Lora Strum

Sep 21, 2024 | broadwayworld.com | Lora Strum

If one thing remains consistent about the annual Fall for Dance Festival held at the New York City Center (NYCC), it’s that the choreographic showcase will always commit to showing the diversity of the performing arts. Featuring artists big and small from across the globe in a series of changing nightly programs, the festival demonstrates how dance can be creatively expansive, culturally varied and, perhaps most importantly, affordable. All tickets for Fall for Dance start at $30.

May 16, 2024 | aclu.org | Lora Strum

The Supreme Court’s docket this term includes many of the complex issues American society is currently facing, including gun control, free speech online, race-based discrimination in voting, reproductive rights, presidential immunity from criminal accountability, and more. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has served as counsel or filed friend-of-the-court briefs in all of the cases addressing these hot-button issues. The Court will decide all its cases by the beginning of July.

May 5, 2024 | broadwayworld.com | Lora Strum

Enter Your Email to Unlock This ArticlePlus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Email:Existing user? Just click login. For centuries, the arts have allowed audiences to grapple with hard truths -- unfairness, grief, heartbreak, anxiety, fury -- within the confines of highly enjoyable spectacle. Message in a Bottle, playing now through May 12 at the New York City Center, carries on this tradition.

Apr 29, 2024 | aclu.org | Lora Strum |Eda Uzunlar

Right now, efforts to censor college protestors, to ban diverse materials in schools and to silence students and staff threaten our right to free speech in schools. People are having their voices silenced, their right to learn challenged, and their access to information restricted. But how can we navigate these complex issues with the next generation?

Apr 11, 2024 | broadwayworld.com | Lora Strum

Enter Your Email to Unlock This ArticlePlus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Email:Existing user? Just click login. Half a century since its founding Ailey II has become a force in its own right. The studio-to-stage program is well known for being one the most rigorous “finishing schools” for emerging artists who seek to join Ailey’s main company, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.