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Axial Theatre Presents SAFEHOUSE: The Axial Playwright Series

Press Contacts:  Bruce Apar: bapar@me.com Evelyn Mertens – emertens@westnet.com Suzanne Curry – info@wiprandproducing.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 19, 2024 Axial Theatre’s Safehouse Playwrights Series Presents a Reading of  Youlim Nam’s The Subway Play WESTCHESTER, NEW YORK – SAFEHOUSE: The Axial Playwrights series of readings of original plays by metro area playwrights will present The Subway…

ArtsWestchester Announces Visionary CEO Janet Langsam to Move on After 33 Years of Stalwart Leadership

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – ArtsWestchester Announces Visionary CEO Janet Langsam to Move on After 33 Years of Stalwart Leadership WHITE PLAINS, NY (February 22, 2024) — After 33 years leading ArtsWestchester, nurturing artists and bolstering the county’s cultural infrastructure, Janet Langsam will transition from CEO to CEO Emeritus effective June 30. An American cultural advocate,…

ArtsWestchester Announces Grants for Artists & Arts Organizations

Contact: Ernie Garcia, ernie@thompson-bender.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ArtsWestchester Seeks Grant Applications for More Than $500K in Funds Made Possible by the New York State Senate WHITE PLAINS, NEW YORK (February 8, 2024) – ArtsWestchester announced today that the application portal for the 2024 Arts Alive grant program is open for funding requests from nonprofit groups…

Westchester Children’s Chorus to Extend Its Reach to Northern Westchester from January 2024

Westchester Children’s Chorus to Extend Its Reach to Northern Westchester from January 2024 The Westchester Children’s Chorus (WCChorus) is thrilled to reveal its expansion plans to extend its services to young vocalists in Northern Westchester and Putnam counties. Auditions for this exciting opportunity are happening in Yorktown Heights on Tuesday, January 9.   WCChorus boasts five…

Bethany Magic! Bethany Arts Community’s 5th Annual Fundraiser

Bethany Arts Community (BAC) is thrilled to announce our 5th Annual Fundraiser: Bethany Magic on November 17, 2023 at 7pm. The evening will include cocktails, hors‘doeuvres, magic, art and silent auction. Featuring mentalist, Ken Salaz. Festive attire. Bethany Arts Community is a space and environment where all forms of art can be learned and expressed,…

AXIAL THEATRE HONORS WESTCHESTER LOCALS LISA HERTZ AND BK FISCHER AT FALL FUNDRAISING GALA

AXIAL THEATRE HONORS WESTCHESTER LOCALS LISA HERTZ AND BK FISCHER AT FALL FUNDRAISING GALA 7:30 P.M. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 11th  Westchester, New York – Axial Theatre will host an evening honoring a pair of Westchester residents, Lisa Hertz of Hastings-on-Hudson and BK Fischer of Tarrytown (Westchester Poet Laureate), for their contributions to Axial Theatre and the Westchester…

Axial Theatre Presents Cady McClain in “Shirley Valentine”

Press Contacts:  Bruce Apar: bapar@me.com Evelyn Mertens – emertens@westnet.com Suzanne Curry – info@wiprandproducing.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 28th, 2023 CADY MCCLAIN BRINGS “SHIRLEY VALENTINE” TO AXIAL THEATRE FOR A ONE-TIME BENEFIT PERFORMANCE 7 P.M. SATURDAY OCTOBER 7th St John’s Episcopal Church, Parish Hall 8 Sunnyside Ave, Pleasantville, NY 10570 Westchester, New York – Axial Theatre…

Axial Theatre Presents “Ode to Joy” by Craig Lucas

Westchester, New York – Axial Theatre will present a workshop reading of Axial Advisory Board Member and multiple award-winning playwright Craig Lucas‘s Ode to Joy on Saturday, September 23 at 7 pm. at St John’s Episcopal Church, 8 Sunnyside Ave, Pleasantville, NY. Axial Theatre ensemble members Sandy Rooney, Marisa Lowe, and Duane Rutter are featured in the cast with stage…

Nine Westchester Arts Organizations Receive $1.93 Million in Capital Funds from New York State Council on the Arts

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (May 5, 2023) – Nine Westchester arts organizations were among the recipients of nearly $2 million in capital funding grants announced by Governor Kathy Hochul earlier this week.  The funds, which were awarded through New York State Council on the Arts, are intended to support crucial building renovations, accessibility improvements and new spaces for…

Cassatt String Quartet Concert at Bethany Arts Community

Ossining, NY, April 12, 2023 – The world-renowned Cassatt String Quartet returns to Bethany Arts Community for an afternoon reverie of music in an intimate setting. The program features Mozart’s last string quartet alongside music by two Black American pioneers, Florence Price and Dorothy Rudd Moore. Florence Price and Dorothy Rudd Moore were both groundbreaking…

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