New York State Council on the Arts News

Chen Dance Center presents newsteps, its semi-annual emerging choreographer's series, this weekend, January 14-16 at 7:30 PM at the Chen Dance Center, 70 Mulberry Street.

Theatreworks USA (Barbara Pasternack, Artistic Director; Ken Arthur, Producing Director) will continue its 2016 weekend family performance series this Sunday, January 17th, with Seussical, a condensed one-act version for young audiences of the Broadway musical, adapted from the works of Dr. Seuss, the Off-Broadway premiere of Seussical was nominated for Outstanding Revival by the Lortel Awards in 2008

The Hasty Pudding Institute of 1770 announces that acclaimed Broadway, Off-Broadway and film producer Daryl Roth will be the 2016 recipient of the Order of the Golden Sphinx award.  Ms. Roth will be honored and presented with the prestigious award at the annual Order of the Golden Sphinx Gala to be held at the Diamond Horseshoe at the Paramount Hotel in New York City on April 11, 2016.

The Film Society of Lincoln Center and the Jewish Museum will present the 25th annual New York Jewish Film Festival (NYJFF) at the Film Society's Walter Reade Theater and Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center, today, January 13-26, 2016.

iLLA! A Hip Hop Musical won the 2015 Award for Excellence for the NYMF Developmental Reading Series. Even more recently, iLLA was announced as the first 2016 Next Link Project for NYMF 2016. 

Chen Dance Center presents newsteps, its semi-annual emerging choreographer's series, January 14-16 at 7:30 PM at the Chen Dance Center, 70 Mulberry Street.    Since 1994, the Chen Dance Center has supported and presented hundreds of dancers and choreographers developing innovative works through their space and production grants. 

New Ohio Theatre presents Death of the Liberal Class, by New Ohio Theatre's Artistic Director, Robert Lyons.

Sharing a mid-term evaluation of the Fall 2015 theater season on an all-new THEATER TALK are critics Jesse Green (New York Magazine), Charles Isherwood (The New York Times) and Elisabeth Vincentelli (the New York Post).

St. Ann's Warehouse will continue the inaugural season in its new waterfront theater with the American Premiere of Irish composer Donnacha Dennehy and writer-director Enda Walsh's thrilling new opera The Last Hotel, in a Landmark Productions / Wide Open Opera production. Singers Claudia Boyle, Robin Adams and Katherine Manley, actor Mikel Murfi, and an ensemble of New York's finest contemporary players, conducted alternately by André de Ridder and Alan Pierson, will deliver this “searingly powerful new chamber work” (The Guardian). Presented by St. Ann's Warehouse and co-presented withPROTOTYPE: Opera/Theatre/Now andIrish Arts Center, The Last Hotel comes to New York after tremendously acclaimed engagements at the Edinburgh International Festival, the Dublin Theatre Festival and the Royal Opera House in London.

Sharing a mid-term evaluation of the Fall 2015 theater season on an all-new THEATER TALK are critics Jesse Green (New York Magazine), Charles Isherwood (The New York Times) and Elisabeth Vincentelli (the New York Post).

BAX / Brooklyn Arts Exchange is hosting the third annual ARTIST SERVICES DAY on Sunday, February 7, 2016, featuring an array of talks and workshops designed to support working dance, theater, performance artists and their supporters.

'YO MISS!' by Judith Sloan will make its world premiere at La MaMa from March 4 to 13, 2016.

Beth Morrison Projects (BMP) and HERE present the fourth annual PROTOTYPE: Opera/Theatre/Now festival, running today, January 6, through January 17, 2016, in New York City.

Theatreworks USA (Barbara Pasternack, Artistic Director; Ken Arthur, Producing Director) will kick off its 2016 weekend family performance series this Saturday, January 9th, with Junie B.'s Essential Survival Guide To School, the New York premiere of the new children's musical based on the best-selling series of books by Barbara Park (published by Random House Books for Young Readers), penned by Marcy Heisler and Zina Goldrich (Ever After, Dear Edwina).

Ashley Kate Adams of AKA Studio Productions and Jim Kierstead will present the World Premiere of a new American play, THE DODGERS, written by Diana Amsterdam and directed by Dave Solomon, BroadwayWorld has learned.

On Sunday February 7, 2016 at 3 PM Regina Opera will begin the year's Sunday Concert Series. Enjoy a concert featuring popular and Broadway selections sung by Hannah Stone and Sabrina Palladino - sopranos; Jessica French - mezzo-soprano; David Bailey - tenor; John Schenkel - baritone; and accompanied by Richard Paratley - flutist, and pianist Victoria Ulanovskaya.

Just as critics and cinephiles are unveiling their 'Best of 2015' lists, Museum of the Moving Image has announced the eight titles selected for its annual Curators' Choice series. The films will be shown today, January 1, through January 10, 2016, in the Museum's majestic Sumner M. Redstone Theater.

The Museum of the Moving Image has just announced its programs and exhibitions for January - February 2016. Scroll down for details!