Not every fairy tale has sunshine. This world-premiere play follows Dima, a 16-year old girl with a rare skin condition. Cloistered away in her bedroom, her parents worry that she’ll never have the “normal” American teenage experience they sought for her when they came to New York from Afghanistan. Little do they know that Dima’s (more…)

Not every fairy tale has sunshine. This world-premiere play follows Dima, a 16-year old girl with a rare skin condition. Cloistered away in her bedroom, her parents worry that she’ll never have the “normal” American teenage experience they sought for her when they came to New York from Afghanistan. Little do they know that Dima’s (more…)

A reimagining of director D.W. Griffith’s infamously racist 1915 silent film The Birth of a Nation, DJ Spooky’s Rebirth of a Nation is a controversial and culturally significant project that examines how exploitation and political corruption still haunt the world, but in radically different forms. The project was DJ Spooky’s first large-scale multimedia performance piece and has been (more…)

Showtime @ 8pm Doors Open @ 6pm feat. EMILIE SURTEES & SHAWN CORNELIUS Emilie Surtees She’s celebrated soul, R&B and pop’s most iconic singers with her pitch-perfect tributes to everyone from Aretha Franklin to The Supremes, and now powerful vocalist Emilie Surtees is flipping the script with this musical tribute to the “First Ladies of (more…)

“Isn’t it imperative / to cross the sea / to cross the street / this time around / to go straight to the wound / and do not touch.” (from the libretto) In The Commons Choir’s new work, mayday heyday parfait, a diverse cast of 15 weaves a multi-layered narrative in complex musical harmonies and highly personal (more…)