A new letter writing campaign will urge U.S. Congress to pass the DAWN Act.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMMondays for Biden has announced more special guests for its interactive virtual fundraising event 'Dancing For Democracy' on Monday October 5th at 9:00pm EST.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:54PM'Dear Evan Hansen' star Noah Galvin has joined the cast of the upcoming season of 'The Good Doctor,' alongside Summer Brown, Bria Samoné Henderson (Mrs. America) and Brian Marc (The Kill …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:54PMWriting team, Kait Kerrigan (she/her) & Brian Lowdermilk (they/them or she/her) have announced the immediate release of the digital rights to produce their cult-hit musical THE MAD ONES …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:54PMThe Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) is excited to announce the second wave of actors, artists, and activists participating in the “HFPA Philanthropy: Empowering the Next Genera…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:31PMKeegan-Michael Key and Alan Cumming are also among the starry cast.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:18PMEXCLUSIVE: Great Performances has set its fourth annual “Broadway’s Best” November line-up on PBS, including the world premiere of Lea Salonga in Concert featuring the Tony Award-winne…
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Like Water For Chocolate, (“Como Agua Para Chocolate”) one of the most read, talked about novels of the late 20th C, Laura Esquivel 1989 masterpiece, is being developed for the stage as …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:48PMPlus, watch Jai’Len Josey sing “Sign My Name” from the musical adaptation of The Secret Life of Bees.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:47PMAll we really want is some justice. Donate today to the Center for Popular Democracy to help create real and lasting change for immigrants, working families, and communities of color.
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SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 04:46PMWerk! As previously reported, singer-songwriter Sara Bareilles and Tina Fey are teaming up for the comedy series Girls5eva. Bareilles stars in the show, which is about a former girl group th…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:42PMThe organization has provided relief to those in the industry facing economic hardship during the pandemic.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:28PMCecily Strong and Keegan-Michael Key play a traveling couple who encounter a magical land in the musical comedy.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:15PMAnd just 20 percent of shows on New York stages were written by people of color in the 2017-18 season, a report says.
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SOURCE: Dramatics Magazine at 03:54PMBroadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS provided a record $18.1 million in grants to a pandemic-slammed industry during the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, the most ever awarded in the orga…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:53PMFrom the moment of the appearance of if the actor passes from the plane of actual reality into the plane of another life, created and imagined by himself. Believing in this life, the actor c…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:52PMGeorge Street Playhouse in New Brunswick has shifted its spring performances of “A Walk on the Moon” to next season. Contact 732-246-7717 or georgestplayhouse.org.
SOURCE: NJ.com at 03:40PMby Zach Raffio. @zachraffio. LOS ANGELES - Local actor Ben DeMaine flooded his social media today with hashtags such as "#bookedandblesse...
SOURCE: www.thebroadwaybeat.com at 03:36PMBelow is the day-by-day calendar of “theater openings”* in October 2020. During this seventh full month when “theater” mostly means “online,” Audra McDonald and Hillary Clinton a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:35PMThe company has postponed live performances until the 2021–2022 season.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:14PMTo celebrate National Latinx Heritage Month, Playbill and The Broadway League present a digital concert celebration "¡Viva Broadway! Hear Our Voices."
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Living near the theater district during the Broadway shutdown, photographer and performer Matthew Stocke has been haunted walking past the empty palaces sitting in repose, waiting for the li…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:32PMFresh off of releasing a premiere date for the film adaptation of August Wilson's play Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Netflix has released stunning shots from the movie. Ma Rainey's Black Botto…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:32PMThe report shows that white actors, directors, and writers were overrepresented on Broadway and on nonprofit stages.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:18PMChances are pretty good that if you've been to a Broadway show over the past three decades, you've had the privilege of seeing the work of Howell Binkley. You may not have even known you did…
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 02:18PMBritain’s Got Talent star Myra Dubois turns agony aunt in a show that might raise the roof in a theatre – but not online
Myra Dubois was a staple of the cabaret scene for years before Si…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:18PMDuring the pandemic, I rediscovered my childhood dance teacher – and stepped into a healing Wednesday night ritual
In February, I learned that musician Kedaar Kumar, son of my long-ago In…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:18PMThe Fairy Princess has warned you that she is back, so really, you have no one to blame but Republicans – if they had not inadequately prepared for this pandemic, and then LIED to us – t…
SOURCE: fairyprincessdiaries.com at 02:16PMThe "The Black Seed" initiative is kickstarted by a $5 million gift from the Mellon Foundation.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:12PMThe "The Black Seed" initiative is kickstarted by a $5 million gift from the Mellon Foundation.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:12PMReview: Antony and Cleopatra, Theatro Technis3.0Overall ScoreThe love story of Mark Antony and Cleopatra is one that has endured as a romance of epic proportions. After all, their illicit af…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:06PMLooking at works on Broadway and at major Off-Broadway companies, 38.5 percent of roles were filled by non-white performers, indicating limited progress.
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Excerpts from new musicals and conversations with the writers are featured in the free weekly live streams.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:45PMThe exhibit Patricia Villafañe: PAPRIKA opens Friday at Poem 88 with a...
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SOURCE: ArtsATL at 12:42PMThe adaptation of Laura Esquivel's classic novel of magic realism will feature music by the Grammy-winning band La Santa Cecilia.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:32PMOctober 1 is the natal day of the late Tom Bosley (1927-2010) and we’re just a couple of weeks shy of the 10th anniversary of his death, and we’ve dropped his name here on Travalanche ab…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 12:32PMIt’s just so weird and uncanny that Mac Davis died on the same day as Helen Reddy — they were both the same age, they came to fame at the same time, they both had similar careers (encomp…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 12:32PMAlmost as if I KNEW I would be cooped up in my house for a year, just about a year ago I stretched my legs a bit and traveled to San Francisco and environs and western New York and some othe…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 12:32PMThe screen adaptation of the August Wilson play is set to premiere on Netflix December 18.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:29PMNetflix has announced the premiere date for its starry screen adaptation of August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom. The film will be available beginning on December 18.
As previously ann…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:24PMNetflix's The Boys in the Band premiered on September 30. And there's a bonus featurette you won't want to miss! As previously announced, The Boys in the Band: Something Personal features …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:24PMLaura Esquivel's 1989 best-selling novel Like Water for Chocolate (Como Agua Para Chocolate) is being adapted for the stage. Featuring original music by the Grammy Award-winning Latin group…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:24PMThe trailer for Netflix's corona-centric Social Distance, an eight-episode anthology series, has arrived. Produced remotely and set during the first few months of the COVID-19 crisis, the ca…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:24PMBroadway audiences are eagerly waiting to catch Tony winner Hugh Jackman as Harold Hill in the upcoming revival of The Music Man, but in the meantime, they can see—well, a whole lot of him…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:24PMSeth Rudetsky and James Wesley's daily series benefits The Actors Fund.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:11PMThe online concert premiere of the new musical Sticks & Stones will feature a star-studded cast including Audra McDonald, Javier Muñoz and George Salazar when it premieres Friday, Octob…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:03PMAAPAC released its newly titled annual report today, 'THE VISIBILITY REPORT: RACIAL REPRESENTATION ON NEW YORK CITY STAGES,' covering employment statistics by race for actors, playwrights, c…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:03PMThe music video for 'Sign My Name' from The Secret Life of Bees has been released! The musical, which premiered at Atlantic Theater Company in 2019 with a book by Pulitzer Prize-winner Lynn …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:03PMIt's the Day of the Show Y'All host Spencer Glass is taking over our Instagram Live with his new show, Ten Minute Tidbits!
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:03PMWe're down to our top 5 in the Next on Stage competition! Contestant Ashton Lambert shares more about his charity, a fond memory he has of doing Hairspray, and what he's been up to during qu…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:03PMTony-winning Hairspray composer Marc Shaiman brought down the house at the end of the Broadway for Biden event with an impromptu performance of Hairspray's iconic finale 'You Can't Stop the …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:03PMThe Inheritance playwright, Matthew Lopez, has signed an overall deal with Amazon Studios.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:03PMNew York Theatre Barn will continue to host weekly free live streams of its New Works Series each Wednesday evening at 7PM ET. Upcoming installments of the series include excerpts from the n…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:03PMAttend the tale of Sweeney Todd and the thrilling reunion of original Broadway cast members on Stars In The House benefiting The Actors Fund. Tune in tonight, October 1st at 8pm EST!
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 12:02PMA new featurette takes fans behind the scenes of the groundbreaking play.
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The Barn Theatre Cirencester has announced details of their 2020 Recovery Season productions of Marry Me A Little and Peter Pan.
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SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 11:54AMJulianne Moore stars in The Glorias, and the Broadway cast of The Boys in the Band come to Netflix.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:54AMTo celebrate Black History Month the Bush Theatre is continuing its commitment to broaden the population of theatre-makers through a mixture of online and in-person activities. The celebrati…
SOURCE: officiallondontheatre.com at 11:51AMBroadwayHD has announced its October roster, featuring popular films and plays, along with anniversary concerts and exciting live theater experiences.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:50AMLaura Esquivel's 1989 novel, Like Water For Chocolate, will be developed for the stage as a brand new musical.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:44AMProducers Tom Hulce and Ira Pittleman announced today that one of the most read and talked-about novels of the late 20th century, Laura Esquivel’s 1989 masterpiece, Like Water For Chocolat…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 11:37AMBroadway Green Alliance will host a virtual discussion via Zoom, called Ita??s Not a Moment ita??s a Youth Climate Movement
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:37AMThe Royal Shakespeare Company has today announced that Juliet Gilkes Romero’s provocative new play The Whip will receive its online premiere this October as part of Black History Month.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:34AMBackstage will host a two-hour panel discussion, Creatives in Conversation: Anti-Black Racism in Casting, on Thursday, October 1 at 6 p.m. ET.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:33AMWe're down to our top 5 in the Next on Stage competition! Contestant Tychelle Bearden shares more about her charity, a true 'the show must go on' experience she had, and what musical theatre…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:31AMA planned spring world premiere of Cathy Marston’s “Of Mice and Men” joins the already canceled "Nutcracker." But an emergency fund to support the company has already raised millions.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:25AMLaura Esquivel’s 1989 novel Like Water For Chocolate, adapted for the screen in 1993, is now headed to the stage: A musical version to be directed by Tony Award winner Michael Mayer with o…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:15AMToday (October 1) in live streaming: The Next On Stage Dance Edition top 3, Orfeh & Andy Karl visit Backstage Live, and so much more!
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:10AMProducers Tom Hulce and Ira Pittleman are developing a stage musical adaptation of “Like Water for Chocolate.” The musical adaptation of “Like Water for Chocolate,” which began as …
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 11:01AMInsane, right? With Broadway shut down and no sure re-opening date in sight, who would invest in a new Broadway theater? Or Off-Broadway Theater? Or any theater? Warren Buffet might. It …
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Tamara Harvey directs the world premiere from Henry Filloux-Bennett.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:52AMAfter being at home for the last few months, you might be itching to get out and explore the world again. It seems people are choosing to go on more road trips, where you can enjoy the outdo…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 10:50AMGhosts, Zombies, and some frightfully good productions are headed your way this October! BroadwayHD, the premiere streaming service for theater fans, today unveiled its new show-stopping Oct…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 10:48AMDenzel Washington will produce the film, which will also star his son, John David Washington.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:42AMCatch an exclusive preview of two songs from the stage adaption of the novel in the October 1 ¡Viva Broadway! Hear Our Voices.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:41AMThe Billie Holiday Theater in Brooklyn will spearhead The Black Seed, a strategic plan that will offer grants to up to 50 theaters across the country.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:36AMFriend of the show and author of the new book 'Trumpty Dumpty Wanted a Crown,' John Lithgow, enlisted the help of famous friends to read excerpts to create shareable clips in place of a book…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:32AMWe're down to our top 5 in the Next on Stage competition! Contestant Joshua Keen shares more about his charity, which past role inspired him to become a choreographer, and who is Broadway i…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:31AMThe fundraiser, featuring songs from Funny Girl and more, will support International Sanctuary.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:30AMThe licensing company has selected four theatrical streaming platforms for online productions from their R&H Theatricals, Samuel French, Tams-Witmark, and Andrew Lloyd Webber Collection …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:19AMAbrams Children's Books will publish the new tome next year.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:01AMWhile 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 yesterday's highlights from some of your …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:01AMWelcome back to the Fringe Focus series of interviews with artistic directors around London. Recently I caught up with Kennedy Bloomer, who has been running the Hope Theatre (above the Hope …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMEvery year, the Salem Horror Festival brings together some of the finest and most diverse voices in horror for an event that features world premieres…
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Chita Rivera, Stephanie J. Block, Peppermint, Alaska, and more will appear in the October 18 stream.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:59AMMarkus Virta directs a new staging at Östgötateatern in Norrköping.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:58AMMadrid is the European capital worst hit by COVID-19. There nevertheless remains more theatrical activity than in most other cities. Based on the 2015 book by investigative journalist Nacho …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 09:23AMThe Highmark Blues & Heritage Festival, Pittsburgh Humanites Festival, Iliza Shlesinger and more
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 09:15AMKathryn Osenlund remembers two productions from Fringe Festivals past
SOURCE: phindie.com at 09:02AMA meeting of Marias! Thank you to the wonderful Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization for hosting this very special clip from The Julie Andrews Hour which we are highlighting for Dame Julie…
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 09:00AMThe star of On Your Feet! tracks the milestone moments of her journey to Broadway in our Cadillac Lounge series.
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The film, based on the August Wilson play, is directed by George C. Wolfe.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:54AMAn all new trailer has dropped for Netflix's upcoming series SOCIAL DISTANCE. The series stars Danielle Brooks, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Okieriete Onaodowan, and more.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:32AMUrban Stages Artistic Producing Director, Frances Hill, announces Mixing Melodies and Margaritas, a virtual benefit featuring musical performances and appearances by legendary stars along wi…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:11AMDirected and co-choreographed by Tony Award winner Sergio Trujillo, the concert event features Lin-Manuel Miranda, Anthony Ramos and an In The Heights reunion, Gloria Estefan, Jaime Camil, J…
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Disney Lays Off 28,000 Employees And Equity Responds, A First Look At Chadwick Boseman In “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” “Today on Broadway” is a daily, Monday through Friday, podcast …
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 07:55AMThis week includes an imaginary sitcom, Scottish illusions, musical theatre samplers, and telephonic audio plays.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 07:40AMNothing can stop BroadwayWorld's Richard Ridge from bringing you interviews with your favorite Broadway stars! On September 30, he chatted with Tony winner John Lloyd Young.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:28AMHilary Teachout, my partner and life’s companion, died six months ago today, having undergone a long-awaited double lung transplant that failed. I went straight from her deathbed back into…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM“The human heart dares not stay away too long from that which hurt it most. There is a return journey to anguish that few of us are released from making.”
Lillian Smith, Killers of the …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMYou’re a prestigious arts center in a pandemic. Here’s what not to do: Have a nightclub on your roof called Heist X. This is one of the strangest stories of the COVID arts shutdown.
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Seven outstanding finalists have been selected for the 2020 Australian Mental Health Prize. Now in its fifth year, the Prize recognises Australians who have made outstanding contributions to…
SOURCE: Australian Arts Review at 01:41AMContemporary cultural precinct HOTA, Home of the Arts, has unveiled the major internationally renowned installation Gaia, marking the first time the artwork has been presented on Australia�…
SOURCE: Australian Arts Review at 01:19AMSteps on Broadway, the internationally recognized dance training center, announced today that its founder, Carol Paumgarten, passed away on Thursday evening, September 24, after a long illne…
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