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Delaware County Dance Film Festival Returns This July & August

The Andes Dance Collective, founded by dancer/choreographers Gloria McLean, Columbine Macher, David Capps and composer/performer Marshall Coid, presents the DELAWARE COUNTY 2ND DANCE FILM FESTIVAL AND WORKSHOP, bringing new dance and music events to the Catskills Delaware County region.  This year, in two 4-day weekends, July 21-24 and August 4-7, the Festival will include two live dance/music performances (premieres), film screenings, and dance workshops.
Downtown Music Productions Presents A CHAMBER CHRISTMAS CAROL Dec 23 At St. Marks Church-in-the-Bowery

Downtown Music Productions will present A Chamber Christmas Carol on Sunday, December 23 @ 7:00 PM at St. Marks Church-in-the-Bowery, 131 E. 10 St. (at 2nd Avenue) in New York, New York.
Tom Ligon Stars in Ray Leslee's A CHAMBER CHRISTMAS CAROL at St. Mark's Church

Tired of the same old Christmas Carol? Downtown Music Productions presents A Chamber Christmas Carol at the gorgeous St. Mark's Church-in-the-Bowery. Composer Ray Leslee (Avenue X, Standup Shakespeare) has created a brand-new take on the holiday season's most prolific tale. This ONE NIGHT ONLY event features a virtuoso company of five musicians and five actors who play 35 roles, telling the classic tale through Leslee's music and selections from Dickens' masterpiece. Tom Ligon (Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo) stars as Scrooge. The cast includes Mark Boyett, Jack McCarthy, JD Mollison and Alex Sunderhaus. The musicians are Broadway veterans Jack Bashkow (woodwinds), Jeff Carney (bass), Marshall Coid (violin), Ron Hay (trombone) and Mimi Stern-Wolfe at the piano. Margarett Perry directs.
Mira J. Spektor's LADY OF THE CASTLE Comes to Opera America Today

The Aviva Players present Mira J. Spektor's Lady of The Castle, A Ghostly Post-Holocaust Chamber Opera, based on a true story & an Israeli play by Lea Goldberg.
Mira J. Spektor's LADY OF THE CASTLE Coming to Opera America & Scandinavia House

The Aviva Players will present Mira J. Spektor's Lady of The Castle, A Ghostly Post-Holocaust Chamber Opera, based on a true story & an Israeli play by Lea Goldberg.
Larry Marshall Performs A Lincoln Portrait with Downtown Music Productions 2/12

Downtown Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Mimi Stern-Wolfe, presents, on the birthday of Abraham Lincoln, a performance of Aaron Copland's A Lincoln Portrait, with Broadway's Larry Marshall as narrator; Creation du Monde by Darius Milhaud, and Flower of the Mountain by Pulitzer-prize winning composer Stephen Albert, inspired by the writings of James Joyce, with Alissa Grimaldi, soprano.    Sunday February 12, 3:30 PM at St. Mark's in the Bowery, 131 West 10th Street (Second Avenue).
Downtown Music Productions and Howl Gallery Present PINS AND NEEDLES

Mimi Stern-Wolfe's Downtown Music Productions will appear in a revival of Harold Rome's witty satire Pins and Needles, music direction by Stern-Wolfe, stage direction by Larry Marshall, choreography by Mercedes Ellington,Tuesday October 25, 7 PM, at the Howl Gallery, 6 East 1st Street.  (All proceeds will go to the Actor's Fund and HOWL Help.)  With its critically acclaimed score and lyrics, Pins and Needles,  written in 1937, is a unique call for social justice and equity.
BWW Review: ERWIN SCHULHOFF RETROSPECTIVE Swings at Center for Jewish History

Recently honored as a Lower East Side Community Hero, pianist Mimi Stern-Wolfe walked onstage on the evening of May 25th 2016 at the Center for Jewish History in NYC. She is the founder and artistic director of Downtown Chamber Players and the recipient of the 2015 Clara Lemlich Award. And she did not speak a word. Her fingers recited history in Tango, Charleston, Waltz, Foxtrot, Blues, Maxixe.
Aviva Players Open Season with 'Songs, Piano Rags & Chamber Music by Women Composers' Tonight

The Aviva Players will begin its 40th season tonight, October 16 with 'Songs, Piano Rags & Chamber Music by Women Composers, including the Piano Trio by Fanny Mendelssohn,' the first installment of a three-part concert series at Opera America, 330 Seventh Ave.  The concert will include piano rags by May Frances Aufderheide, Irene Giblin and Adeline Shepard; songs by Mira J. Spektor, and 'Vocal Duets' and 'The Piano Trio' by Fanny Mendelssohn.  The evening is presented in conjunction with Downtown Music Productions.
Aviva Players to Open Season with 'Songs, Piano Rags & Chamber Music by Women Composers', 10/16

The Aviva Players will begin its 40th season on October 16 with 'Songs, Piano Rags & Chamber Music by Women Composers, including the Piano Trio by Fanny Mendelssohn,' the first installment of a three-part concert series at Opera America, 330 Seventh Ave.  The concert will include piano rags by May Frances Aufderheide, Irene Giblin and Adeline Shepard; songs by Mira J. Spektor, and 'Vocal Duets' and 'The Piano Trio' by Fanny Mendelssohn.  The evening is presented in conjunction with Downtown Music Productions.
Mimi Stern-Wolfe & Laura Wolfe to Perform at Pangea, 12/14

Mimi Stern-Wolfe, pianist, and Laura Wolfe, singer/songwriter, will appear Sunday December 14 at 7 PM at The Pangea in a delightful program of songs by Joni Mitchell, original songs by Laura, a Harold Rome favorite, and some Lower East Side-influenced music by the mother & daughter team who are longtime Lower East Side residents.
First Lower East Side Community Hero Awards Set for 5/4 at Pier 42

The Steering Committee of Lower East Side History Month announces the inaugural ceremony to present the first Lower East Side Community Hero Awards. The awards are being presented to Ruth Taube, Steve Cannon, Robert Graf, Mimi Stern-Wolfe, and Detective Jaime Hernandez. Presenting the awards will be Bob Holman (Bowery Arts & Science), Carolyn Ratcliffe (Arts Loisaida), Silva Ajemian (First Street Green), Lori Weissman (LES Jewish Conservancy), David Garza (Henry Street Settlement), and the office of Councilwoman Rosie Mendez.
LaMama E.T.C. & Ailey Citigroup Present Theatre and Dance Shows, Now thru 11/4

This weekend get your fill of Theater, Musical Theater, and Dance at three great productions: Triple Shadow continues at LaMaMa E.T.C. through November 4th, Korhan Basaran Dance at Ailey Citigroup Theatre, and Downtown Music Productions in Harold Rome's PINS AND NEEDLES.
LaMaMa E.T.C. & Howl Arts Inc. Present Harold Rome's 1937 PINS AND NEEDLES, 10/27 - 28

Mimi Stern-Wolfe's Downtown Music Productions will appear in a revival of Harold Rome's witty satire PINS AND NEEDLES, music direction by Stern-Wolfe, stage direction of Jonathan Cerullo. The revue will take place tonight, October 27th at 10 pm and October 28th at 5:30 pm in The Club at LaMaMa E.T.C.
LaMama E.T.C. & Ailey Citigroup To Present Theatre and Dance Shows This Weekend

This weekend get your fill of Theater, Musical Theater, and Dance at three great productions: Triple Shadow continues at LaMaMa E.T.C. through November 4, Korhan Basaran Dance at Ailey Citigroup Theatre, and Downtown Music Productions in Harold Rome's PINS AND NEEDLES.
LaMaMa E.T.C. & Howl Arts Inc. To Present Harold Rome's 1937 PINS AND NEEDLES, 10/27 - 28

Mimi Stern-Wolfe's Downtown Music Productions will appear in a revival of Harold Rome's witty satire PINS AND NEEDLES, music direction by Stern-Wolfe, stage direction of Jonathan Cerullo. The revue will take place on October 27th at 10 pm and October 28th at 5:30 pm in The Club at LaMaMa E.T.C.
PINS & NEEDLES Plays Theatre80 For Howl! 10/14, 10/15

Downtown Music Productions and HOWL! Arts Project present the 1937 Topical Musical Revue PINS AND NEEDLES.
Photo Flash: Pins and Needles In Rehearsal At HOWL

As part of HOWL! ARTS PROJECT 2011, Mimi Stern-Wolfe's Downtown Music Productions and HOWL! Arts Project present Harold Rome's topical revue 'Pins and Needles' for two performances only -- on Friday, October 14 and Saturday, October 15 at 8:00pm -- at Theater 80 (80 St. Marks Place) in Manhattan.
Mother-Daughter Team Stars in THE CRADLE WILL ROCK, 9/28-29

The mother-daughter team of Mimi Stern-Wolfe and Laura Wolfe, longtime residents of the Lower East Side, will both appear in the upcoming production of Marc Blitzstein's historic musical 'The Cradle Will Rock,' presented by Howl Festival and the Actor's Fund. The four performances are September 2 & 3, and September 28 & 29 at Theatre 80 St. Mark's. Mimi Stern-Wolfe is a well known presenter and director of Downtown Music Productions, and will accompany the show on piano. Her daughter Laura Wolfe will appear in the role of Moll, the down-and-out streetwalker.
Mother-Daughter Team Stars in THE CRADLE WILL ROCK, 9/28-29

The mother-daughter team of Mimi Stern-Wolfe and Laura Wolfe, longtime residents of the Lower East Side, will both appear in the upcoming production of Marc Blitzstein's historic musical 'The Cradle Will Rock,' presented by Howl Festival and the Actor's Fund. The four performances are September 2 & 3, and September 28 & 29 at Theatre 80 St. Mark's. Mimi Stern-Wolfe is a well known presenter and director of Downtown Music Productions, and will accompany the show on piano. Her daughter Laura Wolfe will appear in the role of Moll, the down-and-out streetwalker.

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