Australian Museum announces 2020 Scott Sisters Scholarship Winner by Arts Review

The Australian Museum (AM) has announced Newcastle student Rachel Klyve, aged 46, as the recipient of the 2020 Scott Sisters Scholarship. Valued at $5000, the funds will assist with Rachel�…

‘A Strange Loop,’ ‘The Inheritance’ win Drama Desk Awards by Caitlin Huston

Pulitzer Prize-winner “A Strange Loop” won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Musical, with “The Inheritance” taking home the prize for Outstanding Play in the digital ceremony Sat…

Step Beyond Strategy partners with Barking Gecko Theatre as new Strategic Advisory Partner by Peter J Snee

Barking Gecko Theatre (BGT) WA’s specialist theatre company for children and families is delighted to announce a new two-year partnership

First live performances announced in SA by Peter J Snee

Holden Street Theatres is leading the way in theatre and has launched the first live season of events since Covid-19

Victorian Opera continues to grow online presence by Sean McLoughlin

In the wake of COVID-19, Victorian Opera swiftly adapted online to deliver a stream of diverse content, including a new

The MC Showroom spearheads return of live entertainment in Melbourne by Arts Review

The MC Showroom, a multi-art form performance venue in the renowned Chapel Street Precinct, has announced its official reopening in late June with the first show season scheduled the followi…

Upright Citizens Brigade to Overhaul Its Leadership by Gabe Cohn

Amy Poehler other founders of this struggling bicoastal comedy incubator say they want to hand over its theaters to a diverse board that would address issues of systemic racism and inequalit…

Musical Mondays #8 by Gabi Bergman

Welcome back to Musical Mondays! In case you’re new here, this column is a peek into the depths of the

Everybody’s Talking About Jamie movie musical delayed by Sean McLoughlin

Everybody’s Talking About Jamie is a musical by Dan Gillespie Sells and book and lyrics by Tom MacRae. The story

VIDEO: Brian Stokes Mitchell Leads #MemorialForUsAll to Honor Those We Lost to COVID-19

Brian Stokes Mitchell led the seventh Memorial For Us All tribute to honor those we lost due to COVID-19.

Photo Flash: CPFWE and The Actor's Fund Team Up to Auction Off Art-Masks Created by Broadway Artists

Costume Professionals for Wage Equity (CPFWE) is teaming up with The Actor's Fund to host an auction at CharityBuzz.com.

“Dapto Chaser” Aims Sharp Wit at Gambling & Dog Racing—Streaming Aussies by Patricia L. Morin

Mary Rachel Brown Portrays Family Captured by Addiction by Patricia L. Morin At the intimate Griffin Theatre, Mary Rachel Brown explores the overlooked, slimy world of greyhound racing and g…

George Floyd's Daughter Gianna is a Disney Shareholder Thanks to Barbra Streisand

George Floyd's 6-year-old daughter Gianna is now a Disney shareholder, thanks to a generous gift from Barbra Streisand.

What's Next by Matthew Martin Ward and Peter Napolitano by York Theatre Company

Dead Lover by Lucy Perceval by York Theatre Company

Freedom Is a Constant Song by Si Kahn by York Theatre Company

She's My Mama! by Keni Fine by York Theatre Company

This I (Mistakenly) Believe by Steve O'Donnell by York Theatre Company

#MemorialForUsAll - Brian Stokes Mitchell by Lincoln Center

This Is My Home by Jimmy Lee Hook by York Theatre Company

I Can't Get Along Without You by David Conforte by York Theatre Company

What Matters by Steven Silverstein and Nancy Slusser by York Theatre Company

The Right Time by Liz Chidester by York Theatre Company

All That Matters by Dana Vance by York Theatre Company

Green Dog by Ashley Rebecca King by York Theatre Company

I Have a Voice by David Shenton, Laurence Holzman, and Felicia Needleman by York Theatre Company

The Heart Wants by Ian Brandon, Laurence Holzman, and Felicia Needleman by York Theatre Company

Dreamers Deserve to Dream by Allison Brewster Franzetti and June Rachelson-Ospa by York Theatre Company

You Are True by Laura Italiano by York Theatre Company

Organizing For Change In The Dance World by Artsjournal

Over the past few months, with live performances canceled or on hold, dance artists have been mobilizing on multiple fronts to transform flawed and outdated systems. The Dance Artists’ Nat…

REVIEW: Love Love Love, Lockdown Theatre Festival ✭✭✭✭ by Julian Eaves

By Julian Eaves Julian Eaves reviews the Lyric Hammersmith's Love Love Love by Mike Bartlett presented as part of BBC Radio 3's Lockdown Theatre Festival. This post REVIEW: Love Love Love, L…

REVIEW: The Mikvah Project, Lockdown Festival Theatre ✭✭✭ by Paul T Davies

By Paul T Davies Paul T Davies reviews The Mikvah Projects by Josh Azouz now playing on BBC Sounds featuring Josh Zaire and Alex Waldmann. This post REVIEW: The Mikvah Project, Lockdown Fest…

20 New Theater Books for Summer Reading 2020 by Jonathan Mandell

Below are 20 recently published or forthcoming books about theater, listed under four categories: Scripts and Play Anthologies; Biographies and Memoirs Theater History, Criticism and Referen…

This Saturday: A Free Talk on Black Vaudeville by Trav S.D.

Old School is in session! Saturday, June 20, 2pm I’ll be giving a FREE half hour Zoom talk on the topic of the Black Vaudeville circuits. The vaudeville era, sadly, was a time of segregati…

Inigo Philbrick, A 33-Year-Old Art Dealer Wunderkind Is Arrested by Artsjournal

The dealer, who operated galleries in London and Miami, has been the subject of an investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Joint Major Theft Task Force/Art Crime Team in New…

Celebrity And The Art Of Quarantine by Artsjournal

The currency of fame has always been deeply unstable. But, with movie theatres and live venues closed and the devices in our pockets quickly becoming our primary media machines, it can feel …

Hollywood’s Damaging Images And Stereotypes by Artsjournal

“The south supposedly lost the civil war. There is an overused cliche which suggests that the winners write history. Is this true? If it is, then why do all these relics of the losing side…

Midsize Music Ensembles In Peril – Most Members Are Freelance by Artsjournal

Even in Europe, which has a reputation for generous governmental arts subsidies, midsize ensembles have found it difficult to support their musicians. – The New York Times

Karen Kain’s Farewell To A Lifetime At Canada’s National Ballet by Artsjournal

Kain claims she never imagined herself becoming the National Ballet’s artistic director. In this she is in a minority of one. After hanging up her pointe shoes in the fall of 1998 Kain acc…

Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum Without Tourists by Artsjournal

Attracting visitors was not the problem Emilie Gordenker thought she’d be facing when she became director of one of Amsterdam’s most popular museums in February. A profile in the Dutch n…

Orchestral Performance: GISELLE Viola Solo by American Ballet Theatre

This Week on Broadway for June 14, 2020: Drama Desk Awards and Showstoppers by James Marino

Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere talk about the 65th Annual Drama Desk Awards and our favorite showstoppers. This Week on Broadway has been coming to you every week sinc…

Piano Bar Live! Continues Live-Streaming on Facebook & BroadwayOnDemand.com on Tuesday, June 16th

This week’s guests will be Sal Viviano, Liz Larsen, Phyllis Pastore, Mark Hartman, Beckie Menzie, Yvette Monique Clark and our weekly mystery guest!

FOUR BLACK ARTISTS ON HOW RACISM CORRODES THE THEATER WORLD by Robert Shuman

(from The New York Times, 6/10; Interviews by Laura Collins-Hughes, Michael Paulson and Salamishah Tillet; Photos: Clockwise from top left: the playwright Lydia R. Diamond; the actor Jel…

06/20 Special Event Lorna Luft SINGS On Line! by Sue Matsuki

LORNA LUFT SINGS! SATURDAY, JUNE 20th @ 7:00 pm EDT (4:00 pm PST) – LIVE STREAMING (See below for details) Ms. Luft will include personal stories of some of the greatest composers and lyri…

NSO @ Home LIVE • June 14 • Lisa Emenheiser & Rachel Smith-Cohen by The Kennedy Center

Brittney Johnson, Alisa Melendez, Sayo Oni, More Read Don Zolidis' Oz on Stars in the House Live Stream by Andrew Gans

Plays in the House Teen Edition is a spinoff of Stars in the House, the daily series created by Seth Rudetsky and James Wesley.

'Stay positive!' Karen Hauer on keeping fit for the return of Strictly by Lyndsey Winship

When her tour was axed by coronavirus, the dancer set up an online festival with karaoke aerobics. She talks about her Bronx childhood, the pressure of Strictly and life beyond lockdown ‘…

BBC Pulls Classic Episode Of Fawlty Towers Over “Racial Slurs” by Artsjournal

The episode in question — originally broadcast in 1975 and called The Germans — is renowned for featuring John Cleese’s deeply awkward and rude hotel owner demanding that his staff “…

How Luminato Scrambled To Reinvent Into A Virtual Festival by Artsjournal

“It’s not a festival in the same way a live festival is, since the conditions are completely different, our ability to present work in so many of the ways we normally do is nonexistent, …

Nashville Symphony Cancels 2020/21 Season by Artsjournal

Symphony President Alan Valentine said patrons donated $300,000 worth of tickets since the pandemic hit. But officials anticipate an $8 million loss from the shutdown, leaving the organizati…

San Antonio Symphony Music Director Sebastian Lang-Lessing: Orchestras After The Virus by Artsjournal

“I’m very convinced that people after this are more hungry for intellectual and artistic inspiration than before. So the wrong approach, I think, is to do a populist approach to the arts…

American Theatre: We Don’t Want Your Messages of Solidarity by Artsjournal

How many of the people who authored those statements actually visited the Black Lives Matter website before posting is unknown. What is known, however, is that the stirrings of support state…

The Intellectual Underpinnings Of Populist Strongmen by Artsjournal

Populism is not just a bull-in-a-china-shop way of doing politics. There is a theoretical tradition that seeks to justify strongman rule, an ideological school of demagoguery, one might call…

The Radio Broadcast That Convinced The Irish Public They Love “Ulysses” by Artsjournal

Listening on transistor radios and Walkmans, many Dubliners who had long been intimidated by the book found that they not only understood it but enjoyed it and recognised themselves in it. �…

Apple To Close Its Apple U App by Artsjournal

The app, founded in 2007, is credited with playing a central role in opening up higher education to the public. Institutions such as Stanford University; the University of California, Berkel…

Playhouse Live! Variety - June 14, 2020 by Bucks County Playhouse

Company Broadway Cast release an isolated performance of the title song. by Douglas Mayo

By Douglas Mayo The company of Company on Broadway released a track of the show's opener recorded in isolation. Watch this great track featuring the Company Broadway Cast. This post Company …

VIDEO: Andrew Lloyd Webber Reflects on How SUNSET BOULEVARD Got its Start

Webber takes a stroll back down memory lane with Sunset Boulevard and recalls how the LA Strip inspired him to write his musical by the same name.

Jesse Eisenberg Says He Only Acts on Stage to Get His Plays Produced

Jesse Eisenberg has revealed that he only acts in his plays to get them produced.

GISELLE Romantic Bun by Erica Lall by American Ballet Theatre

A Call To Action: We Must Do More to Support Black Artists by Samuel Sims

A Younger Theatre has always been a platform for those that often feel unheard and invisible but how much are we doing to support Black artists? Not enough, writes Managing Director, Sam. I�…

Celebrate Your Favorite Broadway Lyricists on This Week's Elaine Paige on Sunday by Broadway.com

Broadway might be on hold, but Elaine Paige on Sunday is not! Olivier-winning actress Elaine Paige is giving Broadway.com listeners a chance to hear her BBC Radio 2 show. This week, Paige …

LISTEN: Michael R. Jackson Talks A STRANGE LOOP and More in New Podcast For the National Endowment for the Arts

In a new podcast for the National Endowment for the Arts, Michael R. Jackson talks through some of the songs, how his career goal changed from writing for soaps to writing for musical theate…

TOSOS to livestream Robert Heide’s ‘The Bed’ for Gay Pride by Deb Miller

In the mid-1960s, Joe Cino, founder of the iconic Greenwich Village coffee-house theater Caffe Cino (hailed as the birthplace of Off-Off-Broadway), urged some of his trailblazing playwrights…

Rupert Grint Speaks Out Against J.K. Rowling's Anti-Trans Comments

Rupert Grint, who played Ron Weasley in the Harry Potter films, is the latest to speak out against J.K. Rowling's anti-trans comments.

‘A Strange Loop’ and ‘The Inheritance’ Lead Drama Desk Award Winners by Matthew Wexler

"A Strange Loop" and "The Inheritance" took top honors at the 65th annual Drama Desk Awards. The post ‘A Strange Loop’ and ‘The Inheritance’ Lead Drama Desk Award Winners appeared f…

‘A towering central performance by Mark Gatiss’: THE MADNESS OF GEORGE III – Nottingham Playhouse (Online review) by John Chapman

An excellent production of a modern classic with a towering central performance: Alan Bennett’s early 1990s play examines public versus private monarchical concerns at the end of the 18th …

Lulu, Queen of the Air: Drag Acrobat of the 19th Century by Trav S.D.

Lulu, Queen of the Air was one of the star acts presented across America and Europe by The Great Farini in the late 19th Century. The not-so-well-kept secret: the lass was a lad. Lulu was or…

VIDEO: Renee Fleming Discusses the Art of Song and Revisits a Classic Performance on LIVE WITH CARNEGIE HALL

Renee Fleming is the latest guest on Live With Carnegie Hall.

Lin-Manuel Miranda, Anthony Ramos, Ariana DeBose, More Are Part of National Puerto Rican Day Parade TV Special June 14 by Andrew Gans

Joe Torres, David Novarro, and Sunny Hostin host the 90-minute program.

Harvey Fierstein, Brandon Victor Dixon, Celia Rose Gooding, More Join Playbill’s Pride Spectacular by Ruthie Fierberg

Announcing additional talent for Playbill’s Pride Spectacular Concert June 28, 8PM ET!

What Do Museums Have To Do With Police Brutality? by Artsjournal

“Police shootings? I can’t imagine what special insight a museum director brings to the subject. But if you’re going to talk about them, at least say something smart.” – National R…

What Do Famous Artists Owe Their Fans? by Artsjournal

As the famously passionate fans of the Harry Potter franchise rise up to express raging disappointment at the bigotry espoused by its creator, and the surprisingly passionate fans of Live P.…

Institutions, Sure. But How Do We Put Artists At The Center? by Artsjournal

How do we sustain the infrastructure to make the kind of highly professional theater that we have come to revere without pushing the actual artists to the fringes of that ecology? How can we…

Review: Anansi the Spider Re-Spun: Episode 3, Unicorn Online by Samuel Nicholls

Review: Anansi the Spider Re-Spun: Episode 3, Unicorn Online 4.0stars The third and final episode of the Unicorn Online’s fantastic Anansi the Spider Re-Spun series, ‘Anansi and the Pot …

Review: Scenes for Survival – Bees, National Theatre of Scotland by Mirren Wilson

Review: Scenes for Survival - Bees, National Theatre of Scotland4.0starsThese past few months have undoubtedly been a time for thinking. Reflecting on the past, those moments we’re gratefu…

REVIEW: Shoe Lady, Lockdown Theatre Festival ✭✭✭ by Paul T Davies

By Paul T Davies Paul T Davies reviews E V Crowes's Shoe Lady presented on BBC Radio 4 as part of the Lockdown Theatre Festival, no on BBC Sounds. This post REVIEW: Shoe Lady, Lockdown Theat…

Reasons To Be Cheerful, Theatre Royal Stratford East by Aleks Sierz

If any musical can attempt to live up to this title in these troubled times, it must be this show from Graeae, a theatre company whose mission is to champion the work of Deaf and disabled ar…

Depicting women from different walks of life: Glass Half Full’s lockdown monologues showcase by Michael Davis

During lockdown, Glass Half Full Theatre have produced a series of monologues that depict women from different walks of life.

As one of the few Black theatre leaders in Toronto, for Weyni Mengesha systemic racism is nothing new by Carly Maga - Theatre Critic

‘You feel completely hopeless and then completely hopeful in the next second,’ says the artistic director of Soulpepper Theatre.

Celebrating 2 Extraordinary Videos & New CDs & Gigs! by Sue Matsuki

This week Cabaret Hotspot wanted to present a few of the newer, award-winning and award nominated CDs that had the back luck of being released prior to or during the pandemic. This work shou…

Urban Stages’ Artists Chats by Sue Matsuki

Are you wondering how some of the most active artists and educators of the arts are keeping busy and continuing to work through this Pandemic? Vocal coaches, dancers, directors, singers, act…

Patrick DeGennaro sings “Back Alive” by Sue Matsuki

Patrick DeGennaro’s  STUNNING, Passionate Anthem “Back Alive” This song needs to be heard and watched by everyone. Patrick somehow was able to write a song expressing what many of us …

Shannon Curtis sings “Bending the Atmosphere” by Sue Matsuki

As Cabaret Hotspot continues to try to find videos that uplift and speak to what we are all experiencing, we ask you… What do you hope for after Covid-19? This video is about the dreams th…

Gretchen Reinhagen’s CD “Take it With Me” by Sue Matsuki

This 2020 MAC and BISTRO Award Winning CD “Take it With Me” is a HIT and a MUST HAVE! Here’s what Stephen Mosher of Broadway World said: BWW CD Review: Gretchen Reinhagen Brings Her A-…

Wendy Scherl’s New CD “You’ll See” by Sue Matsuki

2020 Winner of the MAC LaMott-Friedman Award, singer and recording artist Wendy Scherl delivers the goods! “With her fluent musical vocabulary and sharp interpretive skill, Wendy Scherl il…

Gay Marshall’s New CD “Back on Boogie Street- Songs of Leonard Cohen by Sue Matsuki

A force of nature, a petite powerhouse of creativity, actress and singer, Gay Marshall, has released her third recording, Back on Boogie Street – Songs of  Leonard Cohen Featuring Music D…

John DePalma’s New CD “Something Shiny” by Sue Matsuki

John DePalma’s CD, “Something Shiny” was nominated for a 2020 MAC (Manhattan Association of Cabaret & Clubs) Award!  It features collaborations with: Kevin Jasper, James Followel…

NEW! Thursdays 7:00 pm Quarantine Cabaret & Cocktails by Sue Matsuki

Lee Lessack and Robert Bannon Welcome Broadway, TV and Musical Guests to Quarantine Cabaret and Cocktails Every Thursday Nights @ 7:00 pm EDT Quarantine Cabaret and Cocktails, produced and h…

06/18 Dawn Derow Tin Pan Alley Series Virtual Concert by Sue Matsuki

Dawn Derow presents Round 2 of Tin Pan Alley Provincetown Virtual Concert ~ Home Edition Thursday, June 18th @ 7:00 pm EDT Here’s how you find her: OPEN YOUR FACEBOOK! (links below) Watch…

Locking down Leopoldstadt: what happened when the West End closed overnight by Claire Armitstead

Tom Stoppard’s new play was enjoying a sold-out run when venues closed. Its producer, Sonia Friedman, recalls how the crisis unfolded Leopoldstadt in limbo: Tom Stoppard, Patrick Marber an…

Pulling the strings: meet the people who brought puppets to life by Rich Pelley

Puppets were once ubiquitous on TV, but over the past two decades they’ve all but vanished. What happened to them – and to the humans who used to control them? I was the producer of The …

Podcast about refugee life is illuminating and darkly funny 

Syrian asylum seeker Abdulwahab Tahhan examines the unique issues facing those starting a new life