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ALL MY EX-LOVERS ARE DEAD Comes to Masambe Theatre
by Stephi Wild - Nov 29, 2024

‘all my ex-lovers are dead’ will open at Masambe Theatre in December for a short two-month run. Learn more about the production and find out how to get tickets here!

Phoenix Festival Returns To Nyack in September
by Blair Ingenthron - Aug 3, 2024

The Third Annual Phoenix Festival: Live Arts in Nyack will take place from September 12th-22nd in Nyack, NY.

George Gershwin's First Musical Rediscovered After Nearly A Century
by A.A. Cristi - Feb 23, 2024

George Gershwin's long-lost first musical has been unearthed by a Michigan researcher after almost a century.

92NY Shares Acclaimed Performance of "Under Milk Wood" Starring Michael Sheen
by Stephi Wild - May 12, 2023

92NY’s Unterberg Poetry Center celebrates the ninth annual International Dylan Thomas Day (on May 14) by sharing video of an acclaimed 2014 performance of Thomas’ timeless “play for voices” - Under Milk Wood – starring actor Michael Sheen and an all-Welsh cast.  

Composer Ned Rorem Dies At Age 99
by A.A. Cristi - Nov 19, 2022

American composer and writer Ned Rorem passed away at age 99 on November 18, 2022 in New York City, in his home on the Upper West Side, surrounded by family and friends. He is survived by six nieces and nephews and eleven grand nieces and nephews.

APOSTROPHE is Now Playing at Whidbey Island Center For The Arts
by Stephi Wild - Jun 14, 2022

Whidbey Island Center for the Arts presents the regional premiere of Los Angeles playwright Liza Powel O’Brien’s Apostrophe. Developed at the 2020 Ojai Playwrights Conference, the play runs June 10-25, 2022 on the WICA Mainstage.

KMFA Classical 89.5 to Host Open House Celebration
by Marissa Tomeo - Apr 7, 2022

KMFA Classical 89.5 announces KMFA Day on Saturday, April 23, 2022 from 2:00pm – 6:00pm at KMFA’s new home, 41 Navasota Street, Austin TX 78702. The entire event will be free and open to the public.

Composers Concordance to Present THE ART OF THE ART SONG
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Feb 23, 2022

On Sunday, March 20th at 3pm, at the historic St. Mark's Church-In-The-Bowery, Composers Concordance will present a concert program that propels an age-old compositional form into the 21st Century.

New Amsterdam Singers Announce March Concert
by Stephi Wild - Feb 18, 2022

Led by Music Director Clara Longstreth, New Amsterdam Singers continues its return to live performances with “American Voices: Classic and New.”

Amanda Kind Soars Above Waves Of Grief With New Ebb-and-Flow “Easier” Single
by A.A. Cristi - Aug 18, 2021

Based on a personal experience she describes as 'the intersection of grief and rejection,' Amanda experienced a difficult break-up that wasn't her choice. 'Knowing that someone you love(d) is out there in the world, happier without you, is a complicated pain,' she shares. 'I kept thinking, 'does it get easier?'

BWW Feature: ONLINE VIRTUAL OPERA TOUR at Home Computer Screens
by Maria Nockin - Jun 12, 2021

Los Angeles Opera’s presentation of Oedipus Rex by Igor Stravinsky is available online from June 17 to July 18, 2021. The libretto is by Jean Cocteau. The cast includes: Oedipus, Russell Thomas; Jocasta, J’nai Bridges; Creon, John Relyea; Tiresias, Morris Robinson; Narrator, Stephen Fry; Conductor, James Conlon.

American Dance Guild Festival Week Seven Begins This Monday
by A.A. Cristi - Nov 20, 2020

Reaching into its archival treasure trove of rarely seen recordings of past events, The American Dance Guild continues their virtual offering 10 Years Over 10 Weeks, a rich collection of video performances of honorees and guest artists over the last ten years of ADG Performance Festivals.

Nettwerk Signs Ten Kills The Pack
by Kaitlin Milligan - Apr 16, 2020

Nettwerk is excited to announce the signing of Toronto-based “city songwriter” Ten Kills The Pack (aka Sean Sroka). 

The Crossing Releases CARTHAGE, Featuring Six Works By James Primosch, On Navona Records
by A.A. Cristi - Apr 15, 2020

On Friday, May 22, 2020, GRAMMY-winning choir The Crossing, led by Donald Nally, releases CARTHAGE, an album featuring six striking pieces by composer James Primosch, on Navona Records. Internationally recognized and prolific, Primosch is the 2020 winner of The Virgil Thomson Award for Vocal Music from The American Academy of Arts and Letters.

92Y's Unterberg Poetry Center Celebrates Poetry Month with Neruda, Nabokov And Much More
by A.A. Cristi - Apr 15, 2020

92Y's Unterberg Poetry Center continues its celebration of National Poetry Month with archival recordings of readings by many of the best-known poets, including Maya Angelou, W.H. Auden (pictured above), e.e. cummings, T.S. Eliot, Robert Frost, Pablo Neruda (his first U.S. reading), Kay Ryan, U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo, Adrienne Rich, Mary Oliver , Tracy K. Smith and Seamus Heaney, among many others.  All of the poets mentioned have appeared at 92Y as part of the Poetry Center's main reading series; the Poetry Center began in 1939.

Poetic Theater Productions Presents Love Redefined: RENEW
by A.A. Cristi - Jan 25, 2020

Poetic Theater Productions announces their tenth annual Love Redefined showcase, Love Redefined: RENEW to take place Wednesday, February 19th, 2020 at 8:00pm at Judson Memorial Church, presented with Judson Arts. Love Redefined is a celebration of radical love of self and others with a night of poetic, theatrical, and musical remixes, re-imaginings and riffs.

Natalie Merchant and Francisco Nunez Tapped for ASCAP Foundation Honors
by Kaitlin Milligan - Oct 28, 2019

The ASCAP Foundation announces that multi-platinum recording artist, songwriter and social justice activist Natalie Merchant will be recognized with The ASCAP Foundation Champion Award and composer, conductor, artistic director and founder of the Young People's Chorus of New York City (YPC) Francisco Núñez will accept The ASCAP Foundation Life in Music Award at The ASCAP Foundation Honors on Wednesday, December 11 in New York City.

Pontine Theatre Presents THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES
by Julie Musbach - Sep 18, 2019

11-27 October, Pontine Theatre's co-directors, Greg Gathers & Marguerite Mathews, bring their unique approach to literary adaptation to Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1851 Gothic Romance, The House of the Seven Gables. Performances are Fridays at 7pm, Saturdays at 3pm and Sundays at 2pm.

Collaborative Arts Institute of Chicago Announces 2019 Collaborative Works Festival
by Stephi Wild - Aug 8, 2019

Collaborative Arts Institute of Chicago's 19/20 season will open with the 8th annual Collaborative Works Festival, held in venues around Chicago September 5, 7 and 8, 2019. The 2019 Collaborative Works Festival, The Living, will explore a diverse array of today's leading composers, and the work these composers are doing in the field of song.

CDI/Concert Dance Inc. Returns to the Ravinia Festival with the Ruth Page Festival
by Sarah Hookey - May 9, 2019

CDI/Concert Dance Inc. (CDI) returns to the Ravinia Festival as part of the annual Ruth Page Festival of Dance Saturday, June 1 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, June 2 at 4 p.m. in Ravinia's Bennett Gordon Hall, 418 Sheridan Rd. Gates open on Saturday, June 1 at 4 p.m. and Sunday, June 2 at 3 p.m. Regularly commissioned by Ravinia to present new works, CDI Artistic Director Venetia Stifler's 2019 program will include Colandd's El Salon Mexico in Berstein's two-piano arrangement.