The 92nd annual Academy Awards also featured performances from Tony winners Cynthia Erivo, Idina Menzel and—albeit briefly—Billy Porter.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:20PMWhen the stage floods with pink smoke at the end of the show, you question if you’re supposed to get lost in it. The division between actor/ spectator becomes less defined. Should we g…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:20PMUtkarsh Ambudkar took to the stage during the Oscars to recap some of the things that had happened throughout the night and performed a freestyle rap!
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:17PMRenée Zellweger has won Best Actress at the 2020 Oscars for her role in Judy! The 2020 Oscars are airing live on ABC from the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:14PMDuring the 92nd Academy Awards, EltonJohn performed 'I'm Gonna Love Me Again' from the film a?oeRocketmana?? before winning the award for Best Original Song.
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This one man show alternates between three cast members, Andrew Longo, Trent Sinclair and Joseph Simons. Andrew Longo performed at the show I witnessed with a performance of a seasoned profe…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 09:23PMIn IMPRESSIONS: WOMEN IN MOTION 2019/2020 — Pop Performance Opportunity Project at Gibney, "The producers of the Women in Motion series are deadly serious about supporting female artist…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 09:06PMJack Frost is a magical new Australian musical written by Joseph May-Dessmann. The story follows the journey of Stella, a
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:04PMPlaywright Nilo Cruz labels his latest work, Exquisita Agonía, a “family drama.” Actually, the show that is currently playing at GALA Theatre is two family dramas that converge. The fir…
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Full disclosure, I love Summer of the Seventeenth Doll. It absolutely deserves the mantel of an Australian classic. But in the hands of Po Po Mo Co and Friends, I now have a deeper appreciat…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 08:59PMDynamic and unique Australian arts production company Performing Lines are thrilled to announce their vibrant 2020 program, which sees them working with
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:34PMMs. Freni was acclaimed for her exquisite singing in lighter lyric roles. In midcareer, she also dared to explore weightier ones.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 08:16PMWhether the Rocky Horror Show is on your bucket list, or you lost your Rocky Horror virginity years ago, Iron Crow’s production of the much-loved cult classic will whisk you into a world o…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:08PMThe stage is set for the world’s best young dancers to jeté into Brisbane to compete in the inaugural Brisbane
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The Board of Cairns Indigenous Art Fair (CIAF) has announced the appointment of Mr Darrell Harris to the position of General Manager. An experienced and respected practitioner committed to l…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 07:52PMTen of the 19 performers nominated for the Academy Awards in 2020 are Broadway veterans, four of them Tony winners. Click on the photographs below to learn details.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:52PMCurio Theatre Company’s ‘I Heart Alice Heart I’ explores a decades-long partnership with humor and tenderness. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 07:45PMEND OF. will have you in stitches as Ash Flanders follows his turbulent river of poor choices back to its
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:35PMWinter is coming…to Melbourne! David Venn is proud to announce the Victorian premiere of Thrones! The Musical Parody, taking the
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:14PMThree-time Tony Award nominee Rebecca Luker announced today that she’s been diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, drawing a wave of support on social media from the Broadway commun…
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:01PMThe Pittsburgh native brings early glam to the Academy Awards’ red carpet.
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EgoPo Classic Theater’s production of ‘Fool For Love’ lacks the charged current that pulls the doomed central couple together, even as it guarantees their mutual destruction. Cameron K…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:54PMToday it was announced that worldwide sensation SIX The Musical will be opening at Wellington’s Opera House this July. SIX has already been
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:53PMFasten your seatbelts for this contemporary version of the Greek classic.
SOURCE: Forbes at 05:30PMWith films like Birdman and last year’s The Body Remembers When The World Broke Open and Oscar fave 1917 edited to appear as if they’re single shots, what’s the deal? The “single-sho…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:03PMThat’s the quest of some dancers in American Contemporary Ballet as they try to recreate Astaire’s routines. “Although Astaire’s style — the nimble and quick footwork and weightles…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:03PMThe award is called The Carol Shields Prize for Fiction, named after the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Stone Diaries, and starting in 2022 will award $155,000 Canadian to a woman or n…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:03PMAside from obvious comparisons to fascist Italy, it’s just not great to take direction from a fringe group of neo-classicists, some of whom aren’t architects. Then there are the safety r…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:03PMMāori-born Hera and Aboriginal-born Kane are in love. Everything is perfect and planned, except… their families. Can they handle the
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:00PMPeter Filichia, James Marino, and Jan Simpson talk about The Kleban Prize in Musical Theatre, Burning House by Joe Nelms, The New Group production of Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, M…
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Once again, the Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium explores meaning, truth, language, and absurdity in ‘The Bald Soprano’. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:44PM(Ellen Gutoskey’s article appeared, 2/4, on mentalfloss.com; via Pam Green.) One of the many reasons Geoffrey Chaucer’s 14th-century magnum opus The Canterbury Tales is considered a gr…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:14PMWhen I was a kid the phrase “Peyton Place” was still used by grown-ups to indicate any kind of mishigas or unneeded drama in one’s life: “What is this, Peyton Place?” The phrase wa…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 04:12PMHarlem-born Adolph Caesar 1933-1985 served five years in the U.S. Navy (as a Chief Petty Officer in the medical corps) before studying drama at NYU. Caesar’s greatest asset as an actor was…
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Nothing speaks louder about a musician’s accomplishments than receiving a standing ovation and cheers from the audience before he plays a single note. NEA Jazz Master and recipient of the …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:42PMBean was on his way to meet his wife, who was ushering the show at the Pacific Resident Theatre in LA, when he was hit by two cars while crossing the street. The theatre canceled its perform…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:36PMRees, whose Pariah hit the indie scene hard in 2011 and whose 2017 Mudbound earned four Oscar nominations, “is placing a thick spread of bets, in the hope that she will soon be able to pla…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:36PMFive of the nine Best Picture nominees are already available on Netflix or Amazon – and the others won’t be far behind, meaning that theatres don’t necessarily see much more money per …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:36PMThere was little overlap with the Oscar nominees as The Farewell took Best Picture and its older star Zhao Shuzhen won the best supporting actress award. Adam Sandler won for his role in Unc…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:36PMTurns out that “climate crafting has come into its own,” according to cross-stitchers, knitters, and other crafters around the world, whose visual representations of temperature and othe…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:36PMIn Burkina Faso, hundreds of thousands of refugees from neighboring countries are trying to find peace and a future in the capital. One of them, an 18-year-old dancer who’s been on the run…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:36PMSandy Powell, nominated this year for The Irishman (which she finds odd since it’s mostly men in “normal clothes”), says that a large part of her job is helping actors maintain and imp…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:36PMFrieze Los Angeles goes up in the Paramount Pictures backlot, opening on Valentine’s Day. Sounds cozy. But, says a Frieze co-curator, “Going into 2020, we didn’t simply want to go back…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:36PMConrad’s biggest part came as Jim West in a blend of James Bond and Westerns. His character “was dispatched on various secret missions on behalf of the government of President Ulysses S.…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:36PMCool use of big data, no? Real shocker though: “When you look at the birthplaces of all the winners together, you can see the Academy tends to favor American-born talent, with Europe as a …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:36PMCaroline Baumann’s resignation was abrupt on Friday, February 7, and the Smithsonian Design Museum in Manhattan would give no reason for her departure. “During her tenure as director, sh…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:36PMMichael Rosen blames the Reformation – truly. That time period was “when they thought the only way you could be virtuous was to be modest and serious, so humour was pushed aside, seen as…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:36PMWriter Jenny Offill: “The question I was thinking about in this book … was, Can you still just tend your own garden once you know about the fire outside its walls?” – The New York Ti…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:36PMIn settling out of court, apparently, “Audible has agreed not to include the copyrighted works of seven plaintiff publishers in its ‘Captions’ program without express permission.” …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:36PMIn Budapest, Deaf and other hard of hearing adults and children use touch to experience Beethoven’s Fifth. One of them said, “Here, when the string instruments all sound, that gives a ve…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:36PMReview: The Invitation, Town Hall Hotel2.0starsImmersive theatre is one of the most lucrative sectors of the current theatrical landscape. Promising an intimate and tactile experience, many …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:36PMWhen Laura C. Harris bursts onto the stage in Silent Sky at Ford’s Theatre, she is Henrietta Leavitt—hoop skirt and all—fresh out of college, brimming with confidence, and determined t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:08PMPink wins Westminster Kennel Club’s Agility title
By: Patrick Christiano February 8, 2020: On Saturday evening at Pier 94 Pink, a border collie named after the pop singer of the sam…
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Olivier-winning actress Elaine Paige is giving Broadway.com listeners a chance to hear her BBC Radio 2 show, Elaine Paige on Sunday. This week, Paige discusses this year's Academy Awards, wh…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:54PMSometimes the most truthful answer to the standard job interview question, 'Why do you want to work here?', is 'I'm behind on my rent, I have no health care and I'm desperate for money becau…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:09PMThere’s no way Artistic Director Marya Sea Kaminski could possibly have predicted that the impeachment trial would coincide with the Pittsburgh Public Theater run of Little Shop of Horrors…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 12:09PMReview: Leopardess, VAULT Festival 3.0stars We are gathered here to mourn Sarah M Anson after her “untimely demise” surrounded by her nearest and dearest. This untimely demise of Sarah M…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:03PMReview: I Think We Are Alone, Theatre Royal Plymouth 4.0stars I Think We Are Alone slowly weaves together the lives of six individuals and their own personal heartaches and suffering. It ser…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:03PMReview: Albion, Almedia Theatre0.0starsYou’d imagine that taking a group of people out of London and putting them in the countryside would help to alleviate any tension that might be prese…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:03PMReview: What the Dolls Saw, VAULT Festival 3.0stars At home in the dank dungeon of the VAULT Festival, What the Dolls Saw promises the proverbial moon: a true-crime style conundrum “that u…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:03PM
Sadler’s Wells, London An annual taster festival showcased myriad styles with mixed results. And Michael Keegan-Dolan returned with an intoxicating night way out west
The annual Sampled fe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:54AMShe loved her nude scenes in the Netflix hit but the West End’s Uncle Vanya gave her stage fright. The Stockport star remembers being the class clown and tracking down her tormentor
Aimee…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:54AMHosted by the Graham Company’s elegant director Janet Eilber, the program began with some historical comments after which two groups of dancers, one representing the Graham technique from …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:45AMA Socially Accepted Breakdown @ The PIT Loft
Award-winning spoken word poet Patrick Roche presents a one-of-a-kind solo show interweaving his poems with stories and scenes from throughou…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:23AMThe entire seventy minute show feels like a pan on the boil, continuously moving and flowing and engaging. Poet in da Corner is funny, truthful, inventive and really worth seeing.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AM
Review: The Strange Tale of Charlie Chaplin and Stan Laurel, HOME Manchester 3.0stars There are few more iconic or quintessential show business stars than Charlie Chaplin and Stan Laurel. Th…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:42AMReview: Alice's Adventures Under Ground, Royal Opera House 4.0stars As the next stage in their commitment to programming theatre for family audiences, the Royal Opera House presents Gerald B…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:42AMReview: On Arriving, VAULT Festival 5.0stars A stage may seem a very lonely space for a single actor to fill, but in On Arriving by Ivan Faute, it’s the characters we don’t see that fles…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:42AMReview: Be Longing, VAULT Festival4.0Overall ScoreIf you could design your own baby what would it look like? Eye colour? Number of toes? Pigmentation? Shouldn’t queer womxn have the right …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:42AMReview: Lost Laowais, VAULT Festival 3.0stars Spinning together the lives of four expats living in Beijing, Lost Laowais explores some of the intricacies of what it means to try to make some…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:42AMNow starring in A Soldier’s Play, the former Oakland Raiders star proves his worth to this Pulitzer Prize-winning ensemble work.
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Church & State, about the collision of faith, politics and gun control after a school shooting, obviously could not be more timely or more resonant for South Florida audiences. Unfortuna…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:48AMWhat would it have felt like, I’ve sometimes wondered, to listen, in sublime surroundings, to sounds conveying the deepest devotions of Christian belief, long before the “melancholy, lon…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:34AMOld Vic, London; Birmingham Rep; Riverside Studios, LondonAlan Cumming and Daniel Radcliffe head an irreverent Beckett double bill that isn’t quite dark enough
Samuel Beckett or Eeyore? On…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:03AMThe acclaimed dramatist, 82, says he is too old to follow up the work inspired by the fate of his recently discovered Jewish familySir Tom Stoppard, Britain’s most celebrated living playwr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:03AMSam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonFlat insults, bland puns and painful verse let down this staging of Shakespeare’s problematic play, which charges ahead without a trace of satire
There is n…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:03AMBlitz! encapsulates all the emotions across the board with enthusiasm exuding from all the cast keen to make you connect with all their individual stories.
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