Leonardo News

The Berman Center for the Performing Arts is pleased to present A Life in Art, a film and lecture series that will focus on two of the world's most poignant artists.

When Father Monroe discovers that Marcela and her Cuban-American family are struggling, he offers a warmth and kindness unlike anything Marcela has ever experienced. Small acts of generosity blossom into love as the lines between vocation and passion begin to blur. McCarter Theatre Center Artistic Director Emily Mann and playwright Nilo Cruz reunite for the first time since the Pulitzer Prize-winning Anna in the Tropics with this lyrical new play about falling in love and finding a place to call home.

Continuing to build on its innovative and award-winning slate of documentary programming, Netflix, the world's leading Internet TV network, will unveil four new non-fiction titles at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF),

Hamilton Tony-winner Leslie Odom Jr. joined the cast of the hit immersive theater spectacle Sleep No More in the role of 'The Doctor' for a surprise, one-night-only appearance on Thursday, August 4 in New York City.  Masked audience members had the opportunity to follow Leslie's journey through The McKittrick Hotel and among its 100 rooms, where this mash-up of Macbeth and the film noirs of the 1930s unfolds nightly.  In the past, one-night-only guest stars of Sleep No More have also included Neil Patrick Harris, Alan Cumming, Sara Bareilles, Aaron Paul, Dita von Teese, Evan Rachel Wood, and the gents from Flight of the Concords, among many others.

After a three-year hiatus Buffalo Theatre Ensemble (BTE) opens its 2016-2017 'Year of the Phoenix' Season in the McAninch Arts Center's intimate Playhouse Theatre with Marc Camoletti's 'Don't Dress for Dinner,' directed by BTE Ensemble member Kurt Naebig,* Sept. 8 - Oct. 9. This production marks the return of the professional Equity company as the MAC's resident theater company. There will be a preview performance onThursday, Sept. 8 at 8 p.m.; press opening is Friday, Sept. 9 at 8 p.m. Performances run through Sunday, Oct. 9.  

Midway through the first half of her opening night concert at Los Angeles' Staples Center Tuesday evening, legendary performer Barbra Streisand brought out magician and mentalist Lior Suchard.

Does a comic opera from 1910 resonate with contemporary audiences? The answer would be with certainty, yes. Third Avenue Playhouse's Madame Sherry with original book/lyrics by Otto Harbach and music by Karl L. Hoschna, would be completely entertaining in the under James Valcq's impressive adaptation and direction along with a talented acting troupe who possess triple threats---they act, dance and sing. Valcq adapted the vintage comic opera from a found script and stage manager's notes discovered in New York's Public library and produces this effervescent theater experience on stage in Sturgeon Bay. With more than 20 songs, romantic smooching and clever choreography, Madame Sherry rings in summer entertainment and chases away any cloudy skies appearing on the horizon, literally or figuratively.

TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: OUT OF THE SHADOWS comes to Blu-ray Combo Pack, Blu-ray 3D Combo Pack, 4K Ultra HD Combo Pack, DVD and On Demand on September 20, 2016

NextStop Theatre Company's fourth professional season kicks off in September 2016 with the DC-area professional premiere of the hit Broadway-musical, Catch Me If You Can.

National Geographic Channel executive vice president and head of global scripted programming and development Carolyn Bernstein announced today ahead of its TCA session that the network has picked up the global scripted miniseries THE LONG ROAD HOME, based on the New York Times best-seller from Martha Raddatz.

National Geographic Channel announced today that it has acquired the worldwide rights the to the untitled climate change feature documentary produced by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Fisher Stevens alongside Academy Award-winning actor, environmental activist and U.N. Messenger of Peace, Leonardo DiCaprio.

The following were honored last night at TEEN CHOICE 2016TM, which aired live on FOX from The Forum in Los Angeles.

Mori Art Museum is proud to present “The Universe and Art: Princess Kaguya, Leonardo da Vinci, teamLab” from Today, July 30, 2016 to Monday, January 9, 2017.

Mori Art Museum is proud to present “The Universe and Art: Princess Kaguya, Leonardo da Vinci, teamLab” from Today, July 30, 2016 to Monday, January 9, 2017.

The cast and creative team is set for Tony Award winner Mary Zimmerman's revival of WONDERFUL TOWN - Leonard Bernstein's classic musical that with lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green and book by Joseph Fields and Jerome Chodorov.

Mori Art Museum is proud to present “The Universe and Art: Princess Kaguya, Leonardo da Vinci, teamLab” from Saturday, July 30, 2016 to Monday, January 9, 2017.

After rave reviews and sold out runs for Shit & Champagne and The Temple of Poon, Champagne is back and the stakes are even higher. Champagne White is DISASTROUS! In D'Arcy Drollinger's third installment of the Champagne White chronicles opening Thurs. August 25, 2016 at 7:00 pm at Oasis - 298 11th street in San Francisco.

The Lindeman is the newest contemporary restaurant in Hell's Kitchen under the direction of Executive Chef Carl Alioto.

On the heels of her Tanglewood debut in Carmina Burana with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, fast-rising soprano Nadine Sierra—who, after four major debuts last season alone, is quickly becoming a fixture at important houses around the world—returns to New York to debut at Lincoln Center's Mostly Mozart Festival on July 25, in an all-star opening night “operatic fantasy” called The Illuminated Heart. After an auspicious debut as Gilda at the Met last season, she returns this fall for a house role debut as Zerlina inDon Giovanni, and in the spring makes both her role and Live in HD debuts as Ilia in Mozart's Idomeneo under the baton of James Levine. Following last season's Paris Opera debut, she opens the 2016-17 season at the Palais Garnier with the role of Flavia in a new production of Cavalli's Eliogabalo. This is one of three Paris Opera productions to feature her this season: she also appears as Pamina in Die Zauberflöte and Gilda inRigoletto at the Opéra Bastille, where she sang her first Zerlina last season. Other highlights in the new season include a return to Zurich Opera—where she won acclaim for her 2015 house and role debuts as the title character in Lucia di Lammermoor—to sing her first performances as Elvira in Bellini's I Puritani.