Events from January 31 to February 6
This year’s spring production from the CAP/Plaza de la Raza Youth Theater Program is a new drama written by Culture Clash member Herbert Siguenza and staged with a cast of 45 high school students
Alpert Award-winning video and media artist Paul Chan gives a stirring live presentation about an extraordinary community art experiment he spearheaded in New Orleans in collaboration with the Classical Theatre of Harlem and the public arts group Creative Time. Chan and his colleagues staged five site-specific performances of Waiting for Godot in the Katrina-devastated neighborhoods of Gentilly and Lower Ninth Ward, playing to large crowds of local residents for whom the classic Beckett-penned lines rang with fierce immediacy.
With a program ranging from Romantic literature to new music to contemporary jazz, this spirited acclamation of virtuosic piano playing recognizes Yamaha, the world’s largest musical instrument manufacturer.
