Max Tachis Grovels to Many Masters, Mining Comedy Gold by Barry David Horwitz Becky Mode’s original 1999 play has been updated with the names of current stars and notorious one-percenters;…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 07:49PMThe Finstrom Festival of New Work, a new national playwriting contest, has just opened for entries – a competition whose finalists will undergo workshops, staged readings and possibly a fu…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:12PMSignature Theatre Announces Resident Playwrights’ Productions for 2021–2022 Season Signature Theatre’s 2021–22 Season looks amazing, and would water any theatregoer’s mouth, especi…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:05PMWith three special holiday shows for children and adults all streaming on Monday (the night when theaters traditionally were dark), it will be hard to decide which one to watch. Fortunately,…
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Seth Rudetsky chats with Lisa Carling and Becca Yuré about Santa and Little B: Zoom for the Holidays!, a special virtual holiday experience for families with children and adults on the auti…
SOURCE: YouTube at 05:42PMColman Domingo, Glynn Turman, and Taylour Paige unpack Denzel Washington’s latest adaptation of the August Wilson play.
SOURCE: www.vibe.com at 05:33PMBid on Broadway-worn costumes to support the Costume Industry Coalition and the FIT Foundation.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:32PMThe new play is written by Stacy Osei-Kuffour.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:32PMMulti-award-winning theatrical event Harry Potter and the Cursed Child will resume performances on 25th February, after a hiatus of 49
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:25PMPlus: Portia de Rossi and the cast of ABC's Better Off Ted will reunite on Play-PerView.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:21PMViola Davis stars in the screen adaptation of August Wilson's 'Ma Rainey's Black Bottom' — giving a must-watch performance of the year.
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SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 05:12PM“A bright spot in the report indicates that the U.S. professional not-for-profit theatre field attracted an estimate of 38 million audience members to 180,000 performances of 21,000 produc…
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Short plays in storefront windows for small outdoor audiences is the Equity-approved formula for Miami New Drama's newest effort.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:58PMThe trio star alongside Viola Davis and the late Boseman in the Netflix adaptation of Ma Rainey's Black Bottom.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:47PMBy . Ambiance Theatre Company presents the conversation Get Off Your High Horse livestreaming on the global, commons-based, peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Monday 11 Ja…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:29PMDecember 9, 2020 round table discussing noted Yiddish writer and activist Sh. Ansky, his masterwork THE DYBBUK, the Vilna Troupe and their world premiere of the play, and the play's echoes t…
SOURCE: YouTube at 04:27PMThe latest release from Williamstown Theatre Festival and Audible is the world premiere of Stacy Osei-Kuffour's Animals, directed by Whitney White and starring Madeline Brewer, Jason Butler …
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folklore's sister is here - evermore. Taylor Swift once again surprised fans with a 9th studio album. As Taylor couldn't stop imagining these songs and stories during this time we couldn't s…
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 03:46PMBy Mark Ludmon
Mark Ludmon reviews Original Theatre Company's latest offering The Haunting Of Alice Bowles now streaming online.
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SOURCE: YouTube at 03:12PMGiven the year’s unsettling mixed-bag of a global pandemic, racial reckoning, political strife, and various man-made and natural crises (murder hornets, anyone?), the chaos of 2020 has bec…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 03:06PM“Madre Goose tells the story of an LGBTQ+ community of activists rallying against gentrification and materialism. All the wacky costumes, silly characters and daft jokes are as you’d exp…
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NYTW's education program provided an artistic oasis, and a sense of belonging, for U.S. high school students hungry for change.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:57PMHere are a few of our staff picks for the coming week.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 02:48PMRobin L. McGee, who has worked on Muny shows, is project manager for the Broadway Relief Project in New York.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 02:48PMThe 2021 summer lineup will also include Shakespeare's The Tempest and an audio version of Macbeth.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:47PMCaptured live on stage in 2016 at London's King's Cross Theatre, the presentation will mark the fifth anniversary of David Bowie's death.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:37PMIn the letter, Dramatists Play Service says that the move was partly inspired by the challenges facing the theater business posed by coronavirus. It’s a public health crisis that has broug…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:29PMSeth Rudetsky and James Wesley's daily series benefits The Actors Fund.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:12PMJason Butler Harner, William Jackson Harper, Aja Naomi King, and Madeline Brewer star in the audio play.
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Following the news that London – plus parts of Essex and Hertfordshire – would move into Tier 3 from 16 December 2020, Health and Social Care Secretary Matt Hancock has announced that th…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:59PMThe musical was filmed in London.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:54PMNew Brunswick Performing Arts Center is home to George Street Playhouse, American Repertory Ballet, Crossroads Theatre Company, and Rutgers University’s Mason Gross School of the Arts. The…
SOURCE: www.njfuture.org at 01:49PMDean Falcone's Vomitorium is a decades-old tradition where Connecticut musicians gather to play obscure and strange rock covers. This year, the Vomitorium has become a "Covidtorium" set of C…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:47PMTo remember David Bowie on his birthday and to mark the fifth anniversary of his untimely death, producers Robert Fox and RZO Entertainment Inc are exclusively releasing the stream of the Lo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:46PMDanny Bernstein, Daniel Mertzlufft, and Gabbi Bolt are among those whose pieces are included.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:43PMEveryone's favorite nanny is returning! Mary Poppins has just announced that it will return to London's Prince Edward Theatre in the spring. Opening night is set for May 22, with tickets goi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:18PMTHE JEWISH SOUL: CLASSICS OF YIDDISH CINEMA: Kino’s essential set shows the diversity and range of Yiddish cinema, while commentary tracks from film critic J. Hoberman and Yiddish historia…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 01:18PMTheatrical production company Seaview (Slave Play, Sea Wall/A Life), today announced the creative team for the one-performance-only, Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical, to benefit The Acto…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:06PMPlans have been announced for Les Miserables to recommence performances this summer in all the show's former revolutionary glory without social distancing measures. The announcement comes…
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Review: Raymond Briggs' Father Christmas, Lyric Hammersmith4.0Overall ScoreIt is a year unlike any other and so it should not come to anyone’s surprise that Christmas is not like any other…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:48PM“I’m a playwright, right?,” DC playwright Richard Byrne told me on a phone call. “I miss people getting into my face with my words.” But the pandemic has pushed this prolific write…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:42PMBroadway's Robbie Fairchild and Adam Perry stop by to chat about pivoting to floral arrangement via their new business, boo•kay! Plus, we share our favorite Broadway-inspired holiday gift…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:36PMThe Times’s theater critics in London, Paris and Berlin reflect on a year of closures, reopenings, restrictions and curfews, in which the show somehow went on.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:36PM Theater – Music – Holiday Fun Continues Here are some added treats for you to see during the coming holidays – – stream away! The Acting Company Holiday Special …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 12:34PMThis week, Tom Kitt joined the host of Gone in 30 Minutes, Tom DeSavia, for a conversation about his current projects, including how Columbia University's virtual commencement helped pull hi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:33PMToday's roundup includes Potted Panto streaming online and returning to the Garrick at Easter plus Bush Theatre's Overflow broadcasting online.
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SOURCE: officiallondontheatre.com at 12:12PMThe beloved film stars Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:06PMThespie has “done it again” with Oops! I Streamed It Again, a lively concert featuring some of the stars of West End musical on hiatus, & Juliet.
In a pause where the singe...
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The new podcast chronicles the behind-the-scenes drama of Avvatar, the Musical.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:46AMMy feelings about the Farrelly Brothers are…complicated. My principal reason for caring about them at all is that they are from my home state of Rhode Island, and represent it in their mov…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:42AMWhat kind of weird holiday show is this? That was my initial reaction – not my usual reaction to a show by Taylor Mac, which is more often: Wow ( to Hir, and A 24 Decade History of Po…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:36AMThe underwater puppet production was captured for the screen in 2018.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:33AMHershey Felder plays Tchaikovsky, and Andrea McArdle, Broadway's original Annie, performs her holiday concert. And don't miss Josh Groban's, either.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:33AMThe Emmy winner presents a newly adapted livestream edition of a stage show that got cancelled by Covid.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:33AMBeth Stevens chats with Colman Domingo, Michael Potts and Glynn Turman, stars of the film adaptation of August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom. See them talk about playing musicians and …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:32AMMa Rainey’s Black Bottom’ the Netflix movie adapted from two-time Pulitzer Prize winner August Wilson’s play of the same name is a gem. Producer Denzel Washington has made a commitment…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:32AMJeremy O. Harris, whose Slave Play earned 12 Tony Award nominations, is taking his creative talents to a different level. After wowing on red carpets throughout the theater season pre-shu…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:32AMExcerpt from Todd S. Purdum’s book “SOMETHING WONDERFUL: Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Broadway Revolution.” Learn more here: https://bit.ly/somethingwonderfulbook
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SOURCE: YouTube at 11:31AMJeremy O. Harris has already taken over Broadway. Now he's making his mark in the fashion industry. According to Vogue, the playwright is launching a 20-piece, gender-neutral collection wi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:26AMA showtune with "snow" in the title while the Northeast is hit with a winter storm - too literal? Honestly, anytime we can feature the impeccable acting and pristine vocals of Broadway's own…
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 11:22AMCompanies coast to coast and beyond are revving up their own adaptations for Web consumption.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:18AMBy . The summit begins with a keynote speech from spoken-word poet, educator, and performer Marc Bamuthi Joseph, currently the Vice President and Artistic Director of Social Impact at t
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:09AMJewelle Blackman, Yvette Gonzalez-Nacer, and Kay Trinidad with the Hadestown ensemble (guest soloists: Khaila Wilcoxon, T. Oliver Reid, Kimberly Marable, and Malcolm Armwood). From the new a…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 11:06AMMembers of the creative team discuss what it took to adapt the August Wilson play for Netflix and trying not to be “outdone” by the late actor.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:03AMIt’s weird. We should be more excited today than any other day during this pandemic. The vaccine was approved. It’s more effective than anyone could have imagined. And it’s being a…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMWhile starring in Peter Shaffer’s drama—which opened on Broadway December 17, 1980—Ian McKellen wrote about the hazards of impersonating historical characters for Playbill.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:00AM
Today (December 17) in live streaming: the cast of Homeschool the Musical on Stars in the House, Norm Lewis in concert, and so much more!
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:59AMSwedish-Danish-Iranian filmmaker Ali Abbasi directs.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:50AMThis month marks the centenary of THE DYBBUK, the most famous Jewish work in the world, by Shloime Ansky, and Monday a new version was released on the YouTube channel of the Congress for Jew…
SOURCE: www.radiojai.com at 09:46AMPeppermint stars as Gabriel—and Portia as God—in the one-act parody of the Biblical trip to Bethlehem.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:19AMMany people in the theater community have stepped up to this moment of multiple crises, including those I detail below, listed roughly in alphabetical order. They stand in for all the others…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:16AMThis Week's New Classified Listings on BroadwayWorld for 12/17/2020 include new jobs for those looking to work in the theatre industry.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:10AMComposer Natalie Tenenbaum and lyricist Kevin Wanzor have created THE WORST PEOPLE YOU KNOW (or #TWPYK), a serial musical comedy web series that celebrates the most terrible and …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:04AMViola Davis, Chadwick Boseman (in his final movie role) and the ensemble cast give masterful performances in Netflix's stellar version of playwright August Wilson's "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom…
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 09:00AM
“Moulin Rouge!” National Tour Gets New Dates, Roundabout And Other Companies Get Grants “Today on Broadway” is a daily, Monday through Friday, podcast hitting the top theatre headlin…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 07:55AMThe new Disney+ docu-series follows students at the prestigious School of American Ballet Theatre and in New York City Ballet's The Nutcracker.
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:52AMBy Cathy Hammer One of the few good things to come out of the need for many theaters to close their physical spaces has been the reemergence of audio plays. With the right vehicle and soun…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:40AMRoyal & Derngate Northampton has announced that it will premiere a season of original musical theatre as part of its upcoming Made in Northampton 2021 season.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:25AMWritten by the Olivier award winner James Graham and produced by the Guardian in partnership with the National Theatre, this short musical film is a unifying song for the country to take …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AMThe playwright has collaborated with the Guardian and the National Theatre on a new short film, We Begin Again, looking back at – and beyond – this turbulent year
How does a playwright a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AMIn today’s Wall Street Journal I chronicle the best theater of 2020—all of it in the form of streaming webcasts. Here’s an excerpt.
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The last time I went to a theater was …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM“To assert dignity is to lose it.”
Rex Stout, The League of Frightened Men
Continue reading Almanac: Nero Wolfe on dignity at About Last Night.
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AM
Traditional pantomimes often spin the same old narratives about gender and beauty, says the maker of an alternative show, about LGBTQ+ activists
“Kids love a mosh pit! They love a headbang…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:06AMWho is Peta Anderson? Peta is one of Australia’s leading tap dancers and is taking the world by storm by combining her knowledge in both Irish and Tap dance styles to create unique rhythms…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 05:06AMBy Sarah Day
This week on Throwback Thursday Emily Redpath talks about playing Juliet to Sam Tutty's Romeo and how you personify vomit at the Edinburgh Fringe.
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