Okwui Okpokwasili News

BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music) has revealed its its Fall 2026 season and Next Wave, an slate of dance, theater, music, film, and family events. Next Wave 2026 lays the groundwork for the 50th anniversary of DanceAfrica

Sweat variant announced recipients of its 2026 Artists Supporting Artists Program and Threading Residency, selecting Souleymane 'Solo' Badolo, Kayla Hamilton, Kris Lee, Lauren Bakst, SERAFINE1369, and Angel Shanel Edwards.

LMCC has revealed its slate of programming for 2026, from residencies and exhibitions in the organization’s idyllically situated 40,000 square foot Arts Center at Governors Island to major dance and music events in Wagner Park in Battery Park City.

Park Avenue Armory will continue its 2026 Making Space Public Programming series with a season-long, two-part initiative, Now is the Time: Artists Go to Work, presented in partnership with The Toni Morrison Foundation and the Princeton Atelier.

Dixon Place will present the prestigious Bessies award ceremony, recognizing outstanding dance and performance artists, on January 20. This event highlights the achievements in dance and provides a platform for artists to be acknowledged.

The Martha Hill Dance Fund has revealed the honorees of the 2026 Martha Hill Awards. The Martha Hill Dance Fund has revealed The MESH Fellowship, a new initiative for mentoring emerging choreographers and professional dancers.

Yale Schwarzman Center has announced its Spring 2026 season, featuring free public performances across dance, music, opera, and interdisciplinary art. The season continues the Center’s commitment to accessible, cross-disciplinary programming in New Haven.

The New York Dance and Performance Awards, known as THE BESSIES, will announce the 2024 and 2025 honorees at a ceremony on January 20 at Dixon Place. This year’s nominations span choreography, performance, design, and revival categories.

New York Live Arts will present its largest Live Artery festival to date from January 7–17, 2026, featuring 21 events across theater, studio, lobby, and partner venues citywide.

HERE Arts Center have announced the full cast and design team for their World Premiere of The Essentialisn't, a new performance art piece created by Obie Award-winner Eisa Davis.

New York Live Arts (Live Arts), under the artistic leadership of world renowned choreographer, Tony Award-winning, National Medal of Arts, MacArthur “Genius” Award and Kennedy Center Honors recipient Bill T. Jones and Associate Artistic Director Janet Wong, announced Joanna Kotze as the 2025-2026 Randjelović/Stryker Resident Commissioned Artist (RCA).

May 20, 2025 will mark the 31st anniversary of the Herb Alpert Award in the Arts (HAAIA) given to ten risk-taking, mid-career artists - experimenters - who are challenging and transforming art, their respective disciplines, and society.

In June, Brooklyn-based Sweat Variant / Okwui Okpokwasili and Peter Born, acclaimed for their highly experimental, formally inventive cross-disciplinary work, will present my tongue is a blade.

Blumhouse’s latest horror sensation, The Woman in the Yard, will be available exclusively on digital platforms to own or rent tomorrow, April 15, 2025, from Universal. The film will be available on Blu-ray and DVD on May 27, 2025.

Cathy Weis Projects will present four Sundays on Broadway events this spring. Co-curated by Cathy Weis and Martita Abril, the evenings will feature new and in-progress works by nine visionary artists.

Blumhouse has released the first trailer for The Woman in the Yard, a new original chiller starring BAFTA and SAG nominee Danielle Deadwyler. Watch it now.

Patti LuPone is feeling the love! Following the finale of Agatha All Along on Wednesday, the Broadway icon recorded a video thanking fans of the show for their support. In the series, LuPone plays a divination witch named Lilia Calderu, who is part of a coven led by Kathryn Hahn's Agatha Harkness.

Broadway icon Patti LuPone is set to appear on The View this Friday, November 1. LuPone will appear on the show to discuss her turn as divination witch Lilia Calderu in the Marvel series Agatha All Along. The episode will air on ABC from 11 a.m.-12 p.m. ET and can also be streamed on ABC News Live weekdays at 5 p.m. EDT and will be available on YouTube.

Broadway legend Patti LuPone is taking on the iconic role of Glinda the good witch in tonight's episode of Agatha All Along. Ahead of the episode, the Tony winner discussed how her start in comedy makes her an ideal fit for the part.

Indie pop band Japanese Breakfast performs the hit song “The Ballad of the Witches’ Road” (Pop Version) written by Oscar®-winning songwriters Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez from Marvel Television’s “Agatha All Along.”