Full casting has been announced for the upcoming pre-Broadway engagement of Michael R. Jackson’s Pulitzer Prize winning musical A STRANGE LOOP at Washington DC’s Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company.
To coincide with the 22nd anniversary of the festival, MUSIC BOX: WOODSTOCK 99: PEACE, LOVE, AND RAGE debuts FRIDAY, JULY 23, (9:00 – 10:50 p.m. ET/PT) on HBO and will be available to stream on HBO Max.
Writer and BAM Guest Curator at Large Hanif Abdurraqib will delve into the history of Black performance to celebrate his new book, A Little Devil in America (March 30, 2021, Random House).
BAM today announced a new season—an ambitious mix of outdoor in-person programming and new virtual events—that is all about bringing live arts back to Brooklyn, and bringing Brooklyn’s creative spirit to the world. The season spans theater, dance, music, talks, visual arts, community events, and its annual gala.
FirstWorks and Brown University's Brown Arts Initiative, alongside theaters and cultural institutions from around the world, will present the Pomegranate Arts production Taylor Mac's Holiday Sauce...Pandemic!
On December 12, prestigious theaters and cultural institutions around the world present the Pomegranate Arts production Taylor Mac's Holiday Sauce...Pandemic!. The special, live-streamed event reimagines for this time of social distancing Mac's celebrated Holiday Sauce show.
Today (June 11) in live streaming: National Theatre at Home brings back The Madness of King George III, the newest Broadway's Next on Stage and so much more!
New York Times Critic-At-Large Wesley Morris will be moderating a panel discussion with Broadway artists, responding to national unrest as part of OFFSTAGE: OPENING NIGHT, tomorrow, June 11th.
The New York Times is celebrating the Broadway season that was cut short by the health crisis with a livestreamed event, Offstage: Opening Night. The event will be held on Thursday, June 11 at 7 p.m. ET.
In support of efforts to restrict public gatherings and slow the spread of the COVID-19 virus, BAM has postponed additional upcoming programs.
Preeminent gospel artist Yolanda Adams, The New York Times' critic-at-large Wesley Morris, and singer Valerie June are confirmed as part of the LA Phil's Power to the People! festival. Adams will perform with the LA Phil, led by Music & Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel, as well as West Angeles Church of God in Christ Choir, at Walt Disney Concert Hall, Sunday, March 8, at 2pm. Morris, one of the most compelling cultural critics of our time, will speak at the California African American Museum, Tuesday, March 10, at 7pm. Singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist June will perform along with Terence Blanchard and Ben Harper in an evening dedicated to the exploration of Spike Lee's movie music at Walt Disney Concert Hall, Saturday, March 14, at 8pm.
BAM Artistic Director David Binder today announced programming for Yours Theirs Ours, a new season of 16 engagements by dynamic artists across the artistic spectruma?"with many making their BAM debuts. Engagements will run from March 23a?"June 30 and will be presented in all of BAM's venues and off-site.
Yesterday evening in New York City, Broadway's SLAVE PLAY and its creator, playwright Jeremy O. Harris hosted BLACK OUT during the show's previews. BLACK OUT dedicated the 804 seats of 45th Street's Golden Theatre to an audience of black identified artists, writers, activists, creatives, and students in celebration of the critically-acclaimed, Robert O'Hara directed play and in recognition of Broadway's rich, diverse, and fraught history with black work. The event was followed by a Talk Forward moderated by VULTURE Staff Writer Hunter Harris and Author Casey Gerald, during which playwright Jeremy O. Harris discussed the work, buzz, and questions around this play - as well as Broadway's history of work created by black artists.
TimesTalks, The New York Times live conversation and performance series, is proud to announce its Fall 2019 Program, featuring intimate conversations that pair Times journalists with today's most creative and influential voices in the fields of film, technology, politics, music, literature and science.
Full casting has been announced for the upcoming Broadway premiere of Slave Play, the acclaimed new work by Jeremy O. Harris, directed by Robert O'Hara.
FEINSTEIN'S/54 BELOW, Broadway's Supper Club, presents Michael Dutra as Strictly Sinatra on Thursday August 15th at 9:30 pm. from Maine to Miami, B.B. King's, opening act for Howie Mandel (AGT judge) and audiences up to 5,000 people, is now making his Feinstein's/54 Below debut. Michael encapsulates everything about Frank Sinatra's performance. With his Strictly Sinatra Band swinging behind him, you will be taken back in time to witness Ole Blue Eyes again! Reminisce with all your favorite songs and memories as you swing to all the American standards that Frank Sinatra made great!
Taylor Mac announces U.S. tour dates for two bedazzling, moving, and politically stirring performances. Mac will tour A 24-Decade History of Popular Music (Abridged) across the Northeast.
BroadwayWorld first reported last month that SLAVE PLAY will come to Broadway this fall. Producers Greg Nobile and Jana Shea of Seaview Productions, Troy Carter, Level Forward, and Nine Stories, founded by Jake Gyllenhaal and Riva Marker, have officially announced that the acclaimed new play by Jeremy O. Harris, directed by Robert O'Hara, will be coming to Broadway's Golden Theatre (252 West 45th Street) this fall. The strictly limited 17-week engagement will begin preview performances Tuesday, September 10, ahead of an official opening night of Sunday, October 6.
The Koffler Centre of the Arts is thrilled to present Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist, film critic, and podcast host Wesley Morris, in conversation with Canadian broadcaster and writer Amanda Parris. Part of the Koffler's 2019 Books & Ideas series, the talk takes place at 7 PM, Tuesday, May 28 at the Isabel Bader Theatre, 93 Charles Street West.
Taylor Mac's Holiday Sauce, the latest installment of the artist's award-winning A 24-Decade History of Popular Music project, will return to The Town Hall in New York City for another skewering of the sacred and the secular today, December 11th at 8pm. A follow-up to its debut at The Town Hall in December 2017, the show explores Christmas as calamity, upending our yuletide traditions and celebrating the holiday in all of its dysfunction with the families you choose to love.
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