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.
La alemana Ute Lemper volverá a España con 'The Last Tango In Berlín' dentro del Festival Mil·leni 2011-2012 en Barcelona. La cita será el 18 de Enero de 2012, a las 21h, en el Palau de la Música.
The Joyce Theater Foundation will present the NYC premiere of Angel Reapers, a new dance/theater piece with text by Alfred Uhry and direction and choreography by Martha Clarke for a two-week limited run from November 29 - December 11.
With four Tony Awards and two Grammy Awards, the Juilliard-trained Audra McDonald returns to performing live full-time this month following four seasons playing Dr. Naomi Bennett on ABC's hit television series Private Practice. Currently starring alongside Norm Lewis in A.R.T.'s PORGY AND BESS, the Broadway-bound singer will make a stop at Carnegie Hall as a part of her 20-city concert tour across North America. McDonald will present her trademark mix of show tunes, classic songs from movies, and pieces written expressly for her by leading contemporary composers.
FEINSTEIN'S AT LOEWS REGENCY, the nightclub proclaimed 'Best of New York' by New York Magazine and 'an invaluable New York institution' by The New York Post, will continue the Fall 2011 season with the return engagement of two time Emmy and Tony Award-winning performer BEBE NEUWIRTH from November 15 - 26
FEINSTEIN'S AT LOEWS REGENCY will continue the Fall 2011 season with the return engagement of two time Emmy and Tony Award-winning performer BEBE NEUWIRTH from November 15 - 26. Her new show will include songs by Stephen Sondheim, Edith Piaf, Tom Waits, Irving Berlin and Kander & Ebb. She will be joined by Musical director Scott Cady on piano. All shows take place at the Loews Regency Hotel (540 Park Avenue at 61st Street).
The 2011 Kurt Weill Book Prize for outstanding scholarship in music theater since 1900, carrying a cash prize of $5,000, has been awarded to Larry Stempel, Professor of Music at Fordham University, for his book Showtime: A History of the Broadway Musical Theater (W.W. Norton, 2010). In this captivating and richly researched critical history, Stempel traces the evolution of musicals from 19th-century minstrel shows and burlesques, through the 'golden age' of Show Boat and Oklahoma!, and into the new millennium, examining the works in relation to the larger historical and cultural forces that have shaped the genre.
After just five sell-out performances at the Young Vic in 2008, Street Scene - winner of the Evening Standard Award for Best Musical - returns for a full run and national tour.