The Shed News

Gibney Company, the resident company of Gibney, the New York City-based dance and social justice organization, welcomes six new Company members, known as Artistic Associates.

Renée Fleming's long and distinguished career includes performing in some of the world's most famous opera houses, performing on Broadway, and being heard on many recordings singing everything from arias to showtunes. Tonight Ms. Fleming will add another honor to her canon as she and Vanessa Williams will become the first artists to perform a live indoor concert onstage at Kennedy Center's Opera House. The evening is entitled A Time to Sing: An Evening with Renée Fleming and Vanessa Williams. While the audience will be very minimal in person, you can watch the concert in your very own living room by purchasing a ticket for the livestream. Click here for details.

Capital One City Parks Foundation SummerStage is continuing its free digital series SummerStage Anywhere.

The Harkness Dance Center announces a new Artist Workshop Series of online master classes with current and former Artists in Residence, featured choreographers and presented performers. Workshops take place every other Saturday throughout the fall starting on Saturday, September 26, offering access to some of the most engaging, insightful, and motivational artists currently creating work in the dance world.

The Poetry Coalition, a network of 25+ poetry organizations, is presenting its inaugural cohort of the Poetry Coalition Fellowship program. These five individuals have been selected to receive paid fellowships, each at a different host organization within the Poetry Coalition: CantoMundo, Cave Canem, Kundiman, Mizna, and Split This Rock.

Playdate Theatre, the first-ever online theatre company, streamed their virtual play festival fundraiser at the end of July.

The Shed announced today that it will reopen on Friday, October 16, with the new solo exhibition Howardena Pindell: Rope/Fire/Water, examining the violent, historical trauma of racism in America and the therapeutic power of artistic creation. After closing on March 13 in response to New York City's efforts to contain the spread of COVID-19, The Shed will welcome back visitors, Thursdays through Sundays, with enhanced health and safety protocols, as well as free admission to the exhibition through October 31.

On September 21 and 28 at 7:00 PM, Woodie King, Jr.'s New Federal Theatre will present '2020 Poetry Jam: She Speaks, He Speaks, We Speak, Generations Speak.' 

SHEDINBURGH Fringe Festival has announced a rare and exclusive interview with multi-award-winning writer, comedian and film and TV actor Steve Coogan and TV, film and theatre actor Tobias Menzies as the performer for White Rabbit Red Rabbit as part of its stellar line up.

Following a shed-sational first five days SHEDINBURGH Fringe Festival has announced brand new shows to the line-up.

Hosted by perennial Tanglewood favorite James Taylor, The Best of Tanglewood on Parade is a video stream of highlights from past Tanglewood on Parade concertsa?"features the Boston Symphony, Boston Pops, and Tanglewood Music Center orchestras, as well as the Tanglewood Festival Chorus and Boston Symphony Children's Choir, in selections led by conductors Andris Nelsons, Keith Lockhart, John Williams, James Burton, and Seiji Ozawa.

Celebrating and sustaining the best of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in sheds!

Artist Tony Cokes premieres his new five-part video series Of Lies and Liars Studies 01 a?" 05 as the ninth installment of The Shed's Up Close online series. A new video from the series will publish each Sunday starting August 9 through September 6 at 6 PM on The Shed's YouTube Channel, Instagram account (@theshedny), and website (theshed.org).

Rooftop Films, in partnership with Museum of the Moving Image (MoMI) and the New York Hall of Science (NYSCI), today announced upcoming programming for August as part of their summer drive-in festival at the Queens Drive-In location in New York City.

The COVID-19 pandemic has further exacerbated connections between racial inequality, public health, and environmental health in the United States, as cases and deaths in communities of color significantly exceed those in white communities. In two conversations about the long-term, disproportionate effects of pollution on communities of color as part of The Shed's online series Up Close, artist Tomás Saraceno invites science journalist Harriet A. Washington to join him in discussion (part one) and then convenes New York City activists to reflect on the severity of the pandemic's inequitable impact in the United States (part two).

This year, join the Barn Theatre in the Rehearsal Shed for the Shed Show, which will feature some beloved Barnies. Who you see is still a surprise! Patrons can enjoy great bar food and beverages as you take in a charming twist on the theatre's 'Bar Show.'

Playdate, is an online theatre company exploring the space between theatre and film, that was founded by Talia Light Rake. 

The Court Theatre is officially reopening its doors with The Court Youth Company's devised lockdown creation, The Quarantine Diaries.

In Call, artists Justin Allen, Yulan Grant, and S*an D. Henry-Smith create an improvised collaborative soundscape via the video conferencing platform Zoom.

The Boston Symphony Orchestra is announcing program details of its Tanglewood 2020 Online Festival, an unprecedented array of free and paid online video and audio streams, including newly created content by many of today's most prominent performing artists to be recorded at Tanglewood and other locations around the world from June 22 through July 11.