Here is Sheen Center’s upcoming events for the month of March! Sheen Center, located at 18 Bleecker Street, encompasses 2 Theaters; Loreto and Black Box, 4 rehearsal studios and an Art Gallery. To learn more about Sheen Center and its programs, visit Sheencenter.org.
March 11- 19 | L’Elisir d’Amore
Loreto Theater
Opera’s most enchanting comedy, “The Elixir of Love” is presented by the Amore Opera as part of the “Downtown Donizetti Festival.” “Elixir” is not only side-splittingly, funny but extremely tuneful, featuring the ever popular “Una furtive lagrima.” Performed in full production with full orchestra, the opera is conducted by renown Italian maestro Daniele Tirilli, and staged by Amore Artistic Director Nathan Hull. It is sung in Italian with English surtitles. Tickets
March 15 – 20 | Poliuto
Loreto Theater
Poliuto, the dramatic story of the 3rd Century martyr, is one of Donizetti’s most important works. A recent hit in Europe, “Poliuto” is given its first full American staging since 1859 by the Amore Opera. Performed in full production with full orchestra, the opera is conducted by renown Italian maestro Daniele Tirilli, and staged by Amore Artistic Director Nathan Hull. It is sung in Italian with English surtitles. Ticket
March 21 | The Girl Who Stayed: Kate Baldwin & Friends
Loreto Theater
Beloved by musical theater stars such as Baldwin, this concert will additionally feature two of Broadway’s fastest rising talents Matt Doyle (The Book of Mormon, Spring Awakening) and Jessica Vosk (Fiddler on the Roof, Finding Neverland). The vocal trio will be joined and led by Van Dyke and backed by his band, The Whiskey 5. Tickets
March 22 – April 12 | The Architectural League: Emerging Voices
Loreto Theater
The Architectural League’s annual Emerging Voices lecture series and award spotlights individuals and firms with a distinct design ‘voice’ that has the potential to influence the discipline of architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design. Since 1982, the juried series has featured architects and designers from throughout North America who have a significant body of realized work that not only represents the best of its kind, but also creatively addresses larger issues of architecture, landscape, and the built environment.
March 24 – April 17 | Death For Five Voices
Black Box Theater
Death for Five Voices is based on a historic event: On October 16, 1590 Prince Carlo Gesualdo entrapped and brutally murdered his wife, Maria D’Avalos, and her lover, Fabrizio Carafa, at the Gesualdo home, the Palazzo San Severo in Naples. This new musical drama explores the complex artistic personage of Carlo Gesualdo, a groundbreaking composer of the late Renaissance, and investigates how his creative internal life and subsequent compositions may have been related to his brutal external actions. Tickets: $65, $50
March 31 | “Original Image of Divine Mercy”
Loreto Theater
This timely documentary features key witnesses to the mysterious case of this miraculous painting that survived the Soviet occupation of Lithuania, with exclusive commentary by Bishop Robert Barron, George Weigel, Harry Connick Jr., Jim Gaffigan, Christoph Cardinal Schönborn of Vienna, Stanislaw Cardinal Dziwisz of Kraków, Fr. Dwight Longenecker, Immaculee Ilibagiza, Archbishop Fischella, and many others, including special footage with Pope Francis. Tickets: $12
