Atlanta's Alliance Theatre has announced that its upcoming drive-in production of A Christmas Carol: The Live Radio Play has been approved by Actors' Equity Association.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:36PMHilarious Off-Broadway Comedy, Happy Birthday Doug, begins streaming on BroadwayHD September 24t.
September 2, 2020: BroadwayHD, the premier streaming service for theater fans, anno…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 07:33PMDrew McManus has recently rolled out a video podcast on the Adaptistration site with the goal of addressing topics facing the orchestra business. Today, he posted the second episode title, A…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 07:32PMA little background. I have had a Facebook account since ~2011 but I only created it so I could access and control my organizational Facebook pages. There are a very small number of people I…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 07:32PMOriginal cast members of Andrew Lloyd Webber's School of Rock the Musical reunited this summer to create a music video to raise awareness for the non-profit, Brooklyn for Life.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:30PMThe Labor Day weekend staple in Woodside will still feature scores of stunning art works for viewing and sale.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 07:29PMThere is one moment in particular that struck me in “Love in the Time of Corona,” the first TV series made about, and during, the pandemic, co-produced and co-starring “Hamilton” Ton…
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Beyond navigating COVID-19, Ms. Jaffe has big ideas for PBT and its growing school. She wants more diversity in choreography, more collaborations with museums and other institutions and some…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:36PMLoving monsters is a love of chaos, a longing to dance a little with death to better understand the danger. Cryptid violence is more approachable than human violence. It’s easy to ponder w…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:36PMWhite people and some ethnic groups follow a progression of youth orchestras and schools of the arts and then are often paired with principal musicians in local professional orchestras. Mean…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:36PMAhead of the event guests have been sent a list of Covid-19 guidelines, including information on passing through thermo-scanners as they enter the festival and anyone found to have a body te…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:36PMBy 2030, if only the 5 largest foundations spent down the entirety of their assets, approximately $73 billion would flow directly to large-scale issues that require only cash to be truly sol…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:36PMImagine instead that we worked with idea that creativity wasn’t about novelty. That doesn’t mean we’d have to give up the value of originality entirely, but rather see it as one of a r…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:36PMDuring the global coronavirus pandemic, FringeArts is pivoting the focus of our podcast to checking in with our artists, our audiences, and our community partners during these unprecedented …
SOURCE: fringearts.com at 06:27PM by Carole Di Tosti How much have you missed seeing a musical (LIVE) during this pandemic? Well, London theater has been experimenting with the extent it can tolerate adhering to safe prot…
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The stage program at the Museum of Contemporary Art has announced two virtual programs for the fall, one of which involves an audience doing their own at-home performance.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:49PMJuly and August 2020, Thursday evenings.Streamed on YouTube. As a dance reviewer, seeing dance live is one of the most treasured parts of my life. There’s just something about the house li…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 03:48PMThe American Theatre Critics Association has awarded Stephanie Alison Walker the Primus Prize, given to an emerging female playwright, for "The Madres."
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SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 03:18PMThe Off-Broadway company has unveiled its fall slate of virtual programming.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:14PMJustin Weaks and Regina Aquino host tonight’s 2020 Helen Hayes Awards, the second of seven nights of streamed presentations, capped off with a video celebration on September 25, 2020. Th…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:12PMAll the fans were volunteers, part of Restart-19, a study to see if and how big cultural and sporting events can be held safely in the era of COVID-19. The daylong experiment was set up by s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:12PMNo, it wasn’t to generate random patterns of movement; rather the contrary, in fact. Ellen Jacobs, for years his company’s publicist, recounts how, at age 70, when his body could no long…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:12PMStudios in the Federation have released at least seven major big-budget movies set during what Russians call the Great Patriotic War just since 2010. Alex Cox has a look at what they say abo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:12PMThe streaming event is the third title in Paula Vogel's "Bard at the Gate" series.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:12PMMusical Theatre writer Tyler Tafolla has announced he will be premiering a new musical songcycle called 'SEASONS' in the form of a concept album in October 15th, 2020. The album will stream …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:06PM'Be An #ArtsHero,' an intersectional grassroots campaign to get the U.S. Senate to pass emergency Arts relief, has unveiled the DAWN Act: Defend Arts Workers Now.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:06PMThe 2020 Henry Hewes Design Award Honors for the 2019-2020 theater season were announced today and will be presented at a virtual awards ceremony on October 14.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:06PMJoin Ogunquit Playhouse and Mainestreet nightclub on Thursday, September 24 at 7:00PM ET as they come together for their first online collaboration with Broadway Gives Back to the Playhouse,…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:06PMActors' Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre, together with presenting sponsor Lexus of Kendall, will host the 29th Annual Reach for the Stars Gala Auction virtually on Saturday, September 12, 2…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:06PMJessica Vosk, Jackie Burns, Jenna Leigh Green, Lindsay Pearce, Christine Dwyer, Dee Roscioli and many more Wicked alum join Tim Murray on his YouTube channel for Slumber Party Live!
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Broadway composer/lyricist/author/musical director/vocal arranger/dance arranger/orchestrator/accompanist, best known for composing The Tornado, and Emerald City Ballet in the Broadway hit '…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:59PMConceived, produced, and directed by Troy Burton, “A Real “N***a” Show” is a “choreopoem” performed by an all-male cast which tells stories about the experiences of Black men in …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:39PMSteppenwolf Theatre has announced the postponement of the December world premiere of Good Night, and Good Luck, based on the George Clooney-Grant Heslov feature film, to a future season due …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:30PMElif Batuman on watching Theater of War’s online production of Sophocles’s Oedipus the King: “You’ve never really seen Oedipus, I found myself thinking, till you’ve seen it during …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:06PM“[They] led major concerts by Arturo Toscanini’s NBC Symphony, gave the Philadelphia Orchestra premiere of the Shostakovich Symphony No. 8, and led the Metropolitan Opera’s celebrated …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:06PMAll three are collaborating or consulting on major projects in China with development firms owned by the state. They say that sharing their collections and expertise in this way “can help …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:06PMOver the last few months, it has been interesting to watch how theatre navigates what, in many cases, is largely new territory: digital space. What began as a free-for-all, with organisation…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:06PMBefore becoming a Hollywood star, Chadwick Boseman was a playwright. Three of his collaborators remember a gifted writer and a wise, generous friend
Chadwick Boseman dies aged 43 Continue re…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:06PMAs the playwright’s Covid-19 monologue Beat the Devil reopens the Bridge theatre in London, we look back at his past plays including Skylight, The Judas Kiss and Via Dolorosa Continue read…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:06PMThe Chicago theater will go entirely online.
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Citing a $12 million deficit, the company has eliminated positions, including that of the artistic director.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:54PMPRIMARY STAGES has announced its Fall 2020 Virtual Season. The Foundation Series will revisit the work of some of Primary Stages' family of artists, including The Tribute Artist by Outer Cri…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:54PMThe Bridge Theatre officially reopened its doors on 27 August 2020 after a hiatus of five and a half months due to the covid-19 pandemic, with David Hare's monologue Beat the Devil, a new pl…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:54PMThe Costume Industry Coalition has announced the launch of its emergency relief campaign with a matching challenge up to $100,000 for the coalition, beginning today. All donations received …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:45PMBased on the Tony Award-winning play that changed a generation, The Boys in the Band follows a group of nine gay men who gather for a birthday party in 1968 New York City - only to find the …
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 12:41PMDancer/choreographer James Alonzo has brought together a group of talented dancers to re-create A Brand New Day from The Wiz!
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:35PMThe theatre's additional programming will be made available globally through virtual memberships.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:29PMby France-Luce Benson This Saturday on Saturday Matinees, we’ll be joined by award winning playwright and poet Kit Yan, whose musical Interstate won “Best Lyrics” at the 2018 New York …
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.com at 12:15PMThe newworkshops delivered online by Frantic Assembly Practitioners are suitable for socially distanced learning in school or remote/home learning and are designed to explore the Frantic Me…
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All donations received through September 25 will be matched dollar for dollar.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:57AMThe recently formed Costume Industry Coalition has launched a pandemic emergency relief campaign for New York City’s pattern makers, cutters, stitchers, tailors, milliners, hand finishers …
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:55AMHe first came to prominence on recordings by Rinaldo Alessandrini and Concerto Italiano, especially their landmark series of Monteverdi’s madrigals. He then broke off to found his own cons…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:54AMLanier finds many things fundamental to living in a society hard, like adhering to concepts relating to time, or receiving or sending mail; one ride in his amusement park brain is “a hamst…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:54AMTry your hand at cooking chewets with chef and Shakespearean actor John Tufts.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:52AMNine projects will receive $500 to produce in Fertile Ground's virtual New Works Festival.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:44AMA recent release of Zoom has brought, among other things, “High Fidelity Audio Mode” (High fidelity music mode in the application settings) to the Windows and Mac clients. The feature w…
SOURCE: artshacker.com at 11:40AMThe theatre plans to present 2 in-person productions in 2021.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:38AMToday (September 2) in live streaming: Telly Leung visits Backstage Live, Schele Williams chats with the Chaos Twins, and so much more!
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:36AMState of the world has got you down and needing a little something to brighten your morning? Alexa can help! Amazon Echo is going full Broadway this morning, and the new function will surel…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:36AMBecause of the pandemic, I haven’t had the chance to give my dad a proper farewell. There was no funeral, no memorial, and no celebration of his life. Someday in 2021, God willing, I wil…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMHollywood movie star Julianne Moore (The Big Lebowski, Hannibal) has been cast to portray Heidi Hansen in the upcoming musical film adaptation of Dear Evan Hansen, it has been announced. The…
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Oscar-winner Julianne Moore joins the cast of the upcoming Dear Evan Hansen movie based on the Broadway musical of the same name, according to Deadline. She is slated to play Heidi Hansen, o…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 10:50AMBy Mark Ludmon
Mark Ludmon reviews Sleepless the musical starring Jay McGuinness and Kimberley Walsh at the Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre.
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SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 10:49AMThe world’s most-used online dictionary has, among other changes, capitalized Black throughout; changed homosexuality to gay sexual orientation; revised language around ethnicity, suicide,…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:42AMChelsea Ainsworth and artist Kyle Netzeband decided that presenting dance on film or online just wasn’t adequate. So they decided they’d try putting on a series of shows on the roof of t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:42AMSeth Rudetsky and James Wesley's daily series benefits The Actors Fund.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:37AMThe stage adaptation of Sleepless in Seattle plays at Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:34AMMiss Broadway? So does Taye Diggs! Check out the Broadway veteran's energizing Broadway routine.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:32AMAuliʻi Cravalho answers some very important a?oeMoanaa?? questions for Kelly Clarkson's kids and she dishes on her new Netflix film 'All Together Now.'
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:32AMComposer Lord Andrew Lloyd-Webber and lyricist Sir Tim Rice visited Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre’s acclaimed socially distant production of Jesus Christ Superstar: The Concert yesterda…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:32AMBy Douglas Mayo
The UK’s first ever socially distanced Big Top panto is to take place in the grounds of a beautiful country estate starring Jaymi Hensley
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SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 10:22AMIn our Theatre Artists Fund series, we speak to the recipients of the grants to find out more about their stories and how the pandemic has affected them.
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SOURCE: officiallondontheatre.com at 10:19AMThrice-delayed and now virtual, this year’s scrambled show-tune revue “Miscast” has to entertain while recognizing that casting is political.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18AMJonathan Groff tapping a tribute to Sutton Foster? Lin-Manuel Miranda singing Anita’s part in “West Side Story”? Watch these videos and see what’s possible.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18AMBased on the hit 1993 hit film “Sleepless in Seattle,” the production is London’s first fully staged indoor musical in months. Applause for that, at least.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18AMJim Parsons, Zachary Quinto, and the recent Broadway cast star in the film.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:18AMDavid Threlfall will also star in the live Old Vic production.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:18AMCheck out this list of the 50 most popular show tunes on Spotify to get the blood pumping.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:15AMPop the bubbly and break out the birthday cake! The trailer for Netflix's new film adaptation of Mart Crowley's groundbreaking comic drama The Boys in the Band has arrived. Fans can spots th…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:02AMTwo one act plays – For Quality Purposes and The Ockenden Witch – have a great deal to say about modern life – even if one is set in 1564!
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By Douglas Mayo
Samantha Barks and Simon Lipkin lead the cast of Broadway musical First Date which is to be presented online in October 2020.
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SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 09:56AMDean Johnson will direct the production, which will be filmed at London's Crazy Coqs.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:43AMThe solo show marks the reopening of London's Bridge Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:43AMBy . The Ohketeau Cultural Council and Double Edge Theatre presents A Native Community Conversation Regarding Mascots, Imagery, and Cultural Appropriation livestreaming on the global, common…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 09:42AMBrian Friel drama promises ‘emotional thwack’, with star joining David Threlfall and Indira Varma at the Old Vic
Michael Sheen is to return to the stage in a revival of Brian Friel’s F…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:42AMLaura Cappelle, a thoroughly bilingual arts journalist and a trained sociologist, looks at the assumptions made and misunderstood by both Ruth Mackenzie and the officials who hired and then …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:42AMNora Ephron’s romcom was brilliantly written and perfectly cast with an elegant score. Our chief theatre critic, who loves the film, writes a letter after seeing its stage adaptation
Dear …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:42AM“‘This pandemic has devastated so many lives and businesses,’ [general director Tomer] Zvulun said. ‘But it has also been a major catalyst in accelerating our shift to a business mod…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:42AM“The festival said its 26 digital productions, which featured specially staged performances involving about 500 artists, musicians and technical staff, were watched 1.013m times in nearly …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:42AMWay back on August 9, “Margarita” tweeted side-by-side images of van Gogh’s Café Terrace at Night and a rendition of the same scene in Arles by contemporary painter Haixia Liu (not to…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:42AMBanner Photo: “West Side Story” – 1961 Mirisch Pictures Inc. Play List – Mostly FREE – On Line NOW For Updates: See Theatrius.com To Read REVIEWS, Click on Photos Below To…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 09:37AMThe drama, starring two-time Oscar winner Swank as an astronaut, premieres September 4.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:27AMThe full cast of the 2018 Tony-winning revival returns for the Joe Mantello-directed movie, out September 30.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:27AMCalling all aspiring designers: The Drama Desk–nominated artist will take your questions live on The Broadway Q&A from Playbill and The Growing Studio.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:12AMSchools and community groups are using our Broadway-quality program creation tool to help bring the in-person theatre experience to streaming events.
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Julianne More Joins “DEH” Movie, AKA Pledges 500 Hours to Black Producers, BWW Announces Best of the Decade Awards “Today on Broadway” is a daily, Monday through Friday, podcast hitt…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 07:55AMTheatre Royal Stratford East today announce the selection of plays and the cast for 846 Live, which will be performed as part of the Greenwich+Docklands International Festival
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SOURCE: officiallondontheatre.com at 07:30AMA film adaptation of the Broadway show has been announced, so what better time to revisit this American classic.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:24AMBy Douglas Mayo
The nation's favourite ballroom couple Anton and Erin Boag will tour with Showtime in 2021. Tickets for Anton and Erin Showtime are now on sale.
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SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 07:22AMNew research from SportsShoes.com has revealed the most popular songs from musicals the world listens to whilst running! For most
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:22AMItzhak Perlman plays a movement from Wieniawski’s Second Violin Concerto on The Ed Sullivan Show. This episode was broadcast on May 10, 1964, when Perlman was nineteen years old:
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SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AMCheck out these reads before heading to class this semester.
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:00AM“All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself.”
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
Continue reading Almanac: Dickens on …
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by Carol Rocamora So you think Richard III is a creepiest character you’ve ever seen onstage? Or Iago? Or Edmund, or all the other Shakespearean villains? Wait till you meet Fr…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:59AMOLD VIC: IN CAMERA series continues with Brian Friel’s classic play Faith Healer starring Michael Sheen, David Threlfall and Indira Varma.
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SOURCE: officiallondontheatre.com at 05:50AMWho is Rob Lobosco? Rob Lobosco is a writer, actor, filmmaker and Doctor of Chinese Medicine based in Melbourne, Australia. Rob has had various roles in Australian TV (Halifax FP, Neighbours…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 05:33AMBy Douglas Mayo
Josie Lawrence is to perform in a New Perspectives stage production of the cult classic Lars von Trier film The Boss Of It All from 18-20 September 2020.
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SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 05:30AMNo one had any idea if people would tune in to all this arts content when the digital floodgates opened in March. Now arts organizations are reporting massive increases in online audiences d…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:12AM“Battle Instructions is Burroughs the self-styled revolutionary in 1960 at his most historically explicit, the courageous whistle-blower denouncing and exposing moguls, political leaders a…
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By Julian Eaves
Julian Eaves reviews Sierra Boggess appearing as part of Seth Rudetsky's online concert series.
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SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 04:58AMI’m sorry I missed Marge Champion’s more significant birthday last year but we’ll attempt to redress the wrong by bestowing maximum attention upon her today. What a remarkable life and…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 04:42AMA standard screen-to-stage transfer, but hugely welcome post-lockdown
Originally due to premiere back in March, Sleepless – a musical version of the winning 1993 movie Sleepless in Seattle…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 04:42AMBy Paul T Davies
Paul T Davies reviews Prime Cuts production of Removed by Fionnuala Kennedy streamed as part of the Traverse Festival Online.
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Discover how easy it is to cook delicious, gluten-free food for the whole family, every night of the week, with Helen Tzouganatos, host of the SBS Food series Loving Gluten Free. As a mum o…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 02:36AMCurrently celebrating its 15th year as an internationally recognized art house film center, Film Streams was established as a nonprofit in 2005 and has grown to an operation of two venues th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:06AMBy Michelle Souza. Michelle Souza looks at how costume designers and educators can dismantle the status quo of Western-focused, chronological teaching of historical garments and move toward …
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