Wanda Wheels bristles when Mateo calls her “kind” in this sprawling, funny, foul-mouthed, messy, moving ensemble piece, Stephen Adly Guirgis’s first new play in New York since his Puli…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:51PMMelbourne has fallen completely in love with global hit musical Come From Away, with the announcement that it will extend its season with the final performance at the Comedy Theatre on Sunda…
SOURCE: Australian Arts Review at 08:45PMTo celebrate the holiday season, AussieTheatre.com are going theatre crazy and will be opening a new window on our Advent Calendar each day to reveal some amazing theatre treats. Check back …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:04PM★★★★ It has to be said: Dave Malloy’s Melville adaptation is a whale of a show
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:01PM★★★ Irish Repertory Theatre, under Charlotte Moore's direction, revives the early-Victorian Era comedy by Dion Boucicault
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Melbourne has fallen completely in love with global hit musical Come From Away, with the announcement today that it will extend its season, with the final performance on Sunday 8 March 2020.…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:49PMErick Acuña is a Peruvian comedian living and working in Washington, DC. He presents a series of gently amusing monologues taken from his life as a Latino immigrant. Skits include filling o…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:28PM2019 marks 90 years for Sydney’s iconic State Theatre, one of Australia’s last great movie palaces. To mark the occasion, the State Theatre has unveiled the building’s Wurlitzer organ,…
SOURCE: Australian Arts Review at 06:15PMO I Am Slain! How Would You Die In A Shakespeare Play?
Written by Rose Helsinger
December 3rd, 2019
Shakespeare features some of the most dramatic, heart breaking, and ridiculous deaths…
SOURCE: performerstuff.com at 06:06PMPeter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere talk about Jagged Little Pill, Judgement Day @ Park Avenue Armory, Greater Clements @ Lincoln Center Theater, The Sorceress @ National Y…
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Not nudity (though that may, of course, be involved), but naked emotional truth. “Authenticity can’t exist without artistry. Truth in life doesn’t automatically morph into truth on the…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:54PMThe majority of music students in the US don’t listen to classical or “Western art” music at all, except in classes. For those who teach music theory, questions emerge: “How can we j…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:54PMOn Saturday, December 14, 2019 at the Smith Theatre at the Horowitz Center of Visual and Performing Arts at Howard Community College the world renown German singers, Calmus Vocal Ensemble pe…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:48PMDescriptive Excerpt: A 1937 play that feels very much of the moment is given an operatic staging at the Park Avenue Armory
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 04:30PMGiven the personal nature of Morissette's artistic output, it might be surprising to learn that the Broadway version of Jagged Little Pill doesn't take the easy biographical route for its bo…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:05PMTheir neighbourhood was torn down in the ’50s, but David Buchbinder’s production brings the streets back to life.
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“Breathe everybody,” Isaac Mizrah urged the audience before beginning the day’s second performance of Peter and the Wolf. The intimate in-house theater proved to be a fitting venue f…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 03:54PMSifton was also an author, including of a memoir that cemented her father, Reinhold Niebuhr, as the author of the Serenity Prayer. The authors she edited – burnished, as The NYT puts it �…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:48PMIt’s not just a coincidence or an accident: “Sondheim references and homages are hardly new. While there happens to be a bit of a pile-up at the moment, that’s because Sondheim’s son…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:48PMYannick Nézet-Séguin says that after many years of wanting to conduct the Mass, he decided one day when he was 10 to play-act at conducting Mozart’s Symphony No. 40. That day, everything…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:48PMThere are really only two rules, says a man who knows a particularly painful story of an inscribed book that had been passed on. “‘The first is, always save a receipt’ – the reason b…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:48PMJones, who played the Anansi-inspired character Mr. Nancy, posted the video to Twitter. He said that new showrunner Charles Eglee, who is white, “thinks that Mr. Nancy’s angry get-shit-d…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:48PMTimberg was a beloved and ferocious reader, writer, and arts lover. He was a Los Angeles Times reporter for years “before writing Culture Crash: The Killing of the Creative Class, a 2015 b…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:48PMAfter WWII, “the past century was undoubtedly an American century. … America was positioned as the global emblem of progress, liberty and modernity. This chimera was largely achieved thr…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:48PMBreaking down his award-winning “A Thousand Mountains, a Million Streams” – and hearing from the composer himself: “It’s a challenge to see myself as a vessel, as an imaginative an…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:48PMThe magazine, an icon of culture, “played a critical role in forming the culture and image of lowriding, its lifestyle and aesthetics. Particularly popular among Mexican Americans, the m…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:48PMThe boom in streaming has led to massive content demands – and nowhere is that more obvious than “in Denmark, where thanks to years of rising demand, there are many more critically-prais…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:48PMSure, for those who love the Regency era, nothing has changed (though the politics certainly have). But for contemporary books, writers must figure how to navigate the ever-changing technolo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:48PMSynetic Theater’s production does boast some gripping sequences, but there’s a general deficit in tension.
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The romantic comedy takes place during the holiday season, from Christmas to New Year’s Eve.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:58PMNot every December stage production in Maryland is holiday-themed. In fact, some of our best companies are doing some of their best work with shows that would promise absolute delight no mat…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:43PMThe NSO Pops helped to make our spirits bright with its annual Christmas concert featuring Tony and Grammy Award-winning Leslie Odom, Jr. and a parcel of musical gifts from his Simply Christ…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:41PM(Palko Karasz’s article appeared in The New York Times, 12/13; via Pam Green.) With new rules on funding, the government has taken a further step in controlling arts in the country, prompt…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 12:29PMIt’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas and Hanukkah, with a rush to wrap last-minute gifts and celebrate with family and friends. Enjoy our final list of must-do events for 2019, cove…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:24PM
Jerwood DanceHouse, IpswichPita’s adaptation of Mick Jackson’s splendigly lugubrious children’s book mixes mime, acting, song and dance to pleasingly twisted effect
If you like a happy…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:36AM“Clare Hennessy discusses the challenges of developing a play that sheds light on eating disorders — depicting them accurately, avoiding triggers — and offers suggestions for other wri…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:33AM“A bonus for viewers as they sort through the competing options: More programming doesn’t just mean more of the same. The decade has been marked by opportunities for diverse and candid v…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:33AM“Art on gallery walls doesn’t just materialize — the effort of displaying works is done through preparators. And a collaboration with the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:33AM“Working primarily in the public realm, Bryony Roberts Studio is a collaborative practice focused on how cultures, histories, and systems of power and politics are represented or erased in…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:33AM“This article reports on the impact of music education for students in a secondary school in Victoria, Australia. Socially inclusive practices were a focus of the study as the school has a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:33AM“Museums can be hostile places for disabled visitors, with buildings that are hard to navigate by wheelchair and exhibits presented with few concessions to those with sensory or cognitive …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:33AM“Donors are often confused about the appropriate levels of social risk and reward they should target in their philanthropy. They tell us they should bring the same risk aversion to philant…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:33AM“Teaching middle school choral music in a culturally diverse middle school in Hawaii resulted in new knowledge about welcoming the challenges posed by diversity to the benefit of both stud…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:33AM“I’m a politically minded person and have spent a lot of time thinking about poverty and income inequality. The idea of tackling this subject matter in the context of a symphony orchestr…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:33AM“Black opera singers are now cast in a wide range of roles and great operas written by black composers have gained more recognition. Yet, Porgy and Bess has maintained its cultural status …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:33AM“Currently Joachim is riding a wave of success for her album Fanm d’Ayiti (Women of Haiti), which The New York Times called ‘an evening-length artistic exploration of matriarchy, drawi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:33AM“In the 70-minute chamber opera Mila, Hong Kong playwright Candace Chong Mui Ngam has come together with composer Eli Marshall to tell the story of a Filipina woman named Mila who has trav…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:33AMZola, the wedding planner site that was running the ads, was not OK with the channel’s response to the anti-gay freakout from a notoriously homophobic group. “‘All kisses, couples and …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:33AMCan the Recording Academy’s new plan change that? – Los Angeles Times
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:33AMOh, well, why not dance, listen to music, and party into your 70s? After all, Mick Jagger still does it. “For those who do keep dancing, it can be much more than just a night out. What sta…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:33AMIn The New York Times‘ dance coverage, this week’s Instagram video hashtagged #SpeakingAboutDance features solos, duets, trios, and ensemble work to pianist Simone Dinnerstein’s perfor…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:33AMSinéad Gleeson, an Irish Book Award-winning author, says that reading offers connection and perhaps an escape – unless you’re slogging through the “great American” canon. – The Gu…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:33AMSteve Lazarides also recalls the early days, including the day Banksy strapped a helium-filled sex doll to a McDonald’s-branded balloon and released it into the sky. Many different police …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:33AMIt’s ironic that the final number is “You Learn” – we obviously haven’t as the same problems still plague us today: Racism, white privilege, opioids and date rape et al
SOURCE: Talk Entertainment at 10:24AMThe upcoming Feinstein’s/54 Below headliners love to spread Yuletide cheer wherever they go.
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AYT founder, Jake Orr announces his departure from the company. Here, he talks about its journey from blog used to vocalise frustrations about the theatre industry to company that has been i…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:24AMYou think you’ve got problems? Meet the Healys in what is billed as “our new musical” – a hybrid of songs written by Alanis Morissette from her skyrocketing 1995 album of angst and…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 09:12AMNPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with John Leguizamo about the evolution of his one-man show after performing it for six years. Its national tour has just wrapped up.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 09:12AMLove London Love Culture rounds up the reviews for the London Palladium’s 2019 festive offering.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMBy Kirsten Bowen. Kirsten Bowen reflects on Slovakia’s 2019 International Theatre Festival Divadelná Nitra, which was programmed based on the theme “faces of freedom.”
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Traverse theatre, EdinburghPu Songling’s weird stories are brought to life with a hit-and-miss mixture of cutting-edge video and live performance
A demon with a paintbrush retouches the fe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:54AMSongs by the Broadway composer and lyricist are popping up in films and TV shows from Joker to Marriage StoryHe is an 89-year old reclusive New Yorker who has been working on his new show fo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:54AMPlayhouse; Almeida; Lyttelton, LondonGone is the big nose, while the fighting’s a poetry slam in Martin Crimp’s ingenious new rapping Cyrano. Plus, The Duchess of Malfi reimagined, and T…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:54AMTrafalgar Studios, LondonA revival of the 1950s groundbreaking kitchen-sink drama resonates today – helped by bursts of songShelagh Delaney was just 19 when she wrote this. It debuted at t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:54AMSam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonElla Hickson’s Elizabeth I story vividly portrays her battles with men and a patriarchal system but doesn’t make a strong case for contemporary parallels
E…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:54AMReview: West End Misfits: The Christmas Edition 4.0stars Misfits is bringing in the Christmas season, almost. A mish mash of brilliant showtunes and heartfelt ensembles, West End Misfits –…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:42AMReview: One Million Tiny Plays About Britain, Jermyn Street Theatre 4.0stars What does Britain mean to you? A question with one million responses, I’m sure. Tonight, instead of a million a…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:42AMReview: Whistle Down the Wind, Union Theatre 2.0stars How you respond to finding a scruffy man in your family barn will depend on whether you’re an adult or a child. The adult who is tired…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:42AMReview: The Snow Queen, Northern Stage4.0starsThe Snow Queen opens with a thunderclap. Enter Gerda (Laura Waine), our school girl protagonist, as she arrives on her bike in a burst of chaoti…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:42AMAs the year draws to a close, we asked DCMTA writers to think back on the shows that left an indelible impression on them in 2019. In this category, outstanding community theater design, we …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:30AM
I’m a thirty-four-year-old straight woman who grew up in the suburbs with an older brother. That means I’ve spent a lot of time watching dudes play video games. I thought those days were…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:50AMThis Duchess of Malfi is a cool one. It is so cool that it has lost its gripping temper and, with it, some of its fire. A surprising drop in temperature, because director Rebecca Frecknall h…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:47AMI’m crouching along with a group of strangers, waiting for Anna to arrive. I have never met Anna but I know I’m her friend. This is her surprise party. We are at her house, in the dark, …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:46AM
Aurin, Nicole, and PennyMaria discuss 2 shows shows on Broadway and 2 shows Off-Broadway. Introductions (0:00) The Inheritance on Broadway (1:10) for colored girls who have considered s…
SOURCE: Maxamoo at 12:00AMSally Field, Linda Ronstadt, and Sesame Street were among those celebrated at the Kennedy Center Opera House December 8.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMIn IMPRESSIONS: Works & Process at the Guggenheim presents Merce Cunningham Centennial Celebration, "Slowly, we realize that the action is not just on stage, but all around us, in the a…
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