Theater Resources Unlimited (TRU) and The Playroom Theatre present the December panel Solo Performance: Why Solo Shows? Understanding the Appeal, Mining the Market, on Tuesday, December 20, 2016 at 7:30 p.m. at The Playroom Theater, 151 W. 46th Street, 8th floor, NYC 10036.

The Madison Square Garden Company just announced the unprecedented 40th consecutive show by legendary musician and MSG franchise Billy Joel. The Friday, April 14th show is part of his residency at The World's Most Famous Arena which began in January 2014 with Joel playing one show per month at The Garden as part of the Spectrum Concert Series. The April show will be Joel's 86th all-time performance at The Garden.

NYC early music series Music Before 1800's 42nd season, which features a series-record 13 centuries of music, kicks off the new year on Sunday, January 15 at 4PM at Corpus Christi Church.

Japan Society Gallery announces the U.S. premiere of A Third Gender: Beautiful Youths in Japanese Prints, the first exhibition in North America devoted to the variety of gender and sexual expression in traditional Japanese society by focusing on wakashu, attractive male youths who, the exhibitions reveals, constituted a distinct gender category during the Edo period (1603-1868).

The colorful, fantastical world of visual artist, musician, composer, and performer Charlemagne Palestine (b. 1947, Brooklyn, New York) arrives at the Jewish Museum this spring with an immersive, site-specific installation influenced by childhood experience and by the artist's Brooklyn Jewish roots.

HB Studio, one of New York's most venerable institutions for theater training and practice, launches its first acting class conducted entirely in Spanish this January.

Christmas Letters - a new musical comedy about the ups and downs of surviving the holiday season - presents a benefit concert supporting Stomping Ground Theatre Company tonight, December 16.

The ASPECT Foundation for Music and Arts continues its North American debut season with three exciting concerts from its Musical Capitals and Great Muses series. 

Green Space will offer a diverse roster of new/emerging artists in January.

On Wednesday evening, December 14, The Madison Square Garden Company and AMC Networks hosted the 16th Annual Holiday Rock & Roll Bash to benefit the Lustgarten Foundation, the nation's largest private nonprofit funder of pancreatic cancer research.

Today, Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña visited the Flushing Family Residence to announce the Afterschool Reading Club, a brand-new literacy enrichment pilot for elementary school students living in shelters.

On December 30, 2016, Multicultural Sonic Evolution (MuSE) will present Dance-It-Yourself Nutcracker (DIY Nutcracker), a reimagined, immersive production of Tchaikovsky's classic ballet with 8 dancers and full orchestra.

In THE WORLD ACCORDING TO KURT WEILL, one of the more than 20 shows put together to form the Winter Rhythms festival benefiting arts education, old met new and timeliness met timelessness. At Urban Stages on December 6, six skilled performers were assembled to interpret several of the most well-known songs of the composer Kurt Weill (who died in the year 1950), through the lens of the world as we see it in 2016. This meant that each song from shows such as ONE TOUCH OF VENUS or THREEPENNY OPERA was introduced with a framing device that was the statement of an accurate and modern headline or situation ("The Refugee Crisis in Syria Worsens," "Donald Trump Wins the Election in Shocking Upset").

The glamorous ticketed event recognizes the sustained achievements of artists who received early career support from NYFA and the vision and commitment of enlightened patrons of the arts.

Inspired by Yoko Ono's iconic 1964 'Cut Piece,' 'Cut Piece for Pants Suit,' a performance in response to the 2016 election created by directors JoAnne Akalaitis and Ashley Tata in collaboration with a group of women theater artists, will take place at Madison Square Park at noon on December 19, the day of the Electoral College vote.

FRIGID New York @ Horse Trade will present the 11th Annual FRIGID Festival at The Kraine Theater (85 East 4th Street between 2nd Avenue and Bowery) and UNDER St. Marks (94 St. Marks Place between 1st Avenue and Avenue A) February 13-March 5.

Lumberyard Contemporary Performing Arts (formerly American Dance Institute) is pleased to announce its 2017 season at The Kitchen, which will comprise the premieres of five new contemporary performance works.

The Kitchen's Winter 2017 season, January 10-March 25, exemplifies the institution's commitment to a broad range of artists, and to collaboration and discourse among them.

The Clive Barnes Foundation recently announced the nominees for the seventh annual Clive Barnes Awards. This year's nominees continue to shine in their respective fields.

In the days leading up to the inauguration of President-Elect Donald Trump, Joe's NYC Bar will open its doors in NYC for the first time in its 15-year existence.

Ralph Lampkin/Lampkin Music Group and Christopher Gines/Cafe Noctambulo present Martha Lorin with The Steve La Spina Trio in 'BODY AND SOUL'

Celebrate it with the DOWN TOWN GLEE CLUB and a fantabulous Disney songfest! WHEN YOU WISH UPON A SONG on Thursday, December 22, 2016 at 7:30 PM at St. Peter's Church (619 Lexington Ave. Entrance on East 54th St. between Lexington and Third Avenues).

We are culture. We are exploration. We are The New York Science Fiction Film Festival.

Welcome To Night Vale - one of the longest-running and most downloaded fiction podcasts of all time - today announced the upcoming airdate of its 100th episode.

Mx Justin Vivian Bond is a force of nature with more than a quarter century onstage under v's (Bond's preferred pronoun) belt. A singular performer with an endless supply of bon mots, Bond has been celebrated with an Obie Award, a Bessie, a Tony nod, and the Ethyl Eichelberger Award, among other accolades. Fresh off a year-long career retrospective culminating in September's THE GOLDEN AGE OF JUSTIN VIVIAN BOND, v returns to Joe's Pub on December 12 at 9:30pm with a new holiday show, THE BIPOLAR EXPRESS. Ahead of the first show, we spoke over the phone about the show, v's enduring career, and the holidays themselves.