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Fall Festival Will Now Feature Two Categories of Workshopped Productions and Fully Produced New Work

Application deadline is June 2, 2025

New York, N.Y. - Emerging Artists Theatre (EAT) is seeking submissions for their Fall Spark Theatre Festival NYC. The festival is scheduled to run from September 8 through September 28, 2024, at 312 West 36th Street, in midtown Manhattan. EAT is excited to announce that the upcoming festival will now be broken into two categories: workshop productions and fully developed new work. Additionally, some productions may be given more than one performance slot.

Annual Dumbo Drop Events Take Place at 5pm and 7pm on Washington Street in Dumbo

DUMBO,​ ​Brooklyn (April 22, 2025)​ — Brooklyn’s flying elephant fundraising spectacle, the annual Dumbo Drop, is back on Friday, May 30, 2025 with two drops of thousands of parachuting toy elephants from the rooftops surrounding Washington Street (5pm and 7pm).

Parkgoers of all ages can enjoy hundreds of free events, from April through September

Highlights include hands-on science, sunset concerts, Broadway performances, sunset music/dancing, exercise classes and more 

New York, N.Y. (April 15, 2025) — Hudson River Park today unveiled its dynamic 2025 spring and summer event lineup, featuring hundreds of free and exciting programs for the community across each neighborhood of the four-mile riverfront park. This year’s season officially kicks off May 17th on Pier 84 with SUBMERGE Marine Science Festival, a family-friendly event packed with hands-on river research, wildlife encounters and riveting science shows in a daylong celebration of our local waterways.

New York, N.Y. (April 15, 2025) – Abingdon Theatre Company (Chad Austin, Producing Artistic Director) is thrilled to present their next Brave New Voices event, a concert performance of Every Wednesday Night in association with Executive Producer Rashad V. Chambers, with music and lyrics by Jon D’Agostino and Michael August and book by Jon D’Agostino. The performance will have music direction by Robbie Cowan and will be directed by Chad Austin.

Brooklyn’s Free Public Art Event Brings Together Over 125 Artists at 70 Participating Local Businesses to Celebrate Creativity and Community

Brooklyn, N.Y. (April 9, 2025) - This spring, Brooklyn will come alive with creativity with over 125 local artists exhibiting their work at 70 local businesses for the Annual Atlantic Avenue ArtWalk from Saturday, May 10th to Sunday, May 18th from 12:00 pm-6:00 pm. This vibrant, free, self-guided, 1.5-mile art event will span Atlantic Avenue from Fourth Avenue to the waterfront and showcase the diverse talents of emerging and established artists at galleries, salons, boutiques, restaurants, and home decor shops. …

Tickets Now on Sale

New York, N.Y. - South Street Seaport Museum announces the 2025 sailing season for the 1885 Schooner Pioneer beginning in May and running through October. Tickets range from $10–$70 to sail New York Harbor and are on sale now! seaportmuseum.org/pioneer…

Solo exhibition features newly released images from the artist’s celebrated series

New York, NY —Five years after the start of Broadway’s Great Intermission—the 18-month period when the Covid pandemic forced theaters to close—Mark S. Kornbluth has released new images in his historic portrait series DARK.

COLLECTED STORIES Explores the Passionate, Complex Bonds between Writers in Intimate East Village Production

Limited Engagement Runs May 4 – 18 at The East Village Basement

New York, N.Y. — This May, the vibrant heart of the East Village becomes home to Donald Margulies' captivating drama Collected Stories, featuring acclaimed performers Grace Kiley and Christina Toth in an intimate theatrical experience that delves into the rich, complex relationship between two extraordinary writers. The limited engagement runs May 4 – 18, with opening night slated for Thursday, May 8 at 7pm at The East Village Basement. Award winning actor Lori Triolo directs.

Astoria, New York — On Friday, April 18, Museum of the Moving Image (MoMI) will launch a major initiative celebrating the phenomenon of Paramount Pictures’ thrilling MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE franchise, ahead of the Memorial Day Weekend 2025 release of the eighth film in the series, MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE—The Final Reckoning. The exhibition will spotlight star and producer Tom Cruise’s exceptional commitment to practical stunt work, and explore how the series combines technical ingenuity, personal discipline, and artistic commitment, all in service of storytelling, character development, and performance.