Arts in My Backyard – Queens – May
It’s a great summer to be in Queens. There is just so much to do. You can dance with teen sensation Bombayo or the Brazilian ensemble (Nego Gato), attend free concerts by Ryan Leslie and Jon B at Springfield Park, enjoy the Independance Day party in Flushing or watch the popular play America Nos among […]
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Arts in My Backyard- Brooklyn – May
Brooklyn has one of the most exciting and diverse summer event schedules in all of the 5 boroughs. Brooklyn is absolutely filled with FREE things to do all summer long. Attend the Fort Greene festival, Wingate Field concerts, free movies at Brooklyn Bridge park and Williamsburg Waterfront pool parties and shows and so much more! […]
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Arts in My Backyard – Manhattan – May
School is finished and summer is here. As all you locals know, there is nothing compared in to a summer in NYC. Over the next few months, check out everything from musicals to festivals to concerts. This issue of AIMB features the new Ray Charles musical “Unchain My Heart,” the morning concert series in Central […]
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Arts in My Backyard – Bronx – May
All My Sons by Arthur Miller Recently on Broadway with a star-studded cast, All My Sons by Arthur Miller is set in a seemingly idyllic small town in Middle America just after World War II. Behind the picket fence is a family struggling with the havoc caused by war, greed and deception. The Keller’s have […]
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Impact Broadway – Spotlight
Hello, my name is Katrina Mackey and I’m a senior at McKinney Highschool of the Arts in Brooklyn New York. I got involved with Impact Broadway in my junior year when Ms. Donna came to our school with several of her colleagues and introduced the concept. In short they explained to me and other founding […]
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Bronx – La Isla Bonita
When you think about La Isla Bonita… you usually think about Puerto Rico (especially when you speak about Bodiquan people living on it). Well, the Pregones Theater stretches your understanding of the diaspora with its premier productiona. Aloha Boricua is Pregones’ new musical play about the first Puerto Ricans to set foot on the Hawaiian […]
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When you think about Staten Island, so many things come to mind in regards to the arts. There seems to be a little something for everyone. Please go over to http://www.statenislandarts.org/cultural-calendar.html and check out the collection of COAHSI Cultural Calendar and see what this great organization has pulled together for your enjoyment. And if you […]
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Brooklyn – Medgar Evers
Medgar Evers is an amazing institution where the arts though not necessarily incorporated in their academic platform, flourishes on an extremely organic level and reaches the attention of some really big wigs in the international theater scene. Such is the case of Impact Broadway Collegiate Advisor, Thomas Bradshaw.
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