Friday RENT York College Performing Arts Center – Through May 13 The Secret Garden Astoria Performing Arts Center – Through May 19 Little Shop of Horrors LaGuardia Performing Arts Center Heat Wave: The Jack Cole Project Queens Theatre in the Park – Through May 20 FACT (Friends Always Creating Theatre) presents: Treasures: A Collection of Four Short Plays Secret Theatre [...]
COMPILED BY CRYSTAL HUDSON EDITOR’S PICKS SATURDAY, MARCH 24 Civil War New York Walking Tour At 1 p.m., visit Fort Totten, located at 212th Street and Cross Island Parkway, for a Civil War New York Walking Tour led by the Urban Park Rangers. Get an up-close view of historical landmarks and learn about the unique [...]
‘Temptation of the Muses’ SATURDAY, MARCH 10 At 8 p.m., The LaGuardia Performing Arts Center’s Mainstage Theater, located at 31-10 Thomson Avenue in Long Island City, presents two acclaimed Asian music and dance groups — the Ahn Trio and the Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company — in a cross-cultural program. The artists will perform “Temptation of [...]
Theatre’s Celebrity Series SATURDAY, MARCH 24 At 2 p.m. and 8 p.m., Queens Theatre, located at 14 United Nations Avenue South in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, presents Tom Wopat, the next installment in the theatre’s Celebrity Series. Wopat, a seasoned stage star whose credits include “Annie Get Your Gun” and “Guys and Dolls” and television credits [...]
EDITOR’S PICK ‘Jim Henson’s Fantastic World’ Photo courtesey of Sam Suddaby / Museum of the Moving Image Ongoing from now through March 4 The Museum of the Moving Image, located at 36-01 35 Avenue in Astoria, has extended the exhibit “Jim Henson’s Fantastic World,” Take a look inside the world of the famed puppeteer, filmmaker [...]
EDITOR’S PICK Friday, February 17 Chamber ensemble to perform Photo courtesy of York College Performing Arts Center At 7 p.m., York College Performing Arts Center, located at 94-45 Guy R. Brewer Boulevard in Jamaica, presents the Avalon String Quartet, one of the country’s leading Chamber ensembles. Formed in 1995 at the Norfolk Chamber [...]
ATTENTION: WANT A LISTING ON THIS PAGE? Go to the “Events Calendar” section of our web site, www.queenscourier.com/news/regional/courier, and click on “Submit your event” to let us know about your happening. We select from reader submissions to list on our happenings page. EDITOR’S PICK Wednesday, December 28, 11 a.m. Pomonok Library: “Wimpy” Wednesday!; Celebrate [...]
Dozens of doe-eyed children craned their necks to gaze up at the unlit 30-foot tree, each hoping to be the one to flick the switch this year. And when they were all chosen to collectively light the largest Christmas tree in Howard Beach, it might as well have already been December 25 for Mario Faulisi, [...]
EDITOR’S PICK WEEKEND EVENTS CHINESE OPERA Saturday, November 26 at 2 p.m. Flushing Library: Kunqu Society Presents a Chinese Opera; The Kunqu Society will present this special performance in honor of the 10th anniversary of Kunqu’s designation as a “Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity” by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and [...]
EDITOR’S PICK ‘Monsters & Heroes’ Photo courtesy of www.worldofblackheroes.com Thursday, December 1 at 4 p.m. Ridgewood Library: Monsters and Heroes: A Comic Book Workshop; In this three-week program, participants will learn about monsters and heroes from all over the world and why they are so important. Pro cartoonist Ivan Velez will help students create [...]
