In 2006, when David Woods and Jon Haynes first brought Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest to Melbourne, Malthouse Theatre audiences fell out of their seats in laughter. Now, the…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 09:49PMNatalie, Toby, and Teresa, want their Mum to tidy her house. She doesn’t seem to throw anything away and things are piling up. With the help of Teresa’s husband, Paul, the kids stage an …
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 09:17PMWritten by acclaimed playwright, Francis Poet, Adam is based on the true story of Egyptian trans man Adam Kashmiry. We follow him through his struggles not only with his own identity, but al…
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Byre theatre, St AndrewsThis imaginative adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s gothic fable amps up the physical storytelling with comic results
When my daughter was very young she devel…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54PMNew York Times bestselling author Chris Bohjalian's world premiere stage adaptation of his novel MIDWIVES will conclude its acclaimed limited run today (Sunday) at George Street Playhouse's …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:52PMThe first words that we hear come courtesy of an onstage Band Leader. “It’s 1969.” Those who didn’t know that...Continue Reading
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SOURCE: broadwayselect.com at 08:19PMPaul Schwartz is a writer, director and composer. His work is in the field of dramatic story-telling in all its forms, and encompasses projects in film, theatre, opera and dance. He is a mem…
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A new Bob Marley musical is headed to London's West End in 2021!
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:59PMIt's the classic story of bands across eras and genres, but this is the story of The Band.
SOURCE: phindie.com at 07:45PM“Get Up, Stand Up! The Bob Marley Story” will premiere at the Lyric Theatre in London’s West End next year.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:32PMA new cabaret series from HOTA, Secret Broadway takes its inspiration from the award-winning book ‘The Secret Life of the American Musical:
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:23PMNational YoungArts Foundation (YoungArts) has announced the nominees for the 2020 U.S. Presidential Scholars in the Arts, one of the nation’s highest honors for high school students who…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 07:06PM★★★ Cary Gitter’s comedy centers on an Italian-American woman and an Orthodox Jewish knish maker in New York City
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★★ Orthodox Boy meets Italian girl, loses girl, gets girl…
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 06:59PMThe finals will be held Monday, Feb. 17, at the O’Reilly Theater, home of Pittsburgh Public Theater.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 06:53PMNew research released by the Australia Council for the Arts shows arts experiences are a key driver for tourism, particularly to regional Australia. Domestic Arts Tourism: Connecting the Cou…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 06:50PMEspecially during fringe festivals, playwrights are often performers, and because of the pressure of budget and time, they’re exploring their own experiences and pain. “Rawness can make …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:48PMTropes actually help us all make sense of the world (so writers, calm down; even trying to go against tropes is a trope of its own). Take a famous narrative of the late 1990s and early 2000s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:48PMWho profits when a 14-year-old Black teenager creates a dance and shares it – and it goes viral? Not she.”TikTok, one of the biggest video apps in the world, has become synonymous with d…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:48PMCullinan was hired as a typist at The New Yorker when she was 22, but soon the magazine started publishing her stories as well. “Ms. Cullinan helped redefine Irish-American literature, vee…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:48PMDear United States, this isn’t new – but it is alarming. “For centuries, autocrats, authoritarians, and dictators have held a fascination with using architecture as a political tool to…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:48PMThe theatrical concert has been a critical and commercial success. A film version by Spike Lee is also on the way.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:48PMJordan Casteel paints portraits – huge portraits. And that means something to her subjects. “‘I knew I wanted to use this opportunity to place my mom and I in the art historical canon,…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:48PMHollywood darling Rita Wilson will make her Sydney Opera House debut at the Utzon Room on Saturday 7 March 2020.
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Wajatta is the musical duo of beat-boxer/comedian/musician Reggie Watts and electronic music artist/DJ/producer John Tejada.
The guys’ second single of their second album is out, and…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 05:54PMIn Full Bloom: Transcending Gender is a documentary that follows the courageous journey of thirteen transgender and two gay actors as they transform their lives through the use of monologue…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 05:54PMCBS shares unprecedented access to the production, filming its rehearsals and interviewing its creators, on the February 16 installation of the long-running news show.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:22PM“David Byrne’s American Utopia” will return to Broadway in September 2020, the show’s producers announced Sunday. The show, which ends its engagement at the Hudson Theatre Sunday, wi…
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 05:21PMThe smash limited engagement closes February 16—for now.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:13PMPeter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere talk about Romeo & Bernadette to transfer, 54 Sings Lovesong @ 54 Below, Spring Awakening @ Round House Theatre, Seesaw @ Theatre Ro…
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The Dynamite cover below prompts the present memory of the tv show The Greatest American Hero (1981-83) which we post on the birthday of its star William Katt (b. 1951). Katt is the son of t…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 02:32PMThe Print Center’s yearly competition draws hundreds of entries from around the world, bringing photography and printmaking beyond traditional practice. Pam Forsythe reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:23PMThe gender-swapped production, starring Katrina Lenk, begins performances at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre March 2.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:12PMOlivier-winning actress Elaine Paige is giving Broadway.com listeners a chance to hear her BBC Radio 2 show, Elaine Paige on Sunday. This week, Elaine Paige reviews a production of Betty B…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:03PMIn this latest episode, Ben is rollin' on the river with the choreography of Tina and the help of Leandra Ellis-Gaston. Can you keep up?
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Sara Bareilles is currently making her West End debut in WAITRESS, playing Jenna alongside Gavin Creel as Dr. Pomatter. On the show's Twitter account, Bareilles revealed some of the 'ingredi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:53PMWoodard invites Academy Award nominees from past and present – and, she says, “those who, in a perfect world, should have been.” She also says the Oscars don’t have an impact on good…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:48PMYikes: “A picture shared on social media showed ‘BCC wankers’ scrawled across the artwork, which shows a young girl firing a slingshot filled with flowers.” – The Guardian (UK)
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:48PMWill Parasite‘s best picture win goose more international fare from the big studios – as opposed simply to Netflix – or will it only help both Bong Joon-ho and then other films that se…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:48PMCohen was a veteran stage and screen actor who found extra fame late in life as Miranda Hobbes (Cynthia Nixon)’s housekeeper and nanny on Sex and the City (and both movies). “On Broadway…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:48PMMassey claims the separation of ways was a mutual decision and adds that “the job was not what he expected when he came to Louisville a year ago from Florida, where he had been the presid…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:48PMAnd the Writers Guild is ready to crack down on their wayward members. The WGA president wrote, “‘For any writers breaking the rules there must and will be accountability.’ He added: �…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:48PM“The list is full of classics, of course, but it’s also got a few refreshing surprises in there.” – LitHub
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:48PMNope. Take a look at this Gulliver’s Travels (yes, Gulliver’s Travels) fanfic. “In the 18th century, as now, fan fiction was usually more explicitly sexual than its source material.”…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:48PMSeeking a visionary leader to advance the Sheldon’s mission to entertain, educate, and enlighten the community and its visitors through the transformative power of the performing arts in t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:48PMHotchner was “a novelist, playwright, biographer, literary bon vivant and philanthropist whose life was shaped and colored by close friendships with two extraordinarily gifted and well-kno…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:48PMA billion dollar industry dependent on one factory in California? That’s physical manufacturing, so perhaps not. The factory, where 75 percent of the world’s blank lacquers were made, bu…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:48PMAfter massive fallout from accusations of racism and pandering to a small (possibly racist) publisher, Nora Roberts weighing in on the homophobia of the organization, Twitter-led discoveries…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:48PMCasei “in the 1960s and ’70s could be reliably heard as Suzuki, Maddalena, Lola and other bread-and-butter mezzo-soprano characters at the Metropolitan Opera before transforming hersel…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:48PMThey found no cash, but there was alcohol. “Front and back windows at Gay’s the Word, which became the UK’s first gay bookshop when it was opened in 1979 and which featured in the fil…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:48PMOrdinary lives are made extraordinary by the events of “Too Heavy for Your Pocket,” at the Falk School in Oakland.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 01:46PMHeading into the Children’s Theatre of Annapolis (CTA) play “The Hobbit,” I wondered how young children could possibly portray and deliver the complexities of the characters of J.R.R. …
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SIX and BAT OUT OF HELL star Danielle Steers has announced the release of her debut album - and BroadwayWorld has an exclusive sneak peek of Steers performing a song from it in the video b…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:55PMReview: Big Bones, VAULT Festival 5.0stars Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, gather round and take your seats. Welcome to the Big Top Circus where many a freak of nature awaits to leave …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:36PMReview: SPLINTERED, VAULT Festival5.0stars“Carnival is gay as shit!” grins the MC of Lagahoo’s glittering cabaret of Caribbean queerness. SPLINTERED, which comes to the VAULT Festival …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:36PMUsing aliens as metaphor, Chilean company Bonobo create a cerebral but uneven conversation around immigration and othering. Alicia Ramirez reviews.
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Hamlet: Dane in Pain
By: JK Clarke
February 16, 2020: There's a moment in the Gate Theatre of Dublin's production of Hamlet (at St. Ann's Warehouse in Brooklyn through March 8) when …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:59AMMr. Droege’s sharp and well-observed writing renders each of these familiar figures with biting depth, achieving grand mini-portraiture. Though preoccupied with comedy, an undercurrent of …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:53AMThinking Cap Theatre’s stunning production of Beckett’s Happy Days, offers an unmitigated triumph of a performance by Karen Stephens expertly molded by Nicole Stodard, but to say this ab…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:18AMChaplin: Birth of a Tramp is a sensitive and interesting take on Chaplin, looking at the artist behind the art and continues to showcase Arrows and Traps as a innovative company.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMWe’re all fucked, enjoy the show.
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Perhaps in our art there exists only one correct path—the line of the intuition of feelings! And out of it grow unconsciously the outer and inner images, their form, the idea and the techn…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:22AMOriginal stars of Frozen, Caissie Levy and Patti Murin, play their final performance as Elsa and Anna tonight, February 16.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:21AMDavid Byrne's American Utopia plays its final Broadway performance tonight, February 16. Its limited run officially opened at the Hudson Theatre on October 20.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:15AMNetflix & Chill is a truly thought-provoking play which shines a spotlight on the taboo topic of male mental health.
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I used to spend lots of time trying to please my boss. I would constantly want to make them proud. I would overthink their emails, strive…
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SOURCE: Medium at 08:45AMIt’s not clear who sprayed the irritant, or what it was, exactly. “Two people were treated at the scene for breathing difficulties following the 4:15 p.m. incident at the Broadhurst Thea…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:30AMBack in the days before multiple workshops and lengthy regional runs, the geniuses of musical theatre often had to work miracles during of-of-town previews to quickly revise and rewrite sure…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:26AMA celebration today of Marsha Warfield (b. 1954). A comedian from Chicago’s South Side, Warfield’s first major credit was as a cast member and writer on The Richard Pryor Show (1977). S…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:03AMLittle Wing, a new play by French actress, singer and director Juliette Quenin which takes its title from Jimi Hendrix's 1967 song of the same title, premieres this spring in London. Time to…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMThe NY Philharmonic has commissioned 19 women to create new works to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the passing of the 19th Amendment. It's called Project 19.
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SOURCE: phindie.com at 07:58AMSet in Montmartre Quarter of Paris, France, at the turn of the century, a world of indulgent beauty and unparalleled
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:37AMRemington famously hadn’t read the books when she created the covers, leading to missteps including lions on the original cover. “While working as a freelance illustrator, she also did w…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:32AMCaryl Churchill wrote Far Away in 2000 and, 20 years on, it feels more current by the moment.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMHave you seen who's starring in the new production of Mary Rodgers’ rarely seen, 1959 Broadway fairy-tale Once Upon a Mattress? Love, lechery, a legume... and a ten-strong cast of #StageFa…
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An interview with Petar Miloshevski – A London-based actor, performer, theatre artist. Petar Miloshevski was born in Bitola, Macedonia, educated in Sofia and London, and is professionally …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 02:32AMBy Julian Eaves
Julian Eaves reviews Frances Barber in Musik by Pet Shop Boys and Jonathan Harvey now playing at Leicester Square Theatre, London.
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SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 02:05AMNorthern Stage, Newcastle upon TyneSet against the upheaval of world events, music from folk trio the Young’uns and animation combine to tell the story of the young anti-fascist activist
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:04AMYoung Vic, LondonStef Smith’s smart three-Nora Ibsen update spans 100 years and cleverly contrasting worlds of pain in this slick first revival
It’s often said that Nora’s slam of the …
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