Leonardo News

Olivier winner and Tony nominee Tracie Bennett (Hangmen, End of the Rainbow) and Laiona Michelle (Little Girl Blue, Amazing Grace) have joined the line-up for the 10th annual “Night Of A Thousand Judys.'

Leonardo Suarez Paz's PIAZZOLLA 100 presents 'Symphonic Tango' in collaboration with the North/South Consonance Chamber Orchestra, under the direction of Max Lifchitz, who leads the orchestra in its 42nd season featuring soloists Leonardo Suarez Paz on violin and Lisa Hansen on flute.

Leonardo Suarez Paz's PIAZZOLLA 100 rocked NYU Skirball with a genre-redefining, multidisciplinary production  - 'El Nuevo Tango.'

Live, in-person tap dance workshops, performances and special events herald the return of Tap City, the NYC Tap Festival, the American Tap Dance Foundation's week-long tap festival Monday, July 4 through Sunday, July 10 right in in tap’s hometown, New York City. The TAP CITY Festival week, celebrating its 22nd year, will return LIVE for the first time since the advent of the Covid-19 pandemic - in 2020 Tap City was virtual, and in 2021 hybrid.

Tony nominee Sally Mayes, Bistro winner Nicolas King, Shereen Pimentel, and Bistro winner Amy Jo Jackson (Joe’s Pub) have joined the line-up for the 10th annual “Night Of A Thousand Judys” – the Pride concert to benefit The Ali Forney Center written and hosted by Justin Elizabeth Sayre – at Joe’s Pub on Sunday, June 5.

Quartet for the End of Time, a commissioned production by Teatro Regio di Parma for the Parma Italian Capital of Culture 2021, will finally make its world premiere on Saturday 28 May 2022, at 20.30 at the Teatro Regio di Parma. This marks the last show of ParmaDanza 2021- 2022.

NOTRE DAME DE PARIS al PALAEUR CELEBRAZIONE DEL VENTENNALE DI UN OPERA CHE HA CAMBIATO LA STORIA DEL TEATRO MUSICALE. IN TOUR FINO A DICEMBRE

The Obie Award-winning New Ohio Theatre has announced that the 29th annual Ice Factory Festival will be a hybrid model that includes live in-person performances, as well as live-streamed and on-demand.

On Monday, June 6 at 5 p.m., TDF will host its annual Wendy Wasserstein Project ceremony at The Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College (524 West 59th Street).

Sondheim's macabre musical Sweeney Todd, arrives in Brazil. The show opened on March in Sao Paulo for a short season and takes place on the 033 Rooftop of Teatro Santander. With direction by Ze Henrique de Paula, the Brazilian production stars Rodrigo Lombardi (Sweeney), Andrezza Massei (Mrs. Lovett), and Mateus Ribeiro (Tobias Ragg).

Bryant Park Picnic Performances presented by Bank of America season of free, live performances this summer will continue with eight esteemed New York City-based dance companies showcasing their work on the Bryant Park stage.

The Pageant of the Masters in Laguna Beach is busily preparing for this summer's production of “Wonderful World,” a theatrical love letter to the joys of travel and the wondrous art to be found in every corner of the globe.

New National Theatre, Tokyo (NNTT) announces the cast changes for Don Giovanni and Aida.

With Marina Carr's Girl on an Altar about to begin previews, Kiln Theatre announces the full cast for the world première of Zodwa Nyoni's The Darkest Part of the Night. Nancy Medina directs Brianna Douglas, Andrew French, James Clyde, Hannah Morrish, Lee Phillips and Nadia Williams.

No matter how much you know about the Titanic disaster, the musical grounds the story, humanizes it, and you leave the theatre an emotional wreck.

Bringing to life the legendary hits of Jim Steinman and Meat Loaf, the critically acclaimed production Bat Out of Hell – The Musical heads to Milton Keynes for two weeks from 14 June.

The restoration of two early sculptures Michelangelo Buonarroti created when he was training in the Garden of San Marco in Florence-Madonna of the Stairs (1490) and Battle of the Centaurs (1491-1492)-was completed in March and the works have returned to public view.

THE ART OF THE BRICK—a captivating exhibition featuring works of art by renowned contemporary artist Nathan Sawaya—has launched the summer event series Bricks at Night, a weekly after-hours celebration of creativity and art.

ArtsDistrict Brooklyn (David Galpern and Charles Roy, co-founders), an immersive and experiential arts venue, will open this July, in Greenpoint (25 Franklin Street) — the media hub of Brooklyn. ArtsDistrict Brooklyn (a/k/a AD/BK) will feature the US premiere of “Limitless AI” by internationally-renowned artists Ferdi & Eylul Alici of Ouchhh Studio (Istanbul), creators of the award-winning 2018 global sensation, “Poetic AI,” which was seen by 1 million visitors at Atelier des Lumières in Paris. For AD/BK, the artist couple has reimagined and expanded their original work as “Limitless AI,” a 70-minute show, and for the first time, united the pieces with a narrative story consisting of five chapters, including “Poetic AI.”

Narrated by Golden Globe nominee and award-winning actor Blair Underwood, the documentary tells the incredible, yet largely unknown, story of the Nation’s first, all-Black peacetime regiments who fought relentlessly to expand America’s presence in the West and defend the United States on foreign soil.