Executive Director & Chief Curator Savona Bailey-McClain of the West Harlem Art Fund has been tapped for MEET THE EXPERTS at the New York Times Travel Show this Sunday. McClain's talk will focus on cross-culture collecting, which is growing around the world.

Lincoln Center announced today '30 Days for $30,' a new initiative offering greater access to performances for 30 days between February 1 and March 4, 2017. Via an online lottery hosted by Jujamcyn Theaters, Lincoln Center and many of its resident organizations will make prime seats available for only $30 to a wide swath of productions across the campus.

NYU Steinhardt's Program in Vocal Performance today announced it will present the musical The Mystery of Edwin Drood on February 2-6, 2017. The show features book, lyrics, and music by Rupert Holmes. Dallett Norris directs.

The Segal Center Film Festival on Theatre and Performance is set for March 2,3, & 6, 2017 at The Graduate Center, CUNY (365 Fifth Avenue at 34th Street). The festival's all-day programming is free and open to the public!

Actor-writer duo Rachel Ravel and Austin Spero premiere the pilot episode of their musical comedy web series, RACHEL UNRAVELED, at the Allouche Gallery in the Meatpacking District.

After listening to a few songs from 'Speculum Orum - Shackled to the Dead', the 2013 record from Brooklyn-based, genre-defying composer/vocalist/pianist and visual/fine artist M Lamar, esteemed composer/vocalist/artist Diamanda Galas proclaimed, 'THIS BITCH CAN SING!' Now Lamar, whose music crosses opera, metal and blues, is getting ready to release two new albums, 'Funeral Doom Spiritual' and 'Surveillance Punishment and the Black Psyche' today, January 27, 2017.

Direct from the National Concert Hall in Dublin, the acclaimed Irish balladeer Declan O'Rourke returns to Irish Arts Center with a ten-piece chamber orchestra conducted by Henry Hey (Ireland Rising, David Bowie's Lazarus), February 17-19.

The Broadway League announced today that 17 Times Square area restaurants will be participating in the 21st Kids' Night on Broadway, which will take place Tuesday, February 28th, 2017. Each eatery will offer specials for Kids' Night on Broadway ticket-holders, including free entrees for young theatregoers.

Join American hip hop recording artist Joey Badass, along with Kirk Knight and Nyck Caution at Hoodies for the Homeless' "Party with a Purpose," an exclusive event full of art, music, and fashion that's opening the New York Fashion Week on February 8.

Pop icon and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Darlene Love will be honored at the 32nd Annual Bistro Awards on Monday, March 13, where she will be receiving the Bob Harrington Lifetime Achievement Award, the Bistro Awards' highest honor, for her five decades of musical accomplishments.

On January 24, Will Friedwald, producer, feature writer for The Wall Street Journal, author of nine books on popular music, countless articles, and liner notes, moved his nostalgic CLIP JOINT series to Lexington Avenue at 92nd Street Y. For the uninitiated, CLIP JOINT offers curated video clips---many not seen in decades---from a huge vintage collection of quality sources, DVD and 16mm (not downloaded from YouTube). Each themed program features writers, musicians, and/or vocalists associated with our American Songbook. Friedwald's economic commentary, encyclopedic knowledge, and openness to questions is a unique resource for fans and professionals alike.

Join Les Femmes Fatales on Saturday, Feb. 18 at the Metropolitan Room for 'Unleashed: Pilots, Puppies and Pasties,' an unforgettable evening of burlesque and vaudeville to benefit Pilots to the Rescue. This thrilling showcase features magic, music and performances from some of NYC's hottest boylesque and burlesque stars.

A rotating cast of comedians create hilarious, unscripted sketches based on audience suggestions in 'BeerProv,' continuing at the Highline Ballroom (431 W. 16th St.) on Thursday, February 9th, at 8 p.m.

Carolines on Broadway announces its line-up for the month of February, highlighted by headliners Michael Ian Black, from Netflix's Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp, February 2 - 4; The Hodgetwins, on their No Filter Tour, Jamie Lee, on her Weddiculous Tour, February 9 - 11; Joel McHale, from CBS's The Great Indoors, President's Day Weekend, February 17 - 19; and Leslie Jones, from NBC's Saturday Night Live, February 23 - 25.

Developing Artists is a place where all the performing arts come together - acting, singing, spoken word, rap, poetry, music, dance - to create.

An ensemble of artists committed to exploring the rarely heard music of Louis Durey present six of his unpublished manuscripts, including four North American premieres, on Saturday, February 4 at 4:00 p.m. at La Maison Francaise at New York University as a prelude to a recording to be released this May by New Focus Records.

Recently, Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña visited the Flushing Family Residence to announce the Afterschool Reading Club, a brand-new literacy enrichment pilot for elementary school students living in shelters. This is the DOE's first citywide literacy-focused after school effort in shelters, and the pilot reflects the Administration's dedication to supporting the needs of students in temporary housing, and its commitment across all NYC's public schools to strengthening early literacy instruction and engaging parents as partners in students' education.

VISION 22, the premier festival of FreeJazz, is dedicated to a Just Future. Since its inception in 1996, Arts for Art and the Vision Festival have advocated for human rights and justice. At this moment, when human rights and the environment are under attack, Arts for Art and the community of artists that AFA represents, feel it is important to use music and art as well as our words to convey our commitment to these basic issues of Life and Justice.

Cantata Singers continues its 53rd season with two performances of Bach's profound and enduring choral masterpiece, the B Minor Mass. The first performance will be held on Friday, February 24th, 2017 at 8:00pm at NEC's Jordan Hall, and the second on Sunday, February 26th, 2017 at 3:00pm at Cary Hall in Lexington.

Outside of an arena, few performers can earn a minutes-long ovation without even opening their mouths. But the inimitable Marilyn Maye is certainly one of those performers.

In the work of dancer Jose Maya, the beauty and power of flamenco dancing get a fresh, dramatic turn. He has an explosive, virile style that invokes the great flamencotradition - while his choreographies seem to pull flamenco forward, into the future. Maya will present his powerful original work, Latente: A Flamenco Journey, in its New York debut at the Schimmel Center at Pace University on February 17, 2017 at 7:30pm.

Join Hostess Miss Astrid and a bevy of burlesque beauties, February 14th at the Highline Ballroom for the 7th Annual Filthy Gorgeous Burlesque Valentines Spectacular!

This winter, Tony- and Oscar Award-winning actress Mercedes Ruehl returns to the faculty at HB Studio, one of New York's most venerable institutions for theater training and practice, to teach an advanced scene study class for professional performers.

New York Live Arts presents the world premiere of choreographer Andrea Kleine's latest dance project, My Dinner with Andrea: the piece formerly known as Torture Playlist, which takes its cue from the 1981 Wallace Shawn and André Gregory movie, My Dinner With André.

Could experiencing what the two U.S. presidential candidates said and how they said it during the three 2016 presidential debates -- but with the genders inverted -- cause people to revisit their own personal biases and develop insights or a different perspective?