This Week
NY Art Gallery Tours - Saturday: Midtown Skyscraper Tour
NY Art Gallery Tours
http://nygallerytours.com/private-tours/82 Charles Street, New York City, NY 10014
NY ART GALLERY TOURS offers the most affordable and fascinating, up-to-the-moment contemporary art tours you'll find, led by founder and director Rafael Risemberg, Ph.D. For information on the regularly scheduled Saturday group tours, click here. In addition there is the option of private tours; ...
Acqua, Ristorante Italiano on Amsterdam Avenue at 95th Street
Just minutes from Symphony Space, Acqua is a favorite of Upper West Side neighborhood diners and visitors alike. Acqua is located 1 block from the 96th Street 1/2/3 lines, and exactly 1 block west of Symphony space. Enjoy authentic Italian cuisine in a warm, friendly atmosphere at Acqua. 718 ...
Icons by Oscar, The Works of Photographer Oscar Abolafia
Elvis. Cher. Grace. Elizabeth. Marlene. Sophia. Mick. Salvador. Not many are so iconic that a first name is enough to tell us who they are. They were captured by a photographer who goes by the name of Oscar Abolafia. You can call him Oscar. Icons ...
Fiorello at The East 13th Street Theater
The East 13th Street Theater
http://www.newyorkcitytheatre.com/theaters/east13thstreettheater/theater.php136 East 13th Street, New York, NY 10003
Following its acclaimed, sold-out run at The Unicorn Theatre in Stockbridge, Fiorello! moves Off-Broadway. The Pulitzer and Tony Award-winning musical is based on the real-life rise to power of Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, and his battle for the people of New York City. Previews begin ...
Tristan und Isolde with Nina Stemme Opens the Metropolitan Opera’s Season
There are at least two indisputable reasons you should take in the Met‘s new Mariusz Treliński production of Tristan und Isolde: Sir Simon Rattle and Nina Stemme. Rattle, who is not seen ...
‘Fall for Dance Festival’ at New York City Center
Experience the very best the dance world has to offer at the 13th annual Fall for Dance Festival, where you’ll see world-renowned companies performing alongside daring new artists. The Festival’s five programs feature three world ...
Chanteuse Somi Performs With Her Quartet at Baryshnikov Arts Center’s Jerome Robbins Theater
Baryshnikov Arts Center
http://bacnyc.org/performances/performance/somi450 West 37th Street, New York, NY 10018
The Baryshnikov Arts Center,founded by dance icon Mikhail Baryshnikov celebrates its annual Fall Fete on September 26 to raise funds to continue its impressive operation of performances and residencies. Each year it supports BAC residencies to a wide variety of artists, from dance to song, to ...
Java Joints To Get You Jivin' — 5 great places for coffee ...
By Danielle Zickl, Contributing Writer, September 22, 2016 Coffee is life—plain and simple. Here in New York City, you’re never far from a Starbucks. But if you’re willing to hunt a little, you’ll find some amazing coffee shops where the baristas will know ...
The Frick Collection sponsors a "College Night" this Friday
This Friday, September 23rd, undergraduate and graduate students are invited to a special evening at the Frick — for free! Bring friends, meet new people, and discover great works of art in a beautiful Gilded Age mansion. The night’s festivities include live music, gallery talks, ...
Jazz Star Cécile McLorin Salvant Joins Opera Superstar Nina ...
Leading artists in jazz, opera and classical music join forces this season for rare and philanthropic events that promise to provide a truly unique experience for music lovers. Taking a nod from Mostly Mozart's A Little Night Music, this series offers intensely intimate concerts, hosted ...
The Metropolitan Opera: Highlights and Complete List of the 2016/2017 Season
Mark McLaren, Editor in Chief, September 20, 2016 Fall is almost here and with it another New York opera season anchored by the Metropolitan Opera. In an interview with ZEALnyc, Metropolitan Opera General Manager Peter Gelb spoke of the importance of reinvigorating the Met's productions with works ...
Go to a museum for FREE This Saturday
Are you one of those people who is always thinking 'you should make time to go attend that new exhibit at your favorite museum' but then the exhibit closes before you get there? Or maybe there's a museum you've always thought about checking out, but ...
The Metropolitan Opera's General Manager Peter Gelb in an Exclusive ...
By Mark McLaren, Editor in Chief, September 19, 2016 Another season is here and New York City performing institutions brace for the challenges ahead. Audience engagement and ticket sales are the goal, and for a number of institutions, that becomes more difficult as subscribers age and attention ...
Five New Musicals Find Their Way to Broadway This Season
By Christopher Caggiano, Contributing Writer, September 16, 2016 The upcoming New York theater season is shaping up to be a very busy one, at least in terms of new musicals aiming for a Broadway bow. As of this writing, there are already nine new musicals scheduled to ...
NY Phil and Jaap van Zweden To Open the Rare 2020 ...
Yes, there is a Mahler festival. And it is, in fact, rare. Held every twenty-five years, the festival is hosted in Amsterdam by The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra as a tribute to the towering composer of ten monumental and popular symphonies. The New York Philharmonic will ...
Be Italian — It's 'San Gennaro' Time!
All New Yorkers know about the San Gennaro Festival. Although technically 'The Feast of San Gennaro" is a faith-based celebration honoring the Patron Saint of Naples, Italy, it has grown to become a much-loved time to celebrate all things Italian. This will be the 90th ...
Review: NYCO Presents a Historically Interesting Double-Bill of 'Aleko' and ...
By Jose Andrade, Contributing Writer, September 13, 2016 New York City Opera's history during the 21st century has been filled with volatility, misfortune and drama worthy of an opera. On September 8 (their first full season in four years) they opened with a double-bill of one act operas: ...
From the Imperial Theater: Chinese Opera Costumes of the 18th and 19th Centuries At The Met Fifth Avenue
Drawn entirely from The Met collection, this exhibition examines these luxury textiles from artistic and technical points of view. It is organized in two rotations. The first focuses on costumes used in dramas based on historical events; and the second will feature ...
Falsettos Begins Previews This Week
Walter Kerr Theatre
https://www.broadway.org/broadway-theatres/details/walter-kerr-theatre,32219 West 48th Street Between Broadway and 8th Avenue
As Marvin struggles to create a “tight-knit family” out of his eclectic array of core relationships (including his ex-wife, his new boyfriend, his adolescent son, his psychiatrist, and his neighbors) amidst a series of monumental life changes, he is forced to reckon ...
Peter Brooks invades with his ‘Battlefield’ at Brooklyn Academy of Music
Thirty years after his legendary sunset-to-sunrise production of The Mahabharata consecrated the BAM Harvey stage, director Peter Brook returns with Battlefield, a breathtaking distillation of the central story in the ancient Sanskrit poem. In the wake of an apocalyptic civil ...
A Space Transformed For A Two-Week Series At The Joyce
A quadrille is an 18th century dance performed in a rectangular configuration and viewed from four sides. To kick off its 2016/17 season, The Joyce Theater will be transformed for the NY Quadrille, a sensational two-week engagement created by renowned ...
Grammy-Winning Vocalist Catherine Russell Sings Praise to Harlem at Dizzy’s Generations in Jazz Festival
Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola
http://www.jazz.org/dizzys/events/172907/catherine-russell-harlem-on-my-mind/10 Columbus Cir, New York, NY 10019
One of jazz’s remarkable Grammy-winning vocals heroes in recent years, Catherine Russell has enjoyed quite a storied career, from touring with David Bowie as a band member from 2002-2004 to launching her own solo career in 2006 that has yielded six albums (including the new album being ...
Crochet Coral Reef: Toxic Seas at Museum of Arts and Design
Crochet Coral Reef: TOXIC SEAS celebrates the tenth anniversary of the “Crochet Coral Reef” (2005–present), an ongoing project by sisters Margaret and Christine Wertheim and their Los Angeles–based organization, the Institute For Figuring. Mixing crocheted yarn with plastic trash, the ...
An opera about the Great Famine in Ireland is the subject of ‘The Hunger’ at Brooklyn Academy of Music
Peter Jay Sharp Building - BAM Howard Gilman Opera House
http://www.bam.org/30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11217
Underdog history comes to life through new music and old Irish songs in composer Donnacha Dennehy’s opera about the Great Famine of 1845-52, rooted in Asenath Nicholson’s harrowing first-person account in Annals of the Famine in Ireland. Featuring acclaimed ensemble Alarm Will Sound ...
Tedeschi Trucks Band at the Beacon Theatre
The Beacon Theatre
http://www.beacontheatre.com/events/2016/september/tedeschi-trucks-band.html2124 Broadway at 74th Street
Tedeschi Trucks Band led by the husband-and-wife duo of guitarist and vocalist Susan Tedeschi and slide guitarist Derek Trucks bring their music to a six-night residency at the Beacon Theatre on September 30, October 1, October 4, October 5, October 7, ...