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Tickets to Othello will be available through a digital lottery the day before the performance at rush.telecharge.com. The digital lottery opens at rush.telecharge.com at 12 AM ET one day before the performance with winners to be notified that same morning at 10 AM ET, with a second notification of additional winners that afternoon at 3 PM ET. Winners may purchase up to two tickets at $49 each (inclusive of $5 service fee), subject to availability. Please note that seats may be partial view.
Barrymore Theatre (243 W. 47th St.)
For more information or to purchase tickets, visit othellobway.com
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Meet Jan Lewan—the most ambitious polka star you’ve never heard of… until now. BIG FAMOUS is a high-energy, satirical new musical based on the unbelievable true story of a Polish immigrant who turned his accordion-fueled dreams into a glittering empire—by any means necessary.
With boundless charm, a big heart, and even bigger schemes, Jan builds a polka dynasty that stretches from Pennsylvania’s Polish halls to the casinos of Atlantic City and beyond. But when the money stops flowing, and the walls start closing in, will he con his way out of trouble?
Featuring a wildly infectious polka score, laugh-out-loud comedy, and a story so absurd it has to be true, BIG FAMOUS is a rollicking tale of music, ambition, and the American Dream gone spectacularly off the rails. Based on true events, audiences will be entertained from the first polka to the last!
New 42 Studios (229 W. 42nd St.)
3/20 & 3/21
For more information visit, www.directorscompany.org.
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14) 92NY Harkness Dance Center Presents
Dormeshia Tap Collective
LADIES IN THE SHOE: TAP DANCE CELEBRATION
In Person: Friday and Saturday, March 21 and 22, 7 pm ET
Tickets from $40 / $15 students
The 92nd Street Y, New York’s 2024/25 Harkness Dance Center season continues with the return of Ladies in the Shoe; Tap Dance Celebration. In honor of Women’s History Month, Dormeshia brings two evenings of electrifying performances and captivating choreography by amazing female tap dancers and well-respected ambassadors of this art form to 92NY’s Buttenwieser Hall at the Arnhold Center. Performances are on March 21 and 22 at 7pm and tickets are available here.
For this year’s Ladies in the Shoe, Dormeshia solicited submissions from the tap dance community, and received 32 videos showcasing the talent and creativity of dancers from across the country and Canada.
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15) Amanda Selwyn Dance Theatre/Notes in Motion
Offers
Spring Session Youth Classes
April- June 2025
412 Broadway, Tribeca, NYC
Amanda Selwyn Dance Theatre/Notes in Motion is thrilled to offer its Spring Session Youth Programming at their NEW HOME in downtown Manhattan! The new Amanda Selwyn Dance Studio is home for both our professional company Amanda Selwyn Dance Theatre as well as for Notes in Motion dance education programs. Class offerings available for young dancers from ages 3 to 12 years old. Registration inquiries, please email: ashley@amandaselwyndance.org. Or book online at https://
Amanda Selwyn Dance Studio Open House
Saturday, March 29 from 9am - 12pm
Tour the studio, meet instructors, and register on site!
Studio youth programs are an extension of the dynamic in-school arts education program, Notes in Motion Dance Theatre. These programs teach both technical and creative dance skills with a focus on inclusivity, self-expression, and personal growth. In all styles and at all levels, young dancers build foundational skills while developing key skills such as teamwork, leadership, self expression, and resilience. Through structured warm-up/skill building, creative expression/improvisation exercises, and choreography, students learn to express themselves with confidence. Our goal is to provide a nurturing environment where every child can discover joy in dance, creativity in collaboration, and freedom in self-expression.
Youth Classes | After School Dance Club, Spring Session
Dates: Tuesdays, April 22- June 17, 2025
Performance Showing: June 17
$540 - 9 sessions
3-4pm - Hip Hop (ages 7-12) - Yang Sun
4-5pm - Modern/Jazz Dance (ages 7-12) - Isaac Kerr
Saturday Youth Series, Spring Session
Dates: Saturdays, April 26- June 21, 2025
Performance Showing: June 21
$540- 9 sessions
9-9:45am - Pre-Ballet (ages 3-4) - Rosetta Fair
10-11:00am - Creative Movement (ages 5-7) - Angelica Barbosa Rodriguez
11-12pm - Jazz Dance (ages 7-12) - Laura Ardner
After School Dance Club: Hip Hop (Ages 7-12) with Yang Sun
Tuesdays, 3- 4pm
After-School Hip Hop Dance class gives students ages 7-12 a fun, high-energy introduction to the fundamentals of hip hop. This class blends technical skills with freestyle movement, helping young dancers build confidence and develop their own style in a supportive environment. Students will learn basic hip hop techniques, including grooves, footwork, and isolations, while exploring rhythm, musicality, and personal expression. Through exciting choreography and age-appropriate music, dancers will develop coordination, strength, and body control, with plenty of room for creativity and improvisation. This class is perfect for young dancers who want to express themselves, get active, and have fun with friends. No previous experience is necessary—just a love for movement and music!
After School Dance Club: Modern/ Jazz (Ages 7-12) with Isaac Kerr
Tuesdays, 4-5pm
After-School Modern/Jazz Dance class introduces students ages 7-12 to a dynamic blend of modern and jazz dance styles, focusing on technical skill development and creative exploration. This class covers the fundamentals of both styles, helping young dancers build strength, coordination, and body awareness in a fun, encouraging environment.
Students will learn core techniques, including jazz turns, isolations, modern floor work, and expressive sequences. Through age-appropriate choreography and creative exercises, dancers will explore musicality, rhythm, and self-expression, developing confidence and their own unique style. Ideal for students who love to move and create, this class requires no prior dance experience—just an eagerness to learn, express, and have fun!
Saturday Youth Series: Pre- Ballet (Ages 3-4) with Rosetta Fair
Saturdays, 9- 9:45am
Pre-Ballet class for young children introduces students to the foundations of ballet in a fun, imaginative, and age-appropriate way. This class focuses on developing motor skills, musicality, and basic ballet movements through playful activities and structured exercises designed for 3 and 4 year-olds. Children will explore movement, rhythm, and coordination, building body awareness and control while learning fundamental ballet steps and positions. Our goal is to provide a positive, nurturing environment where young dancers can develop foundational technical skills and explore the joy of self-expression through movement. No prior dance experience is required.
Saturday Youth Series: Creative Movement (Ages 5-7) with Angélica Barbosa
Saturdays, 10-11am
This engaging class introduces young movers to the joy of dance and creative expression. Through imaginative activities, basic dance techniques, and playful exploration, children will develop coordination, rhythm, and confidence through movement. Guided by the core values of Notes in Motion/Amanda Selwyn Dance Theatre, this class fosters creativity, collaboration, and a love for movement in a supportive and fun environment.
Saturday Youth Series: Jazz Dance (Ages 7-10) with Laura Ardner
Saturdays, 11am- 12pm
Jazz Dance class for ages 7-10 introduces young dancers to the lively world of jazz, combining technical skill-building with energetic, expressive movement. This class focuses on fundamental jazz techniques like kicks, turns, and isolations, all while encouraging each child’s unique style and creativity. Students will learn basic jazz steps and sequences, developing coordination, flexibility, and rhythm through upbeat music and fun choreography. In a positive, engaging environment, dancers will explore elements of jazz such as timing, dynamics, and musicality, helping them gain confidence and stage presence. This class is perfect for children eager to move with energy and style. No prior dance experience is required—just an enthusiasm to dance and express themselves!
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16) AMERICAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA DEBUTS
AT LINCOLN CENTER’S
DAVID GEFFEN HALL WITH TAPPING INTO THE TWENTIES, ON MARCH 2 |
Music Director Leon Botstein leads the American Symphony Orchestra (ASO) in its debut performance at Lincoln Center’s David Geffen Hall, the third of four orchestral concerts in New York City during the ensemble’s 63rd season, on Sunday, March 23 at 3 pm. The afternoon program offers works from the 1920s by John Alden Carpenter, Erwin Schulhoff, and William Grant Still, that demonstrate the influence of jazz on the music of that time period; and a symphonic poem by Edgard Varèse exploring the mysterious and powerful nature of the constellations above. Award-winning pianist and recording artist Orion Weiss, hailed as a “brilliant pianist” by The New York Times, also makes his David Geffen Hall debut at this concert as the featured soloist in Schulhoff’s seldom-heard Concerto for Piano and Small Orchestra.
Sunday, March 23, 2025, at 3 pm, David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center
Pre-concert Talk at 2 pm
American Symphony Orchestra
Leon Botstein, conductor
Orion Weiss, piano
John Alden Carpenter: Skyscrapers (1924)
Erwin Schulhoff: Concerto for Piano and Small Orchestra, Op. 43 (1923)
Edgard Varèse: Arcana (1925-27)
William Grant Still: Symphony No. 1, Afro-American Symphony (1929-30)
The ASO’s first concert at David Geffen Hall focuses on composers who came of age in the 1920s. Chief among these in the U.S. was Edgar Varèse, whose symphonic poem Arcana was inspired by the topics of alchemy and astrology, and particularly by the writings of 16th-century physician and astrologer Paracelsus. Varèse dedicated Arcana to Leopold Stokowski, who founded the American Symphony Orchestra and conducted the work’s premiere in 1927. Varèse’s pupil, William Grant Still, found inspiration in the blues and spirituals of Black Americans. In his best-known work, the Afro-American Symphony, Still represents the experiences of the African diaspora, from the sorrows of the past to hope in the future.
Tickets are available at lincolncenter.org, by calling CarnegieCharge at 212.721.6500, or by visiting the box office at 10 Lincoln Center Plaza.
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17) BECKETT BRIEFS
ON DEMAND
IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE LEAGUE OF LIVE STREAM THEATER
THREE SHORT PLAYS BY SAMUEL BECKETT
DIRECTED BY CIARÁN O'REILLY
STREAMING MARCH 16 – 30, 2025
FOLLOWING A SOLD-OUT RUN AT IRISH REPERTORY THEATRE
FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT IRISHREP.ORG
Irish Repertory Theatre (Charlotte Moore, Artistic Director and Ciarán O’Reilly, Producing Director) is proud to announce that the sold-out production of Beckett Briefs, three short plays written by Samuel Beckett and directed by Ciarán O’Reilly (The Dead, 1904), will be available for streaming on demand in partnership with The League of Live Stream Theater (LOLST).
Beckett Briefs On Demand will be available to stream March 16–30, 2025. Once purchased, viewers will have 72 hours to watch at their convenience. Tickets are $39 and limited in quantity. Irish Rep members receive 20% off—please call the theater to receive your member discount. Reserve your access at lolst.org/beckettbriefs.
Beckett Briefs began previews January 15, 2025, opened January 26 on Irish Rep’s Francis J. Greenburger Mainstage (132 West 22nd Street), and is currently playing an extended, sold-out run through March 16, 2025.
Three short plays by Samuel Beckett that run the gamut of existence from birth to the afterlife, presented on a single bill.
Not I – “Practically speechless…. all her days.”
A non-verbal woman, who was abandoned by her parents at birth and lives an uneventful life until the age of 70, suddenly hears voices and realizes it’s herself speaking.
Not I features Sarah Street (Molly Sweeney).
Play – “We were not long together when she smelt a rat.”
Eternally together in the afterlife and locked in their urns, a man, his wife, and his mistress relay the sordid details of their love triangle.
Play features Roger Dominic Casey (Aristocrats), Kate Forbes (A Touch of the Poet), and Sarah Street.
Krapp’s Last Tape – “Perhaps my best years are gone…But I wouldn’t want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn’t want them back”
Krapp, an aged man, reviews his life with the assistance of his younger self heard on autobiographical tape recordings.
Krapp’s Last Tape features Academy Award winner F. Murray Abraham (Amadeus).
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18) BROADWAY PODCAST NETWORK ANNOUNCES
‘BROADWAY BOUND: THE MUSICALS THAT NEVER CAME TO BROADWAY’ SEASON TWO!
HOSTED BY ROBERT W. SCHNEIDER
The Broadway Podcast Network (BPN) announces the second season of Broadway Bound: The Musicals That Never Came To Broadway podcast, hosted by Broadway historian Robert W. Schneider. Broadway Bound: The Musicals That Never Came To Broadway is a wild, and exhaustively researched, celebration of the musicals that had set their sights on Broadway but missed the mark.
The second season of Broadway Bound is called "YOU'RE ONLY AS GOOD AS YOUR LAST" and explores ten Broadway Bound musicals that were written by major Broadway titans. Interviews with creatives, cast members and critics are intercut with never heard demos, recordings, and personal correspondences.
This season will include Annie 2: Miss Hannigan’s Revenge (Strouse/Charnin), Lolita My Love (Alan Jay Lerner), Home Again, Home Again (Cy Coleman), 1491 (Meredith Willson), Bonanza Bound (Comden and Green), Grover’s Corners (Jones and Schmidt), All About Us (Kander and Ebb), Up From Paradise (Arthur Miller), Pleasures and Palaces (Frank Loesser), and Bounce (Stephen Sondheim).
Season One of Broadway Bound: The Musicals That Never Came To Broadway explored ten movies that were turned into Broadway Bound musicals including Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Gone With The Wind, and The Graduate.
To listen to Broadway Bound: The Musicals That Never Came To Broadway, visit bpn.fm/broadwaybound or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Broadway.com announced that submissions for Broadway’s Biggest Fan competition for 2025 are now open. The winner will be chosen by judges Josh Lamon (Death Becomes Her), Jasmine Amy Rogers (Boop! The Musical), and Helen J. Shen (Maybe Happy Ending) and will be announced on Monday, April 14.
Each person entering the competition will need to submit a 60 second or less video explaining why they are Broadway’s Biggest Fan and upload the video to their social media account on Instagram, YouTube or TikTok with the hashtag #Broadwaycom_Contest. Then, submit it to the entry form HERE before Tuesday, April 1st at 11:59 PM ET.
Broadway’s Biggest Fan prizes include:
· Two (2) tickets to three (3) current Broadway shows: Death Becomes Her, Boop! The Musical and Maybe Happy Ending.
· Three (3) night hotel stay at a 4-star Midtown hotel in New York City.
· Roundtrip airfare for two (2) to New York City.
· Two (2) invitations to the 25th Broadway.com Audience Choice Awards.
· An interviewed segment to be shown on “The Broadway Show with Tamsen Fadal” and featured on Broadway.com.
· A prize bag filled with Broadway merchandise.
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On Sunday, March 23, New York’s only all-classical music station WQXR (105.9 FM and wqxr.org) returns to Brooklyn Children’s Museum for the Classical Kids Fair, a day of performances, dance workshops, arts and crafts, and more. Participating partners include Brooklyn Conservatory of Music, New York Philharmonic’s Very Young Composers Program, musical duo Musiquita, and dancers of the Met Opera ballet.
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21) Catherine Gallant/DANCE
presents Escape from the House of Mercy March 21-22, 2025 at 8pm at The Performance Project @ University Settlement |
Catherine Gallant/DANCE presents Escape from the House of Mercy on Friday, March 21, 2025 and Saturday, March 22, 2025 at 8pm at The Performance Project @ University Settlement, 184 Eldridge Street, NYC. Tickets are $25 and can be purchased online at https://www.brownpapertickets.
Escape from the House of Mercy is a 21st-century women's view of our social support systems measuring both the ground gained and the distance yet to be traveled. It is an abstract choreographic rendering of sensations and images evoking the spirits of women whose lives were forever changed by the workhouses and laundries in the US and Ireland. Flesh and tears haunt the dreams and shattered hopes of escape. The ghost-filled air surrounds the dancers as they wrap themselves in transparent net fabric, both isolating and protective, from the forces at work against them. Catherine Gallant/DANCE now invites audiences to wonder and reflect upon why these places from the past are important now and how history connects us to the present condition of women’s rights around the globe. Our work shines a thought-provoking light onto these stories.
The House of Mercy was one of several institutions at Inwood Hill Park in NYC. It was a home for abandoned and troubled women; most inhabitants were brought there against their wills. A young woman could be locked up for years for an offense such as dancing in public or walking alone at night. Inhumane and demoralizing treatment was disguised as rehabilitation as the rights of the poor, especially women were completely denied.
The 50-minute work unfolds in segments and contains recorded soundscapes/music, spoken text (poetry and fragments of interviews and research citations), songs, and props including rope, men's shirts, 50 yards of tulle and tea cups. Our background research made us think more about our responsibility as a society to care for and protect the most vulnerable. We learned about workhouses, asylums for the mentally ill, hospitals, and prisons in NYC, around the country, and the world. We read the chilling interviews collected by the Justice for the Magdalenes organization and went on to study the Irish Workhouse system through a residency at Portumna's Irish Workhouse Centre.
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| Courtesy of JWP Agency 22) Centenary Stage presents The Bronx Horns as a part of their 2025 Concert Series. |
With the capability to perform Latin Jazz, all forms of Salsa (Mambo, Cha Cha, Merengue, Boogaloo, Bolero, etc.) or a combination of the two styles, The Bronx Horns, are comprised of former members of the Tito Puente Orchestra. The band is made up of Latin Jazz veterans such as group leader Mitch Frohman on sax and flute, who spent 25 years with the Tito Puente Orchestra, Trumpeter Pete Nater, Bobby Porcelli on alto sax sonero Frankie Vazquez and a rhythm section rounding out the band. The Bronx Horns have earned mass critical acclaim and along with a devoted following by delivering performances at the San Jose Jazz Festival, Marciac Jazz Fest, J.V.C. Festival, the Lincoln Center ‘Out of Doors’ Festival and clubs such as Birdland and The Blue Note. The Bronx Horns strive to continue the legacy established by their mentors Tito Puente and Mongo Santamaria for today’s audiences. The Bronx Horns will take the Sitnik Stage on Saturday March 22nd at 8:00 pm. The performance will take place at the Lackland Performing Arts Center at 715 Grand Avenue in Hackettstown, NJ on the campus of Centenary University. Tickets are $29.50 for adults, children under 12 are $15 before the day of performance, and both add an additional $5 day of the performance. For more information, visit centenarystageco.org or call the Centenary Stage Company box office at (908) 979-0900. |
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23) Downtown Sessions: An Evening with Renée Elise Goldsberry
Saturday, March 22
PAC NYC (Perelman Performing Arts Center, 251 Fulton St.) welcomes Renée – a Tony Award- and Grammy Award-winning stage and screen actress, singer – to the Downtown Sessions concert series that launched in 2023 with Ben Platt, LaChanze and Brian Stokes Mitchell.
On March 22, Renée and her stunning backup ensemble will take center stage for a high energy, uplifting evening of Broadway, pop, and soul.
For more information or to purchase tickets, visit pacnyc.org/whats-on/renee-elise-goldsberry
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| Courtesy of Spincycle NYC 24) Bated Breath Theatre Company Launches NEW YORK CENTER FOR IMMERSIVE THEATER March 2025 |
• MONDAYS WITH MARA
Salon atmosphere conversations with Executive Artistic Director, Mara Lieberman:
- Monday, March 24: “How to Make Immersive Theater that Doesn’t Suck."
- Monday, April 14: “Finding the Excellence in Devised Theater-Making within an Ensemble."
- Additional weekly Mondays topics TBA.
• PIÈCE DE RÉSISTANCE
A pop-up play reading series examining political theater works from the 1930s through the present, with new eyes. Spring 2025.
• CLASSES
Classes in theater-making, acting, straddling theory and practice. Currently taking reservations for a Viewpoints class starting April 8. Class size is limited. Additional classes TBA.
• BATED BREATH DEVISING SESSIONS
Bated Breath's own in-house ensemble will work on devising new immersive work to be presented at venues internationally.
• DIRECTOR/DESIGNER LAB
Inspired by the meet-up events sponsored by SDC, NYCIT will invite directors and designers to come together and talk about new ways to collaborate. There will be a practical component. May 2025
• POLITICAL THEATER ENSEMBLE
An audition-based theater making group that devises and performs theater on the street that is inspired and informed by current events. Beginning late summer into early fall 2025.
In addition to this programming, Lieberman is interested in hearing from other theater makers who might want to use the space to experiment with the form and devise new work.
NYCIT will also host a web site, currently in development, that will archive contemporary immersive theatrical productions presented in the 5 boroughs.
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25) THE J2 SPOTLIGHT MUSICAL THEATER COMPANY ANNOUNCES LOWER TICKET PRICES TO CELEBRATE 5TH ANNIVERSARY SEASON
J2 Spotlight Musical Theater Company (Jim Jimirro, Executive Producer/Co-Founder; Robert W. Schneider, Artistic Director/Co-Founder) is thrilled to be producing their 5th anniversary season Off-Broadway this spring at AMT Theater (354 W 45th Street), opening just one month from today. In honor of this milestone season, the company has announced it will offer both special subscription packages and lower-priced single-show tickets.
The 2025 season will include productions of Smile (April 10th - 20th), Zorba! (April 24th - May 4th), and Drat! The Cat! (May 8th - May 18th), marking much-awaited returns to Off-Broadway for these shows decades after they were first-produced.
Previous season subscribers, new season subscribers, and patrons in search of single-show tickets alike can all secure their spot now to share in this season for special reduced rates.
To celebrate 5 seasons of J2 Spotlight Musical Theater, single-show tickets can be purchased for just $55 a seat for any of the three productions this spring.
For even bigger savings, J2 is offering Mainstage Subscription packages, which include a ticket to each of their three mainstage shows, all at a 20% discount.
Or, audiences can opt for the Best-Entertainment-Value-In-
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26) Kaatsbaan Cultural Park
presents NEW WORK PREVIEW: gaudanse March 20, 2025 |
Kaatsbaan Cultural Park presents a NEW WORK PREVIEW from gaudanse in Tivoli, NY, on Thursday, March 20, 2025 at 6pm. Tickets are free for this performance. For more information and to purchase tickets, visit https://ci.ovationtix.com/
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1, mamihlapinatapai. This dynamic new creation explores empowerment, cultural exchange, and human connection through the language of dance and the performing arts. The title, mamihlapinatapai, comes from the Yaghan language of Tierra del Fuego, meaning “a look shared in silence by two people who wish to initiate something, but neither will start.” Recognized by The Guinness Book of World Records as the world’s most succinct word, it encapsulates the essence of unspoken understanding and potential.
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27) Disney Tangled Movie
Play Along and Sing Along!
Kelsey Theatre
1200 Old Trenton Rd.
West Windsor, NJ
Saturday, March 22 at 11am & 2pm
When the kingdom's most wanted—and most charming—bandit, Flynn Rider hides out in a mysterious tower, he's taken hostage by Rapunzel a beautiful and feisty tower-bound teen with 70 feet of magical, golden hair. The unlikely duo sets off on an action-packed escapade, complete with a super-cop horse, an over-protective chameleon, and a gruff gang of pub thugs. AND You are the important cast member in this event, as our Rapunzel and Flynn Rider guide you in a sing-along play-along adventure!
For more information or to purchase tickets, visit
www.purplepass.com/events/296671-tangled-movie-play-along-mar-22nd-2025
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28) Upcoming Events at NJPAC
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| Courtesy of Prana PR A CONVERSATION WITH MALALA YOUSAFZAI AT NJPAC IN NEWARK, N.J. Weds., March 19, 2025 @ 8PM $49.50 - $119.50 NJPAC Prudential Hall One Center Street Newark, New Jersey 07102 www.njpac.org |
Over the following years, she spoke publicly, delivered speeches, and participated in interviews, which garnered media attention and resulted in numerous awards.
At the age of 15, she was shot in the head by the Taliban for speaking out. After months of surgery and rehabilitation in the United Kingdom, she founded the Malala Fund to continue her campaign for universal education for girls. A year later, Malala was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her advocacy for education and equality.
On Wednesday, March 19, at 8 PM, Malala will share her extraordinary life experiences and unique global perspective in a moderated discussion at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC).
Tickets for A Conversation with Malala Yousafzai are available by visiting NJPAC.org, calling 888.GO.NJPAC (888.466.5722), or by stopping by the NJPAC Box Office.
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| Courtesy of Prana PR DIRTY DANCING IN CONCERT COMES TO NEW JERSEY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER (NJPAC) IN NEWARK! The Electrifying Live-to-Film Concert That Celebrates the Iconic Movie and Its Fans Returns to the U.S. and Canada After a Triumphant World Tour NJPAC Prudential Hall One Center Street Newark, New Jersey 07102 www.njpac.org |
After captivating over 200,000 fans with more than 100 mesmerizing shows across the U.S., Europe, UK, and Australia, the global phenomenon of Dirty Dancing in Concert will bring its magic to NJPAC for one night only. There will be a live band performing on stage and a full-size movie screen honoring the beloved 80s classic, Dirty Dancing in Concert promises to deliver a uniquely thrilling experience on the multi-platinum soundtrack that defined a generation!
Tickets are available at NJPAC.org or calling 888.GO.NJPAC (888.466.5722) or by visiting the NJPAC Box Office.
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29) The New York Society for Ethical Culture
& Jody Sperling/Time Lapse Dance present Memories of Egypt Choreography by Jody Sperling Featuring the Time Lapse Dance Ensemble with live musical performance by composer Matthew Burtner Friday, March 21, 2025 7pm Performance FREE The New York Society for Ethical Culture, Adler Hall 2 West 64th Street, Central Park West INFO: https://www.timelapsedance. RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ |
Recently returned home from a two-week, three-city tour of Egypt with the Hakawy International Arts Festival, Jody Sperling and her Time Lapse Dance ensemble are performing a FREE concert in partnership with The New York Society for Ethical Culture, the site of their ongoing Eco-Artist-Residency on March 21, 2025. The company was following in the footsteps of Loïe Fuller who toured Egypt with her dancers in 1905! The program Memories of Egypt features a world premiere in Fuller style, repertory favorites, and a souvenir from the journey abroad. The company’s seven luminous dancers are joined by Emmy Award-winning composer Matthew Burtner for a transporting evening of live music and dance.
“The tour almost didn’t happen! A day before the company was to leave for Egypt, the US State Department cancelled an award that was partially-funding the tour. You can read about our company’s story in Medium and Dance Magazine!” - Jody Sperling.
The evening’s highlight is the world premiere of Fractal Memories, created for and featured in the Loïe Fuller documentary film Obsessed with Light (Directed by Sabine Krayehbuhl and Zeva Oelbaum). The dance, choreographed by Jody Sperling, is a contemporary homage to Fuller that illuminates the entanglement of bodies through time. The culminating moment is a reimagining of Fuller’s famous Fire Dance, in which she appeared to self-immolate. Conceived at the dawn of the fossil fuel era, Fuller’s Fire Dance, as strikingly recontextualized by Sperling, is eerily resonant in these combustible times.
In Serpentine Swells, the company riffs on a spiralling melodic line, evoking the crest and fall of ocean currents. This ensemble improvisation was presented in Egypt with musical collaboration between Butner and Egyptian oud player Aly Eissa.
The evening also reprises Arbor, dwelling on the intimacy of trees, and Sperling’s hypnotic solo Piece for Northern Sky, a meditation on planetary motion, both with music composed and performed by Burtner.
All of these works feature transformative costumes that abstract human movement into elemental and organic forces, with the dancers appearing to conjure a growing forest or a swirling inferno. The company's unique style of movement draws inspiration from and furthers the art form created by dance icon Loie Fuller (1862-1928) a century ago.
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30) THE ORCHESTRA NOW PERFORMS
A FREE PRESENTATION AT PETER NORTON SYMPHONY SPACE
FEBRUARY 11 AND MARCH 23
The Orchestra Now (TŌN) will present a free concert at Peter Norton Symphony Space featuring guest cellist Raman Ramakrishnan in a work by the eminent Bard Conservatory faculty member, Joan Tower, with resident conductor Zachary Schwartzman (March 23).
Joan Tower & Tchaikovsky’s 5th
Sunday, March 23, 2025, at 4 PM
Peter Norton Symphony Space
The Orchestra Now
Zachary Schwartzman, conductor
Raman Ramakrishnan, cello
David Serkin Ludwig: Fanfare for Sam
Joan Tower: A New Day
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64
Resident conductor Zachary Schwartzman opens the program with the Fanfare for Samuel Barber by David Serkin Ludwig, nephew of the late Peter Serkin, a Bard Conservatory faculty member. Cellist Raman Ramakrishnan, a founding member of the Daedalus Quartet and Bard Conservatory faculty member, joins TŌN for A New Day, a recent composition by another Bard Conservatory faculty member, the renowned Joan Tower. The concert concludes with Tchaikovsky’s 5th Symphony.
Tickets are FREE and available online with RSVP at ton.bard.edu.
For detailed information about the 2025 winter/spring season, visit ton.bard.edu.
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31) MUSIC VIDEO: "Make It Work" From Real Women Have Curves: The Musical Released
Real Women Have Curves: The Musical just released a new teaser music video for the show’s opening number, “Make It Work.” The video stars Tatianna Córdoba, Florencia Cuenca, Shelby Acosta, Carla Jimenez, Aline Mayagoitia, Sandra Valls, and Justina Machado. Real Women Have Curves will begin performances on April 1 at the James Earl Jones Theatre, ahead of an opening night on April 27.
The video can be found HERE.
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32) South Street Seaport Museum
Announces Free Public Program “Restoring the RMS Queen Mary Ship Model” Wednesday, March 19, 2025, at 6:30pm |
South Street Seaport Museum announces the free event “Restoring the RMS Queen Mary Ship Model” on Wednesday, March 19, at 6:30pm at 213 Water Street. Join the South Street Seaport Museum and the New York Ship Lore and Model Club for an evening celebrating the history and restoration of the monumental 22-foot-long builder model of RMS Queen Mary, now on display in the Museum’s new three-floor exhibition Maritime City. seaportmuseum.org/restoring-
Martina Caruso, Director of Collections and Exhibitions at the Seaport Museum, will begin the evening with an engaging multimedia presentation giving a brief history of this impressive artifact, as well as the sumptuousness that came to light during its restoration process—from the shine of its propellers, to the detail of its mother of pearl windows and the fittings of the upper decks. Through never-before-shared videos and a captivating mix of historical, archival, and modern photographs, you’ll discover how this 1935 ship model was packed and transported from a temporary loan on board the Queen Mary in Long Beach, California, to its new specially designed display case within the newly renovated A.A. Thomson & Co. building.
Following the presentation, attendees are invited on a guided tour of the exhibition, with an up-close look at the impressive model in her new display case. Strategically placed mirrors allow you to take in every dazzling detail of this maritime masterpiece from all angles.
Advanced registration is encouraged for this event but walkups will be accommodated as possible. A reception with wine or sparkling water will follow the presentation.
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33) Works & Process Announces
BalletX: Maslow’s Peak by Jennifer Archibald March 23, 2025 at 3pm The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum |
Works & Process at the Guggenheim presents BalletX: Maslow’s Peak by Jennifer Archibald, on March 23, 2025 at 3pm at the Peter B. Lewis Theater, 1071 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10128. Tickets start at $25 and can be purchased at https://www.worksandprocess.
Jennifer Archibald, hailed by the Philadelphia Inquirer for her “sleek, lovely, highly athletic” choreography, explores human nature and survival in this daring, full-length work inspired by such powerful stories as William Golding’s Lord of the Flies. Prior to its world premiere in Philadelphia at BalletX’s Festival at the Mann Center for the Performing Arts, May 2-3, members of the creative team, including Archibald and award-winning director and designer Guy de Lancey, will discuss their collaboration with Christine Cox, BalletX’s Artistic & Executive Director and co-founder.
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34) Works & Process Announces
Residency Open Call Application Period: March 18-April 22, 2025 |
Works & Process, a non-profit performing arts organization that champions artists and their creative process from studio to stage, announces its first-ever Residency Open Call. Applications from New York City-based artists will be accepted from March 18 through April 22, 2025 for out-of-town residencies that will take place from October 2025-May 2026. For more information and to submit, visit https://www.worksandprocess.
Works & Process residencies center artists and their specific needs, providing them with focused time and space that is critical to develop work. Since 2018, Works & Process has aggregated resources to provide New York City artists with fully funded out-of-town residencies. In Summer 2020, during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, Works & Process pioneered the bubble residency model, and this has grown into an expansive residency program with a network of 15 partner venues in Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, and Vermont. To date, Works & Process has produced 100+ residencies that have supported 700+ artists. Works that have been incubated through these residencies, and in many cases commissioned and premiered by Works & Process, have been recognized with Bessie Awards, National Dance Project grants, and toured nationally and internationally with the U.S. State Department.
Artists who create movement-based work are invited to apply for a residency to start a new project or continue developing an existing work in one of Works & Process’ week-long, out-of-town residencies. Works & Process residencies include industry-leading fees of $150 per artist/per day (up to $8,400 for a maximum of 8 participants), 24/7 studio access, on-site housing, a transportation stipend, and health insurance enrollment access. Each residency will culminate in an open rehearsal or showing for the local community. The projects will also be considered for Works & Process presentations in New York City.
Works & Process will accept up to 250 applications, beginning on March 18, 2025. The application will be open until April 22 at 5pm EST or until the submission limit is reached.
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