Catgeory: Performing Arts

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New School for Jazz Wins Big in JJA Jazz Awards

Those over at The New School for Jazz have reason to celebrate this week, after two faculty members and one alumnus reinforced their long-time rock star status with wins in the annual Jazz Journalists Association Jazz (JJA) Awards for Music ... read more
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A New Way to Move

Entering Wollman Hall at 3:50 on a Wednesday afternoon this semester reveals an intimate look into a scene of undergraduate life at Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts: Ten or so students, all dressed in the latest ... read more
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Mannes Teacher Awarded for Fresh Take on Classical Voices

The American Academy of Arts and Letters (the Academy) will give the first-ever Virgil Thomson Award for Vocal Music to Mannes The New School for Music composition faculty member, Lowell Liebermann. Named for a Pulitzer Prize recipient and Kennedy Center ... read more
Photo by Kasia Broussalian/The New School.

Mark Ruffalo @The New School

“Why, hello young people,” said Mark Ruffalo as he settled onstage next to Pippin Parker, director of The New School for Drama. The actor and activist momentarily struggled with his lavalier mic before exclaiming, “We don’t need these! We’re actors! ... read more
New School for Drama actors rehearse a scene from Matt Herzfeld's The Ladder in preparation for the annual New Voices Playwrights Festival, beginning this Thursday. Photo by Kasia Broussalian/The New School.

Playwrights Set Forth with New Voices

The window into room 202 of 151 Bank Street was covered black, concealing its inner proceedings from passersby. However, nothing could be done about the range of loud actors’ voices that filtered out from the room. At long last, the ... read more