International Artists News

Magnet Theater hosts a variety of performances and special events by the best of New York's improv masters and visiting international artists on Mondays through Sundays in February at 254 W. 29th Street, ground floor (between 7th and 8th Avenues), NYC. A detailed schedule and description of each night's line-up can be found at www.magnettheater.com.

American Composers Orchestra will present Philip Glass at 75 on Tuesday, January 31, 2012 at 8pm at Carnegie Hall's Stern Auditorium.

On March 31, 2012 DISTANT WORLDS: music from FINAL FANTASY will make a return to the Sony Centre for the Performing Arts with the 71-member Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony.

In collaboration with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Harris Theater will present the nation's premier ensemble for chamber music in its first-ever Chicago-based performance series.

Following its U.S. premiere in Chicago, "I Killed My Mother," a new play by Romanian playwright Andras Visky, will make its New York premiere at La MaMa E.T.C. this winter in a production staged by director Karin Coonrod.

Opened in 2003, the Harris Theater's mission is to partner and collaborate with an array of Chicago's emerging and mid-sized performing arts organizations to help them build the resources and infrastructure necessary to achieve artistic growth and long-term organizational sustainability.

The stage is set for the biggest RAGGAMUFFIN ever to celebrate the music festival's 5th birthday!

The celebrated Obie Award-winning and MacArthur Fellow writer, director, multi-media innovator and long-time La MaMa artist John Jesurun returns to La MaMa with a new work for the first time in a decade when La MaMa presents the world-premiere of Jesurun's STOPPED BRIDGE OF DREAMS with performances starting January 20, 2012 at the Ellen Stewart Theatre (66 E. 4 St. in Manhattan), it has been announced by Mia Yoo, La MaMa's artistic director. (The press opening is scheduled for January 22.)

STOPPED BRIDGE OF DREAMS, the newest work from the Obie Award-winning and MacArthur Fellow writer, director, multi-media innovator and long-time La MaMa artist John Jesurun. STOPPED BRIDGE OF DREAMS marks Mr. Jesurun's return to La MaMa for the first time in a decade. The production performs at the Ellen Stewart Theatre (66 E. 4 St.), with a press opening set for Sunday, January 22. Heading the cast of STOPPED BRIDGE OF DREAMS is the celebrated downtown actress Black-Eyed Susan.

Glasstress, the exhibition project organized by glass impresario Adriano Berengo for the past two Venice Biennales-each time making waves in the lagoon city-is to have its American debut at the Museum of Arts and Design on February 14th. Running through June 10, 2012, Glasstress New York: New Art from the Venice Biennale will present nearly two dozen works culled from the Venetian editions, along with work never before exhibited.

After performing to over 50,000 fans in the United Kingdom in 2011, BRIT FLOYD - The World's Greatest Pink Floyd Show, will hit the Sony Centre For The Performing Arts stage for the first time on Thursday, March 1, 2012 with their show A Foot in the Door. BRIT FLOYD has been embraced by Pink Floyd fans worldwide for its note-for-note perfection and unique Floydian animation.

On February 16, Pace University's inaugural Pace Presents season at the Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts in Lower Manhattan continues with a performance by Israeli singer-songwriter Yasmin Levy.

The celebrated Obie Award-winning and MacArthur Fellow writer, director, multi-media innovator and long-time La MaMa artist John Jesurun returns to La MaMa with a new work for the first time in a decade when La MaMa presents the world-premiere of Jesurun's STOPPED BRIDGE OF DREAMS with performances starting January 20, 2012 at the Ellen Stewart Theatre (66 E. 4 St. in Manhattan), it has been announced by Mia Yoo, La MaMa's artistic director. (The press opening is scheduled for January 22.)

La MaMa has announced that they will present the American premiere of London's Gate Theatre's production of THE KREUTZER SONATA March 8-25.

Sony Centre For The Performing Arts presents CLASSICAL MYSTERY TOUR for one night only on Thursday, February 9, 2012.

Twenty-one years ago, Tango Argentino played on Broadway, and now the same producers, with choreographer Hector Zaraspe, current faculty member of The Juilliard School, will present their international tango spectacle, TANGO PASIÓN, on stage for one night only Saturday, February 18, 2012 at the Sony Centre For The Performing Arts.

Performance Space 122 is set to present the New York premiere of Newyorkland, from performance group Temporary Distortion.

On February 11, Pace University's inaugural Pace Presents season at the Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts in Lower Manhattan continues with a performance by the Grammy Award-winning Mariachi Los Camperos.

Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage, co-hosts of the Emmy-nominated Mythbusters series, are bringing their all-new live stage show, MYTHBUSTERS: BEHIND THE MYTHS to Toronto for one night only on Thursday, March 29, 2012 at the Sony Centre for the Performing Arts.