Battery Dance is accepting applications for the 43rd Annual Battery Dance Festival, with free performances on August 11-17, 2024 at Rockefeller Park, NYC. Applications must be submitted online at https://batterydance.org/apply/. The festival application will be live from Wednesday, November 1 – Sunday, December 31, 2023. Battery Dance Festival, New York City’s longest-running free public dance festival, was established by Battery Dance as the Downtown Dance Festival in 1982. It draws in-person audiences of approximately 2,000 people each night from the large downtown population of workers, residents, families, tourists, senior citizens and dance fans from the greater NYC metropolitan area and beyond. The Festival…
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Runaway Entertainment is delighted to announce the new cast for the UK tour of Danny Robins’ edge-of-your-seat, supernatural thriller 2:22 – A Ghost Story. Vera Chok (Hollyoaks, Cobra) will play Lauren, Jay McGuiness (The Wanted, BIG! The Musical, Rip It Up) will play Ben, Fiona Wade (Emmerdale, Silent Witness) will play Jenny, and George Rainsford (Call the Midwife, Casualty) will play Sam. This next part of the tour opens at Northampton’s Royal & Derngate Theatre on 5 January 2024 and the cast will perform in venues across the UK until 1 June 2024. Vera Chok (who will play Lauren) said: ‘Theatre brings me such joy, and I’m raring to get back…
New York – The Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company is commencing a new season with fresh commissioned works, collaborations, and the addition of new dancers following their recent performances in Seattle, WA, and Tennessee. New dancers joining the Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company include: Caleb Baker, Alexzander Larson, Ke’ala O’Connell, and YuChin (KiKi) Tseng. As one of the leading Asian American professional dance companies in the United States, the Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company is committed to creating works that reflect the immigrant experience and perspectives. Nai-Ni Chen collaborates with both emerging and traditional dance choreographers within the Chinese American community, fostering a deeper understanding by bridging…
New York, NY – The dance service organization Dance/NYC today announced its upcoming research performance event, State of NYC Dance: Findings from the Dance Industry Census, in partnership with Chelsea Factory, curated by Alejandra Duque Cifuentes, and in artistic partnership with Sydnie L. Mosley Dances and Ladies of Hip Hop. The event will be held in-person on Tuesday, December 12, 2023 with doors opening at 5:30 p.m. at Chelsea Factory, 547 W. 26th Street, New York, NY 10001, with some elements live streamed via YouTube Live. To RSVP, visit Dance.NYC/StateofNYCDanceEvent. Online registration will close on December 11, 2023 at 4:00 p.m. ET. On-site registration will also be available. The evening…
Fusing theatre, sport and technology – and taking immersive experiences in a whole new direction – Rumble in the Jungle Rematch launched in London this September and today extends its run through to 9th December. We invite you to attend during its extended run (or prior) to enjoy and review the show. Widely considered to be ‘The Greatest Sporting event of the 20th Century’ the Ali v Foreman Heavyweight Championship boxing match (the first to be held in Africa) is the stuff of legend, and this live immersive event recreates all the sights, sounds and festival atmosphere that surrounded this zeitgeist capturing event.The event…
The performances will take place November 15, 2023
Running At Harold Pinter Theatre
For A Strictly Limited Season
From 27 January – 15 June 2024
Reuniting The Partnership Behind
The Multi-Award-Winning Play The Ferryman
Disney’s award-winning musical THE LION KING is holding a nationwide call out for singers and dancers who wish to join the West End company in the future. The production is looking for talented performers to work with industry professionals to develop their skills. New members of the company would join an international cast of over 50 actors, singers and dancers at the musical’s home in London – the Lyceum Theatre – where the production has been seen by over 18 million people in the last two decades. Open auditions will take placeacross the country throughout October. Auditions for singers and…
Following Olivier Award-winning revivals of Cabaret and A Streetcar Named Desire, Rebecca Frecknall makes her directorial debut at the National Theatre with Alice Birch’s (Normal People) radical version of Federico García Lorca’s modern masterpiece. In the domain of Bernarda Alba, a daughter who disobeys is no longer a daughter. Forced to live under their mother’s tight grip as they mourn their father’s death, can five sisters survive when young Adela dares for passion and freedom? Olivier Award-winner Harriet Walter (Succession) plays the formidable matriarch, guarding her reputation against the rising tide of her family’s desires in this devastatingly dark and…
The New York Society for Ethical Culture and Time Lapse Dance present the World Premiere of Arbor and Other Works
New York City Opera is proud to announce Angels in America has received the Austrian Musical Theater Award for Best Contemporary Musical Theater Production for its co-production with The Salzburger Landestheater. The eleventh annual Austrian Music Theater Awards ceremony took place in Vienna City Hall, honoring exceptional works of music, theater, and musical theater, from across Austria. Based on the play by Tony Kushner, Péter Eötvös’s Angels in America is an operatic adaptation of the groundbreaking, Pulitzer Prize-winning drama that, since its 2004 premiere at Châtelet, has been performed all over the United States and internationally. “Mr. Eötvös’s success outstrips that of most American composers…
Ulster American will run at Riverside Studios for 8 weeks from 4 December, with opening night on 13 December