Off-Broadway
ModernMedieval and Julianna Barwick on Kaufman Music Center's Ecstatic Music ...
Click here for ticket information. Julianna Barwick's ethereal, powerfully emotive voice paired with celebrated performers of ModernMedieval moves early music into a thrilling and truly ecstatic sonic world. This exciting concert features premieres by Barwick, Caleb Burhans, "New York's mohawked Mozart", and Caroline Shaw, the ...
Oratorio Society of New York Brings Powerful, Contemporary and Relative ...
Click here for more information. One of New York's favorite ensembles bring two important works to Carnegie Hall which speak to the contemporary American discourse. Pulitzer Prize winners Paul Moravec and Mark Campbell have created the oratorio, Sanctuary Road, an work based on the writings ...
You Say You Want a Revolution: Remembering the Sixties at ...
Click here for more information. Discover the counterculture of the 1960s and '70s. From communal living and forays into expanded consciousness, to tensions around race, politics, sexuality and the environment, this exhibition explores the breadth and significance of this period. This event is part ...
The Vietnam War: 1945-1975 at New York Historical Society
Click here for more information. This groundbreaking exhibit explores the Vietnam War's causes, conduct and consequences, both on the battlefront and the U.S. home front. The exhibition recounts the heartrending events of the era and captures the perspectives and voices of its history makers ...
Margaret Leng Tan Premieres Crumb, Suzanne Farrin & Kelly Moran at ...
Click here for ticket information. Embodying the bountiful extended potential of the piano, this concert highlights the influential and important interpreter of contemporary music playing works of John Cage, Suzanne Farrin, Kelly Moran and a new work by George Crumb. The Washing Post has hailed ...
Nelson Freire Joins Grand Rapids Symphony for Villa-Lobos at Carnegie ...
Click here for more information. The iconic pianist Nelson Freire joins Marcelo Lehninger and the Grand Rapids Symphony for Heitor Villa-Lobos' Momoprecoce, Fantasy for Piano and Orchestra at Carnegie Hall. Also on the thrilling latin-themed program is Ravel's Boléro, Manuel de Falla's Noches en ...
Amy and The Orphans
Laura Pels Theatre
http://www.roundabouttheatre.org/Shows-Events/Amy-and-the-Orphans.aspx111 West 46th Street, New York, NY, 10036
After their father’s death, two unhinged siblings reunite with Amy, their movie-loving sister who has Down syndrome (Jamie Brewer, “American Horror Story”). Together, they careen down the Great American Long Island Expressway, navigating strip malls, traffic jams and some serious (and ...
Avenue Q
Puppets face life challenges with bad language and sex, as this Tony award winning musical moves beyond a foul-mouthed Sesame Street send-up to a sweet piece about youthful angst and the search for love. This musical has a very strong book and score, and a dedicated cast. Take it in if you ...
Black Angels Over Tuskegee
This play is the story of six black men and their World War II journey to becoming the first African American fighter pilots in US history. The play and production are inspirational, and plays Saturdays at 1 ...
Grand Rapids Symphony Brings More Than Great Music to Carnegie
By Mark McLaren, Editor in Chief, April 17, 2018 The Grand Rapids Symphony arrives in New York this week for its first Carnegie Hall appearance in thirteen years with 85 players, a 135-member chorus, the world-renowned pianist Nelson Freire and its dynamic conductor Marcelo Lehninger. But according to ...
Review: Martha Graham Dance Company Continues Its Legacy and Ensures ...
By Bethany Hopta, Contributing Writer, April 17, 2018 The Martha Graham Dance Company, the oldest dance company in America, continued its 92nd season with performances of their Scared/Profane program at New York City Center this past weekend. On Saturday evening Janet Eilber, the artistic director of ...
Review: Basil Twist's Aquatic 'Symphonie Fantastique' Is Visually and Sonically ...
By Sheila Kogan, Contributing Writer, April 17, 2018 Twenty years ago, third-generation puppeteer, Basil Twist, decided to create a totally abstract work based on the music of Symphonie Fantastique by Hector Berlioz. This year, HERE, the Off-Broadway theater, has revived the work as part of their 25th ...
Review: The Drama of Mozart's Music (and Life) Fills Geffen ...
By Joanne Sydney Lessner, Contributing Writer, April 16, 2018 The New York Philharmonic’s April 14 screening of Milos Forman’s Oscar-winning movie Amadeus, with the musical score performed live, was bittersweet; Forman died the day before, at eighty-six. Conductor Richard Kaufman dedicated the presentation to Forman, and ...
Jazz Notes: On April 20, Jazz Foundation of America Returns to ...
By Dan Ouellette, Senior Editor ZEALnyc, April 16, 2018 Every year, New York’s nonprofit the Jazz Foundation of America—whose motto is “Saving jazz and blues…one musician at a time”—helps to be a key factor for helping musicians who have faced natural disasters and ...
Review: An Expurgated ‘Carousel’ Nonetheless Thrills
By Christopher Caggiano, Contributing Writer, April 16, 2018 Each year, when I cover Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel in my musical-theater history course at the Boston Conservatory, we have a lengthy discussion about what I call “The Elephant in the Room.” Carousel barker Billy Bigelow hits his ...
Art Break: Freud at the Center for Book Arts, Mixed ...
By A. E. Colas, Contributing Writer, April 16, 2018 Humans and their place within the community, landscape, and the planet in general, is a topic of fascination to artists throughout the centuries. Art Break is looking at several shows opening this week that examine and discuss how ...
From Rio With Love — Grand Rapids Symphony Returns To Carnegie ...
By Joanne Sydney Lessner, Contributing Writer, April 12, 2018 The Grand Rapids Symphony takes the stage at Carnegie Hall on Friday, April 20 for the second time in the orchestra’s 88-year history. Having celebrated its 75th anniversary there in 2005, the orchestra returns with the 140-member Grand Rapids ...
Ecstatic Music Festival Features Diverse Programming and Collaborative Performances
By Leonard Bopp, Contributing Writer, April 12, 2018 Kaufman Music Center’s Ecstatic Music Festival, now in its eighth year, presents collaborative performances from a broad, diverse range of musical groups. As Kaufman Music Center Executive Director Lydia Kontos notes, “since Kaufman Music Center launched the pioneering ...
Review: 'Children of a Lesser God' Continues To Provoke Discussion ...
By Diana Mott, Contributing Writer, April 12, 2018 The much anticipated revival of Children of a Lesser God is a testament to the timelessness of a story about the human struggle to connect and to communicate. Mark Medoff’s Tony, Drama Desk and Olivier Award-winning play made ...
Blue Man Group
Astor Place Theatre
http://www.blueman.com/new-york/about-show434 Lafayette Street New York, New York
Blue Man Group combines music, technology, and comedy to create a form of entertainment that defies categorization and appeals to people of all ages. Blue Man Group’s shows have been described by critics as “innovative,” “energetic,” and “wildly ...
Bobbie Clearly
Black Box Theatre in the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre
http://www.roundabouttheatre.org/111 West 46th Street
Bobbie killed Casey in the middle of a cornfield in Milton, Nebraska. Two years later, Milton’s residents are ready to tell you their side(s) of the story. This comedy-about-a-tragedy pushes the boundaries of our Black Box Theatre, with a sprawling cast of eccentric characters and an ambitious ...
Bristol Old Vic’s ‘Long Day’s Journey Into Night’ at BAM
BAM Harvey Theater
https://www.bam.org/theater/2018/long-day-journey-into-night651 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, NY, 11217
Eugene O’Neill’s autobiographical family portrait comes to BAM, featuring decorated stage and screen actor Jeremy Irons (Brideshead Revisited, The Borgias) as whiskey-soaked patriarch James Tyrone and Lesley Manville (Ghosts, 2015 Winter/Spring) in a harrowing performance as morphine-addled ...
Drunk Shakespeare
Liquor, Shakespeare, and actors collide at Quinn’s Bar. You’re 21 or older, and a part of the ...
Encores! Me and My Girl at New York City Center
Mainstage at New York City Center
https://www.nycitycenter.org/pdps/me-and-my-girl/131 West 55th Street, New York, NY 10019
Me and My Girl represents a first for Encores! — a musical that was originally written and produced in London’s West End. The toast of the 1937 London season, Me and My Girl is a delightfully old-fashioned musical about a Cockney everyman who wreaks havoc on high society after being ...
Gazillion Bubble Show at New World Stages
The Gazillion Bubble Show will amaze your whole family with mind blowing bubble magic. Step into an interactive bubble world and be dazzled by spellbinding lasers, spectacular lighting effects, and jaw-dropping masterpieces of bubble artistry. It will make you smile, laugh, and feel like a kid all ...
Mary Page Marlowe
If you looked back on eleven moments from your life, would you recognize yourself, or would you see a stranger? Mary Page Marlowe is a seemingly ordinary accountant from Ohio who has experienced pain and joy, success and failure. In this sweeping but intimate play, Tracy Letts gives us a haunting ...
Newsical The Musical at Kirk Theatre / Theater Row
No one in the news is safe! The Drama Desk nominated musical revue NEWSical is back lampooning current events, newsmakers, celebrities, and politicians. With songs and material being updated on a regular basis, composer-lyricist (Drama Desk Nominee) Rick Crom’s topical musical comedy is an ...
Our Lady of 121st Street
Pershing Square Signature Theatre / Irene Diamond Stage
https://www.signaturetheatre.org/shows-and-events/Productions/2017-2018/Our-Lady-of-121st-Street.aspx480 West 42nd Street, New York, NY 10036
Pulitzer Prize-winner Stephen Adly Guirgis (Between Riverside and Crazy) continues his Residency at Signature with a new production of Our Lady of 121st Street under the direction of Obie Award-winner Anne Kauffman. After the death of the beloved Sister Rose, a group of her former students ...
Paradise Blue
Pershing Square Signature Theatre / Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre
https://www.signaturetheatre.org/shows-and-events/Productions/2017-2018/Paradise-Blue.aspx480 West 42nd Street, New York, NY 10036
Kennedy Prize for Drama Award-winner Dominique Morisseau’s Signature Residency begins with this New York premiere of her play Paradise Blue which will be directed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson (Jitney). In 1949, Detroit’s Blackbottom neighborhood is gentrifying. Blue, a troubled trumpeter and the ...
Reasons To Be Pretty Happy at MCC / Lucille Lortel Theatre
MCC Theatre @ The Lucille Lortel Theatre
http://www.mcctheater.org//currentseason.html121 Christopher Street, New York, NY 10014
After five years in New York, Greg and Steph return to their blue-collar hometown for their 20th high school reunion and to a dramatic encounter with Kent and Carly, the friends they left behind. Old secrets and new lies become increasingly difficult to hide as the evening (and the drinking) goes ...
Royal Shakespeare Company’s ‘King Lear’ at Brooklyn Academy of Music
BAM Harvey Theater
https://www.bam.org/theater/2018/king-lear651 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, NY, 11217
There are Shakespeare kings, and then there is Lear—rain-raving madman, dad with daughter issues, and a role that actors wait a lifetime to play. In this bold offering from RSC Artistic Director Gregory Doran and the Royal Shakespeare Company (King and Country: Shakespeare’s Great Cycle of ...
Sex Tips For Straight Women From a Gay Man at 777 Theatre
This romantic comedy takes the audience on a hilarious and wild ride where no topic is taboo and the insider ‘tips’ come straight from the source: a gay man. The play is set at a local university auditorium where the English department holds its monthly meet the authors event. Robyn is the shy ...
Sistas at St. Luke’s Theatre
St. Luke's Theatre
https://stlukestheatre.com/2012/01/24/sistas-beginning-september-29/308 46th Street, New York, NY 10019
Three–time Tony winner Hinton Battle and JenKay present SISTAS, a musical journey of a multi generational African-American family. The production follows five women as they prepare to bury the matriarch of their family. The women discuss their family history and the history of African-American ...
Skintight
Laura Pels Theatre
https://www.roundabouttheatre.org/Shows-Events/Skintight.aspx111 West 46th Street, New York, NY, 10036
Roundabout reunites writer Joshua Harmon (Bad Jews, Significant Other) and director Daniel Aukin (Bad Jews) for Skintight, a scorching examination of beauty, youth and sex. Reeling from her ex-husband’s engagement to a much younger woman, Jodi Isaac (Idina Menzel) turns to her famous ...
Sweeney Todd — in a pie shop at the Barrow Street Theatre
This production of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street features the stars of the original London version of this production, Jeremy Secomb (as Sweeney Todd), Siobhán McCarthy (as Mrs. Lovett), Duncan Smith (as Judge Turpin) and Joseph Taylor (as Tobias), will reprise their performances ...
The Accidental Pervert
Pervert is Andrew Goffman’s one-man, autobiographical comedy about his youthful discovery of pornography and subsequent journey through addiction to ...
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe at St. Luke’s Theatre
St. Luke's Theatre
https://stlukestheatre.com/2012/01/24/coming-soon-the-lion-the-witch-and-the-wardrobe/308 46th Street, New York, NY 10019
In this inventive and highly theatrical adaptation of C.S. Lewis’ classic, two actors give a tour-de-force performance that’s sure to delight children and adults alike. Through the magic of theatre, Peter and Lucy will take you to Narnia, where The White Witch has cast a spell that ...
The Marvelous Wonderettes at Kirk Theatre – Theater Row
Take a musical trip down memory lane to the 1958 Springfield High School prom where we meet The Wonderettes, four girls with hopes and dreams as big as their crinoline skirts! Experience their lives and loves from prom night to their 10 year reunion, as the girls perform such classic ’50’s ...
Transfers at MCC / Lucille Lortel Theatre
MCC Theatre @ The Lucille Lortel Theatre
http://www.mcctheater.org//currentseason.html121 Christopher Street, New York, NY 10014
Cristofer and Clarence are two gifted students from the South Bronx. After two years at a local community college being coached by faculty members, the young men are competing for a life-changing scholarship at an elite northeast university. During a campus visit, the young men are unexpectedly ...