Make Me Gorgeous! is adapted from Donnie’s book, Mr. Madam: The Life and Times of Kenneth/Kate Marlowe, the culmination of years of research and interviews and establishing Donnie as one of the foremost historians to chronicle Kenneth/Kate Marlowe’s life. A new edition of the book, retitled Us, further explores the life of Kenneth/Kate Marlowe.
10) AMAS MUSICAL THEATRE
THE AMAS MUSICAL THEATRE LAB
TO PRESENT
DEVELOPMENTAL READINGS OF
FALLING FOR MAKE-BELIEVE:
THE LIFE AND SONGS OF LORENZ HART
MUSIC BY RICHARD RODGERS
LYRICS BY LORENZ HART
BOOK BY MARK SALTZMAN
ARRANGEMENTS & MUSIC DIRECTION BY KEITH HARRISON DWORKIN
DIRECTED BY JEFF CALHOUN_
THREE PERFORMANCES ONLY!
MONDAY, JANUARY 22, 2024 @ 6:00PM
TUESDAY, JANUARY 23, 2024 @ 1:00PM & 4:30PM
11) THE FIRE THIS TIME FESTIVAL
PRESENTED BY FRIGID NEW YORK
JANUARY 18-28, 2024
The Fire This Time Festival was founded in 2009 by Kelley Girod to provide a platform for playwrights of African and African-American descent to write and produce evocative material for diverse audiences. Since the debut of the first 10-minute play program in 2010, presented in collaboration with FRIGID New York, The Fire This Time Festival has has produced and developed the work of more than 100 playwrights.
In season 15, the ten-minute plays all focus on Black women and the Black family with themes ranging from a family who redefines the meaning of kinship, both biological and chosen, and another family who deals with the psychological toll racism has on their teenage daughter; women navigating careers as artists and activists and the demands it places on their private lives; young women confronting colorism within the Black community; and, women being empowered to reclaim their agency and autonomy by refusing to be confined by unfulfilling relationships.
The Ten-Minute Play Program will include a guest performance by the emerging vocalist and poet Nailah Carrie who will perform a brief set at each presentation.
This year’s plays are: It’s Karen B**** by Taylor Blackman, Mamas and Papas by Kamilah Bush, What’s Love Got To Do With It? by Leelee Jackson, The Mural by Monique Pappas-Williams, Why Jamira Gotta Do All Da Werk? by Nia Akila Robinson and Ethel & Ethel by Joël René Scoville.
All plays are directed by Cezar Williams. The cast will feature Marinda Anderson, Danielle Covington, Benton Greene, Larry Powell and Shayvawn Webster.
The production stage manager is Kai Stanton, with Allison Hohman serving as assistant stage manager. Mary Olivette Bookman is the production manager. Lighting design is by Gabrielle Liriano, costume design is by Kara Branch, sound design is by DJ Potts. Laura Kiele DeLeon serves as fight and intimacy coordinator.
Performances will take place on Thursday January 18, Friday January 19, Saturday January 20, Friday January 26 and Saturday January 27 at 7:30pm, and Sunday January 28 at 3pm.
Additionally, TFTT founder and executive director Kelley Girod will host Thriving in the Theater: A Panel Discussion on Monday, January 22 at 7pm. The panel will feature leading Black theatermakers including Keith Josef Adkins (New Black Fest), Garlia Jones (Harlem9, Blackboard Playreading Series, Black Motherhood & Parenting New Play Festival) and Goldie Patrick (Dramatist Guild) for a candid conversation to demystify what it takes to succeed and survive in the arts.
Tickets to The Fire This Time Festival begin at $25 and are now on sale at firethistimefestival.com/new-
12) Songbook Sundays
at
Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Dizzy’s Club
hosted by Deborah Grace Winer
BABY, IT’S FRANK LOESSER
featuring
Emily Skinner, Matthew Scott,
Ekep Nkwelle
Sunday, January 21st, 5 PM & 7:30 PM
Tickets for Songbook Sundays are $45/55, with student tickets available at $25. There is a $21 food/drink minimum.
**Both performances will be live-streamed on JALC’s JazzLive app; purchase on Dizzy's welbsite $9.99/month, cancel anytime.** To purchase, visit: Jazz.org/dizzys
13) JAPAN SOCIETY ANNOUNCES RARE “FLUXFILMS” SCREENING WITH EXPERIMENTAL FILMMAKER JEFFREY PERKINS IN-PERSON
Screening In Collaboration with Japan Society’s
“Out of Bounds: Japanese Women Artists in Fluxus” Exhibition
Wednesday, January 17, 2024
7:00PM
Japan Society
333 East 47th Street
(between 1st and 2nd Avenues)
Japan Society, a 116-year-old non-profit organization focused on bringing Japan and the U.S. closer together, announces a rare screening of films from the radical 1960’s Fluxus movement together with a conversation with Fluxus filmmaker Jeffrey Perkins.
This special event will take place on January 17, 2024 at 7PM, and is held in celebration of Japan Society Gallery’s current exhibition - Out of Bounds: Japanese Women Artists in Fluxus - closing on January 21.
Fluxus was an international experimental art movement in the 1960’s focused on the creative process and spanning various mediums. Fluxfilms - an offshoot of this movement - concentrated on a wide array of short films from the avant garde to the absurd, ranging from 10 seconds to 10 minutes in length. Fluxus’ films were unique experimental cinema created by many of the key global voices instrumental to the Fluxus movement, with filmmakers including Nam June Paik, George Maciunas and Yoko Ono.
Japan Society will present an evening of Fluxus films followed by an on-stage conversation between filmmaker Jeffrey Perkins and guest curator of Out of Bounds Midori Yoshimoto.
Tickets are available at japansociety.org/film. Screening will take place on January 17 at 7PM inside Japan Society’s landmarked headquarters at 333 East 47th Street (between 1st and 2nd Avenues), one block from the United Nations.
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14) Kaatsbaan Cultural Park Launches Weekend Retreat Residency Program
The Kaatsbaan Cultural Park Weekend Retreat Residency Program provides opportunities for artists of all genres to create, live, and collaborate in the idyllic countryside of the Hudson Valley.
In addition to studio space, meals, and housing on our Hudson Valley campus, these weekends offer an extraordinary environment for cultural innovation and excellence.
Kaatsbaan Weekend Retreats are tailored to accommodate individual artists and small groups spanning various creative disciplines.
This new residency program offers affordable access to spacious studios and specialized workspaces for dancers, writers, visual artists, composers, musicians, and designers. Residencies are generously subsidized and include essential amenities such as individual, hotel-style rooms and healthy, locally sourced meals.
In its pilot year, the Weekend Retreat Residency Program takes place during three weekends:
January 19 – 21, 2024; February 9 – 11, 2024; March 15 – 17, 2024.
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15) LATINÉ MUSICAL THEATRE LAB &PROSPECT THEATER COMPANY’S IGNITE CONCERT SERIES
PRESENT
NEW MUSICALS MIXTAPE
A CONCERT OF SONGS & INSIGHTS FROMSIX WORK-IN-PROGRESS MUSICALS
MONDAY, JANUARY 22
AT 5PM & 8PMAT CHELSEA FACTORY
Latiné Musical Theatre Lab (Ryan Morales Green, Founder & Producing Artistic Director) and Prospect Theater Company (Cara Reichel, Producing Artistic Director; Melissa Huber, Managing Director) have partnered to present New Musicals Mixtape, a first look at new musicals written by members of the Latiné Musical Theatre Lab’s Julia de Burgos Cohort. This 90-minute concert evening features songs from six work-in-progress musicals, alongside interviews with the writing teams, providing insight to their creative process.
Part of Prospect Theater Company’s IGNITE Concert Series, New Musicals Mixtape will be presented on Monday, January 22, 2024, at 5:00pm and 8:00pm at Chelsea Factory (547 West 26th Street).
The evening will feature songs from each new musical and interviews with each writing team, discussing their project and process: Jessie Field and James Martinez Salem - Fat Girl Starving; Miranda Holliday, Reginald Bennett Jr., and Justin D. Cook - Brother; Rebecca Murillo - Harvest Of Empire; Nico Raimont - Como Correr: A Hip Pop Musical; SMJ, Maggie Marie Rodgers, and Rebecca Wahls - This Old Haunt; and Paloma de Vega - Next Door.
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THE SWEEPING NEW MUSICAL
ABOUT THE ICONIC PAINTER
TAMARA DE LEMPICKA
ANNOUNCES COLLABORATION WITH
SOTHEBY’S
IN CELEBRATION OF THE BROADWAY-BOUND MUSICAL
ON JANUARY 17, 2024
‘LEMPICKA’ WILL BE THE FIRST BROADWAY SHOW IN HISTORY
TO PERFORM AT SOTHEBY’S
IN A SPECIAL ONE-NIGHT-ONLY EVENT
FEATURING THE CAST
AND A SPECIAL SELLING EXHIBITION
“THE WORLD OF TAMARA –
A CELEBRATION OF LEMPICKA AND ART DECO”
TO TAKE PLACE THIS MARCH AT SOTHEBY’S
Lempicka, the sweeping new musical portrait celebrating the gripping true story of renowned artist Tamara de Lempicka, is collaborating with Sotheby’s, the world’s premier destination for art and luxury, in celebration of the renowned artist and the Broadway-bound production.
On January 17, Lempicka will be the first-ever Broadway show in history to perform at Sotheby’s, as they host the first live event for fans and special guests – by invitation only. Lucky fans can enter to win tickets to the special one-night-only – and private – event by entering a free lottery on the TodayTix app. The lottery will open on Friday, January 12 at 10:00 AM ET and fans can enter through Tuesday, January 16 at 6:00 PM ET. Leading lady Eden Espinosa will be hosting the event, alongside the yet-to-be-announced cast, in the historic room.
Sotheby’s is also pleased to present the selling exhibition “The World of Tamara – A Celebration of Lempicka and Art Deco” beginning March 28 through April 16, 2024, in tandem with the opening of Lempicka. This special event will feature works by the famous Art Deco artist plus exceptional objects from the time period including, but not limited to, jewelry, automobiles and more.
As previously announced, Lempicka will open on Broadway this spring at the Longacre Theatre (220 W 48th St). Ms. Espinosa, who originated the titular role in critically acclaimed performances at Williamstown Theatre Festival and La Jolla Playhouse, will star in the production. Performances begin on Tuesday, March 19, 2024, ahead of an official opening night on Sunday, April 14, 2024. Tickets are now on sale at telecharge.com.
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17) Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company Presents
Red Firecrackers
Sunday, January 21, 2024 at 1pm
The Jay and Linda Grunin Center for the Arts
The Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company is pleased to present Red Firecrackers, the story of Nian and the origin Chinese Lunar New Year customs on Sunday, January 21, 2024 at 1pm at The Jay and Linda Grunin Center for the Arts, 1 College Dr, Toms River, NJ. Tickets are $15 for adults, $12 for children, and can be purchased at https://www.grunincenter.org/
Red Firecrackers is a spectacular production of dazzling props, colorful costumes, mesmerizing music, fantastic acrobatics and lively dance by top notch performers telling the story of the origin of the Chinese Lunar New Year. In this legend, a group of villagers, working, dancing and praying together, defeated an a terrifying monster of the ages. A heartwarming story highlights the intrinsic value of coming together, courage, hard-work and ingenuity. It also explains some of the origin of the tradition of the Chinese Lunar New Year when everyone is wearing red, giving red envelopes to children, putting up red decorations, and lighting up all the dark corners the red firecracker to make loud noises. The performance is suitable for children ages 6-15.
Perelman Performing Arts Center and Galvan Initiatives
Announce
THE DEMOCRACY CYCLE
A multi-year program of 25 commissions across theater, opera, dance, and music.
Submissions will be accepted from January 16 – April 1, 2024
The Perelman Performing Arts Center (Khady Kamara Nunez, Executive Director, Bill Rauch, Artistic Director) and Galvan Initiatives (T. Eric Galloway, Co-Founder and President) announce a new program with a multi-year commitment to the commissioning and development of 25 works across theater, opera, dance, and music: The Democracy Cycle asks artists to explore themes relating to the nature, practice, and experience of democracy.
Each selected artist will receive a $30,000 commission and another $30,000 for project development. All 25 projects will be commissioned and developed over a 5-year period, with at least eight artists chosen in each of the next three years. The Democracy Cycle, jointly conceived by Bill Rauch and T. Eric Galloway, will be managed by project director Boo Froebel.
The Democracy Cycle is designed to support new works to be performed live that illuminate the promise, practice, imperfection, and opportunity of democracy. Artists creating in theater, dance, music, opera and interdisciplinary practices are encouraged to apply in the open call process starting January 2024.
The Democracy Cycle aims to invigorate discussion and expression of democratic values by supporting the unique abilities of artists to imagine new worlds, envision new possibilities, and provoke meaningful discourse across any number of divides.
APPLICATION INFORMATION
Artists submitting proposals are asked to identify and respond to ideas or themes related to democracy, including core democratic principles and values (ex. political equality, majority rule, minority rights, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, freedom of religion).
The Democracy Cycle primarily focuses on democracy as practiced in the United States, although commissioned projects may include references to democracies worldwide that inform or deepen our understanding of American democracy.
The submission process for the first open call will open on January 16 and close April 1, 2024 at 11:59pm EST.
More information is available at: www.pacnyc.org/the-democracy-
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19) PURLIE VICTORIOUS: A Non-Confederate Romp Through The Cotton Patch
TO CONTINUE “VICTORIOUS TALKBACKS” SERIES IN 2024
LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA, ADRIENNE WARREN, and MELBA MOORE
to appear as special guests
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20) South Street Seaport Museum
Announces Free Event
From Sailing Ships to Spaceships
207 Water Street
January 20, 2024, at 2:30pm
The South Street Seaport Museum presents a new free event, From Sailing Ships to Spaceships, at their location at 207 Water Street on January 20, 2024, at 2:30pm, led by guest speaker Kim Macharia, Executive Director of Space Prize.
For centuries, humans have gazed at the stars in search of answers. Mariners, too, have looked skyward, utilizing the stars for navigation across our vast oceans. Join the Seaport Museum and Kim Macharia for an illuminating interactive presentation that delves into the driving forces behind our exploration of both the sea and space.
Together, we will uncover the intertwined evolution of these two frontiers. With Macharia as our guide, we will unravel shared technological advancements and explore the profound human curiosity that compels us to venture into the unknown.
Content is appropriate for anyone ages 10 and up. Advanced registration is encouraged for this free event but walkups will be accommodated as possible. A reception with complimentary beverages will follow the presentation.
The event is free, and registration is encouraged. seaportmuseum.org/sailing-
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