Road Less Traveled Productions (RLTP) concludes its 2017/18 season with the topic of faith in its upcoming Western New York-premiere production of The Christians by Lucas Hnath. The Christians, nominated for 2016 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play, will star Dave Hayes, Aaron Moss, Steve Jakiel, Victoria Perez, and Lisa Vitrano under the direction of RLTP Artistic Director Scott Behrend. Production team includes: Dyan Burlingame (set design), John Rickus (light design), Maura A. Simmonds-Price (costume design/props), John Shotwell (sound design). The Christians is proudly sponsored by St. John Baptist Church. There will not be a live choir during the performance.
The Jewish Museum will present Israeli-American pianist Daniel Gortler performing Theme and Variations, a concert honoring American composer John Corigliano's 80th birthday, on Thursday, May 24 at 7:30pm. This is Mr. Gortler's fourth recital at the Jewish Museum.
Hoff-Barthelson Music School's 29th Annual Festival of Contemporary Music, The Music of Our Time, will be held Monday, May 14, 2018, through Sunday, May 20, 2018, and will include two world premieres commissioned by the School. The world premiere of Lansing McLoskey's "MÜHLFELDTÄNZE" for Clarinet Quintet and Jacob Morris Friedman's "Inner Voice" for Viola Choir will be performed at the Festival's culminating concert on Sunday, May 20, 2018, at 7:00 pm at the Community Unitarian Universalist Congregation in White Plains.
Pan Asian Repertory Theatre (Tisa Chang, Founding Artistic Producing Director), continuing its 41st milestone season on themes of social justice and historic amnesia, presents the world premiere of the new play Daybreak by Joyce van Dyke (A Girl's War). Performances BEGIN TOMORROW, April 21, 2018 for a limited engagement through Sunday, May 13, 2018 at The Beckett Theatre at Theatre Row (410 West 42nd Street). Opening Night is Thursday, April 26, 2018 at 7:30 p.m.
Dance to Unite presents the 5th Annual Benefit: Lead the Way on Tuesday, May 15, 2018 at 6:30pm, featuring a dance performance from Peridance Contemporary Dance Company, at the Manny Cantor Center, 197 East Broadway, NYC.
New York State's arts and cultural industries generate $114.1 billion to the state economy, employ 462,584, and award $46.7 billion in compensation, according to new data released by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) and the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA).
Parthenia, New York's premiere viol consort, will be in concert on Sunday, May 6 at 4:00 PM, performing Purcell's Roots: Elizabethan and Jacobean Fantasies for Six Viols at The Church of Saint Luke in the Fields, 487 Hudson Street in Manhattan.
Green Space is pleased to announce a diverse roster of new/emerging artists for its signature programs this May. Take Root will present an evening of work by Brush/McGrath (works) and Brynne Billingsley & Artists on May 18th and 19th, and Fertile Ground showcases the creative output of multiple dance artists on May 20th.
PEN WORLD VOICES FESTIVAL 2018 will present family-friendly NEXT GENERATION NOW events on Saturday, April 21, 2018 at Town Stages, 221 West Broadway, NYC.
Ticket's are now on sale for the Fifth Annual 10-Minute Musical Festival, SOUND BITES 5.0! This unique event showcases ten new musicals of up-and-coming musical theater writing teams.
Repast Baroque Ensemble will be in concert, performing Bohemian Fantasy, Friday, May 4 at McKinney Chapel, First Unitarian Church, 116 Pierrepont Street, Brooklyn Heights and Saturday, May 5 at Advent Lutheran Church, 2504 Broadway at 93rd St. in Manhattan - 8:00 PM both evenings.
The artists in SculptureCenter's spring exhibition, 74 million million million tons, contribute to and corroborate accounts of significant events (and shifts) in material, social, technological, and/or political realities. Their works do not simply stand in for or index broader concepts and political issues, but move beyond the role of representation to become elements that are integral to the comprehension of contemporary occurrences and ensuing narratives.
Dance to Unite presents the 5th Annual Benefit: Lead the Way on Tuesday, May 15, 2018 at 6:30pm, featuring a dance performance from Peridance Contemporary Dance Company, at the Manny Cantor Center, 197 East Broadway, NYC.
The Film Society of Lincoln Center (FSLC) and African Film Festival, Inc. (AFF) celebrate the silver anniversary of the New York African Film Festival at FSLC from May 16 to 22. Under the theme “25 Years of the New York African Film Festival,” the international film organizations will pay homage to the pioneers of African cinema while marking the passing of the baton to a new generation of African visual storytellers who continue to transform and expand our understanding of the continent and its diaspora. The event also commemorates the 100th birthday of the venerated South African freedom fighter and national leader Nelson Mandela, with a crop of films from his native land. The month-long festival brings 66 films from 25 countries to FSLC, the Brooklyn Academy of Music's BAMcinématek, and Maysles Cinema in Harlem.
Writer Alex Borinsky reunites with the creative team behind Clubbed Thumb's Of Government - director Jeremy Bloom and composer Joe White - for this new piece by their inventive company Rady&Bloom. An arts collective gathers to celebrate their director's birthday; fueled by Moscow Mules, the partygoers sprawl across the apartment, decompressing from their ongoing rehearsal process. They speculate about the end of the world.
The Sylvan Winds announce the final concert of the 2018 Spring Season celebrating music, art and history. Performing in important cultural and historic New York City buildings, the ensemble creates programs that reflect the environs of these distinguished venues. Winds & Harp, FRIDAY, MAY 11, 2018 at 7:00 PM, The Kosciuszko Foundation, 15 East 65th Street.
American Lyric Theater concludes the 10th Anniversary of its nationally acclaimed Composer Librettist Development Program this season with InsightALT: Opera in Eden, a one-night-only concert featuring three new one-act operas written by ALT Resident Artists, hosted by composer/librettist Mark Adamo and producing artistic director Lawrence Edelson.
This summer, 20 years since its celebration of Tchaikovsky, the 29th annual Bard Music Festival once again trains its focus on one of Russian Romanticism's most seminal composers, with a two-week, in-depth exploration of “Rimsky-Korsakov and His World.”
On Monday, May 7, Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director/CEO) will host their fourth annual Casino Night, at the American Airlines Theatre (227 W. 42nd St). All proceeds benefit Roundabout Theatre Company's many programs, including the Education programs, the Theatrical Workforce Development Program and Artist Residencies.
