New era dawns at Melbourne’s Federation Square by Arts Review

The Victorian Government has unveiled the biggest upgrade in Federation Square’s history and a new vision for the iconic site as a civic and cultural hub that embraces the Yarra and showca…

Art Gallery of South Australia announces Tarnanthi 2020 program by Arts Review

The Art Gallery of South Australia (AGSA) has announced the exhibition Open Hands for this year’s Tarnanthi, AGSA’s annual celebration of contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island…

One Man In His Time: John Bell at Sydney Opera House by Arts Review

Bell Shakespeare has announced an exclusive performance by John Bell AO will premiere as part of the Sydney Opera House digital program, From Our House to Yours, on Friday 28 August 2020. Re…

Continuum Dance Co.: Where corporate America goes to dance

Meet Petra Gucunski, founder and director of Continuum Dance Co., a company dedicated to bringing the joy of dance to the corporate workforce. We asked Gucunski a few questions about Continu…

The show goes on for Queensland venues and artists who Play Local   by Arts Review

Home-grown performers are set to hit stages across the state with over $965,000 injected into the arts sector through two funding programs, as part of the Queensland Government’s $42.5 mil…

This Artist’s 2014 Paintings Perfectly Envisage The Pandemic Lockdown by Artsjournal2

Thuy Van Vu’s empty classrooms feel eerily familiar right now, almost photographic. “The spaces she portrays are vast and full of potential, and also of a great, yawning absence. Where a…

Nigerian Comics Fight COVID-19 With Gags And Slapstick Slaps by Ahram Online

The 21-year-old Nigerian comedian Maryam Apaokagi has joined a line-up of the nation’s top performers working health tips into their routines to spread the word about COVID-19. In one of h…

Broadway in a Muddle as NBC Wants to Do a Special Highlighting Shows, Tony Awards Plan a Digital Celebration by Roger Friedman

Broadway is in a muddle, and no one seems to know what’s going on. Today the Broadway League announced they were planning

How Tony Winning Actresses Are Finding A Novel Way To Perform Live by Jeryl Brunner

Broadway stars like Liz Callaway, Stephanie J. Block and Rachel Bay Jones are performing in the virtual concert program, The Seth Concert Series.

Five of the world’s best homes for sale from the movies

Prime property that has been featured on film including a converted London school and a glass and steel Vancouver house

Musical Mondays #13 by Gabi Bergman

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

Sydney Theatre Company Returns to the Stage by Peter J Snee

Sydney Theatre Company today announced its current plans for the remainder of the 2020 season including a return to the

Arts Centre Melbourne’s Big Night In with John Foreman to air two Encore Episodes ahead of Season 2 premiere by Peter J Snee

Arts Centre Melbourne’s Big Night In with John Foreman is back for a second season after the hugely successful first

Tonys, Mart Crowley’s Boys Will Stream, Heights Soars by Barry Gordin

By: Ellis Nassour The 74th Tony Awards Will Be Televised August 23, 2020: Such great news, as excellently reported here by our David Sheward, that Fall will bring a televised 74th an…

IN FRANCE, LIVE THEATER CALLS FOR MASKED ACTORS AND CREATIVE SOLUTIONS by Robert Shuman

(from The New York Times, 8/20; Photo: The New York Times; via Pam Green.) PARIS — In countries where live performances have resumed, masked audiences have become a familiar — if still c…

The National Trust’s Popularization Plans Are Worrying Some In Britain by Artsjournal2

Turns out not everyone loves mansion tours, or even castle tours. “The trust’s visitor experience director proposes putting thousands of artworks and other items into storage in order to…

British Women Artists Are Still Massively Underrepresented On UK Radio by Artsjournal2

It’s bad from the singer side – 51 percent of the top 100 songs were by solo male acts, and only 19 percent were by solo female acts – but it’s shockingly horrible from behind the sc…

No One Is Listening To The Radio, But Everyone Is Listening To NPR by Artsjournal2

The drivetime listeners are gone, sending NPR’s radio ratings into the sub-sub-basement. Yet NPR is reaching 10 percent more people than at the same time last year. What gives? “Bringing…

Ai WeiWei Directed, From Europe, A Film About Wuhan’s Drastic Shutdown by Artsjournal2

His team sprang into action and got censor-free footage that seems impossible. “The hardest footage to shoot was inside the I.C.U., Ai said, but he could not divulge how it was filmed. He …

Minnesota Finally Recognizes A Native Author With Its State Literary Award by Artsjournal2

And what an author – Marcie Rendon, an enrolled member of the White Earth Nation, is an “award-winning poet, playwright, author of children’s books, short stories and the popular Cash …

The Artistic Legacy Of LA’s Chicano Moratorium Against The Vietnam War by Artsjournal2

Police tear-gassed the gathering before the march began, killing L.A. Times columnist and KMEX news director Ruben Salazar (two others also died during the tear-gassing and shooting). “The…

Social Media Companies Must Flatten The Spread Of Dangerous Disinformation by Artsjournal2

Can they? Yes. Will they? Hm. – Slate

It’s Definitely Time To Go Back To Absolutely Safe Movie Theatres, Say Multiplex Owners by Artsjournal2

Reassuring: “The theaters are pushing hard the argument that moviegoing is safe more broadly, or at least as safe as going to a restaurant, flying on an airplane or worshiping in a church.…

Museum Director Who Wouldn’t Certify Belarus Election Found Dead by Artsjournal2

Kanstantsin Shyshmakou, the 29-year-old director of a military history museum in Vawkavysk, refused to sign anything certifying the re-election of Lukashenko – and was found dead in a rive…

How To Make A Four-Part Rom-Com During Hollywood’s Lockdown by Artsjournal2

It wasn’t easy to film Love in the Time of Corona. But it was doable, with a lot of care – and a lot of house-cleaning for the actors whose homes hosted the shoots. Some of the details: …

Netflix Screws Up The Advertising For A Movie About The Problems With Sexualizing Young Girls by Artsjournal2

So here we have a movie, Cuties, that “has been praised for questioning how society and social media pressure young children into acting in sexually explicit ways.” Best way to advertise…

This Week on Broadway for August 23, 2020: Our Favorite Lines by James Marino

Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere talk about their favorite lines from plays and musicals This Week on Broadway has been coming to you every week since 2009. It is the lo…

NSO @ Home LIVE • August 23 • NSO Kids & Pablo Ronderos by The Kennedy Center

Americans go back to the movies despite continuing pandemic

Russell Crowe thriller earns $4m at box office as cinemas reopen after lockdown

V is for Vanessa Redgrave. Her Broadway career in photos. by Jonathan Mandell

Vanessa Redgrave, the “Greatest Actress of Our Time,” according to playwrights Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller — also the daughter, the sister, the mother and the romantic partner…

Watch Rachel Bay Jones In Concert Tonight With Seth Rudetsky

Get tickets for Rachel Bay Jones and Seth Rudetsky LIVE in concert tonight!

Practice 30 Day 23: Devonté Hynes by New York Philharmonic

Five podcasts to bring theatre into your home by Phoebe Lett - The New York Times

Many theatre companies are closed amid the pandemic, but that doesn’t mean you can’t immerse yourself in the magic of a play.

Review: Salomé, EDIFICE Dance Theatre by Ryan Van Champion

Review: Salomé, EDIFICE Dance Theatre4.0starsIn a tragedy as old as this one, pulled from the bible by Oscar Wilde for his masterpiece play back in 1891, it always surprises me how captivat…

A Six-Part Play, Delivered By Postcard by Artsjournal2

Shutdown theatre cool idea number 458: “A postcard slips through the letterbox and lands lightly. While rural touring can’t take place, Nottingham-based company New Perspectives have c…

TheaterMania Live with Holland Taylor by TheaterMania

TheaterMania Live with Jelani Alladin by TheaterMania

TheaterMania Live with Katherine Budinger by TheaterMania

TheaterMania Live with Anthony Rosenthal by TheaterMania

Edinburgh Unlocked review – a carnival of comedy from the festival that never was by Brian Logan

Audiobook, available onlinePenguin’s fine pandemic audio festival delivers hours of laughs from comics including Jordan Brookes, Glamrou, Mo Amar, Michelle de Swarte and Sheeps ‘I’m ju…

Zoom Theatre After The Pandemic by Artsjournal2

Assuming that it ever ends – with a vaccine or some kind of terribly expensive, in human life terms, herd immunity – Covid-19 may leave a theatrical legacy that’s hard to shake, at lea…

JamKazam 201 – 08/31/2020 7pm (EST) by Cabaret Hotspot!

JamKazam 201 “From Soup to Nuts” Monday, August 31, 2020 7PM (EST) What would it feel like to sing and play with other musicians, or to teach/coach your singers/instrumentalists remotely…

‘We’ve shown we’re not going without a fight’: Who really cares about what has happened to the theatre industry? by Emily Garside

I accidentally wrote a viral tweet. It came out of a moment of possibly ill-thought frustration. Out of feeling brushed aside, dismissed one too many times. But wow did that tweet resonate.

Celebrate Summer Blockbusters on This Week's Elaine Paige on Sunday by Broadway.com

Olivier-winning actress Elaine Paige is giving Broadway.com listeners a chance to hear her BBC Radio 2 show, Elaine Paige on Sunday. This week, Paige is celebrating summer blockbuster movies…

Are Suburbs Inherently Scary? by Artsjournal2

Horror movies sure seem to think so. A lot of them seem to exhibit “this idea that if you have enough free time, you’re going to just start rounding people up and killing them.” – Wi…

In France, Live Theatre Returns With Voiceovers And A Lot Of Acting In The Eyes by Artsjournal2

And then there are the outdoor performances, with masks: “When a performer speaks a lot onstage, … masks become damp and stick to the skin, so each cast member goes through four or five …

Ep. 75: A Conversation with Performer and Playwright Deb Margolin by Lauren Van Hemert

What would you do if you were met in a voting booth by a mysterious stranger from the past? That is the crux of Deb Margolin’s short comedic play INALIENABLE RIGHTS. This play is being co-…

The LA Phil Tries The Online Route by Artsjournal2

The Hollywood Bowl couldn’t have audiences – but the musicians could be there, distanced, and the orchestra took advantage of its city’s geographical advantages. The concerts were only…

Try A Summer Getaway With Italo Calvino by Artsjournal2

Unless you already live in Venice, in which case, sorry, you’ll have to read something other than Invisible Cities. – The Economist

Nothing, Absolutely Nothing, Can Beat Live Music by Artsjournal2

The first concert since lockdown is definitely special (not that it’s weird to be masked and distant anymore; it’s simply exciting to be there). “It’s been difficult but clarifying t…

Live Music, And Music Venues, Won’t Survive The Virus Without A Lot More Help by Artsjournal2

In the UK, for instance, with social distance requirements in full force as they should be, “only around 100 of the country’s 900 small music venues would be able to operate.” And it�…

‘It has been designed to help everyone’: Jamie Chapman Dixon & John-Webb Carter discuss the Theatre Producer Portal by Emma Clarendon

Jamie Chapman Dixon and John-Webb Carter chatted to Emma Clarendon about the Theatre Producer Portal.

Out of the Woods review – bitten by the big bad wolf by Susannah Clapp

Alan Cumming puts his trademark drollery to diabolic effect in this exhilarating twist on Little Red Riding Hood Each week through these Covid months the National Theatre of Scotland has bee…

08/31 The Theatre Will Survive Actor’s Fund Benefit by Sue Matsuki

Announcing: The Theatre Will Survive – A Benefit for The Actors Fund – Join Big Broadway Names—Live on Zoom Monday, August 31st @ 7:00 pm on www.MetropolitanZoom.com “The Theatre Wil…

On The Ground podcast grapples with an infamous friendly fire incident

A detailed and unflinching series about the ripple effects of a wholly avoidable tragedy in Iraq

Our Offering, a New Theatre Production Created by Sis, Streams August 23 by Dan Meyer

Written by Antonio Lasanta and Gage Tarlton, the show explores the truths of existence, identity, ancestry, and community.

Stars in the House Is College-Bound August 23 With Readings of 13 Ways to Screw Up Your College Interview and Variations on a Theme 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.

Celebrate Broadway With These 25 Musical Finales by Marc J. Franklin

From A Chorus Line to Hadestown revisit these musical showtunes in honor of Broadway.