by DOWNTOWN News | May 27, 2024 | Culture, Theater
Little Island’s four-month-long summer season of world premieres kicks off June 1, featuring a total of nine newly commissioned pieces. Bookended by the premiere of legendary choreographer Twyla Tharp’s newest full-length piece, titled How Long Blues, and a...
by Linda Sheridan | Sep 14, 2023 | Culture, Design, Music, Theater
Perelman Performing Arts Center designed by REX. Image Iwan Baan. Perelman Performing Arts Center (PAC NYC) celebrated its opening with an emotional ceremony, including remarks by Paula Grant Berry from the 9/11 Memorial & Museum, investor Ronald O. Perelman,...
by Linda Sheridan | Jun 14, 2023 | Business, Culture, Downtown Highlights, Downtown News, Music, NYC, Theater
Photo by Iwan Baan Set to open its doors in September 2023, the Perelman Performing Arts Center (PAC NYC) at 251 Fulton Street is a trailblazing architectural wonder 20 years in the making, a cultural keystone that will bring Downtown Manhattan closure. Today Mike...
by Mike Hammer | May 26, 2023 | Culture, Downtown Highlights, Downtown News, NYC, Out on the Town, Theater
D’yan Forest’s decision to collect laughs as a standup comic when most women her age were collecting Social Security was no joke! At 88, the Boston-born, longtime New Yorker has officially been named the “world’s oldest female comedian,” and may be an anomaly — but...
by DOWNTOWN News | Dec 29, 2022 | Culture, Music, Theater
Doris Dear and Crystal Kellogg perform together in The Doris Dear Christmas Special. Review by Nick Appice The Doris Dear Christmas Special has been an annual event in NYC for seven years now. Doris and her cast of performers from Broadway, jazz, opera, and cabaret...
by Linda Sheridan | Nov 18, 2022 | Culture, LA, Music, Theater
Grammy-winning wife/husband duo Pat Benatar and Neil Geraldo are bringing Invincible — The Musical, a reimagining of Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet, to The Wallis’ Bram Goldsmith Theater in Santa Monica. Set in the modern, war-torn metropolis of Verona where...