Folk hero, singer, and spiritual teacher, Milarepa has been venerated for one thousand years. But as a child, directed by his mother, he wields black magic against the aunt and uncle that stole his inheritance, and destroys his entire village. His remorse sends him on a life journey from mass murder to enlightenment. Set to lush [...]

  Integrating dance, theatrical parody and architectural costume design, Half-Heard shows a satirized version of one woman's struggle to be heard in the workplace. An all-female identifying -- and at times, drag cast -- opens a veritable Pandora's box of the absurdity of gender roles and human behavior. Half-Heard traverses themes of gender stereotypes, commodification, [...]

Seeing Rape: This is America is a performance written by John Jay College students. This group of men and women playwrights represents sexual violence in their own words, dialects, and languages in engaging and novel ways. In short plays, the way rape intersects with hyper-masculinity, the opioid epidemic, the workplace, immigration at the Southern border, and [...]

Seeing Rape: This is America is a performance written by John Jay College students. This group of men and women playwrights represents sexual violence in their own words, dialects, and languages in engaging and novel ways. In short plays, the way rape intersects with hyper-masculinity, the opioid epidemic, the workplace, immigration at the Southern border, and [...]

Seeing Rape: This is America is a performance written by John Jay College students. This group of men and women playwrights represents sexual violence in their own words, dialects, and languages in engaging and novel ways. In short plays, the way rape intersects with hyper-masculinity, the opioid epidemic, the workplace, immigration at the Southern border, and [...]

Doors Open at 6 pm Hosted by Stephanie’s Child Sounds by @DJEUGENE_EDO Performances by @CONNELLTHOMPSONSAX

Maimouna Keita School of African Dance Inc. presents THE 27TH ANNUAL DANCE CONCERT: SILA DJIGUIBA, PATH OF HOPE Tickets can be purchased through Saturday at 4 pm at Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration 1368 Fulton ST. Brooklyn NY 11216

Considered by Weill himself to be an "American opera" - a synthesis of European opera and American musical theater - Street Scene combines a rigorous operatic style with a distinctively American story. As a meditation on how communities shift and tear as they accommodate new worldviews, it’s a remarkably modern and prescient piece - sometimes [...]

Considered by Weill himself to be an "American opera" - a synthesis of European opera and American musical theater - Street Scene combines a rigorous operatic style with a distinctively American story. As a meditation on how communities shift and tear as they accommodate new worldviews, it’s a remarkably modern and prescient piece - sometimes [...]

Success Academy Harlem North West presents The 4 Elements of Nature - Air / Water / Earth/ Fire. This end of the year performance will showcase the following genres: Ballet (AIR), Jazz (WATER), Modern (EARTH) and Hip Hop (FIRE) performed by members of the dance electives powered by Art of Stepping via their customized dance [...]

Photo by Maggie Hall Cry to the world/That all might understand:/I was once a black clown/But now—/I’m a man! Fusing vaudeville, gospel, opera, jazz, and spirituals, The Black Clown brings Langston Hughes’s famed 1931 poem to life in a stunning new music-theater piece. Powerful and prescient, the experience of a black man’s resilience against a legacy of [...]

Photo by Maggie Hall Cry to the world/That all might understand:/I was once a black clown/But now—/I’m a man! Fusing vaudeville, gospel, opera, jazz, and spirituals, The Black Clown brings Langston Hughes’s famed 1931 poem to life in a stunning new music-theater piece. Powerful and prescient, the experience of a black man’s resilience against a legacy of [...]

Photo by Maggie Hall Cry to the world/That all might understand:/I was once a black clown/But now—/I’m a man! Fusing vaudeville, gospel, opera, jazz, and spirituals, The Black Clown brings Langston Hughes’s famed 1931 poem to life in a stunning new music-theater piece. Powerful and prescient, the experience of a black man’s resilience against a legacy of [...]

Photo by Maggie Hall Cry to the world/That all might understand:/I was once a black clown/But now—/I’m a man! Fusing vaudeville, gospel, opera, jazz, and spirituals, The Black Clown brings Langston Hughes’s famed 1931 poem to life in a stunning new music-theater piece. Powerful and prescient, the experience of a black man’s resilience against a legacy of [...]

Photo by Carl Fox Blak Whyte Gray, the electrifying dance-theater work from Olivier Award-winning East London company Boy Blue, returns to New York after a sensational sold-out U.S. premiere at Lincoln Center's 2018 White Light Festival. With bold hip-hop choreography and a multilayered score that moves from driving electronics to African-influenced beats, Blak Whyte Gray pulses [...]

Photo by Richard Termine Blak Whyte Gray, the electrifying dance-theater work from Olivier Award-winning East London company Boy Blue, returns to New York after a sensational sold-out U.S. premiere at Lincoln Center's 2018 White Light Festival. With bold hip-hop choreography and a multilayered score that moves from driving electronics to African-influenced beats, Blak Whyte Gray pulses [...]

Photo by Carl Fox Blak Whyte Gray, the electrifying dance-theater work from Olivier Award-winning East London company Boy Blue, returns to New York after a sensational sold-out U.S. premiere at Lincoln Center's 2018 White Light Festival. With bold hip-hop choreography and a multilayered score that moves from driving electronics to African-influenced beats, Blak Whyte Gray pulses [...]

A SHOWCASE PERFORMANCE BENEFITING THE POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE’S TEEN ACTING PROGRAM