Thursday, August 18, 2022
This year, the Beach Sessions at Rockaway Beach features the Trisha Brown Dance Company in a program of early works.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:30AMThursday, August 11, 2022
Ryan Gilbey was eloquent about the qualities of David Warner, but it isn’t true that he got stage fright while performing in The Great Exhibition in 1972. On the contrary, he acted fearles…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:18AMTuesday, August 9, 2022
A church in Texas changed several lyrics in its unauthorized staging of the megahit musical, softening language and inserting religious messages.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:33PMTuesday, June 7, 2022
You don’t have to shell out to enjoy the best in music, film, theatre, art and comedy – from a Francis Bacon in Aberdeen to Notting Hill’s unique and spectacular carnival
Music Continu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:42PMThursday, May 19, 2022
Live theater summons energy no digital performance can match. Set designers for five of this season’s plays explain how they built eye-catching environments that crackle with it.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:07AMThursday, March 17, 2022
Ukraine authorities say hundreds of people were hiding in theatre and that convoy of cars leaving besieged city was also shelled
Russia-Ukraine war: latest updates
Ukrainian officials have a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:06AMWednesday, March 2, 2022
Playbill for Intimate Apparel opera at Lincoln Center Theater
Lynn Nottage is among the most important and prolific playwrights of the turn of the 21st century, and her work…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 03:24AMRalph Ellison photo portrait seated.
The author Ralph Ellison is inextricably linked to his novel The Invisible Man, now considered a classic of American literature. While his other acti…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 03:24AMThursday, February 24, 2022
Yeichi Nimura in his Flag Dance, c. 1939. Constantine © Constantine Hassalevris. Jerome Robbins Dance Division photograph files,
call number *MGZEA (Nimura, Yeichi) no. 12.
To mark Asi…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 07:18PMJulian Work's union stamp for 1948.
We in The New York Public Library's Music & Recorded Sound Division are doing what we can to uncover and bring attention to composers from underre…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 07:18PMLeslie Odom Jr., Lin-Manuel Miranda, and Karen Olivo in the Encores! Off-Center Concert of Tick, Tick...Boom! (Photo © Joan Marcus)
Lin-Manuel Miranda’s film adaptation of Jonathan Lars…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 07:18PMPhotograph by Milton Meltzer depicting Hilda Haynes as Millie, James McMahon as Al Manners, Stephanie Elliot as Judith Sears, and Charles Bettis as John Neville. NYPL Digital Collections, Im…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 07:18PMStephen Sondheim. Photograph by Friedman-Abeles (Firm). NYPL Digital Collections, ID: TH-51787
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts honors the legacy of late America…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 07:18PMI’ve nothing to say. Well, nothing that’s not been said. Any sentimental recounting of my memories of the few times I was lucky enough to interact with Stephen Sondheim would feel, to me…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 07:18PMWilliam Gillette as Sherlock Holmes. NYPL Digital Collections, Image ID: TH-50730
This month, A Sherlock Carol, a new play featuring Sherlock Holmes and the characters of A Christmas Caro…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 07:18PMWorks acquired for the circulating collection by Tania León, Alvin Singleton, Jeffrey Mumford, Adolphus Hailstork, Jessie Montgomery, and Florence Price
In our continuing efforts to upd…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 07:18PMSharon D. Clarke and Samantha Williams in Caroline, or Change (Photo © Joan Marcus)
There are certain Broadway seasons in which any of the shows nominated for the Best Musical Tony Award …
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 07:18PM(Animation from photos by Martha Swope)
The superstitious might, with some evidence, argue that when a major New York production of Assassins is announced, it’s time to get very nervous. …
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 07:18PMElaine Stritch in the original Broadway production of COMPANY. Photo by Friedman-Abeles. NYPL Digital Collections, Image ID: 58155824
In a December 1, 2021 piece inThe New York Times ab…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 07:18PMFriday, December 3, 2021
Digital innovation continued this year, but experiencing plays in isolation grew tiring. Then came an in-person season as exciting as a child’s first fireworks.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:48AMMonday, September 27, 2021
The streaming part of the ceremony actually did a better job conveying the electricity of being in a theater than the CBS special billed as “Broadway’s Back!”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:18PMTuesday, September 14, 2021
Danastri Rizqi Nabilah, a filmmaker from Yogyakarta – a city in Indonesia known for its education and art – has no choice but to sell snacks after losing up to 40% of her income during t…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 02:19AMTuesday, August 3, 2021
Máskara – the Transdisciplinary Research Center in Theatre, Dance, and Performance – is an artistic and academic collective founded in 2002 in Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil. It is linked to …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 02:52AMWednesday, July 28, 2021
Thursday, July 22, 2021
The outdoor theatre company will cover more than 12,000 miles this summer, visiting more than 60 venues. Guardian photographer David Levene joined the Macbeth road trip
The Covid-19 pandemic…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:06AMTuesday, July 13, 2021
Mr. Robinson was a prolific stage actor and had supporting parts in series such as “Buffalo Bill,” “Love & War,” “Home Improvement,” “The Game” and “Hart of Dixie.”
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:03PMThursday, July 1, 2021
A wave of nationalistic music, theater and dance is sweeping China, part of Beijing’s efforts to improve the party’s image and strengthen political loyalty.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18AMMonday, June 7, 2021
He also received a Tony nomination and appeared in Lee Daniels’ “The Butler.”
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:54PMMonday, April 19, 2021
Playwright David Hare has written a new poem, Agony Uncle, about Boris Johnson's handling of the coronavirus crisis. Written in the tradition of 18th century satire, the poem castigates the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:42PMTuesday, April 6, 2021
He also received a Tony nomination in 2009 for “The Norman Conquests.”
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:06PMSaturday, April 3, 2021
It’s been quite the terrifying year for us connected to the performing arts. An absolute scary time that began in mid-March 2020 as theaters went dark, lit only by their ghost lights. And …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:43PM 
