David Bernard and the Park Avenue Chamber Symphony Release 'Sounds Of America', September 10
by A.A. Cristi - August 02, 2021 For the latest release in their series of recordings on Recursive Classics, the Park Avenue Chamber Symphony under Music Director David Bernard stay closer to home in repertoire terms, with their new album 'Sounds Of America'....
Sheldon Epps Shares His Journey In The Theatre In New Book MY OWN DIRECTIONS
by A.A. Cristi - December 02, 2022 Epps recounts his rollercoaster ride of a life in the theatre, with all the excitement and occasional anguish that come with the highs and lows. The author’s journey in the American theatre has been amplified by his experience as a Black man who has frequently been “one of the few,” “the first” or e...
OGCMA to Presents YOUNG RISING STARS Organ Recital Series All Summer At The Jersey Shore
by Chloe Rabinowitz - June 30, 2021 These recitals will be performed in Ocean Grove's historic Great Auditorium. This season's series will bring 'young rising star' organists to the stage - a new generation of organists who have never appeared in the historic auditorium before....
Pianist Ursula Oppens To Be Featured At Music Teachers' National Association's Virtual Conference
by Chloe Rabinowitz - February 23, 2022 The internationally acclaimed American pianist Ursula Oppens is participating in the Music Teachers' National Association's 2022 Virtual Conference Tuesday, March 29, 2022, for an online advanced piano masterclass at 9:15 a.m., and an online solo piano recital at 8:00 p.m....
Elysium Between Two Continents Presents INNOVATORS IN EXILE: 100 YEARS OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR NEW MUSIC.
by A.A. Cristi - April 17, 2023 Elysium Between Two Continents, the NYC-based nonprofit organization fighting anti-Semitism through the means of art and academic dialogue, will present a three-day music festival entitled Innovators in Exile: 100 Years of the International Society for New Music....
Extant Celebrates its 25th Anniversary and Announces New Mission, Extant Evolve
by Stephi Wild - May 18, 2022 Over the next three years, Extant will shift their focus to innovating the arts sector with new disabled talent, taking a proactive role in creating an answer to the under-representation of disabled leaders. ...
FIVE YEARS WITH THE WHITE MAN Comes to VAULT Festival
by Stephi Wild - January 19, 2023 Unleash The Llama highlights a forgotten figure of Black British History with the first theatrical adaptation of the life of A.B.C Merriman-Labor, an African satirist who dreamed of becoming the greatest writer in the British Empire....
Opera Saratoga to Hold 2024 Gala At Canfield Casino in June
by Chloe Rabinowitz - May 15, 2024 Opera Saratoga's 2024 Gala, themed 'Season of Winners,' will be held at the historic Canfield Casino in Saratoga Springs on June 9, 2024. ...
PITE / SPIVEY / FORSYTHE Comes to Opera Ballet Vlaanderen in June
by Stephi Wild - April 27, 2023 The furious One Flat Thing, Reproduced by the leading American choreographer William Forsythe opens with a loud roar. Like random ice floes, twenty tables fly forward and become a surface for a wild swarm of dancers....
Photos: First Look At The UK Tour of WISH YOU WEREN'T HERE By Katie Redford
by A.A. Cristi - January 25, 2024 See first look photos of Wish You Weren't Here, a new comedy from Theatre Centre’s Resident Writer, Katie Redford (TAPPED, Theatre503; YELLOW LIPS, BBC Radio 4) have been announced for 2024. ...
Undermain Theatre Announces Its 40th Season
by A.A. Cristi - April 06, 2023 Celebrating 40 years of light underground with a landmark anniversary season, Undermain Theatre will present its 40th season of cutting edge performance in September. Our season, from the fall of 2023 to the summer of 2024, will be a season of unlimited boundaries and will find us working both with ...
BWW Review: SAN DIEGO SYMPHONY CONCERT at Rady Shell Amphitheater
by Ron Bierman - May 25, 2022 Musical impressionism ruled the San Diego Symphony’s early-evening Rady Shell concert this past weekend. First came conductor-composer Esa-Pekka Salonen’s reaction to Nyx, a daughter of Chaos, the earliest Greek god. Nyx, rarely mentioned in extant ancient Greek-literature, is goddess of the night, ...
South Street Seaport Museum Announces Archtober 2021 Programming In-Person And Online
by Chloe Rabinowitz - October 06, 2021 South Street Seaport Museum has announced in-person and online events in partnership with Archtober, New York City's Architecture and Design Month and the annual festival of architecture activities, programs and exhibitions taking place during the month of October. ...
THERE'S NOTHING LIKE LIBERTY: THE MARX BROTHERS AND AMERICA to Stream in October
by Chloe Rabinowitz - September 17, 2021 Freedonia Marxonia, the annual Marx Brothers festival held on the SUNY Fredonia campus, will once again be held virtually this year. The featured event, live streaming on Friday, October 1, is There's Nothing Like Liberty: The Marx Brothers and America, an 'illustrated lecture' by Noah Diamond....
Brad Pitt & Damien Quintard Reopen Legendary Recording Studio Miraval Studios
by Michael Major - October 10, 2022 In 1977, the estate’s then-owner, French pianist and composer Jacques Loussier, built a state-of-the-art recording studio on the property, previously called Studio Miraval, which went on to host sessions for Pink Floyd’s “The Wall,” AC/DC, The Cure, Sting, Sade and The Cranberries, among others....
Photos: First Look at SUPER POWER PANTO, Now on Tour!
by Stephi Wild - March 09, 2023 All new production photos have been released for Super Power Panto, the accessible venture between the UK’s leading theatre company of visually impaired performers Extant and all-year panto company Simply Smiley currently on tour!...
All-Women Artist Roster Announced For 10th Anniversary Of MIDNIGHT MOMENT
by A.A. Cristi - March 25, 2022 This April, Times Square Arts celebrates the 10 year anniversary of its iconic program Midnight Moment, the world's largest and longest-running digital public art exhibition synchronized on electronic billboards in Times Square nightly from 11:57pm to midnight. The program, which began on just six s...
Renovations Near Completion in Time for Free Concerts at Ocean Grove's Historic Great Auditorium
by Chloe Rabinowitz - June 06, 2023 First built and installed in 1908 (and now much enlarged), Ocean Grove's historic Great Auditorium Pipe Organ is undergoing an extensive renovation that will enhance its sound and improve its longevity in the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association's 5000+ seat tabernacle....
Helen Sheals, Abigail Climer, Gary Lilburn & More to Star in PAINTING THE TOWN Workshop
by Chloe Rabinowitz - January 26, 2023 A new musical, Painting The Town, is coming to New Wimbledon Theatre for a workshop and sharing this January – February, and the cast and creatives have been announced. See who is starring, and more!...
BWW Review: SAN DIEGO SYMPHONY CONCERT at Rady Shell Amphitheater
by Ron Bierman - May 25, 2022 Musical impressionism ruled the San Diego Symphony’s early-evening Rady Shell concert this past weekend. First came conductor-composer Esa-Pekka Salonen’s reaction to Nyx, a daughter of Chaos, the earliest Greek god. Nyx, rarely mentioned in extant ancient Greek-literature, is goddess of the night, ...
Photos: Inside Rehearsal For the UK Tour of SUPER POWER PANTO
by Stephi Wild - January 27, 2023 Extant, the UK’s leading theatre company of visually impaired performers has joined forces with all year-round touring panto company, Simply Smiley, to present Super Power Panto! Check out rehearsal photos here!...
BACCHAE Comes to New York Euripides Free Summer Theater Festival This Month
by Stephi Wild - June 09, 2023 New York Euripides Summer Festival presents BACCHAE beginning June 26th and running through June 30th at three popular venues. ...
BACCHAE to be Presented at New York Euripides Summer Festival This Month
by Chloe Rabinowitz - June 13, 2023 Aiming to produce all of Euripides' extant plays chronologically, New York Euripides Summer Festival will present what many consider to be Euripides' magnum opus, BACCHAE beginning June 26 at three different Manhattan venues....
Ichiro Kataoka Comes to the Film Forum This Month
by Stephi Wild - June 07, 2023 Ichiro Kataoka, one of the world’s handful of practitioners of the lost art of the Japanese benshi, will perform at Film Forum with three Yasujirō Ozu silents: I WAS BORN BUT… (1932) and the comedy short 'A Straightforward Boy' (1929) on Monday, June 19 at 8:15 and THAT NIGHT’S WIFE (1930) on Tuesd...
Review: THE PLIANT GIRLS at Theatre Prometheus/Nu Sass
by Mary Lincer - October 20, 2024 What did our critic think of THE PLIANT GIRLS at Theatre Prometheus/Nu Sass?... |