Stage Garden Rumba–the multidisciplinary performance series that brings live poetry, music and dance performances to green spaces and “Casitas” (community gardens) of the South Bronx–has an exciting lineup of FREE performances this Saturday, June 26th at the Willis Avenue Garden starting at 3:00 pm.
Hostos Center for the Arts & Culture will present Josean Jacobo on Friday June 25, 2021, at 7:30 p.m. on Zoom, Facebook Live and YouTube. The event will feature an exclusive premiere performance - recorded in Santo Domingo, the Capital of the Dominican Republic - of a Jazz performance infused with the sounds and rhythms of his Dominican heritage.
This year's edition features the return of live music, with a diverse assemblage of world-class and emerging jazz musicians, performing in spacious, nine-acre Waryas Park, located in downtown Poughkeepsie, in New York's historic Hudson River Valley, just 90 miles north of New York City.
New York Women in Film & Television will present the 2021 NYWIFT Summit: The Creative Industry Radically Reimagined, June 22-25, 2021 from 4-6 PM ET. The annual NYWIFT Creative Workforce Initiative brings together some of the most unique and diverse voices of women working in the entertainment industry.
Violinist Francisco Salazar and pianist Max Lifchitz welcome the arrival of summer performing works that reimagine music from the past. The concert will be streamed live through the National Opera Center YouTube channel.
South Street Seaport Museum has announced that as part of the 2021 Season of Seaport Museum Open Days, Bowne & Co. will host FREE, outdoor letterpress printing demonstrations from June 11 to October 10, 2021 on Fridays and Saturdays, plus entry to 1885 Tall Ship Wavertree And Outdoor Exhibition on Pier 16 Fri-Sun Through October 2021.
Performances will take place at several in-person locations throughout the South Bronx–featuring the voices of artists, activists and community members highlighting local and international struggles for social justice.
Joe Iconis, Lauren Marcus, and more took over Union Square Park in a performance as part of NY PopsUp on Tuesday, June 1. The special performance also featured Richard Baskin, Jr. and Will Van Dyke.
The 2021 BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival will also offer a movie night featuring the 1973 documentary Wattstax, which highlights the 1972 Watts Summer Festival, as well as an evening dedicated to dance co-conceived by Tatiana and BRIC featuring the Passion Fruit Dance Company with DJ sets by Soul Summit Dance Party and St James Joy.
Penguin Rep Theatre presents 'Barnside Live @ 5!', an outdoor summer music festival taking place on the lawn adjacent to its historic Stony Point theatre located at 7 Crickettown Road.
The winners of the Finstrom Festival of New Work are Finding Neil Patrick Harris by Donna Hoke, The Guilt Mongers or Los Traficantes de Culpa (for those not willing to submit to the Anglicization of our people) by C. Julian Jiménez, The Equivalent of Sensation by Arianna Rose, One-Shot by Andrew Rosendorf and Baby Camp by Nandita Shenoy.
NY PopsUp will present an array of performances this week from the Bronx to upstate New York. Performances include a piano bar in Union Square Park featuring Joe Iconis, Lauren Marcus, Richard Baskin, Jr., and Will Van Dyke.
Joe Iconis and more will perform as part of NY PopsUp in Union Square Park Tuesday, June 1 from 6-8PM ET. As announced on Instagram, the special performance will also feature Lauren Marcus, Richard Baskin, Jr., and Will van Dyke.
The Franklin Stage Company has announced the lineup of their 25th season, from July 4th weekend through August 29. All performances will be held on the lawn outside the theater. The season will open July 3rd with an opening reception for an art exhibit titled Franklin Stage Company and the Evolution of Chapel Hall.
Celebrating its 10th anniversary, Rhinebeck Writers Retreat will host nine weeklong in-person residencies for 23 musical theatre writers of nine new musicals between June 27 and August 29. Writers include Tony-nominee Beth Malone, Emily Saliers of Indigo Girls; Jonathan Larson winners Avi Amon, Sara Cooper, Ty Defoe, and Anna Jacobs and more.
Celebrating its 10th anniversary, Rhinebeck Writers Retreat will host nine weeklong in-person residencies for 23 musical theatre writers of nine new musicals between June 27 and August 29.
Pianist Max Lifchitz steps into summer with a virtual recital featuring piano works infused with rhythms and harmonies often found in popular dance and music.
The 2021 season of the free festival will kick off at 7:30pm on Saturday, July 31st (doors open at 6:00pm) with R&B singer/songwriter Ari Lennox as the headliner, Brooklyn-based rapper and poet KAMAUU and Jamaican-bred R&B artist Nesta as openers.
NY PopsUp will present an array of performances this weekend from Brooklyn to upstate New York. Performances include the fourth in a series of Jazz Clubs curated by Artist Council Member Cécile McLorin Salvant at a park in Brooklyn; and “The Boogie Get Down,” a dance day in the Bronx curated by Artist Council Member Ayodele Casel.
Prospect Theater Company has announced its first in-person, live arts program of 2021: TREE TALES. This unique event invites audience members to walk through the Crabapple Grove in Riverside Park guided by an ensemble of artists, and interact with original flash-fiction short stories penned by 15 theater writers.
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