The Private Lives of Eskimos by Ken Urban
A playreading directed by Anna Kohler
After the sudden death of his sister, Marvin turns to his girlfriend, therapist and co-worker for comfort, only to find himself alone in his grief. Then he loses his cell phone. When he calls his number in hopes of...
Tennessee Williams’s autobiographical “memory play” looks at the Wingfield family—frustrated writer Tom, his nagging mother, Amanda, who is often lost in memories of her Southern-belle past, and his painfully shy sister, Laura—and the effect a visit from a “gentleman caller” for Laura has on all...
With their plans to tour Puerto Rico in 2017 thwarted by hurricane Maria, the FJE, Miguel Zenón, and special guest Evan Ziporyn, gave two benefit concerts last year (MIT & Hunter College, NYC), raising nearly $7000 for the Puerto Rico Recovery Fund. January 20-27, 2019, FJE and MacArthur Fellow...
A staged reading of Senior Lecturer Ken Urban’s new play in progress. In The Immortals, Alice has a lot on her mind. A professor at an elite university, Alice battles her department chair who demands she abandon a new book on medical racism for a more tenure-friendly project. At home, her husband’s...
Moon Over Dark Street will land at MTA’s Theater W97 March 8-10 as Theater Arts’ Kim Mancuso and Pilgrim Theatre kicks off a tour of the production.
“In the dark times
Will there also be singing?
Yes, there will also be singing.
About the dark times.”
―B. Brecht
A cabaret of theatre and music...
WITNESS RELOCATION/DAN SAFER
Directed / Choreographed by Dan Safer
Original Music by Heather Christian
Text by Kate Scelsa
Voiceover by Grace McLean
Suits provided by Ministry of Supply
Co-created and performed by Ae Andreas, Dan Safer
www.witnessrelocation.org
More details coming soon...
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Professor Eran Egozy co-founded Harmonix Music Systems with the mission of letting everyone in the world experience the joy of making music. While instrumentalists (and vocalists) feel great pleasure from performing, people who have not mastered an instrument do not have access to this great...
Composer, electronic musician, and violist Forrest Larson has written works for string orchestra, wind ensemble, string quartet, percussion, and unaccompanied violin, viola and cello. His electro-acoustic compositions include works for flute, violin, cello, organ and tuba, and he has also created...
Program:
Karel Husa (1921-2016)
Élégie et Rondeau (1961)
Jess Hebert (G), alto saxophone
François Borne (1840-1920)
Fantaisie brillante sur des airs de “Carmen” (1900)
Lenna Kanehara ‘22, flute
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Premiere Rhapsodie (1909-1910)
Cynthia Liu ’...