Green Room Award winning duo Andrew Strano and Casey Gould are joined by Abigail King and accompanied by Lucy O’Brien in Nick Payne’s Constellations – a play about quantum theory, love…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 11:51PMThe Knighthood Players’ Production of The Knights of Salisbury, by Tim Caron, directed by Tim Caron and Ilyana Rose-Davila, with music direction by Jason Schoenfeld, is a nostalgic, though…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:46PMYears ago, Stephen King wrote a short story called, Survivor Type. In it, a drug-smuggling surgeon crash lands on barely an island with no reliable source of food or fresh water. His hunger …
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 11:26PMTimes have changed. Or have they? Yesterday was a day filled with special events featuring female sports figures. On TV Wimbledon featured the women’s semi-finals from London. In New York,…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 11:23PMHere’s a show description you don’t see often: “A dark yet whimsical exploration of food, fitness, body image, and metabolic endocrinology.” And I will say, that’s no lie. In Ameri…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:14PMIf you can’t get to the Broadway sensation Be More Chill, which closes August 11, there is no need to despair. Monumental Theatre Company is presenting the DMV’s first professional versi…
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This year, for the very first time, 43 Helpmann Awards are being presented across two nights and two events at Arts Centre Melbourne. On Sunday 14 July, the first 20 Helpmann Awards were pre…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 10:56PMEyeSOAR is primarily a dance performance which incorporates video, audio interviews, music, and the spoken word to tell the story of the Shirlington neighborhood in Arlington, Virginia. This…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:52PMBeyond These Walls is a provocative contribution to the Capital Fringe, and well worth seeing. It was originally devised in 2018 under the direction of Matt Bassett, Artistic Director of the…
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Joy Rebel, written and performed by Khanisha Foster, is a moving, deep dive into fluid identity and the fraught experiences of a mixed-race human being on her journey to self-understanding. …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:59PMWhen done well, dance has a unique ability to tell a compelling narrative through themes that audience members can then adapt to their own perspectives and stories. Moving Body Dance Company…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:52PMPlaywright Sam Hamashima is described in his program bio as working in the “collision between his queer identity and his Japanese-American identity.” In American Spies and Other Homegr…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:28PMLet’s never again hear another word on how THE BOYS IN THE BAND deserves to be castigated for its so-called...Continue Reading
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Playwright Winter Miller offers a shakily hollow mélange of Genet, Beckett and Pinter with her two women in a prison cell scenario taking place in an unnamed foreign country. Ms. Miller’s…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:42PMA contingent of science fiction writers – that is, novelists, to be clear – are being hired by companies to predict the future. Yes, really. “Mega consulting firm Price Waterhouse Coop…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:42PMThat’s the idea of the search, truly. Historian Geoff Marsh “concluded from cross-referencing various tax and leasehold documents of the time … that the playwright – then in his earl…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:42PMSure, Twitter has issues. And then it has this: “At 58, [Karita] Mattila, who is currently onstage here at the Aix Festival in Weill and Brecht’s “Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagon…
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Martin Graff is an illustrator, author and composer who has created this heartfelt work based on his travels and life and musings about how humans connect with one another. He uses his own l…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:54PMUrbanArias’ Artistic Director Robert Wood continues to push the envelope of what makes for contemporary opera. In Elvis Costello, the famous Brit pop singer/song writer, he has found a com…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:24PMArts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual art, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.
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SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 03:49PM“In its four years of existence, Chineke!, Europe’s first majority black and minority ethnic (BME) orchestra has transformed the attitude of the classical music business towards race, di…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:33PM“Too often, popular accounts of Spanish-language media focus on radio ratings within profit-driven radio markets and cities with large Latina/o populations, such as New York, Los Angeles, …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:33PM“Arts organisations should treat social class in the same way as identity markers protected by equality legislation in order to combat a ‘class crisis’ in the sector, a new guide argue…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:33PM“Backstage jobs are still predominantly filled by white men, but the picture is slowly changing thanks to artists’ activism.” – American Theatre
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:33PMKaywin Feldman is the first woman to serve as director of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Public interest attorney Bryan Stevenson and his Equal Justice Initiative founded th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:33PMIn her new bookstore in Chicago – the only one owned by a Black woman – owner and curator DL Mullen has more than books. “What might be most visually striking about the space is the ar…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:32PM“Over the past few years, questions surrounding repatriation have evolved beyond whether it will happen to how — and by whom and in what way the fate of objects will be decided. … – …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:32PMAlfaro met a 13-year-old promising playwright in 1999, but she was in a program for felons: She had killed her mother, who had put a hit out on her father. Then he started re-reading Electra…
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When he is at his best, few can match Renoir’s charm and popular appeal.
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SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:36PMWhen María Irene Fornés died last October at the age of 88, the many theatergoers who knew nothing about her suddenly learned how pioneering , prolific and influential a theater artist she…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:20PMIt COULD get fixed, but it probably won’t. Why? Engagement. “As the AI improves, it will be able to more precisely predict who is interested in this content; thus, it’s also less likel…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:18PMOuch, why did you have to zing all of us who have ever been on vacation, NYT? – The New York Times
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:18PMCressida Cowell, laureate for children’s literature and a writer whose fame has greatly benefitted from film and TV, says, “Books are a kind of transformative magic that offer magical th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:18PMThe kid who solved the mystery was simply obsessed – and lucky, thanks to a tweet, to find the right timeline. “‘The entire time I was trying to figure out who painted it, I thought it…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:18PMThe mystery lasted a long time, and criss-crossed the internet – partly because everyone wanted to buy a Bob Ross original. Good luck with that. (Also, come for the mystery, but stay for t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:18PMShowrunner David E. Kelley had a plan, but he didn’t share it with British filmmaker Andrea Arnold before shooting began … or finished. “There was a dramatic shift in late 2018 as the …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:18PMThe critic for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch: “The way I look at it, there are people who just wanna see a show, and there are theatre people. There’s some overlap between those two groups…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:18PMActually, he’s an opera singer by training and design and only an Uber driver – in Durban, South Africa – by economic necessity. Still, though, the viral videos taken by a passenger we…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:18PMBetween Madrid and Barcelona, there’s now little but empty space where towns used to be – except for the 700-person town of Medinaceli, where “in August, [the town] becomes a stage for…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:18PMMichael Gordon and Deborah Artman’s unsettling chamber opera, directed by Daniel Fish, unfolds with the scraping sounds of a horror film.
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The young, gay, black creator of the musical “A Strange Loop” talks about his process, Liz Phair, soap operas and just about everything else.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:36PMSuper Salon Comedy with Elayne Boosler benefits LTV Media Center
July 13, 2019: LTV, the East End public access television station, celebrated Summer with a very funny evening produced by…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 12:08PMJena Tesse Fox, Peter Filichia, and James Marino talk about the blackout (evening of July 13, 2019), The Full Monty @ Capital Repertory Theatre, Encores! Off-Center: Promenade, A Strange Loo…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 12:00PMSeven Methods of Killing Kylie Jenner at the Royal Court Theatre, a bright new two-hander about an internet troll being trolled is intelligent, lively, provocative and funny.
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Her work, much of which is being reissued, is still incredibly relevant. “A crucial idea in Murdoch’s fiction is the reality of others, a material fact that we are confronted with daily …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AMOh boy. This is going to end well. “‘As an actor I should be allowed to play any person, or any tree, or any animal because that is my job and the requirements of my job,’ Johansson ex…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AMWhile there are no magical mice in “Rogers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella,” performers in Foothill Music Theatre’s production say the show will still appeal to fans of the Disney versi…
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SOURCE: Medium at 09:43AMThe Lowry, SalfordFrom Henry V’s speech to Jona Lewie’s Stop the Cavalry, this illuminating production explores the ‘flawed family’ of Europe
Way back at the start of the Brexit wars…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AMThe Stoller Hall, ManchesterWith fascinating – and frustrating – results, the actor plays a woman seemingly possessed by the ghost of the late Velvet Underground singer
When 1980s Manche…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AMWhen you look at the scope of Vivienne Benesch’s career thus far, she certainly has an impressive resume, from actress to director to the Producing Artistic Director of http://playmakersr…
SOURCE: Beltline to Broadway at 09:00AMBy Danielle Rosvally. Danielle Rosvally looks at the importance of theatre criticism, explores the idea that everyone’s a critic, and talks about the parking lot rule.
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Um … indeed. “The big question is whether Los Angeles can pull it together to approach its public urban spaces in ways that are more cohesive and more mindful of human scale — and perh…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:36AMMastodon was meant to be a kinder, gentler, no-fascist Twitter. Then a right-wing social network moved to Mastodon. “It’s a hard problem, playing off the deepest limitations of decentral…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:36AMHoward Sherman says the time has come to figure this out: “So long as there are categories for best actor and actress (or best male and female actor), those who identify outside of the bin…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:36AMWith immigrants across the USA bracing for planned Ice raids this weekend, Lunatic 19’s, a topical new play by Iowa-based writer Tegan McLeod, shines a spotlight on the soullessness and ab…
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Storm King is big. Really, really big: “The art here is nestled amid 500 acres of verdant hills, exposed to the ever-shifting and unrelenting climate of New York’s Hudson Valley.” – …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:32AMCrucible, SheffieldLolita Chakrabarti’s superbly acted adaptation of Yann Martel’s Booker-winner makes dazzling use of its interplay of illusions
Everything about this production is amaz…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06AMSadler’s Wells, LondonThe Spanish star bends tradition to her passionate exploration of womanhood
When Rocío Molina strikes a pose, her limbs snap to attention with military precision. An…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06AMManchester international festival; Olivier, LondonTree is less exciting than the row about its authorship, Lolita Chakrabarti works wonders with Italo Calvino’s tricky text, and David Hare…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06AMHammersmith Apollo, LondonNow in his mid-60s, the comedian is still delivering beautifully honed, brilliantly timed observations on everyday life
‘I feel like a blacksmith up here sometime…
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