Martha Redbone News

PEN America presents the 2019 PEN World Voices Festival: Open Secrets (May 6-12), focusing on the dissolving boundary between the public and the private in the literary, cultural, social, and political realms.  A flowering of the genres of literary memoir and personal testimony has been accompanied by increased digital avenues for story-telling, revelation, and expose before both designated and public audiences.

Alberta Bair Theater's Orser Outstanding Performances Series resumes today, January 11 at 7:30 p.m. with multi-award winning Martha Redbone Roots Project.

Alberta Bair Theater's Orser Outstanding Performances Series resumes on Friday, January 11 at 7:30 p.m. with multi-award winning Martha Redbone Roots Project.

On Thursday, January 10, MARTIN TAYLOR and LAURENCE JUBER join forces for a one-of-a-kind musical event! Acoustic Guitar magazine calls Taylor "The Acoustic Guitarist of his generation" and Jazz Times declares he's "Europe's finest guitarist." Juber is a two-time Grammy-winning musician, best known for his role as lead guitarist in Paul McCartney's WINGS. Two talented artists share their talents for this incredible night of music. 7:30 PM. Tickets $27.

Throughout the season, New York City teens will come together to write, produce, and perform original music with their peers and learn from leading artists through Future Music Project, a vibrant, growing creative community based out of Carnegie Hall's Resnick Education Wing. 2018 - 2019 programming will highlight Carnegie Hall's Migrations: The Making of America festival, with young people reflecting on the impact of migration on their past, present, and future and creating new works responding to those themes. Select songs written by teens will be showcased on Sunday, May 19, 2019 at 7:30 p.m. as part of Soul Mechanisms, a special concert in Zankel Hall led by celebrated performer Toshi Reagon.

Born and raised in vibrantly multicultural Jamaica, Queens in New York City, singer-songwriter Morley is more than a musician — she is an artist who uses music as a tool for conflict resolution and dialogue facilitation with youth and adults at home and abroad. This is quite apparent in her lyrics, especially those in her sixth studio album, Thousand Miles, distributed by Six Degrees Records and set for release on October 5, 2018.

Alberta Bair Theater has added four additional shows since the season preview for its stakeholders on May 24:  for fans of 60's rock: Felix Cavaliere & Gene Cornish's RASCALS with special guest Carmine Appice on drums on Friday, September 7 at 7:30; for fans of 80's rock and Broadway musicals: ROCK OF AGES on Monday, November 19 at 7:30;  for a fun ladies night out during the holidays: 'Twas a Girls Night Before Christmas on Friday, December 14 at 7:30;  and for family entertainment at its best the multi Tony awarded THE SOUND OF MUSIC on Monday, April 8 and Tuesday, April 9, both at 7:30.

Music and dance fill the Lackland Performing Arts Center as the Centenary Stage Company announces its 2018 - 19 full season line up of events. In addition to CSC's professional theatrical productions, the 2018 - 19 season will see the return of the January Thaw Music Festival alongside a plethora of new concerts and dance performances.

The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts and Joe's Pub at The Public join forces once again for the Kimmel Center Theater Residency. Under the tutelage of Jay Wahl, Producing Artistic Director of the Kimmel Center, and Shanta Thake, Director of Joe's Pub, the program serves as an incubator for artists and their collaborators to create and develop music and theater projects. The program will be held in the Kimmel Center's SEI Innovation Studio (300 South Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA) from June 18-30 with Public Readings, free and open to the public, on June 29 and 30. Readings will be followed by Q&A sessions with the artists.

Make Music New York, a one-of-a-kind festival occurring each June 21, today announced its full schedule of over 1,000 free outdoor concerts, music lessons and jam sessions in public spaces across the five boroughs. The daylong musical celebration on the summer solstice is the flagship event of Make Music Day, which is being held in more than 80 U.S. cities and has become a global phenomenon observed by hundreds of millions of people in 800 cities in 120 countries.

Make Music New York Announces Full Schedule of 1,000+ Free, Outdoor Music-Making Events Citywide to Kick Off Summer

Make Music New York, a one-of-a-kind festival occurring each June 21 and featuring more than 1,000 free outdoor concerts, music lessons and jam sessions in public spaces across the five boroughs, today announced its updated schedule of events. The daylong musical celebration on the summer solstice is the flagship event of Make Music Day, which is being held in 80 U.S. cities and has become a global phenomenon observed by hundreds of millions of people in 800 cities in 120 countries.

This April, Lincoln Center Launches Big Umbrella Festival, the first Month-long Festival Dedicated to Creation and Presentation of Arts Programs for Young Audiences on Autism Spectrum

The Public Theater begin previews of Black Light, starring Jomama Jones, the alter ego of Daniel Alexander Jones, on Monday, February 12 in Joe's Pub at The Public. Black Light is a moving, music-laden work - a revival of sorts - for turbulent times. Created by Jones, the show features original music by Jomama, Laura Jean Anderson, Bobby Halvorson, Dylan Meek and Josh Quat with music direction by Samora Abayomi Pinderhughes. Performances begin Monday, February 12 and run through Sunday, March 25, with an official press opening on Sunday, February 25.

Silk Road Rising (Chief Programming Officer & Mission Trustee, Jamil Khoury, and Executive Director, Malik Gillani) is proud to announce P3M5: The Plurality of Privacy Project in 5-Minute Plays, the first in a pairing of staged readings in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut.

The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, Theatre Without Borders and Tamizdat join forces to present a timely community conversation exploring the challenges and power of progressive activist theater.

Eisemann Center Presents in partnership with UT Dallas: BONE HILL: THE CONCERT by renowned blues and soul singer Martha Redbone on Saturday, February 10, 2018 at 7:30 pm. The concert will conclude a week-long residency at the UT Dallas School of Arts & Humanities and will feature student vocalists in a showcase performance prior to the interdisciplinary theater performance by Ms. Redbone and company. BONE HILL: THE CONCERT was written by Martha Redbone, Aaron Whitby and Roberta Uno, who directs the piece, with original compositions by Redbone and Whitby.

The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, Theatre Without Borders and Tamizdat join forces to present a timely community conversation exploring the challenges and power of progressive activist theater.

Silk Road Rising (Chief Programming Officer & Mission Trustee, Jamil Khoury, and Executive Director, Malik Gillani) is proud to announce P3M5: The Plurality of Privacy Project in 5-Minute Plays, the first in a pairing of staged readings in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut.

Joseph V. Melillo, executive producer of the Brooklyn Academy of Music, today announced programming for the BAM 2018 Winter/Spring Season. The season runs from January 15 through June 23 and includes theater, dance, music, and other live events in the BAM Howard Gilman Opera House, BAM Harvey Theater, and BAM Fisher. Scroll down for highlights!