Our friends at the Abrons Arts Center have announced a fantastic lineup for their fall season. They write:
Henry Street Settlement’s Abrons Arts Center continues to carve out a unique culture nitch on the Lower East Side. With three world...
Starting tomorrow, LES residents will have a new option to buy farm-fresh produce without leaving the neighborhood. A new partnership between Grow NYC and the Henry Street Settlement will bring fruits and vegetables to a farmers' market in front...
Move over Beethoven. A series of solo contemporary piano concerts—Keys to the Future—makes its way to Abrons Arts Center this week. In its sixth year, the series runs May 24-26 featuring a pithy survey of contemporary piano repertoire packed...
This Mother's Day, The Paper Bag Players will give a free performance of WHOOP-DEE-DOO! at the Abrons Arts Center. The esteemed company, which was established in 1958, brings their newest show back to the neighborhood - they will entertain the whole...
You may have heard about the HBO documentary, "Triangle: Remembering the Fire," which debuted last week. This year marks the 100 year anniversary of the tragic event that killed 146 workers, many of them residents of the Lower East...
Paul Taylor's Taylor 2 dance company will perform two classic pieces at Abrons Arts Center today. They write: Taylor 2 will perform Funny Papers and Airs. "Airs" is part of Paul Taylor’s celebrated collection of dances set to baroque...
Broadway.com is reporting the upcoming series of concerts at Abrons, featuring two Broadway heavies - Jason Robert Brown and Anika Noni Rose, will be filmed by PBS. The air date is yet to be determined. Tony Award-winning composer Brown...
A special live sound/video/performance "spectacle," the horror the horror (i have plenty of energy to drive over there), is taking over the Playhouse at the Abrons Arts Center this weekend. Created and performed by Shaun Irons, Lauren Petty, Madeline Best...
This morning the Landmarks Preservation Commission voted to designate Henry Street Settlement's Neighborhood Playhouse an historic landmark. The 1915 building at 466 Grand Street was already on the National Register of Historic Places.
The Commission called the playhouse one of...
A special free concert (one that feels especially poignant right now with the current crisis in Japan) comes to Abrons Arts Center next weekend. The Carnegie Hall Neighborhood Concert Series will present two of Japan’s best known Tsugaru shamisen...
