Events

With the birth of music video culture in the early 1980s, an awakening of fantasy, street culture, and a popular hybridization of form seemed like the way of the future. Danced to music that’s equal parts M/A/R/R/S, Suzanne Vega, Salt-N-Pepa, the B-52’s, LL Cool J, and Prince. Cassette Vol. 1 will premiere at the International Summer Festival in Kampnagel, Germany in August.
 
Abraham’s approach to artmaking is more than dance — it's an avenue for genuine storytelling and cultural articulation. Come join us!
 
“Kyle Abraham has a mission — and it’s bigger than himself. He likes to spread the love with his company, A.I.M, and, in doing so, broaden the viewer’s experience of what a dance concert by a choreographer-led company can be.”
— The New York Times

Rachel was chosen to appear on The Tonight Show’s “Battle of the Instant Songwriters” with Jimmy Fallon, and her original song, “Back to the Beginning,” was featured on Tiny Desk’s Top Shelf Segment (she made the top 36 out of 6,000 submissions). Rachel was a featured artist at SXSW in 2024.

“Rachel Rose has perfect control over her voice, and she effortlessly glides between…lower and upper ranges to create something both harmonious and, at times, joyfully unexpected. Just when you’re settled into the syrupy warmth of Rose’s breathy chest voice, she flips into a dazzling belt, climbing up the vocal scale with flawless precision.”
— Left Bank Magazine

Following the screening Petit will engage in a Q & A with the audience. Now 74, he is also an author, artist, close-up magician, lock-picker, keynote speaker, 18th-century method timber framer, chess player, aficionado of French wine, linguist and was once seen bullfighting in Peru. He has been arrested over 500 times on 5 continents for street juggling. He has been an Artist-in-Residence at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City for more than 40 years, and it is there that he will stage a grand celebration (with him on the wire) of the 50th Anniversary of his WTC coup on August 7 and 8.

Disney’s beloved animated feature Encanto comes to life in an interactive performance and screening—perfect for the whole family! Encanto lovers of all ages can sing along with their favorite Grammy® Award–winning songs. The film features on-screen lyrics as you watch your favorite musical numbers performed by a live band while watching the full film Under the Stars at Montclair State University’s Amphitheater.

Encanto tells the tale of an extraordinary family, the Madrigals, who live in a charmed town in the mountains of Colombia. The Madrigal children all have magical powers, except Mirabel—who discovers her talents as she sets out to save her village from danger. The Academy Award®– and Grammy®–winning soundtrack features eight original songs by Tony®– and Grammy® Award–winning composer Lin-Manuel Miranda, with an original score by Grammy® winner Germaine Franco. Dress up as your favorite character and sing along with chart-topping hits like “We Don’t Talk about Bruno” and “Surface Pressure.”

Come early! Buy dinner and dessert at our food trucks, and get your face painted!

In the theater, Benanti took Broadway by storm at the age of 18 as Maria in The Sound of Music and has subsequently starred in ten more Broadway shows (musicals, straight plays, comedies, and dramas) including Into the Woods, Nine (opposite Antonio Banderas), Gypsy (for which she won a Tony Award®), She Loves Me, My Fair Lady, and Steve Martin’s Meteor Shower opposite Amy Schumer and Keegan-Michael Key.  This year, she debuted her highly celebrated solo comedy show Laura Benanti: Nobody Cares, which she created, wrote, and starred in. This New York Times Critic’s Pick is available for streaming on Audible.

By intertwining the real-life and fictional narratives of Shelley, Victor Frankenstein, and Frankenstein’s Monster, Manual Cinema intricately showcases how family, community, and education can shape personhood—or destroy it by their absence. Don't miss out on this haunting interpretation of a classic!

Court Theatre presented the World Premiere of Frankenstein in Chicago, November 2018. Frankenstein had its New York premiere at the Public Theater’s Under the Radar Festival in January 2019 and its international debut in Scotland at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August 2019.

Recommended for ages 12 and up.

This production includes loud sounds, flashing lights and haze.

This engagement of Manual Cinema is made possible in part through the ArtsCONNECT program of Mid Atlantic Arts with support from the National Endowment for the Arts.

August 2, 2024 marked the centennial of the birth of James Baldwin, a momentous occasion that is celebrated by the release of one of Ndegeocello’s most intrepid efforts to date. With this new album and concert, Ndegeocello embarks on a prophetic musical odyssey that transcends boundaries and genres, delving headfirst into race, sexuality, religion, and other recurring themes explored in the celebrated writer’s canon. The Wall Street Journal raved “Ms. Ndegeocello’s recorded catalog is too rich and stylistically varied to call any one work her masterpiece. Still, this one qualifies.”

Following 2023’s The Omnichord Real Book, her acclaimed debut for Blue Note Records, which won the inaugural GRAMMY Award for Best Alternative Jazz Album, Ndegeocello renders an immersive and palpable document that is as sagacious, unabashed, and introspective as Baldwin was in life. His prescience is alive nearly forty years after his passing, a testament to his enduring impact. A prolific writer, his essays, novels, plays, and poetry have assessed and often reproached the human condition. As an activist, his oratory prowess in the 1960s was bar none, lending his outspoken views on Black oppression with profundity and eloquence.