Sunday Scoop Week of 9/7/25 What's Happening This Week and More

A) Beginning Performances

In New Jersey

1) Agatha Christie's Murder on the Links

2) Can't Run Can't Dance

In New York

3) Caroline

4) Eisa Davis' The Essentialsn't

5) Murdoch: The Final Interview

6) The Porch on Windy Hill

7) This is Not a Drill

8) Waiting for Godot

B) Exhibits Opening

In New York

9) Making His Mark: Seven Decades of Paintings by Adger Cowans

10) Strokes of Genius: Hirschfeld at the Algonquin

C) Festival

11) Crossing the Line Festival

D) Recording

12) Mark William: If I Can Dream

E) Run Extension

13) Can I Be Frank?

F) What Else is Happening 

In New York

14) 92NY Harkness Dance Ctr Presents Swing Out Loud: Women Move the World

9/13

15) Accent Dance NYC Presents A First Look at Echoes Between Us

9/12

16) America Symphony Orchestra Presents New York Profiles

9/12 & 9/14

17) Ballet Hispánico's Celebración Latina: Family Day Block Party

9/14

18) The Belmont Business Improvement District Upcoming Event

Musical Performances by The Belmont 4 9/13, 10/4, 10/18, 10/25

19) Broadway Workshop Upcoming Fall Programming

20) Brooklyn Academy of Music Upcoming Event: Mother Mary Comes to Me

9/10

21) Lincoln Center Upcoming Events

22) Little Island Special Event: Ivesiade Celebrating Charles Ives

9/13

23) Love's Labor Won One Night Only Benefit

at Kaye Playhouse Hunter College 9/15

24) Seth Bisen-Hersh 900 Showcase Celebration at Don't Tell Mama

9/9 & 9/12

25) Treehouse Shakers Present Hatched For Young Audiences

at Flushing Town Hall 9/14

26) Works & Process Upcoming Events

In Pennsylvania

27) Philly Aids Thrift 20th Anniversary Block Party

Other

28) Fathom Entertainment Celebrates The 60th Anniversary of The Sound of Music

9/12 - 9/17

29) Hirschfeld's Sondheim A New Poster Book

30) Young Actors' Version of School of Rock Now Available at Concord Theatrical

A) Beginning Performances

In New Jersey

1) Agatha Christie's Murder on the Links

Take a swing at cracking the case! When Agatha Christie’s famed detective Hercule Poirot is summoned to a country chateau in France, he discovers a body on the golf course with a knife in its back – a hole in one indeed! New clues dredge up old intrigue in Murder on the Links.

Two River Theater (21 Bridge Ave., Red Bank)

9/13 - 10/5

For more information or to purchase tickets, visit tworivertheater.org/whats-on/murder-on-the-links

2) Can't Run Can't Dance

Two women with checkered pasts get drawn into a smuggling operation run by two unhinged brothers—with unpredictable, hilarious results. Packed with hijinks, heart, and high stakes, this farcical crime comedy delivers outrageous characters and a delightfully twisted plot sure to leave audiences gasping… from laughter.

NJ Rep (179 Broadway, Long Branch)

9/11 - 10/5

Opening Night 9/13

For more information or to purchase tickets, visit njrep.org/show/cant-run-cant-dance

In New York

3) Caroline

When Maddie is forced to seek the help of her long-estranged mother, she finds herself unable to shield her daughter Caroline from the inescapable circumstances that fractured their family.

MCC Theater's Susan and Ronald Frankel Theater (511 W. 52nd St.)

9/12 - 10/19

Opening Night 9/30

For more information or to purchase tickets, visit mcctheater.org.

4) Eisa Davis' The Essentialsn't

In this rebellious piece driven by original, pulsing music, Eisa Davis troubles the obligations that a Black woman’s body has to perform, rejecting the philosophy of essentialism—the idea that people can be categorized by an unchanging essence or set of qualities they inherently possess. Davis creates porous, evocative imagery through the use of striking set elements, such as transforming the space into a white box and singing in a tank of water. Drawing on diasporic traditions that form a continuum between the past and the present, The Essentialisn't challenges audiences to destabilize their own unconscious ways of perceiving themselves and others. 

HERE Arts Center (145 6th Ave.)

9/10 - 9/28

For more information or to purchase tickets, visit here.org/shows/the-essentialisnt

5) Murdoch: The Final Interview

Who almost drowned him as a boy? What happened after he met JFK in the Oval Office? What are his honest feelings about marriage, truth and sacred cows? Can he survive the return of a bitter Roger Ailes? Come and watch Planet Earth’s most controversial media magnate, Rupert Murdoch, face the cameras, a live audience and a mysterious interviewer as he attempts to secure his legacy. Over ninety minutes Murdoch encounters family members, revisits Presidents, wrangles with newspaper editors, collides with “Fox News” creator, Roger Ailes, and finally, wrestles, literally, with an inscrutable monster. It’s the shocking, fair and balanced interview you’ve been waiting for, written by an unnamed source, brought to life by a single actor.

Theater 555 (555 W. 42nd St.)

9/12 - 12/28

Opening Night 9/28

For more information or to purchase tickets, visit murdochthefinalinterview.com

6) The Porch on Windy Hill

The Porch on Windy Hill blends Appalachian, Old Time and Bluegrass songs with a deeply personal, contemporary story of discovery and reconciliation. The show follows Mira, a biracial Korean American classical violinist, and her folk-song-collector boyfriend Beckett as they escape pandemic isolation in Brooklyn and journey to the mountains of western North Carolina. When they unexpectedly reconnect with Mira’s estranged grandfather, Edgar, they uncover a tangled legacy of love, loss, and music—and discover the unforeseen harmony that can arise when generations and genres collide.

Urban Stages Theater (259 W. 30th St.)

9/12 - 10/11

Opening Night 9/18

For more information or to purchase tickets, visit www.urbanstages.org

7) This is Not a Drill

Based on terrifying true events that creator Holly Doubet experienced, THIS IS NOT A DRILL takes audiences inside the surreal chaos of a morning in 2018, when an emergency alert warned Hawaii residents and visitors of an incoming missile attack. As fear grips the island, strangers and loved ones alike are forced to confront their mortality and their humanity. Set to a soaring and heartfelt score, this powerful new musical tells the story of connection, compassion, and what truly matters when time stands still.

Theater at St. Jean's (150 E. 76th St.)

9/9 - 10/11

For more information or to purchase tickets, visit www.yorktheatre.org/this-is-not-a-drill.

8) Waiting for Godot

Beckett’s masterpiece, Waiting For Godot, is acknowledged as one of the greatest plays of the 20^th century. Originally premiering in 1953 in French with a subsequent English-language production premiering in 1955 in London, it has become a cultural touchstone having been translated into dozens of languages and has inspired artists in the worlds of film, television, dance, opera, visual arts, fashion, and even video games. London’s National Theatre surveyed over 800 leaders of the theater world and Waiting For Godot topped the list as the most significant play of the last 100 years.

Hudson Theatre (141 W. 44th St.)

9/13 - 1/4

Opening Night 9/28

For more information or to purchase tickets, visit www.godotbroadway.com.

B) Exhibits Opening

In New York

9) Making His Mark: Seven Decades of Paintings by Adger Cowans

At 88 years old, this show will be the first time Cowans' paintings are exhibited in New York.

Bruce Silverstein Gallery

529 W. 20th St.

9/11 - 10/25

Opening Reception 9/11

For more information, visit brucesilverstein.com/exhibitions/220-making-his-mark-seven-decades-of-paintings-by/overview.

Courtesy of Keith Sherman & Associates

10) Strokes of Genius: Hirschfeld at the Algonquin

“Strokes of Genius: Hirschfeld at the Algonquin” features over two dozen works by the legendary artist including Judy Garland at The Palace; Yul Brynner and Gertrude Lawrence in The King and I; Gwen Verdon in Redhead; Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier in The Defiant Ones; Ethel Waters, Howard Deitz, Bea Lillie and more backstage At Home Abroad; Carol Burnett, Gershwin and more. In celebration of the release of the new book, Hirschfeld’s Sondheim, the exhibition will include a special display of Sondheim-related pieces including original drawings of Do I Hear a Waltz? and Robert Westenberg in Sunday in the Park with George; lithographs of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum with Nathan Lane, Passion, Putting It Together, and a Sondheim 1977 portrait signed by Hirschfeld; an etching of Gypsy with Ethel Merman; and giclées of Julie Andrews in Putting it Together signed by Julie Andrews (edition of 15), and a Sondheim 1999 portrait signed by Sondheim (one of only four in existence).

The Algonquin Hotel (59 W. 44th St.)

9/9 - 9/20

Special Opening Night Celebration 9/9

For more information, visit alhirschfeldfoundation.org/exhibitions

C) Festival

Courtesy of Michelle Tabnick PR

11) Crossing the Line Festival

L’Alliance New York will present an international survey of new experiments in audience and form, highlighting a diversity of artists working at the intersections of visual art, music, film, dance, and theater. 

D’Est en musique

Chantal Akerman, Sonia Wieder-Atherton, Sarah Rothenberg

Sept. 9, 7:30pm | New York Premiere | L’Alliance New York Florence Gould Theater

Presented in collaboration with MoMA

Belgian auteur Chantal Akerman envisioned this live, musical take on her 1993 travelogue D’Est in 2005 with her partner, the cellist Sonia Wieder-Atherton. Now, in this New York Premiere, Wieder-Atherton performs her curated score —featuring works by Bartók, Chopin, Rachmaninoff, and Ravel—alongside award-winning pianist, Sarah Rothenberg.

Les tutomouves

Clédat & Petitpierre

Sept. 13 through Dec. 19 | North American Premiere | L’Alliance New York First Floor Gallery

As a lighter version of the monumental installation Les plantamouves originally created for the Centre Pompidou in Paris, this exhibition-workshop combines the tactile whimsy of mobile sculpture with interactive dance, inviting audiences of all ages to engage with more than 240 vibrantly colorful foam pieces through inventive video tutorials.

The Big Sleep (Le Grand Sommeil)

Marion Siéfert

Sept 17, 7:30pm | New York Premiere | L’Alliance New York Skyroom

Back at L’Alliance New York after her acclaimed Crossing The Line 2022 debut, _jeanne_dark_, Marion Siéfert brings another ferocious collaboration with actress Helena de Laurens that embodies the tortures and triumphs of teenage girlhood.

Movement on movement

Noé Soulier

Sept 24 & Sept 25, 7:30pm | New York Premiere | L’Alliance New York Skyroom

One of the rising stars of French contemporary dance, Noé Soulier crafts a lecture-performance based on William Forsythe's Improvisation Technologies—a series of educational demonstrations in which Forsythe draws shapes with different parts of his body.

All right. Good night.

Rimini Protokoll

Sept 25 – Sept. 27, 7:30pm | North American Premiere | NYU Skirball

Presented in partnership with NYU Skirball Center for The Performing Arts

In All right. Good night., acclaimed director Helgard Haug weaves together the disappearance of Flight MH370 and her father's decline into dementia. With a live score by Barbara Morgenstern and the Zafraan Ensemble, the piece evokes the emotional weight of absence. It asks what remains when someone—or something—is no longer there.

bLUr

Kimberly Bartosik

Oct. 2 – 4, 7:30pm | World Premiere | New York Live Arts

Co-Presented with New York Live Arts

Built in haunting cycles of physical and emotional extremes, bLUr exists within a corporeal landscape of crisis. Five performers navigate urgent interventions, tender and brutal rescues, moving through a space of howling hunger and deeply erotic tenderness with exquisite humanity.

delicate people

Ruth Childs & Cécile Bouffard

Oct 4 (Rain date: Oct 5), 12:45pm & 2:45pm | North American Premiere | Governors Island

Co-Presented by L’Alliance New York’s Crossing The Line Festival and Governors Island Arts’ INTERVENTIONS performance series.

Dancer Ruth Childs and sculptor Cécile Bouffard initiated their delicate people collaboration in 2021. In this latest series of vignettes, the artists address figures and motifs of disturbing identities and fine-tuned movements.

Blast!

Ruth Childs

Oct 8 – Oct 10, 7pm | North American Premiere | The Chocolate Factory Theater

Co-presented with the Chocolate Factory Theater

Creating a choreographic circle in dialogue with percussive sound design by Stéphane Vecchione, Blast! is a study of how human bodies express themselves.

Fragmented Shadows

Wanjiru Kamuyu

Oct 15 – Oct 17, 2025, 7:30pm | U.S. Premiere | New York Live Arts

Co-presented with New York Live Arts

How can we use the body as a site of liberation, a site of healing? Grounded in epigenetic and psychosomatic research, Wanjiru Kamuyu offers voice and light to embodied legacies of inherited and personal suffering.

BAM in association with L’Alliance New York’s Crossing The Line Festival Presents

LACRIMA

Caroline Guiela Nguyen

Oct 22, Oct 24, Oct 25 at 7:30pm and Oct 26, 3pm | U.S. Premiere | BAM Strong Harvey Theater

A Parisian house of haute couture receives an extraordinary commission. Over a period of several months and under the oath of utmost secrecy, more than thirty women and men will be hard at work in a Parisian workshop, making lace in Alençon and sewing embroideries in Mumbai.

CADELA FORÇA TRILOGY, Chapter I:

The Bride and the Goodnight Cinderella

Carolina Bianchi Y Cara de Cavalo

Oct 23 – 25 at 7:30pm | U.S. Premiere | Powerhouse Arts

Co-presented with Powerhouse: International

Blending theater and performance art, Brazilian director and writer Carolina Bianchi stages a shocking and vulnerable exploration of art and narratives of sexual violence that haunt women across history.

Le Tambour de Soie (The Silk Drum)

Yoshi Oïda, Kaori Ito, Paul Lazar, Makoto Yabuki

Oct 24 & Oct 25, 8pm | North American Premiere | Japan Society

Presented by Japan Society in partnership with Crossing The Line Festival

Stripping a beloved Noh play down to its core, this Festival d’Avignon hit tells the human drama between an old man desperate to feel young again and the beautiful dancer made complicit in his downfall.

Le Grand Bal

Compagnie Dyptik

Oct 28 – Nov 1, 7:30pm and Nov 1 at 2pm | North American Premiere | The Joyce Theater

The Joyce’s presentation of Dyptik is in association with L’Alliance New York’s Crossing The Line Festival.

Acclaimed across Europe, Compagnie Dyptik makes its North American Premiere with this singularly hypnotic work that blends modern and hip-hop dance styles into a frenetic dance fever.

Fampitaha, fampita, fampitàna

Soa Ratsifandrihana

Oct 28–30 at 7:30pm | U.S. Premiere | Powerhouse Arts

Co-presented with Powerhouse: International

Brussels-based choreographer Soa Ratsifandrihana draws upon her Madagascan origin and diasporic experience to tell the story she longed to hear as a child. The ever-evolving performance, woven together with dance, music, and storytelling, reflects the performers’ entangled histories—rooted in Madagascar, Haiti, Martinique, and Guadeloupe, and shaped by life in France and Belgium, where they all live today.

By Heart

Tiago Rodrigues

Nov 3 & Nov 4, 7:30pm | L’Alliance New York Florence Gould Theater

Presented in association with BAM

Ten audience members come together onstage for an act of collective memorization, learning Shakespearean sonnet by heart under the direction of acclaimed international theater artist Tiago Rodrigues. The results, according to a New York Times Critic’s Pick review, are “miraculous.”

Coquilles

Amala Dianor

Nov 15, 11:30am & 3pm | North American Premiere | L’Alliance New York Skyroom

Created for audiences as young as one year old, this rousing piece for two dancers crafts a graceful, accessible story of contrasting physicality, shared language, and connection across difference.

[siccer]

Will Rawls

Nov 20 – Nov 22, 7:30pm | New York Premiere | Performance Space New York

Co-Presented with Performance Space New York

Driven by the usage of “[sic],” a Latin adverb which indicates incorrect spelling within a quotation, often employed to contrast Black vernacular with standard English, Will Rawls’ [siccer] considers the ways in which Black bodies are relentlessly documented, distorted, and circulated in the media.

9/9 - 11/22

For more information or to purchase tickets, visit https://lallianceny.org/crossing-the-line-festival

D) Recording

Courtesy of Richard Hillman PR

12) Mark William: If I Can Dream

Yellow Sound Label has announced the release of Mark William: If I Can Dream, recorded live at The Green Room 42. This album marks the second collaboration between artist and label, following the critically-acclaimed, BroadwayWorld Award-winning album, Mark William: Come Croon With Me, released in 2019. The new album is produced by Michael Croiter, Preston and Richard Ridge, mixed by Sheridan Glover and mastered by Michael Fossenkemper. It is now available for pre-order and is being released for digital download and on all streaming platforms now.

Mark William leads his audience through a musical fantasy, traversing eras and genres with a charismatic ease far beyond his years. Through material from Jule Styne to Elvis Presley to Frank Wildhorn, alongside his own original songs, Mark proves that he is a uniquely compelling artist, born to entertain. His commanding presence, lithe physicality, and stunning vocals continue to pack houses wherever he appears. Backed by a stellar six-piece band, under the music direction of Matthew Lowy, Mark William: If I Can Dream is directed for the stage by Preston and Richard Ridge.

“MARK WILLIAM: IF I CAN DREAM” TRACK LIST

1.	It’s You Again/Love is in The Air

2.	You’d Better Love Me

3.	Wherever We Land

4.	Peter Allen Medley: Arthur’s Theme/If You Were Wondering/ Not The Boy Next Door

5.	Feeling Good

6.	Open The Door

7.	When I Look at You

8.	Gimme Love

9.	Power Of My Name

10.	A Wild Affair

11.	Music That Makes Me Dance

12.	Let Me Be Your Star

13.	If I Can Dream

E) Run Extension

In New York

13) Can I Be Frank?

Can I Be Frank? is written by and stars comedian, artist, and writer Morgan Bassichis; is directed by 2025 Tony Award winner Sam Pinkleton (Oh, Mary!; Josh Sharp’s ta-da!); and based on and with original material by the late comedian and performance artist Frank Maya. 

In a desperate attempt to prove they can think about someone other than themself, Morgan Bassichis turns to the work of queer comedian, musician, and performance artist Frank Maya. Maya was among the first out gay comedians on network television and on the precipice of mainstream success before he died from AIDS-related complications in 1995. This new “solo” performance humbly attempts to ensure Maya’s legacy is no longer overlooked while finally resolving the bottomless queer search for fame, father figures, and laughter in times of crisis. 

SoHo Playhouse (15 Vandam St.)

Added performance 9/12 9:00 PM

Closing 9/13

For more information or to purchase tickets, visit www.CanIBeFrank.nyc

F) What Else is Happening 

In New York

Courtesy of Michelle Tabnick PR

14) 92NY Harkness Dance Center Presents 

Swing Out Loud: Women Move the World

In Person 

Saturday, September 13, 7 pm

The 92nd Street Y and New York’s 2025/26 Harkness Dance Center are proud to announce the opening of their mainstage series with Swing Out Loud: Women Move the World, a swing party with LaTasha Barnes and One BadA** Swing Band.

In a season dedicated entirely to works curated, created, and choreographed by women, Swing Out Loud is a night of joy, rhythm, and resistance. Led by multi-Bessie Award winner and internationally renowned artist-scholar LaTasha Barnes, this Swing Dance Party is a lesson, a tribute, and a celebration.

The evening begins with dance instruction and unfolds into a community social — a space for acknowledgment, sharing, and improvisation. With a powerhouse, all-women swing band and surprise performances by guest artists like Gaby Cook, Reyna Nunez and “The Keepers of the Beat,”, the evening is set to be an electrifying celebration of swing, sisterhood, and the brilliance of a collaborative community.

Swing, Lindy Hop, Jazz — in LaTasha Barnes’ world, they are not relics. They are living, breathing practices, born of lives deeply lived, containing histories and holding blueprints for both future expressions and the tools to choose how we exist in our present moment. Bring friends, dancing shoes, and your whole self (in your most dapper fit) — and swing into the new season of Harkness Dance Center.

Lindy hop lesson begins at 7 pm, party starts at 8 pm.

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Courtesy of Michelle Tabnick PR

15) Accent Dance NYC

Presents a First Look at

Echoes Between Us

September 12, 2025

at Gibney 280 Broadway

53A Chambers Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10007

Accent Dance NYC invites audiences to an intimate first look at Echoes Between Us, a powerful new work by Miaotian Sun, commissioned through NEXT: The Emerging Choreographer Commissioning Program, ahead of its 2026 world premiere. Tickets start at $28.52 and can be purchased here.

Echoes Between Us blends ballet, contemporary dance, and Chinese folklore to create a powerful and provocative narrative about identity, culture and preserving tradition that resonates deeply through our collective experience, and is especially relevant today.

It centers around Sanxingdui, a mysterious, abandoned Bronze age archaeological site located in modern Sichuan, China – recently discovered to hold unique artifacts suggesting a distinct civilization and worldview.

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16) AMERICAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 

UPCOMING PERFORMANCE:

NEW YORK PROFILES

New York Profiles

Friday, September 12, 2025 at 7 PM, Bryant Park

Sunday, September 14, 2025 at 3 PM, Kupferberg Center

American Symphony Orchestra

Leon Botstein, Conductor

Ulysses Kay: “Joy and Fears” from the soundtrack to The Quiet One

Henry Cowell: Hymn and Fuguing Tune No. 10

Julia Perry: A Short Piece for Small Orchestra

Aaron Copland: Appalachian Spring Suite

Norman Dello Joio: New York Profiles

New York Profiles showcases five American composers whose works reflect the diverse musical styles of mid-20th-century America, and their lasting influence on both the city and American music. These composers, living and working in New York during the 1940s and ’50s, contributed to what is known as the “Golden Age” of American Classical music. Aaron Copland, a defining voice of American music, made New York his home while composing Appalachian Spring, an homage to American pioneer life. Henry Cowell shaped New York’s early experimental music scene, as heard in his Hymn and Fuguing Tune No. 10. Julia Perry was closely connected to such New York musical institutions as Lincoln Center, where her A Short Piece for Small Orchestra was performed and recorded. Ulysses Kay, whose “Joy and Fears” is drawn from his soundtrack to The Quiet One, was also a key figure in New York’s cultural world, while Norman Dello Joio’s New York Profiles is a vivid musical portrait composed as a tribute to his native New York.

Attendance for both performances is free, no RSVP required. Bryant Park staff lends out hundreds of free picnic blankets, provides bistro chairs, and offers a curated selection of food and drink to purchase from local vendors. Seating will be available on a first-come, first-served basis.

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Courtesy of Michelle Tabnick PR

17) ¡Sabor on the Street!

Ballet Hispánico Throws a 55th Birthday Bash for the Whole City

Celebración Latina: Family Day Block Party

Returns to the Upper West Side with a Special Anniversary Edition

In Celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month

Sunday, September 14, 2025 | 12pm–4pm | Free & Open to All

This September, Ballet Hispánico—America’s leading Latine dance organization and a cornerstone of the Upper West Side—invites families, neighbors, and culture lovers from across the city to join an epic street party 55 years in the making.

The free Celebración Latina: Family Day Block Party returns to Ballet Hispánico Way (W. 89th St) on Sunday, September 14, 2025, transforming the block into a joyful, music-filled playground of dance, sabor, and community. This year’s party is extra special: it marks Ballet Hispánico’s 55th anniversary—a milestone for both the Company and its beloved School of Dance, which has welcomed generations of NYC families into its studios.

With two outdoor stages, free performances and dance classes, surprise giveaways, special offers, food trucks, live music, family-friendly art activities, and appearances from cultural partners like El Museo del Barrio, NY City Center, and the Children’s Museum of Manhattan, this free event brings together the best of NYC's arts scene in one high-energy afternoon.

From Salsa and Bachata dance lessons for all ages to student performances, craft stations, giveaways, and behind-the-scenes tours, this celebration is designed for anyone who wants to move, connect, and celebrate the richness of Latinx cultures in the city we all call home.

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18) The Belmont Business Improvement District

Upcoming Events: 

Musical Performances by The Belmont 4 

The Belmont Business Improvement District (BID) presents musical performances by The Belmont 4 (Saturdays, September 13 & October 4, 18 & 25) – Step into the fall season with the sweet sounds of doo-wop from Arthur Avenue’s own The Belmont 4. The talented acapella quartet will be serenading visitors with nostalgic tunes from the 50s and 60s as they stroll through the neighborhood and pop into local eateries from 6:30-8:30pm.

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19) Broadway Workshop 

Upcoming Fall Programming

Fall Studio Stage Seussical Kids 

Broadway Workshop is thrilled to announce Studio Stage for FALL 2025 where every student gets to step into the spotlight, grow their skills, and share in the thrill of performance!

Dates: Sundays September 28 - November 16 (8 weeks)

Times: 10:00am – 12:30pm

Ages: 8-12

Location: Ripley Grier Studios - 520 Eighth Avenue (16th/17th Fl)

Program Fee: $825

Final Performance: November 16 - 10AM Call Time / 2PM Performance Time

OPEN ENROLLMENT! Limited to 16 students.

Join this Fall for our an all new Studio Stage where every student will have solo material and be part of a fun-filled 30 minute version of the hit musical- SEUSSICAL! This dynamic program gives our students the chance to take part in a fun, fast-paced, performance based class! This program does not require an audition in advance to participate. The first 16 students to register will be part of this workshop and cast in the show, role placement auditions will happen on the first day! The full cast will be utilized in every scene for the entirety of the show and learn all about how to sing, dance, and act with confidence!

For more information or to register, visit 

broadwayworkshop.com/program/studioworkshop

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20) Brooklyn Academy of Music

Upcoming Event:

Mother Mary Comes to Me

Arundhati Roy in conversation w/ Imani Perry

One of the world’s most celebrated writers, Arundhati Roy is known as the author of two novels—The God of Small Things, her Booker Prize-winning debut, and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness—as well as powerful essays addressing urgent social and political issues like globalization, indigenous rights, and nuclear weapons.

Now, Roy comes to BAM for a revealing conversation about her newest book, Mother Mary Comes to Me, scheduled for publication in September. Speaking with scholar and National Book Award-winning author Imani Perry, Roy will discuss her first work of memoir, detailing her complex relationship with her mother, Mary Roy, a fierce, formidable force she calls “my shelter and my storm.”

Peter Jay Sharp Building, Howard Gilman Opera House 

(30 Lafayette St., Brooklyn)

September 10, 7:30 PM

For more information or purchase tickets, visit www.bam.org/arundhatiroy

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21)Lincoln Center 

Upcoming Events

Tuesday, September 9 at 7:00 pm 
Home: Belonging, From New England to Hawaii  
David Rubenstein Atrium 
Free 

Presented in collaboration with the New York Philharmonic 

The series’ inaugural conversation revolves around questions of belonging and the meaning of home within the vast geographic and social range of the U.S. The discussion is inspired by the New York Philharmonic’s performances that week of music by Bartók, a Hungarian expatriate on American soil; Ives, a maverick New Englander; and Leilehua Lanzilotti, whose work is receiving its world premiere—the newly commissioned of light and stone, a composition that honors her Hawaiian home.   

This conversation is part of a five-event series examining the American experience in celebration of the 250th anniversary of the United States Declaration of Independence. Moderated by renowned Juilliard ethnomusicologist and historian Fredara Hadley, each discussion is scheduled to last one hour and will be followed by an audience Q&A.  

 
Thursday, September 11, 2026 at 8:10 am 
Table of Silence Project 9/11 
Josie Robertson Plaza 
Free 

Lincoln Center in partnership with Buglisi Dance Theatre presents Table of Silence Project 9/11 

An annual, free public performance ritual and call to action for peace, Table of Silence Project 9/11 was conceived and choreographed by Jacqulyn Buglisi in 2011 to commemorate the loss of life and honor the bravery of all individuals affected by acts of terror, war, and oppression of freedom. The company will present the original full-scale version of the work with elements of the reimagined version as more than 150 dancers slowly ascend onto Josie Robertson Plaza at Lincoln Center to the sound of a conch shell’s call to action.  

Video Production by Nel Shelby Productions 

 

Friday, September 12 at 7:30 pm 
¡VAYA!: La Charanga Pachá 
David Rubenstein Atrium 
Free 

¡VAYA! kicks off this season with Cuban percussionist Miguelito “Pachá” Pozo and his band La Charanga Pachá. A Lincoln Center tradition since 2015, ¡VAYA! is a free showcase for NYC's finest Latin music and dance traditions. Keeping the Charanga tradition alive, La Charanga Pachá is the winner of the 2025 Tanae Media Digital Awards for Band of the Year and was the first Charanga band to perform in the New York International Salsa Congress, where Pachá was awarded The David Melendez Award for Lifetime Commitment to Latin Music. Pachá has shared the stage with many greats in Latin music, including Tito Puente, Machito, Larry Harlow, Tipica ’73, Orquesta Broadway, and several more over the course of his long career. 

Saturday, September 13, 2025 at 7:30 pm 
Rock 'n' Roll Reparations Live 
BRC Celebrates 40 
David Rubenstein Atrium 
Free 

Founded by producer Konda Mason, guitarist Vernon Reid (of Living Colour), and legendary journalist Greg Tate, the volunteer not-for-profit organization The Black Rock Coalition (BRC) has a lot to celebrate. Over the past 40 years, the BRC has asserted every musician-of-color's right to creative freedom, irrespective of musical style. Today, they continue to build a devoted community of genre-expansive artists and kindred spirits. Many musical giants—including Living Colour, Fishbone, Tamar-kali, Van Hunt, Sananda Maitreya, Stew and the Negro Problem, Imani Coppola, Fantastic Negrito, Burnt Sugar The Arkestra Chamber, The 1865, Sophia Ramos, David Ryan Harris, Militia Vox, and The Family Stand—appear on the BRC's Rock 'n' Roll Reparations compilation series. For one night only, under the musical direction of guitar virtuoso Marcus Machado, the BRC will present an epic performance of the most powerful songs from Rock 'n' Roll Reparations to show what rocknroll+ can do in the hands of the artists whose people gave birth to it! 

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22) LITTLE ISLAND

PRESENTS

“IVESIADE”

ON SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13 AT 8PM

 

A ONE-NIGHT-ONLY SPECIAL EVENT

FEATURING WORKS OF CHARLES IVES

PERFORMED BY JEREMY DENK AND CONOR HANICK

 

Little Island recently announced the addition of Ivesiade, a one-night-only concert of Charles Ives’ eclectic music, to their 2025 summer season. Curated and performed by pianists Jeremy Denk and Conor Hanick, the evening will also feature performances by Nathan Meltzer, Coleman Izkoff, The MasterVoices Chorus, and the Queer Big Apple Corps marching band. Tickets to the September 13 concert in The Amph at Little Island (Pier 55) are now available at www.littleisland.org/event/ivesiade/.

 

The program includes pieces from the Concord Sonata; Trio for Violin, Cello, and Piano; and The Violin Sonata. Additional performers include Nathan Meltzer, Coleman Itzkoff, The MasterVoices Chorus, and the Queer Big Apple Corps marching band.

For more information or to purchase tickets, visit littleisland.org/event/ivesiade

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23)

Monday, September 15, 2025 at 7:00 pm

at The Kaye Playhouse at Hunter College

 

Proceeds benefit The Acting Company’s New York in-school education initiatives and national repertory tour

The Acting Company (Kent Gash, Artistic Director, Erik Schroeder, Managing Director, Devin Brain, Producing Director) is proud to announce Loves’ Labour’s Won, a hilarious Shakespearean sequel by Alice Scovell (Off-Broadway’s The Rewards of Bring Frank at NY Classical), staged by Award-winning director Brian Isaac Phillips (Shakespeare Theatre Association's prestigious Sidney Berger Award for excellence in artistic direction). The all-star cast features Steven Boyer (Broadway’s Kimberly Akimbo, Hand to God (Tony nom), and Time and the Conways),  Christian Conn (Broadway’s Desire Under the Elms and The Acting Company’s Taming of the Shrew and Pudd'nhead Wilson), Ismenia Mendes (LCT3’s Marys Seacole, Netflix’s Orange is the New Black), and Sarah Stiles (Broadway’s Tootsie (Tony nom), Hand to God (Tony nom), On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, Avenue Q, and Showtime’s “Billions”). The one-night only play reading will take place on Monday, September 15 at 7:00 pm at The Kaye Playhouse at Hunter College (68th Street between Park and Lexington Avenues). All proceeds from the event will benefit The Acting Company. For tickets, ranging from $50-$500, visit www.theactingcompany.org/benefit or call 212-772-4448.

Shakespeare’s sequel, Love’s Labour’s Won, has been lost to time. Until now. With an assist from playwright Alice Scovell, three couples—on the cusp of marriage, torn apart for a year—are finally reunited. Still, a lot can change in a year. Happy endings aren’t guaranteed, but maybe they can be won.

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24) Seth Bisen-Hersh Presents 900th Showcase Celebration at Don't Tell Mama

After 18 years, Seth Bisen-Hersh has produced, emceed and accompanied his 900th weekly showcase at renowned midtown cabaret venue Don't Tell Mama. To celebrate, he will be presenting two concerts of his original songs on Tuesday, September 9th & Friday, September 12th, 2025 at 7PM.  

Bisen-Hersh will be joined by over 30 showcase alumni singing songs from his catalog including songs from off-Broadway's Love Quirks (which will be off-West End at The Other Palace Studio Theatre from 9/18-10/12) as well as songs from More to Love, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz, Agatha Christie’s The Secret Adversary and his award-winning musical short film "Malka", which was inspired by his grandmother's Holocaust experience.

The singers on Tuesday, 9/9 will be: Miriam Aslam, Anat Baird, Beth Conley, Delilah Jane Dunn, Cassiel Eatock-Winnik, Kirsten Freimann, Sarah Gaines, Michael I. Haber, Brynn Hofmeister, Sarah Lambeth, Lanna Lourdes, Shannon Ryan, Morgan Sapienza, Corinne Seaver, Alex Swanenburg & Chana Wingard.

The singers on Thursday, 9/12 will be: Zarina Nudalo Cameron, Rachel Camilli, Mary Di Mauro, Stephanie DiDonato, Marc Estrada, Kayleigh Evans, Madeleine Kane, Lily Lewinter, Bailey C. Lewis, Thomas Porat, Neha Rao, Mattea Ricciardi, Liza Suzanna, Hisa Visovich, Chana Wingard & Chloe Yang.

Tickets can be reserved at:

Tuesday: https://shows.donttellmamanyc.com/9294-seth-s-talent-showcase-9-9-25

Thursday: https://shows.donttellmamanyc.com/9339-seth-s-talent-show-9-12-25

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25) From Farm to Stage: Treehouse Shakers Bring "Hatched" 

to Flushing Town Hall

Acclaimed children’s theater company presents original play for 

very young audiences

On Sunday, September 14, Flushing Town Hall will present Treehouse Shakers’ Hatched. This delightful interactive play experience for children aged 1-6 is a wonderful first introduction to theater for the youngest audience members.

Hatched, written and directed by Mara McEwin, artistic director of Treehouse Shakers, is the original performance of a newborn chick emerging from her shell at sunrise to a strange and busy world. Performed through movement, handcrafted puppets, and very little human dialogue, the story is set amidst an American family farm. The chick is met by a feisty old rooster, a wobbly calf learning to walk, a gaggle of dancing chicks, a lamb, and a noisy nest of baby birds.

Intimately staged, young audience members are encouraged to interact with the newborn “animals” as they explore their worlds. Through movement and music, the calf learns to walk, the baby birds attempt to fly, and the lamb makes a new friend with the curious hatched chick. 

Hatched engages children through a unique hands-on approach to theater. Children interact and play with the characters on stage; they give the chicks their feed, milk bottles to the lamb, are licked by the cow, and feed worms to the baby birds. Babies in the audience will be enticed by the animal sounds and textures, while toddlers will love watching and imitating their favorite farm animals as they come to life. Preschoolers will enjoy learning about life on the farm, and older kids will be entertained by the charming storytelling, live music and dance. Hatched is a beautiful tale, told through exquisite visuals, music, and the exploration of baby animals on the farm for the whole family.

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Courtesy of Michelle Tabnick PR

26) Works & Process Upcoming Events

Works & Process Presents

New York City Ballet: Jamar Roberts

Guggenheim New York

Works & Process presents New York City Ballet: Jamar Roberts on Sunday, September 14, 2025 at Guggenheim New York in the Peter B. Lewis Theater, 1071 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10128 at 7 PM. Tickets start at $25 and can be purchased here.

Experience a special preview of choreographer Jamar Roberts’ third commission for New York City Ballet. Premiering on the eve of the Fall Fashion Gala, this new work will marry the art forms of ballet and fashion, with costumes by Dutch designer Iris van Herpen. NYCB Associate Artistic Director Wendy Whelan will moderate a discussion with Roberts, and company members will perform excerpts from the work.

Continue the conversation at a post-performance reception in the rotunda.

Courtesy of Michelle Tabnick PR

Works & Process Presents

HILDEGARD

By Sarah Kirkland Snider

Guggenheim New York

Monday, September 15, 2025

A collaboration between

Beth Morrison Projects/PROTOTYPE Festival,

LA Opera, and Aspen Music Festival and School

Works & Process presents HILDEGARD on Monday, September 15, 2025 at Guggenheim New York in the Peter B. Lewis Theater, 1071 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10128 at 7 PM. Tickets start at $25 and can be purchased here.

Join creative producer Beth Morrison; Christopher Koelsch, President and CEO, LA Opera; director Elkhanah Pulitzer; and composer Sarah Kirkland Snider for a discussion on the commissioning and creation of HILDEGARD, the composer’s first opera.

Set in 1147, HILDEGARD follows the brilliant, pioneering composer Hildegard von Bingen as she receives visions from God. Always at risk of being condemned by the church as a heretic, she decides to document her visions, enlisting her fellow nun Richardis von Stade to illustrate the manuscript. As their passion project bleeds into passion, the two women must confront the powers that would see them struck from history rather than making it.

Singers Nola Richardson and Mikaela Bennett, accompanied by Contemporaneous Ensemble will perform highlights from this intimate tale of two genius women finding their voices, ahead of the opera’s rolling world premiere this November in Los Angeles with LA Opera and in January at PROTOTYPE Festival in New York—marking the sixteenth collaboration between Beth Morrison Projects and LA Opera.

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In Pennsylvania

Courtesy of Philly Aids Thrift

27) PHILLY AIDS THRIFT TO CELEBRATE $5M DONATION MILESTONE AT 20TH ANNIVERSARY BLOCK PARTY THIS SEPTEMBER 

Philly AIDS Thrift announces that it has now awarded over $5M in grants and donations to 50+ HIV/AIDS service organizations in the Greater Philadelphia Region. The local charity will celebrate this major achievement at the Philly AIDS Thrift 20th Anniversary Block Party, on Saturday, September 13, 2025, from Noon to 6:00pm, on the 700 block of South 5th Street. This all ages, all day event is no charge and open to the public. Philly AIDS Thrift invites the community to share in the two decades of joy, giving, and turning secondhand treasures into life-saving funding. Come out and enjoy live music, a sword swallowing and fire-breathing clown, food trucks, craft beers, a celebrity dunk tank, games, craft/vintage vendors, a pie-eating contest and dancing in the streets! Special guest appearances and entertainment will include Peabody Award-winning radio host and producer DJ Robert Drake,  sword‑swallowing, fire‑breathing “clownbabe” Reverend MacKenzie Moltov,  Philadelphia-born vocalist Marcus G, and rhinestone-studded glam-rock troupe Tony & The Kiki. For more information and line-ups, visit www dot phillyaidsthrift dot com and follow @PhillyAIDSThrift on social media. 

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Other

Courtesy of Fathom Entertainment

28) Fathom Entertainment Celebrates 
The 60^th Anniversary of The Sound of Music by Doubling its Theatrical Run to Six Days: September 12 - 17

Fathom Entertainment, the leading specialty distributor of content to theatrical partners worldwide, and 20th Century Studios have extended the upcoming theatrical engagement of The Sound of Music 60th Anniversary celebration, adding three additional days due to overwhelming fan demand.

Originally slated for a shorter run, this beloved American classic will now be shown for six consecutive days as part of the 2025 Fathom’s Big Screen Classics series. The expanded engagement will take place September 12–17 in theatres nationwide.

 

Experience the breathtaking theatrical presentation of Rodgers & Hammerstein's^® iconic musical film The Sound of Music, meticulously restored and remastered in stunning 4K for its 60th anniversary. This landmark restoration brings the beloved classic to life like never before, with pristine visuals and enhanced sound that honor the original cinematic experience while captivating a new generation of moviegoers.

In this true-life story, Julie Andrews lights up the screen as Maria, a spirited young woman who leaves the convent to become governess to the seven unruly children of Captain von Trapp (Christopher Plummer). Her warmth, charm, and music soon win the hearts of the children—and their father. But as the shadow of war looms over Austria, Maria and the von Trapp family must summon the courage to flee. One of the most successful movie musicals of all time, The Sound of Music features unforgettable songs like “Edelweiss,” “My Favorite Things,” “Climb Ev’ry Mountain,” and “Do-Re-Mi."

WHEN: Friday, September 12 through Wednesday, September 17 (check your local theatre for specific days and showtimes)

 

WHERE: Tickets for The Sound of Music 60^th Anniversary may be purchased at Fathom Entertainment or at participating theatre box offices (theatre locations are subject to change).

WHEN: Friday, September 12 through Wednesday, September 17 (check your local theatre for specific days and showtimes)

 

WHERE: Tickets for The Sound of Music 60^th Anniversary may be purchased at Fathom Entertainment or at participating theatre box offices (theatre locations are subject to change).

 

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29) HIRSCHFELD'S SONDHEIM, a new poster book celebrates Stephen Sondheim, through the pen of Al Hirschfeld ...available Sept. 9

This fall, Hirschfeld’s Sondheim, a beautifully curated new poster book, celebrates the legacy of one of the American Theater’s most prolific and celebrated composer/lyricists, Stephen Sondheim, through the pen of the legendary artist Al Hirschfeld. The first volume in a series of deluxe oversized 11 x 14-inch Hirschfeld poster books, Hirschfeld’s Sondheim is authored by Al Hirschfeld Foundation’s Creative Director David Leopold, features an introduction by Tony Award winner Bernadette Peters (Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends, Sunday in The Park With George, Into The Woods, Follies, A Little Night Music); a foreword by Ben Brantley, former chief theater critic for The New York Times; and 58 pages with more than 50 Al Hirschfeld drawings of Sondheim and his musicals, plays and films, including 25 full page images, ready-to-frame posters. Published by Abrams ComicArts, Hirschfeld’s Sondheim will be available at bookstores everywhere on September 9, 2025. Preorder today, with special merchandise (available only for a limited time) at AlHirschfeldFoundationsShop.org.

 

Hirschfeld’s Sondheim contains Hirschfeld art drawn from life before the opening night of each of Sondheim’s productions. All of Sondheim’s best-known plays are included — West Side Story, Follies, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Sweeney Todd, Merrily We Roll Along, and Sunday in the Park with George — in 25 ready-to-frame, removable art prints. All images are scanned from the archives of the Al Hirschfeld Foundation. There are also previously unpublished works including a triple portrait of Sondheim, George Gershwin and Jerome Kern. The innovative format of Hirschfeld’s Sondheim allows readers to see the works as never before. The twenty-five removable posters in this book also include rare ancillary images from the archives and extensive commentary. Now for the first time, these artworks are presented as a stunning coffee table book at an accessible price point, making Hirschfeld’s works widely available to his and Sondheim’s fans.

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30) YOUNG ACTORS’ VERSION OF

ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER’S

“SCHOOL OF ROCK – THE MUSICAL”

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NOW AVAILABLE

 

CONCORD THEATRICALS

Concord Theatricals is delighted to announce that a one-hour version of Andrew Lloyd Webber, Julian Fellowes and Glenn Slater’s School of Rock – The Musical has been released to amateur theaters in North America. Discover more information about School of Rock: Young Actors Edition, adapted by iTheatrics by visiting concordsho.ws/SchoolofRockYAE.

 

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