Leonardo News

5@5 at DiMenna Solo Piano Series presents a special Albert Ginastera 100th Anniversary concert tonight, May 21 @ 5:00 PM, as the fifth program of their 2016 performance series, curated by Mirian Conti, at The DiMenna Center for Classical Music, 450 West 37th Street in Manhattan.

Actors' Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre is proud to announce Carbonell Award-winning playwright Michael McKeever's Finding Mona Lisa as the fifth production of the 2016 - 2017 Mainstage Season. Finding Mona Lisa is one of the newest plays penned by the South Florida writer, and the final selection of the company's 29th anniversary season. The show will run from July 12 - August 13, 2017.

Tap City 2016, The American Tap Dance Foundation's (ATDF) week-long tap dance festival, will return for it's 16th year to New York City July 9 to 16 with award presentations, master classes and performances by local and international artists in what has become the premiere meeting place for hundreds of American and International tap dancers to study, teach and perform.

The Area Stage Company and Theatre Conservatory is proud to present ALADDIN JR.

Artistic Director Antoine Plante and Mercury close out a celebratory 15th Anniversary Season with Beethoven's monumental Ninth Symphony tonight, May 14 at 8 PM at the Wortham Center's Cullen Theater.

The Area Stage Company and Theatre Conservatory is proud to present ALADDIN JR.

Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater presents a new film series, Art and Architecture in Cinema.

Gary Naylor sees a new musical which gets plenty right - and one or two things wrong!

After a successful co-production partnership in 2014, Ovation TV and 3DD Productions have reunited for another season of RAIDERS OF THE LOST ART.

5@5 at DiMenna Solo Piano Series presents a special Albert Ginastera 100th Anniversary concert on Saturday, May 21 @ 5:00 PM, as the fifth program of their 2016 performance series, curated by Mirian Conti, at The DiMenna Center for Classical Music, 450 West 37th Street in Manhattan.

Snack brand, Tastykake is teaming up with four fearless turtles this summer through a radical partnership with Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Movies' Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out Of the Shadows, in theaters June 3. Fans of the beloved crime fighting, teenage turtles can experience the excitement of the new film by picking up any of the four limited edition packages, as well as enter to win prizes online.

The New Jersey Association of Verismo Opera presented Rita Tonitto of Bergen County, New Jersey with the organization's highest honor, the Lifetime Achievement Award, at its production of La Gioconda at the Bergen Performing Arts Center in Englewood, New Jersey.  Tonitto was recognized for 25 years of service and contributions to the organization and opera. 

?This July, The New Victory Theater will present its third season of Victory Dance, the theater's initiative to provide FREE dance performances to kids in New York City day camps, school and youth programs over the summer. A three-week-long series presented from July 13 - 29, 2016, Victory Dance features a cross-section of highly accomplished and internationally recognized New York companies who perform a range of movement styles from lyrical, to tap, to anime-inspired dance, and share in the theater's goal of inspiring young people to embrace the art form.

SundanceTV announced today that season one of the acclaimed Italian crime series GOMORRAH will premiere on Wednesday, August 24 at 10/9c. As previously announced, the network has acquired seasons one and two from The Weinstein Company, each season featuring 12 one-hour episodes.

Below, watch the new trailer for TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: OUT OF THE SHADOWS! TMNT 2 is coming to theatres and Real D 3D June 3, 2016.

Artistic Director Antoine Plante and Mercury close out a celebratory 15th Anniversary Season with Beethoven's monumental Ninth Symphony on Saturday, May 14 at 8 PM at the Wortham Center's Cullen Theater. Mercury presents this joyful and triumphant masterpiece on period instruments, as audiences would have heard at its premiere in 1824, alongside vocalists Mary Wilson (soprano), Sarah Mesko (alto), Zachary Wilder (tenor) and Tyler Duncan (baritone). Also joining the performance are select members of the Houston Symphony Chorus under the direction of Betsy Cook Weber. This performance is the culmination of Mercury's five-year Beethoven symphony cycle, described as the 'Mount Everest' of the orchestral repertoire. The evening also includes select opera arias by Vivaldi featuring each of the guest soloists. Major support for this concert comes from Houston Arts Alliance; Houston Endowment Inc.; Ting Tsung and Wei Fung Chao Foundation; Phillips66; Texas Commission on the Arts; Hans and Lili Kirchner; and Haynes and Boone, LLP. To purchase tickets or for more information visit www.mercuryhouston.org or call 713.533.0080.

ROMEO AND JULIETYou know the romantic story of the star-crossed lovers Romeo and Juliet, but have you seen the beautiful operatic adaption by French composer Charles Gounod? Presenting swoon-worth duets, elaborate staging, and an all-star cast, Opera Grand Rapids' production of ROMEO AND JULIET April 29 and 30 comes just in time to commemorate the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare's death. Click below to watch highlights from the production!

British director Sam Mendes (American Beauty, Road to Perdition, Skyfall, Spectre) will be the president of the International Jury of the Competition at the 73rd Venice International Film Festival

Nickelodeon today announced that it is the entitlement sponsor of the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race on Sunday, Sept. 18, dubbed the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 400 at Chicagoland Speedway.

Si e svolta il 19 aprile la cerimonia di premiazione della terza edizione di PrIMO, il Premio Italiano del Musical Originale (trovate tutti i dettagli in questo articolo). Noi di BWW vorremmo approfittarne per fare un rapido excursus delle opere in gara, accompagnate dalle nostre impressioni che per ovvi motivi possiamo pubblicare solo ora.