TRU and The Playroom Theatre to Host 'WHY SOLO SHOWS?' Panelby BWW News Desk - December 16, 2016Theater Resources Unlimited (TRU) and The Playroom Theatre present the December panel Solo Performance: Why Solo Shows? Understanding the Appeal, Mining the Market, on Tuesday, December 20, 2016 at 7:30 p.m. at The Playroom Theater, 151 W. 46th Street, 8th floor, NYC 10036. Billy Joel Adds Record 40th Consecutive Show at Madison Square Gardenby BWW News Desk - December 16, 2016The Madison Square Garden Company just announced the unprecedented 40th consecutive show by legendary musician and MSG franchise Billy Joel. The Friday, April 14th show is part of his residency at The World's Most Famous Arena which began in January 2014 with Joel playing one show per month at The Garden as part of the Spectrum Concert Series. The April show will be Joel's 86th all-time performance at The Garden. 'Third Gender' Revealed in Classical Japanese Art This Spring at Japan Society Galleryby BWW News Desk - December 16, 2016Japan Society Gallery announces the U.S. premiere of A Third Gender: Beautiful Youths in Japanese Prints, the first exhibition in North America devoted to the variety of gender and sexual expression in traditional Japanese society by focusing on wakashu, attractive male youths who, the exhibitions reveals, constituted a distinct gender category during the Edo period (1603-1868). MuSE to Present Immersive DANCE-IT-YOURSELF NUTCRACKERby BWW News Desk - December 15, 2016On December 30, 2016, Multicultural Sonic Evolution (MuSE) will present Dance-It-Yourself Nutcracker (DIY Nutcracker), a reimagined, immersive production of Tchaikovsky's classic ballet with 8 dancers and full orchestra. BWW Review: Timeliness Meets Timelessness in THE WORLD ACCORDING TO KURT WEILL at Urban Stages' WINTER RHYTHMSby Casey Mink - December 15, 2016In THE WORLD ACCORDING TO KURT WEILL, one of the more than 20 shows put together to form the Winter Rhythms festival benefiting arts education, old met new and timeliness met timelessness.
At Urban Stages on December 6, six skilled performers were assembled to interpret several of the most well-known songs of the composer Kurt Weill (who died in the year 1950), through the lens of the world as we see it in 2016. This meant that each song from shows such as ONE TOUCH OF VENUS or THREEPENNY OPERA was introduced with a framing device that was the statement of an accurate and modern headline or situation ("The Refugee Crisis in Syria Worsens," "Donald Trump Wins the Election in Shocking Upset"). Lumberyard Sets 2017 NYC Season at The Kitchenby BWW News Desk - December 14, 2016Lumberyard Contemporary Performing Arts (formerly American Dance Institute) is pleased to announce its 2017 season at The Kitchen, which will comprise the premieres of five new contemporary performance works.
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