The online festival, dreamed up by singer Mary McBride and supported by Arena Stage and others, offers up 40 playlets in both languages.
Linked From Washington Post at 03:42PMGeorgetown and Sojourn Theatre revive a 2008 live format online for the 2020 election and the covid-19 era.
Linked From Washington Post at 05:12PMNEW YORK — Delayed and truncated, the 2020 Tony Award nominations were finally announced on Thursday, laying out the contenders in a painfully thin Broadway season upended and abridged by …
Linked From www.seattletimes.com at 03:36PMAaron Tveit running unopposed for best actor? All the best scores are for plays? Hmm.
Linked From Washington Post at 03:12PMThe Tony-winning musical’s original cast is staging a benefit for the Democrats.
Linked From Washington Post at 01:54PMCovid-19 continues to thwart the staging of plays, and some insiders doubt a broad rebound will happen before 2022.
Linked From Washington Post at 12:54PMA new HBO documentary, “Siempre, Luis,” celebrates the playwright’s father. And, yes, “Hamilton,” too.
Linked From Washington Post at 07:12AMSolas Nua unveils “The Emoji Play” after six months of trial and error.
Linked From Washington Post at 05:18PMThe first indoor performance at the arts center since March 13 was a night to remember.
Linked From Washington Post at 11:18AMA survey of theatrical enterprises, online and in the mail, including Acme Corporation’s “The Institute for Counterfeit Memory” and Olney Theatre Center’s “The Humans.”
Linked From Washington Post at 04:32PMActors’ Equity stresses urgency of the choice in departing from a nonpartisan posture.
Linked From Washington Post at 11:18AMStories of the late Supreme Court justice’s devotion to theater and opera go on and on.
Linked From Washington Post at 03:54PMA spate of recent hires suggests that an industry roiled by Black Lives Matter may at last be responding.
Linked From Washington Post at 08:02AMArena Stage and Studio Theatre debut films and videos that speak to the rawness of the moment: “Now reality is ahead of anything we can create.”
Linked From Washington Post at 02:32PMThe Shakespeare Theatre’s annual “Will on the Hill” fundraiser, this year online, underscores a glaring funding crisis.
Linked From Washington Post at 02:24PMWhy reopening the nation’s premier theater district is far more arduous than anybody predicted.
Linked From Washington Post at 06:32AM“Stories of a Lifetime” jumps from off-Broadway to Audible, revealing glimpses of the CBS newsman on and off the job.
Linked From Washington Post at 08:03AMHow a comedy of errors on Irish Twitter led to an honorary doctorate in hairdressing.
Linked From Washington Post at 12:54PMTheater vets Warren Adams and T. Oliver Reid have teamed up with a philanthropist to find jobs for young black colleagues.
Linked From Washington Post at 02:24PMNew York Theatre Workshop, the birthplace of “Rent,” puts its faith in artistic “instigators.”
Linked From Washington Post at 12:12PM“Celia and Fidel” is set to be the first play on a roster that includes two new musicals.
Linked From Washington Post at 03:18PMPandemic losses force more ‘tragic’ cuts, but the company vows to come back strong.
Linked From Washington Post at 01:06PM“And So We Come Forth” and “Les Blancs” are powerful in very different ways.
Linked From Washington Post at 05:24PMWith coronavirus measures on and off the stage, American Shakespeare Center readies a July 25 restart.
Linked From Washington Post at 01:06PMYour fine arts to-do list: Lorraine Hansberry, Michaelangelo, Richard Nelson and Shakespeare.
Linked From Washington Post at 08:42AMNo reopening date is scheduled, though producers are looking at next spring.
Linked From Washington Post at 01:48PMLin-Manuel Miranda says “conventional wisdom is wrong”; now is the perfect time to stream the filmed version of his juggernaut stage musical.
Linked From Washington Post at 07:42AMArtistic Director Eric Schaeffer leaves the Arlington company after allegations resurface on social media.
Linked From Washington Post at 03:03PMArena Stage enlists playwrights, actors and ordinary people to represent one single day in the covid era. “May 22, 2020” debuts online this weekend.
Linked From Washington Post at 04:03PMTheater J and Round House will stay shuttered until 2021. But Mosaic may be back this summer.
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