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ACT's annual Young Playwrights Festival returns March 11-13 for an eighth year, featuring a wonderful mix of dramatic and comedic new works from talented student writers ages 14 to 18.
Ask Your Mama, the extraordinary new work that made a sold-out audience at Carnegie Hall last season 'thunder its approval' (The New York Times), fills the stage on Friday evening, April 1at 8pm to aid the victims of Haiti's devastating earthquake. Hailed by The Los Angeles Times for 'its feeling of freshness and uncanny currency,' this remarkable collaboration between Emmy Award-winning composer Laura Karpman and world-renowned soprano Jessye Norman journeys from Africa to the Americas, South to North, cities to suburbs, opera to jazz, gospel to be-bop, and 'shadows to fire,' reflecting the pathways of Langston Hughes's epic Ask Your Mama: 12 Moods for Jazz. The performance benefits Partners in Health and the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund, and begins at 8pm in the Rose Theater in Frederick P. Rose Hall, Home of Jazz at Lincoln Center
Urban Stages (Frances Hill, Artistic Director, Lauren Schmiedel, Managing Director) will present the World Premiere of the musical Langston in Harlem, featuring a book by Langston Hughes, Walter Marks and Kent Gash, with music by Walter Marks, lyrics by Langston Hughes and directed by Kent Gash, with musical direction by Barry Levitt and choreography by Byron Easley. Langston in Harlem will begin previews on Friday, April 9; opening on Thursday, April 15, 2010 and will initially run through May 2, 2010.
New York's Urban Stages will honor leaders of the Harlem Community for their dedication to the arts, this Thursday, March 11.2010.
ACT's annual Young Playwrights Festival returns March 11-13 for an eighth year, featuring a wonderful mix of dramatic and comedic new works from talented student writers ages 14 to 18.
New York's Urban Stages will honor leaders of the Harlem Community for their dedication to the arts, this Thursday, March 11.2010.
NYC DISCOVERY TOURS PUBLIC TOUR Schedule for March through Independence Weekend 2010, including St Patricks and St Josephs Day, Easter Weekend, Mother's Day Weekend, the Birthday of the High Line, the Birthday of the Brooklyn Bridge, Memorial Day, and Fathers Day.
Diamond's play tells a story of a group of black girls known to Claudia MacTreer (played by ART regular Alicia Haymer in a starring role) in the fall of 1941, 'the year the marigolds didn't bloom.' Claudia comes to believe the marigolds didn't bloom because of the life and tragic events of her best friend, Pecola Breedlove (portrayed by Demetria Granberry, in her professional acting debut). Pecola, who is subjected to mocking because of both her dark skin and a suspected incestuous relationship with her father, spends her time longing for blue eyes, which to a dark-skinned black girl coming of age in a turbulent racial era, represent beauty and self-worth.
Amas Musical Theatre (Donna Trinkoff, Producing Artistic Director) and Snap-Two Productions' new musical Signs of Life opens on Thursday, February 25 at the Marjorie S. Deane Little Theatre.
New York City Opera will celebrate the opening of its 2010 Spring Season on Thursday, March 18, with a gala performance of Emmanuel Chabrier's glittering, comic L'Étoile, followed by a grand evening on the Promenade of the David H. Koch Theater and dancing to waltzes played by the New York City Opera Orchestra.
ACT's annual Young Playwrights Festival returns March 11-13 for an eighth year, featuring a wonderful mix of dramatic and comedic new works from talented student writers ages 14 to 18.
The Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University (50 E. Congress Parkway) proudly presents the exclusive Chicago engagement of the world-renowned Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater for six public performance and two student matinees, Wednesday, March 24 through Sunday, March 28, 2010. Tickets are now on sale at ticketmaster.com/auditorium.
Diamond's play tells a story of a group of black girls known to Claudia MacTreer (played by ART regular Alicia Haymer in a starring role) in the fall of 1941, 'the year the marigolds didn't bloom.' Claudia comes to believe the marigolds didn't bloom because of the life and tragic events of her best friend, Pecola Breedlove (portrayed by Demetria Granberry, in her professional acting debut). Pecola, who is subjected to mocking because of both her dark skin and a suspected incestuous relationship with her father, spends her time longing for blue eyes, which to a dark-skinned black girl coming of age in a turbulent racial era, represent beauty and self-worth.
Amas Musical Theatre (Donna Trinkoff, Producing Artistic Director) and Snap-Two Productions' will begin performances of the new musical Signs of Life this Tuesday, February 16, 2010.
Rasgos Group Theatre and Teatro LaTea's production of 'OH...! OLLANTAY...', directed by Walter Ventosilla, will close on February 14.
Art House Productions presents THE ART HOUSE, Featuring Spoken Word Artist UNINVITED
Amas Musical Theatre (Donna Trinkoff, Producing Artistic Director) in association with Snap-Two Productions, Inc. will present the World Premiere of Signs of Life a new musical, with book by Peter Ullian, lyrics by Len Schiff, music by Joel Derfner, music direction by Michael Pettry, and directed by Jeremy Dobrish.
Art House Productions presents THE ART HOUSE, Featuring Spoken Word Artist UNINVITED
An African dance specialist, Jeffrey gave up a Hollywood choreography career to join the Nigeria-set musical.
Rasgos Group Theatre and Teatro LaTea proudly presents 'OH...! OLLANTAY...', directed by Walter Ventosilla, playing a limited-run Thursday January 28 through Sunday, February 14, 2010 at Teatro LaTea - Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural Center - 107 Suffolk St, 2nd Floor, between Delancey and Rivington Sts, Lower East Side. Performances are scheduled for Thursdays at 8pm (in English), Fridays at 8pm (in Spanish), Saturday - 3pm (English), Saturday - 8pm (Spanish), Sunday - 4pm - (Spanish).
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