A GAY SHOW FOR ALL PEOPLE to Return to The Duplex This Aprilby BWW News Desk - March 27, 2017Aaron Jackson (Broad City, UCB) and Josh Sharp (Comedy Central 'Comic to Watch') are back for another Gay Show For All People, a variety hour filled with songs and laughs from comics and queers and mostly people who are both. 75 Talented Young Artists Set for YoungArts' Week-Long NYC Intensiveby BWW News Desk - March 27, 2017The National YoungArts Foundation (YoungArts)'s 2017 YoungArts New York program will take place from April 25 to 30 and will offer approximately 75 of this year's YoungArts Winners - some of the country's most talented artists ages 15 to 18 years old - life-changing opportunities to learn, connect and collaborate with their peers and renowned artists across disciplines. Broadway's Maxx Reed Named New Sushi Roxx Choreographerby BWW News Desk - March 27, 2017Michael Jackson and Usher's former back up dancer, MaxxReed will put his dancing shoes on once again. The former star of the Broadway musical Spider-Man was just hired by SUSHI ROXX's owner Jason Apfelbaum to be the Midtown Manhattan restaurant's dance choreographer. 'SHERI SANDERS IS LEGIT!' Set for Subculture This Springby BWW News Desk - March 23, 2017Perfectly timed with the launch of her Rock The Audition online training platform, musical theatre revolutionary Sheri Sanders is celebrating! 'Sheri Sanders is LEGIT! An Evening Of Legit Musical Theatre' TITICUT FOLLIES: THE BALLET World Premiere Set for NYU Skirball Centerby BWW News Desk - March 23, 2017Titicut Follies: The Ballet, a world premiere ballet choreographed by James Sewell and inspired by Frederick Wiseman's startling 1967 documentary, will run for three performances, April 28 - 30, 2017 at NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts. Titicut Follies: The Ballet will be performed by the James Sewell Ballet, with an original score by Lenny Pickett. Photo Flash: TDF's Immersive PERFORMETERIA Festival Takes Over NYCby BWW News Desk - March 23, 2017On Monday night, March 20, Theatre Development Fund (TDF) presented the first of two evenings entitled PERFORMETERIA. PERFORMETERIA is TDF's first-ever immersive festival featured works from some of the most innovative Off-Off Broadway theatre and dance companies in New York City through its OffOff@$9 Program. Co-presented with Baruch PAC, over 500 PERFORMETERIA attendees travelled through multiple levels of theatres, nooks, and hidden venues to experience short original pieces by the participating companies. Scroll down for photos! BWW Review: Suzanne Vega Burns Bright Singing McCullers Songs at Cafe Carlyleby Troy Frisby - March 23, 2017Suzanne Vega is not a firecracker; she's a sparkler.
In the first night of her run at Cafe Carlyle on March 15---since the previous day's show was nixed due to a rude winter storm named Stella---Vega was dazzling, but in the smallest, most personal way possible. Getting up onstage, she spoke with the calm, reassuring but controlled tone of a therapist or a meditation coach. While that may not sound like a great recipe for a stage persona, Vega's stripped-down performance bordered on hypnotic. Storyteller Thomas R. Pryor to Bring STOOPS TO NUTS to Ryan's Daughter in Manhattanby BWW News Desk - March 22, 2017Author / storyteller Thomas R. Pryor ('I Hate the Dallas Cowboys: tales of a scrappy New York boyhood' - YBK Publishers) brings his 'Stoops to Nuts,' storytelling show back to his beloved neighborhood, Yorkville, for a special April Fool's Day celebration on Saturday, April 1st at Ryan's Daughter in Manhattan at 7:00pm. Lincoln Center Festival to 'Cross Borders' with 2017 Lineupby BWW News Desk - March 22, 2017Nigel Redden, Lincoln Center Festival Director, today announced the lineup for the 2017 Festival, which runs from July 10 to 30. This summer, in its 22nd season, the Festival continues to accentuate its mission of globalism by inviting to Lincoln Center artists and companies from many parts of the world who are creating audacious, original, and relevant work. Musicians, actors, writers, directors, filmmakers and dancers from a dozen countries and five continents will animate Lincoln Center's campus venues with bold creations-43 performances packed in a span of three weeks. Vy Higginsen's Gospel Choir from Harlem to Host Concert Series This Springby BWW News Desk - March 22, 2017Vy Higginsen and The Mama Foundation for The Arts announces their first Harlem Gospel Concert Series starring Vy Higginsen's Gospel Choir from Harlem at The Dempsey Theater, 127 West 127th Street starting April 15th at 2:00pm and continuing the first three Saturdays of May (6th, 13th & 20th) at 4:30pm.
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