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Wednesday, June 7, 2017

'We must take a stand': the vital election issues – picked by young British artists by Harriet Gibsone, Hannah Ellis-Petersen, Kate Hutchinson and Chris Wiegand

Lily Cole wants a green century, Girli wants a housing revolution, and Liam Williams wants to boot out the billionaire club … some of Britain’s most talented young artists spell out the …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:36AM
Tuesday, May 23, 2017

UK police treating Ariana Grande concert blast as terrorism by Jo Kearney, Gregory Katz and Jill Lawless

MANCHESTER, England (AP) -- An explosion struck an Ariana Grande concert attended by thousands of young music fans in northern England, killing at least 19 people and injuring dozens …

SOURCE: Associated Press at 02:02AM
Sunday, November 20, 2016

What goes on in the wings: actors' backstage secrets by Imogen Carter and Kathryn Bromwich

From knitting and piano-playing to late-night poker games, eight stars including Mark Rylance, Anne-Marie Duff and Niamh Cusack reveal allBrought up in Greenwich, London, Dominic Cooper trai…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:06AM
Sunday, August 28, 2016

What inspires Hans Ulrich Obrist and seven other cultural tastemakers by Interviews By Imogen Carter and Kathryn Bromwich

The heads of the Serpentine, Secret Cinema, Glasgow International, the Young Vic and others on how they find fresh talent and new ideasSwiss-born curator, writer and art historian and artist…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:44AM
Tuesday, March 29, 2016

The Ten-Dollar Founding Father Without a Father: Teaching and Learning With 'Hamilton' - The New York Times by Katherine Schulten and Sarah Gross and Michael Gonchar

Some ways to teach and learn with “Hamilton,” via articles, Op-Eds, reviews, archival materials and multimedia from The New York Times.

SOURCE: learning.blogs.nytimes.com at 10:50PM
Thursday, January 14, 2016

Alan Rickman, Actor Known for ‘Harry Potter’ and ‘Die Hard,’ Dies at 69 by Dave Itzkoff and Katie Rogers

The British actor brought an erudite dignity to film roles like the nefarious mastermind of “Die Hard” and the dour master of potions in the “Harry Potter” series.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:35PM
Sunday, August 2, 2015

Freight: The Five Incarnations of Abel Green by Katy Rubin, Maaji Newbold and Moon Lowery

Theatre of the Oppressed NYC Artists Respond

SOURCE: Culture Bot at 03:23PM
Sunday, July 19, 2015

Losing it: dementia on film, stage and page by Interviews By Kathryn Bromwich and Killian Fox

Author Emma Healey, playwright Florian Zeller and other artists talk about how dementia has informed their workWords fail us: dementia and the arts About six members of my family have had so…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24AM
Friday, June 12, 2015

Why devised theatre was right for our urgent response to the NHS by Nathan Curry and Kat Joyce

Care, Tangled Feet’s show set in a hospital, has been created in the weeks since the election. There’s little time to redraft but the result is exhilarating, terrifying and up to the min…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:55PM
Monday, March 30, 2015

MILTON: A performance and community engagement experiment by Lisa D'amour, Katie Pearl and Ashley Sparks

(This post is part of the Audience (R)Evolution online salon curated by Caridad Svich for the TCG Audience (R)Evolution Convening in Kansas City, MO in 2015.) PearlDamour has built our b…

SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 11:58AM
Friday, February 13, 2015

Helen Hayes owners smacked by lawsuit over real estate by Joe Dziemianowicz and Katherine Clarke

Helen Hayes, the first lady of the American stage, has been accused of dirty dealing.

SOURCE: New York Daily News at 03:10PM
Monday, December 15, 2014

Interior Viewing: Four Performers Discuss Work from the Inside by Katie, Tara, Aya, and Brandon

This month, Brooklyn-based choreographer Nadia Tykulsker and her collective, Spark(edIt) Arts, will debut a pair of performance endeavors. The first is a new work, Saw You Yesterday, made fo…

SOURCE: Culture Bot at 11:46AM
Sunday, August 31, 2014

Hammerstein kin cheated producing partner out of profits: suit by Kathianne Boniello and Michael Riedel

The hills are alive with the sound of scandal. Oscar Hammerstein II is famed as the lyricist behind such wholesome Broadway classics as “The King and I” and “The Sound...

SOURCE: The New York Post at 03:17AM
Friday, March 14, 2014

Kinokophonography Night at the Library for the Performing Arts: Hearing is Believing: Posts from New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Doro by [email protected], Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives Of Recorded Sound At The New York Public Library For The Performing Arts

You are invited to join us here at the Library for the Performing Arts for a Kinokophone Recording Workshop on Thursday, May 15th at 6 p.m. in the 3rd Floor Screening Room. We will explore i…

SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 10:47AM

Kinokophonography Night at the Library for the Performing Arts: Hearing is Believing by [email protected], Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives Of Recorded Sound At The New York Public Library For The Performing Arts

You are invited to join us here at the Library for the Performing Arts for a Kinokophone Recording Workshop on Thursday, May 15th at 6 p.m. in the 3rd Floor Screening Room. We will explore i…

SOURCE: nypl.org at 10:47AM
Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Katherine Ryan, Simon Evans and John Robins dissect their comedy by Katherine Ryan, Simon Evans and John Robins

Continuing our series on the art of standup, three comedians take apart their routines Continue reading...

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:10AM
Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Kinokophonography Night at the Library for the Peforming Arts by Katrina Dixon, Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives Of Recorded Sound At The New York Public Library For The Performing Arts

It was March of this year when I first heard from Amanda Belantera, who had begun her initial search for a New York City home for Kinokophonography Night. Amanda, along with the Kinokophone …

SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 09:33AM
Monday, September 30, 2013

Bloomberg Says City Opera Is On Its Own by Michael Cooper and Kate Taylor

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said Monday that neither the city nor his private foundation would step in to save New York City Opera, which has said it will file for bankruptcy protection witho…

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:11PM
Friday, December 7, 2012

Collection Therapy: Hospice Series by Katrina Dixon

My professional adventures, rooted in my own fascination with and questions about who we are as humans (how we identify ourselves, how we are layers of each version of our selves over time, …

SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 06:43AM
Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Spamalot – review by Marcus Brigstocke and Kate Kellaway

Harold Pinter theatre, LondonArthur's Round Table has never looked so square. Spamalot, the 2005 musical adapted by Eric Idle and John Du Prez from Monty Python and the Holy Grail, is back i…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:32PM
Friday, February 3, 2012

Zach Braff on All New People: 'It's Breakfast Club for adults' - video by Kate Abbott, Lindsay Poulton, Mary Douglas-Home and Cameron Robertson

Zach Braff might be best-known for playing the nervy, nerdy doctor JD in hit US show Scrubs, but he's also trying his hand at writing drama. Braff tells Kate Abbott about his play All New Pe…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:39AM
Friday, September 23, 2011

If I Had A TIme Machine .. by Kat

.. I'd probably be fired from my day job because I'd constantly be seeing shows that were before my time. Whoops, I guess that's not really an answer, though. Oddly enough, I think one of th…

SOURCE: Show Showdown at 10:52PM

Applause (mostly) for Stratford artistic director Des McAnuff by Michael Posner and Kate Taylor

Examining the legacy of an artistic director who’s found his fair share of critics - by giving Stratford the kind of popular, ticket-selling theatre it always wanted

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 05:00PM
Friday, September 16, 2011

Man and Boy by Kat

DISCLAIMER:Man and Boy is in previews and opens officially on October 9.One of my favorite things about attending Roundabout theater productions is that I never have any idea what the shows …

SOURCE: Show Showdown at 04:07PM
Friday, June 24, 2011

Shakespeare Troupe Starts Building Brooklyn Theater by Patrick Healy and Kate Taylor

The Theater for a New Audience breaks ground for its own theater in Brooklyn.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:34PM