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BlackRock Center for the Arts, providing opportunities to explore, celebrate and engage in the arts, invites you to join us for an anniversary season to ignite your inner joy and love of the arts. To kick off this special 20th year, BlackRock will be celebrating an entire week with an artist reception and gallery opening on September 17, social media previews of the season during the week, and a culminating opening party on September 24, 2022 at 6:00 PM. 

The Annenberg Center celebrates St. Patrick's Day with the spirited sounds of Danú, Saturday, March 14, at 8:00 pm. With a?oea vibrant mix of virtuosity, empathy and energya?? (The Washington Post), Danú marks its 25th anniversary season with timeless, Celtic tunes along with stunning, new melodies, offering a spirited journey to the heart of the Emerald Isle. Visit AnnenbergCenter.org for tickets.

Musica Viva NY concludes its 2018-19 season with Homage to Peace on Sunday, May 19 at 5:00 p.m. at The Brick Church. The program features reflective masterworks by Duruflé, Poulenc, and Pärt, performed by the Musica Viva NY Choir, led by Artistic Director Alejandro Hernandez-Valdez – including Duruflé's Ubi Caritas, and Requiem, Op. 9, Poulenc's Concerto for Organ, Timpani and Strings, Op. 36, with acclaimed organist Renée Anne Louprette, and Pärt's Da Pacem Domine for mixed choir and string orchestra.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, Naomi Scott, who is starring as Jasmine in Disney's upcoming Aladdin remake, and British newcomer Ella Balinska are set to join Kristen Stewart in the studio's new Charlie's Angels reboot.

For three decades, Sacred Music in a Sacred Space (SMSS) has been a timeless retreat from the quotidian into a world of rarefied depth of beauty, featuring the finest sacred choral and organ repertoire spanning over 1,000 years of music history, all within the architecturally stunning Manhattan landmark Church of St. Ignatius Loyola (980 Park Avenue).

Irish Arts Center presents Masters in Collaboration XII: Rhiannon Giddens Meets Dirk Powell (February 9-11), the next chapter in a series that, since its launch in 2008, has consistently served as a risk-rewarding incubator and platform for the merging of musical talents outside the dynamics of the commercial marketplace. Last season, the collaboration between Cassandra Wilson and Liam Maonla fostered at IAC blossomed into an international tour to Dublin, Los Angeles, Chicago and New York, with an ensemble of top jazz, folk and Irish musicians from both sides of the Atlantic, in a performance where their innate musicality allowed their distinct vocabularies to speak as one (Chicago Tribune).

Pulitzer Prize-winning Irish poet, former New Yorker Poetry Editor and pop music lyricist Paul Muldoon returns for his eighth season of the critically acclaimed feast of music, storytelling, poetry, and more.

Irish Arts Center (IAC), the arts and cultural center dedicated to projecting a dynamic image of Ireland and Irish America for the 21st century, announces its Spring 2018 lineup, featuring a characteristically wide range of theatrical, musical, dance, literary, podcast, interdisciplinary and educational events.

Irish Arts Center Announces Spring 2018 Season

In response to critical acclaim and popular demand, Soho Rep., in association with John Adrian Selzer, extends the world premiere, Soho Rep. commission of Richard Maxwell's Samara through May 14.

At the Mezzanine Theatre at the A.R.T./New York Theatres (502 W 53rd Street), Soho Rep. is pleased to present the world premiere of Richard Maxwell's Samara, commissioned by Artistic Director Sarah Benson. In a departure, Maxwell, who has directed nearly all 20 of his plays, is handing over the directorial duties to Benson. Maxwell's work was seen previously at Soho Rep. in 2001 with Cavemen and in 1999 with Cowboys and Indians.

Screenwriter John August (Big Fish, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) has been named the recipient of the Writers Guild of America, West's 2016 Valentine Davies Award

Olivier-nominated Irish step dancer COLIN DUNNE, Grammy Award winning composer BILL WHELAN, Grammy nominated sean-nós singer IARLA Ó LIONÁIRD and a musical tribute to Irish-American Broadway legend NED HARRIGAN are among the many visionary Irish artists and programming featured at the Irish Arts Center this fall.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' 'Monday Nights with Oscar' series will celebrate film noir with a screening of 'White Heat' (1949) on Monday, March 7, at 7 p.m. at the Academy Theater at Lighthouse International in New York City. Academy Writers Branch member Richard LaGravenese ('The Fisher King,' 'Water for Elephants') will introduce the screening.

In Ireland, the toe-tapping collegiality of an impromptu living room concert can be summed up in single word: craic. And perhaps no band better exemplifies the essence of craic than Danú. Hailed as a 'spirit-raising concoction' by The Irish Times, this five-member ensemble is among the most charismatic and sophisticated traditional Irish groups working today, known for mixing ancient Irish songs with new additions to the repertoire in concerts that are at once authentic, clever and fun.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' 'Monday Nights with Oscar' series will celebrate film noir with a screening of 'White Heat' (1949) on Monday, March 7, at 7 p.m. at the Academy Theater at Lighthouse International in New York City. Academy Writers Branch member Richard LaGravenese ('The Fisher King,' 'Water for Elephants') will introduce the screening.

In Ireland, the toe-tapping collegiality of an impromptu living room concert can be summed up in single word: craic. And perhaps no band better exemplifies the essence of craic than Danú. Hailed as a 'spirit-raising concoction' by The Irish Times, this five-member ensemble is among the most charismatic and sophisticated traditional Irish groups working today, known for mixing ancient Irish songs with new additions to the repertoire in concerts that are at once authentic, clever and fun.

'White Heat' (1949), featuring the return of James Cagney to the gangster genre that made him a star, will be screened as the final feature in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' series 'Oscar Noir: 1940s Writing Nominees from Hollywood's Dark Side' on Monday, August 30, at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater.

'White Heat' (1949), featuring the return of James Cagney to the gangster genre that made him a star, will be screened as the final feature in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' series 'Oscar Noir: 1940s Writing Nominees from Hollywood's Dark Side' on Monday, August 30, at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater.