Choreographer and dancer Nai-Ni Chen was posthumously honored with the 2022 Lifetime Achievement in Dance Award. Nai-Ni Chen – Truth Bound-Photo by Sylvia Chiang.jpeg The NY Dance and Performance Awards, the Bessies, New York City’s premier dance awards honoring outstanding creative work in the field, announced tonight the 2022 award recipients at the 38th annual…
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Described by a “brilliant pianist” by legendary jazz saxophonist Benny Golson, accomplished pianist Hey Rim Jeon had released her fifth album as a leader, Groovitude, featuring multi-Grammy-Award-winning drummer Terri Lyne Carrington and other acclaimed musicians. Hey Rim focuses more on arrangements than my compositions and includes a lot of jazz standards that people know quite…
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19-Day Festival Includes 36 Artists and Companies at Six Venues: 600 HIGHWAYMEN; Back to Back Theatre; Seth Bockley, Jesse LaVercombe, and Ahmed Moneka; Ryan Calais Cameron, Nouveau Riche, and Soho Theatre; Jasmine Lee-Jones and The Royal Court Theatre; Rachel Mars; Richard Maxwell; Peter Mills Weiss and Julia Mounsey; Ontroerend Goed andAlexander Devriendt; Plexus Polaire; Annie…
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HBO’s REAL SPORTS WITH BRYANT GUMBEL caps another season of enterprising reporting with a roundtable review of this year’s most memorable moments from the show, debuting TUESDAY, DECEMBER 20 (10:00-11:00 p.m. ET/PT) on HBO and available to stream on HBO Max. For up-to-the-minute updates about REAL SPORTS, follow on Twitter at @RealSportsHBO or join the conversation using #RealSports,…
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American Modern Opera Company (AMOC) and The Cathedral of St. John the Divine present contemporary composer John Adams’ El Niño: Nativity Reconsidered with libretto by Peter Sellars and concept by Julia Bullock on Wednesday, December 21, 2022 at 7:30pm at The Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, 1047 Amsterdam Avenue, (at 112th Street) in Manhattan. Tickets…
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In Theatres Now: “Christmas Holidate” Young and beautiful Holly Harper (Burke) is the founder of the Internet’s hottest trending matchmaking app, Holi-Date. This holiday season, she’s on a mission to fulfill her greatest matchmaking feat of all time—to bring her family back together for Christmas! As part of her illicit plan, what better timing to…
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chromatic black™, a collective of 10,000 + Black artists and activists dedicated to building cultural power and transformational justice through storytelling, announced today the winners of the 2022 Ida B. Wells Fund, a competition created to support Black creatives with an investment to develop new original works that disrupt the master narrative. The 20 finalists will receive…
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Trevor Noah hosts talkback on Tuesday for Broadway’s A Strange Loop, here pictured with Playwright, Composer and Lyricist Michael R. Jackson, creator of the Tony Award Best Musical; and its Choreographer Raja Feather Kelly (photo credit Avery Brunkus) Trevor Noah, comedian, author and acclaimed host of The Daily Show, hosted a “Black Theater Night” for the…
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Burning Questions: Covering Climate Now, an unprecedented climate special, takes viewers on a journey across the country and around the world to the frontlines of the climate crisis. Featuring the reporting of award-winning journalists, the one-hour documentary explores the burning questions: Who is paying the price for climate change? How bad can it get? What…
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