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The Broadway Education Alliance just announced the 2nd Before Broadway & Beyond Benefit Concert, a special one-night-only concert featuring a 21-member ensemble of talented New Yorkers who are gathering to support the 16th season of The Roger Rees Awards for Excellence in Student Performance

Materials for the Arts (MFTA) will present Manos Que Tejen Luz (Hands that Weave Light), a new solo exhibition by Artist-in-Residence Magda Love. The show will be on view October 16, 2025–January 8, 2026, at the MFTA Gallery in Long Island City.

Materials for the Arts will present Designer-in-Residence Daveed Baptiste’s “Soaring High,” MFTA’s first-ever fashion exhibition. In the exhibition, Baptiste constructs garments whose every stitch, hem, and design explore his identity as a Haitian immigrant artist in the United States.

The Kurt Weill Foundation for Music has revealed the winners of the twenty-seventh annual Lenya Competition, which took place Saturday 3 May at Kilbourn Hall in Rochester, New York. Learn more!

Materials for the Arts will present “Unraveling Threads,” a new solo exhibition by MFTA Artist-in-Residence Borinquen Gallo in the MFTA Gallery.

Materials for the Arts (MFTA), a program of the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, has launched the application period for its second cohort of the Young Designers program.

Twenty years after its World Premiere, the first-ever co-production between New York's famed Public Theater and LAByrinth Theater Company in 2004 (Philip Seymour Hoffman and John Ortiz, artistic directors), Brett C. Leonard's Guinea Pig Solo has made its West Coast Premiere at the Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles.

Brett C. Leonard's GUINEA PIG SOLO, a modern take on Buchner's WOYZECK, will premiere on the West Coast at the Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles, exploring the struggles of an Iraq War veteran. Learn how to purchase tickets.

Discover Broadway's rising stars at the Manhattan Showcase Project's fall event at 54 Below. Directed by Philip Pelkington Jr., with musical direction by Andy Peterson. Learn how to purchase tickets.

Augusta Levy Learning Center will present its annual fundraiser Dancing with the Ohio Valley Stars. On November 2nd, at 7 pm, eight local celebrities will take the stage at Wheeling’s Capitol Theatre with their professional dance partners to compete for the mirror ball trophy.

 Materials for the Arts will present “some part of me lived here before,” a new solo exhibition by MFTA Artist-in-Residence Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya, will open at the Materials for the Arts gallery on October 17, 2024, and be on view through January 10, 2024

Materials for the Arts announced its annual 'Back to School Shopping Spree,' offering free supplies to NYC public school teachers.

Award-winning Blues guitarist Tab Benoit is set to release I Hear Thunder, his first album in fourteen years. To complement the release, Anders Osborne will join Tab onstage when the I Hear Thunder national tour winds across the country, kicking off on July 10th in Raleigh, NC.

Shakespeare & Company presents Shake It Up: A Shakespeare Cabaret, a celebration of Shakespeare-influenced music, text, and storytelling at the Tina Packer Playhouse from July 2-7.

Materials for the Arts (MFTA) will present Boundary Layer, a solo exhibition by MFTA Artist-in-Residence Kate Rusek, on view now through August 2, 2024 at the Materials for the Arts Gallery.

Paul Vasterling, the longtime CEO and artistic director of Nashville Ballet, makes his debut as a director of musical theater with his revival of Cabaret – which he also choreographs – in a much-heralded and eagerly anticipated production for Franklin-based Studio Tenn. The timely and sumptuous revival allows audiences an opportunity to consider the prescience of the classic Broadway musical by John Kander and Fred Ebb that debuted in 1966 and which has continued to fascinate and challenge artists of the theater the world over almost 60 years later.

Nashville Ballet will perform three productions this May -  Coppélia,Young Artists Showcase and Live in Studio A: Five Short Stories. Learn more about the upcoming shows here!

Stephanie Lambring shares the brooding new single “Cover Girl” ahead of her anticipated sophomore album Hypocrite releasing, April 19. Opening the album with a perpetually unsettled drumbeat, “Cover Girl” grapples with the modern pressures of a social media-driven world, and the music video illustrates the stark reality behind the life we display online. Watch the video here!

Explore the latest exhibition, THE WAREHOUSE, presented by MATERIALS FOR THE ARTS and created by their artist-in-residence, Woomin Kim. This immersive experience showcases the transformative power of art.

 In conjunction with its current world premiere production of Kate Hamill's The Scarlet Letter, Two River Theater will celebrate women's health and wellness with a free services fair on Saturday, February 24 from 10:00am to 12:30pm.

Materials For The Arts Unveils New Logo And Visual Identity, Launches Campaign To Raise Awareness of the wide-ranging services it provides to NYC's cultural community.

The party-rousing take on the iconic 2011 Gotye hit ‘Somebody That I Used To Know (feat. Kimbra)' has become a crowd favourite over the past year, having played a starring role in FISHER and Chris Lake's record-breaking Coachella set and becoming a TikTok sensation ever since, with 5 million views and 100K likes.

Machine Dazzle presents 'Formalities,' the artist's first-ever sculptural exhibition at Materials for the Arts. Explore the new works created from supplies found in the MFTA warehouse.

MATERIALS FOR THE ARTS presents 'FORMALITIES' by MFTA Artist-in-Residence Machine Dazzle, featuring the artist's first-ever sculptural exhibition. Experience new works created from supplies found in the MFTA warehouse.

Have plans for December 16th? Now, you do! Come see Deck The Halls With Holly at Don't Tell Mama NYC. Holly Block returns to this space for a fun-filled night of holiday and musical theater songs two years after her last successful show here. It's no wonder a woman named Holly would love Christmas, but, she says, this show means so much more.