The Thalia Follies: A Political Cabaret
NYC's only political cabaret series returns for its sixth season of songs, sketches, and satire on all the issues New Yorkers hold dear. Always funny and often moving, these original evenings created by Symphony Space’s Artistic Director Isaiah Sheffer and Martin Sage are guaranteed to get you talking and laughing. With special guests at every performance, The Thalia Follies troup of performers includes Ivy Austin, Mary Brienza, Sidney J. Burgoyne, David Buskin, Kathryn Markey, Nora York and The Chalks. Musical Direction by Lanny Meyers.
The Thalia Follies: Primary ColorsThu, Feb 16 at 7:30 pm Fri, Feb 17 at 5:30 pm and 8:30 pm Sat, Feb 18 at 5:30 pm and 8:30 pm $30; Members $25; Under 30 $15 The Thalia Follies |    |
A look at what has happened, what is happening, and what will inevitably happen in the world of politics, told in comedy and song. |
| Great Taste! White Wines of France A delicious and fun way to support the programs of Symphony Space. Experience Gertrude's Paris with your palate this spring. Discover your favorite French wines, in this introductory course led by French wine lecturer and author John Bandman. |
Thalia Book Club: F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender is the NightSiri Hustvedt (The Sorrows of an American) and Margot Livesey (The House on Fortune Street) who have brought the classics Jane Eyre, Anna Karenina and Middlemarch to life on this stage, are joined this season by fellow novelist Hannah Tinti (the editor of One Story magazine and literary commentator of the Selected Shorts radio show) at the book club where the trio revisit F. Scott Fitzgerald's romantic and poignant novel of love and madness, Tender is the Night.
This event is part of Symphony Space's spring festival, Gertrude's Paris. |
| Wearing the Lost Generation: A Musical/Sartorial Salon The Nouveau Classical Project - a collective of composers, performers, and fashion designers - reimagines the Parisian avant garde in an evening of music by Ravel, and the world premiere of The Lost Generation by Trevor Gureckis. Inspired millinery will be custom designed for the evening's music. |
| Great Taste! Red Wines of France A delicious and fun way to support the programs of Symphony Space. Experience Gertrude's Paris with your palate this spring. Discover your favorite French wines, in this introductory course led by French wine lecturer and author John Bandman. |
| The Django Experiment Known for the music in Woody Allen's films Vicky Christina Barcelona and Midnight in Paris, Stephane Wrembel presents a new perspective on some of the sizzling jazz and pop music of the Parisian avant garde, in particular the Hot Club of Django Reinhardt. |
| Tin Hat takes on e.e. cummings Tin Hat defies categorization, blending jazz, folk, tango, blues, bluegrass, chamber music, Americana, and Eastern European Gypsy sounds. The poetry of e.e. cummings, who spent much time in Paris, is the source for this program's adrenaline-fueled festivities. |
| Spring Soiree and Access to the Arts Awards On behalf of Symphony Space, we invite you to join us for our Spring Soirée and Access to the Arts Awards, which will take place on Monday, April 16, 2012, at 583 Park Avenue in New York City. The Spring Soirée promises to be an evening to remember. Presented as part of Symphony Space’s five-week Gertrude’s Paris Festival, the event will include performances highlighting the period of great collaboration among artists like Gertrude Stein, Picasso, Hemingway, Gershwin, Porter and Baker. |
| Great Taste! Brandies and Liqueurs of France A delicious and fun way to support the programs of Symphony Space. Experience Gertrude's Paris with your palate this spring. Discover your favorite French wines, in this introductory course led by French wine lecturer and author John Bandman. |
| A Song is a Song is a Song An evening of songs by Poulenc, Debussy, Honegger, Milhaud, Gershwin, Copland, Thompson, and Bowles performed by Opera Singers Initiative winners debut recital with soprano Catherine Meyers and countertenor Tyler Wayne Smith in their debut recital. |
| Singing Stein (Encompass New Opera) Gertrude Stein's words inspired many a composer, most notably Virgil Thomson, whose rarely performed Capital Capitals, and Ned Rorem's setting of Three Sisters Who Are Not Sisters are featured on this "audaciously entertaining" (The New York Times) program with Encompass New Opera. |