2023 Summer Season Set at South Street Seaport Museum
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jun 5, 2023
The South Street Seaport Museum has announced the 2023 Summer Season and full roster of exhibitions and events at 12 Fulton Street and on Pier 16. Tickets are now on sale to Sail New York Harbor with the Seaport Museum aboard the 1885 schooner Pioneer and the 1930 tugboat W.O. Decker.
Spend Summer At The Seaport; 2023 Events Lineup Unveiled
by A.A. Cristi - Apr 26, 2023
The Howard Hughes Corporation has announced its 2023 programming lineup at the Seaport in Lower Manhattan, with hundreds of events taking place across New York City's waterfront neighborhood from May through October.
Barbara Kahn's THE TIME TRAVELERS CLUB Turns Back the Clock In Greenwich Village
by A.A. Cristi - Jan 31, 2023
Walking around New York City can be a kind of time travel, as we see old buildings still standing and sometimes what appears when other old buildings are demolished. But if you could step into a time machine and travel back in time for real, to a particular place and meet particular people, where, when and who would that be?
Limón Dance Company Celebrates Its 75th Anniversary During The Fifth Week Of Festival 2022
by A.A. Cristi - Jun 22, 2022
Limón Dance Company will celebrate part of its 75th anniversary season at the Pillow in the fifth week of Festival 2022 from July 20-24. The program will feature works by Limón, Doris Humphrey, and Olivier Taparga. In addition, Music From The Sole will perform tap's afro-diasporic roots on the Henry J. Leir stage from Wednesday through Sunday.
Harris Theater Has Announced Their 2020-21 Season
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Feb 6, 2020
The Joan W. and Irving B. Harris Theater for Music and Dance has announced its Harris Theater Presents season for 2020-21, its most ambitious and diverse lineup to date. With 36 performances - including one international premiere and North American exclusive, Chicago debuts, and artists representing 11 countries and countless cultural influences -the 2020-21 season reaffirms the Harris Theater's commitment to presenting a multitude of voices and genres on its stage in Millennium Park.
Carnegie Hall Launches New Digital Collections Preview Of Select Archival Collections
by A.A. Cristi - Oct 2, 2019
Carnegie Hall today announced the launch of its new online Digital Collections, inviting the general public to search, explore, and download more than 80,000 recently digitized historic items from its archives for the very first time. This initial preview, drawn from the Hall's legacy collections, offers a window into the richly diverse history of events at the Hall since its opening in 1891, with an emphasis on the Hall's earliest decades. It includes Carnegie Hall concert programs from 1891–1925; flyers; photographs; correspondence; newspaper clippings; autographs; booking ledger pages; and a select number of promotional films. The goal of this digital initiative is to provide broader public access to the Hall's archival collections, providing a new way for people to engage with Carnegie Hall's history and share it with others.
MACHITO & THE IMPACT OF THE AFRO-CUBANS Announced At 80 HOSTOS Center For The Arts & Culture
by A.A. Cristi - Apr 30, 2019
Modeled after the highly acclaimed retrospective of Tito Puente in 2017, the Hostos Center for the Arts & Culture will honor the late iconic singer and bandleader Francisco Machito Grillo (1908-1984) and his Orchestra (the Afro-Cubans) in a 3-day celebration May 2-4 on the campus of Hostos Community College, 450 Grand Concourse (at 149th Street), in the Bronx. Machito & the Impact of the Afro-Cubans at 80 examines the Orchestra's influence on a variety of Latin musical styles, including Latin jazz that affected the music of Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Stan Kenton and others.
Complete Schedule, Artistic Personnel And Activities Announced For Machito & The Impact Of The Afro-Cubans At 80
by Stephi Wild - Apr 26, 2019
Modeled after the highly acclaimed retrospective of Tito Puente in 2017, the Hostos Center for the Arts & Culture will honor the late iconic singer and bandleader Francisco Machito Grillo (1908-1984) and his Orchestra (the Afro-Cubans) in a 3-day celebration May 2-4 on the campus of Hostos Community College, 450 Grand Concourse (at 149th Street), in the Bronx. Machito & the Impact of the Afro-Cubans at 80 examines the Orchestra's influence on a variety of Latin musical styles, including Latin jazz that affected the music of Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Stan Kenton and others.
Machito & The Impact Of The Afro-Cubans At 80 Comes to HOSTOS Center For The Arts & Culture
by Stephi Wild - Apr 11, 2019
Modeled after the highly acclaimed retrospective of Tito Puente in 2017, the Hostos Center for the Arts & Culture will honor the late iconic singer and bandleader Francisco Machito Grillo (1908-1984) and his Orchestra (the Afro-Cubans) in a 3-day celebration May 2-4 on the campus of Hostos Community College, 450 Grand Concourse (at 149th Street), in the Bronx. Machito & the Impact of the Afro-Cubans at 80 examines the Orchestra's influence on a variety of Latin musical styles, including Latin jazz that affected the music of Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Stan Kenton and others.
Dryden Ensemble Kicks Off Its 24th Anniversary Season With Its Autumn Benefit 'A Journey Through Italy'
by BWW
News Desk - Sep 15, 2018
To kick off its 24th Anniversary Season, Dryden Ensemble presents "A Journey through Italy" its Autumn Benefit today, September 15. A celebration of ?All Things Italian,' this special event will be held at historic home of President Grover Cleveland, known as Westland Mansion. The evening will spotlight the musical and culinary arts of Italy, with an intimate house concert followed by sumptuous buffet dinner and silent audition. The music begins at 5:00 p.m.
Dryden Ensemble Kicks Off Its 24th Anniversary Season With Its Autumn Benefit 'A Journey Through Italy'
by Stephi Wild - Sep 4, 2018
To kick off its 24th Anniversary Season, Dryden Ensemble presents "A Journey through Italy" its Autumn Benefit on Saturday, September 15. A celebration of ?All Things Italian,' this special event will be held at historic home of President Grover Cleveland, known as Westland Mansion. The evening will spotlight the musical and culinary arts of Italy, with an intimate house concert followed by sumptuous buffet dinner and silent audition. The music begins at 5:00 p.m.
BWW Review: Tom Dugan Thoroughly Inhabits Simon WIESENTHAL, Honoring the World-Renowned Nazi Hunter
by Shari Barrett - May 23, 2018
WIESENTHAL tells the powerful true story of Simon Wiesenthal, often called the "Jewish James Bond," a Holocaust survivor who, after cheating death at the hands of Hitler's S.S., spent his life bringing to justice the most notorious war criminals in human history. This provocative solo performance, written and performed by Tom Dugan and directed by Jenny Sullivan, is an uplifting and highly entertaining one-man show that unfolds like a gripping spy thriller, telling how Wiesenthal devoted his life to bringing more than 1,100 Nazi war criminals to justice after WW II.
NYC's Most Comprehensive Celebration of Cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa
by Tori Hartshorn - Feb 23, 2018
Working intimately with directors like Yasujiro Ozu, Akira Kurosawa, Kenji Mizoguchi and Kon Ichikawa on some of their most important films, Kazuo Miyagawa (1908-99) pushed Japanese cinema to its highest artistic peaks through his lyrical, innovative, and technically flawless camerawork. Considered the greatest cinematographer of postwar Japanese cinema whose career endured through the 1990s, Miyagawa has influenced generations of leading filmmakers around the world.