NY Live Arts Presents World Premiere Of Colleen Thomas LIGHT AND DESIRE broadwayworld.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from broadwayworld.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Gramps Thursday-night drag event,
Double Stubble, returns with host DJ Hottpants and sets by self-professed Peruvian dance diva D.Vice Dion and Lana Summer. Performances go down every 30 minutes until 11 p.m., with plenty of chances to grab a signature cocktail from the bar or a slice from Pizza Tropical. Expect danceable tunes, hilarious riffing, and awe-inspiring lip-syncing.
9 p.m. Thursday, at Gramps, 176 NW 24th St., Miami; 855-732-8992; gramps.com. Admission is free.
Olivia McAuley
Friday, March 5
Miami s historic Olympia Theater is unable to host indoor performances right now, but that hasn t stopped the venue from taking the show outside. With the launch of
It s open-air at the North Beach Bandshell and they ve done an extraordinary job of making sure all safety protocols are passed, Boone says. The bandshell has a capacity of 1,000 people. For this event, seating is limited to 200. You must sit in pods of two, four, or six people that will be no closer than ten feet from anyone else. We ll have rapid testing at the venue and a paperless form you can fill out if we need to do contact tracing. We ll also have rigorous testing of the artists and staff.
Global Music Fest wanted to make certain they had a lineup that lived up to all these safety precautions. This year features a double bill. The first half of the evening will feature trombonist, percussionist, and singer Julio Montalvo, who joins forces with bassist and singer Alain Pérez for what they describe as a mix of jazz, Latin, fusion, and a musical journey seasoned with Cuban flavor. The act was scheduled to appear last year but canceled.
These young artists are now ready to unleash their dazzling skills, performances, readings, and exhibitions on the public.
Week two of National YoungArts Week + goes down January 25-30, with a nightly string of online events. The events are free and open to the public and include showcases in jazz, theater, dance, film, writing, visual arts, and seemingly everything in between.
Notably, things kick off on Monday, January 25, with a virtual celebration hosted by singer and YoungArts alum Josh Groban and the world premiere of YoungArts’ short film,
Together. (The full schedule of events is available on youngarts.org.)
“We started really knowing early this summer that we’d need to make this shift online, so we’ve been planning,” says Rebekah Lanae Lengel, senior director of artistic programs at the National YoungArts Foundation. “Fortunately, we have a number of people involved in higher education with the organization familiar with COVID-era setups and made the i
National YoungArts Week has added a big ol plus at the end of its name for 2021.
Why the plus? Well, while “week” may be in its name, this year’s event has been split and expanded into two weeks.
The first week an intensive program chock-full of educational and interactive opportunities for top-notch, budding artists looking to hone their respective crafts is in the books. That went down January 3-9.
These young artists are now ready to unleash their dazzling skills, performances, readings, and exhibitions on the public.
Week two of National YoungArts Week + goes down January 25-30, with a nightly string of online events. The events are free and open to the public and include showcases in jazz, theater, dance, film, writing, visual arts, and seemingly everything in between.