Urban Ballet Theater's hip-hop/African dance/flamenco-infused/krumping version of The Nutcracker returns to Abrons Arts Center on Saturday for it's ninth year. The production keeps Tchaikovsky’s original score largely intact but enhances it with contemporary, inner city beats from the Lower...
The New Federal Theater has been generating some buzz with their production of 'Knock Me a Kiss' at Abrons Arts Center. The play has a stellar cast and stars Tony winner Andre De Shields as W.E.B. Du Bois. The...
Internationally acclaimed choreographer Jonah Bokaer has teamed up with the interdisciplinary design firm Harrison Atelier to produce the co-creation, Anchises. The work debuted at the newly opened Pavilion Dance in Bournemouth, UK in October, and will receive it's U.S....
Our friends at Abrons Arts Center and the Seward Park Cooperative are hosting a Lower East Side Talent Showcase. But first, they are looking for some big acts to participate. They are seeking singers, actors, dancers, bands, comics, poets,...
Howard Fishman debuted not one but three new albums last week at Abrons Arts Center with a performance of each different album on three consecutive nights. We attended the last performance, in which he presented "The World Will Be...
Musician Howard Fishman has been out of the limelight the last year or so because he's been working away at some new music, three new albums, in fact, and he will be debuting each one on three consecutive nights,...
Downtown club diva and actress Ann Magnuson will make her first New York theatrical appearance in nine years (she's been in L.A.) with perfomer Adam Dugas tonight at Abrons Arts Center. Expect some theatrical fireworks in...
Here are musician Ken Beasley’s top music picks on the Lower East Side this weekend:
HARPER BLYNN - Friday, October 1 | 10:30pm at Rockwood Music Hall
Brooklyn’s Harper Blynn produce an extremely potent form of catchy power-pop. Their...
Downtown performance artist Joey Arias will be at the Abrons Arts Center this weekend and next in his first New York City concert appearance in nearly a decade. Arias, who recently spent six years as the host of Cirque...
All sorts of people take classes at the Abrons Arts Center. This month we've gotten to know some of them -- including a Lower East Side mom and her 8-year old daughter. Today, in our final profile, we meet...
