When Melbourne Australia based Actress, Lara Bianca Pilcher experienced the arts industry closures, she took on the creative challenge of
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:59PMCourtney Clark, Deputy Director of Communications and Educational Programs, teaches you how to build a style guide and branding kit to enhance your marketing.
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SOURCE: thisstage.la at 09:54PMJohn Fisher, Master of Suspense, Sails Us to Risky Waters by Patricia L. Morin Magically, the small computer screen enhances the fevered excitement of John Fisher’s one-man show called “…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 09:45PMThough the pandemic continues, theatre is alive and has a future, according to the playwrights who took part in Olney Theatre Center’s Streaming Saturdays, a video series that investigates…
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His play “The Deputy,” from 1963, took issue with Pius XII’s stance toward Nazi atrocities and caused a furor. “The theater,” Susan Sontag wrote, “is courtroom.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:36PMThere’s something for everyone this weekend, with online viewing of everything from play readings to theater-based films and cabaret. So if you’re a New York theater-lover looking for so…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:28PMNick Cordero, the Broadway actor whose long battle with COVID-19 has been chronicled on Instagram, “had a bad morning,” with wife Amanda Kloots noting in an Instagram Story video today t…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:22PMFeeling the need to get up and move in quarantine? Tony-nominated choreographer Camille A. Brown is presenting a new series called Social Dance for Social Distance. It consists of free dance…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:18PMIt's been almost three years since the apocalyptic musical Burn All Night made its world premiere at American Repertory Theater's OBERON space in 2017. With a book and lyrics by Andy Mient…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:18PMMCC Theater will present the one-act play The Sentinels, written by The Inheritance scribe Matthew Lopez, as part of their new Live Labs: One Acts on May 20 at 5:30PM ET. The reading will be…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:18PMHarry Potter at Home, the collection of free initiatives designed to help bring the magic of J.K. Rowling's popular series to children and parents in quarantine, has enlisted performers to r…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:18PMYoung Artists of America at Strathmore (YAA) is thrilled to announce Virtual Summer Performing Arts Intensives, an online version of their award-winning summer musical theater program. While…
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£700,000 loss forces landmark theatre to cancel entire 2020 programme in hope of emerging renewed next spring – and staving off financial fate of other venues
The Royal Lyceum theatre in …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:54PMThe brilliant creativity of British theatre must be safeguarded – and not just the great national institutions
Theatre has brave new thinking in its bones. What is it, if not the imagining…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:54PMSelf-taught engineer who revolutionised spectacle on stage, in stadiums and in the public arena
Alan Jacobi, who has died of cancer aged 67, transformed the entertainment industry by bringin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:54PMIT’S DA BOMB! The best set of new Broadway-style songs I’ve heard in years. Marc Shaiman and Scott Witman deserve a standing ovation for creating the spectacular score, the songs of whic…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 05:46PMNixon, Leigh Silverman, and Michael Urie also served as directors for different monologues.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:38PMCBS dissed the Tony Awards, but have no fear. Broadway on Demand and Broadway.com are each presenting content to celebrate Broadway's special night.
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SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 05:32PMTwo digital events will honor the Tony Awards on June 7. The first will air on streaming platform Broadway on Demand and TonyAwards.com, with support from the American Theatre Wing and the…
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 05:28PMThe new streaming service Broadway On Demand has teamed with the American Theatre Wing and the Broadway League for an hourlong event celebrating Broadway and raising money for theatre educat…
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:25PMThis week in the life of Seth Rudetsky, Chita Rivera, Tony Mordente, and Harvey Evans share memories about breaking onstage, Jerome Robbins, prepping for the London production, why “Cool�…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:06PMEva Noblezada, Reeve Carney, André De Shields, Patrick Page, Anaïs Mitchell, Rachel Chavkin, and more sang the closing number.
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By Douglas Mayo
The Shows Must Go On are back this week with the streaming of Rogers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Music Live starring Carrie Underwood.
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SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 04:59PMWeekly episodes of ‘Homebound’ are a welcome tonic for our time in isolation.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:48PMCALIFORNIA STREAMIN’ Even after postponing the remaining productions of their 2019/2020 season due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Geffen Playhouse is forging ahead. While the UCLA-owned the…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 04:47PMWith only hours away from #BombshellInConcert, we are highlighting 5 essential videos of each of our Marilyns - Katharine McPhee and Megan Hilty - singing fantastic musical theatre songs.
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 04:41PMThis week’s guests will be Marta Sanders, Leanne Borgeshi, Amy Armstrong, Freddy Allen, Collin Yates, Michael Kirk Lane and the weekly Surprise Guest!
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 04:30PMBroadway fans won’t have to rely on CBS’ Grease Sing-a-Long for their would-have-been Tony night celebrations: the Broadway On Demand streaming service, with support from the American…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:26PMThen ask questions of its playwright, Dominique Morisseau, and The New York Times critic who reviewed the first production.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:18PMThe evening will serve as a fundraiser for the awards' co-presenters: the American Theatre Wing and the Broadway League.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:08PMThe Irving Berlin classic was part of the second season of the popular series in 1995.
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Broadway On Demand, with the support of the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League, has announced a special, never-before-seen event in place of the Tony Awards in order to celebrate …
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 03:58PMThe festival is taking a cautious approach by offering live performances for low-density audiences, as well as live streamed events.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:40PMTheaterWorks Hartford's 2020-21 season will include two postponed shows from the current season ("Fun Home" and "The Who & the What"), plus "The Sound Inside," "Zoey's Perfect Wedding" a…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:29PMWe here at BroadwayWorld know that sometimes social-distancing can get you down. With the theatre industry at a standstill, many of us are craving some trademark musical theatre merriment to…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:24PMLast Friday, May 15, The Shows Must Goes On concluded its Andrew Lloyd Webber weekly programming with the broadcast of Cats, along with Andrew Lloyd Webber’s live commentary. But the shows…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 03:23PMJerry Zaks will direct the production of A.R. Gurney's drama.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:18PMBy . The Martin E.
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:14PMOne of the exasperating aspects of this new era of online theater is how poor the audio is (either in the platform itself, or in the devices you use…or both), and how few of the most commo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:09PMThe quarantine-made new musical short How to Survive the End of the World, created by EllaRose Chary and Brandon James Gwinn is premiering today. It stars Hamilton tour alum and 1776-bo…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:06PMTony winners Laura Benanti and Celia Keenan-Bolger are set to host the New 42 Virtual Gala on June 1 at 5:30PM ET. The event will be available to view here and aims to raise critical funds f…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:06PMThings are looking up for the first Sunday in June!
Although the 2020 Tony Awards, originally set for June 7, have been postponed, Broadway.com will pay tribute to the annual TV event with …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:06PMAndy Mientus and friends update us on Burn All Night and more!
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:06PMHomebound’s episode 4 shifts back to Maboud (Maboud Ebrahimzadeh), who’s hanging in his sweat pants, rocking a Smashing Pumpkins T-shirt (long live Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:06PMHollywood's Darren Criss is slated for another series. Royalties, starring, co-written and co-produced by Criss, is scheduled to premiere on June 1 on the short-form streaming service Quibi…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:06PM“If I want to improvise during “Mary Had a Little Lamb,” for example, first I memorize it. That’s because when I’m performing onstage, I want to let my mind be completely free. “…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:06PMWhen new temporary rule changes for Oscar eligibility were announced in April because of COVID-19, Academy president David Rubin told Variety it was too soon to know how the 2021 Oscar telec…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:06PMThe 3,600-year-old, 6×5-inch clay fragment contains the section from the Epic of Gilgamesh in which the hero recounts his dreams to his mother. The U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security seized it…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:06PMA Cambridge spokesman told LBC News: “The University is constantly adapting to changing advice as it emerges during this pandemic. Given that it is likely that social distancing will conti…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:06PMBeth Morrison and her company have produced dozens of new operas and music-theater works since they launched in 2005, including such prize-winning, audience-thrilling pieces as Missy Mazzoli…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:06PM“I came to love this image, this mysterious, nameless village by a famous but nameless artist, long before I knew anything about art or criticism. I often wonder whether I would even pause…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:06PM“[A new course at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts] pairs students with professional technologists and artists to explore questions about the future of live performance and…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:06PMCharles McNulty: “While no virus can defeat this art form, the theater will have to change to meet the challenges of a transformed world. While we’re mourning the loss of playgoing among…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:06PM“A Spanish court has dismissed an appeal from a psychic who claimed to be Salvador Dalí’s long-lost daughter after DNA results debunked the outlandish theory. Pilar Abel has been ordere…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:06PMIn recent years Chinese developers have been putting up, and opening to buyers and renters, reproductions of such attractions as an English village, a lakeside Austrian town, and a Paris nei…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:06PMIn the first of a series of Notes From The Front Line interviews, I speak to director Max Lindsay about his experiences working on a show over Zoom in lockdown, to find out about how he’s …
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By Douglas Mayo
Alan Ayckbourn and his wife Heather Stoney are to star in the World Premiere of his play Anno Domino written in lockdown.
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SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 02:34PMThe Fountain Theatre is a member of a coalition of intimate theatres in Los Angeles that meets weekly to discuss the future of theatre in Los Angeles as we navigate COVID-19 and beyond. Like…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.com at 02:14PMFind your next job with self-tape audition opportunities for shows across the country.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:10PMThe two channeled their inner Karen Cartwright and Ivy Lynn, respectively, at MCC Theater's 2013 Miscast gala.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:04PMGeorge Street Playhouse: The theater is offering a four-part virtual residency to pre-K students. Each part features a short, original story and illustrations told both in English and Spanis…
SOURCE: The Asbury Park Press at 02:00PMKatelyn Kelley and Jon Demegillo, classmates in their fourth and final years at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, felt a calling to perform early in their young lives. Kat…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:00PMThe Tony-winning composer and lyricist will answer questions live on Playbill and The Growing Studio's The Broadway Q&A Series.
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Plays in the House is a spinoff of Stars in the House, the daily series created by Seth Rudetsky and James Wesley to benefit The Actors Fund.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:50PMThis is the cast album that is as sweet and effervescent as an iced cold glass of soda pop with a three scoop ice cream sundae on the side.
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 01:25PMAhead of the 65th annual awards on May 31, we revisit the 2015–2019 ceremonies.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:11PMHell in a Handbag Productions today announced several updates to its 2020 season, including a streaming [...]
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 01:06PMLea DeLaria and homages to Whitney Houston and Kylie Minogue are among the free streaming content offered next month by Joe's Pub to celebrate LGBTQ Pride.
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SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 01:03PMNominees and further details about the Toronto theatre, opera and dance awards will be announced June.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 01:00PMThe Royal National Theatre in London has made the decision to suspend all performances until September, it has been announced.
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The YouTube series offers live stream performances and Q&As with a variety of theatre favorites.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:50PMBy . Convergence Theatre presents its virtual performance of Snapshots 2.0 by Asif Majid, livestreaming on the global, commons-based, peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Sa…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:26PMHow two married actors in Florida have created a mini-repertory theatre in quarantine.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:22PMPlay fans! MCC Theater continues its successful series LIVELABS: ONE ACTS. Tonight features Matthew Lopez' The Sentinels streaming this evening, Wednesday May 20th, at 5:30pm EST.
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 12:01PMThe 2015 event streams May 20 with an introduction by Oscar winner Renée Zellweger and an intermission hosted by Julie Klausner.
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The cohort of 12 emerging directors first convened last fall, with a new group to be announced this summer.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:59AMCan't wait to see how playwrights will be inspired by the coronavirus quarantine? Yeah, me neither.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:46AMVeteran company members Francesca Chilcote and Kathryn Zoerb have been named Co-Artistic Directors of Washington’s Commedia dell’Arte company, Faction of Fools has announced. The women …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:42AMLinda Elyse Bryce, a teacher, lover of Shakespeare, broad-spectrum theater supporter and winner of the 2013 Gary Maker Award, given to the audience member who best exemplifies Maker’s enth…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:42AM2020 marks two years since the most popular bio-musical in recent memory hit the West End. Having now just extended until 5 June 2021, TINA The Tina Turner Musical is just the ticket fo…
SOURCE: London Theatre Direct at 11:40AM Photo credits: Picture: Haley Franke – Photo editing/graphics: Laura Ryan “If you seek escape, entertainment, raw reality and the wit of Shakespeare himself, this is the moment f…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 11:30AMWatching on a screen can feel like a poor imitation of real-life theater, but some artists are using the communications technology we now rely on to enhance the streaming experience.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:24AMThe company will also present Revelations and its annual fundraising gala online in June.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:13AMMegan Hilty, Katharine McPhee, and the stars of the television series reunite.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:06AMThe Tony Award–winning scenic designer gives Playbill an inside glimpse at his creative process.
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Watch Original Theatre Company’s productions of Alan Bennett’s The Habit Of Art, starring Matthew Kelly, & Ali Milles’s The Croft available until 28 June.
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SOURCE: officiallondontheatre.com at 10:59AMThe evening will feature performances from Hamilton's Solea Pfeiffer and SIX's Adrianna Hicks plus appearances by John Lithgow and others.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:56AMThe large sum, from Broadway Cares' COVID-19 Emergency Assistance Fund, will aid those in the performing arts who are struggling financially during the pandemic.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:54AM“In Venice, a city famous for being visited by too many and home to too few, … [locals] hope the crisis has also provided an opportunity to reimagine one of the world’s most fragile ci…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:42AMThe company, which performs in Fort Worth and Dallas, is reducing its total budget from $10.8 million to $8.5 million, reducing dancer and staff pay on a scale from 5% to 20%, changing dance…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:42AM“Executive director Mark Masuoka resigned from his position effective immediately after seven years leading the Ohio institution. The news came less than three weeks after ARTnews publishe…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:42AMAt the State Theater of Hesse in Wiesbaden, bass Günther Groissböck and pianist Alexandra Goloubitskaia gave a recital of Schubert and Mahler before about 200 people in a 1,000-seat audito…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:42AMHere’s a look at the safety measures which the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston has put in place for receiving visitors beginning this Saturday. The San Antonio Museum of Fine Arts is followin…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:42AM(Ronald Bergan’s article appeared in the Guardian, 6/18; Photo: The Guardian; via Adam Sullivan) For more than half a century, there seemed to be one constant in French cinema – the acto…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:41AMThis week is National Mental Health Awareness Week and never before has it seemed so needed. Locked away from the distractions of normality, we have been faced with our own four walls for we…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:41AMThe Broadway alum (End of the Rainbow, Fool for Love) can be seen on the most recent season of the drama, co-starring as Laura Linney's brother.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:23AMThe Broadway alum (End of the Rainbow, Fool for Love) can be seen on the most recent season of the drama, co-starring as Laura Linney's brother.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:23AMThe midtown hotspot's #54BelowatHome series continues on YouTube.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:19AMJohn Mahon, an actor, director and writer who played a police chief in 1997’s L.A. Confidential and, as a language lab director in one of the creepiest moments of The Exorcist revealed tha…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:12AMDue to the success of the initiative #RSCHomeworkHelp will continue into the summer term and new questions can be sent from 1 June.
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Dame Judi Dench, Mountview’s President, shares insights into the acting profession with Olivier Award-winner and Mountview alumnus Giles Terera on 1 June
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SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 09:58AM by Alix Cohen Live Streamed under the aegis of the 92Y which continues its diverse programs online https://www.92y.org/ Today’s event opens with a black and white television clip of …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:50AM Joshua is the creator and host of his own cabaret and variety show that recently caught the eye of The Broadway Podcast Network. The company loved that he used his platform to help raise…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:45AMNew Albany Thespians pilot high school edition of iconic musical
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SOURCE: Dramatics Magazine at 09:38AMSocial Dance for Social Distance presented by Tony Nominee Camille A. Brown Tony nominated director and choreographer Camille A Brown is presenting a new series of free dance classes and lec…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:37AMGetting to Know Carol Ostrow Carol Ostrow is an accomplished theatrical producer. She started in show business as Miss Brooklyn when she was 5 years old. Because of her mother’s push to…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:30AMThe award-winning Within Her Eyes and two more experimental dance works reveal the storytelling strengths of this talented choreographer
Her feet never touch the ground. That’s the premise…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AMThe daily series from Seth Rudetsky and James Wesley benefits The Actors Fund.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:17AMEdith Fellows (1923-2011) is chiefly remembered as a child star, although her career lasted (with gaps) for over 65 years. Fellows was only five years old when cast as a bratty kid in the hi…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:12AMYou can't beat the experience of sitting in a theatre watching a live performance, but one of the lockdown-positives is a chance to watch stuff I sadly missed and Barber Shop Chronicles is o…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMHappy Birthday to one of our Broadway favorites Sierra Boggess on this the 20th of May which also happens to be "Eliza Doolittle Day!"
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Yesterday, we began our series about the "Best" of the last decade, from the 2010-2011 season, through the just ended 2019-2020 season. Today, Mike and I name what we considered to be the 10…
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 07:24AMThe Dear Evan Hansen Tony winner talks about his experience performing at Radio City, working with director Alex Timbers to bring the special to Netflix May 20, and sharing personal stories …
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:22AMBy Paul T Davies
Paul T Davies reviews TEN, a series of ten short plays by Welsh playwrights now streaming through the Sherman Theatre in Cardiff.
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SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 07:01AMBuddy Rich and his big band play Bill Potts’ “Big Swing Face” at Holland’s Northsea Jazz Festival in 1979:
(This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM“We should never despair, our Situation before has been unpromising and has changed for the better, so I trust, it will again. If new difficulties arise, we must only put forth New Exertio…
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Popular Australian actor and singer Lucy Durack, much-loved songstress Silvie Paladino and the cast of American Psycho – The Musical will entertain viewers of Episode 4 of live variety dig…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 12:57AMToday we're celebrating the birthday of the great Sierra Boggess!
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:06AMFashion photographer-turned-land artist Michel Comte wants to help save the planet through campaigning and art
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:00AMWith in-person theatre out of commission for the foreseeable future, many companies and performers from Broadway and beyond are showcasing their work online. Below are performances you can w…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 12:00AMby Ryan Danley. @isridiculous. Hello theatre fans! We have all missed you so much. While this time has had its challenges, it also has be...
SOURCE: www.thebroadwaybeat.com at 12:00AMWith theatres around most of the world closed, our in-person industry has been scrambling to adapt to a virtual world. Many companies and stage artists have been sharing their work online, a…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 12:00AMThe 2015 event will stream at 8 PM ET to benefit The Actors Fund.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe evening with the Dear Evan Hansen Tony winner and The Politician star was filmed at the famed Manhattan venue last year.
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