Renowned dance company Jessica Lang Dance performs the creative and inspiring work of award-winning choreographer Jessica Lang at Pepperdine University's Smothers Theatre in Malibu on Tuesday, March 5 at 8 p.m. at the Lisa Smith Wengler Center for the Arts.
On Today, February 2, the Jazz Masters Series of Westchester Collaborative Theater (WCT) will welcome a return appearance by the world-renowned Ray Blue Trio, featuring jazz artist/composer/arranger and saxophonist Ray Blue of Peekskill, a New York Blues Hall of Fame inductee who has toured extensively throughout Europe, Asia and Africa. The cabaret-style performance begins at 7:30 pm at WCT's black box performance space at 23 Water Street in Ossining. Tickets are $20; cash bar and refreshments available.
Ballet Hispánico, America's leading Latino dance organization, brings its bold and eclectic brand of contemporary dance to The Joyce Theater with two world premieres from March 26-31, 2019. Tickets start at $10 and are available for purchase in person at The Joyce Theater Box Office by calling JoyceCharge at 212-242-0800 or online at www.Joyce.org.
Theater Resources Unlimited (TRU) announces Seeing Red by Joey Mazzarino and Aron Accurso, starring Kerry Butler and Directed by Jenn Thompson and presented by Laura Kriete-Bain as part of the 2019 TRU Voices New Musicals Reading Series on February 4, 2019 at 7pm at the Actors Temple, 339 West 47th Street, NYC. The reading is free but reservations are required: please email name and number of tickets requested to TRUVoicesSeries@gmail.com, or use the bright red ticketing box at https://truonline.org/events/seeing-red/.
The Bushwick Starr will collaborate with Ma-Yi Theater Company in presenting the world premiere of Suicide Forest by award-winning playwright and performer Kristine Haruna Lee (Memory Retrograde at The Public Theater with Under the Radar and Ars Nova, War Lesbian at Dixon Place), directed by Aya Ogawa (Ludic Proxy produced by The Play Company at Walker Space, The Nosebleed at The Public Theater with Under the Radar).
Garry Marshall Theatre presents the West End and Broadway play The Mountaintop by Katori Hall. The Mountaintop is directed by Gregg T. Daniel, who recently staged A Raisin in the Sun at A Noise Within (Ovation Award nomination for Best Director) and Her Portmanteau at Boston Court.
On Today, January 26, Westchester Collaborative Theater (WCT) will kick off the new year by inviting the community and WCT members to shake off the post-holiday blues at a lively Midwinter Dance Party featuring Johnny Jimenez - 'DJ Johnny J'- a local Ossining resident and popular live event DJ for several decades. Johnny will bring samples from his extensive collection of vinyl records as well as a mix of vintage and current recordings: a rock to rap repertoire designed to appeal to all from millennials to baby boomers and beyond! Dancing starts at 7:30 pm at WCT's black box performance space, 23 Water Street in downtown Ossining. Tickets are $20 at the door. Cash bar and refreshments. For more information, www.wctheater.org
Following a 36-city world tour, Ailey II returns to NYU Skirball from March 13 – 17 for its annual New York season during Ailey's 60th Anniversary celebration. The renowned second company to Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater will inspire audiences in dynamic works by some of today's most revered choreographers. Premieres by Uri Sands, Bradley Shelver, Ailey Artistic Director Robert Battle, and Ailey II Artistic Director Troy Powell will grace the stage, along with returning crowd-pleasers by Juel D. Lane, Renee I. McDonald, and Darrell Grand Moultrie.
Theater Resources Unlimited (TRU) presents the February Panel, Solo Success: Telling It, Selling It, Booking It on Tuesday, February 19, 2019 at 7:30pm (networking at 7pm) at Polaris North, 245 W. 29th Street, 4th floor, NYC, 10001. This panel is free for TRU members; $12.50 for non-members in advance ($15 at door). Please reserve using the bright red reservation box at https://truonline.org/events/solo-success/ or e-mail TRUStaff1@gmail.com.
Eclipses Group Theater New York presents the world premiere of Hercules: In Search of a Hero, conceived and directed by Ioanna Katsarou, translated by Demetri Bonaros, with original compositions by Costas Baltazanis. Hercules: In Search of a Hero will be performed at the Abrons Arts Center as part of the @Abrons Series program, from January 24 - February 10, 2019 in a limited engagement. The Abrons Arts Center is located at 466 Grand Street (at Pitt Street) in New York City. Previews begin tonight, January 24, for a January 26 opening.
On Saturday, February 2, the Jazz Masters Series of Westchester Collaborative Theater (WCT) will welcome a return appearance by the world-renowned Ray Blue Trio, featuring jazz artist/composer/arranger and saxophonist Ray Blue of Peekskill, a New York Blues Hall of Fame inductee who has toured extensively throughout Europe, Asia and Africa. The cabaret-style performance begins at 7:30 pm at WCT's black box performance space at 23 Water Street in Ossining. Tickets are $20; cash bar and refreshments available.
To commemorate the historic 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots, New York University will host Skirball Talks / Beyond Stonewall: Vital Voices in American Playwriting with renowned, award-winning playwrights who have broken new ground across generations as artists and activists.
Theater Resources Unlimited (TRU) presents the January Panel Getting Past the Gatekeepers: Opening the Doors for Greater Diversity in Theateron Thursday, January 24, 2019 at 7:30pm (networking at 7pm) at Polaris North, 245 W. 29th St. 4th floor, NYC, 10001.
In late 2018, The Cherry Arts, Ithaca's home for innovative performance, was honored to receive not one but two major grants from New York State.
Marshall Curry's A Night at the Garden, which premiered on the PBS documentary series POV Shorts and pov.org on has been nominated for the Best Documentary Short Subject prize for the 91st Academy Awards.
Marshall Curry's A Night at the Garden, which premiered on the PBS documentary series POV Shorts and pov.org on has been nominated for the Best Documentary Short Subject prize for the 91st Academy Awards.
Road Less Traveled Productions is excited to announce its 2019/20 season! Featuring five full regular season theatrical productions, RLTP's 16thseason will include:
The Oscar®-qualifying New York Int'l Children's Film Festival announced the complete slate of feature films for its 2019 edition. Now in its 22nd year, the Festival is a leading authority on intelligent, insightful, and creative options for viewers of all ages, and will present four weekends of short and feature films, panels with visiting filmmakers, interactive VR experiences, and more—spanning a diverse array of styles, themes, and subject matter—carefully curated for a new generation of discerning filmgoers. The 2019 feature film slate includes one World Theatrical premiere, three North American premieres, four US premieres, and six East Coast premieres.
Early Music will be presented Saturday, February 16, 2019, 8:00 p.m. at the Church of St. Mary the Virgin, 145 West 46th Street between 6th & 7th Avenues.
Quintet of the Americas, Queens' renowned woodwind quintet, will be in concert on Sunday, February 3 @ 3:00 PM at Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum, 895 Shore Road, Pelham Bay Park, Bronx, NY, as part of the Composers Now Festival.
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