Lucie Pohl's APOHLCALPYSE NOW! Set for UNDER St. Marksby BWW News Desk - March 3, 2017FRIGID New York @ Horse Trade will present a limited engagement of Lucie Pohl's Apohlcalypse Now! on Monday, March 20 at 8pm, Tuesday, March 21 at 7pm, Monday, March 27 at 8pm, and Tuesday, March 28 at 7pm at UNDER St. Marks. Music from India, Zimbabwe, Iran and More Set for Robert Browning's Spring 2017 Lineupby BWW News Desk - March 3, 2017Robert Browning, called “the entrepreneur who almost single-handedly created and filled New Yorkers' passion for world music” in the New York Times, celebrates 41 years of presenting world music with a 2017 spring season of music from India, Pakistan, Zimbabwe, Haiti, Iran, and the US. Monk Parrots Welcomes New Co-Artistic Directorsby BWW News Desk - March 3, 2017Monk Parrots has announced that company members Jessie Dean and John Smiley will join co-founders Luke Landric Leonard and Joey LePage at the helm of the multidisciplinary theatre company as Co-Artistic Directors. MIDNIGHT AT THE NEVER GET to Return to Don't Tell Mama for One Night Onlyby BWW News Desk - March 3, 2017Following critically acclaimed, sold-out runs at Don't Tell Mama and the 2016 New York Musical Festival (NYMF), Midnight at The Never Get, conceived by and starring Sam Bolen and Mark Sonnenblick, with book, music and lyrics by Mr. Sonnenblick, directed by Max Friedman (Ruby Manger Live!, Charlie Rosen's Broadway Big Band), and produced by Michael Chase Gosselin (POPE! An Epic Musical, The Most Miserable Christmas Tree), will return home to Don't Tell Mama (342 West 46th Street) on Tuesday, March 14 at 8pm for a special one-night-only concert to celebrate receiving a 2017 Bistro Award for 'Book Musical,' and a 2017 MAC Award nomination for 'Show Of The Year.' Mx Justin Vivian Bond to Present and Perform in HOUSE OF WHIMSY at New York Live Artsby BWW News Desk - March 3, 2017Mx Justin Vivian Bond, curator of Mx'd Messages, New York Live Arts' 2017 Live Ideas festival, presents House of Whimsy, an alluring, edgy and irreverent evening of divas and deviants from the downtown performance scene, featuring Big Dipper, Dane Terry, Janani Balasubramanian, Kate Bornstein, Lynn Breedlove, Nath Ann Carrera, Severely Mame, Taja Lindley and Wo Chan, selected and introduced by Bond, who will also perform. Be on the Streets Where It Happens! Broadway Up Close Walking Tours Return with HAMILTOURby BWW News Desk - March 3, 2017For the past seven years, Broadway Up Close walking tours have been treading the sidewalks of Times Square, unearthing Broadway's secrets and ghost stories. Having just welcomed its 10,000th tour-goer at the end of February 2017, the company now introduces a brand-new walking tour for all those obsessed with Hamilton: An American Musical or simply seeking to learn more about this cultural phenomenon and the man whose life inspired it. Pen Parentis to Examine Love at Next Literary Salonby BWW News Desk - March 2, 2017The celebratory 15th season of Pen Parentis Literary Salons continues with ASPECTS OF LOVE: featuring internationally bestselling romance novelist Jennifer Probst, the edgy literary novelist Marcy Dermansky, and the inimitable John Reed, whose poems, fiction and essays blend into such uncategorizable forms, two of his books have been called "stunts." Pianist Sarah Cahill to Perform Lou Harrison Centennial Concert at Le Poisson Rougeby BWW News Desk - March 2, 2017On Thursday, April 6, 2017 at 7pm, Le Poisson Rouge will present California-based pianist Sarah Cahill, 'a brilliant and charismatic advocate for modern and contemporary composers' (Time Out New York), in a concert celebrating the hundredth birthday of maverick composer Lou Harrison with a wide range of his music spanning half a century: exuberant dance music from his early years, dissonant complexity from the 1940s, and lyrical works from the 1980s, as well as music by his close friends and colleagues including Henry Cowell, John Cage, Johanna Beyer, James Cleghorn, and Frank Wigglesworth. International Human Rights Art Festival Kicks Off Today at Dixon Placeby BWW News Desk - March 3, 2017Playwright Mashuq Deen (New Dramatists Fellow 2022) brings the story of his own transgender journey as a member of a traditional South Asian family and Playwright Catherine Filloux, winner of more than 40 awards for playwriting, activism and peace work, brings her latest work to the stage at New York City's first arts-advocacy festival of its kind, the International Human Rights Art Festival. NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts Presents CIRCUS NOW 2017 This Weekendby BWW News Desk - March 3, 2017CIRCUS NOW returns to NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts following two sold-out seasons, with three programs of boundary pushing contemporary circus, running this weekend, March 3 - 5, at NYU Skirball. Circus Now 2017 will feature International Artists and cutting-edge circus companies and from five countries. Isaac Mizrahi to Perform as Part of the Guggenheim's 'Works & Process' Seriesby BWW News Desk - March 2, 2017On Friday, March 10, 2017, Works & Process at the Guggenheim presents ISAAC MIZRAHI and the Ben Waltzer Quartet, hosted by Works & Process Young Friends in Cafe 3, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1071 Fifth Avenue and 88th Street, NYC. The evening begins with cocktails and hors d'oeuvres at 8pm, followed by the performance at 9pm. Racially-Charged Drama DETROIT BLUES Gets NYC Reading at Shetler Studiosby BWW News Desk - March 2, 2017The new racially-charged drama Detroit Blues announces their 29 hour reading, which will be directed by Obie award-winning Leah C. Gardiner (Public Theater, Soho Rep), written by Patrice Cassedy, with casting by Tara Rubin Casting. The readings will be held at Theatre 54 at Shetler Studios (244 West 54th Street - 12 Floor) on Friday, March 10th at 12pm and 3:00pm. John Zorn's Iconic Venue The Stone Moves to The New Schoolby BWW News Desk - March 2, 2017John Zorn and Executive Dean Richard Kessler announced today that The Stone, the landmark non-profit performance space founded in 2005 by John Zorn and dedicated to the experimental and avant-garde, will move to The Glass Box Theater at Arnhold Hall on 55 West 13th Street, in the heart of New York's Greenwich Village. LABA to Present LABALIVE TWO: OTHERSby BWW News Desk - March 1, 2017LABAlive presents LABAlive Two: Others on Thursday, March 16, 2017 at 7pm in the Theater at the 14th Street Y for an evening of literature, dance, theatre, and subversive teachings exploring the theme of OTHER. Interactive Comedy Show LET'S MAKE A WEBSITE Set for UCB Theatre Tonightby BWW News Desk - March 2, 2017Tonight, March 2nd, at 8:00pm, The Upright Citizen's Brigade Theatre presents the premiere of Let's Make a Website, a $7 hysterical interactive computer-based comedy show where Mark Vigeant (Seriously.TV, The AV Club) builds and launches a website based on audience suggestions. 10th Anniversary Barbour Playwrights Award to Kick Off with GRAND THEFT MUSICALby BWW News Desk - March 1, 2017The Barbour Playwrights Award continues this month with readings of three new plays by writers from Theater for the New City, as well as a special night of celebration including a panel discussion with past winners on the life and creative process of today's playwrights. The festival begins on Thursday, March 9 at 7:00 pm with a reading of Lissa Moira's Grand Theft Musical, a musical comedy based on Robert Sickinger's 1994 musical Platinum Taps, with music composed by John Taylor Thomas.
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