Upcoming at State Theatre New Jersey
15 Livingston Ave.
New Brunswick, NJ
Free Summer Movie: Wonder
Tuesday August 7 10:30 AM & 7:00 PM
For more information or to purchase tickets, visit
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Upcoming at The Academy of Natural Sciences at Drexel University
1900 Benjamin Franklin Parkway
Philadelphia, PA
Bug Fest
Saturday and Sunday, August 11 & 12, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Creepy, crawly, sticky, prickly, wiggly, yucky. And kinda cute. At least that is what they think about bugs at the Academy of Natural Sciences!
Join them for their annual celebration of insects! Enjoy new activities and shows plus revisit some old favorites—back by popular demand. Talk with real scientists, learn about insects from all over the world and see specimens from the Academy’s behind-the-scenes collections. Eat bugs, get your face painted and relax as you enjoy a buggy show.
- Take a closer look at some of the most misunderstood and fascinating insects, arachnids and more
- Join Academy entomologists on an expedition just outside the museum to look for bugs
- Stop by Shane Confectionery's table to view their edible display, Bugs in the Backyard
- Have your face painted or get an insect tattoo
- Make and take a creepy crawly critter craft
For more information or to purchase tickets, visit
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Upcoming at iPlay America
110 Schank Rd.
Freehold, NJ
Almost Journey - Classic Journey Tribute
Dinner Show
Sunday, August 12
Sunday August 12
Sunday August 12
Door Time: 4:00 PM – Start Time: 5:30 PM
Sunday August 12, Almost Journey: Classic Journey Tribute. Almost Journey is dedicated to recreating the intensity of the kings of arena rock in their heyday. Come hear them rock out to "Don't Stop Believin'," "Faithfully," "Any Way You Want It," and much more! Fall “Stone In Love” with the great music of Almost Journey!
For more information or to purchase tickets, visit
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PR Firm Roundup
News from DKC/O&M
ABBY MUELLER
RETURNS TO
BEAUTIFUL – THE CAROLE KING
MUSICAL
STARTING TUESDAY, AUGUST 7
AT THE STEPHEN SONDHEIM THEATRE
NEW BLOCK OF TICKETS ON SALE NOW
Abby Mueller will return to the title role in the Tony®, Olivier®, and Grammy® Award-winning smash hit Beautiful – The Carole King Musical at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre starting Tuesday, August 7.
In addition, a new block of tickets to Beautiful is on now sale via telecharge.com, by calling 212-239-6200, or in person at the Sondheim Theatre box office (124 West 43rd Street).
For more information, visit www.beautifulonbroadway.com
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RETURNS TO BROADWAY
AS HEIDI HANSEN
IN THE TONY AWARD-WINNING MUSICAL
DEAR EVAN HANSEN
BEGINNING AUGUST 7TH
On Broadway, Lisa has played an electric array of leading ladies, having starred as Donna Sheridan in Mamma Mia!, Elphaba in Wicked, Cleo in Twyla Tharp’s The Times They Are A-Changin’, Amneris in Aida, and Marion Halcolmbe in The Woman in White. Lisa is currently on the Acting faculty at Missouri State University’s acclaimed Department of Theater and Dance.
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News from Karen Greco PR
What's On At the Wild Project
August 6
EMPIRE STATE MUSIC & ARTS FESTIVAL PANEL DISCUSSION
Schedule: Monday at 8pm
Tickets: $10
EMPIRE STATE MUSIC & ARTS FESTIVAL PANEL DISCUSSION
Schedule: Monday at 8pm
Tickets: $10
Leading professionals discuss how independent artists can build sustainable and long lasting careers in the music industry. This industry talkback features Tee White (Director of Creative, BMG), Nina Lee (Senior Account Executive, Shore Fire Media), and Chris Carr (Artist & Curator, Brooklyn Wild Life).
August 8
NEVER TALK IN COSTUME written & performed by Josh Lay, directed by Joanna Simmons and Cory Cavin
Schedule: Wednesday at 8:00 PMNEVER TALK IN COSTUME written & performed by Josh Lay, directed by Joanna Simmons and Cory Cavin
Tickets: $15
Tickets available at Ovationtix or call 212-352-3101
Josh Lay, a former collegiate and professional mascot, is breaking the cardinal rule of the costume, and giving you a look behind the mask so he can finally move on with his life.
August 9 - August 11
NEW YORK NO LIMITS FILM SERIES 2018 SUMMIT
Produced by New York No Limits and The Wild Project
Tickets: $16 ($12 in advance)
NEW YORK NO LIMITS FILM SERIES 2018 SUMMIT
Produced by New York No Limits and The Wild Project
Tickets: $16 ($12 in advance)
A mix of feature length and short independent films that explore innovative, taboo and diverse subjects. The goal of NYNL is multi layered and broad; to create a film program of the most genre diverse, multi cultural and visionary independent films from around the world.
August 12
My Immortal: A MORE Dramatic Reading! !!! (rawr) adapted for the stage by Shannon Lippert, co-directed by Milo Jordan and Shannon Lippert
Schedule: Sunday at 7:30pm
Tickets: $17 (with one drink included)
My Immortal: A MORE Dramatic Reading! !!! (rawr) adapted for the stage by Shannon Lippert, co-directed by Milo Jordan and Shannon Lippert
Schedule: Sunday at 7:30pm
Tickets: $17 (with one drink included)
A group of POSERS (actors) will once again attempt to cash in on the amazing, perfect, 100% true (I was there) tragic tale of woe, and leather pants. Will Ebony Dark'ness Dementia Raven Way kill Vampire Potter before her beloved Draco is killed by......Voldemort(gasp)! No prepz allowed and ****NO FLAMES PLZ****
All performances are at The Wild Project (195 E. 3rd Street, between Avenues A & B).
Tickets can be purchased online at www.thewildproject.org.
Tickets can be purchased online at www.thewildproject.org.
The Box Office opens one hour prior to curtain.
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Upcoming at Lincoln Center
New York, NY
Monday, August 6–Wednesday, August 8 at 6:30 and 8:30 pm
Mostly Mozart Festival
The Force of Things: An Opera for Objects (New York premiere)
International Contemporary Ensemble
Ashley Fure, composer and co-director
Adam Fure, architectural design
César Alvarez, co-director
Lucy Dhegrae and Lisa E. Harris, voice
Ross Karre, percussion and producer
Levy Lorenzo, percussion and engineer
Nick Houfek, lighting
Lilleth Glimcher, associate director
Ashley Fure and Adam Fure: The Force of Things: An Opera for Objects (2016–17)
Composer Ashley Fure combines installation and live performance to create this immersive music-theater
experience, which premiered at Peak Performances in 2017 to rave reviews. Collaborating with her architect
brother Adam Fure and the International Contemporary Ensemble, she activates the Brooklyn space with 24
subwoofers vibrating at subsonic levels under a dense canopy of objects and materials to create an
otherworldly soundscape in which seven live performers overlay a wordless drama.
American Premiere, Alexander Kasser Theater, Peak Performances @ Montclair State University (NJ).
Co-produced by Peak Performances @ Montclair State University
The 2018 Mostly Mozart Festival presentation of The Force of Things is made possible in part by the
LuEsther T. Mertz Charitable Trust
Gelsey Kirkland Arts Center, Brooklyn
Tickets can be purchased online at MostlyMozartFestival.org, by phone via CenterCharge at 212.721.6500,
or by visiting the David Geffen Hall or Alice Tully Hall Box Offices.
Tuesday, August 7 – FREE – at 7:00 pm
Out of Doors
West Side Story: A Masterwork Reimagined
A conversation with Bobby Sanabria and Jamie Bernstein
Narrator, writer, broadcaster, and daughter of Leonard Bernstein, Jamie Bernstein joins educator, drummer,
composer, and arranger Bobby Sanabria to discuss his re-envisioning of West Side Story—which will be
performed in Damrosch Park on Friday, August 10—as well as the origins of the 60-year-old masterwork and
why it remains so relevant today.
Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center Amphitheater, 144 West 65th Street
FREE Seating is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis. For more information, including
program updates, visit LCOutOfDoors.org.
Tuesday, August 7 – FREE – at 6:15 pm
Mostly Mozart Festival
Artist Discussion: In the Name of the Earth
John Schaefer, moderator
Pulitzer Prize-winning composer John Luther Adams and esteemed conductor Simon Halsey join WNYC’s
John Schaefer to discuss the world premiere of In the Name of the Earth, Adams’s choral work for 800 singers
that was commissioned by Lincoln Center and will be performed under the baton of Halsey in Central Park
on August 11.
Co-presented with Lincoln Center Out of Doors
Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse, 165 West 65th Street, 10th floor
FREE Seating is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis. For more information, including
program updates, visit MostlyMozartFestival.org.
Wednesday, August 8 – FREE – at 6:30 pm
Out of Doors
Sun Ra Arkestra live score to Space Is the Place
Lean On Me: José James Celebrates Bill Withers
Samora Pinderhughes: The Transformations Suite
This cosmic evening, part of LPR’s 10th-anniversary celebrations, builds up to the Sun Ra Arkestra performing
the live score to the film, in which Black people create their own paradise on Saturn, transported there by
music. Getting us to that place tonight are the beloved songs of soul singer and composer Bill Withers (“Ain’t
No Sunshine When She’s Gone,” “Just the Two of Us”) performed by Blue Note jazz and R&B artist José
James. Jazz pianist and composer Samora Pinderhughes opens with The Transformations Suite, a musical
and theatrical examination of the radical history of resistance within communities of the African diaspora.
Presented as part of LPR X, celebrating (le) poisson rouge's 10th-anniversary season
Damrosch Park, 62nd Street, bet. Amsterdam and Columbus Avenues
FREE Seating is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis. For more information, including
program updates, visit LCOutOfDoors.org.
Tuesday, August 7 and Wednesday, August 8 at 7:30 pm
Mostly Mozart Festival
Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra
Louis Langrée, conductor
Daniel Lozakovich, violin
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John Adams: The Chairman Dances
Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 3 in G major, K.216
Beethoven: Symphony No. 1
Pre-concert recital at 6:30 pm
Dominic Cheli, piano
Brahms: Rhapsody in E-flat major
Liszt: Réminiscences de Don Juan
Seventeen-year-old Swedish-born violin prodigy Daniel Lozakovich joins the Mostly Mozart Festival
Orchestra in Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 3, which the composer wrote when he was 19. The program is
bookended by two works offering glimpses of artistic potential: John Adams’s The Chairman Dances, an
“outtake” that paved the way for his opera Nixon in China, and Beethoven’s First Symphony. Pianist Dominic
Cheli, first-prize winner of the 2017 Concert Artists Guild Competition, will perform Brahms’s Rhapsody in Eflat
Major and Lizst’s Réminiscences de Don Juan during pre-concert recitals at 6:30pm in David Geffen Hall.
David Geffen Hall, 10 Lincoln Center Plaza
Tickets can be purchased online at MostlyMozartFestival.org, by phone via CenterCharge at 212.721.6500,
or by visiting the David Geffen Hall or Alice Tully Hall Box Offices.
Wednesday, August 8 at 10:00 pm
Mostly Mozart Festival
A Little Night Music
Lyrics by Shakespeare
New York Festival of Song
Steven Blier, pianist, host, and arranger (Mostly Mozart Festival debut)
Mikaela Bennett, soprano (Mostly Mozart Festival debut)
Matt Boehler, bass (Mostly Mozart Festival debut)
Kathleen Chalfant, reader (Mostly Mozart Festival debut)
Dankworth: If music be the food of love
Dick Hyman: Who is Sylvia?
Vaughan Williams: Orpheus with his lute
Finzi: It was a lover and his lass
Quilter: Blow, blow, thou winter wind
Poulenc: Fancy
Berlioz: La mort d’Ophélie
Kabalevsky: Shakespeare Sonnet No. 13
Kabalevsky: Shakespeare Sonnet No. 153
Thomson: Sigh no more, ladies
Stephen Sondheim: Fear no more
Dankworth: Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day
Dankworth: Dunsinane Blues
In their first appearance at the Mostly Mozart Festival, the New York Festival of Song and its Artistic Director
Steven Blier explore the breadth of influence and inspiration of Shakespeare’s words on composers from
diverse cultures and eras. Mikaela Bennett and Matt Boehler, two exciting young singers, join Obie Award–
winning actor Kathleen Chalfant in celebrating the musical legacy of the Bard.
Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse, 165 West 65th Street, 10th Floor
Tickets can be purchased online at MostlyMozartFestival.org, by phone via CenterCharge at 212.721.6500,
or by visiting the David Geffen Hall or Alice Tully Hall Box Offices.
Thursday, August 9–Saturday, August 11 at 7:30 pm
Sunday, August 12 at 5:00 pm
Mostly Mozart Festival
Mark Morris Dance Group
Mark Morris, choreographer
I Don’t Want to Love
Monteverdi: Madrigals
Jolle Greenleaf, Brian Giebler, James Kennerley, Thomas Meglioranza, vocalists
Colin Fowler, harpsichord
Hank Heijink, theorbo
Daniel Swenberg, lute/guitar
John Moran, cello
Love Song Waltzes
Brahms: Liebeslieder-Walzer
Jennifer Zetlan, Luthien Brackett, Thomas Cooley, Thomas Meglioranza, vocalists
Colin Fowler, Amir Farid, piano
The Trout (World premiere)
Schubert: Piano Quintet in A major (“Trout”)
Inon Barnatan, piano
Ariel Quartet (Mostly Mozart Festival debut)
Timothy Cobb, bass
The world premiere of The Trout, set to Schubert’s famous quintet, anchors this performance, which also illuminates
music by Monteverdi and Brahms with Mark Morris’s buoyant and poetic choreography. The program includes three
dances spanning nearly 30 years of Mark Morris’s career, opening with two dances that explore the social intricacies
of romance—1989’s Love Song Waltzes set to Brahms’s romantic Liebeslieder-Walzer for voices and piano four hands,
and 1996’s I Don’t Want to Love, a revelatory exploration of some of Monteverdi’s most lovelorn madrigals. Acclaimed
pianist Inon Barnatan and members of the distinguished Ariel Quartet join the Mark Morris Dance Group for the
premiere of The Trout.
Tickets can be purchased online at MostlyMozartFestival.org, by phone via CenterCharge at 212.721.6500,
or by visiting the David Geffen Hall or Alice Tully Hall Box Offices.
Thursday, August 9 – FREE – at 7:30 & 9:30 pm
Mostly Mozart Festival
A wave and waves
International Contemporary Ensemble
Michael Pisaro’s 70-minute deep listening experience a wave and waves embeds audience members within
a slowly emerging ocean of sound created by 100 performers. Isolated, imperceptibly soft noises—sandpaper
on stone, seeds falling on glass, bowed bells—are layered into powerful waves of sound with reactive lighting
adding to the immersive nature of the experience. A work of monumental scale and uncommon immediacy,
a wave and waves melds microscopic moments of friction, gravity, and vibration into a single, pulsing
organism. This program is a collaboration between ICE, Walden School’s Young Musicians Program, and
Usdan Summer Camp for the Arts as part of the OpenICE initiative.
Due to the intimate, immersive nature of this experience, seating is very limited and will be available on a
first-come, first-served basis.
A collaboration of ICE, Walden School’s Young Musicians Program, and Usdan Summer Camp for the Arts
as part of the OpenICE initiative
David Rubenstein Atrium, Frieda and Roy Furman Stage (Broadway bet. 62nd & 63rd St.)
FREE Seating is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis. For more information, including
program updates, visit MostlyMozartFestival.org.
Friday, August 10 – FREE – at 7:30 pm
Out of Doors
West Side Story Reimagined
Bobby Sanabria Multiverse Big Band
Poetry by La Bruja and Rich Villar
Leonard Bernstein's score to West Side Story fused progressive big-band jazz, lyric opera, modern dance,
and Latin rhythms into a groundbreaking masterpiece that revolutionized the Broadway musical. Celebrate
Maestro Bernstein’s centennial year with the Grammy-nominated Bobby Sanabria Multiverse Big Band. Just
a few blocks from where the opening of the film was shot, they reimagine the timeless instrumental score
using traditional Afro-Puerto Rican, Cuban, Dominican, Brazilian, Venezuelan, and Mexican rhythms, funk,
rock, and jazz. Poets La Bruja and Rich Villar kick off the evening with an electrifying set of spoken word.
Damrosch Park, 62nd Street, bet. Amsterdam and Columbus Avenues
FREE Seating is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis. For more information, including
program updates, visit LCOutOfDoors.org.
Friday, August 10 and Saturday, August 11 at 7:30 pm
Mostly Mozart Festival
Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra
Louis Langrée, conductor
Stephen Hough, piano
Jodie Devos, soprano (U.S. debut)
Jennifer Johnson Cano, mezzo-soprano
Andrew Stenson, tenor (Mostly Mozart Festival debut)
Ryan Speedo Green, bass-baritone (Mostly Mozart Festival debut)
Concert Chorale of New York
James Bagwell, choral director
ALL-MOZART PROGRAM
Meistermusik (“Replevit me amaritudinibus”), K. deest
Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major, K.467
Requiem, K.626
A transcendent summer finale brings together the dirges of Mozart’s Meistermusik with the spiritual ascension
of his Requiem. Louis Langrée and the Festival Orchestra are joined by four acclaimed singers and the
Concert Chorale of New York for Mozart’s final masterpiece. Pianist Stephen Hough brings his intellect and
technical brilliance to one of the composer’s most beloved piano concertos, No. 21, famously known as
“Elvira Madigan.”
David Geffen Hall, 10 Lincoln Center Plaza
Tickets can be purchased online at MostlyMozartFestival.org, by phone via CenterCharge at 212.721.6500,
or by visiting the David Geffen Hall or Alice Tully Hall Box Offices.
Friday, August 10 at 10:00 pm
Mostly Mozart Festival
A Little Night Music
Stephen Hough, piano
Imani Winds (Mostly Mozart Festival debut)
Debussy: Clair de lune
Mozart: Quintet in E-flat major for piano and winds, K.452
Poulenc: Sextet for piano and winds
An exceptionally insightful concert pianist, as well as a writer and composer, Stephen Hough is joined by
acclaimed woodwind quintet Imani Winds. Opening with Debussy’s beloved Clair de lune, marking the 100th
anniversary of the composer’s death, the program then juxtaposes Mozart’s beloved chamber composition
for piano and woodwinds with one written by Poulenc nearly 150 years later.
Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse, 165 West 65th Street, 10th Floor
Tickets can be purchased online at MostlyMozartFestival.org, by phone via CenterCharge at 212.721.6500,
or by visiting the David Geffen Hall or Alice Tully Hall Box Offices.
Saturday, August 11 – FREE – at 3:00 pm
Mostly Mozart Festival
In the Name of the Earth
North, South, East, and West choruses
Simon Halsey, conductor
John Luther Adams: In the Name of the Earth (World premiere)
Continuing the tradition of presenting immersive, outdoor, musical experiences, Lincoln Center has
commissioned John Luther Adams to create this monumental work for 800 voices. For In the Name of the
Earth, Adams employs the sounds of indigenous names of geographical features across North America to
weave together a sonic landscape honoring the earth, water, and wind. Simon Halsey leads this world
premiere in a site-specific presentation at the northeast corner of Central Park. Both experienced and
amateur singers will join for this one-time-only performance that is free and open to the public. In case of
rain, the performance will take place at The Cathedral of St. John the Divine.
The 2018 Mostly Mozart Festival presentation of In the Name of the Earth is made possible in part by The
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The Ford Foundation, Rita E. and Gustave M. Hauser, and Stavros Niarchos
Foundation.
Co-presented with Lincoln Center Out of Doors
Harlem Meer, Central Park (entrance at 5th Avenue and 106th Street)
(Rain location: The Cathedral of St. John the Divine)
FREE Seating is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis. For more information, including
program updates, visit MostlyMozartFestival.org.
Saturday, August 11 – FREE – at 7:30 pm
Out of Doors
Annual Roots of American Music Weekend
AMERICANAFEST NYC
Mavis Staples
Joe Henry
For the past six decades, American music icon Mavis Staples has been a beacon of spiritual fortitude for
artists from Bob Dylan to Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy, whose third collaboration with Staples, If All I
Was Was Black, was released to critical acclaim in 2017. Tonight, she brings us together with the power of
her voice and a message of strength, perseverance, and love that is as vital today as it was when she and
her family sang alongside Martin Luther King, Jr. Grammy-winning producer and singer-songwriter Joe
Henry, who has worked with Allen Toussaint, Bonnie Raitt, Elvis Costello, and many others, adds his poetic
storytelling to this inspiring evening of song.
Presented in association with Americana Music Association
Damrosch Park, 62nd Street, bet. Amsterdam and Columbus Avenues
FREE Seating is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis. For more information, including
program updates, visit LCOutOfDoors.org
Sunday, August 12 – FREE – at 7:00 pm
Out of Doors
Annual Roots of American Music Weekend
AMERICANAFEST NYC
Margo Price
Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real
With her infectious blend of Nashville country, Memphis soul, and Texas twang, Margo Price is “one of the
most compelling country talents to come out of Nashville in recent memory” (Vulture). She brings unflinching
honesty and vivid songcraft to nuanced portraits of men and women just trying to get by, evoking everyone
from Waylon and Willie to Loretta and Dolly along the way. Price splits the night with singer-songwriter Lukas
Nelson (Willie’s son) and his band. On tour with Neil Young in recent years, they’ve built a devoted following
for their distinctive brand of cosmic country soul.
Presented in association with Americana Music Association
Damrosch Park, 62nd Street, bet. Amsterdam and Columbus Avenues
FREE Seating is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis. For more information, including
program updates, visit LCOutofDoors.org.
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News from Michelle Tabnick PR
Works & Process,
the Performing-Arts Series at the
Guggenheim Announces Fall 2018 Season
Guggenheim Announces Fall 2018 Season
Highlights:
- The only New York preview of Akram Khan's Giselle with the English National Ballet
- "Lost" Jerome Robbins solo reconstructed by Peter Boal on the Pacific Northwest Ballet, in celebration of Robbins's centennial
- An inside look at the movie Bel Canto's music with Renée Fleming, David Majzlin, Elena Park, and Anthony Weintraub
- New music commission by Sarah Kirkland Snider, Conrad Tao, and Charles Wuorinen
- Peter & the Wolf with Isaac Mizrahi
Fall 2018 Season Schedule
Emma Portner with Hubbard Street Dance Chicago / Devonté Hynes & Third Coast Percussion, and Anne Plamondon
Sunday and Monday, September 9 and 10, 7:30 pm
Emma Portner, described by Dance Spirit as a young choreographer "changing the dance world," shares highlights from her upcoming Hubbard Street Dance Chicago (HSDC) commission with new music by Devonté Hynes (aka Blood Orange) performed by Third Coast Percussion, and from her duet with Anne Plamondon, commissioned by Fall for Dance North (FFDN), prior to their respective premieres in Chicago and Toronto. Portner also screens her newest dance film, FEMME DEBOUT commissioned by Fondation Beyeler on the occasion of their exhibition Bacon-Giacometti. As part of the program, Portner, Plamondon and HSDC artistic director Glenn Edgerton will discuss their collaboration in a discussion moderated by FFDN artistic director Ilter Ibrahimof.
Bel Canto: Inside the Music
Renée Fleming, David Majzlin, Anthony Weintraub, and Elena Park
Sunday, September 16, 7:30 pm
For the new film Bel Canto, based on Ann Patchett's award-winning novel,Renée Fleming provides the soprano voice of Roxane Coss (Julianne Moore), the renowned diva who is swept up, along with wealthy Japanese industrialist Katsumi Hosokawa (Ken Watanabe), in a lengthy hostage crisis in a South American country. This dramatic love story, directed by Paul Weitz (who also cowrote the screenplay), unfolds with an arresting score that features original music by David Majzlin and classic opera arias. Fleming and Majzlin join Bel Canto's Anthony Weintraub (producer/co-screenwriter) and Elena Park (music producer) to talk about the creation of the movie and the musical choices. Performers (to be announced) stage several excerpts from Bel Canto, which debuts in theaters September 14.
The Metropolitan Opera: Marnie
Peter Gelb, Nico Muhly, and Michael Mayer
Monday, October 1, 7:30 pm
Prior to the Metropolitan Opera's premiere of composer Nico Muhly's Marnie-a gripping reimagining of Winston Graham's novel, set in the 1950s, about a beautiful, mysterious young woman who assumes multiple identities-Met General Manager Peter Gelb leads a panel discussion with Muhly and directorMichael Mayer. Members of the cast perform highlights from the opera
Pacific Northwest Ballet
Jerome Robbins Centennial Celebration: Male Solos with Peter Boal
Tuesday and Wednesday, October 2 and 3, 7:30 pm
Peter Boal, Artistic Director of Pacific Northwest Ballet (PNB) and former Principal Dancer of New York City Ballet, is joined by dancers from PNB to illustrate and perform male solos by acclaimed choreographer Jerome Robbins on the occasion of Robbins's centennial this year. Boal reconstructs a "lost" solo created for him by Robbins, among other works danced by members of PNB.
American Ballet Theatre: Jessica Lang
Sunday and Monday, October 7 and 8, 7:30 pm
Since 1940 American Ballet Theatre (ABT) has been a home for emerging choreographers and artists. This season, as part of the ABT Women'sMovement initiative, choreographer Jessica Lang teams up with artist Sarah Crowner, who will design the scenery and costumes for Lang's third work for the company. Join Lang, moderator John Meehan, and dancers from ABT for an intimate evening prior to the ballet's premiere.
New York Theatre Workshop: Hurricane Diane
Madeleine George
Monday, October 15, 7:30 pm
Pulitzer Prize finalist Madeleine George and cast members Becca Blackwell,Nikiya Mathis, Danielle Skraastad, and Kate Wetherhead present highlights from George's new work Hurricane Diane, coproduced with WP Theater and directed by Leigh Silverman. The production features Diane, a permaculture gardener dripping with butch charm and supernatural abilities owing to her true identity-the Greek god Dionysus. Diane returns to the modern world to restore the Earth to its natural state, taking to her suburban New Jersey cul-de-sac, and leading a bacchanalian catharsis with her neighboring suburban housewives.
St. Ann's Warehouse and Eva Price
Bard SummerScape Production: Rodgers & Hammerstein's Oklahoma!
Monday, October 22, 7:30 pm
Director Daniel Fish and choreographer John Heginbotham discuss their fresh and daring reimagining of Oklahoma! Prior to the production's New York City premiere at St. Ann's Warehouse, 75 years after the classic musical's Broadway debut, cast members perform highlights, and the duo talk about making the iconic musical in today's America.
WORKS & PROCESS DANCE COMMISSION PREVIEW
Caleb Teicher & Co with Conrad Tao: More Forever
Sunday, October 28, 7:30pm
Caleb Teicher & Company have teamed up with Lincoln Center Emerging Artist Conrad Tao to create their first evening-length work, More Forever, to premiere in January 2019 at Works & Process. On a stage filled with a thin layer of sand, dancers explore American dance traditions such as vernacular jazz, tap, and Lindy Hop, set to Tao's new contemporary score for piano and electronics.
MUSIC COMMISSION
Charles Wuorinen at 80 with Goeyvaerts String Trio
Monday, October 29, 7:30 pm
Celebrate acclaimed Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Charles Wuorinen's 80th year with the premiere of his Second String Trio-a Works & Process commission-and hisseminal String Trio from 1968, both performed by Belgium-based Goeyvaerts String Trio.
WORKS & PROCESS GALA
Wednesday, October 31
For one night only, see a revival performance of a Rotunda Project hailed by the New York Times as a "revelatory dance experience" in the article "The Best Dance of 2017."
For more information and tickets, visit worksandprocessgala.org or emailccronson@worksandprocess.org.
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater at 60
Monday, November 5, 7:30 pm
In honor of the Alivin Ailey American Dance Theater's 60th anniversary, Artistic Director Robert Battle, Artistic Director Emerita Judith Jamison, and choreographer Rennie Harris join in a conversation moderated by journalistSusan Fales-Hill that spotlights what truly makes Ailey so special. Leading up to their season at New York City Center, company dancers perform highlights from signature classics and commissioned works that push dance into new territory.
English National Ballet: Akram Khan's Giselle
Sunday, November 11, 7:30 pm
British Bangladeshi choreographer Akram Khan, known for his masterful works that interweave an infectious fusion of contemporary dance and Indian kathak, created a 21st-century Giselle,reimagining this epitomical classical ballet to illustrate the woes of migrant workers and powerful factory owners. The groundbreaking work recently returned for an applauded second run at Sadler's Wells in London, and English National Ballet will bring it to Chicago's Harris Theater for Music and Dance in 2019 for its American premiere. At theonly preview in New York of this critically acclaimed ballet, Khan's first work featuring dancers on pointe,New York Times dance writer Marina Harssmoderates a discussion with Khan,Tamara Rojo, Artistic Director and Lead Principal Dancer of English National Ballet, Patricia Barretto, President and CEO of Harris Theater, and company dancers. Three company dancers and Rojo perform highlights.
Peter & the Wolf with Isaac Mizrahi
Saturdays, December 1 and 8, 1, 2:30 and 4 pm
Sundays, December 2 and 9, 2:30 and 4 pm
Friday, December 7, 6:30 pm (Works & Process Young Friends Event)
Isaac Mizrahi narrates and directs Sergei Prokofiev's charming children's classic, Ensemble Signal performs the music, andthe cast, wearing costumes by Mizrahi, performs choreography by John Heginbotham, bringing the 30-minute story to life for the young and young at heart.
For children 5 and up. Enter via the ramp at 88th St and 5th Ave.
PREMIUM FRONT ROW TICKETING: $100, $95 Friends of Works & Process and Guggenheim members.
Holiday Concert
Sunday and Monday, December 16 and 17, 7 pm
Celebrate the season with the joyous sounds of holiday music and a new Works & Process commission by composer Sarah Kirkland Snider, inspired by the Guggenheim's exhibition Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future. George Steel conducts the Vox Vocal Ensemble in what has become a beloved annual traditionin the museum's iconic Frank Lloyd Wright-designed rotunda.
FLOOR SEATING: $45, $40 Friends of Works & Process and Guggenheim members.
RAMP STANDING: $25, $20 Friends of Works & Process and Guggenheim members.
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Brooklyn Music School's
Summer Vocal Arts Junior Artists Program
presents
The Shepherd's Tale
Sunday, August 11, 2018 at 4pm
Brooklyn Music School (BMS)'s Summer Vocal Arts Junior Artists Program presents The Shepherd's Tale on Sunday, August 11, 2018 at 4pm at Brooklyn Music School, 126 Saint Felix Street, Brooklyn, NY. Tickets are $20 ($15 BMS Students) and can be purchased at https://sva-jr-summer-2018.
The unlikely romance of the shepherd and the huntress will be told by the talented SVA Jr artists. In this whimsical tale inspired by the mythological Venus and Adonis we are introduced to the world full of challenges that this love story must withstand. When the disheartened cupid mistakenly shoots his arrow into the heart of the wrong candidate, hijinks ensue. But never fear; in this new tale all ends well. Music and lyrics by Pamela Martinez, stage direction and choreography by Marie Zvosec, and costumes by Deborah Wright Houston.
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Battery Dance
presents
The 37th Annual
BATTERY DANCE FESTIVAL
in association with Battery Park City Authority
August 12-18, 2018
Battery Dance, in association with Battery Park City Authority, announces the 37th Annual Battery Dance Festival, with free performances on August 12-17, 2018, from 7pm to 9pm against the breathtaking backdrop of the New York Harbor at Robert F. Wagner Jr. Park in Battery Park City, culminating in a closing event and reception on August 18, 2018, from 6pm to 8pm at The Schimmel Center at Pace University. For more information, visit http://batterydance.org/
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VINEYARD THEATRE
PRESENTS
DEVELOPING ARTISTS’
REBEL VERSES
YOUTH ARTS FESTIVAL
AUGUST 9 - 11 AND 16-18
BRANDON VICTOR DIXON, LAURA GÓMEZ,
KEVIN MAMBO, JOE MORTON, FLACO NAVAJO,
DAPHNE RUBIN-VEGA,
AND ADDITIONAL ARTISTS TO PARTICIPATE.
Vineyard Theatre and Developing Artists will partner again to present Developing Artists’ REBEL VERSES Youth Arts Festival, Thursday through Saturday August 9-18 at Vineyard Theatre (108 E. 15th St.). Since the festival's inception in 2001, REBEL VERSES has provided young artists, ages 13-19, with the opportunity to collaborate and network with their peers and prominent artists, and to showcase their original work. This two-week event, now in its second season Off-Broadway at the Vineyard Theatre, will feature over one hundred artists and performers from ten young-artist companies hailing from all five boroughs of New York City and beyond.
Each night will include a prominent Guest Artist joining the festival for a special performance. Stage and screen star Daphne Rubin-Vega will kick off the festival on Thursday, August 9 and Laura Gómez (“Orange is the New Black”) joins August 16. Additional performers include Emmy Award-nominee and Vineyard Theatre Board Member Brandon Victor Dixon (NBC’s “Jesus Christ Superstar,” HAMILTON), Emmy Award-winners Kevin Mambo (FELA!) and Joe Morton (“Scandal,” Vineyard Board Member), Flaco Navajo (poet/actor/singer); performance dates and additional artists to be announced. Week One will feature performances by young-artist companies The Door (NYC), Alumni Theatre Company (Pittsburgh, PA), and The Brotherhood/Sister Sol (NYC). Week Two will feature MCC Youth Company (NYC), Epic Next (NYC), 6th Borough Slam (Jersey City, NJ), and Girl Be Heard (Brooklyn). Developing Artists and Vineyard Theatre Student Ensemble will perform on all nights of the Festival.
Performances of REBEL VERSES Youth Arts Festival take place at Vineyard Theatre (108 E. 15th St.) beginning at 7:00 PM each night:
Thursday, August 9; Friday, August 10; and Saturday, August 11
Thursday, August 9; Friday, August 10; and Saturday, August 11
Tickets from $5-$25. To purchase tickets and for more information, visit www.vineyardtheatre.org or call the box office at 212-353-0303.
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