Arts & Entertainment

Ever wondered what it would be like to be in the movies? The annual Tribeca Family Festival Street Fair on April 27th, will include the new Tribeca Studios Backlot, which will transform a downtown street into an interactive movie set where visitors can explore a wide range of elements that go into producing a film on location in New York City. As is tradition, the Street Fair will also include standard live Broadway performances, arts and crafts activities, and puppet shows. 

Join Fred for a celebration of his life and work with the launch of a major critical anthology, Yellow Power, Yellow Soul: The Radical Art of Fred Ho and a screening of Diary of The Dragon: The (R)evolution of Fred Ho, a documentary film that spans his early family life, tumultuous personal relationships, groundbreaking musical career and infamous revolutionary ideologies and praxis on April 25th. The film features rare, exclusive footage, photos and candid interviews with a man poised to become one of the great contemporary treasures of our time

Another Life, playing through April 21st, puts the roller-coast ride of this past decade on the stage—from the attacks of 9/11, to the brutalities of our torture programs, and the economic crash of 2008. The play, written in a fast-paced lyric language by Karen Malpede, is based on research, interviews, testimonies, the words of torturers and tortured, and has been widely praised by experts in the field of human rights, for its inventiveness, power and ability to create empathy.

This is a musical for people soon applying to college and for adults trying to live through it, in other words, for audiences aged 13 to 93. The show runs from April 11th to April 28th, and sports 17 original numbers written by the team of William Electric Black and Gary Schreiner, both Emmy-winners.  No grown up wants their child to skip college to become the next Idol-like celebrity. But what would you say to your teenage daughter when she announces, "I got a 1200 on my SAT's. That makes my safety school Fairway! So I hafta get to the American Star tryouts."