New Spiritual Classes … New Performing Arts Classes… Two new plays accepted into John Chatterton’s Festivals… New students… A New MUSICAL MASTER CLASS … this one’s dedicated to BROADWAY SHOWTUNES A Screenplay and Film program featuring the works of our Poet Laureate, Mohammed Saad Ali … A SHAKESPEARE WORKSHOP in the Spring … Mary’s a…
December Doings!!!!!!!!!!!
We hope this December is a good one for you and yours. Its COLD in NYC but its always warm in the M Center. We have redecorated based on new studies Mary has been doing. Now there is a massage table, soft lighting and a more calm and resting atmosphere. Classes continue on Saturdays including…
Remember Us… under light.
There is an expression: if there were only good days then there would be no good days. I get that. There were many good days over the last 15 years of Genesis. Not all of them though. We had many “artistic differences” over the years. They necessitated the departure of colleagues and friends alike. Those…
Dragons and Elephants: All You Can Eat
Now we were drunk… art drunk. We presented new plays and classics; won awards for our Shakespeare and gain incredible notoriety as a legit opera company. What’s next? Everything!! On The Spot Improv – For over a year Genesis had a traveling improv company. Performances were at the main space and at other venues. It became…
Our Opera House: in bocca al lupo
Genesis Opera Genesis brings art to the people – all art. To that end, Mary – assisted by her teachers and colleagues, Marko Lampas – a famed opera singer and director who worked with Maria Callas and Barbara Iona Miller, his wife and fellow operatic co-star, set out to do just that … with opera….
Hamlet: Tragical, Comical, Historical, Pastorial
THE BOOK OF GENESIS: Hamlet at the Educational Alliance and at the Jan Hus In our 15 years, we’ve had some adventures. Some amazing, even inspiring. Until the end of our campaign (October 24), we’ll remember moments in our history. Laugh, cry, whatever works. Our first production, Hamlet, was set in Washington 1963 and affectionately…
THE BOOK OF GENESIS: The Performing Arts Society
THE BOOK OF GENESIS: In our 15 years, we’ve had some adventures. Some amazing, even inspiring. Until the end of our campaign (October 24), we’ll remember moments in our history. Laugh, cry, whatever works. The Spotlight-On Festival and The Performing Arts Society. Kingsborough College’s theater program was fading. A once renowned program was now suffering due…
Another Star in the M Constellation
White Rabbit productions in association with Genesis Repertory will present a series of plays at the Kraine Theater in the East Village. On the same block as La Mama and The New York Theater Workshop, where RENT first began. In that series of plays you’ll find Savannah Marie Elliott. Her folks – upon learning that both…
THERE IS A MONSTER UNDER MY BED … OR POSSIBLY PRODUCING MY NEXT PLAY.
AS WE APPROACH THE “DARK TIMES”… A big discussion in several of our classes has been FEAR. There is an irony to fear, thus a reason the arts are ALWAYS precarious. Fear is an outcome of creativity. Thus, the more creative the mind, the better chance that the fears will be great and oppressive. It…
OMG
Mary and I don’t have a second anymore. She’s welcomed several new students and a group of new classes including a kid’s performance class and a Tarot series, so she is at the studio during all the prime hours and then some! She is also working on the M BAND’s first recording session at Wayne…
THE M CENTER VOCAL ACADEMY 