Axial Theatre has a history of producing plays that are written and produced by women; but unfortunately, it hasn’t always been in good company. Women are often underrepresented in theater, and Axial is determined to be in the forefront of change. The Theatre’s Glass Ceiling Breakers festival celebrates women playwrights…
Steffi Nossen Dance Foundation will celebrate its school’s 80th anniversary with a set of performances on March 30 & 31 that honor the legacy and future of the School. The two performances will offer a program that features newly choreographed works by the school’s top pre-professional ensembles, as well as…
For more than a century, photography has given viewers a fresh perspective of the subjects and themes captured by its lens. Now through June 25, Katonah Museum of Art will delve into one of photography’s most common themes – love. Picturing Love: Photography’s Pursuit of Intimacy looks at the central…
Now through April 2, M&M Performing Arts Company, Inc. will bring Agatha Christie’s murder mystery play Mousetrap to Lyndhurst Mansion. Mousetrap, the longest running play in London’s West End, follows an eclectic group of strangers who are stranded in a remote mansion during a terrible snowstorm. Sergeant Trotter arrives to…
On March 19, Music from Copland House presents “The Life of Birds,” a concert that explores the journeys, habits, and “personalities” of a variety of birds. The concert will feature compositions that are inspired by the sounds of the natural world. Former Manhattan School of Music President Robert Sirota will…
Hundreds of arts advocates from across the country will convene in Washington D.C. on March 20-21, 2017 for Americans for the Arts’ 30th annual Arts Advocacy Day. ArtsWestchester staff members will be among those attending in order to learn how to strengthen advocacy efforts for the arts in Westchester County. Arts Advocacy Day brings a wide…
Rye Arts Center presents a rare look at spontaneous portraiture from the 1970s and ‘80s in its new exhibition, A Way of Seeing: The Street Portraits of Cal Swanson. Trusting his instincts, photographer Cal Swanson captured the people and expressions that caught his interest. With a magnetic draw to the…
Westchester Artist Displayed in Flatiron Building An installation by Westchester artist Sarah Haviland is on display in the Sprint Flatiron Prow Art Space of Manhattan’s historic Flatiron Building. Rise Above is an illuminated window installation that consists of five winged female figures made of steel and galvanized wire mesh and…
Since being awarded an Arts Alive grant from ArtsWestchester in 2013, Lana Yu’s “What Matters?” project has take on a life of its own within Peekskill and its surrounding communities. Arts Alive grants are awarded to projects that engage the community; and indeed Yu’s project has engaged with many since…
From March 11-18, Hoff Barthelson Music School’s “Festivals in Style: Baroque and Beyond” festival will immerse White Plains and Scarsdale with robust and powerful music from the Baroque period. The agenda includes several concerts on most days of the week-long celebration. March 11 and 12 both offer a performance of…
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