The New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF) has announced the winners of the NYMF 2013 Awards for Excellence and celebrated its closing night yesterday, July 28, 2013. Scroll down for photos of the winners and the closing festivities!
The New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF) has announced the winners of the NYMF 2013 Awards for Excellence. Awards are voted on by the NYMF jury.
On Sunday, August 11, SummerStage will present a free show with Shuggie Otis, Jose James, Hiatus Kaiyote and DJ sets by OP! (I Love Vinyl) at Central Park, Manhattan. Recommended arrival time is 1:30 p.m. Showtime is 3:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
The Film Society of Lincoln Center previously announced it would host An Evening with Paul Schrader tonight, July 29. The evening will include the World Premiere of Schrader's drama THE CANYONS, the highly anticipated first public screening of the film, which will then be followed by a conversation between Schrader and the New York Film Festival Program Director, Kent Jones.
From Aug. 8 - Sept. 1, Chenango River Theatre will be one of the first theatres in the country to present the new version of Ring of Fire, The Music of Johnny Cash (co-produced by The Raymond Corporation). Just updated this spring at Milwaukee Rep Theatre - a company well known for creating highly successful 'jukebox musicals' - the show is a living portrait of the Man in Black and features the iconic songbook of Johnny Cash in a unique musical about love and faith, struggle and success, rowdiness and redemption, and home and family.
Congratulations to the 2013-2014 Gibney Dance Center (GDC) DiP Resident Artists: (pictured above clockwise from left) Dean Moss, Lance Gries,RoseAnne Spradlin, and Jon Kinzel. Each artist will receive three weeks of continuous rehearsal space, access to an adjacent production office, and a menu of staff support and resource options as part of the DiP program for mid-career, New York City-based dance artists.
Final performances for American Ballet Theatre's New York Summer Intensive Program are scheduled for today, July 26, 2013 at 12 P.M. and 4 P.M. at Frank Sinatra School of the Arts in Astoria, New York. The performances mark the conclusion of ABT's 18th annual New York Summer Intensive, a five-week training program for dancers ages 12 to 22.
A new staging of the Emmy-winning composer Gerald Fried's jazz-flavored oratorio 'Omnia Ad Dei Gloriam, or Les the Least Straightens the Lord,' will be performed as part of this year's New York Musical Theatre Festival.
Prospect Theater Company will present THE GREAT NYC TREASURE QUEST as part of the 2013 New York Musical Theatre Festival. Performances will be held on Friday, July 26 at 1pm and Saturday, July 27 at 11am at The PTC Performance Space.
Movies filmed in New York City that tapped into the turmoil, chaos, and social and cultural energies of the late 1960s and early 1970s are the subject of the screening series Fun City: New York in the Movies 1967-75, curated by film critic and historian J. Hoberman. The series, which will be accompanied by a new monograph written by Hoberman, includes nineteen films, and will be presented by Museum of the Moving Image from August 10 through September 1. The films include established classics such as Rosemary's Baby, The French Connection, Midnight Cowboy, and Dog Day Afternoon, as well as lesser known films such as The Angel Levine, Bye Bye Braverman, and Cotton Comes to Harlem.
On Thursday, July 18th, demolition and construction began for MusicalFare Theatre's THE NEXT STAGE million-dollar lounge/cabaret expansion. Crews began removing the concrete plaza in front of the building with excavation and construction beginning immediately, thereafter.
Horse Trade Theater Group will present Less Than Rent Theatre's World Premiere of Ben Diserens' BECKETT IN BENGHAZI, today, July 25-August 10 at UNDER St. Marks.
Tickets go on sale this week - including an advance discount offer exclusively via Facebook - for the Playwrights Horizons (Tim Sanford, Artistic Director; Leslie Marcus, Managing Director) New York premiere production of MR. BURNS, A POST-ELECTRIC PLAY, a new play by Anne Washburn (The Internationalist), with music by Obie Award winner Michael Friedman (Saved at PH; Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson; the currentLoves' Labours Lost at Shakespeare in the Park). Directed by Obie Award winner Steve Cosson (Gone Missing, This Beautiful City, founding Artistic Director of The Civilians), MR. BURNS will be presented as the first production of the theater company's upcoming 2013/2014 Season.
SummerStage, a program of City Parks Foundation, presents performances of outstanding artistic quality, free of charge, to serve the diverse communities of New York City. Coming up later this month, a panel discussiom about dancer and choreographer Martha Graham followed by a performance by the Martha Graham Dance Company.
Greek mythology meets burlesque, puppetry and a modern Americana score in ICARUS, the latest original theatrical presentation from acclaimed Boston-based ensemble Liars & Believers. Creators of last year's gritty NYMF hit Le Cabaret Grimm, Liars & Believers will present ICARUS as part of the 2013 New York Musical Theatre Festival.
Choreographed by ABC-Television's 'Dancing with the Stars' Emmy nominated Louis van Amstel, the Patchogue engagement features 'Dancing with the Stars' celebrity pros Valentin Chmerkovskiy, Peta Murgatroyd, Anna Trebunskaya and Tristan MacManus; 'So You Think You Can Dance' finalists Jonathan 'Legacy' Perez, Jonathan Platero, Randi Lynn Strong and Jaymz Tuaileva; and 'American Idol' finalists Gina Glocksen and Von Smith.
The Film Society of Lincoln Center announced today the lineup for Cinema of Resistance, (August 23-29) a weeklong survey of politically charged films from around the world.
The New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF) present The Music Box, An Evening of Lady Composers. Recent Tony-nominee Keala Settle (Hands on a Hardbody) is set to appear and Karen Azenberg (Artistic Director - Pioneer Theatre, Salt Lake City) will direct this special one-night-only concert event.
The Jewish Museum presents Pictures Party tonight, July 18 from 8pm to 11pm. Partygoers will dance to music from punk to pop at a 1980s-inspired night with the post-punk band People at Parties and a DJ set by Tanlines. This entertaining evening is part of The Wind Up, a popular series of after-hours events with art, music, performance, drinks, and socializing , and is inspired by the Museum's current exhibition, Jack Goldstein × 10,000. Attendees will also enjoy guided tours of Jack Goldstein × 10,000 at 8:30pm and 9:30pm; interactive art making; refreshing summer treats; and an open bar with beer and wine. Beer courtesy of Shmaltz Brewing Company.
The French Institute Alliance Francaise (FIAF), New York's premier French cultural center, today announces the full program for Crossing the Line 2013, the seventh annual edition of its highly acclaimed fall festival, presenting interdisciplinary works and performances by artists from around the world. Crossing the Line takes place this year from September 19-October 13 in venues throughout New York City. Nespresso is the Presenting Sponsor of Crossing the Line 2013. Tickets go on sale August 6.
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