I recently checked in, over the phone, with Craig T. Peterson, Artistic Director of the Abrons Arts Center, to see how someone used to overseeing a vibrant cultural space that offers performance presentations, exhibitions, education programs, and residencies, is managing …

What is this…Week 9 or 11? Day 56 or something…since we’ve sheltered-in-place? New York Tough as the Governor said. NY Smart, too. And creative and proud. We make music every night at 7pm for our healthcare workers–spontaneous, cacophonous, improvisational—ok, so we stole the idea from Italy, but we made it our own. …

Happy New Year LES! It has been a while since I last wrote about our local arts scene. But what a time to start again. Winter festival season starts this week in NYC. Some of the newest work by local, national and international theater, dance, opera, and music artists will be performed right here on the LES over the next month in what has become known as JanArtsNYC. …

The ever industrious Irish dance-theater collective ponydance, is bringing its own brand of madcap comedic dance to Abrons Arts Center this week with its acclaimed “Anybody Waitin’?” …

TLD contributor Robin Schatell spoke with artists/activists Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens about their new EcoSexual work — EcoSex Walking Tour of Central Park, and the NYC premiere of their documentary, Goodbye Gauley Mountain: An Ecosexual Love Story, set to open the 4th annual Queer New York International Arts Festival at Abrons Arts Center this Wednesday. …

I wasn’t expecting a big, jolly, laugh out loud Broadway style musical when I went to see The Civilians’ new show about the porn industry, “Pretty Filthy,” which just opened at the Abrons Arts Center, but that’s exactly what I got — red curtain and all. …

Jessica Almasy, Erin Markey, and Kristine Haruna Lee in “War Lesbian.” Photo Credit: Sasha Aleksandra Arutyunova
It took almost an hour to see any …

Throughout Mark Dendy’s career, he has steadily defied expectations to work in defined categories. He is a choreographer/director/writer/dancer/performer. Or, as he puts it, “I have been working in this way–going back and forth between pure dance and opera and theater …

This weekend an Edinburgh Festival Sensation, Forest Fringe, will be transforming the Abrons Arts Center into an experimental, building-wide microfestival for its New York …

This Wednesday, the Queer New York International Arts Festival (QNYIAF ) returns to New York for its third year. Abrons Arts Center serves as festival hub and home base. Performances take place at multiple venues around town. This year’s line-up features twelve U.S. premieres and new performance works by artists from around the world. …

Multiple Parents’ Choice Award winner Robbi K has been keeping the beat for 33 years and this Sunday at Manny Cantor Center she kicks …

An outdoor spectacle is coming to the Lower East Side this week courtesy of Big Art Group, and everyone is invited to participate. This …

The Deedle Deedle Dees.
Need a place to jump and shout with your rock n roll kids? This Sunday, April 27th, The Manny Cantor …

People come and people go. People live and people die. Some people, or rather their “spirits,” live on forever; Tom Murrin’s is one of …

I went to see Beauty and The Beast yesterday at Abrons Arts Center. A friend warned me it was “very very very very very …

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