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New York, NY – SoHo Playhouse presents the U.S. premiere of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival solo hit, Aberdeen by Cassie Workman, as part of the 2024 International Fringe Encore Series, running Off-Broadway from January 30 – February 11. Opening night is Thursday, February 1.

After stunning reviews at the 2022 Edinburgh Fringe as well as a coveted Scotsman Fringe First Award, multi-award-winning celestial comedian and storyteller Cassie Workman brings her extraordinary tour-de-force epic poem, Aberdeen, to New York.

January 25 – May 12 With Exciting New Works and Alvin Ailey’s Timeless Revelations

Coast-to-Coast Performances Feature the Company’s Extraordinary Dancers in the Season Premieres of

CENTURY from Amy Hall Garner and Me, Myself and You by Elizabeth Roxas-Dobrish 

Other Highlights Include New Productions of Ronald K. Brown’s Dancing Spirit, Alonzo King’s Following the Subtle Current Upstream, Jamar Roberts’s Ode, Hans van Manen’s Solo and a special Ailey Classics program

New York, N.Y. (January 24, 2024) — After an acclaimed 65th Anniversary season launch in New York City, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater – beloved as one of the world’s most popular dance companies – will continue to grace stages during a 21-city United States tour starting January 25 in Atlanta and continues coast-to-coast to cities like Washington, D.C., Miami, Boston, Chicago, Houston and Los Angeles, before culminating with a Mother’s Day performance in Newark on May 12.

From The Leonard N. Stern Collection on Loan from the Hellenic Republic

New York, N.Y. - On January 25, The Metropolitan Museum of Art will open a new display featuring some 161 works made in the Cyclades primarily in the Early Bronze Age (3200 to 2000 BCE) from The Leonard N. Stern Collection, which is owned by the Greek state. The loan is the result of a landmark 50-year partnership among the Ministry of Culture of the Hellenic Republic, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens, along with the Hellenic Ancient Cultural Institute, regarding Leonard N. Stern’s Collection of Cycladic art. The collection includes nearly all the major types of Cycladic marble figurines representing the Late Neolithic period to the end of the Early Bronze Age.

Flushing Town Hall Theater

Sunday, February 25, 2024 at 3pm

New York, N.Y. – The Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company presents Red Firecrackers, the story of Nian and the origin Chinese Lunar New Year customs. The performance will take place at 3pm on Sunday, February 25, 2024 at Flushing Town Hall Theater, 137-35 Northern Blvd., Flushing, NYC. Tickets are $15 for general admission, $12 for members, seniors and students, and $8 with ID, and can be purchased at https://www.flushingtownhall.org/red-firecrackers.

Four Renowned NYC Restaurants Launch Limited-Time Tsingtao-Infused Specials for the Lunar New Year

New York, NY — In the spirited embrace of the Year of the Dragon, Tsingtao is proud to announce a unique collaboration with New York City’s four innovative Chinese dining destinations - Hutong, MáLà Project, Milu, and Hunan Slurp. From January 30th to February 12th, 2024, these trendsetting eateries will feature a series of exclusive Tsingtao-infused dishes and drinks, offering a contemporary twist on traditional favorites.

New York, NY – SoHo Playhouse presents the U.S. premiere of award-winning writer and director JD Henshaw’s Jekyll & Hyde, as part of the 2024 International Fringe Encore Series, running Off-Broadway from January 16 – 28, 2024. Opening night is January 19.

JD Henshaw brings a new vision of terror with his take on Stevenson’s science-horror classic, Jekyll & Hyde. With award-winning performer Heather-Rose Andrews playing the titular role, the play investigates class, terror and hypocrisy in Victorian London, as the search for self collides with the lure of the sensuous.

New York, N.Y. —School of Visual Arts (SVA) this month will honor the late Marshall Arisman, prolific artist and founder of the College’s MFA Illustration as Visual Essay program, with “Does That Make Sense?,” an exhibition—named for Arisman’s beloved idiom—of his lesser-known works. Designed and curated by Arisman’s recently appointed successor and program alumnus Riccardo Vecchio (MFA 1996 Illustration as Visual Essay), in collaboration with SVA Galleries and Arisman’s wife, writer Dee Ito,…

Opening Night January 12, 2024

New York, NY –  SoHo Playhouse proudly presents the U.S. premiere of the Brighton Fringe Festival hit, Esther’s Revenge, running Off-Broadway as part of the 2024 International Fringe Encore Series. Opening night is January 12 with performances continuing through January 19.

Esther’s Revenge, written and directed by Kenneth Uphopho, and produced by Tope Sanni for PawStudios Africa, is an experiential play inspired by true life events of Esther who was reported to have murdered her white lover in 1953.

In conjunction with the exhibition, The Met will host a talk with artist Sadie Barnette on January 13

Exhibition Dates: December 18, 2023–September 15, 2024; Exhibition Location: The Met Fifth Avenue, Gallery 851

New York, (January 12, 2024) — At a time when photographs are primarily shared and saved digitally, many artists are turning to snapshots in albums or pictures in archives as a source of inspiration. On view through September 15, 2024, the exhibition Don't Forget to Call Your Mother—the title is drawn from a photograph by Italian provocateur Maurizio Cattelan (born 1960)—consists of works in The Met collection from the 1970s to today that inspire reflection on the power of found objects and the complicated feelings of nostalgia and sentimentality they can conjure.