The Up Theater Company Presents: 4 – A Quartet of New Plays
UP Theater Company announces details of its fourth major production. “4” a quartet of new plays, each dealing with a different topical conundrum, will mark the second time that UP will focus on the one-act format. Unlike their 2011 foray into the form -The Chalkboard Trilogy, by Nancy Nevarez – this program features four distinct [...]
Dominican Strongman Was Rescuer and Murderer Both | Forward
By Michael Kaminer Only in New York could a troupe of Jewish and Dominican kids team up with a Broadway legend on a musical production about a Latin dictator’s rescue of Jews during the Holocaust. But it’s a true story. And a new documentary called “Sosua: Make a Better World” chronicles the collaboration of 20 [...]
Uptown Arts: People’s Theatre Project & Word Up Books Present This Is Us
For more: http://peoplestheatreproject.org/ Check out: Uptown 2011 Movers & Shakers: Mino Lora and Bob Braswell People’s Theatre Project Wins Prestigous Union Sqaure Award We invite you to subscribe to the Uptown Love newsletter, like our Facebook page and follow us on Twitter, or e-mail us at UptownCollective@gmail.com.
Spa For The Soul: A Q&A With Xavier Eikerenkoetter
BY Led Black (@Led_Black) Q. First of all, what is “Spa for the Soul”? A. A spa is a place where people go to get away, refresh, soak in healing solutions, and be therapeutically moved, so to speak. The idea for ”Spa for the Soul” is that you come, sit back, bathe in creative depths and [...]
NBC Latino Names Uptown’s Own Mino Lora To Their 10 Latinos With Heart List
That’s right people; our very own Mino Lora of the People’s Theatre Project was named one of only 10 people on that ultra-select list of Latinos doing big things to help their communities. If you don’t know about the PTP, you should. PTP is all about, theatre, community and activism. I had the pleasure of [...]
Juan Rodriguez Way: Uptown Dominicans Take Pride in Early Immigrant | The Uptowner
By Marielle Mondon About three miles of northern Manhattan will soon honor a man who, until recently, was unknown to most of the people who live there. Juan Rodriguez Way will be the name of Broadway from 159th to 218th Streets, after an early settler from Santo Domingo who reportedly arrived in New York in [...]
Harmony in the Heights: United Palace Hosts Youth Music Program | The Uptowner
By Marielle Mondon and Trishula Patel Behind the ornate doors and antique marquee of the 82-year-old United Palace on 175th Street, students trickle in each weekday afternoon, exchanging their book bags for violas, cellos and violins. The Harmony Program began 10 years ago to provide music lessons to children in public housing across New York’s [...]
The People’s Theatre Project’s What Happens Here Kicks Off This Friday
Friday, Nov. 16th at 7:30pm The Malcolm X & Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Educational Center (3940 Broadway) An interactive and bilingual theatrical event about housing rights and discrimination in our communities conceived, written and performed by the Uptown Action community actors. For more: http://peoplestheatreproject.org/ Check out: Uptown 2011 Movers & Shakers: Mino Lora [...]
Growing Up Gonzales – The Review
BY Jonathan Ullman (@gogoPatienceCnP) When the character of Johnny Gonzales enters the set of his dead brother Cisco’s apartment to clean it out in the opening moments of Growing Up Gonzales, you’d think you’re in for a night of melancholia and introspection at the theatre. But you’d be wrong. Growing Up Gonzales, starring Luis Antonio Ramos in [...]
The Up Theater Company Presents: K Comma Joseph
Due to Hurricane Sandy, the Up Theater Company’s presentation of K Comma Joseph has been postponed until Wednesday, November 7th. A simple complaint about the hot water forces a mild-mannered clerk to run for his life. Suddenly at odds with his boss, his wife and a corrupt government official, the play asks if even the [...]
Limited Engagement: Growing Up Gonzalez
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From poverty to the Palace: United Palace Cathedral program trains uptown kids to be classical musicians | NY Daily News
By Douglas Feiden / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS The dramatic transformation of the United Palace Cathedral in Washington Heights into a destination arts-and-cultural center takes a huge leap forward Tuesday with the launch of a program to turn uptown kids into classical musicians. Fourth- and fifth-graders from underprivileged backgrounds who have never played a musical [...]
Mujeres al Desnudo (Naked) Comes To NYC
Thursday, September 13 @ 8PM (Spanish) Friday, September 14 @ 8PM (English) Saturday, September 15 @ 8PM (Spanish) Sunday, September 16 @ 5PM (Spanish – Followed by a panel on the topic of domestic violence) Aaron Davis Hall, Theater B City College of New York Campus 160 Convent Avenue (between 135th and 137th) Award-winning writer [...]
Registration Open for Free After-School Theatre Program for Children
Live Your Life!, The People’s Theatre Project FREE after-school program for kids ages 6-11 is all about using theatre to explore the 10 Habits of Healthy Kids. The program starts up again on January 25th. The last session ended in December with a brilliant play created by these creative young actors featuring the new hit [...]
Put You On: Lemon Andersen’s County of Kings @ The BEAT Festival
Lemon Andersen is something else. I have seen County of Kings now several times but the searing autobiographical memoir of this incredibly talented artist, performer and critically acclaimed poet never gets old. After the performance you are left there stuck and somewhat undone by the sheer force of Lemon Andersen’s story, eloquence and charisma. Ultimately, [...]
Going UP: In celebration of serious theater | Manhattan Times
By Marisol Rodríguez The large, affordable apartment spaces of Inwood’s pre-war buildings may have been what attracted theater professionals James Bosley and Rik Walter to relocate uptown, but it was Inwood’s Isham Park where their paths eventually crossed, thanks to their children. According to Walter, producing director of UP Theater, which hosted a fundraiser on [...]
Power to the People: People’s Theatre Project 2011-12 Season Highlights
For more: http://www.peoplestheatreproject.org/ Check out: Uptown 2011 Movers & Shakers: Mino Lora and Bob Braswell People’s Theatre Project Wins Prestigous Union Sqaure Award We invite you to like our Facebook page and follow us on Twitter, or e-mail us at UptownCollective@gmail.com.
The Inwood Shakespeare Festival Kicks Off June 27th
THE SEASON OF CHANGE & REVELATION InwoodShakes – Bring A Blanket & We’ll See You There! ™ THE INWOOD SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL IS PRODUCED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE CITY OF NEW YORK/PARKS & RECREATION. Heeding the hundreds of requests for more opera following our successful La Boheme, ISF Free Opera in the Park is proud to [...]
Up Theater Benefit @ Papasito Tonight
Join the good folks of the Up Theater Company on Monday, June 18 for wine, appetizers, and Broadway entertainment at Papasito at 223 Dyckman St. Broadway Stars, ROOSEVELT ANDRÉ CREDIT, and HEATHER HILL from The Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess will perform. For more info: http://uptheater.org/ We invite you to like our Facebook page and follow [...]
The United Palace Presents A Free Screening of To Be Heard This Friday
Check out: Icarus at the Edge of Time @ the United Palace The 2012 Uptown Arts Stroll Kick-Off – The Recap We invite you to like our Facebook page and follow us on Twitter, or e-mail us at UptownCollective@gmail.com.
Uptown Science: Icarus at the Edge of Time @ the United Palace
BY Art By Dj Boy (@ArtByDjBoy) On Wednesday May 30th, the World Science Festival kicked off in our very own United Palace on 175th and Broadway. The show, “Icarus at the Edge of Time” was a mixture of Visual Graphics by AL + AL, St Luke’s Orchestra playing a unique composition by Philip Glass and conducted [...]
Director uses unorthodox means to bring characters to life in ‘Enlightment’s The Unknown’ | NY Daily News
By Amanda Moses / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS On the surface, a group of artists from Washington Heights will be performing an original play at Lehman College on Friday. But when the lights come up in the Studio Theatre and these actors — who range in age from 20 to their mid-30s — start performing [...]
The People’s Theatre Project Presents Inspired By…
People’s Theatre Project in association with the Morris-Jumel Mansion presents INSPIRED BY… A festival of new plays out of Washington Heights June 21-24 the Morris-Jumel Mansion 65 Jumel Terrace Part of the Uptown Arts Stroll, this festival of staged readings is a celebration of People’s Theatre Project’s 2011-2012 Resident Playwrights Unit. The writers have worked [...]
The 2012 World Science Festival Kicks Off @ the United Palace Theater
BY Michelle Michalos On May 30, the 2012 World Science Festival returns to New York City for its fifth anniversary with over 50 programs that meld the scientific with the artistic. Co-founded in 2008 by author and physicist Brian Greene and television journalist Tracy Day, the festival seeks to attract leading scientific minds, renowned artists [...]
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