Over the course of a four decade career, American artist Carrie Mae Weems's work has consistently given voice to people whose stories would have otherwise been silenced or ignored. Celebrated for her incisive photography, which resides in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art...
Over the course of a four decade career, American artist Carrie Mae Weems's work has consistently given voice to people whose stories would have otherwise been silenced or ignored. Celebrated for her incisive photography, which resides in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art...
Cue the snow machine and strike up the band: the King of Christmas is coming uptown! Star of HBO's Somebody Somewhere, host of the historic King of Drag, and NYC’s “hardest-working middle-aged man in showbiz,” Murray Hill celebrates 25 years of his beloved winter variety show with...
Created by composer Etienne Charles, San Juan Hill: A New York Story is an immersive multimedia creation that celebrates a vital chapter of New York's past. Through music, visuals, and first-person accounts, this powerful work shines a light on the historic communities of the area...
AMOC* presents Anthony Cheung’s the echoing of tenses, a large-scale song cycle for tenor, violin, piano/keyboard, and pre-recorded sounds, that sets the texts of seven prominent, intergenerational Asian-American poets. These poets perform their words live within the production, sharing reflections on memory, cultural and personal...
The American Modern Opera Company (AMOC*), a leading force among today's most innovative and visionary interdisciplinary ensembles, presents the New York premiere of Rome is Falling, conceived and composed by AMOC* bassist Doug Balliett. Rome is a zany lesson on the absurdity of what can...
Gospel, funk, soul, and Afrobeat come together in this joyful presentation of Rodgers and Hammerstein songs as viewed through a utopian, afrofuturistic lens. The Sound of (Black) Music is a vibrant one-act concert reimagining of the classic musical, featuring songs such as “Do-Re-Mi,” “Edelweiss,” and “Climb Ev’ry...