COMING SOON
An evening of original choreography by majors and guest artists presented by the Dance Program at Lehman College
Free admission
Reservations required
The Lovinger Theatre at Lehman College
Ti-Jean and His Brothers is Nobel Prize-winning author Derek Walcott’s Caribbean folk tale told in the form of a dance/theatre performance that is at once a musical, a comedy, a drama, an adventure, a mystery, and a horror story. With music composed by the legendary Andre Tanker, this production features live music, song, and dance in a musical fable where animals come to life to tell the tale of human struggles both physical and spiritual set on a fictional Caribbean island. Ti-Jean and His Brothers is a collaboration between the theatre and dance programs featuring Lehman’s own professors of theatre and dance – directed by Rick DesRochers and choreographed by Michael Manswell – and is sure to delight audiences of all ages!
Playwright – Derek Walcott
Composer – Andre Tanker
Director - Rick DesRochers
Choreographer - Michael Manswell
Set Design - Kyle Higgins
Light Design - Miriam Crowe
Costume Design - Cynthia Salandy
Stage Manager - Julie Peteani
Musicians – Alejandro Castro and Khuent Rose
Where:
Lovinger Theatre, Lehman College Campus Speech/Theatre Building
When:
Wednesday 2/26 at 4pm
Thursday 2/27 at 7pm
Friday 2/28 at 7pm
Saturday 3/1 at 7pm
Free admission
Reservations required
The Theatre Program at Lehman presents
In The Bronx Brown Girls Can See Stars Too (or The F*ck Is You Lookin’ At?
A new play by Lehman College alumna and playwright, Amalia Oliva Rojas
Directed by guest artist Marina Montesanti
In The Bronx Brown Girls Can See Stars Too (or The F*ck is You Lookin' At) follows five young girls who are forced to take a communication workshop in hopes of avoiding juvie. As they play games and learn about themselves with the help of teaching artists, one of the girls is approached by the local gang leader to prove herself or lose her home. The girls must confront their past, present, and future to determine who they want to be, all while finding community and liberation in each other.
Content Disclosure: strong language and violence.
Studio Theatre
Wednesday 11/20 at 4pm
Thursday 11/21at 7pm
Friday 11/22 at 7pm
Saturday 11/23 at 7pm
New Voices: Student Playwriting Festival Fall ’24
”Incandescence*”
An exciting collaboration with Lehman Stages, the Theatre Program and The Lehman College Art Gallery
Curated by Stephanie Stowe
Lehman College Art Gallery
Wednesday 11/6 at 4pm
Thursday 11/7at 7pm
Friday 11/8 at 7pm
Saturday 11/9 at 7pm
Dance in Dialog*
Choreography by Lehman Alumni Choreography fellows Madelyn Sher and Edgard Toro (Xavier Fontanet) followed by a conversation with the choreographers.
Dance in Dialog is an annual series aiming to start conversations about dance and explore making dances. This year’s recipients of the Lehman Alumni Choreography Fellowship, Madelyn Sher and Edgard Toro (Xavier Fontanet), will work with students to create two original works with influences including contact improvisation, phenomenology, butoh, house dancing and queer nightlife. Each piece will be followed by a discussion with the choreographers and dancers. Running time 1 hour 15 minutes.
Studio Theatre
Wednesday 10/23 4 pm
Thursday 10/24 at 7pm
Friday 10/25 at 7pm
This September, Herbert H. Lehman Dance Company returns with a thrilling new performance choreographed by co-artistic directors, Cordelia Vohnout and Tae Gi Kim.
Filled with whimsy, wonder, suspense, and joy, this spectacular evening of tales from magical realms marks Herbie’s first show in over four years. Our voyage begins on fiery mountains where mythical soldiers march, descending to the antique halls of the old queen’s castle, landing in the kingdom’s tempestuous harbor, and arriving in the fabled forest of the legendary phoenix. You are formally invited to join us on this magnificent quest, it is our sincerest hope to see you there, fellow traveler.
Performance schedule:
Wednesday September 18th at 4PM
Thursday September 19th at 7PM
Friday September 20th at 7PM
Saturday September 21st at 7PM
Sunday September 22nd at 3PM
Tickets are $5
The Studio Theatre at Lehman College
Lehman Stages proudly presents the BronxShakes production of Loves Labours Lost, a comedy by William Shakespeare at the Lehman College Amphitheatre.
The play is directed by Alyssa Van Gorder. The costumes are designed by Anthony Paul Cavaretta, who is assistant director and the stage manager is Julie Peteani.
The cast features all Lehman alums including: AJ Moeller, Jahdiel Rodriguez, Simran Pal Kaur, Mathew Garaicoa , Angela Garcia, Ginaury Vasquez, Zullyvette Muniz, Bethany Rondon, Ben Spierman, Wilson Hernandez, Tasha Collado and Mariah Eskoh
Thursday September 12 at 7PM
Friday September 13th at 7PM
Saturday, September 14th at 7PM
Sunday September 15th at 3PM
Welcome back to The Kids Rule Weekend!!
Saturday August 3rd and Sunday August 4th from 12-5
2 days of theatre, music, magic, water slides, pony rides and much, much more.
All for free.
All on the beautiful Lehman College campus.
Why?...because Kids Rule.
LEHMAN STAGES PRESENTS
Movies Under A Bronx Moon
Great movies under stars – outdoors – on the beautiful Lehman College campus.
A great evening for the whole family – FREE
Elemental
Wednesday July 24 at 7:30PM
RESERVATIONS required
Disney and Pixar’s “Elemental” is an all-new, original feature film set in Element City, where fire-, water-, land- and air residents live together. The story introduces Ember, a tough, quick-witted and fiery young woman, whose friendship with a fun, sappy, go-with-the-flow guy named Wade challenges her beliefs about the world they live in.
LEHMAN STAGES PRESENTS
Salsa Under the Stars featuring Luisito Quintero y su Antologia Band Sextet
Thursday July 18 at 7PM
Outdoors at The Lehman College Amphitheatre
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Free Admission - Reservations required - SUMMERWORX 2024
An evening of great salsa and merengue. Bring that special someone, and your dancing shoes.
LEHMAN STAGES PRESENTS
Movies Under A Bronx Moon
Great movies under stars – outdoors – on the beautiful Lehman College campus.
A great evening for the whole family – FREE
The Little Mermaid (2023)
Wednesday July 10th at 7:30PM
Reservations suggested
The youngest of King Triton’s daughters and the most defiant, Ariel longs to find out more about the world beyond the sea and, while visiting the surface, falls for the dashing Prince Eric. While mermaids are forbidden to interact with humans, Ariel must follow her heart. She makes a deal with the evil sea witch, Ursula, which gives her a chance to experience life on land but ultimately places her life – and her father’s crown – in jeopardy.
The Department of Music, Multimedia, Theatre and Dance presents the Multimedia Performing Arts Showcase at Lehman College, featuring exciting new and original multimedia work by Lehman College students.
New work by:
Tae Gi Kim, Cordelia Vohnout, Axel Fink, Chanel Huston, Sky Mercado, Nadia Schraud, Charlee Stallings and Madison Valentin.
Wednesday, May 8 at 4pm
Thursday, May 9 at 7pm
Friday, May 10 at 7pm
At the Studio Theatre (Speech and Theater building)
RSVP required with Free Admission!
BREAKFAST WITH SANTA 2023
Lehman Stages presents Breakfast with Santa, a beloved holiday event for the whole family at Lehman College!
Come and celebrate the holidays with a hot breakfast buffet, activities, live music, theatre, magic, take-home arts and crafts, and of course………SANTA!!!!!
Saturday, December 16th at 10AM – The Faculty Dining Room at Lehman College
All tickets are $20
Kids under 3 are FREE
Seating is Limited
Reservations REQUIRED
Doors open at 9:30 - Fun begins at 10AM – Don’t MISS IT!!!!
Breakfast with Santa is a Lehman Stages production and is being presented as part of their 20th Anniversary Season
Lehman Stages & The Lehman College Art Gallery present, Framing the Female Gaze: 3 Short Plays by Women About Women.
The plays are presented by The Bronx Repertory Company as a companion piece to the current exhibit at the Gallery entitled, Framing the Female Gaze: Women Artists and the New Historicism
Featuring new work by Lehman alums Alexa Downing, Amira Mustapha and Angela Reynoso
Performed by the Bronx Repertory Company with
Alexa Downing
Aleigi Dume
Nadja Gonzalez
Wilson Hernandez
Fatemata Krubally
Zullyvette Muniz
Amira Mustapha
Lorena Peralta
Bethany Rondon
Cleo Septimo
& Gabriela Urquia
The Lehman College Art Gallery
Wednesday, December 6 at 3:30PM
Thursday, December 7 at 7PM
Friday, December 8 at 7PM
Free Admission
Seating is LIMITED.
Reservations are REQUIRED
Special thanks to the Sarah Little Turnbull Foundation for supporting Bronx Rep at the Art Gallery
Framing the Female Gaze at Lehman College was made possible by NYC Department of Cultural Affairs; New York City Council Member Eric Dinowitz; New York State Council on the Arts; Jarvis and Constance Doctorow Family Foundation; Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation; Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation; Edith and Herbert Lehman Foundation; Robert Lehman Foundation; and, the Charina Foundation.
Image: Allison Zuckerman. Woman at her Toilette, 2017. Courtesy of the Rubell Museum
The Bronx Music Project is back with a special concert event!!
Wednesday November 29th at 7PM
The Studio Theatre at Lehman College
Free admission - Reservations required
Since 2003, Lehman Stages has been presenting special concert events featuring our amazingly talented student and alumni singers and musicians. These concerts, performed at various venues - and even outdoors - are an intimate affair – where singer and audience really create something special for the Bronx!
Featuring vocalists Francheska Angeles, Destiny Colon, Jonathan Figueroa, Davgil David-Gil,, Krissbert Henriquez, Felix Otero, and Ana Urquiza Riveroll, with musical help from John Austria, Alejandro Castro, Christian Fernandez and Kevin Patino.
Don't miss it! !
Lehman Stages celebrates its twentieth anniversary season with the inaugural production of “BronxShakes” - The Bronx Shakespeare Festival at Lehman College, with the premiere of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare in the new outdoor amphitheatre at Lehman College.
Performances begin Wednesday, September 14th at 7PM and run through Saturday September 16 at 3PM. Thursday, September 14 and Friday, September 15 performances are at 7PM. Admission is free and reservations are required. Tickets are available at bronxshakes.brownpapertickets.com
This fun, fast, and ferocious production of Romeo and Juliet is adapted and directed by special guest artist Rick DesRochers, Professor and Director of the Theatre Program at Lehman. A “perpetual motion machine” this production features a cast of all Lehman alumni including Natasha Collado, Alexa Downing, Hemanuel Damis, Emily Garcia, Simran Pal Kaur, Andrew Moeller, Jahdiel Rodriguez, and Bethany Rondon. The stage manager is Julie Peteani and the assistant director and fight coordinator is Alyssa Van Gorder. Running time is approximately 90 minutes.
Gwendolyn is having a bad day. It’s raining cats and dogs. Mom took her phone. She’s tired of TV. What’s a girl to do? Time for some daydreaming. Some MUSICAL daydreaming. Gwendolyn imagines her future as a member of an all-girl band!!!!
SUMMERWORX 2023 – The Children’s Theatre Company at Lehman presents Gwendolyn Unplugged
Thursday August 3rd at 10:30AM - All tickets $2 (cheap!)
The Lovinger Theatre at Lehman College
Reservations required.
The Bronx, NY—Born into a world under siege by the Khmer Rouge. Trapped on a Puerto Rican mountaintop home during Hurricane Maria. Struggling after a fire destroyed their room in a Brooklyn homeless shelter. In their own words, these true stories of three Lehman College students who made new lives in New York will premiere as dramatic, short films on June 29, 2023, at 7:00 p.m. in the Lehman College Lovinger Theatre. RSVP for This Free Event
Lehman Stages and the Bronx Alehouse invite you to join them for some after-work fun and refreshments on Wednesday, June 28th at 6pm to benefit the Kids Rule Weekend, an annual family event held on the Lehman College campus. $20 at the door gets you a free beer and 20% off some of the best pub-grub in the Bronx. So bring a thirsty friend and your appetite and join us at the Alehouse!
Why?....because Kids Rule.
Want to DONATE to Kids Rule?
Lehman Stages & The Lehman College Art Gallery present, Queer Love: 4 Short Tales of Affection & Romance. The plays are presented by The Bronx Repertory Company as a companion piece to the current exhibit at the Gallery entitled, Queer Love: Affection and Romance in Contemporary Art. Featuring work by Alexa Downing, Juan Ramirez Jr., Amalia Oliva Rojas, Alaynia LaPorte and Dante Albertie.
with The Bronx Repertory Company
Carla Cardenas
Natasha Collado
Andrew Rosario
Wilson Hernandez
Bethany Rondon
Zullyvette Muniz
Alaynia “Ms. Fox” LaPorte
Gilary Lizardi
Directed by Simran Pal Kaur, Amalia Oliva Rojas and Dante Albertie
The Lehman College Art Gallery
Wednesday, April 26 at 3:30PM
Thursday, April 27 at 7PM
Friday, April 28 at 7PM
Free Admission
Seating is LIMITED.
Reservations are REQUIRED
The Department of Music, Multimedia, Theatre and Dance presents Amen Corner, a play by James Baldwin, directed by Susan Watson Turner.
Music direction by Dorothy Colon
Wednesday, February 22 at 3:30
Thursday, February 23 at 7PM
Friday, February 24 at 7PM
The Lovinger Theatre at Lehman College
Free admission
Reservations required
“James Baldwin's first play, about the female pastor of a Harlem church in 1954, grapples with issues of racism, poverty, and the role of the church in the lives of Black Americans”. - Concord Theatricals
Lehman College proudly presents world-renowned poet and activist Nikki Giovanni. In advance of the College’s opening of James Baldwin’s “The Amen Corner,” she will speak about Baldwin and beyond and share her newest poetry.
The Lovinger Theatre
Tickets available at tinyurl.com/BaldwinBeyond
SUMMERWORX 2022
The Children’s Theatre Company at Lehman presents, the Three Little Pigs in “The Big Bad Wolf and the Kung Fu Caper”
August 6th and 7th in the Lovinger Theatre - Admission $1 (cheap)
Reservations required. Click on your date below.
SATURDAY AUGUST 6TH AT 10:30 AM
The Children’s Theatre Company at Lehman is a professional company comprised of current Lehman students and alumni, known for its original brand of ‘fairy-tale sketch comedy. “
The Children’s Theatre Company at Lehman was founded in 2002 and since then has presented hundreds of performances throughout the NYC Public School System and venues like the Bronx Zoo, the New York Botanical Garden, the Riverdale Y, The Long Island Philharmonic and many more.
LEHMAN STAGES PRESENTS
Movies Under A Bronx Moon
Great movies under stars – outdoors – on the beautiful Lehman College campus.
A great evening for the whole family – FREE
Reservations are required.
Sing 2
Wednesday July 27 at 7:30PM
Theater owner Buster Moon sets his sights on producing a brand-new musical with his troupe in the glamorous Redshore City. To gain the support of a ruthless music mogul, he pitches that he'll feature Clay Calloway, a legendary but elusive rock singer as part of the show. Now, all the group needs to do is find the recluse and persuade him to perform with them.
An evening of great Salsa and Merengue featuring Orquesta Jeryco de Edwin Gómez.
Bring your special someone, and your dancing shoes and join us as we celebrate SUMMERWORX 2022.
FREE!
Due to CUNY Covid policy, RESERVATIONS are required!
Lehman Stages supports and collaborates with a variety of arts organizations created by Lehman alumni. Art Defined Productions is one of our favorites! Join us for a special SUMMERWORX poetry showcase!
LEHMAN STAGES PRESENTS
Movies Under A Bronx Moon
Great movies under stars – outdoors – on the beautiful Lehman College campus.
A great evening for the whole family – FREE
Sorry…SOLD OUT.
Encanto
Wednesday July 13 at 7:30PM
Deep in the Colombian mountains, the Madrigal family possesses an extraordinary secret. Each member of the family is able to perform magic. Yet at the heart of the family is 15-year-old Mirabel, who does not seem to possess any unusual abilities. Faced with this harsh reality, Mirabel struggles to reconcile her place within her family while searching for who she truly is.
The CUNY Mexican Studies Institute and Lehman Stages present a special Cinco de Mayo event featuring great live music by Gabriela Bojorquez and The Bronx Music Project, and authentic Mexican food, all FREE!
Outdoors at the Amphitheatre @Lehman College
RSVP required
Classic holiday films for the kids. Holiday music. Elves. Refreshments. Smiles.
Saturday December 18 from 11AM - 1PM in the Lovinger Theatre at Lehman College
$10 General admission. Children under 12 are FREE
Seating is limited. RESERVATIONS are required.
CUNY/LEHMAN COVID 19 PROTOCOLS
All audience members over 12 must be fully vaccinated.
Audience members must wear masks
The Children’s Theatre Company at Lehman College presents Cindy Rella - A Bronx Fairytale.
This new interpretation of the classic tale features music and mayhem and all kinds of silliness.
Running time: 40 minutes
Free
Outdoors at the Lehman College Amphitheatre
Seating is limited.
For more information call 718.960.8495
The Children’s Theatre Company at Lehman is a professional company comprised of current Lehman students and alumni, known for its original brand of ‘fairy-tale sketch comedy. “
The Children’s Theatre Company at Lehman was founded in 2002 and since then has presented hundreds of performances throughout the NYC Public School System and venues like the Bronx Zoo, the New York Botanical Garden, the Riverdale Y, The Long Island Philharmonic and many more.
The Children’s Theatre Company at Lehman College presents Cindy Rella - A Bronx Fairytale.
This new interpretation of the classic tale features music and mayhem and all kinds of silliness.
Running time: 40 minutes
Free
Outdoors at the Lehman College Amphitheatre
Seating is limited. All patrons MUST WEAR MASKS.
For more information call 718.960.8495
The Children’s Theatre Company at Lehman is a professional company comprised of current Lehman students and alumni, known for its original brand of ‘fairy-tale sketch comedy. “
The Children’s Theatre Company at Lehman was founded in 2002 and since then has presented hundreds of performances throughout the NYC Public School System and venues like the Bronx Zoo, the New York Botanical Garden, the Riverdale Y, The Long Island Philharmonic and many more.
