure to keep things red hot.

Vassar & New York Stage and Film announce the award-winning casts of its three Martel Musicals: The Nightingale by Steven Sater & Duncan Sheik, directed by Moisés Kaufman (7/8-10); February House by Gabriel Kahane & Seth Bockley, directed by Davis McCallum (7/14-16); and Piece of My Heart by Bert Berns, Daniel Goldfarb, Brett & Cassandra Berns, directed by Leigh Silverman (7/29-31). Check out rehearsal photos from F2M below!

New York Stage and Film (Johanna Pfaelzer, Artistic Director; Mark Linn-Baker, Max Mayer, Leslie Urdang, Producing Directors) and Vassar College (Ed Cheetham, Producing Director) have announced the full line-up of their 2011 Powerhouse Theater season, now entering its 27th year. The result of a unique collaboration between New York Stage and Film and Vassar College, the program consists of an eight-week residency on the Vassar campus (124 Raymond Avenue, Poughkeepsie, NY) during which more than 200 professional artists and some 40 apprentices live and work together to create new theater works. The 2011 Main Stage season kicks off with Patricia Wettig's F2M (June 29 - July 10).