When the Almería City Orchestra, in Almería Spain, began preparations for their annual Christmas Concert they realized that due to COVID-19 restrictions, the venue would need to be differe…
SOURCE: Stage Directions at 06:51PMIt’s Stacey Abrams Day 2051, and just like her forbears marched with Dr. King, Karen reminisces about the time she helped America finally change for the better. Kyle V. Hiller imagines.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 06:50PMIn news from ESTA’s Technical Standards Program, three new projects have been filed with ANSI. Two are for new standards, while one is for the revision of an existing standard. The project…
SOURCE: Stage Directions at 06:38PMOscar-nominated actress Marsha Mason and Tony-winning director Jack O'Brien have known each other for a long time. They have lots to say about the history of the American theatre industry an…
SOURCE: YouTube at 06:33PMYes, he has seen all of these shows.
SOURCE: BuzzFeed at 06:30PMThe 2021 George Street Playhouse streaming season kicks off today with the comedy Bad Dates by Theresa Rebeck, starring Drama Desk winner Andréa Burns.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:28PMETC is pleased to announce the latest version of its system config software, Concert 4.1. Now with 100% more support for Macs. (MacOS Mojave or later. It works on Apple silicon.) Create a sy…
SOURCE: Stage Directions at 06:19PM'The Gaze' is a cycle of plays, New Media Series, and a #Digiplay Experience that examines the process of building culturally specific and queer works of color in historically white spaces. …
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Tony and Academy Award winner Mark Rylance (The Trial of the Chicago 7), Dylan O’Brien (The Maze Runner series), Zoey Deutch (Set It Up) and Johnny Flynn (EMMA.) are set to star. Produce…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:59PMGeorge Street Playhouse “Bad Dates” – a one-woman rom-com featuring 600 pairs of shoes and a string of unsatisfactory dates, Feb. 23 to March 14.
SOURCE: centraljersey.com at 04:57PMSamuel L. Jackson, David Alan Grier, Phylicia Rashad and others remember the Negro Ensemble Company founder.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:36PMThe groundbreaking musical revue was the first all-Black musical hit on Broadway and helped to usher in the Harlem Renaissance.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:32PMPlus: New short play announcements from Barrington Stage Company and The Old Vic Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:08PM“Bad Auditions…On Camera” is just fun. Sheer, uncomplicated fun. It has an amazingly large cast — 19 in all — that manage to create their characters and have fun with them, in abou…
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The two playwrights will also executive produce the new series based on the novel.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:56PMCalleri Casting is being renamed Calleri Jensen Davis. The rechristening is taking place as a nod to the fact that the company has become triumvirate of co-equals, with James Calleri Erica J…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:55PMJournalist Abraham Riesman has authored a definitive biography of the famed Marvel creator Stan Lee, uncovering truths that may make Lee's fans uncomfortable. Stephen Silver reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:38PMJoin us for an intimate and interactive multi-magician experience, performed live nightly.
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SOURCE: YouTube at 03:12PMHere's a quick roundup of stories you might have missed recently.
Mark Rylance, Johnny Flynn & More Tapped for Graham Moore Film
Oscar and Tony winner Mark Rylance, Olivier Award nomine…
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The Kit Kat Bar and Grill has shut its doors for the last time, but it will soon return--in book form. For all those who will miss the King St. mainstay, a book entitled Kit Kat Confidential…
SOURCE: YouTube at 02:54PMSteffi and Lisa are having a slumber party, and they've invited two guests, makeup artist Misty Fox and stylist Caprice Connors. Check in for a crash course in self care, hot gossip, and a f…
SOURCE: YouTube at 02:54PM(Chekhov’s story appeared in Russia Beyond, 2/23/2021.) Anton Chekhov. WOLF BAITING Translated by Dan Biktashev It is said that we live in the nineteenth century. Do not be fooled, reade…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:35PMTheater Projects announces the promotions of four team members in recognition of their contributions to its work and their importance to the future of Theatre Projects. Jim Niesel is now a p…
SOURCE: Stage Directions at 02:30PMPlaybill will host a special virtual red carpet for the Lourds Lane fantasy.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:28PM“True seems to be that which is in accordance with the facts or reality, the way things simply are. But it is not as simple as that. For there are not only ‘brute facts’ (eg whether Ge…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:12PMUyghur, a Turkic language that uses the Arabic alphabet, has about 10 million native speakers, most of them in the Xinjiang province of northwestern China. With the Chinese Communist Party e…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:12PMHow do you put on a play when a theater is closed? New Brunswick-based George Street Playhouse found a way to keep it all in the family and produce a comedy that will be available for stream…
SOURCE: connecticut.news12.com at 02:02PMMichael & Jowita Interview for Performer Stuff Pro Series: Winners of BBC TV’s The Greatest Dancer
Written by: Mark Pawsey
February 28, 2021
Michael Danilczuk & Jowita Przy…
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Amy Poehler gets candid about the future of Upright Citizens Brigade- the improv training and performance company that she co-founded.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:44PMActress Kate Watson Interview:
Actress Kate Watson knows Killer Advice when she gets it. From the new Lifetime movie, Kate divulges about intense days on set, frightening moments, her acting…
SOURCE: Call Me Adam at 12:42PMDarius de Haas guest hosts Seth Rudetsky and James Wesley's daily series.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:36PM'It validated [women's] thoughts that it ain't fair. It ain't fitting. As good workers, they shouldn't be treated that way,' Fonda says of '9 to 5,' which she starred in alongside Lily Tomli…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:34PMOnline ideation summit to explore how technological innovations can enhance the production, presentation, and consumption of opera San Diego Opera announces Opera Hack 2.0, an online interdi…
SOURCE: Stage Directions at 12:29PMWhile the Covid-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc within the theatre community, it has also presented opportunities for some out-of-the-box ideas for performances. One company who has explored t…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:21PMArtist Brandon Breaux’s Instagram project highlights his peers, mentors, collectors, friends, and more throughout Black History Month.
As the world shut down e…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 12:15PMThe series is presented by Amazon Studios.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:03PMDonations are requested for several charitable organizations.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:03PMKeen Company will present the Joan Didion drama as a staged reading.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:03PMDirector Alex Timbers dives into the aesthetic worlds of his past productions to describe their rules and influences.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:03PMWard's plays include Day of Absence, and he directed the original production of A Soldier's Play.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:03PMThe President of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra speaks about the importance of live, in-person concerts and the day-to-day leadership of a major symphony orchestra. – Aaron Dworkin
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03PMThe [agreement is that] the government may not apply the code to Facebook if the company can demonstrate it has signed enough deals with media outlets to pay them for content. The government…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03PMSomeone’s calling, maybe me. C. C sharp? D? My scalp tightens, which makes me wonder where I am, and who, too. But this voice today is a shell’s, of a conch from a Pyrenees cave, assigne…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03PM“The French government is appealing for corporate help to acquire the manuscript of the Marquis de Sade’s notorious The 120 Days of Sodom, valued at €4.5m (£3.9m), for the National Li…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03PM“A nearly-life-size depiction of a kangaroo — realistic genitalia included — is the oldest known rock painting in Australia. Scientists recently pinpointed its age to 17,300 years ago …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03PMIn a feature interview for The New York Times Magazine, the co-founder of the famed, and now troubled, improv company and school said, “It’s been brutal for us. We’re basically using t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03PMA writer and director as well as an actor, he wrote a 1966 New York Times Op-Ed titled “American Theater: For Whites Only?” that inspired the Ford Foundation to fund the creation of the …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03PMSeveral places in Italy and Great Britain are considering the question, and a few memorials have already gone up. “[They] are not intended as sweeping monuments to the historical moment, b…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03PMStaging a full-length performance digitally “would break the bank,” says artistic director Ashley Wheater, who doesn’t really like streamed dance much. “I’m embracing it because th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03PMThe images shared by the ballet company had soccer fans’ heads turning when they emerged. Such a sports star dabbling in ballet may have seemed unheard of, but it wasn’t a new trend. –…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03PMDouglas Turner Ward, an acclaimed leader in Black theater and co-founder of the Negro Ensemble Company, died on February 20 in his Manhattan home, according toThe New York Times. He was 90.…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:03PMThe icy thriller Snowpiercer, featuring Tony winners Daveed Diggs and Lena Hall, is in the middle of its enthralling second season on TNT. Hall talked about what it felt like when produc…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:03PMDouglas Turner Ward, the director, actor and playwright who co-founded the landmark, influential Off Broadway Black theater group the Negro Ensemble Company, died Saturday, Feb. 20, at his h…
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Leaders at OSF and Woolly Mammoth will each receive $500,000 and will join a distinguished cohort of female leaders.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:57AMAngola Camp 13, the multiple-award-winning South African State Theatre production, would not have happened had the powers-that-be had their way, according to its creator, celebrated writer …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:47AMThis is Spotlight On: a documentary series taking an in-depth look at the most influential, yet overlooked names in all of theatre history.
SOURCE: www.thebroadwaybeat.com at 11:40AMThe League also announced the date of the virtual Drama League Awards ceremony this May.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:38AM20 stage and film artists will receive $5,000 each through the new program.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:35AMJonathan Silverstein directs Joan Didion's solo show for Off-Broadway's Keen Company.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:32AMThe sold-out live-streamed world premiere production of Lolita Chakrabarti’s Hymn, originally due to play to socially distanced audiences at the Almeida Theatre, will be available to rent …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:30AMCharles Pasternak directs the virtual reading for California's Coachella Valley Repertory.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:24AMDurham Performing Arts Center (DPAC) has announced new dates for each of the eleven rescheduled and new hit Broadway shows set to take the stage as part of the newly-renamed Truist Broadway …
SOURCE: tourstoyou.org at 11:14AMThirty-minute piece Shaken from The Actors Centre effectively explores the aftermath of a disaster and whether lessons can be learnt to prevent it from happening again.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMCheck out all the latest news from Theatreland including the world premiere of Lolita Chakrabarti's Hymn and an update from the Old Vic.
The post London Theatre News Today: Tuesday 23 Febru…
SOURCE: officiallondontheatre.com at 11:00AMLast summer, in the midst of my Pandemic Productivity Phase (the other “PPP”), I vowed to finish an idea I had years ago. And it wasn’t a show. It was a screenplay. I optioned the ri…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM
Andréa Burns (IN THE HEIGHTS, ON YOUR FEET, BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, THE FULL MONTY) and Maulik Pancholy (IT’S ONLY A PLAY, “30 Rock,” “Weeds”) will headline New Jersey’s George St…
SOURCE: backstagepasswithliachang.wordpress.com at 10:55AMMr. Ward’s credits spanned directing (including the original production of A Soldier’s Play), writing, and performing.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:50AMMr. Gunas was also featured in the Playbill series Old Show Queens with his husband, playwright and record producer Bill Rosenfield.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:39AMBy Terri Roberts Here, in the second part of our series of conversations with Black artists who have frequently worked with the Fountain Theatre, we talk with actor and director’s assistan…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.com at 10:15AMPremier production and systems integration companies owned by industry icon Dale Morris to be acquired by Solotech, global leader in audiovisual and entertainment technology. Martin Trembla…
SOURCE: Stage Directions at 10:07AMThis week we start a new series looking at the scandals that have rocked the Theatre world! First up is a doozy of a party where guests enjoyed an especially sinful refreshment. What transpi…
SOURCE: YouTube at 10:00AMOn March 16 2020 Theatres were first into lockdown & will be the last to reopen. Thousands cannot do the jobs they have trained to do and many have fallen through the cracks. We do not want …
SOURCE: YouTube at 10:00AM
Oscar Wilde's classic book about youth, beauty, and hedonism is now being adapted for the digital stage next month, touting a starry cast and a contemporary take.
The post Oscar Wilde’s �…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 09:42AMPeople name places after particular human beings so that they will be remembered. And then what happens? We forget them anyway. Broadway theatre lovers have no doubt been in the Cort Theatre…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:42AMJagged Live In NYC: A Broadway Reunion Concert – a global livestream of the one-night-only onstage reunion of the Broadway cast – will have a special Encore Airing on Saturday, March 6 a…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:35AM(Chris Wiegand’s artciel appeared in the Guardian, 2/23; Lena Olin and Erland Josephson with the Hedda Gabler sofa in After the Rehearsal. Photograph: Everett Collection/Alamy.) Ingmar …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:31AMWestfield News ArtsBeat 2/23/21. WAM Theater's new season; a new outdoor performance sapce at Shakespeare & Company, Ben Folds streams, and arts news for WMass and NoCT.
SOURCE: thewestfieldnews.com at 09:29AMNew ArtsBeat on Pioneer Valley Radio’s Brad Shepard Today. WAM Theatre’s 2021 season, a new theatre at Shakespearw & Company, The (Little) Big Broadcast, Ben Folds and more. Segment sta…
SOURCE: pioneervalleyradio.com at 09:19AMThis capture of last summer’s West End Musical Drive In delivers much of the thrill of live performance, with Shan Ako and Layton Williams in particularly fine form.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMLearn about music directing and conducting from the Dear Evan Hansen and Wicked veteran.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:00AMPeter Flynn directs the production, launching George Street Playhouse's streaming season.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:00AMIncorporating elements from “Hamlet,” the audio drama "house of sueños" is an autobiographical story by Meme García that deals with intergenerational trauma, mental health, and the Cen…
SOURCE: www.seattletimes.com at 09:00AM
New York & London Take Baby Steps to Reopening, Joshua Henry to Release EP, Santino Fontana Sings from “Frozen” “Today on Broadway” is a daily, Monday through Friday, podcast hit…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 07:55AMJemma Redgrave and Adrian Scarborough excel in Peter Barnes radio solos brought to screen
The four monologues that make up Barnes’ People were filmed in the grand surroundings of the Theat…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 07:33AMBy Julian Eaves
Julian Eaves reviews Santino Fontana appearing as part of The Seth Rudetsky Concert Series online.
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SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 07:32AM This Week in
Broadway History:
February 23 - March 2
🎭OPENING NIGHTS🎭
February 23: Sunday in the Park with George (2017) & The Pajama Game (2006)
February 23, 2006…
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 07:24AMBy Douglas Mayo
Boris Johnson and the Department of Digital Culture, Media and Sport have unveiled their roadmap under which theatres could re-open at full capacity by late June.
This post B…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 07:08AMFrom Insecure to The Mandalorian, take a look at what Broadway has been watching during the shutdown.
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Middlebury College Saturday, February 27, 2021 @ 7:00pm EST JOIN US ………………. VIRTUAL MURDER MYSTERY: LETHAL LASAGNA Zoom in to a killer event that is to die for… Old-fashioned f…
SOURCE: theatrenerds.com at 02:42AMThe romance was fun while it lasted, but the month is winding down, and it’s time to officially break up with the season of love. Saying goodbye is always hard, but there’s nothing a lit…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 02:23AMI was reading a story about the earthquake that hit Christchurch, NZ ten years ago today which damaged large parts of the city. According to the article there was a significant effort by the…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:03AMBy Masha Tsimring. Masha Tsimring talks about pay equity in the design world, the upsides and downsides of freelancing, how COVID-19 has affected designers, and more.
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The murders of Breonna Taylor & George Floyd were pivotal catalysts for a national reckoning around racial injustice. Americans could no longer ignore these broken systems and policies t…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 12:45AMBroadway may be on hiatus right now, but while we eagerly wait for it to reopen, several movie musicals will help us get through 2021. Shows such as In the Heights, Dear Evan Hansen, and Wes…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 12:24AMDisney Dad Trivia # 3 starring The Broadway Bradshaws, brought to you by Framily Travel.
SOURCE: YouTube at 12:00AMThe revival of the Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine musical opened at the Hudson Theatre February 23, 2017.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM"I hope that we continue to educate ourselves and our potential audiences about the system in which we have been living for the past 400 years."
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMby Grant Cleaveland. @cleaveland_g. NEW YORK, NY - Production for a musical adaptation of the canine classic film Air Bud came to a...
SOURCE: www.thebroadwaybeat.com at 12:00AMWhen we brought Oscar-nominated actress Marsha Mason and Tony-winning director Jack O'Brien together for a video chat, we had no idea it would feel like eavesdropping on a private conversati…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 12:00AMDANCE NEWS: Dance/NYC and Gibney Publish Digital Toolkit on Reopening Dance in NYC
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AMIn THE DANCE ENTHUSIAST ASKS: Dwight Rhoden, Founding Artistic Director and Resident Choreographer of Complexions Contemporary Ballet, about "Black Is Beautiful," the First Film in SNATCHED…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AMby Kayte Zhang. @KayteZhang. You’re an ambitious actor with the talent and drive to make your Broadway dreams come true. But while you’re...
SOURCE: www.thebroadwaybeat.com at 12:00AMby Devin Wallace. @thedevinwallace. NEW YORK, NY - Aspiring actor Logan Burkoff recently declared himself a character actor, despite the...
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