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Amina Claudine Myers: Generations 4 [57 Jazzaldia 2022 XV] Por José Luis Luna Rocafort [INSTANTZZ AKA Galería fotográfica AKA Fotoblog de jazz, impro… y algo más]

Amina Claudine Myers: Generations 4 [57 Jazzaldia 2022 XV] Por José Luis Luna Rocafort [INSTANTZZ AKA Galería fotográfica AKA Fotoblog de jazz, impro… y algo más]

57º Jazzaldia 2022 Fecha: Domingo, 24 de Julio de 2022. 21:00h. Lugar:  Plaza de la Trinidad Grupo: Amina Claudine Myers: Generations 4 Amina Claudine Myers: piano, voz Richarda Abrams: voz Jeanette T. Carter: voz Chinyelu Ingram: voz Tomajazz: © José Luis Luna Rocafort, 2022 Más información sobre Amina Claudine…

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FIRST BY FAITH: THE LIFE OF MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE Written and Performed by Richarda Abrams at Theatre 167’s WETInk Festival May 5, 2018 Directed by Dina Vovsi at West End Theater, NYC #BookingBeauties #AndSoItMe #ThankingGodforTheJourney

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Artist News | Fiscal Sponsorship

Infuse your summer with innovative artistic experiences.

Whether you’re galavanting through the southern United States, touring New York City, or are a Brooklyn local looking for summer fun, treat yourself to art by NYFA Fiscally Sponsored projects.

Catch the last weekend of Heidi Neilson’s Sonic Planetarium at Present Co on July 6-7 from 1:00 PM - 6:00 PM. Visitors join Neilson as beta testers, gauging the experience of a nine-speaker audio environment and experimenting within the dome-like acoustic structure. Sonic Planetarium is an “audio model of the stuff in earth’s orbit, in real time.”

Check out Happy Family Night Market on Saturday, July 13 at The Abrons Art Center. Celebrate the Asian diaspora through food, art, music, and education. Tickets start at $15 and are available online.

If you’re traveling through the Rio Grande Valley, be sure to swing by the International Museum of Arts and Sciences in McAllen, TX. Artist Erica Daborn’s Dialogues with Mother Earth: The Murals opens July 13 and will be on view through January 5, 2020.

Enjoy First By Faith: The Life of Mary McLeod Bethune, written and performed by Richarda Abrams. It’s playing now through July 21 at The West End Theatre at The Church of St. Paul & St. Andrew. You can catch First By Faith later this summer at the National Black Theater Festival in Winston-Salem, NC from August 1 to August 3.

Are you an artist or a new organization interested in expanding your fundraising capacity through NYFA Fiscal Sponsorship? We accept out-of-cycle reviews year-round. No-fee applications are accepted on a quarterly basis, and our next deadline is September 30. Click here to learn more about the program and to apply. Sign up for our free bi-weekly newsletter, NYFA News, for the latest updates and news about Sponsored Projects and Emerging Organizations.

Image: “Funeral for the Last Elephant” by Erica Daborn (Sponsored Project), 2013, Charcoal on Canvas

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They weren’t supposed to read, write, or look you in the eye. … But they did.

WOMEN’S HISTORY SOLO SHOW SERIES CO-PRESENTED BY THE THEATRE AT THE 14TH STREET Y A Women’s History Month Series

February 25 – March 15, 2020

Three Women. Three Stories. Three Critically-Acclaimed Performances.

February 7, 2020 (New York, NY) Today, the Theatre at the 14th Street Y announced the Women’s History Solo Show Series, a trio of performances highlighting stories about famed educator Mary McLeod Bethune, writer Jane Austen, and the Mona Lisa, the mysterious woman in the world-famous portrait by Leonardo da Vinci. February 25 through March 15, 2020 audiences can witness First by Faith: The Life of Mary McLeod Bethune, written and performed by Richarda Abrams; Cheer from Chawton: A Jane Austen Family Theatrical written and performed by Karen Eterovich and Equally Divine: The Real Story of Mona Lisa written and performed by Jenny Lyn Bader. Each production, featuring all-female creative teams, will run eight performances at the 14th Street Y located at 344 East 14th Street (East 14th Street at 1st Avenue).

“I have been performing my award winning solo show First By Faith: The Life Of Mary McLeod Bethune for the past two years, performer/playwright/producer Richarda Abrams said. However, this year I had an opportunity to perform at the Theatre at the 14th Street Y so I had  one more conversation with my fellow League of Professional Theatre Women colleagues Karen Eterovich who has a marvelous solo show about Jane Austen and Jenny Lyn Bader who has an outstanding solo show about Mona Lisa and I asked them to join me in this venture of a Women’s History Solo Show Series co-presented with the Theatre at the 14th Street Y.   I am so happy we did. There is something about theatre women working together. “

General admission for all performances of the Women’s History Solo Show Series is $25 and $14 for student and seniors with ID. Discounts are also available for groups of 10 or more with a $42 Flex Pass for those who wish to see the entire series. Tickets can be purchased at https://www.14streety.org/artsandculture/womens-history-solo-show-series/, by calling 646-395-4310 or in person at the 14th Street Y, 344 East 14th Street, at the corner of 14th and 1st. The box office opens 30 minutes before curtain and is not open for business on non-performance dates.  All tickets are subject to a $2.99 servicing fee.

About the Shows

First By Faith: The Life of Mary McLeod Bethune Written, Performed and Produced by Richarda Abrams Directed by Dina Vovsi Music Director: Amina Claudine Myers February 25 – March 15 | Run time: 60 minutes | No intermission Performance Schedule: Tues. Feb 25, 7:30 pm (VIP Reception & Talkback) | Sat, Feb 29, 7:30 pm Thurs. Mar 5, 7:30 pm | Fri, Mar 6, 7:30 pm | Sun, Mar 8, 1:00 pm | Wed, Mar 11, 7:30 pm | Sat, Mar 14, 1:00 pm | Sun, Mar 15, 7:30 pm

Workshopped at NYC’s Actors Studio, 2019 Winner of AUDELCO VIV Award for Solo Performance of the Year. 2018 Winner of United Solo Theatre Festival’s “Best Educational Show Award”. Performer/Playwright Richarda Abrams uses storytelling and song, transcends time and gender, explores Mary McLeod Bethune’s journey as an uneducated child, to becoming a world-renowned educator, humanitarian, civil rights activist, and stateswoman, returning to earth sharing one last lesson.

Equally Divine: The Real Story of the Mona Lisa Written and Performed by Jenny Lyn Bader Directed by Julie Kramer February 26 – March 14 | Run time: 75 minutes | No intermission Performance Schedule: Wed. Feb 26, 7:30 pm | Fri, Feb 28, 7:30 pm | Sun, Mar 1, 1:00 pm Mon, Mar 2, 7:30 pm | Sat, Mar 7, 1:00 pm | Sun, Mar 8, 5:00 pm | Thurs. Mar 12, 7:30 pm Sat, Mar 14, 7:30 pm

2019 Winner of United Solo Theatre Festival’s “Best Documentary One-Woman Show Award.” Paris, 1911. The art heist of the century triggers a national manhunt. As police interview everyone from J.P. Morgan to Pablo Picasso, the story travels back in time to 1503, introducing us to the visionary artist Leonardo da Vinci, the apprentice who would become his lover, and the secrets behind the masterpiece. Along the way, the woman in the portrait solves mysteries that have baffled fans and stumped scholars for centuries: Why did the portrait never get delivered to the man who commissioned it? Who is she, anyway? And why is she smiling? EQUALLY DIVINE is a time-traveling, gender-bending drama about art, inspiration, and becoming who we are.

Cheer from Chawton: A Jane Austen Family Theatrical Written and performed by Karen Eterovich | Love Arm’d Productions Theater Direction, Dialect Design & Choreography by Susan Pilar & Amy Stoller February 27 – March 15 | Run time: 60 minutes | No intermission Performance Schedule: Thurs. Feb 27. 7:30 pm | Sat, Feb 29. 7:30 pm | Sun, Mar 1, 5:00 pm Wed, Mar 4, 7:30 pm | Sat, Mar 7, 7:30 pm | Tues, Mar 10, 7:30 pm | Fri, Mar 13, 7:30 pm Sun, Mar 15, 1:00 pm

In the tradition of home theatricals held during her childhood, Jane Austen has prepared an entertainment for her family in which her siblings are to take part with her as performers. She expects to begin playing Mrs. Bennet (from Pride and Prejudice), to her brother James’s Mr. Bennet. But her family has played a trick on her: they have left Jane to tackle an unrehearsed solo performance. They provide her with a list of topics quizzing her on her life, her writing, and the inspiration behind her work. These serve as the springboard for a most enjoyable evening, filled with Jane’s pointed observations on her family, friends, suitors, and society, as well as her own hilarious early efforts as an author. You may be called upon to play a part – scripts are provided!

Who’s Who

Richarda Abrams(First by Faith: The Life of Mary McLeod Bethune) is a three-time AUDELCO award-winning actress/singer/playwright/producer. She wrote, performed and produced First By Faith: The Life Of Mary McLeod Bethune which went on to garner the 2019 AUDELCO Viv Award For Solo Performance of the Year, the 2018 United Solo Theatre Festival Best Educational Show Award and a sold out engagement at the National Black Theater Festival. Other performances include: Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (Ivoryton Playhouse), Amina Claudine Myers’ Generation IV, 2019 (NYC Winter Jazz Festival), Last Days of Judas Iscariot directed by Estelle Parsons (La Mama). She also recorded the CD, SONG FOR ALL, with her father the late Dr. Muhal Richard Abrams musician/composer/ visionary/co-founder of the Association For The Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM). Richarda is a graduate of New York University Tisch School of the Arts and received a Bachelor of Fine Arts with honors in Acting, and NYU’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development and received a Master of Arts in Educational Theater.  www.firstbyfaith.com.

Jenny Lyn Bader (Equally Divine: The Real Story of Mona Lisa) is a playwright and theatre artist. Her plays include Mrs. Stern Wanders the Prussian State Library (Luna Stage), In Flight (Turn to Flesh Productions), and None of the Above (New Georges). One-acts include Worldness (Humana Festival) and Miss America (NY Intl Fringe, Best of the Fringe” selection). She co-founded Theatre 167, winner of the NY Innovative Theatre Foundations Caffé Cino Award. For This Is Not A Theatre Company, she co-authored Café Play (Cornelia St. Café) and wrote The International Local, a phoneplay” on the Subway Plays app. A Harvard graduate, she has received the 2019 Athena Playwriting Fellowship; Lark Playwriting Fellowship (nominated by Wendy Wasserstein); and the Edith Oliver Award (Eugene O’Neill Center). Her work has been published by Dramatists Play Service, Vintage, Applause/Limelight, Smith & Kraus, Lincoln Center Theater Review, W.W. Norton, and The New York Times, where she served as a frequent contributor to the “Week in Review.” She is a member of the Dramatists Guild. For more, see www.jennylynbader.com. Twitter: @JennyLynBader

Karen Eterovich (Cheer from Chawton: A Jane Austen Family Theatrical) (AEA, SAG-AFTRA, Dramatists Guild, LPTW) has toured nationally and internationally for 25 years as a solo artist. Her award-winning play, Love Arm’d, Aphra Behn & Her Pen has been performed in more than 30 states and across the pond at the Bedlam Theatre in Edinburgh, Scotland and at the Mission Theatre, Bath, UK. Cheer from Chawton, A Jane Austen Family Theatrical has toured coast to coast from Stockton, CA to NYC to the Mission Theatre in Bath, England.  Cheer has been invited and performed in Bath, England in 2006, 2007, 2010 and 2019. Recent NYC Credits: Hudson Warehouse: Lady Catherine in Pride & Prejudice, Gertrude in Hamlet, Queen Anne in The Three Musketeers, Miss Prism in The Importance of Being Earnest.  Also multiple roles in a three-person Christmas Carol with the First Flight Theatre Company in 2019 in New Jersey.  MFA Acting University of South Carolina, Internship at the Shakespeare Theatre at the Folger. www.lovearmd.com

About The Theater at the 14th Street Y The Theater at the 14th Street Y focuses on social awareness and change through big picture narrative. Inspired by works that welcome artists of all backgrounds, we place artists at the heart of our community and seek to create an inclusive and open cultural experience for all. Art is incubated here.

About the 14th Street Y We are a vibrant community center grounded in the belief that contemporary Jewish sensibilities can be a source of inspiration, connection, and learning for the individuals and families we serve throughout downtown Manhattan. We focus on health and fitness, education and enrichment programs, and innovative arts and cultural programming.

We are committed to the development of the whole person and bettering peoples lives and strengthening individual and family connections by building an inclusive, vibrant, and sustainable community.

The 14th Street Y is part of Educational Alliance, which brings together and partners with diverse communities in Lower Manhattan, offering individuals and families high-quality, multi-generational programs and services that enhance their well-being and socioeconomic opportunities.

Contact: Marcia Pendelton Walk Tall Girl Productions 917.334.6492 [email protected] 

Women’s History Solo Series Co-presented by The Theatre For Immediate Release They weren't supposed to read, write, or look you in the eye. … But they did.

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Richarda Abrams in First by Faith

I spent much of the week in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, attending the week-long 16th biennial National Black Theatre Festival, which presented 30 plays and musicals from black theaters in 16 states and South Africa.

Founded in 1989, the festival has become an integral part of the life of the city, reflected in permanent street signs ( “National Theatre Festival Boulevard” etc.) and goes way beyond just the shows themselves – with free workshops, a film series, celebrity appearances (Leslie Uggams, Brian Stokes Mitchell and Andre de Shields are among those who came down from New York), a huge vendor market , a poetry jam, and many parties. (The festival coincided this year with the annual conference of the American Theatre Critics Association.)

Of the seven shows I got to see, my two favorite both happened to be by New York-based theater artists —  Harlem 9’s “48 Hours in Holy Ground,” six short original plays inspired by (but very different from) African-American classic plays such as Lorraine Hansberry’s “To Be Young, Gifted and Black”; and “First by Faith: The Life Of Mary McLeod Bethune,” written and performed by Richarda Abrams, one of numerous  (mostly solo) shows about celebrated/historical figures (Others were about cabaret performer Bricktop, Sammy Davis Jr., Aretha Franklin, Lena Horne, Booker T. Washington, August Wilson, and Bass Reeves, a freed slave who became the first African-American United States Deputy Marshal, whose life may have inspired the character of the Lone Ranger.) This year’s festival was heavy on musicals, as one of the festival organizers explained, because North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper proclaimed 2019 The Year of Music.

Click on photographs below to read details about some of the NBTF shows, and events, including my micro-reviews of a few of the shows I saw.

  Leslie Uggams speaking at National Black Theatre Festival kickoff, next to Brian Stokes Mitchell and Sylvia Sprinkle Hamlin, the festival’s executive producer and widow of founder Larry Leon Hamlin

Brian Stokes Mitchell, from left, dancer Nana Malaya Rucker and Andre Dé Shields pose for a photo for a fan prior to the news conference kicking off the National Black Theatre Festival. Photo by Andrew Dye.

Sammy: Celebrate the Legacy. Performed by David Hayes.

Mother to Mother. The one show from a theater company outside of the United States, this adaptation of Sindiwe Magona’s novel, produced by Spirit Sister Productions of Cape Town, South Africa and performed by Thembi Mtshali tells the story of a South African mother whose son is accused of killing a young white American woman, who was in South Africa to help fight apartheid. The South African mother addresses victim’s mother.

Bricktop: Legend of the Jazz Age. Written and Directed by Cathey C. Sawyer. Performed by Gabrielle Lee.

First By Faith: The Life of Mary McLeod Bethune. This solo play written and performed by Richarda Abrams tells the remarkable journey of the daughter of former slaves who became a world-renowned educator and activist. In an extraordinary performance portraying many characters in Bethune’s life, and Bethune herself at various ages, Abrams reclaims Bethune from the wall of saintly portraits in elementary school classrooms, and breathes her back to life as a woman with feelings, and vulnerabilities, and wit, and, yes, faith. “Without faith, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.” But by faith, she wasn’t just talking about religion.

A vendor of women’s hats

The bus to “Ruined.” The venues are spread throughout the city of Winston-Salem, so the festival provides buses.

Twelfth Night, or what you will, mon” was performed by North Carolina Black Repertory Company outdoors at Winston Square Park. William Shakespeare’s comedy but the setting moved from the Island of Illyria to Jamaica the songs by Bob Marley

March On Written and directed by Daniel Carlton, performed by Blackberry Productions of New York, NY. The journeys of three people who attended the 1963 March on Washington.

Soul Man, written and directed by Nate Jacobs, and performed by the Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe of Sarasota, FL. This musical revue, tied together by the thinnest of narrative threads (the old-timers teaching a youngster about the values of the 60s) presents music made popular by 1960s R&B artists such as Sam Cooke, Sam & Dave, James Brown, Otis Redding, The Temptations, Ray Charles

Prideland, performed by THE POINTE! Studio of Dance & Elise Jonell Performance Ensemble of Greensboro, NC. A dance interpretation of the Disney movie “The Lion King.”

“Blood at the Root” written by Dominique Morisseau, performed by North Carolina Central University of Durham, NC. Based on theJena Six case, this play takes a hypothetical, multiple perspective look at the racial chaos of a high school in Jena, Louisiana resulting from the questionable arrest of six African American students for the assault of a white student.

Jelly’s Last Jam, written by George C. Wolfe, performed by North Carolina Black Repertory Company of Winston-Salem, NC. The Tony award-winning musical that tells the true story of Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe, a.k.a. Jelly Roll Morton, the self-proclaimed “inventor of Jazz.”

A person attending the 2019 National Black Theater Festival

  July 2019 New York Theater Quiz

Shows opening in New York in August

  Broadway shows closing in August Be More Chill August 11 The Prom August 11 The Cher Show August 18 King Kong August 18 Pretty Woman August 18 What The Constitution Means to Me August 24 Beautiful October 27 Waitress January 5, 2020

The Week in New York Theater News

Harold Prince, January 30, 1928 – July 31, 2019

Harold Prince’s Broadway Shows, Playbill by Playbill

‘Six,” a musical/pop concert about the marriage, divorce and beheading of the six wives of Henry VIII that began at the Edinburgh Festival, is coming to Broadway. It’s scheduled to open at the Brooks Atkinson on March 12, 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/01/theater/six-musical-broadway.html

Antoinette Nwandu

Vineyard Theater 2019-2020 season (specific dates not yet determined)

Conceived and director by Tina Satter Based on FBI transcripts, this adaptation tells the still unfolding story of former Air Force linguist Reality Winner who is surprised at her home by the FBI, interrogated, and then charged with leaking evidence of Russian interference in U.S elections. Reality remains in jail

Dana H. by Lucas Hnath Dana was a chaplain of a psych ward where she met a charismatic patient, an ex-convict searching for redemption. A harrowing true story, Dana was held captive with her life in this man’s hands — trapped in a series of Florida motels, disoriented and terrified — for five months. Told in Dana’s own words and reconstructed for the stage by her son Lucas Hnath

Tuvalu, or The Saddest Song By Antoinette Nwandu Twelve-year-old Jackie tries to make sense of her life in 1990s Los Angeles

In @NYTimes, novelist @viet_t_nguyen on why he hates Miss Saigon (being revived in LA), which “perpetuates deeply held notions of Asian inferiority.” He praises @DavidHenryHwang‘s M Butterly & calls for more Asian narratives.

Read intriguing comments https://t.co/XCTy99SLGy

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National Black Theater Festival. Six on Broadway. Mourning Hal Prince. #Stageworthy News of the Week I spent much of the week in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, attending the week-long 16th biennial National Black Theatre Festival…

#National Black Theatre Festival #Six the Musical coming to Broadway #Vineyard Theater 2019-20 season

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The League of Professional Theatre Women to Present Oral History Project with Multi-award-winning actress, composer, singer, writer and long League member Micki Grant interviewed by fellow League member award- winning performer, writer and producer Richarda Abrams. #SeeIt   November 16, 2020 6pm EST Online on Zoom RSVP Here:  https://docs.google.com/forms/d/17BNoOimSaQwCa4bEAJ-OKOocKa1U5t_DTlCbfIvGzdE/viewform?ts=5f99c49f&edit_requested=true Micki is the first African American to have a contract role in the Soaps "Another World".  She was the first woman to write the lyrics and music for a Broadway Musical "Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope".  She was also the first woman to win a Grammy for the Score of an Original Cast Album for "Don't Bother Me I Can't Cope". These are three of the many things that Micki Grant was the first to do. Check out Oral History in the press:  https://www.broadwayworld.com/industry/article/The-League-of-Professional-Theatre-Women-to-Present-Oral-History-Project-with-Micki-Grant-20201030

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I am up for another AUDELCO AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING ENSEMBLE PERFORMANCE!!!! First one was in 2005 and we won for SAMM ART WILLIAMS HOME Produced by the HADLEY Players and now CELESTE BEDFORD WALKER'S SASSY MAMAS also Produced by the HADLEY Players!!!! AUDELCO MEMBERS VOTE VOTE VOTE!!!!! 😄

#AUDELCO AWARDS #RICHARDA ABRAMS #DONALD DASH #NICOLAS MILES NEWTON #M. DRUE WILLIAMS #DESEAN STOKES #COOKI WINBORN #HADLEY PLAYERS #GERTRUDE JEANNETTE #PATRICIA R. FLOYD #CELESTE BEDFORD WALKER

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Interpretations: Thanks to everyone who came to see Muhal Richard Abrams (#ImpactDD) SOLO and ENSEMBLE friday night at Roulette:- what an amazing event. The first half featured Abrams playing solo piano, while the second half featured a stellar ensemble. So great to see such enthusiastic support for such an amazing and influential artist! with Amirtha Kidambi, Richarda Abrams, Thomas Buckner (voices), Amina Claudine Myers and Joseph Kubera (piano), Tom Hamilton (electronics), Tom Chiu (violin), Meaghan Burke (cello), JD Parran (clarinets), and Warren Smith (percussion).

#Muhal Richard Abrams #Richarda Abrams #Amina Claudine Myers #Thomas Buckner #Roulette #Interpretations #JD Parran #Joseph Kubera #Tom Chiu #Meaghan Burke #Warren Smith #Amirtha Kidambi