Want to fulfill your dreams to be a standup performer? Or in a mood to savor eclectic soulful performances while sipping away your favorite beer? Manhattan is known as America’s cultural hub, there are plenty of open mic venues for you to hone your craft or whiteness the next big thing in music, comedy, or other performing arts. Here we have compiled a list of 10 best open mic places in New York City.
1. Sidewalk Cafe, 94 Avenue A (at E 6th St), New York, NY, USA +1
Situated in Alphabet City, Sidewalk Cafe provides audiences a chill and welcoming ambiance to enjoy the shows. This legendary establishment is a birthplace of countless famous artists. A slew of heavyweights performed their first show at the Monday open mic here.
2. Nuyorican Poets Cafe, 236 East 3rd Street, New York, NY, USA +1
This cozy yet edgy Nuyorican Poets Cafe offers an artistic scene on
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Bareburger, 85 2nd Avenue, New York, NY, USA +1
Bareburger, a layback burger joint, offers all types of performing arts shows, Organic Open Mic, on Tuesday nights. This establishment features Grammy winners, American Idol finalists, Golden Globe Award winners, Emmy nominated actors, and HBO Def Poetry stars. Come over and meet great talents.
9. UNDER St. Marks Theater, 94 Saint Marks Place, New York, NY, USA +1
This hidden small theater underneath St. Marks Place showcases eclectric improv acts every Tuesday night. Abundant inspirational artists head over to perform their acts. There will be no shortage of extraordinary shows for audiences to enjoy.
10. The Peoples Improv Theater, 123 East 24th Street, New York, NY, USA +1
The People Improv Theater was a critics’ pick winner of The Village Voice Best of NYC 2012 Best Comedy Open Mic. Without doubt, innumerable patrons flock to this comedy club to savor free and inexpensive improv shows nightly and have a quality laugh. Featuring a great variety of standup showcases, this comedy club makes sure to accommodate every audience’s taste
William Street Common, a “beer gardenesque restaurant” and home of “Live! At William Street Common,” a venue that’s hosted everything from DJ Astro 8000's popular Pink Party to monthly art shows to workshops and weekly open-mics
Theatres and How We Had Fun." Little, Brown, and Company. (Boston, Toronto, London); 1991. P. 139, 144.
An important aspect of Syracuse is the entertainment. The city of Syracuse is fortunate enough to be the home of 28th largest symphony orchestra in the country. It also has the honor of hosting the New York State fair, which is the longest running fair in the country. Other main sources of entertainment for the Syracuse community are Armory Square, which consists of restaurants and small gift stores; Columbus Circle, a more historic area that includes the library, the courthouse, the War Memorial, as well as various churches; and Clinton street, where many businesses reside.
The following document features a variety of different venues in Barnsley, which are good for live bands or DJs. This should be of use to any unsigned band wishing to get gigs in the area. Some places might pay to have a band, others don’t. It all depends on the quality/ size of the venue and how well known you are as a band or DJ.
Slide, Anthony. The Encyclopedia of Vaudeville. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1994. Google Books. Web. 1 May 2014.
On a cold, brisk Tuesday night, I attended the musical called Urinetown by Mark Hollmann and Greg Kotis. Urinetown was held in Rowand-Johnson Hall, at the Marian Gallaway Theatre. As I quickly walked in the entrance, I noticed that people were wearing casual attire. I gave the usher my ticket and walked to my seat. This time my seat was located up at the front so I had a great view of the stage. This particular theatre is my favorite, it is very open and you can see from every seat. This musical is known to be a musical comedy which deals with different themes, unique text, and extraordinary technical elements.
The arrival to Manhattan was like an entry to a whole new world: from the sea, its breezes, color, and landscapes, to the heart of the city beating louder than ever at the Whitehall Terminal. I could smell New York’s bagels in Battery Park with a mixture of the most relaxing scents: the coffee people were holding while walking down the streets, the old walls of Castle Clinton ...
Competition of other theaters was high in 1906 when The Bijou Theater, now known as The State Theatre, first opened on the “third floor of [the] Ridotto Building, located at the corner of Center and Madison Street in Bay City” (Greene). There was the “Alvarado, Lyric, Grotto, Temple, Roxy, Regent, Empire, and various Opera Houses, all located on [the theaters present day road], Washington Avenue, between the years 1870 and 1960” (LaLonde). On September 6, 1908 “the Bijou Theater was opened in a new building on Washington Avenue” where they joined the higher ranks of competition, and vaudeville was soon to be the main entertainment offered (LaLonde). “The building was owned by Worthy L. Churchill, and managed by Dan Pilmore” (Do you remember...?). In August of 1920 the Theater was renamed the Orpheum Theater, and in 1926 they began showing motion pictures (Green...
Coffeehouses, and more specifically Starbucks, have increasingly become an essential part of many people’s daily life. So I was interested in how the culture within Starbucks is a reflection of natural human interaction. I chose to observe the environment and interaction of people within a suburban neighborhood Starbucks for one hour.
For one of my selections for buying stock, I invested into Starbucks, this company has attracted me with their wonders of different coffees, and I knew many others were interested in the very popular coffee company. Starbucks all started 1971 in Seattle Washington. With three men which were Jerry Baldwin, Zev Siegel and Gordon Bowker each of them put in one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars along with a barrowed five thousand from the bank to start up there small coffee shop in pick place market, witch is located in down town Seattle. The name for this company was inspired from the character Starbuck from Moby Dick; this character was a coffee lover. There close friend designed there well known logo. These men never thought of this small company to get large they just thought of it as a small coffee shop. Out of all three men Siegel was the only one that work at it full time. The men depened on a man named Alfred Peet for there coffee beans but soon then started there own blends of coffee beans. With in a year opening the first store they were able to open a second store. When the 1980’s rolled around, it was a thriving company, in the Seattle area. However, the co-founders began to have other interests and were involved in other careers simultaneously. Despite that, the company was about to undergo a major turning point. A man by the name of Howard Schultz started to pursue an interest in the company. He noticed that the coffee shop had a wonderful environment. He started asking a questions and becoming more and more interested by every moment. He loved how the founders had so much knowledge on the coffee and each blend. In 1982, Schultz became director of retail operation. This was just the start to a new phase with the company.
As the curtain came down, the audience roared. The same little girl is now twenty years old. She gets out her cell phone and quickly sneaks a picture of the beautiful golden curtain. Captioning the photo as “the best spectacular on earth”, she posts it to Instagram and hits over one hundred “likes” within minutes. She walks outside and looks up at the marquee. With a smile on her face, she walks to the subway dreaming of the day she will be on that stage. This celebrated theatre has found a place in her heart, creating an eternal love for New York and an eternal love for the beautiful landmark that is Radio City Music Hall.
The purpose of theater is the same as storytelling as well as an entertainment field. As discussed in our lecture, it was a “Carnival” experience where people of different backgrounds or ethnicity come together and enjoy a show (Deaf Theater OLC). Moreover, there are collaboration that are present in the realm of Deaf Theater such as between the Deaf and Hearing. For instance, in the UK, there is a theater called Handprint Theater where Deaf and Hearing people work together (DeafUnity.org). Since 1991, their passion has been to impact the cultural lives of both deaf and hard-of-hearing people via storytelling.
The coffee shop I decided to do my observation was the well known Starbucks just a couple blocks away. The reason I chose this coffee shop was because of it 's style inside, it attracted me. For example, one side of the wall has a glass top, and the lower part of the wall, made of wood and painted in a bright red color, which was one thing that attracted me and stood out. Outside of the shop people can actually see through the glass wall and get to see what’s happening inside of the coffeeshop. By the entrance you see these two red ceiling lamps which were shaped in a flower bud and these two tall green plants. Once you were in, on the right of the shop there was a counter with food and things to put in your drinks such as milk, sugar, chocolate, etc and the colors and how the food was displayed and served was appealing to my eyes. Behind that counter there was a long table with different electronic devices plugged into the wall. On the middle of the those there is a fridge just for ice and when I turned to the other side and I noticed a big menu on the wall. Further more into the shop, there was an area filled with tables, chairs, and sofas. The tables were in different shapes, one was round and the others rectangular, also there was four bamboo baskets and I looked around and noticed that the walls in that area were decorated with paintings.
at Central Park. You can stay longer than the 5 minute break, and catch the next
A mere mention of the term theatre acts as a relief to many people. It is in this place that a m...