The Fellowship - 2022 - West End Articles Page 2

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djassi daCosta johnson has been appointed artistic director of DANCES FOR A VARIABLE POPULATION, succeeding founder Naomi Goldberg Haas. The New York-based organization focuses on dance, education, and performance for older adults.

Boston Chamber Symphony will open its 2026–27 season with violinist Joshua Brown performing Brahms's Violin Concerto alongside works by Mozart and Beethoven, led by Music Director Avlana Eisenberg.

Camille Henrot's first live performance, co-commissioned by Performa and Aspen Art Museum, will present a contemporary take on Italian Renaissance theater set in a New York City apartment building.

Guitarist Laura Lootens will release her second album SHAPE OF MY HEART on October 9, 2026, on the naïve classiques label. She will perform works from the album across 15 US cities beginning September 9 in Boston, with additional stops in Brooklyn, Philadelphia, and other major cities through November.

Ciera Miller has been named Roundabout Theatre Company's tenth Directing Fellow, joining an 11-member Roundabout Directors Group cohort offering mentorship to emerging theatre directors.

Benjamin Zander will lead the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra at Symphony Hall in works by Weber, Beethoven, and Brahms, featuring violinist Guy Braunstein, to open the ensemble's 48th and final season.

School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play is now playing on Broadway from Manhattan Theatre Club. Meet the cast of the play, which is now in previews.

Benjamin Zander will lead the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra in works by Weber, Beethoven, and Brahms, featuring violinist Guy Braunstein, in the ensemble's 48th and final season.

Grace Porter and Josh Davis will lead the cast of BREAK, a new play by Lindsay Carpenter, running September 11-14, 2026, at The Atelier at TheatreLab in New York.

Trumpeter and composer Wadada Leo Smith will release a new album featuring four ensembles, including collaborators Sylvie Courvoisier, Bill Laswell and Pheeroan akLaff, via Burning Ambulance Music.

Kayhan Irani, Nejla Yatkin and Zafer Tawil will join James Scruggs for 11REFLECTIONS: NYC at HERE Arts Center, marking 25 years since September 11 through performance and community dialogue.

Vangeline will perform her Butoh dance work MAN WOMAN at the Schwarzman Centre in Oxford, followed by a discussion on gender and Butoh history with Dr Baldock.

Benjamin Akio Kimitch's new Japanese American court dance will make its world premiere at New York Live Arts, exploring memory and history through the lens of WWII incarceration camps.

Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester selected twelve resident artists from 250 international applicants for its Project Space Residency program in photography, film, and media arts.

Rose Bruford College named actors David Ajao and Macarena Gómez as Fellows, with Ola Labib, Jennifer Sims and Kim Tatum to receive Honorary Fellowships at graduation ceremonies in Sidcup.

Timothy Bloom will receive The Prince Fellowship and Chase Parker will receive The Prince/TTLP Fellowship, programs supporting early-career producers in association with Columbia University School of the Arts.

The highly anticipated “Spirited Away” concert by Ku-ring-gai Philharmonic Orchestra brings the fun and excitement from the big and small screen to the concert stage this month. 

Directed by Elaine Epstein, the documentary follows the arrest of a midwife serving Amish and Mennonite families in rural New York and the women who organized in response.

JAZZ HOUSE KiDS' 17th annual Montclair Jazz Festival brought an estimated 32,000 attendees to Lackawanna Station, where Patrice Rushen received the NEA Jazz Masters Fellowship on the festival's Main Stage.

Wilmington drummer and bandleader Jonathan Whitney will release a new album honoring enslaved people and freemen tied to the Cooch's Bridge Revolutionary War site in Delaware.

Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-Winning Musical Theatre Writer Michael R. Jackson is returning to Joe’s Pub 20 years to the day of his NYC concert debut with Michael R. Jackson: Wake Up Call, an evening of thoughtful, humorous, and personal songs from his catalogue and his latest musical in progress, Subscribers. In Wake Up Call, Michael will invite audiences to join him as he laughs at and reflects on two decades of fitful slumber and dark dreams in a probing, emotional and sometimes eye-rolling look at the world as he sees it. Watch as he gives us a very special sneak peek from Subscribers in this exclusive video. 

PBS will premiere a Kartemquin Films documentary following five choreographers competing in Joffrey Ballet's Winning Works program as they create original works under deadline pressure.

A new documentary from Kartemquin Films follows five choreographers competing in Joffrey Ballet's Winning Works program as they create original work under deadline pressure.