Political plots can be dry as toast. Hatem attempts to spice things up by crossing the genders of the actors playing Carter and young Cynthia; the convention is an interesting choice althoug…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:42PMFrom the critically acclaimed exhibition at the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, to the beauty of Provence and the enigma of Japan itself, Exhibition on Screen presents Van Gogh & Japan. Feat…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 11:32PMThe 1995 hit album Jagged Little Pill by Alanis Morissette is now a musical on Broadway. We talk with show creators Diablo Cody and Diane Paulus for a sneak preview.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 11:24PMA central facet of his premiere Watson at GableStage is depicting what may be the world’s first personal information disaster, a horrifying tragedy as American-licensed technology is sold …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:03PM
Venus Theatre’s staff don’t open the house until immediately before The Powers that Be begins, presenting audience members, as they take their seats, with the evening’s most arresting …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:25PMThe audience for Sutton Foster at The Barns at Wolf Trap was packed on opening night and clearly delighted to have a chance to hear Foster in such a warm and intimate venue. A phenomenal act…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:21PMOne of the joys – and occasional sorrows -- of Horton Foote’s many works is the opportunity to periodically revisit the lives of characters with whom we’ve become acquainted in the pas…
SOURCE: cititour.com at 10:13PMThe 65th Annual Evening Standard Awards were announced on November 24 at the London Coliseum. The annual event honoring London theater was co-hosted by Damian Lewis, Helen McCrory, Evgeny …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:07PMTaking the Waters is a show about three sisters, as two take care of the third in her final days before passing. It’s a delicate show that avoids tropes, instead embracing the mundane: put…
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Stand-up comedian and monologist extraordinaire Daniel Kitson enjoys a devout following in the UK and in Australia. He first made his reputation at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, where he wo…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:58PMBy Douglas Mayo
The winners of the 2019 Evening Standard Theatre Awards, in association with Michael Kors, were revealed at a ceremony tonight at the London Coliseum.
This post Andrew Scott …
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 09:50PMDo we really need another Jukebox Musical on Broadway—another hum-along, sing-along, déjà vu, vaguely autobiographical songfest? When the subject is as charged up as Tina Turner, the ans…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:47PM★★★ A solid, straightforward staging at the Signature delivers little emotion and no surprises
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:45PM★★★ An unorthodox 1977 drama on feminist themes is revived by Theatre for a New Audience
The post Fefu and Her Friends: Still Ahead of Its Time appeared first on New York Stage Review.
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:20PMBy Douglas Mayo
Waitress the musical has announced a UK tour after the show closes at Adelphi Theatre London on 4 July 2020.
This post Waitress the musical UK Tour announced and London closi…
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Sam Martin’s powerful autobiographical account of coming out during the 2017 marriage equality plebiscite, Sam I Am, will be presented to the public for the first time this November in a s…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 07:53PMFefu picks up a double-barrel shotgun and shoots at her husband near the beginning of “Fefu and Her Friends,” billed as a modern classic and written by the beloved avant-garde playwright…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:44PMPutin flip-flops, a Darth Vader plant pot, Fleabag’s hot priest meltdown, No Man Is an Island oven gloves … get your Christmas in gear with our guide to the hottest, artsiest presents ar…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:33PMColiseum, OldhamWhat used to be one boy’s coming-of-age struggle with a tyrannous ogre is now a free-for-all
Boisterous, full-throttled and cheery it may be, but it’s hard to locate the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:33PMAndrew Scott is best actor and Sweat wins play of the year at Evening Standard awards
Dame Maggie Smith’s return to the stage after a 12-year absence has won her a record fifth best actres…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:33PMOne of Melbourne’s most iconic landmarks, the Regent Theatre, will re-open its doors to the public in January 2020, revealing a major refurbishment of the much-loved auditorium, foyers and…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 07:22PMOne of the most beloved and acclaimed animated movies of all time, The Prince of Egypt is set to make its West End premiere in February 2020. The following is taken from the The Prince of E…
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Acting honours go to Andrew Scott & Maggie Smith at the 2019 Evening Standard Theatre Awards while Sweat wins Best Play.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:51PMMaggie Smith and Ian McKellen also triumph at 65th ceremony recognising excellence on stage
SOURCE: The Independent at 06:42PMFleabag star Scott recognised for his role in Present Laughter
SOURCE: The Independent at 06:42PMActors Andrew Scott and Ian McKellen and playwright Lynn Nottage were among the winners of this year’s Evening Standard Theatre Awards. The
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:24PMJack Taylor has always been a version of the reluctant detective, but now he seems more impotent than ever -- distracted, beat down, and very tired.
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SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:12PMPeter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere talk about A Christmas Carol, Pumpgirl @ Irish Rep, Evita @ City Center, Einstein’s Dreams @ 59e59, Broadway Unplugged @ Merkin Hall, …
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The narration for the MasterVoices production of the Gershwins' Let 'Em Eat Cake mentions that (1) it was the very first musical sequel (to Of Thee I Sing), and (2) it set the precedent fo…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 05:36PMIronically, Tennessee Williams, a gay playwright, wrote some of the most iconic roles for women in theater. He created parts such as Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire, Maggie in A Cat on A…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 05:17PMSome major organizations have been trying to figure out how to help communities use the arts and culture to create strong, shared values. – Margy Waller
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:03PMShe says it’s with the purest of pure artists: Preschoolers. “Barry is pushing the envelope on understanding how the brain creates and responds to words and pictures — a scholarly enve…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:03PMWell, no, no wardrobe or fur coats, but “9,000 square feet of nooks, alcoves, labyrinths, and warrens.” Its customers really love it, including the way thousands of books crammed togethe…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:03PMIt’s not that preservationists don’t understand the need for housing – that’s obvious in L.A., as in most cities and towns on the West Coast. “It seems to me that we should fight t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:03PMThe Cultural Affairs Director will be the chief visionary, strategic, and operational leader and will guide the Cultural Affairs Department and TOARTS as a champion for the varied programs a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:03PMThere are many, many tensions between the two countries, but “the orchestra’s rock-star status in China offers it unique possibilities for bridge-building. Even youngsters are aware that…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:03PMThe Broadway veteran, perhaps best known as the original Wiz in the musical, won a Tony in June for his portrayal of Mercury in Hadestown, and he gave an “instantly iconic speech in which …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:03PMAs Russia’s population faces a steep decline, Moscow is growing – but there’s no room in the city center. One curator: “We got used to viewing the suburbs as strange, remote areas we…
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For his opening number, Eric Michael Gillett offered me and my table-mates a plate of risotto balls.
SOURCE: www.cabarethotspot.com at 04:35PMPhoto Credit: Jeffrey Hornstein RICHARD HOLBROOK HOLIDAY CHESTNUTS FROM CHRISTMAS PAST AND PRESENT Don’t Tell Mama Dec 2 and 22, 2019 8:30pm Richard Holbrook will once again be perform…
SOURCE: www.cabarethotspot.com at 04:23PMSTEPHANIE TRUDEAU CHAVELA: THINK OF ME Don’t Tell Mama December 12 This Docu-cabaret is an homage to famed Mexican singer Chavela Vargas. Don’t Tell Mama, 343 West 46th Street, NYC Ticke…
SOURCE: www.cabarethotspot.com at 04:13PMPhoto Credit: unknown Maureen Taylor Cosmic Connections – The Lyrics of Michael Colby Don’t Tell Mama Dec 21, 27, 28, 29, 2019 New York based singer-actress, Maureen Taylor, brings an un…
SOURCE: www.cabarethotspot.com at 04:05PMREAPPRAISING A CASH COW Consider this a kind of conditional mea culpa: In past reviews of Goodman Theatre’s A Christmas Carol, I’ve faulted the production’s trivialization of Charles …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:00PM
What's particularly American about Sinclair Lewis's It Can't Happen Here -- the American landscape and the symbolism of new frontiers
SOURCE: letstalkoffbroadway.com at 01:51PMThere’s no doubt that the Japan-born composer/pianist/bandleader Satoro Fujii is one of the most prolific recording artists of her time.
The post Jazz Album Review: Two More Adventurous Di…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:42PMWatershed is an unadorned but stunning addition to the offerings at the deCordoba Sculpture Park and Museum.
The post Visual Arts Review: Andy Goldsworthy’s “Watershed” — Mysterious …
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:42PM“My work is not happy work. It’s very difficult work. It’s very powerful work, I like to think. So I make stuff very colorful. I make it bright. I make it look like a piece of candy, s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:36PM“The HBS Club of Chicago – Nonprofit Leadership Fund, Community Impact Scholars Pilot Program has sent its first participant to the Harvard Extension School (HES) for leadership developm…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:36PM“Of the nearly 22% of the city’s 1.5 million residents who speak a language other than English at home, the largest group are Spanish-speaking. Here are three art initiatives in Philly a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:36PM“The Associations Advancing Equitable Evaluation Practices (AAEEP)* came together earlier this year to support and advance the equitable evaluation field of study and practice. As a part o…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:36PM“[Clara Porset] is at the heart of an ongoing exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago that looks at the ways in which six Modern artists — all women — were engaging Mexican art and …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:36PMDavid Dower: “[Foundry co-founder Melanie Joseph has] been so far out in front of the field for thirty years, in a place the American theatre — with its templated, collectively bargained…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:36PM“The lack of widespread acknowledgement or recognition for Harriet E. Wilson, the first African American novelist and author of Our Nig (1859), comes as a surprise. A New Englander, Wilson…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:36PM“Opening Tuesday at the Geffen Playhouse, The Thanksgiving Play centers on a group of ‘woke’ white thespians who struggle to devise a historically accurate and culturally sensitive ele…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:36PMBrooke Mosay Ammann: “In 2018, First Nations Development Institute and Frontline Solutions released We Need to Change How We Think, a report that served as an introductory communication br…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:36PM“The expectation of unpaid internships is a barrier for young people from distressed communities to gain work experience and subsequent entry into the performing arts administration workfo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:36PM“Godfrey L. Simmons Jr. has built a career making room for others. In 2012 he co-founded the community-minded Civic Ensemble in Ithaca, N.Y., and he will next take the reins as artistic di…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:36PMDavid Giles: “As one of the designers of Culture Pass, I could not be more pleased with the results so far. After launching in summer 2018 with twenty-nine participating organizations and …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:36PM“In the 1910s and 1920s, a number of African American women poets and authors turned to drama to address racial violence. Writers such as: Angelina Weld Grimké, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Mary …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:36PM“The Open Society Foundations has announced the launch of a four-year, $15 million initiative aimed at returning cultural objects looted from the African continent. The initiative will sup…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:36PM“[POWER Lunch host Ntokozo Mazibuko] speaks to entrepreneur Ofentse Pitse, the first young black woman to own and conduct an all-black orchestra [in South Africa].” (audio) – POWER Lun…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:36PM“The trauma of her assault is the subject of [soprano Lucy] Dhegrae’s four-concert Processing Series, which opens on Saturday at National Sawdust in Brooklyn. The series attempts to shed…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:36PM“While the foundation will continue to support nonprofit arts organizations that are creating, producing, and presenting performances across the region and will continue to fund organizati…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:36PM“As a conductor, Kim Diehnelt has to do a lot of schmoozing and interacting with people. She was so uncomfortable with that, she considered hanging up her baton. Then four years ago, she w…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:36PMChristian settlers and missionaries feared and banned throat singing, so the choice to make a Christmas album wasn’t exactly obvious, they say. “At the same time, they say some of their…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:36PMOnly 16 artists still practice the art of Cheriyal – but they’re working hard to expand (re-expand) their ranks. To grow the popularity, one artist says, “We began making tissue boxes,…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:36PMAnd it’s bigger than mountain folds, valley folds, and damp-paper shaping: “A few years ago, NASA engineers were able to create foldable telescopes and a flower-shaped shade to block o…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:36PMSir Stephen Cleobury conducted the King’s College Choir for nearly 40 years and instituted the annual commissioning of a new Christmas carol. He retired two months ago. “He was influenti…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:36PMLauren E. Turner, founder of the New Orleans theatre company No Dream Deferred, says that she was deeply lucky as a kid. “I was taught creating space was my duty. The idea of what was out …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:36PMA high musical standard made up for dramaturgical cloudiness in Curtis Opera Theatre’s ‘Il Barbiere di Siviglia’. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 01:32PMThough written over 75 years ago, Jean-Paul Sartre’s No Exit endures as a staple in Existentialist thought. Set in hell, the play focuses on three damned souls set to share the same room f…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:18PM
The only star South Coast Repertory has had in "A Christmas Carol" since 1978 begins his final run in the show and wraps up on Christmas Eve.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 11:21AM By Sandi Durell The Green Room 42 was packed to the rafters with fans, friends and celebrities as the one and only host/impressario Daniel Dunlow welcomed the audience and Mark William…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 11:13AMThe metal detectorists found a hoard, didn’t report it, and sold most of it – and now they’re jailed for a very long time. “The hoard — much of which is still missing — could she…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:12AMInstead, it’s about the dark abyss of the adult soul. “Adulthood, for most of us, is about acquiring the skills to feel no feelings at all. Feelings are distracting, inefficient, unopti…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:12AMNottage: “Yes, I have to go sometimes to where my audience is, rather than being confined by the proscenium—which forces us to have a certain level of engagement, which means I have to s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:12AMAnd that’s true in weapons and swordfighting theatre classes as well. Ask one student-turned-devotee: “In theatrical swordfighting, you’re following choreography and working with your …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:12AMAnd, obviously, blockbusters are killing them. (The cheap little awards-bait movies, the under-$20-million movies, might be OK.) – The New York Times
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:12AMOlivier-winning actress Elaine Paige is giving Broadway.com listeners a chance to hear her BBC Radio 2 show, Elaine Paige on Sunday, and this week is all about the movies! With the recent r…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:03AMMore than a celebration of Motown, it highlighted issues such as acceptance, racism, strained relationships, acceptance and the problems faced with fame and fortune which often musicians fac…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AM
Some brief tribute today to Mexican illusionist Cantu (Abraham J. Cantu, 1896-1949). Originally from Monterey, Mexico, Cantu began his working adult life as a barber, gradually making his wa…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:42AMTaylor Louderman, Jenn Colella, Rob McClure, and more name the parade numbers that inspired them.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:39AMIt’s about negotiation between generations, Gurinder Chadha tells Karen Fricker ahead of the opening of Bend It Like Beckham onstage in Toronto.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 09:30AMNoël Coward; Duke of York’s; Arcola, LondonA dazzling West End debut lights up a newly arrived Broadway hit, while Joe Simpson’s Andes ordeal is all too real on stage, and a jailed repo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:06AMO2 Arena, LondonThe comic, who doesn’t seem to have any interest in people or the world, puts on a weak show with anecdotes that ring untrue
It’s not an auspicious start to Jack Whitehal…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:06AMSpiderfly at Theatre 503 is that powerful combination of a beautifully written play, imaginatively produced and perfectly cast.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMBy Will Arbery, Caridad Svich. Caridad Svich shares a correspondence she had with playwright and theatremaker Will Arbery, touching on topics of writing about bleakness and despair, a play�…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 09:00AM
Truth is the first casualty of war, and often it is journalists who have to pay the price. Killing the messenger seems to be an accepted way of falsifying the facts—and this applies to any…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 12:35AMWhat’s the use of thinking about the future? What’s the use of thinking about the future in a theatre? Created by the Copenhagen-based theatre company Fix&Foxy, Tue Biering’s one-w…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 12:33AMFor the last three years, dance maker and artist Freddie Opoku-Addaie has been a guest programmer at Dance Umbrella festival in London, responsible for the festival’s “Out of the System�…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 12:28AMKristine Nielsen and Aidan Quinn star in the Pulitzer Prize–winning play, directed by Michael Wilson at Off-Broadway's Signature Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Manhattan Theatre Club premiere, starring Jonathan Pryce and Eileen Atkins, wraps up its limited run November 24.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMLileana Blain-Cruz directs the María Irene Fornés play at Theatre For A New Audience.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Rodgers and Hammerstein musical began previews at the New Jersey venue November 20.
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