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As the longest-running musical in Broadway history closes, Times critics with a lasting affection for the show take stock of its legacy.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:24PMTuesday, April 11, 2023
A reverend and a rabbi walk into a Broadway show. The cast and crew are offstage, grappling beautifully with questions of identity, exclusion and the ongoing struggle against white supremacy…
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 11:57PMWednesday, February 22, 2023
“Life of Pi” and Laura Linney on Broadway, Lise Davidsen at the Met Opera, SZA on tour: Here’s what we’re looking forward to this season.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:00AMTuesday, January 24, 2023
At New York City Ballet, Peck’s “Copland Dance Episodes” brings the composer’s three classic ballet scores under one roof, at last.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:30PMFriday, November 25, 2022
KeyComp could make it possible for a single synthesizer player to replicate the sound of a large orchestra with unprecedented flexibility.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMTuesday, September 27, 2022
The term “world music” has never been adequate to the task we’ve set it—even in its most benign reading, it implies a division between the listener and the rest of […]
The post The…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 09:15PMThursday, August 18, 2022
Comedian Grace Campbell on why after being raped last year, she worried that her openness about her sex life would be used against her
Grace Campbell, comedian and author of Amazing Disgrace…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:33PMSunday, May 24, 2020
Uncertainty about the coronavirus and the challenge of protecting audiences and artists is prompting many prominent presenters to wait till next year.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:32PMFriday, April 17, 2020
Joshua Hinck and Scott Wasserman reveal the fusion of two seemingly opposite musical languages in their “Sondheim Disco Fever Dream” from Broadway Records.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:17PMWednesday, May 8, 2019
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We invited Broadway’s best to pose for us just 24 hours after they were nominated for theater’s most prestigious award. Needless to say, they were a happy bunch.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:18AMFriday, July 28, 2017
We can all agree that the “Gilmore Girls” revival was terrible. But, amid the mess of Rory realizing that maybe she isn’t a particularly talented journalist, she is assigned a really i…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 10:45AMThursday, December 22, 2016
We skipped “Best of TV" lists and are taking things yearbook-style. Next: Biggest Heart, Most Musical and Cutest Couple That Never Was.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 10:00AMSunday, October 23, 2016
A playwright claims that the current Off Broadway show was stolen when a creative partnership turned sour.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:08PMMonday, July 13, 2015
“In film,” pronounced Ivo van Hove, director of Toneelgroep Amsterdam, the largest, and most culturally influential, theater in the Netherlands, “the director is the god of his creatio…
SOURCE: fringearts.com at 10:48AMMonday, May 25, 2015
Tuesday, May 19, 2015
Pig Iron Theatre Company’s latest wild theatrical creation opens this week at FringeArts. I Promised Myself to Live Faster is an absurdist sci-fi epic and wild allegory about gayness in 20…
SOURCE: fringearts.com at 08:30AMThursday, May 14, 2015
Sebastian (aka Sebastian Cummings aka Sean Cummings) is debuting his new show Showbiz, May 21–23 at the Adobe Cafe (1919 East Passyunk Avenue), which he describes as “part theater, part …
SOURCE: fringearts.com at 12:42PMWednesday, April 29, 2015
“I was fascinated by the way TV is made: the way you shoot out of sequence and how it actually feels more fake, even with real planes, for example, than being on a theater set.” The Incr…
SOURCE: fringearts.com at 12:32PMTuesday, April 28, 2015
Olive Prince, leader of Olive Prince Dance, is showing an in-progess version of her new full length dance, Of our remnants, Thursday April 30–Saturday May 2 this weekend at the Iron Factor…
SOURCE: fringearts.com at 01:50PM2015 Neighborhood Fringe Registration begins has begun at myphillyfringe.com! Yes, my friends, it is that time of year again, that time of year to starting gearing up to the 2015 Fringe Fes…
SOURCE: fringearts.com at 12:36PMTuesday, July 22, 2014
July 22, 2014, in the morning: The main structural component of WetLand by Mary Mattingly, a houseboat, turns towards its destination–the dock at the Independence Seaport MuseumR…
SOURCE: blog.fringearts.com at 11:45AMMonday, June 23, 2014
FringeArts, June 20, 2014: The Beserker Residents rehearse The Talkback. (l to r) Bradley K. Wrenn, David Johnson, and Justin Jain. Photo: Said Johnson.
SOURCE: blog.fringearts.com at 10:01AMFriday, June 20, 2014
“I wrote the book that I wanted to read. This is the book I wish someone had given me twenty years ago.” Are you an artist in Philadelphia, thinking, How the hell does this wo…
SOURCE: blog.fringearts.com at 10:29AMThursday, June 5, 2014
June 2, 2014. The cast of Wild by the Groundswell Theatre Company during a pre-performance walk-though at FringeArts for an excerpted showing at Scratch Night. Photo: Said Johnson.
SOURCE: blog.fringearts.com at 11:35AMThursday, May 29, 2014
It is time to start placing more value on the “art” part of performing arts. When it comes to dance and theater and all the multidisciplinary performance hybrids, the support for perform…
SOURCE: blog.fringearts.com at 08:41PMWednesday, May 28, 2014
A Conceit Give me your hand Make room for me to lead and follow you beyond this rage of poetry. Let others have the privacy of touching words and love of loss of love. For me Give me your ha…
SOURCE: blog.fringearts.com at 12:58PMWednesday, May 21, 2014
Here’s the “offending” video that got its six dancing Iranian participants sent to jail in Iran; they were then made to repent on national TV. As the National Iranian A…
SOURCE: blog.fringearts.com at 12:37PM 
