Opera Saratoga announced today that AMERICA SINGS, the company's free concert series that was created to amplify the voices of artists from racial groups historically underrepresented on the concert stage, will return to Caffè Lena this weekend after the series had to be temporarily paused due to COVID-19.
Christopher Plummer, one of the greatest actors of the 20th and 21st centuries, died today at the age of 91. In the great tradition of the theatre, to honour his extraordinary body of work the marquee lights of the Royal Alexandra Theatre in Toronto will be dimmed at the traditional curtain-up time, 8 pm, on Saturday, February 6th.
Higher Ground Productions, President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama’s production company in partnership with Netflix, today announced a new slate of upcoming projects.
Beginning January 11, 2021, at 5 pm, Sparks & Wiry Cries will present their flagship songSLAM Festival with twelve days of song. The annual NYC songSLAM will feature fourteen emerging composer/performer teams presenting new art song compositions, professionally recorded in November at the Blue Building in New York City.
El Paso Opera has announced details for its upcoming seasons!
Hunter College is hosting Speaking of Justice: Race, Racism and Reform, a series of virtual events featuring faculty, scholars and activists that address topics such as the history and current impact of protests, health inequities, controversial monuments, voting rights and voter suppression, and defunding police departments.
AURAL COMPASS PROJECTS - On Friday, February 7th, 2020 at 7:30pm, Aural Compass Projects presents Lift Every Voice, a celebration of African-American composers of the last century. Featured cycles on the program are John Carter's Cantata, a five-part work of sophisticated arrangements of spirituals; Jacqueline Hairston's On Consciousness Streams, a song cycle with text by Ms. Hairston, a translation of text by Ludwig van Beethoven, and an excerpt from Dr. Howard Thurman's Meditations of the Heart; Margaret Bonds' Three Dream Portraits, which uses poems by Langston Hughes; and H. Leslie Adams' Nightsongs, using the words of five African-American poets. Soprano Meroë Khalia Adeeb, mezzo-soprano Tesia Kwarteng, and tenor Elliott Paige all make their ACP debuts, joined by Artistic Director and pianist Michael Lewis.
Invictus Theatre Company has announced the cast and production team for the second production of its first full season - the seminal American drama, A RAISIN IN THE SUN, by Lorraine Hansberry.
Michael Lewis talks about Donald Trump's lack of interest in having a functional government and interviewing a government worker who was labeled as inessential.
Here is the list of upcoming guests on 'Late Night With Seth Meyers.'
Wagnerian vaudeville, parody pastiche, and Bayreuth burlesque await guests at DAS RHINESTONE, an evening of serious singing, sequins, and plenty of WTF operatic moments to get you in or distract you from the holiday spirit. Zachary James, appearing courtesy of The Metropolitan Opera, brings Wagner's diva daddy Wotan to glittering, semi-nude life at this one night only event on December 23 at New York's The Slipper Room (167 Orchard Street).
The New York Times is pleased to announce Forward: Twenty Years of TimesTalks, a new photobook of black-and-white portraits of over 60 influential artists, actors, filmmakers, politicians, authors, activists, and Times reporters that have participated in TimesTalks, The New York Times live conversation series, including Marina Abramovic, Tilda Swinton, Nan Goldin, Ai Weiwei, Marc Jacobs, and Rami Malek, along with executive editor Dean Baquet, technology reporter Jenna Wortham, investigative reporter Jodi Kantor, 'The Daily' host Michael Barbaro, and chief White House correspondent Maggie Haberman. Full list below.
Priya Swaminathan and Tonia Davis, co-heads of Higher Ground Productions, President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama's production company in partnership with Netflix, today announced the company's initial slate of upcoming projects. The content encompasses a wide range of fiction and non-fiction signature productions for all audiences including scripted, unscripted and documentary series, as well as full-length features and documentaries.
August 5th, 2018 During the summer months at the Hollywood Bowl, it is still light out when the evening's program begins, which afforded me the chance to take a look around and peruse the patrons. It seemed a bit atypical as far as age range of most Bowl goers; a rather young and hip group. It was a very packed crowd that assembled, hosted by KCRW's Musical Director Jason Bentley, to first hear William Brittelle 's Spiritual America featuring Wye Oak and the Metropolis Ensemble and then to experience the sensation of Tu Dance Company, accompanied by Bon Iver, in 'Come Through.'
'You cannot walk away from this show without learning something about yourself and your world.'
Sprig, the market leader in cannabis-infused beverages, announces the immediate availability of the company's new CBD-infused beverage line.
The third production of EPIC Players Inclusion Company's 2017-18 season is the neuro-inclusive adaptation of William Shakespeare's The Tempest. The play will run for 8 performances between May 31st and June 10th at The Flea Theater, The Siggy (named after founder Sigourney Weaver), where EPIC is proud to be Anchor Partners.
According to Deadline, Netflix has acquired the Michael Lewis bestseller Flash Boys, and Ben Jacoby has been set to adapt it.
The third production of EPIC Players Inclusion Company's 2017-18 season is the neuro-inclusive adaptation of William Shakespeare's The Tempest. The play will run for 8 performances between May 31st and June 10th at The Flea Theater, The Siggy (named after founder Sigourney Weaver), where EPIC is proud to be Anchor Partners.
Powerhouse drag queen sensation Ada Vox will make one of her first appearances since being eliminated from American Idol at the 7th Annual Gay Men's Chorus of Los Angeles Voice Awards on Saturday, May 5th at the Dolby Ballroom in Hollywood.
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