The Village Light Opera Group to Present CURTAINSby BWW News Desk - April 14, 2017The Village Light Opera Group presents 'Curtains', running May 5th-7th at The Riverside Theatre, 91 Claremont Ave (between 120th St. and 121st St.), New York, NY 10027. Author Rescues Time-Honored Traditions of Japanese Boatbuildingby BWW News Desk - April 14, 2017Fearing that the techniques, designs, and secrets of the specialized trade of Japanese boatbuilding might disappear within one or two generations, craftsman and Japanese boat specialist Douglas Brooks embarked on a quest spanning two decades to preserve and document these time-honored traditions. Chess in the Schools to Host 30th Anniversary Benefitby BWW News Desk - April 14, 2017Chess in the Schools, the nonprofit educational organization empowering New York City's inner-city students through chess,will host its 30th Anniversary Benefit Celebration Monday, May 8 at Guastavino's (409 E 59th Street, NYC). Andrew Clarke and Dominique Allen Lawson to Lead New Musical 'WELCOME TO AMERICA'by BWW News Desk - April 14, 2017Andrew Clarke and Dominique Allen Lawson have been cast in leading roles in the highly anticipated new musical Welcome to America - A Caribbean Musical, which will have its World Premiere performance in New York on Thursday April 20 at 8pm at the Milton G. Bassin Performing Arts Center at York College, Jamaica Queens. BWW Review: BROADWAY BY THE YEAR Illuminates the Timeless Relationship Between Art and Culture, Paying Tribute to the 1940sby Casey Mink - April 13, 2017At the most recent BROADWAY BY THE YEAR presentation on March 27, at its usual home of the Town Hall, the 1940s was the sent-up decade from which the evening's performers sang. At a time in the country that currently bears striking and cryptic similarity to that grim period of global history, the resonance of the evening's selections rang eerily. Additionally, they also demonstrated how little the relationship between culture and society has changed over the last seven decades. Martin Scorsese Exhibition to Close This Month at MoMI with Special Guestsby Movies News Desk - April 13, 2017The exhibition, Martin Scorsese, devoted to the director's life, work, and passion for cinema, which opened on December 11, has attracted more than 50,000 visitors to the Museum's galleries and to the comprehensive retrospective of the director's work in its theaters. Learn the ANATOMY OF A MUSICAL with EAG Industry Panelby BWW News Desk - April 13, 2017Tony Award-winning producer Margot Astrachan (A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder) is joined by a panel of musical theatre industry veterans on Wednesday, April 19 at 7pm for an insightful discussion about how musicals come together. New Georges to Present 'Works On Water' Series This June at 3LD Art & Technology Centerby BWW News Desk - April 13, 2017New Georges will continue their 25th Anniversary Season by presenting the World Premiere of (NOT) WATER by Sheila Callaghan, directed by Daniella Topol as part of Works On Water, a month-long, multi-disciplinary art event that presents multiple artistic perspectives on water in a global context, at the 3LD Art & Technology Center (80 Greenwich Street) June 5-30, 2017. The Cecilia Chorus of New York to Present World Premiere of A GARDEN AMONG THE FLAMESby BWW News Desk - April 13, 2017The Cecilia Chorus of New York, Mark Shapiro, Music Director, will present the World Premiere of A Garden Among the Flames, a commissioned work by Syrian composer Zaid Jabri on a Sufi text poem by Ibn Arabi, with additional text by Yvette Christiansë, on Saturday, May 6 @ 8:00 PM at Carnegie Hall's Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage, 57th St. and 7th Ave. Cantata Profana to Explore the Inexpressible in 'WHEN WORDS FAIL'by BWW News Desk - April 13, 2017The vocal/instrumental group Cantata Profana explores the struggle to express the inexpressible. The program, featuring mezzo-soprano Annie Rosen, cellist Hannah Collins and pianist Lee Dionne, is at Baruch Performing Arts Center's acoustically stunning Engelman Recital Hal. Artists Come Together for HOUSE DIVIDED at PEN World Voices Festivalby BWW News Desk - April 13, 2017Following the Women's Marches around the country, Occupy and other recent protests, we ask ourselves: what next? House Divided unites artists, writers, thinkers, and politicos in a one-of-a-kind event to be held at the historic Great Hall at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art where Lincoln gave his famous address against the expansion of slavery.
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