KING LEAR, FIDDLER & More Featured at New York Public Library for the Performing Arts in October
By: Nicole Rosky Sep. 29, 2014
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts has just announced a slew of theatrical events for October, which will feature King Lear, Fiddler on the Roof, and much more. Check out the full list below!
EXHIBITIONS:
Through January 3, 2015
i found god in myself: 40th Anniversary Celebration of Ntozake Shange's for colored girls...
The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
515 Malcolm X. Boulevard
FREE
i found god in myself is an interdisciplinary exhibition celebrating the 40th anniversary of Ntozake Shange's groundbreaking choreopoem, for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf. Addressing the social, political and deeply personal issues affecting the lives of women of color, the exhibition will feature specially commissioned pieces, honoring each individual poem through an acceptance of and understanding of the complexities involving the black female body.
EVENTS:
Saturday, October 4 @ 1pm
Instant Shakespeare Company: King Lear
Columbus Library
742 10th Avenue (between 50th & 51st Sts.)
FREE
Enjoy a reading of King Lear by The Instant Shakespeare Company. The company's readings are set up to make Shakespeare accessible. The readings are usually without rehearsal, but they are on-your-feet Instant staged readings where the readers/actors move around as much as they feel comfortable. Founded and run by Paul Sugarman, the company organizes annual readings of ALL of Shakespeare's plays using original Folio & Quarto texts. Great for Shakespeare enthusiasts and newcomers alike.
Monday, October 6 @ 6pm
50 Years with Fiddler with Sheldon Harnick, Marc Aronson, Amanda Vaill, and Alisa Solomon
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
40 Lincoln Center Plaza
FREE - Advance registration recommended.
Celebrate the 50th anniversary of Fiddler on the Roof's Broadway premiere with an evening of stories about the creation and legacy of one of history's most beloved musicals. Guests include Fiddler lyricist Sheldon Harnick; cultural historian (and son of set designer Boris Aronson) Marc Aronson; Jerome Robbins biographer Amanda Vaill; and Alisa Solomon, author of the critically acclaimed new book Wonder of Wonders. Rare materials from The Library for the Performing Arts's theatre, dance, and music collections will also be on display.
Thursday, October 9 @ 6pm
Life Upon the Wicked Stage: New Books in the Performing Arts - The Selected Letters of Elia Kazan
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
40 Lincoln Center Plaza
FREE
Join us for a panel discussion with Katherine Hourigan, Kazan's editor at Alfred Knopf; Albert Devlin, the editor of The Selected Letters of Elia Kazan; Patricia Bosworth, longtime Actors Studio member and biographer of Montgomery Clift, Marlon Brando, and Jane Fonda; Geoffrey Horne, actor (The Bridge on the River Kwai, Strange Interlude), longtime member of the Actors Studio and teacher at the Lee Strasberg Institute; Carroll Baker, Academy Award-nominated star of Elia Kazan's Baby Doll. Moderated by Foster Hirsch, author of A Method to Their Madness: The History of the Actors Studio.
Wednesday, October 15 @ 6:30pm
Talks at the Schomburg: Ntozake Shange
The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
515 Malcolm X Boulevard at 135th Street
FREE - Reservations required.
In conjunction with the exhibition i found god in myself, Shange celebrates the 40th anniversary of her landmark work, for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf, with a discussion about its creation and influence. When Ntozake Shange's for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf: a choreopoem appeared on the theater scene in New York City in 1975, it achieved immense popularity. Ten years later, it was still being produced in various theaters throughout the United States. With this "choreo poem"-a performance piece made up of a combination of poems and dance-Shange introduced various themes and concerns that continue to characterize her writings and performances. Her works are often angry diatribes against social forces that contribute to the oppression of black women in the United States combined with a celebration of women's self-fulfillment and spiritual survival.
Saturday, October 18 @ 1pm
Instant Shakespeare Company: The Merry Wives of Windsor
Riverside Library
127 Amsterdam Avenue (at W. 65th St.)
FREE
Enjoy a reading of The Merry Wives of Windsor by The Instant Shakespeare Company. The company's readings are set up to make Shakespeare accessible. The readings are usually without rehearsal, but they are on-your-feet Instant staged readings where the readers/actors move around as much as they feel comfortable. Founded and run by Paul Sugarman, the company organizes annual readings of ALL of Shakespeare's plays using original Folio & Quarto texts. Great for Shakespeare enthusiasts and newcomers alike.
Saturday, October 18 @ 2pm
Piney Fork Press Theater
George Bruce Library
5 Central Avenue (near Borough Hall), Staten Island
FREE
Piney Fork Press Theater presents a staged reading of Catherine and Petruchio based on Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew. Directed by Deloss Brown.
Monday, October 20 @ 6pm
FILM - The Mishaps of Musty Suffer
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
40 Lincoln Center Plaza
FREE
The Mishaps of Musty Suffer was a cartoony and surreal series of silent comedy shorts produced in 1916 and 1917. Wildly popular during its release, the series has been oddly overlooked and neglected ever since, but the films are getting a new life thanks to a recent DVD release. These unique slapstick films are being seen again for the first time in nearly 100 years. Musty was played by Ziegfeld Follies star and former Ringling clown Harry Watson, Jr. On this program, four prime examples of the Musty Suffer comedies will be shown in new HD digital transfers. Film historian Steve Massa, who has researched Watson and his films in the scrapbooks and files of the Library's Billy Rose Theatre Collection, will introduce the program. The program will have live musical accompaniment by Ben Model, who also produced the new Mishaps of Musty Suffer DVD.
Tuesday, October 21 @ 6:30pm
The Ziegfeld Club Inc.: Helping Theater Women Since 1936
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
40 Lincoln Center Plaza
FREE - Reservations recommended
The Ziegfeld Club Inc. was founded in 1936 by Florenz Ziegfeld's widow, Billie Burke (Glinda in The Wizard of Oz), to help women in need who had once performed in the illustrious Ziegfeld Follies. One of the oldest non-profits in the Broadway community, the Club's archive contains a wealth of material that chronicles the role and sacrifices of women in the history of New York theater. Join us for an evening of true stories from the Follies, songs, plus viewings of original costumes and other previously unseen artifacts from The Ziegfeld Club Inc. archive. Presented in collaboration with Past Made Present.
Saturday, October 25 @ 2:30pm
Murder and Madness and Poe
Bronx Library Center
310 East Kingsbridge Road (Bronx)
FREE
The Bronx Library Center presents Rick Heuthe as Edgar Allan Poe in Murder and Madness and Poe, an hour-long drama with poetry, music and readings written and directed by David Houston.
Monday, October 27 @ 6pm
SONGBOOK: Broadway's Future
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
40 Lincoln Center Plaza
FREE
A concert of new music by Broadway composers and lyricists sung by Broadway vocalists, presented by Arts and Artists at St. Paul and directed by John Znidarsic.
Thursday, October 30 @ 6pm
Tap Too: More Songs About Dancing
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
40 Lincoln Center Plaza
FREE
Cabaret artist Steve Ross invites friends to join him in a celebration of songs about dancing. Expect music...and dancing!
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