Downtown Urban Arts Festival Kicks Off Next Month
by Stephi Wild - Apr 4, 2023
The DOWNTOWN URBAN ARTS FESTIVAL will present 16 plays (nine shorts and seven one-acts.) The festival kicks off on Friday, May 5 and Saturday, May 6 when Savion Glover and Reg E. Gaines (Bring in da Noise Bring in da Funk) make a much-anticipated return to The Public Theater with the centerpiece production If Trane Wuz Here.
The Inaugural Gold Standard Arts Festival Announces PLAY FEST! Lineup
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Mar 28, 2022
Gold Standard Arts Festival has announced the lineup for their PLAY FEST which consists of eleven ten-minute plays. The lineup includes works by Academy Award-winners, OBIE winners, Tony nominated writers and TV, Film and Broadway veterans. The one-of-a-kind festival celebrates film, theatre, cabaret, and comedy artists who are 50+.
Queens Theatre to Present First In-Person Play Readings Since Pandemic Shut Down
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Nov 5, 2021
Queens Theatre will mark its first in-person play readings since the start of the pandemic with two evenings of performances. 'SHORTS! An Evening of Short Plays' on Saturday, November 6th at 8 PM ET and 'MORE SHORTS! Another Evening of Short Plays' on Saturday, December 4th at 8 PM ET.
Queens Theatre Returns to In-Person Performances With SHORTS! AN EVENING OF SHORT PLAYS
by Stephi Wild - Oct 29, 2021
Queens Theatre marks its first in-person play readings since the start of the pandemic with two evenings of performances. SHORTS! An Evening of Short Plays on Saturday, November 6th at 8 PM and MORE SHORTS! Another Evening of Short Plays on Saturday, December 4th at 8 PM feature plays written and directed by artists who identify as Asian.
NSKIP to Present STATUEFEST
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Sep 2, 2021
NSKIP will present StatueFest On Stage, live performances of theatrical monologues celebrating statue-worthy New York women at PRTTheatre (Puerto Rican Traveling Theater), 304 W. 47th St. at Eighth Ave. in Manhattan in two separate programs on September 30 and October 1, both at 7 pm.
PUT A WOMAN ON A PEDESTAL Announces Final Evening Of Plays
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jun 7, 2021
Celebrating the stories of statue-worthy women are seven new plays in monologue form that will be performed virtually on Friday, June 18 at 7 pm (EDT) as a part of Put A Woman On A Pedestal, a StatueFest of theatrical works.
IASNY and The Nuyorican Poets Cafe Present LIBERTY's DAUGHTERS - Immigrant Women's Monologues
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Mar 25, 2021
IASNY Nuyorican Poets Café will present LIBERTY's DAUGHTERS, an afternoon of IMMIGRANT WOMEN'S MONOLOGUES presented by artists across generations and ethnicities. The event will take place at the storied (virtual) Nuyorican Poets Café, honoring WOMEN's HISTORY MONTH and WORLD THEATRE DAY in a live stream on Saturday, March 27, at 2 pm, EDT.
The New Shokan Kitchen Island Project Presents PUT A WOMAN ON A PEDESTAL
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Mar 11, 2021
On Friday, March 19 at 7 pm (EDT) monologues by six playwrights will be seen in the world premiere of Put a Woman On A Pedestal, an on-line StatueFest of readings by Pauline David-Sax, Renee' Flemings, Allison Fradkin, Judith Pratt, Laura Shamas and Lucy Wang.
The New School's Mannes College of Music Announces Schneider Concerts Online Season
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Sep 23, 2020
The New School's Mannes College of Music has announced the Schneider Concerts ONLINE | 2020-21 Season - we have been working for the past few months to develop a flexible model that will allow us to continue to provide outstanding, emerging chamber artists with performance opportunities and offer New York audiences introductions to chamber music.
It's A Tie! Two First Prize Winners at the Banff International String Quartet Competition
by Marianka Swain - Sep 2, 2019
In an unprecedented jury decision, the Marmen Quartet from the UK comprised of Johannes Marmen (violin), Bryony Gibson-Cornish (violist), Steffan Morris (cellist) and Ricky Gore (violin) together with the Viano String Quartet from Canada/USA comprised of Lucy Wang (violin), Hao Zhou (violin), Aiden Kane (viola), Tate Zawadiuk (cello) have won one of the most coveted prizes in chamber music at the 13th Banff International String Quartet Competition (BISQC) at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity.
Colburn School Student Hao Zhou Wins Montreal International Violin Competition
by A.A. Cristi - Jun 7, 2019
Colburn School student Hao Zhou (Community School '15, Conservatory of Music '19) was selected as the Grand Laureate of the 2019 Concours Musical International de Montreal Violin Competition. Watch his final performance of Shostakovich's Violin Concerto with the Orchestre symphonique de Montreal here.