Works & Process, the performing arts series at the Guggenheim, will present the world premiere of A Chronicle of a Pivot at a Point in Time by Jamar Roberts, with music by David Watson on March 20 and 21, 2022 at 7:30 pm.
With many of the pandemic restrictions being lifted in New York City this week, that the Broadway COVID safety team will celebrate their 2,000th performance on Broadway Tuesday night highlights the new phase of normalcy that the industry has entered.
The Billy Rose Theatre Division at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts just announced a call for applications for the inaugural year of our Theatre and Technology Fellowship. This fellowship, supported by a generous gift from Marshall Weinberg, will support a scholar working on a project that examines technologies documented in our collection, or using innovative technologies to study theatre history. The recipient will be expected to be in residence at the library for at least four weeks, but these need not be contiguous.
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center has announced that award-winning architect and scenic designer David Rockwell and the LAB at Rockwell Group, Rockwell Group’s experience design and technology studio, will design the Harvey Fierstein Theatre Lab.
I Was Better Last Night, the new memoir by cultural icon, gay rights activist, and four-time Tony Award®-winning actor and playwright Harvey Fierstein is available today on Alfred A. Knopf.
Broadway favorite Harvey Fierstein will release a book in 2022. Penguin Random House will publish 'I Was Better Last Night' on March 1. Alongside the release of the awaited memoir is a free livestream event in which Fierstein will discuss his memoir with journalist Michael Musto. The event is free to anyone who chooses to register, and will have a Q+A session after the interview.
The League of Professional Theatre Womenan organization which has championed women in the professional theatre for four decades, today announced the youngest, most diverse leadership in its history: co-presidents Mary E. Hodges & Katrin Hilbe, and Executive Vice President, Malini Singh McDonald.
After a two-year hiatus, Broadway's Future Songbook Series - produced, directed, and hosted by John Znidarsic - returns on Monday, February 28th at 6PM. The evening will spotlight the songs from Jermaine Rowe’s Children from the Blue Mountain in the Bruno Walter Auditorium at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center.
Tovah Feldshuh and Lynne Meadow will be honored as 'Makers of Memories' by the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts this Thursday, January 27th. Daryl Roth is making introductory remarks, and Arnold Mittelman, President of the National Jewish Theater Foundation, is hosting.
For their new commission, choreographer Claudia Schreier and filmmaker Adam Barish blend ballet with technology to explore a landscape of shifting perspectives. Also presented is a pas de deux by choreographer Durante Verzola that examines and challenges the traditional gendered structure of partner dances, and takes inspiration from the process of creating work virtually during the pandemic.
Juilliard announces full programming for the spring semester, January–May 2022, including live music, dance, and drama performances with numerous livestreams and on-demand opportunities providing access for audiences—local and global—to the artistic development of Juilliard students, the future of the performing arts.
Jacob’s Pillow has announced eight artist residencies this winter and spring at the Pillow Lab, its year-round incubator of new work. The annual season of customizable residencies supports U.S.-based and international dance artists during crucial development, research, and technical stages of choreography-driven projects.
Works & Process, the performing arts series at the Guggenheim, has announced its spring 2022 season Featuring Commissions Celebrating New York's Modern, Street, and Vernacular Dance and Beatbox artists, and World Premiere of Third Bird by Isaac Mizrahi, Nico Muhly, and John Heginbotham.
Karen Brooks Hopkins’ memoir BAM. . . and Then It Hit Me (powerHouse Books and Audible, January 2022) is an exhilarating romp through the evolution of the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the renowned cultural institution, and an inside look at how it grew to exert considerable influence on theater, opera, dance, and film worldwide.
Dancers Over 40 will return to 'live' events this Fall with the 13th Annual Legacy Awards and Holiday Dinner Monday, December 6, 2021. This celebration honoring their very own members Mercedes Ellington, Mary McCatty, Sue Samuels, Susan Sigrist and Tony Waag will be held at LIPS Restaurant, 227 East 56th Street 6 - 9pm.
Works & Process, the performing arts series at the Guggenheim, continues its fall 2021 Season with more evening performances in the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Peter B. Lewis Theater this November and December at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1071 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10128.
Theatre production company Parity Productions, the only New York theatre company that ensures that they fill at least 80% of the creative roles on their own productions—playwrights, directors, and designers—with women, trans, and gender-expansive artists and offers free tools to encourage the rest of the theatre industry to do the same, has awarded two commissions to Kelley Nicole Girod for This Stretch of Montpelier and M Sloth Levine for At Hotel MacGuffin. The ceremony took place on Wednesday, November 10th as a hybrid event over zoom and in person at the Manny Cantor Center.
The Noël Coward Foundation and The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts have announced the inaugural Noël Coward Fellowship, created in honour of Noël Coward and marking the centenary of Coward's first visit to New York in 1921.
In celebration of United Solo Theatre Festival's return to its resident stage/home at Theatre Row in New York's theatre district, Omar Sangare, the Festival's founder and artistic director, joined forces with actor and singer Wendy-Lane Bailey to create “Five Minutes: Snapshots in Time”. The solo piece premieres Sunday, November 14th at 7:00 PM.
Works & Process will continue its fall 2021 Season with more evening performances in the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Peter B. Lewis Theater this November and December at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1071 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10128.
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