Next week launches the final week of the enormously popular Broadway Boot Camps at Main Street Theatre Dance Alliance (MSTDA), and there...

Fade is what they refuse to do. Disappearing into the background is not going to happen. Fighting to ensure their fate does not befall...

This weekend 48 Roosevelt Island kids in three different casts will take the stage in the Main Street Theatre and Dance Alliance (MST&DA)...

The month of March has brought yet another exciting and eclectic art exhibit to the RIVAA (Roosevelt Island Visual Arts Association)...

We have great theater all around us in New York City, and you don’t always need to travel across the river to see it. Oh What A Lovely...

Artists’ and the neighborhoods where their careers took flight can become inextricably linked – Allen Ginsberg and the East Village,...

Things are going to start to get colorful around here come June, and it won’t just be the typical color of summer abloom. Roosevelt...

The RI Jazz Collaborative Band, featuring Lynn Beville, provided live music at the opening, by Alexandre Tolipan This year’s annual Black...

Three casts comprising a total of 49 children from Main Street Theatre & Dance Alliance (MSTDA) Musical Theater Class will produce the...

When the historic Octagon building, formerly an insane asylum, reopened in 2006 as an apartment building, Victoria Thorson’s sculpture,...

Although it is still listed as one of the “amenities” on the Octagon website, the 10-year old art gallery in the historic landmark insane...

Roosevelt Island's distinguished history in medicine, healthcare, and treatment of communicative diseases, is on display as part of the...

Kimbirdlee and Jonathan Fadner of Common Man Musicals (CMM) are bringing a grown-up version of their new production, The Monkey King,...

Looking at the women featured in Sara Bennett’s photos, currently printed across stretched canvas on the grassy slope of Four Freedoms...

As a featured performer on multiple Grammy- and Latin Grammy-awarded albums, Leonardo Suarez Paz can have his pick of concert venues. The...

On Wednesday morning, a few dozen Islanders and art lovers sat in front of a podium on the hill that connects Good Shepherd Plaza with...

Andres “Jay” Molina is tired of talking about his wheelchair. As part of the Open Doors program, he and a small group of fellow Coler...

The Main Street WIRE is seeking art submissions on an ongoing basis for our Letters section. In the last few issues, we have featured...

Over the last 37 years, the Main Street Theatre & Dance Alliance (MST&DA) has offered acting, dance, and music classes to hundreds of...

Island audiences will soon be the first to watch a brand-new musical, The Monkey King, premiering at the Main Street Theatre & Dance...