Win Box Seats to Chromatic Quartet Opening Night!

The Newmark Theatre is a wonderful venue for dance and the box seats make you feel like the whole performance is being given just for you. There’s a reason they used to be reserved exclusively for titled nobility. They’re THAT good. Score your own VIP experience and win a pair of box seats for the […]

Daily Dance Break: Celebrating America

In honor of the 4th of July on Monday we’re celebrating America all week. Our first offering is American Ballet Theatre performing Agnes de Mille’s Rodeo. Any guesses on what we have planned for the rest of the week? The person who guesses the most right will win a pair of tickets to Carmen/Petrouchka! Go!

Team Carmen vs. Team Giselle: The Tragic Heroine Throwdown Begins!

The super-secret social media project we’ve been working on for a few weeks is finally ready for launch, and boy are we excited. Without further ado, OBT presents…. THE TRAGIC HEROINE THROWDOWN! It’s going to be so epic. We’ve spent a lot of time over here at the OBT offices discussing the exciting shows coming […]

Enter to Win Season Tickets!

Would you rather kill for love or die for love? That’s the question at the heart of our 2011/2012 season. Bizet’s Carmen puts a lover in harm’s way just so another lover can prove his worth… Stravinsky’s Petrouchka risks it all for love and loses… Giselle‘s heart bursts before she will take revenge on a […]

Two Truths and a Lie

We’ve been doing a little research on Georges Bizet (composer of Carmen) and we have uncovered some absolutely too good to be true tidbits about him… exactly the sort of racy gossip you would expect of the man who composed the world’s most successful opera featuring a decidedly amoral female protagonist. Some of the tidbits […]

Top SECRET: In Search of A Few Good Hams

We could use a few good hams willing to look a little silly and fun for a great cause. It’s for a social media project we are doing this summer. Got a few hours to spare tomorrow (Saturday)? Want to earn a pair of tickets to the ballet? Read on. What: Super Top Secret Video […]

Six Degrees of Cole Porter

By Claire Willett Cole Porter “Six Degrees of Separation” is a statistical theory model which suggests that every human being on earth is connected to every other human being on earth through no more than six other people. That is beyond the scope of this undertaking, so we’re going to stick with its far-less-weighty spinoff, […]