Wednesday, June 19, 2024
Does Stephen Sondheim make you want to throw ass? Does the score of Sunday in the Park with George make you want to hit the dance floor? Do Annaleigh Ashford's vocals make you want to serve …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:03AM[SHARE]Saturday, February 10, 2024
Every day is a cunty day for Bekah Walsh. The Baltimore-based theatre nerd turned prolific #TheatreTok content creator has been hitting the campaign trail hard since August 2023. But, for Wa…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 12:38AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 21, 2023
By Trevor Boffone. When utilized fully, social media can function as a critical extension of work being done onstage.
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:24PM[SHARE]Monday, October 9, 2023
How do you market theatre on social media? What strategies can a social media manager use to promote plays and musicals? How does TikTok's trending culture influence the type of content that…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 08:06AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 21, 2023
In 2019, I sat in the balcony of the Helen Hayes Theatre. My social media circles had been abuzz over the show I was about to see: What the Constitution Means to Me by Heidi Schreck. There w…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 02:48AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 15, 2023
Productions of Broadway musicals have body issues. Full stop. From casting norms for Broadway choruses to the use of fat suits in Hairspray and Jennifer Holliday's well-documented struggles …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 12:12PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 1, 2023
By Trevor Boffone. Trevor Boffone reviews Tus TÃas' The Invocation of Selena, a sketch comedy and cabaret-style show that begins by summoning Latine icon Selena and ends by eulogizing her.
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:40PM[SHARE]Friday, September 23, 2022
Before there was After Midnight, before there was Smokey Joe's Cafe, and before there was Black and Blue, there was Ain't Misbehavin', the 1978 musical revue featuring the Fats Waller songbo…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 02:20PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 22, 2022
By Trevor Boffone. Trevor Boffone reflects on the 2022 Latinx Theatre Commons Comedy Carnaval that convened at Su Teatro in Denver, Colorado, which was comprised of productions, readings, pan
SOURCE: HowlRound at 09:37AM[SHARE]Friday, November 26, 2021
In 2014, the Latino Theater Company (LTC) re-ignited the Latinx theatre festival tradition, a legacy that has been a mainstay of Chicanx and Latinx theatre-making in the United States for ov…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:51AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 27, 2021
The Boy Friend. Oliver!. Cats. Blood Brothers. The Phantom of the Opera. Les Miserables. Billy Elliot. Matilda. If British musical theatre conjures images of whiteness, this is not by chance…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:04AM[SHARE]Friday, October 15, 2021
I have to confess something. I haven't really missed theatre since the Covid-19 pandemic forced theatres to go dark in March 2020. The last time I saw professional theatre was a whirlwind we…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 07:35AM[SHARE]Friday, July 30, 2021
In the chaotically queer third act of Fake Friends' 2020 production of Circle Jerk, the performance's trio"played by Michael Breslin, Patrick Foley, and Cat Rodriguez"erupt into a frenetic m…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 08:16PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 23, 2021
"Waking up in the morning, thinking about so many things, I just wish things would get better / I'm trying to get rid of them, but nothing seems to stay the same / Woke up in the morning, do…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 10:48PM[SHARE]Friday, April 2, 2021
On March 26, 2021, ultra-famous TikTok star Addison Rae Easterling appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. During her visit, she performed popular TikTok dance trends during one …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 02:10AM[SHARE]Friday, January 22, 2021
When Rebecca Greene Udden graduated from Rice University, she decided to make Houston her permanent home and sow the seeds for a woman-centered theatre movement in Texas' largest city. In 19…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 07:15PM[SHARE]Saturday, December 12, 2020
In October 2017, a group of Latinx playwrights came together in New York City to share space, build community, and grow together as theatre artists. What started out as an informal meeting a…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 05:08PM[SHARE]Friday, September 4, 2020
Strange Bird Immersive premieres its all-new immersive, virtual theatrical experience "The Strange Secret of Mr. Adrian Rook," playing through October 10, 2020 on Zoom.
The full version of …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 09:34AM[SHARE]Saturday, June 27, 2020
When Benito Vasquez, Marissa Castillo, and Jorge Diaz founded TEATRX in 2018, they never could have imagined what fate had in store for the Latinx theatre company two years later. The trio l…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:18AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 8, 2020
Welcome to the Age of the Latina Nerd! Anywhere you look"on stage, on screen, on the written page, in the Senate (hello, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez!)"Latina nerds are taking up space and offer…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:21AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 30, 2020
How often do audiences in a given city get the chance to see a full body of work by a single living playwright in the span of just one month? When this does happen, how often is the playwrig…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 10:17PM[SHARE]Monday, January 28, 2019
By Trevor Boffone. Trevor Boffone examines Isaac Gómez's new play La Ruta, which focuses on the feminicides in Mexico, and talks about the growing canon of Latinx theatre that dramatizes …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:17PM[SHARE] 
