Brilliance - 2022 - Off-Broadway Articles Page 16

The new film adaption of Matilda the Musical premiered today at the BFI London Film Festival. Get the scoop on the film, which stars Emma Thompson, Lashana Lynch, Andrea Riseborough and Stephen Graham, plus new comer Alisha Weir as Matilda. Before the film comes to Netflix, read what critics thought of the highly-anticipated movie musical now!

Collaborative Arts Institute of Chicago announces the first instalment of its 2022–23 Lieder Lounge recital  series, My Sister's Keeper: Dunbar Edition, which will take place on Thursday, November 17, 2022 in Ganz Hall at  Roosevelt University beginning at 7:30pm. A second performance will be presented in partnership with the Chicago  Music Association on November 20, 2022 at 4pm, held at the South Shore Cultural Center. 

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, New York City Center's Principal Dance Company and America's cultural ambassador to the world, has announced highlights of its always-anticipated annual season at New York City Center. Returning to its “home” theater for four weeks November 30 - December 24, 2022, the Ailey company will present a world premiere by Kyle Abraham, the company premiere of Twyla Tharp's Roy's Joys, and a new production of Alvin Ailey's Survivors.

Eisenhower: This Piece of Ground by Richard Hellesen, was developed by New Los Angeles Repertory Company and will  be produced by Theatre West in association with New LA Rep.  

On October 29, 2022, Chatham Baroque will present the early music ensemble Twelfth Night for “Flash and Elegance,” an exploration of scintillating Italian sonatas by Caldara, Vivaldi, and Lanzetti, with special emphasis on the violoncello da spalla.  

Erica Whyman, Acting Artistic Director, has announced details of the Royal Shakespeare Company's artistic programme for 2023.

The Flea Theater will present its 2nd Annual House Party entitled Blooming: A Flea Shindiggity, a coming out celebration, presenting to the world a new found vision for the future of experimental art created by Black, Brown and queer artists.

Sam Smith teams up with Kim Petras on “Unholy” – the lead single from Sam’s hotly-tipped fourth studio album. Sam produced the track in Jamaica alongside ILYA (Max Martin, Ariana Grande, Jennifer Lopez), Blake Slatkin (Lizzo, 24K Golden), Cirkut (Nikki Minaj, The Weeknd), Omer Fendi (Lil Nas X, The Kid Laroi) and long-time collaborator Jimmy Napes.

New Focus Recordings today releases composer Michael Hersch's the script of storms. The album (digital only) features two works by Hersch: cortex and ankle based on texts by Christopher Middleton, and the script of storms based on texts by Fawzi Karim.

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From the team that previously presented the Boston Latino International Film Festival (BLIFF), Cinefest Latino Boston announced its inaugural National Hispanic Heritage Month Screening Series to take place on Friday, September 30 and Sunday, Oct 2, 2022.

BIG SCARY ANIMALS invites you to Oaklawn where a small group of unlikely neighbors share drinks with a side of damning glares and dark secrets. Theatre Three September 1-25.

The Public Theater, the Barnard Center for Research on Women and the Ntozake Shange Literary Trust have announced the establishment of The Ntozake Shange Social Justice Theater Residency. This rotating two-year playwriting residency is named in honor of Public Theater artist and Barnard alumna (Class of 1970) Ntozake Shange.

Harlem Stage has announced highlights of its 2022-2023 season, whose centerpiece is a seven-event series devoted to deepening and unpacking understandings of the Black Arts Movement, its intersections with the larger Black Power Movement, and its historic and cultural relevance in today’s America.

Anarchistic Belgian theater collective FC Bergman opens Next Wave 2022, and makes its bold US debut with 300 el x 50 el x 30 el (pronounced 300 el by 50 el by 30 el), a production described as “bold” and “a visual feast” (The Stage).

Critically-acclaimed actor Ronnie Marmo, with the blessings of Kitty Bruce (daughter of the late Lenny Bruce), along with the Lenny Bruce Foundation, present “I'M NOT A COMEDIAN… I'M LENNY BRUCE.”

Sun King Rising's highly anticipated second album 'Signs & Wonders' gets a release date of October 1st, 2022 on Peac*cksunrise Records. Sun King Rising is the professional moniker of singer/songwriter/piano player John Blangero who resides in Port Isabel, Texas.

Playwrights Horizons will present Mia Chung’s Catch as Catch Can, directed by Daniel Aukin, running October 14 - November 20 and opening November 1.

​​​​​​​Hyde Park Art Center, the renowned non-profit hub for contemporary art located on Chicago's vibrant South Side, partners with experimental dance company The Seldoms for a series of free weekly performances and conversations in conjunction with the Toolbox @ Twenty exhibition.

The Chan Centre for the Performing Arts, in collaboration with Musqueam, on whose unceded lands UBC is situated, has announced the new, inaugural festival, ʔəm̓i ce:p xʷiwəl (Come Toward the Fire). Held on September 17 - 18, 2022, the festival will be an Indigenous-led celebration of creativity, brilliance, culture and community.

Australia’s Home of Youth Arts, Shopfront Arts Co-op, appoints Creative Director Natalie Rose to the joint role of Co-Chief Executive Officer, joining Executive Director / CEO Daniel Potter in strategic leadership of the organisation. The change in management reflects Shopfront’s co-operative and collaborative model; a structure that has been the backbone of the organisation since its inception in 1976. 

The Oscar qualifying film festival, which was included on MovieMaker Magazine’s “50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee” list, once again offers a diverse selection of films from highly anticipated studio efforts to independent films, and international to local Georgia and Atlanta productions as part of its carefully curated hybrid presentation.

Franklin Light Opera Company announces its opening production for the 2022-2023 season: The Best of Gilbert and Sullivan.

The Cassatt String Quartet will return to the Music Mountain Summer Festival for an in-person recital on Sunday afternoon, September 18, 2022, 3 p.m., EDT, at Gordon Hall.

The Snuts have release their infectious new single “Knuckles,” which premiered as Clara Amfo’s “Hottest Record In The World” on BBC Radio 1. “Knuckles” is the fifth single to come from their highly-anticipated new album Burn The Empire, out October 7th on Parlophone Records/Elektra Records. Burn The Empire follows the band’s debut album W.L.