Tommy Femia, the 7-time Manhattan Association of Cabarets & Clubs (MAC) Award-winning impersonator, continues his 20th season at the popular midtown club Don't Tell Mama, 343 West 46th Street (between 8th and 9th Avenues), with his acclaimed portrayal of the legendary Judy Garland in 'Judy Garland LIVE!' on Saturday, February 13 at 8:30 PM with special guest star Broadway, cabaret, and recording artist MAC and Bistro Award-winning vocalist Eric Michael Gillett. David Maiocco will serve as musical director.
Tony Award Winner B.D. Wong joins the New Amsterdam Symphony Orchestra to narrate Aaron Copland's Lincoln Portrait on an all-American program that celebrates the sixteenth president's 201st birthday. Led by guest conductor Matthew Oberstein, the program includes Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue with pianist Michael Boriskin, Copland's Appalachian Spring, and Gould's American Salute. The concert is Friday, February 12 at 8 PM, at Peter Norton Symphony Space.
Tony Award Winner B.D. Wong joins the New Amsterdam Symphony Orchestra to narrate Aaron Copland's Lincoln Portrait on an all-American program that celebrates the sixteenth president's 201st birthday. Led by guest conductor Matthew Oberstein, the program includes Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue with pianist Michael Boriskin, Copland's Appalachian Spring, and Gould's American Salute. The concert is Friday, February 12 at 8 PM, at Peter Norton Symphony Space.
Tony Award Winner B.D. Wong joins the New Amsterdam Symphony Orchestra to narrate Aaron Copland's Lincoln Portrait on an all-American program that celebrates the sixteenth president's 201st birthday. Led by guest conductor Matthew Oberstein, the program includes Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue with pianist Michael Boriskin, Copland's Appalachian Spring, and Gould's American Salute. The concert is Friday, February 12 at 8 PM, at Peter Norton Symphony Space.
Symphony Space has invited Gina Gibney and David Parker to weave together an evening of dances at Peter Norton Symphony Space from March 5-6, 2010, thus inaugurating Symphony Space's Short Form Weave Series.
Seeing Jazz with George Wein is a unique new series at Symphony Space which features jazz impresario George Wein-founder of the Newport Jazz Festival, Newport Folk Festival, and New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival-showing images from his extensive historic photo album, sharing anecdotes about a life lived in jazz and welcoming guest artists to the stage.
TOMMY FEMIA, the 7-time Manhattan Association of Cabarets & Clubs (MAC) Award-winning impersonator, continues his 20th season at the popular midtown club Don't Tell Mama, 343 West 46th Street (between 8th and 9th Avenues), with his acclaimed portrayal of the legendary Judy Garland in 'JUDY GARLAND LIVE!' on Saturday, February 13 at 8:30 PM with special guest star Broadway, cabaret, and recording artist MAC and Bistro Award-winning vocalist Eric Michael Gillett.
On Friday, March 12, 2010 at 8:00PM, Music Director Steven Reineke will lead The New York Pops in a festive celebration of St. Patrick's Day with renowned Irish vocalists Ronan Tynan and Meav. The beloved Irish tenor and the former star of Celtic Woman will headline this memorable night of Celtic music at Carnegie Hall alongside celebrated fiddler Liz Knowles and Uilleann piper Kieran O'Hare.
Tony Award Winner B.D. Wong joins the New Amsterdam Symphony Orchestra to narrate Aaron Copland's Lincoln Portrait on an all-American program that celebrates the sixteenth president's 201st birthday. Led by guest conductor Matthew Oberstein, the program includes Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue with pianist Michael Boriskin, Copland's Appalachian Spring, and Gould's American Salute. The concert is Friday, February 12 at 8 PM, at Peter Norton Symphony Space.
For nearly two decades, Symphony Space has offered the innovative All Write! literacy program absolutely free of charge to adult students throughout the five boroughs. On Monday, February 8 at 7:30 P.M.
What started out as a simple schoolgirl crush has now grown into a serious passion of the highest order for the multi-award winning Rosemary Loar. For only four performances, she brings her new show Sting, Stang, Stung: Swingin' The Music of Sting! to the Metropolitan Room at Gotham on February 6, 8, 21 and 26 where she will sing the songs of pop legend Sting.
ROSEMARY LOAR in her brand new show Sting, Stang, Stung: Swingin' the music of Sting!
Saturday, Feb. 6 at 7:30, Monday, Feb. 8 at 7:00, Sunday, Feb 21. at 4:00, Friday, Feb 26. at 7:30
AVI SCHER & DANCERS presents its debut New York Season with a program including two World Premiere productions and four New York Premieres from April 3-5, 2010 at The Alvin Ailey Citigroup Theater, 405 W. 55th Street, NYC (at Ninth Avenue). Performances: Saturday at 8pm, Sunday at 3pm, Monday at 8pm.
On Friday, February 19, 2010 at the National Arts Club (15 Gramercy Park South, NYC), a gala evening will be held to benefit the Center For Contemporary Opera (CCO). The evening, hosted by WQXR radio host Midge Woolsey, celebrates the success of CCO's 2009-2010 season, which concludes on June 15 with the world premiere of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, a fully staged opera by John Eaton at Symphony Space.
Two striking interpretations of the classic myth of Orpheus - one modern-day setting in the vein of the great Paul Hindemith, one Celtic-influenced work featuring the Grammy Award-winning Richard Stoltzman - come together in Orfeo in Idaho, a groundbreaking program presented by The New York Virtuoso Singers under the baton of conductor Harold Rosenbaum on Saturday, Feb. 13 at 8 p.m. in Peter Norton Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway at 95th Street in New York City.
Leaping like their homeland from earthy and moving tradition to world-wide notoriety, the acclaimed Irish sextet Altan celebrates a quarter century with Altan: 25th Anniversary Celebration (Compass Records), a new recording of lush, sensitive orchestrations by renowned Irish composer Fiachara Trench performed by the RTE Concert Orchestra. To celebrate, Altan will be touring North America in March.
The March-April public programming schedule at the Museum of Jewish Heritage-A Living Memorial to the Holocaust will feature controversial films, engaging performances, family-friendly fare, and compelling discussions.
TACT/The Actors Company Theatre (Scott Alan Evans, Cynthia Harris and Simon Jones, Co-Artistic Directors), the critically-acclaimed company "dedicated to presenting neglected or rarely produced plays of literary merit," will conclude its 2009/10 season with The Cocktail Party, by T. S. Eliot.
The Pit Stop Players, a ten-member instrumental ensemble, will play its inaugural concert on Monday, February 1, 2010 at 7:00 pm, at the Leonard Nimoy Thalia at Peter Norton Symphony Space.
