Abrons Arts Center Announces Spring 2018 Season
On February 12, 1915, the Abrons Arts Center's Henry Street Settlement Playhouse opened its doors on the Lower East Side. Since that day, it has remained a vital cultural resource, providing audiences with artistically bold work while offering artists opportunities to dynamically grow. The OBIE Award-winning institution has drawn a diverse audience to its historic home at the Henry Street Settlement on the Lower East Side and has garnered a wealth of critical acclaim across artistic disciplines. The work Abrons presents reflects the social and political challenges of our times in ways that are programmatically integrated into broader conversations that affect New York City and beyond.
THE HIGGS FAKE, a New Book by Dr. Alexander Unzicker, Criticizes the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics
Houston, TX, October 29, 2013 - The Higgs Fake – How Particle Physicists Fooled the Nobel Committee, the new book by Dr. Alexander Unzicker, is a merciless critique of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN and of the theoretical model on which the world's most expensive experiment is based. Unzicker's book starts off by claiming: 'The 2013 Nobel Prize for the discovery of the Higgs boson would have been considered ridiculous by physics' greatest minds such as Einstein, Schrödinger or Dirac.”
Sundance Institute and Alfred P. Sloan Mark 10th Anniversary of Collaboration
Sundance Institute and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation today announced the members of the Sloan Jury at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, who will also participate in the Science in Film Forum Panel at the Festival. The members of the 2013 Sloan Jury are: Paula Apsell (Senior Executive Producer, Nova and Nova ScienceNow, Director, WGBH Science Unit), Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan, The Fountain, Pi), Scott Burns (writer, Contagion, Pu-239, The Informant and producer, An Inconvenient Truth), Dr. André Fenton (Professor of Neural Science at the Center for Neural Science at New York University), Dr. Lisa Randall (Frank B. Baird, Jr., Professor of Science, Harvard University, author of Knocking on Heaven's Door: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate the Universe and the Modern World).
Joe's Pub Announces Upcoming Events and Shows
JOE'S PUB at The Public Theater, reopened October 4th, 2011 from a top to bottom renovation, debuted in October 1998 and quickly became one of New York City's most celebrated and in-demand showcase venues for live music and performance. With its genre-blind booking and vast diversity of interests, the stage at Joe's Pub gives voice to a world of varied and stellar artists. Joe's Pub is open seven days a week, regularly hosting as many as three shows a day. Dinner and drink service is available during every performance. In addition to its reputation of presenting internationally known stars, Joe's Pub has also developed into a premier showcase stage for up-and-coming musicians and emerging artists from a variety of disciplines. www.joespub.com
Kaaitheatre Presents 'Hypermusic Prologue: A Projective Opera in Seven Planes'
ypermusic Prologue est avant tout l'histoire d'une rencontre entre un jeune compositeur espagnol, Hector Parra, et une physicienne americaine, Lisa Randall. Lui est fascine par les recherches de la scientifique sur les modeles cosmologiques et la physique quantique. Elle est passionnee par l'opera et confie un jour au compositeur son desir d'ecrire un livret sur les nouvelles theories en astrophysique. Ils decident alors de creer Hypermusic Prologue, un opera d'un nouveau type qui relie entre eux les mondes de l'art et de la science. Tres vite, le plasticien anglais Matthew Ritchie, dont l'oeuvre proteiforme tend a distordre les supports finis, rejoint cette aventure artistique hors du commun.
Kaaitheatre Presents 'Hypermusic Prologue: A Projective Opera in Seven Planes'
ypermusic Prologue est avant tout l'histoire d'une rencontre entre un jeune compositeur espagnol, Hector Parra, et une physicienne americaine, Lisa Randall. Lui est fascine par les recherches de la scientifique sur les modeles cosmologiques et la physique quantique. Elle est passionnee par l'opera et confie un jour au compositeur son desir d'ecrire un livret sur les nouvelles theories en astrophysique. Ils decident alors de creer Hypermusic Prologue, un opera d'un nouveau type qui relie entre eux les mondes de l'art et de la science. Tres vite, le plasticien anglais Matthew Ritchie, dont l'oeuvre proteiforme tend a distordre les supports finis, rejoint cette aventure artistique hors du commun.