2) American Symphony Orchestra Salutes Duke Ellington 3/24
3) Anything Goes London Stage Production in Cinemas 3/27 & 3/30
4) Birthday Candles Now Previewing on Broadway
5) Black Theatre United Announces Broadway Marketing Internship Program
6) Broadway Records Assassins New Cast Recording Available Now
7) Chasing Andy Warhol, Immersive Walking Production Begins Previews 3/25
8) Cindy of Arc Extends Run at Dixon Place
9) Dancing With Dictators One Night Only 3/21
10) Estrogenius Festival 3/20 - 4/3
11) FDR Park's Free Youth Soccer Day 3/26
12) Fault Line Theater 's Irons in the Fire Reading Series Accepting Submissions
13) Folksbiene Presents Barry Manilow & Bruce Sussman's Harmony Beginning 3/22
14) Food for Thought Season Opening Release 3/28
15)John Jarboe's Rose: You Are Who You Eat at Works & Process at the Guggenheim
16) Judge Andrew Napolitano: Stories from Fields of Freedom 3/28 -3/31
17) Keith Huff's Garbageman Extends Run Due to Popular Demand
18) Mile Square Theatre Presents the Niceties Beginning 3/26
19) Milo Karadalgic in Andres Segovia Tribute Concert at Town Hall
20) The Minutes on Broadway to Support Humanitarian Crisis in Ukraine
21) Mr. Saturday Night Begins Previews 3/29
22) Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company Presents Awakening 3/24 - 3/26
23) The Old People's Channel Scripted Podcast Releases Episodes 3 & 4
24) The Oscar Micheaux Suite 3/26 & 3/27
25) Philip J. Smith Memorial at the Music Box Theatre 3/22
26) The Queen's Six Releases Ukranian Folk Song
27) Queen's Theatre Celebrates World Theatre Day 3/27
28) Rocker's on Broadway: Live (Volume1) Available Now
29) Spring New Works Series 3/21 - 4/10
30) A White Man's Guide to Riker's Island Continues Through 4/2
31) A Walk on the Moon Musical Announces Fellowship Program
32) wild project Presents W.O.(e).R.D ... Women Of Experience Read Downtown
33) Works & Process Commission and Present Ladies of Hip Hop 3/27
34) Works & Process at the Guggenheim Free Dance Performances
35) York Theatre Company Presents World Premiere of Penelope Beginning 3/22
(Due to a Covid Outbreak Penelope performances have been postponed until 4/3)
1) ORIGINAL SPANISH CAST RECORDING OF
ANTONIO BANDERAS’
ACCLAIMED PRODUCTION OF
“A CHORUS LINE”
AVAILABLE TODAY ON CRAFT RECORDINGS / CONCORD THEATRICALS
ALBUM INCLUDES SPECIAL BONUS TRACK FEATURING
TONY AWARD® WINNER LAURA BENANTI
AND MALAGA CAST MEMBERS
SINGING “WHAT I DID FOR LOVE” IN SPANISH
Craft Recordings / Concord Theatricals recently released the cast album of Antonio Banderas, Teatro del Soho CaixaBank and John Breglio’s acclaimed Spanish production of A Chorus Line, the first-ever Spanish language recording of the iconic musical, on CD in Spain and on streaming and digital platforms worldwide.
The album includes a special bonus track featuring Tony Award® winner Laura Benanti, who starred opposite Banderas in the Tony Award-winning 2003 Broadway revival of Nine, singing “What I Did For Love” in Spanish. A new music video featuring their performance was released today and can be viewed HERE. *********************************************************************
2) AMERICAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SALUTES THE GREAT DUKE ELLINGTON THURSDAY MARCH 24 AT CARNEGIE HALL |
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All-Ellington Symphonic Program Features Marcus Roberts Trio and Vocalist Catherine Russell |
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Music Director Leon Botstein will lead the American Symphony Orchestra on March 24 in a tribute to the genre-defying genius of the great Duke Ellington with an all-Ellington symphonic concert at Carnegie Hall, where the composer played a series of annual concerts and premiered many of his greatest works, including Black, Brown, and Beige and New World A-Comin’. The pieces will be performed for Jazz Trio and Large Orchestra by American jazz pianist, composer, arranger, bandleader, and teacher Marcus Roberts, who performs with his Marcus Roberts Trio. The evening also features Grammy Award-winning jazz vocalist Catherine Russell, best known for her album Harlem on my Mind and her appearance as a featured artist on the soundtrack album for the HBO TV series Boardwalk Empire.
Thursday, March 24, 2022 at 8 PM
Carnegie Hall (Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage)
Leon Botstein, conductor
Marcus Roberts Trio
All-Ellington program
Black, Brown, and Beige Suite (Arr. Maurice Peress)
Satin Doll (Arr. Chuck Israels)
Harlem (Arr. Luther Henderson & Maurice Peress)
Sophisticated Lady (Arr. Morton Gould)
Night Creature for Jazz Band and Orchestra (Arr. Luther Henderson, Ed. Gunther Schuller)
New World A Comin’ (Arr. Maurice Peress)
Three Black Kings (Completed by Mercer Ellington, Arr. Luther Henderson)
Duke Ellington’s musical style employs a unique blend of classical and jazz compositional techniques that also combine improvisation with written works, making him one of the most influential jazz composers of all time. Although he considered his compositions “beyond category” and he never defined himself as a jazz composer, his instrumental groupings, improvisational skills, and jazz arranging brought the world a notable American sound that can be heard in works like Sophisticated Lady and Harlem. His symphonic suite Three Black Kings demonstrates his focus on musical form and jazz composition. Ellington said his aim in writing Night Creature—which premiered at Carnegie Hall in 1955—was “to try to make the symphony swing.”
Tickets, priced at $25–$65, are available at carnegiehall.org, by calling CarnegieCharge at 212.247.7800 or visiting the box office at 57th St & 7th Ave. Ticket holders will need to comply with the venue’s health and safety requirements, which can be found here. *********************************************************************
3) THE TONY AWARD WINNING MUSICAL
ANYTHING GOES
COMES TO US CINEMAS FOR TWO DAYS ONLY
MARCH 27 & 30, 2022
The smash hit musical ANYTHING GOES, starring Tony Award winner Sutton Foster and directed and choreographed by Tony Award winner Kathleen Marshall will sail onto more than 700 US cinema screens for two days only on Sunday, March 27 and Wednesday, March 30 in a live recording filmed at London’s renowned Barbican Theatre. Tickets are on sale now at anythinggoesmusicalcinema.com
Presented by the Barbican and filmed live in London during the show's 15-week residency at the theatre in the summer of 2021, this major new five-star production of the classic musical comedy features an all-star cast led by renowned Broadway royalty Sutton Foster reprising her Tony Award-winning performance as Reno Sweeney alongside three-time Olivier Award and Tony Award winner Robert Lindsay (My Family) as Moonface Martin, Evening Standard Theatre Award winner Felicity Kendal (BLACK THEATRE UNITED
PRESENTS
THE BROADWAY MARKETING INTERNSHIP PROGRAMThe Good Life) as Evangeline Harcourt and beloved West End Legend Gary Wilmot (Chicago) as Elisha Whitney.
Screening Dates: Sunday, March 27 & Wednesday, March 30, 2022
Website: AnythingGoesMusicalCinema.com
Twitter: @AGMusicalCinema
Facebook: @anythinggoescinema
Instagram: @anythinggoescinema
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Production of the New York Premiere of
BIRTHDAY CANDLES
Starring Debra Messing
Now Previewing on Broadway
Official Opening April 10, 2022
At The American Airlines Theatre on Broadway
Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director/CEO) is pleased to present the New York premiere of Birthday Candles by Noah Haidle, starring Emmy Award winner Debra Messing, directed by Vivienne Benesch, is previewing now. The official opening set for Sunday, April 10, 2022. This is a limited engagement through Sunday, May 29, 2022 at the American Airlines Theatre on Broadway (227 West 42nd Street).
Debra Messing (Will & Grace) returns to the stage as Ernestine Ashworth, who spends her 17th birthday agonizing over her insignificance in the universe. Soon enough, it’s her 18th birthday. Even sooner, her 41st. Her 70th. Her 101st. Five generations, dozens of goldfish, an infinity of dreams, one cake baked over a century. What makes a lifetime…into a life? A writer of "freewheeling ambition" (Charles Isherwood, The New York Times), Noah Haidle makes his Broadway debut with a poignant new play as fearless in scope as it is tremendous in heart.
TICKET INFORMATION:
Tickets for Birthday Candles are on sale by calling 212.719.1300, online at roundabouttheatre.org, in person at a Roundabout box office. Ticket prices range from $39-$139. For groups of 10 or more please call 212-719-9393 x 365 or email groupsales@roundabouttheatre.org.
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5) BLACK THEATRE UNITED
PRESENTS
THE BROADWAY MARKETING INTERNSHIP PROGRAM
A NEW INITIATIVE FOR BLACK UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS
IN PARTNERSHIP WITH CUNY
Black Theatre United (BTU), a non-profit organization that helps protect Black people, Black talent and Black lives in theatre, announces the launch of the Broadway Marketing Internship Program, a summer-long initiative that provides 8 paid internships for undergraduate education students. The pilot program is a first-of-its-kind collaboration between Black Theatre United, CUNY and four of New York’s top live entertainment advertising and marketing agencies: Serino Coyne, AKA, RPM and Situation Interactive. With a strong focus on and commitment to increasing access for Black, Indigenous and students of color who have an interest in this arena, yet open to all, this program will provide a learning space to develop a deeper understanding of how the industry operates by working with the various companies and organizations that keep Broadway moving. Two students will be placed with each of the four participating agencies for the eight-week paid program, which runs June 27 – August 19, 2022. Applications are available now at BlackTheatreUnited.com and are due by Monday, March 28, 2022.
The goal of the Broadway Marketing Internship Program is to create a learning space for Black students to: develop an understanding of the inner workings of the Broadway industry; become familiar with the companies and organizations that keep Broadway moving; put their coursework into practice in a real work environment; and get close to industry jobs to see what might spark their interest and curiosity. The program is open to all students currently enrolled in undergraduate programs.
The internship will begin with a special workshop from The Business of Broadway where students will learn how a show is produced, explore the timeline of a show's creative development and begin to understand the business model that fuels the process. During their internships, students will receive hands-on experience across all departments and specialty areas at each agency, including Strategic Planning; Research; Creative Development and Art Direction; Media Planning and Buying; Social Media; Content Development; Partnership Marketing; and Sales and Data Analytics.
In addition, the internship will provide participants opportunities to receive professional and mentorship support through relationships with veteran Broadway mentors and decision-makers, including BTU founders. Students will attend two theater-related events each week, including courses taught by creatives and thought leaders at each agency, and field trips to other New York theater organizations led by industry experts. In addition to being paid, students will receive an unlimited Metrocard for the summer.
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6) Broadway Records Releases
ASSASSINS New Cast Recording
Broadway Records recently announced the digital release of Assassins (The 2022 Off-Broadway Cast Recording). The album preserves Stephen Sondheim’s full score with the recent Classic Stage Company cast with direction by John Doyle. Assassins is available for purchase at Broadwayrecords.com. The album is available digitally now, with a physical CD release date of April 15th, 2022.
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7) BATED BREATH
THEATRE COMPANY
ANNOUNCES
CHASING ANDY WARHOL
imMERSIVE WALKING TOUR PRODUCTION
INTO THE WORLD OF ICONIC ARTIST ANDY WARHOL
IN EAST VILLAGE
PREVIEWS TO BEGIN ON MARCH 25; OPENING APRIL 7
Bated Breath Theatre Company is thrilled to announce its newest immersive and theatrical walking tour production, Chasing Andy Warhol, will begin previews commencing on March 25, 2022, with an official opening set for April 7, 2022.
Chasing Andy Warhol follows on the heels of Bated Breath Theatre Company’s award-winning production Voyeur: The Windows of Toulouse-Lautrec, the longest-running pandemic friendly show in New York City. Voyeur turned the West Village into Paris in 1899 and now, in partnership with Fever/SECRET NYC, the Greenwich Village Business Alliance, the NoHo Business Improvement District, TMPL Clubs at Astor Place, and Von Bar, Bated Breath will use the East Village as a set that will transport audiences into the world of the most influential artist of the 20th century.
The theatrical walking tour production will employ Bated Breath’s unique multimedia approach as scenes inspired from Warhol’s enigmatic life unfold on the streets, behind windows of area businesses, and inside secret locations along the route. Despite Warhol’s celebrity and fame, he was also an obscure, mystifying persona who preferred to remain elusive. The show will use a distinct blend of immersive theatre, dance, film, art, and puppetry to peek into the life of the iconic artist. Chasing Andy Warhol goes beyond the hype and into the deepest feelings of a profoundly complex person - whose legacy continues to bombard our senses at every turn.
Tickets for Chasing Andy Warhol are $80.00 and can be purchased on www.chasingandywarhol.com. There is a drink upgrade ticket available for $87.00. Show times are Thursdays at 5:00 p.m., 5:45 p.m., 6:30 p.m., 7:15 p.m., 8:00 p.m.; 8:45 p.m., Fridays at 5:00 p.m., 5:45 p.m., 6:30 p.m., 7:15 p.m., 8:00 p.m., 8:45 p.m., and Sundays at 1:00 p.m., 1:45 p.m., 2:30 p.m., 3:15 p.m., 4:00 p.m., 4:45 p.m., 5:30 p.m., 6:15 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. There are 16 guests per performance time.
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8) CINDY OF ARC EXTENDS AT DIXON PLACE
ADDING TWO MORE MONDAYS
ORDEAL MUSIC is pleased to announce the world premiere production of Cynthia Kaplan’s CINDY OF ARC, directed by Dani Davis has added two more performances of the laugh-out-loud sold-out hit! Cindy of Arc is now playing at Off-Broadway’s Dixon Place, (161A Chrystie Street, NY NY 10002). Performances are at 7:30 pm on March 14, and the newly added March 21 and March 28. Tickets are $17-$25 and available at dixonplace.org. Come see the show tonight! Press are invited to any performance.
CINDY OF ARC is a comedy about the problem men have with lying and where that's gotten the rest of us. Cindy of Arc is just like "American Utopia" but with expletives, politics, religion, dogs, cannibals, Nazis, thirteen songs, no David Byrne, and no Utopia. And no choreographer. And no money. And it’s a comedy. And we wear our shoes. But otherwise, very similar.
CINDY OF ARC plays the March, 21, and 28 at 7:30 pm. Running Time: 70 minutes
Tickets are $22 $22 in advance, $25 at door (Students & Seniors, $17 in advance, $20 at the door) and are now available online at www.DixonPlace.org or in person at the theater half hour prior to the performance.
Website: www.cindyofarc.com; Facebook: Cindy of Arc; Instagram: cindyofarc
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9) ONE NIGHT ONLY!
AMAS MUSICAL THEATRE
AND THE AMAS SONG SALON
PRESENT
“DANCING WITH DICTATORS”
THEATER 555 (555 WEST 42ND ST)
MONDAY, MARCH 21, 2022 @ 7PM
Amas Musical Theatre (Donna Trinkoff, Artistic Producer) and The Amas Song Salon will present _“Dancing with Dictators”_ a solo work written and performed by Luis Santeiro. Directed by Ron Torres, with music direction by Paul Greenwood and Rex Benincasa on drums, this one night only event will be held on Monday, March 21, 2022, at 7pm at Theater 555 (555 West 42nd Street). Tickets are $25 ($40 premium) and may be purchased online at www.amasmusical.org or by calling 212-563-2565.
Expanding on his one-man show Found in Translation, Luis Santeiro returns to his roots with songs and stories adopted from his memoir Dancing with Dictators. Forced to leave Cuba when he was 12, the family moved to Miami where he was determined to become all American and put his Latin past behind.
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10) The 22nd Annual
EstroGenius Festival
presented by
Manhattan Theatre Source, FRIGID New York and The Cooper Union
March 20 - April 3, 2022
at the
Kraine Theater, The Great Hall and Under St. Marks
Manhattan Theatre Source and FRIGID New York with The Cooper Union present the 22nd annual EstroGenius Festival from Sunday, March 20, 2022 through Sunday April 3, 2022 Based at The Kraine Theater, 85 E. 4th St., NYC, this year’s festival expands to include Cooper Union and Under St. Mark’s Tickets are $25 or pay-what-you-can and can be purchased online at http://www.estrogenius.nyc/ by phone at (212) 777-6088 or at the Box Office.
EstroGenius celebrates its return to live in-person audiences with a riotous collection of performances by womxn, gender non-conforming, non-binary, and trans dance-makers, playwrights, experimental performers, teens, musicians, burlesque performers, filmmakers, DJs and anyone else looking to break molds and crack gender codes. Many performances will also be available for at home livestreams.
EstroGenius, founded in 2000 at Manhattan Theatre Source by Fiona Jones, originated as a short-play fest to support dynamic female characters, always celebrating inclusivity and pushing gender parity in theatre. Heading into EstroGenius’s 22nd year, at the helm of the festival are Melissa Riker (Kinesis Project dance theatre, Women in Motion) and maura nguyên donohue (she/they - Director, MFA in Dance at Hunter College/CUNY).
OVERVIEW OF FESTIVAL
Sunday March 20-April 3 - EstroGenius At The Kraine Theater
Sundays during the festival will be special events fostering dialogue, joy and calm - from the Syfy Sistas to Molly Kirschner’s poetry - EstroGenius’s Sunday afternoons will be a destination for audience members who want to diverge from their usual path. Thursday through Saturday, arrive for dance, dialogue and music by award winning and cutting edge performance artists.
Wednesday, March 23, 2022-March 27, 2022 - Solo Voce: RE|Claim RE|Build Opens at Under St. Mark’s
EstroGenius's 2022 Solo Voce series offers our audiences the opportunity to journey, listen and engage with one powerful creative voice at a time. We are thrilled to share this exciting list of artists with you, closing on the 27th with the voices of talented teens via Girl Be Heard.
See one show, or enjoy the full series brought to you by curators Mary Hodges and Julie Ann Lucas.
Thursday, March 23, 6:30-7:30 PM – EstroGenius dance and music takes The Great Hall Stage at Cooper Union
EstroGenius Festival will bring the drums, dances, and voices of powerful artists to the stage of the Great Hall. Curated by maura nguyên donohue
DETAILED SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
Sunday, March 20, 2022
2-3:30PM – RE|Claim with the SyFy Sistas: Can You Hear Me Now? Black Women Reclaiming Our Creative Voices at The Kraine Theater
From comics to podcasting, from movies to Lt. Uhura. Let the SyFy Sistas lead you in a discussion on how Black women are reclaiming their past, current and future roles in creative spaces.
Wednesday, March 23, 2022
7-8PM Solo Voce: RE|Claim RE|Build SHATTERED by Diana Varco at Under St. Marks
"Clever, brilliant, disturbing, funny, and heartbreaking all in equal measure’ - Jodie McVicar, BroadwayBaby.com (***** - Edinburgh Fringe) All her life Diana hasn’t hit it off with the fellas. In 3rd grade, she kicked her crush in the crotch and her dating life didn’t improve from there. What starts as a quick look into why Diana doesn’t date much, ends up a comedic and heartbreakingly raw solo show journey through dating, dysfunction, and sexual devastation - told through the voices of 35+ characters. Diana delivers a fast-paced, powerhouse performance filled with wit, poignancy and vulnerability, as she explores themes such as the psychological fall out of sexual assault, power of Shame, post-traumatic growth and much more. Using comedy to take us through tragedy, Shattered triumphantly tells the tale of one individual picking up the broken pieces of herself and learning to live again.
9-10PM Solo Voce: RE|Claim RE|Build Runaway Princess, a hopeful tale of heroin, hooking and happiness by Mary Goggin at Under St. Mark’s
Former New York City call girl Mary Goggin, shares her award-winning true story of sex, drugs and Irish Catholic nuns, told with dark humor, unflinching honesty and unsentimental pathos as she recounts her journey from utter darkness to absolute joy.
Thursday March 24, 2022
6:30-7:30 PM – EstroGenius dance and music takes The Great Hall Stage at Cooper Union
EstroGenius Festival will bring the drums, dances, and voices of powerful artists Karisma Jay & AbunDance, Kathryn Alter and Potri Ranka Manis/Kinding Sindaw to the stage of the historic Great Hall. Curated by maura nguyễn donohue.
8-9PM - Solo Voce, In Process: RE|Claim RE|Build with Ash Mayers and Shauna Bloom at Under St. Mark’s
Shauna Bloom’s “itutor”(30 mins): A private tutor helps her students and their parents with school challenges during the pandemic lockdown and Ash Mayers “Untitled” (30 mins) Ash meditates on her relationship to her migraines. She explores what chronic pain has helped her discover about herself while taking us on her journey to find a cure.
9-10PM – RE|Claim: EstroGenius Genius Variety at The Kraine Theater
Canadian singer-songwriter and visual artist Mimi Oz melds elements of soul, rock n’ roll, and jazz to her ever-growing sonic palette. As host of this genre swapping evening Oz will play music and create space for amazing artists Sister JSpencer (spoken word), Michi Osato/BrAss Burlesque, and musician Adriana Adeline. Curated by Frigid NY
Friday March 25, 2022
7PM RE|Claim is an evening of works including artists from the interrupted March 2020 Festival at The Kraine Theater
Portia Wells (they/them) “Inside Flesh Mountain” and Cory Villegas/Soul Dance Co. “FREED” return to reclaim the spots in front of live audiences, once again. The program includes a return from 2018 Festival artist Kirsten Davis (they/them), whose “They will come” is a series of beginnings exploring the space to start over, to reinstate, to recover. The heart holds memories, the body dances the remembrances thick with knowing and feeling. Newcomer Manuela Agudelo’s (she/her) “Magia Cafetera” honors the legacy of Afro Indigenious Colombian women whose sacred connection with earth is what continues to heal and feed so many bodies and souls through their work in farming and harvesting coffee. The Kraine. Curated by maura nguyễn donohue.
8PM Solo Voce: RE|Claim RE|Build with Deirdre McDowell’s “Down To Eartha” at Under St. Marks
This play tells the story of the day that Eartha Kitt was invited to a luncheon at the White House in 1968 and then was blacklisted for over 10 years because she expressed her opinion against the Vietnam War.
Solo Voce is curated by Mary Hodges and Julie Ann Lucas
Saturday, March 26, 2022
5PM RE|Claim with Hunter MFA in Dance Sneak Peek & Mellon Public Humanities Mental Health in Dance Panel at The Kraine Theater
Catch a glimpse of upcoming evening length thesis works from the Hunter College MFA in Dance Program. Francesca Dominguez (she/her) will perform her solo “Reaching out from underneath” live. Maiya Redding (she/her) and Gia Mongell (she/her) will screen excerpts of their films. Redding’s “Letters to Medusa” reclaims a disastrous mythology in a consideration of the depth of Medusa’s tale and its modern-day significance in the wake of the #MeToo movement. Mongell’s “Meet and Run” is a musical film that brings vibrant dance, cinematography and a team of new voices to the field. The program will conclude with a discussion led by Mellon Public Humanities Scholar and CUNY BA student, Elena Sundick (she/her), whose current research is on mental health needs in the dance community. The Kraine. Curated by maura nguyễn donohue.
6PM - Solo Voce: RE|Claim RE|Build with Ann Richardson’s “Doozy/Aan's Side Lady” at Under St. Mark’s
A famous actress contemplates memoirs in her last hour. Produced by Mary Hodges and Julie Ann Lucas
7PM RE|Claim with short dance works-in-progress by Molly Lieber and Eleanor Smith, Aretha Aoki, Katherine De La Cruz, Mai Lê Grooves & a WTF is gender panel with visual artist Sasa Yung at The Kraine Theater
Molly Lieber and Eleanor Smith’s (she/her) feminist works use abstract dance to break down patriarchal systems of female degradation through physical paradigms. As objects of this work, the artists position themselves as recognizable images of female objectification, only to deconstruct and reconstitute these forms through embodied movement and connection. Within this arena of deeply understood femininity and friendship, images dissolve as feelings communicate viscerally. Aretha Aoki’s “IzumonookunI” is sci-fi-punk-futuristic mixed media dance piece by Aretha Aoki and Ryan MacDonald. Incorporating dance, built objects, and original sound and video design, the piece braids together the (her)story of Kabuki theater, the women who have been erased in Aretha Aoki’s family due to the patriline, and the structure of “strange loops”— cyclic forms that evade their hierarchical and linear-seeming progressions. In “Le pot”, Mai Lê journeys through waves of personal challenge relating to self, others, dreams, and growth. Katherine De La Cruz’s “Casas de Carton”uses this famous Salvadorean protest song in a reflection of Uruguayan author Eduardo Galeano’s question "What use does the idea of Utopia have?" as a call to attention about inequality and the exploitation of working class people. The evening will close with a “WTF is gender” panel convened by trans visual artist and Parsons School of Design student Sasa Yung (he/they). Curated by maura nguyễn donohue.
8PM - Solo Voce RE|Claim \RE|Build with Joan Kane’s “Almost 13” at Under St. Mark’s
Almost 13 presents memories of a young girl’s violent summer in Brooklyn. Emotionally broken from witnessing a murder and more, she finds herself dancing with a ghost. Can she survive being caught between a disintegrating family and racial violence?
Sunday, March 27, 2022
2pm - RE|Claim with Poet Molly Kirschner - At The Kraine Theater
Molly Kirschner’s poems draw inspiration from science, eros, and the absurd, inviting readers into the ritual practice of homing in on rapture, humor, beauty, the metaphysical and strange. Kirschner, previously a featured reader at venues including Cornelia Street Cafe (NYC), Bowery Poetry (NYC) Club, and the Maple Leaf Bar (New Orleans), offers these poems to you with the immediacy exclusive to live performance. She has published two books of poetry, and her poems have appeared in journals including The Southern Review, The New Ohio Review, and One Magazine. Her new manuscript was a finalist for the 2021 Four Way Books Levis Prize in Poetry.
3pm - Solo Voce RE|Claim \RE|Build with Girl Be Heard at Under St. Marks
Girl Be Heard’s mission is to build leaders, changemakers and activists through socially conscious theater-making, storytelling and performance. These pieces - a series of monologues,vignettes and poems performed by members of Girl Be Heard's Company, explore themes of fear, home, family and acceptance. They are loud in individuality, uniqueness and charisma. Our work is our voice through which we inspire change. Curated by Melissa Riker and Girl Be Heard
Wednesday, March 30, 2022
8PM - RE|Build with Paper Kraine at The Kraine Theater
Thursday, March 31, 2022
7PM - RE|Build with LEIMAY: Ximena Garnica & Shige Moriya and Marion Spencer + Collaborators at The Kraine Theater
RE|Build with LEIMAY and Marion Spencer + Collaborators is an evening of depth and dancing, a shared bill between two sets of artists who are peeling back meaning in art, social inquiry and community. Curated by John Robinson and Melissa Riker
9PM - RE|Build with Music (To Be Announced) at The Kraine Theater
Friday, April 1, 2022
7-8 PM - RE|Build with Amber Sloan, Zoe|Juniper (film), Zhennesse Heinemann, Joanna Kotze (film) at The Kraine Theater
Strikingly beautiful dance paired with candid and eccentric performance are brought together with live performances by Amber Sloan and Zhen Heinemann and two two gorgeous short dance films: Zoe|Juniper’s Ordinary Grief (the people to come) and Joanna Kotze’s Nothing's changed except for everything created with Ryan Seaton and Chris Cameron. The evening is curated by John Robinson and Melissa Riker.
Saturday, April 2, 2022
5-6PM – RE|Build with Amber Sloan, Zoe|Juniper (film), Zhennesse Heinemann, Joanna Kotze (film) at The Kraine Theater
Strikingly beautiful dance paired with candid and eccentric performance are brought together with live performances by Amber Sloan and Zhen Heinemann and two two gorgeous short dance films: Zoe|Juniper’s Ordinary Grief (the people to come) and Joanna Kotze’s Nothing's changed except for everything created with Ryan Seaton and Chris Cameron. The evening is curated by John Robinson and Melissa Riker.
7-8PM – RE|BUILD with Marion Spencer and Collaborators at The Kraine Theater
This is an evening of dance and depth in two halves - a group work, and a solo work, by Marion Spencer and Collaborators. The group piece, 'part two' is an emerging/ongoing interdisciplinary dance project including collaborating artists Ogemdi Ude, Symara Johnson, Kimiko Tanabe, Tara Sheena, s. lumbert and slowdanger. Curated by John Robinson and Melissa Riker.
Sunday, April 3, 2022
2pm - Reading To Be Announced
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11) FDR Park Free Youth Soccer Day
March 26
The public is invited to a free Youth Soccer Day at FDR Park. Join Fairmount Park Conservancy, Philadelphia Parks & Recreation, and Friends of FDR Park for cleats, beats, eats, and kayaks – a fun-filled Saturday morning at FDR Park with:
- Soccer activities for kids ages 8-12
- Kayak tours (ages 6 and up)
- Meet & greet with the Philadelphia Union
- Freebies
- Food trucks
- DJ
- Balloon artist
- Facepainting
The Youth Soccer Day will take place Saturday, March 26, 2022, 10:30 am – 2 pm (speaking program at 11:30 am). The location is within FDR Park near the Boathouse, 1500 Pattison Avenue, South Philadelphia. Advance registration is recommended. Walk-up registration is also allowed. RSVP FOR FREE *********************************************************************
12) SUBMISSIONS NOW OPEN FOR THE
2023 SEASON OF
FAULT LINE THEATRE’S
NEW PLAY DEVELOPMENTAL READING SERIES
IRONS IN THE FIRE
Fault Line Theatre (Founding Artistic Director Aaron Rossini) is excited to announce that applications are now open for the 2023 season of Irons in the Fire, the organization’s year-round reading series of new plays in development at: faultlinetheatre.org/submissions
About Irons In the Fire, Rossini says: “Irons in the Fire is all about leveling up and connecting with the community. How can we make a script better? How can we make ourselves better? We believe that every play and every playwright requires something a little different, and we want to give our artists the freedom to play in the Fault Line sandbox however they choose. Typically, these readings are hosted in an environment that appropriately celebrates that particular new script, and are supported by a social event that brings the Downtown Theatre Community together in a fun and meaningful way.”
Submissions are being accepted now through June 15. For guidelines, more information, and to submit a project, please visit: faultlinetheatre.org/submissions
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13) National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene Announces
Full Cast and Creative Team
of Harmony: A New Musical
by Barry Manilow & Bruce Sussman
-7 Weeks Only! Previews Begin on March 23, 2022-
-Harmony tells the true story of the Comedian Harmonists, Six Talented Young Men Who Took the World by Storm in 1920s Germany-
-Tony Award-winner Warren Carlyle to Direct and Choreograph-
- Tickets are available NOW at www.nytf.org/harmony -
National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene (NYTF) today announced the entire cast and creative team for Harmony: A New Musical, starring musical theatre icons Chip Zien (Into the Woods, Caroline, Or Change) and Sierra Boggess (The Little Mermaid, The Phantom of the Opera). Harmony was written by the legendary Barry Manilow and his longtime collaborator Bruce Sussman. At the helm will be Tony Award-winner Warren Carlyle directing the New York debut of this captivating musical.
Harmony tells the true story of the Comedian Harmonists, an ensemble of six talented young men in 1920s Germany who took the world by storm with their signature blend of sophisticated close harmonies and uproarious stage antics, until their inclusion of Jewish singers put them on a collision course with history.
Harmony is based in part on The Comedian Harmonist Archive as curated by the late Dr. Peter Czada.
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14) FOOD FOR THOUGHT PRODUCTIONS
The Award-Winning Theatre Company
Opens Its 2022 Season
BLYTHE DANNER & BOB DISHY
Starring In An Afternoon Of Comedic Delights With Three Short Pieces
On Marriage, Divorce And The Kitchen
George S Kaufman & Leueen MacGrath’s
Amicable Parting
Peter Stone’s
Commercial Break
Tallulah Finds Her Kitchen
Written For Tallulah Bankhead
By
Neil Simon, Danny Simon & Joseph Stein
Program Directed By Antony Marsellis
Stage directions by Michael Citriniti
March 28th, 2022 From 2:00-4:00 pm
In Person At Theatre 80 St. Mark’s
And Streaming “Live” Out To The World
With Repeat Streamed Performances Available On The Following Weekend
Followed by a Q&A With The Cast
FOOD FOR THOUGHT PRODUCTIONS, now in its 22nd year, continues celebrating the oft-neglected one-act play and theatre at its best with Award-winning actors, writers and directors, with a tremendously fun production set for its 2022 Season Opener on March 28th.
Taking place in the living room of Alice and Bill Reynolds, this one act revolves around a couple that seems to have it all—plenty of books, plenty of paintings and plenty of disagreements! They have agreed to two things: to separate and above all that they both remain amicable and civilized. And to do so they have decided to put tags on everything they own which simply say Alice’s or Bill’s. It is not always clear what and who belongs to whom. Until the end!!
Oscar, Tony, and Emmy winner Peter Stone’s Commercial Break -- Another couple, Catherine and Harry Crocker, married for 15 years. She is the Commissioner of Consumer Affairs, he is an advertising executive or, as his wife describes him, “a professional liar”! She suspects he is having an affair and has been lying to her about—mostly everything! To save their marriage she asks him to create a commercial on the spot. The product he is selling—himself. If she is not sold she will start looking at the competition!
(What do Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant have to do with Commercial Break? Lots!! Peter Stone wrote a monologue for Audrey Hepburn which she recorded for Stone's classic film, "Charade." The monologue was edited out. Then he revised the monologue for Cary Grant who also starred in "Father Goose", for which Stone won the Oscar. Grant recorded it and once again it was edited out! Stone then developed the monologue into the one-act play, Commercial Break!)
Tallulah Finds Her Kitchen by Neil Simon, Danny Simon & Joseph Stein --This is a monologue written about a woman’s discovery and a new relationship in her life. Written for Tallulah Bankhead, the relationship is one with her kitchen! The discovery–how to use it!
The March 28th, 2:00pm performance, directed by Antony Marsellis, will be available live via Streaming as well as a limited in-theatre ‘audience’ who will be part of a documentary being filmed on FFTP. The FFT series is presented at Theatre 80 St. Marks. Tickets for the ‘live’ performance are free to first-come patrons, who have agreed to be part of the documentary on FFTP. All social distancing precautions will be respected. Audience members must show proof of vaccination. There will be a nominal charge for the streaming. For those who can’t make the streamed performance on Monday, the program will be repeated on Sunday. For additional information and tickets please contact FFTP at: 646-366-9340 or email: info@foodforthoughtproductions.com
For additional information and tickets please contact FFTP at: 646-366-9340 or email: info@foodforthoughtproductions.com
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15) Works & Process at the Guggenheim Presents
The World Premiere of John Jarboe’s Rose: You Are Who You Eat
co-presented by La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club
March 26, 2022
Works & Process, the performing arts series at the Guggenheim, is proud to present the world premiere of John Jarboe’s Rose: You Are Who You Eat on March 26, 2022 at 7:30 pm. Taking place in the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Peter B. Lewis Theater at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, all programs invite audiences to embrace artistic process and uniquely blend performance highlights with insightful artists discussions.
See video preview: WPA Virtual Commissions: "Rose: a true story and song" by John Jarboe - YouTube
Rose: You Are Who You Eat is a true story set to music. Artist John Jarboe writes:
In 2018 my aunt revealed I had a twin in the womb.
She said, “You know you had a twin in the womb?”
I didn’t know.
She said, “You ate her. That’s why you are the way you are.”
This was a lot to swallow.
My aunt’s pronouncement that my gender stemmed from an act of fetal cannibalism is the seed for this piece: a celebration and “digestion” of this newfound twin, who I later learned would have been named “Rose.”
Following the Works & Process premiere on March 26, the concert experience of Rose can be seen at CulturalDC’s Source Theatre on April 1-2. Over the next 18 months, CulturalDC will work with Jarboe to realize the evolution of Rose into an immersive, multidisciplinary installation.
WORKS & PROCESS TICKETS
$35, $15 partial view. Pay-what-you-wish tickets are available for purchase online only at worksandprocess.org.
House seats may be available for $1,000+ Friends of Works & Process. To purchase house seats, email friends@worksandprocess.org. House seats may be released to the public before performances.
Health and Safety Information
- Every audience member must be fully vaccinated and will be required to show proof in person of vaccination authorized by the FDA or WHO against COVID-19 before entering the theater. Proof of vaccination may include a CDC Vaccination Card (or photo), NYC COVID Safe app, New York State Excelsior Pass, NYC Vaccination Record, or an official immunization record from outside New York City or the United States. Full vaccination is defined as being two weeks or more after receipt of the second dose in a two-dose series, or two weeks or more after receipt of one dose of a single-dose vaccine.
- Visitors over the age of 18 will also be asked to show a photo ID.
- At this time, children under the age of 5, for whom there is currently no available vaccination, will not be permitted to attend this performance regardless of the vaccination status of their guardian.
- Bring your three-ply face mask, N-95, or equivalent to keep yourself and one another safe. All individuals will be required to wear a face mask at all times.
- There is no coat check; please do not bring bags.
- Do not attend if in the ten days leading up to the performance, you have tested positive or experienced COVID-19 symptoms or come into close or proximate contact with a confirmed or suspected COVID-19 case. If you are unable to attend due to COVID-19 exposure, please contact boxoffice@guggenheim.org in advance of the performance.
- An inherent risk of exposure to COVID-19 exists in any public environment where people are present. Those visiting the museum do so at their own risk of exposure.
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16) ERIC KREBS AND THEATER 555
TO PRESENT
JUDGE ANDREW NAPOLITANO: STORIES FROM THE FIELDS OF FREEDOM
PUBLIC PERFORMANCES OF A WORK IN PROGRESS
THEATER 555 (555 WEST 42ND STREET
MONDAY - THURSDAY, MARCH 28-31 @ 7PM
FREE ADMISSION/RESERVATIONS REQUIRED/LIMITED SEATING
Producer Eric Krebs will present “Judge Andrew Napolitano: Stories from the Fields of Freedom,” a work in progress for four (4) nights, beginning Monday, March 28 (through Thursday, March 31, 2022 at 7pm at Theater 555 (555 West 42nd Street). Admission is free and reservations are required. Please email boxoffice@theater555.comto make a reservation with confirmation to follow.
Join Judge Andrew P. Napolitano, former Fox News Senior Judicial Analyst, as he recounts his best and most hilarious courtroom, political, television, and personal encounters with celebrities and regular folks from the past 40 years, and touches upon our losses of constitutional freedoms. All performances run 60 minutes and are followed by a public "talk back" with audience members.
Judge Napolitano, a graduate of Princeton University and the University of Notre Dame Law School, is a nationally recognized radio and television commentator and syndicated columnist, whose written works appear on dozens of websites and in numerous publications. He was the senior judicial analyst at Fox News from 1997 to 2021, where he logged 14,500 on-air appearances, and he served as a New Jersey Superior Court judge from 1987 to 1995, where he tried 150 jury trials, both criminal and civil. He was a visiting professor of law at Delaware, Seton Hall, and Brooklyn law schools. The Judge has written nine books on the U.S. Constitution, two of which were NY Times best sellers. He is nationally known for watching the government as it interferes with economic freedoms and personal liberties.
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17) CHAIN THEATRE ANNOUNCES AN EXTENSION FOR EMMY-NOMINATED KEITH HUFF’S
GARBAGEMAN
DIRECTED BY GREG CICCHINO
NOW CLOSING APRIL 16
CHAIN THEATRE is pleased to announce the one-week extension of the world premiere production of Emmy-nominated Keith Huff’s (Mad Men, House of Cards, American Crime) GARBAGEMAN, directed by Greg Cicchino. Due to popular-demand GARBAGEMAN will now play a five-week limited engagement at Chain Theatre (312 W. 36th Street, 4th Floor, New York, NY 10018). Performances begin Thursday, March 17 and continue through Saturday, April 16. Opening Night is Saturday, March 18 (8 p.m.). Tickets are $25 and available at https://chaintheatre.eventive.org/schedule. Press performances are: Thursday, March 17 and Friday , March 18 (and any subsequent performance.)
Dan Bandana and Buddy Maple have known each other since high school. Last in their class but strong in spirit, they always find their way back to one another. When Buddy needs a gun he turns to his last option… Dan Bandana. What develops is a twisted murder plot that also lands them in the headlines – and the history books.
The performance schedule for GARBAGEMAN is as follows: Wednesday – Saturday at 8:00pm, Sunday at 3:00pm. Running time: 110 minutes; with 10 minute intermission.
Tickets to GARBAGEMAN are $25 and are now available online at www.ChainTheatre.org or at the theater box office ½ hour prior to performance.
Website: www.ChainTheatre.org; IG: @chaintheatrenyc; FB: @ChainTheatre
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18) MILE SQUARE THEATRE
Proudly Presents
THE NICETIES
If history is written by the victors, who tells the story of the oppressed?
Written by ELEANOR BURGESS
Directed by JOHN ERIC SCUTCHINS
FOUR-WEEK LIMITED ENGAGEMENT
MARCH 23 – APRIL 17, 2022 AT MILE SQUARE THEATRE
OPENING NIGHT IS SATURDAY, MARCH 26 AT 8 P.M.
SPECIAL “REOPENING” CELEBRATION ON THURSDAY, MARCH 31 AT 8 P.M.
TICKETS ON SALE NOW AT MILESQUARETHEATRE.ORG
MILE SQUARE THEATRE (MST) is pleased to announce their first production since the pandemic shut-down of 2020 Eleanor Burgess’ THE NICETIES, directed by John Eric Scutchins. THE NICETIES will play a four-week limited engagement at Mile Square Theatre (1400 Clinton St. Hoboken, NJ 07030). Performances begin Wednesday, March 23 and continue through Sunday, April 17. Opening Night is Saturday, March 26 (8 p.m.). Tickets are $30-$45 and available at milesquaretheatre.org. Press performances are: Thursday, March 24, Friday, March 25, and Saturday, March 26 (and any subsequent performance).
In this “barnburner of a play” (The Washington Post), Janine, an accomplished Ivy League professor holds routine office hours with Zoe, an ambitious young student, to discuss her thesis: if history is written by the victors, who tells the story of the oppressed? When the two don’t see eye to eye, polite disagreements explode into a debate over race and history that threatens to derail their careers, lives and the status quo.
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19)
The Town Hall (www.TheTownHall.org) and Peoples’ Symphony Concerts (www.PSCNY.org) present Miloš Karadaglić at The Town Hall (123 W. 43rd Street) on Sunday, March 20th at 2pm in an Andrés Segovia tribute concert. In addition to in-person attendance, the concert (together with a conversation with the artist) is also available virtually for six days starting on March 21st.
This collaboration celebrates The Town Hall’s centennial season.
Miloš Karadaglić is reinvigorating the classical guitar repertoire with his passionate and intricately focused performances. A graduate of the prestigious Royal Academy of Music, Miloš was named by BBC Music Magazine as one of the six greatest classical guitarists of the last century alongside guitar legend Andrés Segovia, to whom this program is dedicated.
This performance highlights works written for and transcribed by Segovia, along with pieces played during his famous sold-out New York concert in 1928. This Segovia tribute concert is part of The Town Hall centenary celebration and the Hall’s tradition of great guitar concerts.
The concert will include the following:
Sor: Mozart Variations
Bach: Chaconne
Villa Lobos: Prelude 1, 3 and 5
Tarrega: Lagrima
Albeniz: Asturias, Granada and Sevilla
For tickets, priced from $19 - $23, and more information, please visit: www.pscny.org or call 212-586-4680 for virtual performance ticketing. Salomon Series subscriptions are also available with tickets less than $13. *********************************************************************
20) THE MINUTES ON BROADWAY
TO SUPPORT HUMANITARIAN CRISIS IN UKRAINE
A PORTION OF TICKET SALES WILL SUPPORT
SAVE THE CHILDREN’S UKRAINE CRISIS RELIEF FUND
Previews begin April 2, 2022
At Studio 54 on Broadway
The producers and company of Steppenwolf’s production of THE MINUTES on Broadway announce today that a portion of ticket sales will go to support global humanitarian organization Save the Children’s Ukraine Crisis Relief Fund.
More information about the Ukraine Crisis Relief Fund is available at SaveTheChildren.org.
Performances of THE MINUTES by Tracy Letts, directed by Anna D. Shapiro, will begin Saturday, April 2, 2022 at Studio 54 (254 West 54th Street) on Broadway. Opening is on Sunday, April 17, 2022.
Tickets for THE MINUTES are available online at TheMinutesBroadway.com or by calling 800-447-7400.
The Minutes, the record-breaking hit production from Steppenwolf Theatre Company, takes a hard look at the inner workings of a city council meeting and the hypocrisy, greed and ambition that bubble to the surface when a newcomer to the small town of Big Cherry starts to ask the wrong questions. Why is someone on the council mysteriously missing? What happened to all those bicycles? Is there skullduggery afoot with the city’s finances? What’s the deal with the available parking space? What the F is going on with the Lincoln Smackdown? And why are the minutes from the last meeting being kept secret?
This is a 16-week limited engagement through Sunday, July 24, 2022.
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21) NEW BROADWAY MUSICAL COMEDY
MR. SATURDAY NIGHT
STARRING TONY & EMMY AWARD WINNER BILLY CRYSTAL
Previews Begin March 29, 2022
Opening Night April 27, 2022
At the Nederlander Theatre on Broadway
The box office for the new musical comedy, MR. SATURDAY NIGHT, co-written by and starring Tony and Emmy Award winner Billy Crystal, will open on Monday, February 21 at 10am at the Nederlander Theatre (208 West 41st Street). The Nederlander Theatre box office will be open Monday through Saturday from 10am to 6pm.
MR. SATURDAY NIGHT begins previews March 29, 2022 and will officially open on April 27, 2022 at the Nederlander Theatre (208 West 41st Street). Tickets are on sale now at Ticketmaster.com.
MR. SATURDAY NIGHT is the story of Buddy Young Jr., an outrageous and outspoken comedian who found fame, if not fortune, in the early days of television. Now, some 40 years after his TV career flamed out, Buddy seeks one more shot at the spotlight, and while he’s at it, one last shot at fixing the family he fractured along the way.
For more information, please visit MrSaturdayNightOnBroadway.com
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22) Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company
presents
Awakening
March 24-27, 2022
at the New York Live Arts Theater
Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company presents the Awakening on March 24, 25, 26, 2022 at 7:30 pm and March 27, 2022 at 3pm at the New York Live Arts Theater. Tickets are $20, with $15 tickets for students and seniors, and $50 VIP tickets, and can be purchased at newyorklivearts.org/event/awakening/.
Awakening is the final production of the late choreographer Nai-Ni Chen before her untimely passing in December 2021. This expansive production is the artistic embodiment of Nai-Ni Chen’s observation of and reaction to all of the events that happened around her: the division of society, the quest for social equity, the dual beauty and trauma of isolation, and her hope for unity. Nai-Ni Chen’s signature choreographic style crosses many boundaries as she brings unique elements of Chinese culture into the contemporary dance world. The Company is including her seminal work Incense, as a prayer to her spirit and to remember her choreographic grace and power.
Awakening includes:
One of the last and final work of Nai-Ni Chen, completed by PeiJu Chien-Pott with commissioned music by Jason Kao Hwang, Unity (Premiere) was inspired by the story that a single stick is easy to break but a bunch is not easily breakable. In this dance, the choreographer integrated numerous elements of Chinese Martial Art into the dance, and all the company dancers received regular training from Martial Arts champion Sifu Yuan Zhang. The story speaks to the power of gathering and Nai-Ni Chen’s hope for community unity during our struggle for equity and anti-hate.
Incense (2003), a dance originally inspired by the sculpture titled Nine Muses by Carlos Dorian installed at Grounds for Sculpture in Hamilton, New Jersey. The choreographer draws ideas from the offering of incense in the long corridors of an ancient temple in her childhood. The raising white clouds of the incense is said to bring the believer’s prayer from their hearts to god’s ears. The music, by Joan La Barbara, reminds her of the mystical elements of nature and the more abstract, formal elements that gives structure to our faith and thus our lives.
Truthbound (2018) was Nai-Ni Chen’s response to media and Democracy. At this time, everyone is overburdened with news and ideas from every direction, the dance represents Nai-Ni’s reaction to the crisis of faith and trust at this time. Truthbound received critical acclaim in Germany. “In their body and visual language, sensitively creative fantasy, and poetry. Tradition and experiment are combined with dance-like precision and dynamics.” ... writes Volksfreund Critic Eva-Maria Reuther
Shadow force (2020) was created during the pandemic mostly on zoom with limited rehearsal with dancers in person. The dance is the choreographer’s response to the effect of the isolation, personal struggle, anti-Asian hate, and the social unrest that was happening around her. Despite the darkness, she said that the ending was her vision of hope through struggle, and that hope is something we all share.
For additional Company information, visit their website, www.nainichen.org; write to Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company, P.O. Box 1121, Fort Lee, NJ 07024; or call (800) 650- 0246. *********************************************************************
23) THE OPC
NOW RELEASED
EPISODE 3: “WHAT’S A HEAVEN FOR?”
EPISODE 2: “THE SHOWRUNNER”
CREATED & WRITTEN BY RICHARD CURTIS
DIRECTED BY MEGAN SIMARD
PRODUCTION, DESIGN & MUSIC BY STEVE MECCA
AVAILABLE ON ALL STREAMING PLATFORMS
The OPC, an original scripted podcast series focusing on ageism, created and written by Richard Curtis, has released its third and fourth episodes, each under 15 minutes, now available on all streaming platforms.
Previously on The OPC, Bernard Bentlee’s family has been investigating a project called The OPC, that the 83 year-old patriarch has been developing in secret. His ex-son-in-law, Leonard, finds out, from a woman of dubious reputation, that the old man has been asking a lot of questions about the sex life of senior citizens. Bernard Bentlee’s daughter Annette gets a clue from a lawyer that this is ‘bigger than anything you can imagine,’ while his granddaughter Ashley learns from a talent agent that he has been seeing a lot of models.
Episode Three, “What’s a Heaven For?”, begins with Bernard Bentlee entertaining the models in his study, as his family gathers outside his door, determined to confront him.
In Episode Four, “The Showrunner”, Ashley goes to spy on her grandfather’s secret activities.
A modern twist on the classic radio play format, The OPC is equal parts comedy and heart. Easy to binge and hard to forget, this is one podcast that will leave you wanting more. (And more is on the way: a second season is being scripted.)
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24) PROSPECT THEATER COMPANY
TO PRESENT
WORK-IN-PROCESS CONCERT PRESENTATION OF
THE OSCAR MICHEAUX SUITE
PART OF PROSPECT’S IGNITE SERIES
ORIGINAL MUSIC BY GRAMMY NOMINATED JAZZ ARTIST
ALPHONSO HORNE
MARCH 26 & 27
AT 59E59 THEATERS
Prospect Theater Company (Cara Reichel, Producing Artistic Director; Melissa Huber, Managing Director) announced today the upcoming work-in-process concert presentation of The Oscar Micheaux Suite, the next event in Prospect’s IGNITE Concert Series, an ongoing initiative which features today’s new voices shaping tomorrow’s musical theater. Concert performances will take place on Saturday, March 26th at 2pm & 7pm, and Sunday, March 27th at 2pm at 59E59 Theaters (59 East 59th Street).
The Oscar Micheaux Suite is a special event featuring a six-piece jazz ensemble as well as featured vocalists, debuting new songs from a jazz musical in development. The music is composed by multi-GRAMMY Award nominated jazz artist Alphonso Horne, who is also the bandleader and will play trumpet for the engagement. Lyrics are by Jesse L. Kearney, Jr. and Peter Mills. The concert director is Kimille Howard.
The Oscar Micheaux Suite is inspired by the life and work of Oscar Micheaux, America's first major Black filmmaker. Micheaux’s groundbreaking films focused on contemporary Black life in the first half of the 20th century, racial relationships, and the struggle of African Americans trying to achieve success. He sought to create films that would counter white portrayals of African Americans, and used the emerging art form of silent film to push back against the racism of early Hollywood, representing stories from Black experience. The Oscar Micheaux Suite aims to illuminate his legacy – but also spark dialogue about the history of America's ongoing struggle for racial equality, including representation on stage.
The Oscar Micheaux Suite is inspired by the life and work of Oscar Micheaux, America's first major Black filmmaker. Micheaux’s groundbreaking films focused on contemporary Black life in the first half of the 20th century, racial relationships, and the struggle of African Americans trying to achieve success. He sought to create films that would counter white portrayals of African Americans, and used the emerging art form of silent film to push back against the racism of early Hollywood, representing stories from Black experience. The Oscar Micheaux Suite aims to illuminate his legacy – but also spark dialogue about the history of America's ongoing struggle for racial equality, including representation on stage.
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