Sharm El-Sheikh International Theatre Festival for Youth: Beating the Pandemic by Ati Metwaly

The festival’s fifth edition took place from November 16-20. Despite Covid-19 making even a one-off event, let alone a whole festival, difficult, the fifth Sharm El-Sheikh International Th…

Concert Review: ‘A Salute to Vienna and Budapest,’ from A Salute to Vienna New Year’s Concert by Dr. Mark Dreisonstok

The New Year’s Concert from Vienna has become not only a tradition for residents and visitors to the Austrian capital, but also for millions of television viewers the world over. To bring …

Streaming boom benefits new artists, says UK music industry

BPI counters criticism from struggling musicians by pointing to investment by big labels

The Public Theater’s ‘Under the Radar Festival’ begins streaming this week by Deb Miller

For the first time in its seventeen-year history, The Public Theater’s Under the Radar Festival will be going completely virtual in 2021, with twelve days of free performances beginning on…

Staged's Anna Lundberg and Georgia Tennant: 'Scenes with all four of us usually involved alcohol' by Michael Hogan

The hit BBC sitcom Staged started when actors and friends David Tennant and Michael Sheen began messing about on Zoom. On the eve of series two, we talk to their scene-stealing partners Not …

Review Roundup: RATATOUILLE: THE TIKTOK MUSICAL - What Did the Critics Think?

The premiere of the virtual benefit performance of Ratatouille: the TikTok Musical took place on Friday, January 1 at 7pm ET and will stream for 72 hours only through TodayTix. Let's see w…

CONSTANT STANISLAVSKI (106) by Robert Shuman

Maeterlinck is a charming, kind, and joyful host and companion. For days at a time we spoke about art, and he was very glad to know that actors were entering so deeply into the very being, m…

Theatre Review: ‘Signature Vinyl,’ Signature Theatre’s online concert by Jeffrey Walker

As the holiday season winds down, you might be on the lookout for something that isn’t a Hallmark holiday movie, a show to binge watch, or a 2020 retrospective of highlights (lowlights?) f…

Two by Two by Sandi Durell

NEW YOU TUBE LINK BELOW! The 50th Anniversary Virtual Concert Benefit for The Actors Fund can be viewed on YouTube HERE! Also available at facebook.com/TheaterPizzazz. Donations are very muc…

This Week on Broadway for January 3, 2021: Broadway Remembers by James Marino

Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere talk about the Broadway Remembers (2020) video. This Week on Broadway has been coming to you every week since 2009. It is the longest ru…

Jamie deRoy & friends by Barry Gordin

Jamie deRoy & friends “Backstage at The Sound of Music,” is an insightful Telly Award winning segment from 1999.

Two theater students start a podcast that asks stars “Whatcha Doin’?” by News Desk

Two enterprising Catholic University of America seniors are hosting a new podcast to connect current theater industry professionals with future theater industry professionals through intervi…

Pandemic Diary December: Getting Out of 2020 by Nicole Serratore

While the pandemic is far from over and our lives are not going to magically change as the clock strikes midnight on December 31, 2020, there is still something deeply satisfying with puttin…

‘Ratatouille’ Review: What’s Small and Hairy With Big Dreams? by Jesse Green

What started as a TikTok meme and became a crowdsourced musical could have online lessons to offer for Broadway.

Gilbert Seldes and The Seven Lively Arts by Trav S.D.

Today we pay homage to the great American cultural critic Gilbert Seldes (1893-1970). Odd that today his daughter, actress Marian Seldes is probably better known and remembered — Seldes th…

Go Around the World 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 taking listeners on a trip around th…

20 of the things that inspired, moved, amused & delighted John Chapman in 2020 by John Chapman

I’ve selected 20 of the things that inspired, moved, amused and delighted, which have pushed the boundaries of what it possible and continued to fly the flag for theatre in the UK.

Ratatouille Partners by Sandi Durell

Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical announced a suite of partnerships that will provide a robust virtual Broadway experience, that includes Playbill, presenting a special edition Playbill with …

Shreyas Talpade Set to Unveil Nine Rāsā in January 2021 by Neeraja Murthy

BShreyas Talpade hopes his new digital theatre initiative will create new opportunities for artists and technicians. Theatre and performing artists who have been struggling against odds due …

Theater Blog Roundup: 2020 in Hindsight by Jonathan Mandell

Stars in the House, Sondheim and his 90th birthday concert, Be An #ArtsHero (photo by Howard Sherman), nude body painting in Times Square (ditto), the chance to reinvent the American theater…

How Jewish Theatre Scrambled And Remade Itself For The Digital Year by Artsjournal2

As with every other kind of theatre, Jewish theaters and playwrights, actors and tech people, had a lot to figure out. The Jewish Playwriting Contest completely reimagined what it was asking…

We will choose Performer of the Year for 2020-21 by Christopher Rawson and Sharon Eberson / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

TheaterWorks Hartford blazes new trails, creating new theater, and ways to see it, during COVID crisis by Christopher Arnott

TheaterWorks Hartford is in the forefront of theaters who have adjusted to COVID-era challenges by producing its shows online. The theater is now offering a show a month, a big change from i…

Mountain high: London gallery JD Malat heads for the Alps

A St Moritz pop-up exhibition clears the head and stirs the soul

Magical moments of Connecticut theater in 2020 by Christopher Arnott

Memories of the scattered, akilter theater year, 2020.

January! SING in the New Year with a Class! by Cabaret Hotspot!

Cabaret Hotspot! wishes you all a Happy, Healthy, Music-Filled 2021! Speaking of a Music-filled New Year…please note all the new classes being offered in our Education Box below. All detai…

January! “Richard Skipper Celebrates” Schedule by Cabaret Hotspot!

“RICHARD SKIPPER CELEBRATES” ANNOUNCES HIS JANUARY SCHEDULE OF EXTRAORDINARY INTERVIEWS! January 3rd: Dave McGee aka Dr. Moo Moo January 4th @ 5:00 pm: Alex Rybeck January 6th @ 6:00 pm:…

Sunday, 1/03 @ 6:00 pm “Music While We’re Inside” FREE Jazz Concert! by Cabaret Hotspot!

“Music While We’re Inside” Free Jazz Concert Sunday, January 3rd @ 6:00 pm EST Join us to welcome 2021 with our first concert of the year as “Music While We’re Inside” presents: …

Saturday, 1/09 @ 7:00 pm Corinna Sowers-Adler “Let Me Sing and I’m Happy” by Cabaret Hotspot!

CORINNA SOWERS-ADLER in LET ME SING AND I’M HAPPY Saturday, January 9th @ 7:00 pm EDT With Jimmy Horan on the piano For tickets please go to: https://www.nicoristudio.com  Celebrate 2021 …

Thru 1/31 Jim Caruso’s “Best of Pajama Cast Party!” by Cabaret Hotspot!

Jim Caruso’s “Best of Pajama Cast Party!” Now playing on demand thru to January 31 $10.00 Donation to BCEFA https://events.broadwayworld.com/event/the-best-of-pajama-cast-party-on-dema…

January 3: How Cirencester’s Barn and London’s Old Vic kept going through the pandemic, while the Young Vic furloughed itself by Mark Shenton

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At age 97, he gets his first art show by Monica Obradovic Special To The Post-Dispatch

World War II veteran Edwin “Ed” Echelmeyer enters first art showing to honor his late wife.

Laura's Prayer (from THE BIG BOOM) - Nikki Renee Daniels, Georgia Stitt by Georgia Stitt

"Laura's Prayer" words and music by Georgia Stitt from THE BIG BOOM, book by Hunter Foster Sung by Nikki Renee Daniels Piano: Georgia Stitt for more info: https://georgiastitt.com/shows/the…

David Bowie’s LAZARUS to stream this week by Gabi Bergman

To remember David Bowie on his birthday and to mark the fifth anniversary of his untimely death, producers Robert Fox

Broadway Horoscopes: Which Musical Theatre Lyric Will Inspire Your 2021? by Felicia Fitzpatrick

Kick start the new year with these musical lyrics for your astrological sign.

Podcasting is a smart move for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex

The couple’s new series on Spotify launches with a ‘Holiday Special’ featuring guests both starry and interesting

From Wicked to Aladdin: A Look Back at Telly Leung on the Stage by Playbill Staff

Leung, recently on Broadway in Aladdin, celebrates his birthday January 3.