Symphony Space News

Josh Young presents Cutting-Edge Composers, A New Generation of Musical Theater Songwriters

TAKE Dance Company, a contemporary dance ensemble known for its gentle blend of eastern and western sensibilities led by artistic director and choreographer Takehiro Ueyama, presents a program filled with exuberant play, human dancescapes and structural patterns that overflow the stage.

Eric Schaeffer, Artistic Director of the Tony Award®-winning Signature Theatre, today announced that Signature Theatre is expanding its American Musical Voices Project (AMVP) for a fourth year with the commission and production of a new musical by Adam Guettel for its 2011-2012 season. Also announced as part of The Next Generation segment of the AMVP were two additional musical commissions awarded to Peter Foley and Marisa Michelson as well as honoree grants given to Chris Miller and Scott Davenport Richards for the development of future musical ideas. Signature, with the support of The Shen Family Foundation, has awarded $595,000 to artists in honors and commissions in the past three years. The American Musical Voices Project is the largest single musical theater commissioning and producing initiative at any non-profit theater in America.

Jane Curtin, the Emmy-winning star of stage, screen and television, will read the M.F.K. Fisher story I Was Really Very Hungry, and Isaiah Sheffer will read Robertson Davies' The Cat That Went to Trinity on Sunday July 19 at 4 PM at Pier I and West 70th Street at the Hudson River in Manhattan. The event is a special free presentation of the nationally acclaimed Symphony Space's Selected Shorts at the free annual Summer on the Hudson festival.

The New Budapest Orpheum Society brings forth more treasures from the archives of 20th-century Jewish popular music on a new CD, 'Jewish Cabaret in Exile' (Cedille Records CDR 90000 110), its second recording for Cedille Records.

TAKE Dance Company, a contemporary dance ensemble known for its gentle blend of eastern and western sensibilities led by artistic director and choreographer Takehiro Ueyama, presents a program filled with exuberant play, human dancescapes and structural patterns that overflow the stage.

AMERICAN OPERA PROJECTS (AOP) 'a valuable company [that] offers a chance to look in on operas in progress by talented composers.' (The New Yorker) will begin its 21st season of commissioning, developing and presenting new opera and musical works this fall.

Josh Young presents Cutting-Edge Composers, A New Generation of Musical Theater Songwriters

AMERICAN OPERA PROJECTS (AOP), 'known for bringing cutting-edge vocal production to the masses,' (New York) and OPERA ON TAP ('...raucous and sublime...un-elitist, imperfect, and fun...'- NY Sun) will present the second installment of its Opera Grows in Brooklyn series, an evening of all new opera scenes and songs from contemporary composers, including new music from David T. Little, a new song-cycle based on the poetry of three Brooklyn schoolgirls ages 9-12 by composer Gilda Lyons, and the NYC premiere of Stefan Weisman's opera Fade.

Jane Curtin, the Emmy-winning star of stage, screen and television, will read the M.F.K. Fisher story I Was Really Very Hungry, and Isaiah Sheffer will read Robertson Davies' The Cat That Went to Trinity on Sunday July 19 at 4 PM at Pier I and West 70th Street at the Hudson River in Manhattan. The event is a special free presentation of the nationally acclaimed Symphony Space's Selected Shorts at the free annual Summer on the Hudson festival.

TAKE Dance Company, a contemporary dance ensemble known for its gentle blend of eastern and western sensibilities led by artistic director and choreographer Takehiro Ueyama, presents a program filled with exuberant play, human dancescapes and structural patterns that overflow the stage.

On Wednesday, July 8 and Friday, July 10 at 8pm BAR LA BARCA, a unique double bill of 'madrigal comedies' written 400 years apart will be performed by the Western Wind Vocal Ensemble at Brooklyn's BARGEMUSIC at Fulton Ferry Landing.

AMERICAN OPERA PROJECTS (AOP), 'known for bringing cutting-edge vocal production to the masses,' (New York) and OPERA ON TAP ('...raucous and sublime...un-elitist, imperfect, and fun...'- NY Sun) will present the second installment of its Opera Grows in Brooklyn series, an evening of all new opera scenes and songs from contemporary composers, including new music from David T. Little and the NYC premiere of Stefan Weisman's opera Fade.

Alison Carey, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival?s director of American Revolutions: the United States History Cycle, and Artistic Director Bill Rauch announced today the second round of theatre artists to be commissioned for the 37-play, 10-year History Cycle, the largest commissioning and production project in the Festival's 74-year history.

2007 McKnight fellow and 2008 City Pages 'Artist of the Year,' Justin Jones' choreography has been described by critics as 'flawlessly articulate, innovative and surprisingly subtle.' For this compelling night of dance, Jones looks out to the vastness of the universe and in to the cosmos of the human brain.

Fern Kershon and Orange Thought Productions today announced that 2009 Academy Award nominee Melissa Leo would head the cast of their new production, Heart of the City, a new play by Eric Lane, directed by Martha Banta. Performances will begin June 11th at the Theatre at 30th Street, for a limited engagement. Additional casting will be announced shortly.

Rebecca Stenn and Ben Munisteri: 'Chopped and Screwed' JUNE 11 - 14, 2009 at The JOYCE SOHO Rebecca Stenn and Ben Munisteri: Chopped and Screwed will be performing a special New York City engagement June 11 - 14, 2009 at The Joyce SoHo, 155 Mercer Street, NYC.

Fern Kershon and Orange Thought Productions will present Heart of the City, a new play by Eric Lane, directed by Martha Banta, featuring Eliza Foss, Scott Kerns, Marcia Jean Kurtz, Martin LaPlatney, Melissa Miller and Mark Setlock. Performances will begin Thursday June 11th at the Theatre at 30th Street, for a limited engagement.

Manhattan Theatre Source is proud to announce the return of the critically acclaimed THE GREENWICH VILLAGE FOLLIES by Andrew Frank & Doug Silver, from the original concept by Fran Kirmser (producer, Hair) Sunday nights at 7pm at Manhattan Theatre Source.

Tenor Glenn Seven Allen will give two recitals of Emmy winning composer, Glen Roven's concert arias. The concerts will include a world premier performance of Roven's new Song Cycle: Songs from the Underground.