Bay Street Theater and Sag Harbor Center for the Arts have announced that due to popular demand, EVITA will be extended to run through Sunday, September 2. The play features lyrics by Tim Rice, music by Andrew Lloyd Webber. Bay Street's production is choreographed by Marcos Santana and directed by Bay Street Theater's Associate Artistic Director, Will Pomerantz. To purchase tickets call the Box Office at 631-725-9500 or purchase online at www.baystreet.org.
Robert Browning, called "the entrepreneur who almost single-handedly created and filled New Yorkers' passion for world music" in the New York Times, has presented world music since April 1976. The next few months feature music from Egypt, Tunisia, Syria, India and Crete. From his years at the Alternative Center for International Arts / Alternative Museum to his 26-year tenure at World Music Institute (which he co-founded and directed from 1985 - 2011) and his past five seasons as the director of Robert Browning Associates, he has presented over 1,800 concerts of world music and dance from internationally renowned figures and emerging artists from over 100 regions.
The "long" weekend kicks off with an exclusive screening of local filmmaker Peter Odabashian's OLD FRIENDS, a documentary about friendship, depression, falling in love, getting older, and finding happiness. Sixteen longtime friends share their joys, their pain, and all the ways in which they wound up making the filmmaker "the happiest depressed person in the world" in this nostalgic and touching tribute to everything that's really important in life. Today, August 3rd at 7:30 pm, Bridge Street Theatre Mainstage, 44 West Bridge Street, Catskill, NY. All tickets are $10 and go on sale at the door one half hour prior to the screening, which will be followed by a talk-back with the director.
City Parks Foundation's SummerStage has announced that Gilligan Moss will be performing on Friday, August 17 at Rockaway Beach on the 94th Street Plaza off of Shorefront Parkway. This free show will take place from 6 to 9 PM, thanks to generous support from NYC Parks. For more information on all upcoming City Parks Foundation SummerStage shows, please visit here!
Road Less Traveled Productions (RLTP) is excited to announce its fourth annual fundraiser: Buffalo Stories. Buffalo Stories 2019 will feature guest of honor, Shelley Drake, Senior Vice President of the M&T Bank Charitable Foundation. A native of Buffalo and graduate of Buffalo Seminary, Ms. Drake has been with M&T Bank for 47 years. In her role as Senior Vice-President, she has overseen the distribution of more than $20 million in grants annually to more than 3,000 not-for-profit organizations throughout the bank's markets which includes many in the Western New York Community. She has also served on the boards of numerous organizations, currently sitting on the board of both the Burchfield-Penney Art Center and Great Lakes Health System.
Bay Street Theater and Sag Harbor Center for the Arts is pleased to announce EVITA begins July 31 with a "Pay What You Can" performance with a limited amount of tickets available at the box office beginning at 11 am. The play will run through August 26. The play features lyrics written by Andrew Lloyd Webber, music by Tim Rice and is directed by Bay Street Theater's Associate Artistic Director, Will Pomerantz. To purchase tickets call the Box Office at 631-725-9500 or purchase online at www.baystreet.org.
In this collaboratively-created play by blossoming theater company TV, the ensemble unpacks the longing one can feel for another time and place, whether real or imagined: childhood, years without war, early human history, a time when everyone enjoyed the outdoors and raised chickens and heard gossip from the neighbors, when strawberries were tiny and sour. With choral odes by Deepali Gupta, this whimsical show hops millennia in its exploration of what once was or never was at all.
Franklin Stage Company presents the final art show of their 22nd season, Marjorie Bradley Kellogg: Drawings and Maquettes, generously supported by the Erna McReynolds & Tom Morgan Artists-in-Collaboration Fund.
Move over, Thelma and Louise! When Lana Mae Hopkins, owner and proprietress of the Wishy Washy Washateria, hires Katie Lane Murphy to help out in the Laundromat, they soon find themselves up to their elbows in soap, suds, and cheatin' hearts. Watch these two country angels join forces to turn their good ol' Laundromat into a boot-scootin' honky-tonk, exacting a touch of revenge against those that done 'em wrong, and all while guaranteeing each and every customer a good, clean time! Take a ride to Nashville heaven in this new musical from from the author of THE MARVELOUS WONDERETTES & LIFE COULD BE A DREAM.
On Today, July 28, Westchester Collaborative Theater (WCT) will continue its highly touted Jazz Masters series with the Gerry Malkin Collective, renowned artists who have been called a 'quintessential... group that plays top-notch music' with pedigrees that 'run deep in the jazz hierarchy.' This performance will feature guest artist Ingrid Jensen on trumpet, an Ossining resident and internationally renowned musician. Led by Malkin on tenor sax, the distinctive post bebop sound of the Collective interprets music of the classic era of mid-twentieth century jazz, from Miles Davis to John Coltrane. The group will play at WCT's Black Box at 23 Water St. at 8:00pm.
Theater Resources Unlimited (TRU) announces Writer-Director Communications Lab on Saturday, August 11, 2018 from 10am-6pm at Studios 353, 353 W. 48th Street, Studio B (basement). Registration is $75 for TRU members ($85 for non-members), $30 for an additional collaborator (writer), and registration for TRU Member observers is $30 ($40 for non-members). Writers must be accepted before purchasing a spot.
Theater Resources Unlimited (TRU) announces How To Write a Musical That Works feedback workshop #3: Reckoning and Resolution onSunday, August 5, 2018 from 10am-6pm at Studios 150, 150 W. 46th Street, 7th floor Studio 7.5. Submission deadline is extended to July 27, 2018.
The New York Musical Festival (NYMF) announced today that Scott Pyne will become Executive Director at NYMF beginning this September. Pyne succeeds current Executive Director Dan Markley, who has been with NYMF since 2013 and will depart the company following this year's festival. Under its new structure, Scott will be co-leading NYMF with Producing Artistic Director Rachel Sussman.
Hang onto your hats! Actress Judy Rosenblatt IS Peggy Guggenheim in "Woman Before a Glass", a play by Lanie Robertson, coming to Catskill's Bridge Street Theatre for three performances only August 10-12, 2018.
Theater Resources Unlimited (TRU) presents a panel on the new Equity Showcase Code on Thursday, July 26, 2018: Cracking the Code: Understanding the New Showcase Code, and More at 7:30pm (doors open for networking at 7pm) at The Playroom Theatre, 151 W. 46th Street, 8th fl., NYC. For more details, visit https://truonline.org/events/cracking-the-code/.
The "long" weekend kicks off with an exclusive screening of local filmmaker Peter Odabashian's OLD FRIENDS, a documentary about friendship, depression, falling in love, getting older, and finding happiness. Sixteen longtime friends share their joys, their pain, and all the ways in which they wound up making the filmmaker "the happiest depressed person in the world" in this nostalgic and touching tribute to everything that's really important in life. Friday, August 3rd at 7:30 pm, Bridge Street Theatre Mainstage, 44 West Bridge Street, Catskill, NY. All tickets are $10 and go on sale at the door one half hour prior to the screening, which will be followed by a talk-back with the director.
The City Parks Foundation SummerStage Concert Series presents over 100 shows in all 5 NYC Boroughs throughout the Summer. The best part? Almost every show is free and curated specifically for the neighborhood it's presented in. We are committed to presenting Dance in communities, and to making this art form accessible to all through performances, workshops and panels across the city. Over the next few weeks, can't miss dance events from companies like Alonzo King LINES Ballet, Bombazo Dance Co, Kyle Abraham's Abraham.In.Motion, Peridance Contemporary Dance Company and more will be hitting stages across the city. Additionally, a few special workshops will be offered in conjunction with these performances.
Virtuosic pianists Soyeon Kate Lee and Ran Dank will perform works for four-hands and solo piano at the Otesaga Resort Hotel ballroom on Sunday, August 12 at 7:30pm as part of the 20th anniversary season of the Cooperstown Summer Music Festival.
Due to the short window of time in Road Less Traveled Productions' off-season and the scope and execution of the build-out of the new Road Less Traveled Theater at 456 Main Street, the organization will not open its 2018/19 season on Friday September 7th with Hand to God by Robert Askins.
