Walt Whitman News

Two River Theater is pleased to announce that they have been selected as a recipient of the coveted 2021 Literacy Landmark Award. The award is being bestowed on the theater for its outstanding contributions to the New Jersey arts community; bringing world class theater, community events and providing arts education to over 55,000 annually.

Each episode of the series focuses on a different American poem, which guests read and discuss with Elisa New, the series creator, host and director. Guests in the upcoming season will include Tony Kushner, Gloria Estefan, Donna Lynne Champlin, and more.

“This Garden Plot” grew out of life through two pandemics: AIDS and COVID 19. That experience found vivid reverberations in poems drawn from Walt Whitman and Thom Gunn, work that traces the experience of being gay in America from the Civil War through AIDS.  It is a play about love, loss, survival, and healing.

United SoloShow Festival presents This Garden Plot Sunday October 31 at 3pm, at Theatre Row, 410 West 42nd Street, NYC 

Watch the trailer for the third and final season of 'Dickinson' on Apple TV+! The series stars Hailee Steinfeld, Jane Krakwoski, Wiz Khalifa, and more.

On Friday, October 15, 2021, German-American composer Hans Thomalla and poet Joshua Clover will release a recording of their 90-minute song-opera Dark Spring on OehmsClassics. Dark Spring saw its live, in-person world premiere at the Mannheim Opera in fall 2020 in an unprecedented pandemic collaboration.

Burning Coal Theatre Company presents I and You by Lauren Gunderson, Thursdays through Saturdays, October 7 – 9, 14 – 16 and 21 – 23, 2021 at 7:30 pm and October 10, 17 and 24 at 2 pm at Burning Coal Theatre's Murphey School Auditorium.

On Friday, September 24, 2021, Grammy Award-winning baritone Lucas Meachem, highly in-demand at opera houses around the world, releases his first ever solo album, Shall We Gather, on Rubicon Classics. Performed with his wife, pianist Irina Meachem,

The series stars Hailee Steinfeld, Jane Krakowski, Toby Huss, and more. In the third season, Emily Dickinson’s most productive time as an artist falls amid the raging American Civil War and an equally fierce battle that divides her own family.

Pacific Chorale Artistic Director Robert Istad and Andrew Brown, President & CEO, today announced the chorus’ 2021-2022 Season featuring its return to in-person performances at the Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall, beginning in October, with sweeping programming that builds upon its trailblazing legacy of championing contemporary composers.

On Friday, September 24, 2021 at 6:00pm, Bradshaw Performing Arts Center at Sandhills Community College will present Grammy Award-winning baritone Lucas Meachem in a recital celebrating the release of his first ever solo album, Shall We Gather, out on Rubicon Classics the same day

On Friday, September 24, 2021, Grammy Award-winning baritone Lucas Meachem, highly in-demand at opera houses around the world, will release his first ever solo album, Shall We Gather, on Rubicon Classics.

The Music Center and Center Dance Arts will honor the performing arts center's long-standing partnership with Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, the revered dance company founded by Alvin Ailey, by hosting a free screening of the new AILEY film on Sunday, August 1, 2021, in advance of the film's nationwide opening on August 6, 2021.

-ALL ARTS, the multimedia platform covering visual art, music, theater, dance, film, literature, and more, has announced a collaboration with renowned cultural institution The Shed to expand its Artist in Residence program with the introduction of four groundbreaking young New York City artists working across multiple disciplines.

Mixing her moody up-tempo brew of 90's indie rock, country, and pensive evocative singer-songwriter, Abby Payne and her band will step out of their cocoon to entertain their faithful fans and friends with a hybrid of an in-person and live streaming Dark & Sinister Woman Concert on Friday, July 16 at 7 PM EST.

Today, Variety dropped the new trailer for the new performance film, New Worlds: The Cradle of Civilization, starring comedian and actor Bill Murray.

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 FagSigns, a Brooklyn based neon signage company that serves the LGBTQ+ community, presents the inaugural series of the Mobile Drag Performance Unit (MDPU), June 12th, 19th, and 26th.

Showcasing a variety of art forms, ranging from murals and sculpture to processional puppetry and mobile drag performances, the series will enliven and connect the area's public spaces, increase access to free cultural programming, and support the creative community at a critical moment in the city's history.

The work, composed by Chandler Carter with a libretto by Diana Solomon-Glover, portrays key events in the life of voting rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer.