The project, called Perform, looked at the amount of aerosols and droplets generated by performers. The findings could have implications for live indoor performances, which resumed in Englan…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:42PMBelarusian theatres, almost all of them state-owned since Soviet times, have officially remained outside of politics for 26 years. Everyone in management positions was appointed by the Minis…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:42PMThe grant will be awarded U.S.-based artists for making cutting-edge dance and movement-based performance work. Queer|Art encourages self-identified women, gender-nonconforming, and nonbinar…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 07:42PMToday we raise a pint bottle to Hal Smith (1916-1994), best remembered for playing Otis, the town drunk on The Andy Griffith Show (1960-66). The gag was that he was generally the only regula…
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How to hold an awards ceremony that has always been as much about bringing the community of theatre makers and theatre supporters together as it was about the awards themselves, during a pan…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:48PMAccording to Deadline, the Tony Award-winning solo performer Sarah Jones has signed with UTA.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:32PMTune in Wednesday, August 26 (4pm ET) to watch the next episode right here at BroadwayWorld or on Facebook Live. This week's special guest is star of HBO's Insecure, Alexander Hodge!
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:32PMAccording to a Tweet from, Katharine McPhee, 'Smash' is now available to stream on Amazon Prime Video.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:32PMThe anthropologist Marc Augé gave the name non-place to the escalating homogeneity of urban spaces. In non-places, history, identity, and human relation are not on offer. Non-places used to…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:32PMMoved by the social and civil unrest sparked by the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and countless others, the original Hamilton Cast/Film came together under the organization of cast…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:32PMOn Sunday night, nearly 150 households that had signed up for The Colonial Players Virtual Pub Reading brought their A game to a mini-festival of four, one-act plays and a Mad Libs-type of a…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:31PMWe are getting a virtual Tony Awards this year! So what could these virtual Tonys look like this year? Will performers be socially distant? Will companies perform on online conferencing prog…
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 05:21PMPlus, Emmy winner Rachel Brosnahan offers a sneak peek of Covenant House's August 24 Sleep Out: Stage and Screen.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:13PMSingular Sensation: The Triumph of Broadway, Michael Riedel’s follow-up to his acclaimed bestseller Razzle Dazzle: The Battle for Broadway, is set for release. The Simon and Schuster book …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:06PMLyz Lenz’s ‘Belabored’ offers no solutions to the rampant anxieties of the present, but its bold centering of the realities of pregnant bodies offers something we may need even more. T…
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Latino Victory Project will be hosting an exclusive, one-night-only virtual conversation with Lin-Manuel Miranda and The Women of HAMILTON, the Original Broadway Schuyler Sisters - Renée El…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:56PMAlicea-Ford's work will center around Teatro Pueblo Nuevo and education and outreach programs.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:39PMEXCLUSIVE: Tony Award-winning playwright, actor and producer Sarah Jones has signed with UTA for worldwide representation in all areas. Jones, who won a Special Tony Award in 2006 for her on…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:30PMA century after his birth, Stern is no longer nearly so well remembered as Bernstein, whose posthumous celebrity remains undiminished. By contrast, Stern is essentially unknown to Americans …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PMAs the jazz world mourns Joe Segal’s death Aug. 10 at age 94, I realize anew that Segal had found the best way possible to win converts to the music he revered: by welcoming the uninitiate…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PMFrom the experience in the theatre to when and where movies will be shown, to… – HuffPost
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PMDonation proceeds from the full conversation will benefit the Latino Victory Fund.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:18PMThis week in the life of Seth Rudetsky, Seth shares stories from Carnegie Mellon alum Billy Porter, Ty Taylor, Michael McElroy and more, failed attempts to fix onstage problems in this Sondh…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:16PMIn today's episode, Jennifer Ashley Tepper returns to discuss her thoughts on the future of the theatre industry and when Broadway might be back and better than ever.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:15PMThree-time Tony winner James Lapine is releasing a book about his creative process on one of his most beloved musicals: Sunday in the Park with George! Putting It Together: How Stephen Sond…
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By Douglas Mayo
Such is the demand for theatre in London that shows being performed outdoors in specially created venues the initial run of Pippin had sold out and another eight shows added …
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 03:38PMJust after becoming a new father, the author and dramatist abandoned his family. Charlie Gilmour, his son, tries to solve the riddle of the man he never really knew
Within minutes of my arri…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:24PMThe first new indoor musical since theatres closed in March is a version of the Meg Ryan romcom starring Kimberley Walsh. Will it persuade West End producers that the show can go on despite …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:24PMReplete with music, masks and vibrant costumes, “Quince” and “Beast Visit” turn urban green spaces into stages for festivity.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:18PMIn complex systems, the last thing that happened is almost never informative about what’s coming next. The world is always changing – partly due to factors outside our control and partly…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:18PMWatch the trailer for the upcoming film, which debuts at the Toronto Film Festival in September.
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The names of six more performers have been revealed for MCC's Miscast20, an online version of the annual gala featuring Broadway stars performing songs from roles in which they would never b…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:54PMLiving near the theater district during the Broadway shutdown, photographer and performer Matthew Stocke has been haunted walking past the empty theater palaces sitting in repose, waiting fo…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:54PMGet ready, Jeff Daniels fans and political junkies! Daniels and Brendan Gleeson will star as former FBI Director James Comey and President Donald J. Trump, respectively, in Showtime's two-…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:54PMBroadway may still be shutdown, but fans will be able to feel like they're back at the at theater when the filmed version of David Byrne's American Utopia is released on October 17. As previ…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:54PMA vintage convertible car delivers some of the world’s finest performers sharing original stories with joy as an act of political warfare.
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SOURCE: www.culturalweekly.com at 02:49PMGet a sneak peek of the benefit reunion between Soo, Reneé Elise Goldsberry, and Jasmine Cephas Jones.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:46PMIt opened Aug. 28, 1920 as the Pantages vaudeville theatre, became the Imperial during its years as a movie theatre and went back to the Pantages with ‘The Phantom of the Opera’ in 1989.…
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 02:42PMHow To Memorize Your Lines for Film and Television
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If you come from a theater background, you’re accustomed to having rehearsal time to work …
SOURCE: performerstuff.com at 02:42PMThe film was released in cinemas this week in 1945.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:36PMAmerican Utopia is coming! On October 17, HBO will release the filmed version of the acclaimed Broadway show 'David Byrne's American Utopia,' directed by Academy Award winning director Spi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:12PMWhat is Mean Girls star Reneé Rapp listening to?
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:12PM“College degrees are out of reach for many Americans, and you shouldn’t need a college diploma to have economic security,” writes Kent Walker, senior vice president of global affairs…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:12PMJosh Kosman: “If you’d asked me at the time, I could have unreeled a fairly high-minded manifesto about the central importance of honesty in criticism. None of it would have been wrong, …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:12PMEven the country's apolitical state theatres are joining the countrywide protest against the power grab by the Putin-backed dictator Lukashenko.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:07PMYour questions about Tony-winning New Jersey theatre and Broadway testing ground will be answered live on The Broadway Q&A from Playbill and The Growing Studio.
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The Broadway future of the acclaimed David Byrne’s American Utopia is unclear, but the date with HBO is certain: Spike Lee’s film adaptation of the theatrical concert is set for Oct. 17,…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:45PMNo opening dates, but show titles, including “As You Like It" with Beatles music. And audiences will be allowed on Navy Pier.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:35PMBy . San Francisco Playhouse presents a Fireside Chat with playwright Betty Shamieh (The Black Eyed, Roar) livestreaming on the global, commons-based, peer-produced HowlRound TV networ
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:32PMBroadway for Biden's weekly phone banking initiative continues tonight, Monday, August 24, 2020, featuring former cast members from the beloved hit musicals The Lion King and Newsies.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:06PMMCC Theater announced today additional performers and presenters for their annual gala, Miscast20, which will take place on MCC Theater's YouTube Channel on Sunday, September 13, 2020 at 8PM…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:06PMSome of the subpoenas are for companies that Leon Black, the chairman of the Museum of Modern Art, has used to build a collection that includes paintings by Edgar Degas, Henri Matisse and Pa…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:06PMKatrina Lenk shared on Twitter, that she and other cast members from Company, including Claybourne Elder, Bobby Conte Thornton, and Javier Ingacio are taking part in Covenant House's Sleep …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:03PMToday, we're bringing you an Adam Pascal-themed word search puzzle! Find the names of just a few of Adam shows and roles!
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:01PMShow highlights California, Bay Area women who crusaded for the right to vote
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From 27 August, you can catch some of your fave West End stars in a series of free outdoor performances taking place at The Garden at The Centre Point.
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SOURCE: officiallondontheatre.com at 12:42PMActor, rapper, and activist Riz Ahmed's new concept album, ‘The Long Goodbye,’ asks what “home” means to immigrants and their descendants. Christina Anthony considers.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:41PMOver 300 industry professionals have received financial support to weather unemployment during the pandemic.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:40PMjessica Care moore’s furious poem about the death of a black woman in custody is the subject of a powerful short film
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:39PMThe annual gala, featuring stars of stage and screen performing songs from roles in which they would never be cast, will be presented virtually in September.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:32PMHer film 'Red Pill,' which she thinks of as a Black woman's 'Get Out,' views the nation's ills through the lens of horror.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:29PMProfits from the release will go toward Covid-19 relief.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:06PMThe NYT‘s classical music critic isn’t truly enjoying his time off because there hasn’t been very much time on. “The shutdowns have been devastating for American classical music, g…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03PMThere’s a lot going on right now. “Archivists, curators, and librarians nationwide are assembling the record of how the pandemic is impacting their communities in real time, collecting e…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:02PMShould stand-up comedians play drive-in gigs, participate in Zooming, try to start YouTube channels or wait, somehow, for live audiences to return? It’s a bit of a mess for them, and sitti…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:02PMThe company realized last November that, given the current funding climate, it would not be able to sustain itself beyond the coming year. State and private grant priorities were shifting, A…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:02PMThe 74th annual ceremony, to take place digitally this fall, will celebrate a season cut short by the coronavirus pandemic.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01PMThe Mystery Agency, a brand new collection of immersive, escape-room style mystery puzzle experiences, has been established by Henry Lewis, an Olivier Award-winning writer and actor and the …
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This year for the 2020 Fringe Festival, FringeArts is working with Portland Institute for Contemporary Art to present Jaamil Olawale Kosoko’s digital piece American Chameleon: The Living I…
SOURCE: fringearts.com at 11:45AMIn an impassioned defense of his beloved and beleaguered New York City, comedian Jerry Seinfeld has some harsh words for a Manhattan comedy club owner who bolted for Florida and recently cla…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:45AMLea Michele and Zandy Reich are parents. Their son Ever Leo was born on August 20, according to People.
The Broadway alumna and former Glee star confirmed the news that she was expecting o…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:36AMGirl From the North Country fans know that Colton Ryan and Caitlin Houlahan's rendition of Bob Dylan's "I Want You" is a truly powerful one in the Broadway show, which was playing at the Bel…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:36AMAs a Latino gay millennial singer-songwriter, I believe I can make a difference. I’m here because I can become one of the reasons why things get better. We will fight and we won’t stop. …
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The new book is scheduled for release next April.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:54AMWe are obsessed with show logos and window cards! We just LOVE them. So we thought it'd be fun to have a show logo tournament, you know, like March Madness. We poured over the archives and d…
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 10:54AMThis weeks guests are The World Famous Stardusters, featuring Chrissy Albanese, Shannon Antalan, Michael RJ Campbell, Chris Mauro, Dave Rabinowitz, Kevin Ray, Gabriella Saramago and Cat Yate…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 10:42AMGirl From the North Country, a musical featuring the music of Bob Dylan, was the last show to open on Broadway prior to the shutdown in March due to the coronavirus outbreak. To express the …
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 10:39AMMany theater companies are closed, but that doesn’t mean you can’t immerse yourself in the magic of a play.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:36AMBurns' husband, Peter Flynn, is also a guest on the August 24 live stream benefiting The Actors Fund.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:33AMPutting It Together: How Stephen Sondheim and I Created Sunday in the Park With George will arrive on shelves in April 2021.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:32AMby Terri Roberts On August 28, 1955, 14-year-old Emmett Till was abducted from the home of his great uncle, Mose “Preacher” Wright, in the still-dark hours of a Mississippi morning. The …
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.com at 10:32AMFind your next job with self-tape audition opportunities for shows across the country.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:31AMTonight, Broadway, film and television stars are sleeping out in support of Covenant House.
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 10:23AM#Stageworthy News of the Week. The Broadway community made its political preference clear last week – with performances by Billy Porter and Jennifer Hudson; heck, the producers of the Tony…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:23AMThe Green Fairy, the musical created by Jack Sain and Stephen Libby, has released a cast recording.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMThe events will take place in a brand-new space known as The Garden at Centre Point with no tickets needed.
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Plus: Check out Liminal Highway from composer Christopher Cerrone and flutist Tim Munro.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:59AMThe Dear Evan Hansen, Next to Normal, and Rent director will answer your questions live on The Broadway Q&A from Playbill and The Growing Studio.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:56AMPortland doesn’t exactly have the best history with its Black populations, including forced gentrification after decades of intense redlining. A 69-year-old artist says, “They tried to s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AMEven before the colorful public ballots of the early United States, actually, “people used the viva voce system, rooted in ancient Greece, where voters announced their candidate to a clerk…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AMBarcha held the landlord off while Gabriel Garcia Marquez wrote the book, and when he emerged with the manuscript, “pawned her hair dryer and the couple’s blender so she could pay the po…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AMThe pandemic changed some things, and then came the murder of George Floyd – and the largest civil rights movement in U.S. history. “Anti-racist manuals have been cleaned out from virtua…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AMPublishing has rather a lot to do to catch up in the diversity, equity, and inclusion fronts. Lisa Lucas, the outgoing director of the National Book Foundation, who is Black, says, “What d…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AMPopova, who died of Covid-19, lived a dramatic early life and found stability, if not joy, on Broadway and TV before becoming a ballet teacher. – The New York Times
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AMHepburn wasn’t well-known in the U.S. before William Wyler cast her against Gregory Peck in the bittersweet rom-com. But “her star rose so quickly after this movie. That is crazy. This m…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AMAs the pandemic exposes massive historical cracks in the U.S. along class and race lines, it also exposes what state universities have been dealing with for a few decades – and it’s caus…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AMWhile 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 highlights from some of yo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:48AMToday marks the 75th anniversary of Rodgers & Hammerstein's musical film, State Fair!
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:48AMThis weekend Girl From The North Country released a new music video featuring cast members Colton Ryan and Caitlin Houlahan coming together virtually to perform their version of Bob Dylana…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:48AMProducer Ricky Kirshner and director Glenn Weiss, the team behind the Tony Awards, recently chatted with Variety about creating the 2020 Democratic National Convention.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:48AMStars in the House continues today (8pm) for Andréa Mondays! It's Date Night! Join Andréa as she welcomes her husband, Peter Flynn, along with Sutton Foster and Ted Griffin!
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:48AMThe Conor McPherson-Bob Dylan musical is currently on hiatus due to the pandemic.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:43AMThe first in a three-part series about how the 2020 Tony Awards could shake out.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:42AMThe weekly fitness series from BFTS's Coach Joe Rosko streams every Monday at 11:30 AM ET.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:38AMThe Nightly Met Streams series continues with La Traviata, Rigoletto, and more.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:29AMPerformances will begin September 8 at the Garden Theatre at The Eagle.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:01AMThough the coronavirus pandemic has brought a temporary halt to large public gatherings, it hasn’t stopped artists and organizations from celebrating big events while entertaining audience…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:00AMThe collaboration provides special rates to Broadway touring venues as well as regional and local theatres.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:00AMAbout the Guest
MJ Perrin’s plays have been produced throughout the United States. She’s a Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Awardee for Playwriting and a former member of th…
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Tickets for 12 performances of Pippin, the second production at the new South London outdoor venue The Garden Theatre at The Eagle pub in Kennington, sold out in less than 72 hours. Now prod…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:56AMHartford Public Library and Hartford History Center's summer "Changemakers" program, which offered virtual workshops in a variety of artistic disciplines, will conclude on Aug. 29 and Sept. …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 08:56AMWe're talking to the recipients of the Theatre Artists Fund grant to find out more about their stories and how the pandemic affected them. Find out more.
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SOURCE: officiallondontheatre.com at 08:17AMA powerhouse celebration of women in theatre, a sleepout for a cause, and more.
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“Today on Broadway” is a daily, Monday through Friday, podcast hitting the top theatre headlines of the day. Any and all feedback is appreciated: Alicia Ramírez [email protected]…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 07:55AM“Two of Domingo’s managers and a spokesperson briefly cut off the interview when the singer was asked to respond to the fact that both investigations had found the sexual harassment accu…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:42AMHeidi Pitlor: “Ghostwriting is a form of acting, method acting really, as well as improvisation. You must become your subject, whether they are a Kennedy, a congresswoman, or a guy who esp…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:42AMThe idea was to figure out what could make for a safe return to live music, using healthy volunteers who had tested negative before the concerts. “The first of Saturday’s three concerts …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:42AMJascha Heifetz and Erick Friedman play the finale of Bach’s Two-Violin Concerto, accompanied by Brooks Smith, at an undated master class:
(This is the latest in a series of arts- and hist…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM“I will not be modest. Humble, as much as you like, but not modest. Modesty is the virtue of the lukewarm.”
Jean-Paul Sartre, The Devll and the Good Lord
Continue reading Almanac: Jean…
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AussieTheatre has THREE double passes to giveaway for Van Gogh Alive at the Royal Hall of Industries, adjacent to the
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:06AMThe 71-year-old musician, who has worked with David Bowie and Elton John, is releasing his 122nd album, inspired by the planet Mars
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:00AMThe Jeff Cohen play also features Tony nominees Johanna Day, Richard Kind, and Jessica Hecht.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe virtual event, aimed at supporting young people facing homelessness, also features upcoming West Side Story stars Ariana DeBose and Rachel Zegler.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMby Edward Precht. @pertoltprecht. THE HAYES THEATER, NY – The Republican National Convention begins takes place this week, boasting such ...
SOURCE: www.thebroadwaybeat.com at 12:00AMKaye stars as Queen Elizabeth in the new musical Diana, which will be filmed for Netflix before reopening on Broadway next year.
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