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BAM announces its lineup for the coming Next Wave festival starting in September.
Polina Semionova, who was to have danced an excerpt from "Giselle" at Monday's gala, is withdrawing because of an injury.
The coming season of the Miller Theater at Columbia University will include contemporary works, early music and a new holiday program for families.
They are among 14 major visual artists whose works will be on display and for sale at the opera house's Gallery Met.
"Voodoo," by the pioneering African-American composer H. Lawrence Freeman, will be performed in a pair of June concerts at Columbia University that will be recorded.
The tenor Lawrence Brownlee will star in "Charlie Parker's Yardbird," which Gotham will present at the Apollo Theater in Harlem.
Ms. Copeland, a soloist at American Ballet Theater, was chosen as one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people.
The Wallace Foundation is beginning a six-year effort to help dance companies, opera troupes, orchestras and theaters develop new audience-building programs.
The company has lined up $6.5 million to tour and for a new production of Balanchine's "A Midsummer Night's Dream," with some Florida flavor.
The institute, in in Rockville, Md., will close its ballet school at the end of the summer, and begin offering scholarships to help young dancers study at schools of their choice.
The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater will present the world premiere of Rennie Harris's "Exodus" in June.
The company, founded by the Walmart heiress Nancy Laurie, had generous contracts for dancers and its own Chelsea theater.
The 2015-16 season will feature seven world premieres, including, in winter, the first full-length ballet by the choreographer Justin Peck.
Mr. Taylor has commissioned new dances by Larry Keigwin, Doug Elkins and Lila York for his company Paul Taylor's American Modern Dance.
David Bennett, the executive director of Gotham Chamber Opera in New York, will take over in San Diego, which nearly shut down last year.
President of the board of the Metropolitan Opera announces resignation in leadership change.
The tenor has withdrawn from Saturday's matinee of "Carmen" at the Metropolitan Opera, citing illness.
Mr. Kaufmann canceled his first scheduled performance as Don José on Wednesday because he was suffering from the flu, the Metropolitan Opera announced.
The upÂ-andÂ-coming soprano sings an excerpt from Micaëla's aria.
The weather forecasts were alarming, but in the end it was the decision by city and state officials to shut down virtually all means of transportation in New York City at 11 p.m. that forced…
To open the season, Plácido Domingo will sing the title role in Puccini's one-act opera "Gianni Schicchi" and then, after the intermission, move down to the orchestra pit to conduct Leonc…
The Metropolitan Opera will resume performances, as will most Broadway shows, except for "The Lion King" and "Aladdin." Theaters outside New York were hit harder.
A group bidding for the assets of the bankrupt New York City Opera is using a name that already belongs to another opera company.
The board of the bankrupt New York City Opera says it wants to sell its name and other assets to the bidder whose offer is lower than the competing bid.
A $5 million gift will help Juilliard students prepare for their professional careers.
