Experience The Sound Of WAR Live At The Tobin Center
by A.A. Cristi - Feb 25, 2025
Get ready for a night of timeless grooves and electrifying rhythms as WAR, one of the most influential soul and funk bands of all time, takes the stage at The Tobin Center for the Performing Arts with An Evening With WAR.
Renee Flemings Brings AUGUSTA! to AMT Theatre
by Stephi Wild - Aug 29, 2024
Acclaimed actor / award-winning playwright Renee Flemings will celebrate the life, art and victories of Harlem Renaissance-era sculptor, activist and arts educator Augusta Savage, in a new solo performance piece, “Augusta!”, where attendees, including children (aged ten and above), will discover the beauty of Savage's dreams made into reality.
ensembleNEWSRQ Continues Eighth Season With LIGETI'S 100TH
by Stephi Wild - Nov 1, 2023
ensembleNEWSRQ (enSRQ), the innovative chamber music ensemble, continues its eighth season with “Ligeti's 100th,” a program celebrating the birth centennial of the incomparable Hungarian-Austrian composer György Ligeti.
West 56th Street Between 6th & 7th Avenues to be Renamed 'Wynn Handman Way'
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Sep 9, 2022
City Councilman Keith Powers, former Mayor Bill DeBlasio, former acting students of Wynn Handman and maybe a star or two will gather Monday, September 12 at 11:00 AM on the southeast corner of 7th Avenue and 56th Street for the naming of West 56th Street between Sixth and Seventh Avenues as Wynn Handman Way.
American Symphony Orchestra to Host Free Performances
by Marissa Tomeo - Apr 30, 2022
The American Symphony Orchestra (ASO) continues its 60th anniversary season on Sunday, June 5 with American Masters, a free symphonic concert at Jazz at Lincoln Center featuring the world premiere of Roberto Sierra’s newly commissioned Concerto for Electric Violin performed by acclaimed electric violinist Tracy Silverman. The program will also offer works by three Pulitzer Prize-winning composers: Melinda Wagner, Richard Wernick, and Shulamit Ran.
Summer Movies at Sarasota Opera House Will Begin in May
by Stephi Wild - Apr 26, 2022
Sarasota Opera has announced the lineup for the 2022 summer movie series: HD at the Opera House and Classic Movies at the Opera House. HD at the Opera House featuring filmed performances of opera and ballet from around the world will open on Sunday, May 22nd at 1:30 p.m. with Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in London, with tickets at $22, and $20 for Sarasota Opera subscribers.
Porchlight Announces Cast of CHICAGO SINGS STEPHEN SONDHEIM, May 23
by A.A. Cristi - Apr 14, 2022
Porchlight Music Theatre has announced the current roster of music theatre and cabaret talent performing in this year’s annual Chicago Sings fundraising concert, Chicago Sings Stephen Sondheim, Monday, May 23, at the Museum of Contemporary Art.