For more than 190,000 Australians employed in the cultural sector, the last month brought a quadrella of horror. First, having spent decades promoting flexible labour markets, the federal go…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 09:39PMThese are uncertain times and it can feel like all of the “norms” we were used to have been thrown out the window. Maintaining a definitive line between work life and home life – when …
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 09:33PMFeeling disconnected? Worried about losing your focus? Want to keep your skills sharp? Great news! Award-winning casting director Jen Rudin is offering FREE weekly online support chats for y…
SOURCE: theatrenerds.com at 09:25PMAs parents and teachers across Victoria adjust to a new way of learning this school term, Museums Victoria has launched a digital education program on their new online portal, Museum at Home…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 09:17PMJune 30 is the end of the fiscal year for a lot of non-profits. In light of that, non-profit organizations generally have board meeting around this time of year in an effort to report where …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:12PMLong time readers of the blog know that I am a big fan of the results of the Culture Track survey conducted every three years to gauge shifting attitudes and perceptions about cultural activ…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:12PM(Natasha Tripney’s interview appeared in the Guardian, 4/21.) Natalia Kaliada and Nikolai Khalezin explain how political exile prepared them for lockdown and why their latest project is ab…
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The Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, the famed improvisational and sketch comedy training theater, has announced that it will close its theater and training facility in New York's Hell's Ki…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:36PMThis Month, to celebrate Earth Day, AussieTheatre’s resident Composting Costumier, Rhiannon Irving chats with environmentalist and comedian, Patrick Rehill, about
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:31PMEduHam was born as an offshoot of “Hamilton” itself, and Lin Manuel Miranda says the project — in which 250,000 students nationwide have participated — has proved to be a hit as much…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:03PMThe daily series created by Seth Rudetsky and James Wesley benefits The Actors Fund.
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Today, Broadway star Liz Callaway checked an item off her bucket list, taking up an offer from the legendary Elaine Page to perform a virtual duet on, 'I Know Him So Well' from Chess!
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:32PMWe want to hear from you! We're starting #BwayWorldPrompts, where each day we'll be asking our readers on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram questions to spark some theater conversation.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:18PMToday, watch as he plays us some songs with different lyrics!
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:01PMIn January 2017, a group of powerful female performers came together for a special concert, where they performed the works
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:00PMCelebrate your own resilience in the face of adversity with 'I'm Here' from The Color Purple!
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While you're on the inside always looking out, spend a little time in the world Dear Evan Hansen, and track down twenty Evan-themed clues in our latest word search!
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:52PMWhat do awards mean when all your shows are closed and your theaters will be dark for months?
SOURCE: Forbes at 06:20PMKyle V. Hiller, once an aspiring meteorologist, spends Earth Day considering how climate change is directly linked to COVID-19 and the economic crash.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 06:15PMNominations have been announced for the 65th Annual Drama Desk Awards, honoring the best in Broadway, off and off-off-Broadway theater in the 2019-2020 season. As previously reported, detai…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:03PMFans must have paciencia y fe because Warner Bros. will now release the highly anticipated In the Heights movie on June 18, 2021, according to Deadline. The film, based on the hit Broadway m…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:03PMHarry Potter and the Cursed Child star James Snyder wishes he could use his onstage powers in real life. While staying at home with his family in quarantine during the COVID-19 pandemic th…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:03PM
'The Shows Must Go On!' YouTube channel streamed Andrew Lloyd Webber's 'The Phantom of the Opera,' raising $400 million for The Actors Fund.
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SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 04:54PMStage favorites are working to raise spirits in light of the COVID-19 crisis.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:52PMNominations for the 65th Drama Desk Awards were announced today, recognizing theater at every level of New York’s industry, from downtown hideyholes to the glitz of Broadway.
SOURCE: Forbes at 04:51PMPeople are consuming more news than usual. Monthly readership of NPR’s website has more than doubled and average weekly streaming of its radio shows has gone up 31 percent since the crisis…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42PMThe very features that make New York attractive to businesses, workers and tourists — Broadway, the subway system, world-class restaurants and innumerable cultural institutions — were am…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42PMA quarter of the respondents, nine of 35, said they are facing the permanent closure of their spaces in 2020 if the situation doesn’t improve quickly. An additional five galleries, or 14%,…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42PMCritic Ben Read went looking for the source of the bizarre allegations that have had the right-wing internet in a lather for a few weeks. He found a 77-minute YouTube video about a pair of f…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42PMThe situation into which almost every parent in America has now suddenly and unwillingly been thrust could not be more different. One-size-fits-all education barely works in a classroom, but…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42PMDavid Patrick Stearns: “The carefully-curated public images of the past … have, ironically, faded away in this era of social distancing. Any exterior glamour that creates psychological d…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42PMThe Director of SCPA will serve as a central collaborator and consensus-builder inside and outside SCPA.
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42PMNow facing an immense shortfall in tax revenue—about $7.4 billion—the city has proposed a revised budget for the next fiscal year that would reduce the overall budget by $3.4 billion, co…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42PMThe demonization of density harkens to the heyday of urbanization in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. American civic leaders and reformers of the time embraced the notion that urban s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42PMCOVID-19 pandemic could bring about a "new normal."
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 04:42PMThe worldwide event isn’t a competition this year because of the pandemic, but organizers still want your snaps of trees, flowers and critters.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 04:42PMUnion Avenue Opera and St. Louis Chamber Chorus cancel events.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 04:42PMBelow are three new shows you can see tonight New York City Ballet tonight launches a twice-weekly online series on its YouTube channel offering treasures from its archives. On what would ha…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:19PMNominations for the 65th annual Drama Desk Awards, founded in 1955 to celebrate outstanding achievements in on, off, and off-off Broadway theater, were announced this afternoon by hosts Seth…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:10PMVirtual classes and activities keep the theater bug alive for young artists.
With schools in Illinois closed for the remainder of the year, families may be scram…
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All courses, including a lab with Artistic Director Neil Pepe, will be held online on Zoom.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:56PMThe two-time Tony winner plays Joanne in the new production, which was originally to open March 22.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:52PMOff-Broadway's Soft Power and The Wrong Man lead the nominations.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:32PMThe movie was scheduled to hit screens this June.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:32PMEllyn Marie Marsh and Brett Thiele will host.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:32PMTake an 80-year-old, 169,000-word novel, which begins with a journey halfway across the country, in the midst of the Depression, features the death of important characters, violent fistfight…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:32PMThe film adaptation of Lin-Manuel Miranda and Quiara Alegría Hudes' musical was originally set to premiere in movie theatres in June.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:29PMThe creators of the hit musical move up the launch of a digital version of a popular school program.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:24PMThe free digital program encourages teens and their families to create their own theatrical pieces.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:20PMEditors’ Note: With full acknowledgment of the big-picture implications of a pandemic that already has claimed thousands of lives, cratered global economies and closed international borde…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:15PMThe launch of EduHam at Home was announced Tuesday by the "Hamilton" creator and his partners in the venture, which has already served more than 250,000 students.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 03:04PMBig River's tune "Muddy Water" brought bluegrass/country sounds to Broadway and its revival brought the incredible Deaf West Theatre.
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 03:04PMOriginal Broadway Cast, 2019 (Sony Masterworks Broadway) First, a few words of explanation: The show that yielded this cast album opened Off-Broadway at the New York Theatre Workshop in Dece…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 03:03PM
Brilliant designers make for brilliant television. Gail Obenreder reviews ‘Abstract: The Art of Design,’ an original Netflix documentary series.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:35PMA starry roster of talent has been announced to take part in the latest edition of Viral Monologues, a new program which features performances released digitally on IGTV; the series is an in…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:32PMHere's a quick roundup of stories you might have missed recently.
Tony Winner Ali Stroker & More Join Bridge to Broadway
Some incredible talents have joined the already star-studded Br…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:32PMToday is a great day, and here is why: we have a release date for Ben Platt's previously announced Netflix concert special! The Dear Evan Hansen Tony winner and Politician star's Radio City …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:32PM“Soft Power,” an Off-Broadway musical by David Henry Hwang and Jeanine Tesori, received the highest number of Drama Desk nominations Tuesday. The musical, which was directed by Leigh S…
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 02:25PM Off-Broadway dominates the 65th annual Drama Desk Awards, which honors achievement in the truncated 2019-2020 season by professional theater artists on Broadway, Off-Broadway and Off-Of…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:23PMThe Sunday, April 19th livestream performance of Buyer & Cellar has raised $209,262 and counting for the Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS' COVID-19 Emergency Assistance Fund.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:03PMThe Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History and HAMILTON today announced the launch of EduHam at Home, a free digital program for students and their families to explore the world of HA…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:03PM
The 65th annual ceremony—now taking place virtually—will celebrate a condensed theatre season in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:56PMThe 65th annual ceremony—now taking place virtually—will go on as scheduled in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:56PMAs well as acting as Associate Director on the West End’s Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, George Richmond-Scott has his hands full with another project – the Omnibus Theatre’s Small…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:48PMStudents will be able to access free materials to create their own songs or scenes inspired by history.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:42PMWe check in with Harry Potter and the Cursed Child star James Snyder!
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:32PMLegendary Broadway composer Stephen Sondheim will be toasted with an all-star birthday concert, streaming live on Sunday, April 26 at 8PM ET. Hosted by Raúl Esparza, with musical direction …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:32PMMore than 70,000 online theater fans have watched the Broadway.com living room livestream of Michael Urie reprising his award-winning solo turn in Jonathan Tolins' Buyer & Cellar. Th…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:32PMHillary Bettis’s immigration drama 72 Miles to Go … was one of many off-Broadway shows that didn’t make it to the stage after the Covid-19 outbreak, leaving the playwright ‘heartbrok…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:18PMRoundabout Theatre Company, which filmed the Off-Broadway play prior to the shutdown, is offering free student access through April 24, and public tickets for $20.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:14PMThe evening with the Dear Evan Hansen Tony winner and The Politician star was filmed at the famed Manhattan venue last year.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:14PMThe award will be given to mid-to-late-career playwrights.,
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:06PMTwelve actors perform original pieces, written for them by a writer and composer team.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:05PMHelen Shaw: “After five weeks of valiant internet productions that looked a lot like readings (even when they weren’t), Buyer & Cellar” — with Michael Urie, live from his living …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:03PMDuring these unprecedented times, West End star of Dreamgirls and Waitress Marisha Wallace, has been creating some fantastic content that we wanted to share!
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 01:03PMMark Doerr, Director of Information Technology, discusses simple and effective website updates you can do today to strengthen your digital platform.
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SOURCE: thisstage.la at 01:00PMMean Girls star Rick Younger recommends revisiting the Broadway cast recording of the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical.
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There's nothing ironic. About our love of. Manolo Blahnik.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:59PMEgoPo Classic Theater relocated successfully to Philadelphia after hurricane Katrina destroyed its former home in New Orleans. Artistic director Lane Savadove talks to Jill Ivey about surviv…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:59PMThe concept album of Within Earshot: Anthems for the In-Between (previously titled Arrowhead), a new musical with music and lyrics by Jackson Teeley and a book by Sarah Galante, is now avai…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:54PMLin-Manuel Miranda took to Twitter on Tuesday morning to share that he has written a song for tonight's episode of Conan.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:54PMThe Met has announced the Week 7 schedule for its Nightly Met Opera Streams, a free series of encore Live in HD presentations streamed on the company website during the coronavirus closure.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:54PMOn this week's episode of 'Seth Rudetsky's Back to School' Podcast, Rosie O'Donnell reveals how she always knew she'd be famous, but she never thought she'd come out. She also talks about th…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:54PMThis week in the life of Seth Rudetsky, Seth share’s high school stories from Rosie O’Donnell, plus his first conversation with Graham over a line in Evita, and more.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:53PMFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE THE 24 HOUR PLAYS TO STREAM FIRST-EVER VIRAL MUSICALS, STARRING DAVEED DIGGS, JOHN GALLAGHER JR IN PIECES BY AIMEE MANN, LAUREN PRITCHARD AND MORE Available tonight at …
SOURCE: broadwayshowbiz.com at 12:44PMDirector of Education and Community Artistic Programming Jim Jack moderates our first ever VIRTUAL symposium with playwright Joe DiPietro and director David Saint of CONSCIENCE! Tune in for …
SOURCE: YouTube at 12:39PMLuPone celebrates her birthday today, and we look back on some of our best interviews with the Broadway legend.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:32PMThe productions will be part of their digital spring season.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:32PMBorn into considerable wealth and privilege in New York, Beard, whose body was found yesterday in woodland in the East Hamptons, was a photographer whose love for the African wilderness and …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:18PMLegendary Broadway composer Stephen Sondheim will be toasted with an all-star birthday concert, streaming live on Sunday, April 26 at 8PM. Hosted by Raúl Esparza, with musical direction by …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:18PM“No one in live comedy is thrilled about moving shows online. ‘Doing standup without an audience is like sex without an orgasm,’ quipped Felicia Madison, the booker for West Side Comed…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:18PMThe new works, to run under five minutes, will premiere on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:13PMWestfield News ArtsBeat 4/21/20. Springfield Symphony Musicians Relief Fund, News from Shakespeare & Company, Goodspeed, WAM Theatre and online arts offerings in WMass and No.CT.
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The company will present original musicals online, featuring performances by Daveed Diggs, Larry Owens, and more.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:59AMDuring this time when productions all over the world have been put on pause, we are coming together to celebrate plays that have left their mark on theater history. This week we will be focu…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:48AMNeed inspiration? The BroadwayWorld team has come together to help guide your musical quarantine journey. Today, we bring you just a few recommendations for: A cast recording that will make …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:48AMBroadway veteran Danny Burstein, known for his Tony-nominated performances in musicals like 'Fiddler on the Roof,' was discharged from the hospital after a five-day stay battling the corona…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:37AMToday, April 16 (and continuing every Tuesday and Thursday), BroadwayWorld's own Broken Records podcast co-hosts, Ben Rimalower and Daniel Nolen, will be broadcasting 'Tuesday, Thursday, Ap…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:33AMIn this time of social distancing and remaining responsibly indoors, we are all looking for ways to brighten our days and get moving any way we can! In the spirit of celebrating theater and …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:21AMEditor’s note: Atlanta’s artists face uncertainty in the age of coronavirus. To...
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SOURCE: ArtsATL at 11:18AMGreat news, shut-ins! Bear Manor Media, publishers of my book Chain of Fools: Silent Comedy and Its Legacies from Nickelodeons to Youtube., are slashing 25% off the sale price of all books t…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:18AMToday (April 21) in live streaming: Urinetown cast visits Stars in the House, Drama Desk Awards nominations are announced and so much more!
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:15AM“Less than a month after canceling its spring season because of the coronavirus pandemic, New York City Ballet is back with a six-week slate of online programming. The company announced on…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:12AMIn addition to performing and recording a great deal of early keyboard repertoire, he prepared and published a new edition of Domenico Scarlatti’s 555 sonatas, became the first North Ameri…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:12AMThis is especially true at (now-online) universities, reports Emma Pettit, for students and professors alike. And as professors find themselves unable to focus on the reading they need to do…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:12AMTim Schneider: “An art market justifiably paranoid about frequent international travel is an art market incentivized to fracture into regional and local interests. Short distances won’t …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:12AMJason Boog recounts how his experience as a (non-)working writer during the Great Recession moved him to rediscover the story of the publishing industry’s first strike. – Literary Hub
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:12AMGov. Brian Kemp has said that cinemas in the Peach State may begin welcoming customers again beginning April 27. People actually in the business of showing movies say there’s no way things…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:12AM“For Roosevelt, it was not superfluous to the country’s most exigent needs. And in a move that remained decidedly controversial with his conservative congressional adversaries, he made t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:12AMA star-studded lineup has been announced for a special virtual concert in celebration of Stephen Sondheim's 90th Birthday, Take Me To The World: A Sondheim 90th Birthday Celebration, thi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:09AMAvailable onlineThe comedian’s daily interactive webcast is a load of shambolic, lo-fi silliness – which is just what we need right now
Hottest front-room seats: the best theatre and da…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:06AMRoman Banks, Meg Donnelly, Joshua Rush, and Larry Saperstein join Andrew Barth Feldman and Alex Boniello for the live gaming show.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:03AMThe Tony-winning producer talks about the difficult jigsaw puzzle of rescheduling with a return date still uncertain.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:02AMHow did the Beetlejuice star connect her Broadway debut to her latest show using only original cast members?
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:01AMIf feels like 14 years ago when we made the announcement that our Rave Theater Festival would be hosting our first virtual Social Distancing Festival. And in those 14 years (aka 34 days), a…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM
By turns confiding, furious and ironic, Apple’s bravura singing and singular songwriting are handsomely vindicated in her new album
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 10:56AMWalt Disney Animation Studios has shared a new short featuring Olaf from Frozen! The short, titled 'Hide and Seek,' is voiced by Josh Gad and created at home by Hyrum Osmond.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:55AMAs BroadwayWorld previously reported, the Actors Fund, the national human services organization for everyone in performing arts and entertainment, has teamed with SiriusXM Broadway host Seth…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:54AMBy Mark Ludmon
More than 50 actors have been announced for new digital plays by theatre company Headlong and Century Films in response to the Covid-19 pandemic.
This post Leading actors anno…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 10:46AMHoping Jen Cody joins as she always played Little Sally at BCEFA,events! Hope Sutton joins as well.
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SOURCE: broadwayshowbiz.com at 10:38AMA big thank you to Kenny Leon for joining my virtual talk show last night. If you need a dose of inspiration, both for your career and your soul, you MUST catch the replay here. And TONIGHT,…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 10:30AMMeryl Streep, Bernadette Peters, Patti LuPone and Audra McDonald are set to join an all-star line-up in a special virtual concert to celebrate Stephen Sondheim’s 90th birthday. Take Me To …
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:29AMStars including Meryl Streep, Bernadette Peters, Patti LuPone, Audra McDonald and more pay musical tribute to Stephen Sondheim in a virtual concert on April 26. The concert will celebrate So…
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 10:21AM“TAKE ME TO THE WORLD: A SONDHEIM 90TH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION” TO AIR LIVE SUNDAY, APRIL 26 AT 8:00 PM ET ON BROADWAY.COM AND YOUTUBE IN SUPPORT OF ASTEP (ARTISTS STRIVING TO END POVERTY) …
SOURCE: broadwayshowbiz.com at 10:16AMA new 4 part series with all the pluses of streaming as well as magic of live theater
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 10:13AMThe digital short plays will air as part of the BBC Arts’ Culture in Quarantine initiative.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:12AMThe musical opened March 12, 2017, at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:12AMThe magical kingdom of Broadway is shuttered, but our critic returned to it — or rather a version of it that opened his eyes, Bette Davis wide, to New York theater.
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The new digital plays, to be streamed on Instagram and YouTube, have been created specifically for the online space.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:53AMBy . La MaMa Experimental Theater Club and CultureHub present Café La MaMa Live: Take 9 livestreaming on the global, commons-based, peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Tu…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 09:49AMAriana Grande, Demi Lovato, Josh Groban, and more took part in the TV event.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:46AMThe fifth week of videos, part of the venue's series featuring highlights from New York City Center's Encores!, spotlights songs of yearning.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:40AMBy Noelle Viñas. Playwright Noelle Viñas reflects on the grief she’s experiencing during the current global pandemic and talks about reframing theatre as an art of the now rather than an…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 09:38AMAs BroadwayWorld previously reported, Ramin Karimloo challenged The Showstoppers to compose her a musical theatre song in just 24 hours. The improvisers were to compose a song about homescho…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:36AMWhile Broadway remains shut down, BroadwayWorld is keeping up with your favorite stars and giving you a peek at what they have been up to! Check out this weekend's videos, from stars includi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:36AMNow more than ever it is important to support theater and do our part to keep the art form that we love so much alive and as thriving as it can be during these unprecedented times.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:36AMOn April 17, Tina: The Tina Turner Musical celebrated 2 years since its world premiere in London. In honor of the anniversary, the company is flashing back to Adrienne Warren's Tina Journey,…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:36AMStarring show co-creator Elisabeth Gray, the series also features Alison Fraser, Elizabeth Ashley, Richard Kind, and more stage favorites.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:35AMOn a new episode of the at-home edition of The Late Late Show with James Corden, James connected with Andrea Bocelli and his son, Matteo Bocelli.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:27AMBorn Maria Ligaya Carmen Imutan Salonga in the Philippines, Lea Salonga made her professional stage debut at the age of seven (in “The King and I”) and three years later recorded her fir…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:22AMRight before Broadway shut down due to the health crisis, Presley Ryan took over the role of Lydia in Beetlejuice on Broadway.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:21AMCan you identify these characters from Shakespeare’s descriptions?
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SOURCE: Dramatics Magazine at 09:17AMNew York City Ballet (NYCB) has announced that the company will launch a digital spring season on Tuesday, April 21, the date that would have been the opening night of the company’s now ca…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 09:17AMEmma Rice's version of Angela Carter's last novel is a beautifully bizarre celebration of alternative families.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMThe coronavirus-shutdown crisis has ripped through Seattle’s arts and culture scene, guillotining income for individual artists and organizations while they scramble to cut expenses.
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 09:00AMIt is our Queen's birthday - the woman, the superstar, the legend - Ms. Patti LuPone. Honestly, it should be a National Holiday. How do you pick one clip of Patti for her birthday?
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 09:00AM
Digital series Unprecedented: Theatre from a State of Isolation will focus on upheaval in British life caused by the pandemic
Hottest front-room seats: the best theatre and dance to watch o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AMThe Disney Family Singalong is now available on Disney+!
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:46AM“Close your eyes and let the music set you free” – The Phantom of the Opera Last week I was reminded of my first theatre memory. I was eight and my parents took me to see The Phantom …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:45AMActor Jim Hogan has re-imagined the song 'Anybody Have a Map?' from Dear Evan Hansen! Hogan says his cover, which features himself harmonizing with the existing track, is what the song woul…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:39AMJavier Munoz spoke to Pix 11 about the Broadway Relief Project, which is working to create surgical gowns and masks for those in need during the health crisis.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:33AMBy Douglas Mayo
Theatre companies and wardrobe staff from across the UK are pitching in to help NHS have the PPE they need during the COVID-19 Crisis.
This post Theatre companies and wardrob…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 08:33AMVictory Gardens Theater’s critically acclaimed 2017 production of Fun Home directed by Gary Griffin will [...]
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 08:24AM
Chinese-American character actor Sammee Tong (1901-1964) was a staple of films (and later television) for three decades, normally in supporting roles as cooks, servants, houseboys, and the l…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:54AMBroadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS is hosting a Tuesday Trivia event today!
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:20AMFrom 2010:
I expect that David Mamet’s Theatre, which was published last week, is going to stir up a stink, and I plan to write about it at length at some point in the future. For now, th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AMMusical theatre podcast 'Piece by Piece' explored the iconic musical Carousel in its latest episode, released today, Tuesday 21 April.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:00AMThe Tony and Olivier Award winner celebrates her birthday April 21.
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:00AMThe production, starring Walker as Patrick Bateman, opened at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre April 21, 2016.
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:00AM“Ignorance never settles a question.”
Benjamin Disraeli, speech in the House of Commons (May 14, 1866)
Continue reading Almanac: Disraeli on ignorance at About Last Night.
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AM
As a generation of jazz elders leaves our world — some hastened by the pandemic — their faces as photographed by Sánta István Csaba become even more luminous, haunting, iconic. – How…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:54AMPina Bausch’s work has been a delight and compulsion throughout my theatregoing lifetime. I’ve seen every piece I can, several of them more than once. And it turns out I’ve written qui…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:54AMOf course, I had to grow, pluck my own and juice them. I even bit one on the vine like an animal — I am an animal — and sucked and chewed, thinking of another writer who acted on the sam…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:54AMFrom Robbie Fairchild’s electric escape to Francesca Hayward’s head-spinning pirouettes, here are five joyful homemade clips
Hottest front-room seats: the best theatre and dance to watc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:32AMNatalia Kaliada and Nikolai Khalezin explain how political exile prepared them for lockdown and why their latest project is about fairytales
The coronavirus outbreak has forced theatre-maker…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:32AMJames Cutler and Joshua Robson Productions are thrilled to announce a special and unique online concert which will shine a
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 03:28AMWith support from the Victorian Government, Kerrie & Dolly’s House Party – a brand new live-streamed light entertainment variety program to be hosted by Kerrie Stanley and Dolly Diam…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 03:27AM
Looking for a musical escape to another time or place? You'll find a song that'll take you there with this week's lineup of wistful numbers in the Encores! Archives Projecta?'all specially c…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:50AMFrom play-readings and performances on Facebook live to apps that access playscripts, the online space is giving theatre lovers in the city the much-needed antidote to these grim days. Who w…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 12:12AMIt goes without saying that the theater industry has been particularly hard hit by the coronavirus pandemic. But stage folk have never been known to let a crisis get them down, and with New …
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 12:06AMThe Broadway community is blessed with a vast array of major talents. Amongst the ranks of the most beloved Broadway superstars is leading lady Patti LuPone. Having made her Broadway debut i…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 12:03AMThe Tony Awards may be indefinitely postponed, but many other awards shows are going on virtually, including the 65th annual Drama Desk Awards, which released its slate of nominations today.…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 12:00AMWorks & Process at the Guggenheim New Virtual Commissions Series Began Last Sunday, April 19, 2020
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AMIn Anabella Lenzu on Self-Knowledge and Being An Eternal Student in the Time of Social Distancing An Excerpt from her book, "Unveiling Motion and Emotion "I invite you to submerge yourself a…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AMIn News From Dance/USA: Save The Dates: April 23, MAY 6th, June 17th -19th for Free Arts Bootcamps, Managing Stress from Home, and Dance/USA's 2020 Virtual Conference-Sharing Resources from …
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AMIn The Dance Enthusiast's Social Distance Dance Video Series: Mark DeGarmo Dance Shares Moveable Moments and...How He Creatively Copes with #shelteringinplace "Keep the faith. Stay the cours…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AMOut now from Sony Masterworks Broadway, the cast album for the upcoming Broadway musical features a New Wave-influenced score by Clark and John Carney.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMby Alec Brown. @brownta3. NEW YORK, NY - With millions of Americans out of work, the New York Department of Labor has been unable to keep up with the high de...
SOURCE: www.thebroadwaybeat.com at 12:00AMby Anna Larranaga. @annalarranaga. BOSTON - In a statement made via Facebook this morning, musical theatre actor Taylor Whitmore is “thrilled to announce” an...
SOURCE: www.thebroadwaybeat.com at 12:00AMWith in-person theatre out of commission for the foreseeable future, many performers from Broadway and beyond are sharing their talents online. Below are performances you can watch today, Tu…
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