On a historic day earlier this week, the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) have proudly welcomed a new cohort of students for its 60th year. The excitement was palpable throughout NI…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 10:54PMUniversal Pictures and Lorne Michaels’ Broadway Video has bought the feature rights to The Operator: Firing the Shots That Killed Osama Bin Laden and My Years as a SEAL Team Warrior. Accor…
SOURCE: Vulture at 10:44PMThe two directors/founders of BalletBoyz, Michael Nunn and William Trevitt, directed and photographed the film which also included Pérez’s choreography. Although the movie certainly ill…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:42PMThe Chicago presentation of Dimensions of Citizenship: Architecture and Belonging from the Body to the Cosmos – [...]
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SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 10:36PMGoing to school is one of the few life experiences almost everyone shares. From the time children began to be educated in small groups in Britain, there were school stories in popular cultur…
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Following the tremendous success of her adaptation of Ruth Park’s The Harp in the South in 2018, Kate Mulvany will work her magic on Friedrich Schiller’s Mary Stuart in a world premiere …
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 09:51PMI love Sarah Naughton. We have done a few interviews together and now, I love her co-writer/star Jake Weinstein just as much! We had so much fun talking about their new federally approved mu…
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February 7, 2019- It’s time to put on a happy face because BroadwayHD, the premier streaming service for live theater, is bringing the 1995 Star-Studded TV adaptation of t…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:21PMBAZ BAMIGBOYE: Hundreds queued — in the pouring rain — for open auditions in London for the acclaimed musical Dear Evan Hansen.
SOURCE: Daily Mail at 09:03PMBAZ BAMIGBOYE: Barry Jenkins, director of the Oscar-winning film Moonlight, had no doubts about choosing KiKi Layne to star in his film of James Baldwin's novel If Beale Street Could Talk.
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Roar in on a motorbike, pull up a seat at the bar and settle in for unforgettable power ballads, as Malthouse Theatre presents Barbara and the Camp Dogs in the Merlyn Theatre from 8 Februar…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 08:58PMI was expecting more trash cans, frankly. The aluminum receptacles and shining lids, brandished like marching cymbals, seem to dominate photos in newspaper clippings describing Stomp, which …
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 08:52PMBAZ BAMIGBOYE: Elton John and long-time writing partner Bernie Taupin have penned a new song for Rocketman, the film follows their friendship, and the pop icon’s career and private life.
SOURCE: Daily Mail at 08:51PMBAZ BAMIGBOYE: Gemma Arterton will play the firm but fair nanny who helps shape a hero in a prequel to the successful Kingsman movies.
SOURCE: Daily Mail at 08:48PMAs she revives her 2015 Feminist solo show, writer and performer, Emma Bentley asks when a good time to revive is. Or, when should you finally put it to bed? I thought I performed the final …
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Grammys producer Ken Ehrlich says Ariana Grande "felt it was too late for her to pull something together" to perform at Sunday's show. She disagrees.
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SOURCE: stageraw.com at 07:42PM“Who will tell our grandmothers’ stories?” The phenomenal Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater soulfully responds in memory of its iconic founder with dignity, power and enough creative …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:36PMamp Julietis the joyous, new West End musical that asks what if Juliet's famous ending was really just her beginning What if she decided to choose her own fate
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:36PMScreen Australia has announced a delegation of 13 creatives who will travel to New York in March. The group will attend the Australian International Screen Forum where they will partake in…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 07:27PMFarce and tragedy are evenly balanced in debut play from WalesWhat's worse than grieving? That all-consuming loss. For those that have experienced it, nothing really comes close. It starts t…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 07:24PMAs if the Grammys needed another controversy about how female musicians are treated by the recording academy. Ariana Grande isn’t performing at the awards despite being nominated twice…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 07:16PMThere’s been a fundamental change to the idea that English is pop’s lingua franca. This development has been accompanied by a remarkable shift in the pop-star system itself. While bi…
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Mark Ludmon reviews The Seagull directed by Yury Butusov ahead of his production of The Good Person of Szechwan at the Barbican Centre
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Some experiences in the theater resonate so deeply that it’s best to leave writing about them to the poets. Such was the experience Niv Sheinfeld and Oren Laor wrought last Saturday during…
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 06:54PMBroadwayWorld has a first look at the The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts' Broadway Center Stage production of Meredith Willson's The Music Man starring Tony Award nominee Nor…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:36PMBaz Bamigboye of The Daily Mail has just revealed that the Tony Award-winning best musical, Dear Evan Hansen, will make its West End debut at the Noel Coward Theatre in November 2019
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:36PMForCity Center's 75th Anniversary Season the series is reviving one of its own revivals, the musical Call Me Madam. Featuring a memorable score byIrving Berlinand book byHoward LindsayandRus…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:36PMTwo faces familiar to Ventura County audiences will be performing dream roles when they debut in Ragtime, which plays from February 10 to March 3 at the Pasadena Playhouse. Both Shannon Wa…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 06:36PMHere's a quick roundup of stories you might have missed today.
Full Casting Set for Andréa Burns-Led Judy Holliday Bio-Play
Casting is complete for Smart Blonde, a new off-Broad…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:06PMAndy Kelso stops by Broadway.com HQ to chat about Kinky Boots and more with Beth Stevens.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:06PMOn Valentine’s Day this year, Arena Stage will open The Heiress, adapted from the 1880 Henry James novel Washington Square by playwrights Ruth and Augustus Goetz. While the play may seem…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:06PMThe DC Area’s artistic community has seen the rise and fall of many theatre companies. As the cost of space rentals in DC increase, we see fewer and fewer performing spaces for theatres wi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:06PMTheater 55, a Minnesota company that celebrates elders as artists, is making its debut presenting the musical with performers with wrinkles and dad bods.
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“We know that children notice if their parents are paying attention to them and we do know that one in five children wakes up at night to check their phone for social media messages an…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:54PMA recent study following the careers of over 100,000 scientists for over 50 years found that half of university-hired scientists leave the academic life after just five years. That’…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:54PMNorman Lear, who turns 97 in July, shows no signs of pumping the brakes on his rejuvenated television career. Season 3 of “One Day at a Time” — the revamped version of his ’70s-era s…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:51PMWhether they’re depicting the dynamic of a single interpersonal relationship, recounting pivotal moments in history or conceiving new worlds beyond an audience’s wildest imaginations, sc…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:41PMThe Broadway transfer of The Temptations bio-musical Ain't Too Proud has officially landed at its Broadway home, the Imperial Theatre
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:32PMOn this day, we celebrate the birth of the legendary and history-making composer, Eubie Blake.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:32PMThe Office A Musical Parody will extend its record breaking run at The Jerry Orbach Theater 1627 Broadway at 50th Street through July 7, 2019. Now one of the most successful off-Broadway sho…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:32PMThe National Theatre's When We Have Sufficiently Tortured Each Other, a new play by Martin Crimp is now on stage. It is directed by Katie Mitchell, with a cast including Cate Blanchett, who …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:32PMYou would think that the Grammys would know better than to get on the wrong side of someone who wrote a whole album about how she’ll be fine without you. The Associated Press published an …
SOURCE: Vulture at 05:16PMThe comedy about a classics professor whose existential cry for help is answered by the gods of comedy will premiere March 12 in New Jersey.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:14PMThe February 4 concert of the Paul Scott Goodman musical featured Matt Doyle, Christy Altomare, Julia Murney, Taylor Iman Jones, and more.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:09PMAriana Grande has fired back at Grammys producer Ken Ehrlich’s claims that she’s not performing at the ceremony because they felt it was “too late for her to pull something…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:07PMFlabby yarn doesn’t do the 16th-century stage legend justice.
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Now in its Chicago premiere from the Remy Bumppo Theatre Company, Florian Zeller’s “The Father” is a play about dementia, that late-in-life affliction that can take down a giant person…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:55PMKing Kong star Christiani Pitts reveals a theater memory, shows off some costumes and reminds everyone to count it all joy.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:54PMThe Rhode Island-based playwright, poet, and community engagement manager will develop new works at the theatre.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:48PMAccording to the authors, “Hip-hop feminists embrace rap music as a culturally relevant and generationally specific art form that elicits social justice, consciousness raising, and politic…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:48PMIn short, music ed is disappearing from schools, parliament was told. The government “must act quickly to ensure music does not become the preserve of a privileged few”, the report claim…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:48PMThe stage favorites discuss working with the ghost with the most, crafting their characters, and their comedy symbiosis.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:47PMChristina Gorman has picked a thorny, topical and timely subject on which to build a dramatic story American soul.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 04:44PMDepending on where you are in life, you may find Tracy Letts's play now at the Mark Taper to be either very funny or very depressing; maybe both.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 04:44PMThe Transport Group has a well-deserved reputation for innovative staging, and in this respect, this revival of Daniel Berrigan's poetic play of real events does not disappoint.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 04:44PMOur country's charged view of immigration gave director Stan Zimmerman the impetus to reexamine Anne Frank's story through the lens of the Trump administration. . .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 04:43PMThe Encores! production also features Ben Davis, Carol Kane, and Lauren Worsham.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:43PMTony-winner Chuck, “SpongeBob’s” Lilli and theater and TV actor Eddie will be onstage Monday for two shows at the Greer Cabaret, Downtown.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 04:42PMPhoto: Ben Levi Ross as ‘Evan Hansen’ and the Company of the First North American [...]
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SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 04:42PMThe Trial of the Catonsville Nine
Off Broadway, Transport Group at Abrons Arts Center
Reviewed by Eleanor J. Bader
BOTTOM LINE: A brilliant revival of an always timely play that asks what …
SOURCE: Theatre is Easy at 04:36PMThey're back from the grave BroadwayWorld is excited to reveal that the Broadway transfer of Beetlejuice will welcome back original members of the company including Alex Brightman in the tit…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:24PMOut of the Box Theatrics presents the Off-Broadway Premiere ofTHE PINK UNICORNbyElise Forier Edie. Directed by Amy Jones, this site-specific one-woman drama will star Tony Award-winnerAlice …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:24PMLeeds Playhouse This portrait of a family devastated by a random stabbing lands its blows with a heavy thudIn 2008, random was a sharp retort to the stereotypical “urban” image of soarin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:18PMWaterwell’s latest work uses courtroom transcripts from deportation hearings for its text.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:16PMIt was shaping up to be the most talked about — and salacious — theater event of the new year: Oscar winner Cate Blanchett and “Game of Thrones” star Stephen Dillane steaming up the …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:12PMThe production of the award-winning musical is set to officially open in California February 10.
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Kate McAll penned the stage adaptation and will also direct the four performances.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:58PMBy Mariela Lopez Flores. Mariela Lopez looks at the importance of prison theatre in Mexico: the quality of work, its impact on inmates, and how the public can support.
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:57PMThis 1950 musical has some charming numbers, but without a monster personality at its center it seems like less of a comedy than a requiem.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:54PMThat was quick! Following yesterday's lead casting announcement for Beetlejuice, the musical has now announced the complete slate of stars set to debut the exciting tuner on Broadwa…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:48PMREDCAT – located below Disney Hall, and operated by CalArts – is a center for contemporary performance. Murphy quickly established the interdisciplinary performance and multimedi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:42PM“To be displayed in this museum, objects have to have been an innovation, have to have failed and have to be interesting, explains the museum’s curator Samuel West. He defines fa…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:42PMThis week the Broadwaysted crew is getting our musical upgrade as we chat all things Be More Chill with Music DirectorVocal ArrangerConductorKeyboardistFormer Broadwaysted Bartender Emily Ma…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:42PMThe new musical from Suzy Conn will begin performances at the Westside Theatre February 21.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:34PMThe Tony-nominated actor and Waterwell cofounder discusses immigration, Middle Eastern representation, and creating civically engaged work.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:33PM“Beetlejuice” has confirmed its Broadway cast led by Alex Brightman as Beetlejuice and Sophia Anne Caruso as Lydia. Retaining its principal cast from Washington D.C., the Broadway musica…
SOURCE: Broadway.News Subscription at 03:31PMStill more of last fall’s pre-Broadway Beetlejuice cast will be making the move to Broadway when the new musical begins previews next month: Jill Abramovitz, Kelvin Moon Loh, Danny Ru…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:30PMThe living legend Cicely Tyson is featured on the cover of TIME magazines 2019 Optimists issue after being chosen for the honor by filmmaker and guest editor, Ava DuVernay. The cover captur…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 03:05PMManhattan Theatre Club’s production of Tarell Alvin McCraney’s Choir Boy will welcome a new cast member. Ryan Jamaal Swain of the FX series Pose, will make his Broadway debut in the play…
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Malinda Kathleen Reese found fame on YouTube, where her channel, “Translator Fails,” now sends up Hollywood and pop hits.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:54PM“Pinter at the Pinter” has been an education — a crash course in Britain’s greatest post-war playwright. Director-producer Jamie Lloyd’s star-studded, six-month sprint through …
SOURCE: Variety at 02:46PMThe notion of reality is one of the most basic and most abstract ones we have. Raising questions about the very idea of what’s real has led to some of the most important, classic work in p…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:42PM“As an actor and writer, Busch is among the most prolific and influential drag artists of his generation, giving us memorable women (and men) in solo performance, and in plays and film…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:42PMThe fund from the audiobook and spoken-word entertainment producer enables the creation of original plays driven by language and voice.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:40PMEditor’s note: There are talks to bring the West End’s Company to Broadway, and last we heard nothing was set. In the meantime, tickets appear to be plentiful for the run at the Gielgu…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 02:32PMPerhaps the biggest casting news of the week lies in the images of the Oriental being physically recast as the Nederlander — a perfect metaphor for the state and direction of Chicago theat…
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Newport Harbor High School will present three benefit performances of God Help Us, starring Ed Asner as God. Written by Samuel Warren Joseph and Phi…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 02:18PMOpera Colorado's production of "The Shining" is adapted from the Stephen King novel of the same name -- which itself was inspired by Estes Park's historic Stanley Hotel.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 02:18PMBy . The 2019 Bay Area Arts Fellowship/Internship Fair livestreams from the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at…
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As Norm Lewis and Jessie Mueller take on the roles of Professor Harold Hill and librarian Marion Paroo at the Kennedy Center, we take a look back at the beloved musical's 1957 Broadway …
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:55PMMany “A Star Is Born” fans were shocked that director Bradley Cooper didn’t earn an Oscar nod for the film, and on Tuesday, Cooper himself admitted that he initially felt …
SOURCE: Variety at 01:50PMFive shows we suggest this Valentine's Day.
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 01:44PMOff-Broadway's MCC Theater has selected a talent-filled group of stars to perform songs from roles in which they would never be cast at the 2019 Miscast concert. The benefit, which will …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:36PM“The outside eye saw the success of Once On This Island, Jesus Christ Superstar Live, ink [at the Kennedy Center], and my cover on Dance Magazine,” the dancer-choreographer write…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:36PMBarenboim’s life work is awe-inspiring. But “in musical circles, Barenboim’s temper is legendary. He has thrown fits because a violist rolled his eyes, because a singer bowed in th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:36PMFortnite’s most significant achievement may be the role it has come to play in the lives of millions. For these players, Fortnite has become a daily social square – a digital mall or v…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:36PMA lone figure stood in the spotlight at the start of what I’ve come to think of as Washington’s most sparkling gala event. In the Opera House space which could have easily swallowed her …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:36PMSome Pull Quotes! Closes Feb 9.
"an outrageous farce of violence and lasciviousness"! --The New Orleans Advocate
“Stockholm Syndrome is a hilarious and captivating show, in th…
SOURCE: ADAM SZYMKOWICZ at 01:36PM James Carpenter and Ellen McLaughlin in ACT’s production of Edward Albee’s Seascape, January 30th 2019 at the Geary Theatre, San Francisco. Or so Nancy would have it, in the American …
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 01:34PMActor, director and writer Allen Lewis Rickman discusses his work in Yiddish theater, most recently having created "Tevye Served Raw", a performance based on the writings of Sholem Aleichem …
SOURCE: YouTube at 01:24PMThe musical about a 30-something New Yorker’s unconventional quest to find a soulmate played an extended Off-Broadway run last fall.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:20PMAs BroadwayWorld previously reported, the musical adaptation of the hit animated film, Anastasia will play its final performance on Sunday, March 31, 2019 after two successful years on Broad…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:06PMMCC Theater announces the all-star lineup of performers set for their annual Miscast gala.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:06PMRoss, who has died aged 40, left two new plays – The Shy Manifesto and The Good Landlord – which are full of compassion and dark comedyThe news last month that the playwright Michael Ros…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:06PMThe director Steven Soderbergh teams up with Tarell Alvin McCraney and André Holland to take on the contradictions of modern sports culture.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:04PMThe tenth anniversary tour of Green Day’s American Idiot kicks up a storm as this Selladoor production arrives at the Playhouse for a week.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMTrenton's Passage Theatre Company will present two one-person shows during its annual celebration of solo acts : "To My Unborn Child: A Love Letter from Fred Hampton" and "Bic…
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The Live From Lincoln Center broadcast of Dominique Morisseau’s Pipeline, will debut February 8 at 9 PM ET. The LCT production opened in July 2017 was directed by Lileana Blain-Cruz and…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 12:58PMEvery Thursday, our editors and guest writers give you their top six picks for the weekend’s best shows. Be sure to check out our metro-Atlanta theater map to see a full list of perfor…
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 12:48PMThe annual gala will take place April 1.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:41PM"Blue Man Group" ✭✭✭ 1/2 "Blue Man Group" has been playing at Briar Street since 1997, a remarkable run of 20-plus years. The Blue Men still chomp marshmallows, bang drums and paint up…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:40PMLists, of course, are always subjective, and of course you’re meant to quibble. That’s kind of the point. But really? Mohammed bin Salman? And get aload of the “artists and…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:32PM“Essentially, Bennett is creating a contemporary Theatre of Cruelty, giving the visceral and ritualistic techniques that Antonin Artaud advocated 80 years earlier a pyro, DayGlo twist.…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:32PMShe's beautiful, and she's here! As previously reported, after recent screen successes in Widows and Bad Times at the El Royale, The Color Purple Tony winner Cynthia Erivo will …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:32PMKing Kong celebrated a milestone at the Broadway Theatre on February 6: 100 performances! Stars Eric William Morris, vlogger Christiani Pitts and Erik Lochtefeld as well as director/cho…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:32PMThe man behind the sets of Hamilton, Dear Evan Hansen, and the upcoming Beetlejuice will serve as production designer for the 91st Academy Awards.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:31PMRoller skating isn’t just a hobby. In black communities across the country, it’s a culture. It’s a way of life. At the premiere for documentary “United Skates” in Los Angel…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:26PMby Christine Deitner On Thursday, January 24th a lucky group of citizens in Los Angeles was treated to a unique experience–The Fountain Theatre’s reading of a gender-switched adaptation…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.wordpress.com at 12:14PMEdinburgh Fringe chief Shona McCarthy has sought to clarify her comments on low pay at the festival, after she was reported as
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:12PMThe National Theatre has announced a UK tour of Bijan Sheibani’s production of A Taste of Honey, Shelagh Delaney’s taboo-breaking 1950s play which was first produced in the Lyttelton The…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:10PMLooking to buy last minute tickets to a Broadway show Don't know what to see Trying to find a theater
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:06PMIt's time to put on a happy face becauseBroadwayHD, the premier streaming service for live theater, is bringing the 1995 Star-Studded TV adaptation of the delightful Broadway musicalBye Bye …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:06PMWatch below as he is joined by Broadway royalty Beth Leavel as they chat about how she got into this business in the first place, which Broadway role won her parents' approval, and so much m…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:06PMBy Douglas Mayo
Award-wining Miriam-Teak Lee will star in @ Juliet a new musical featuring the musical of acclaimed songwriter Max Martin which will preview at Manchester Opera House ahead o…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 12:04PMThe event honored Martha Rivers Ingram, Rick Miramontez, and Tony Kushner.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:03PMThe star and composer reveal secrets behind the recording of the now-famous gospel score.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00PMThe Tony-nominated director shares her directing style, insider details from the rehearsal rooms with Sutton Foster and Daniel Radcliffe, and more.
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The orchestra welcomed in the Year of the Pig with a Chinese-dominated programme at New York’s David Geffen Hall
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 11:59AMPassion, elegance and grace... and that's just how renowned choreographer Germán Cornejo spoke, when he told us all about his show Tango Fire.
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SOURCE: officiallondontheatre.com at 11:59AMThe Manipulate festival in Scotland has surreal square dances, puppetry without puppets and jaw-dropping human landscapesIn between shows at the Manipulate festival, a veteran arts producer …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:54AMFord’s Theatre is partnering with the Theater and Policy Salon for a special post-performance discussion on “Justice” in Criminal Justice, following the 7:30 pm show of Twelve…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:48AMThe strange doings in Virginia have brought blackface back in the news. Reaction to the unearthing of a photograph on the 1984 medical school yearbook page of Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam att…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:48AMThe Tony winner will lead a cast that also includes Hamilton alum Leslie Odom Jr. and Jennifer Nettles.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:46AMForthcoming London musical Waitress has revealed its youngest cast members, who'll share the role of Lulu - and we were there to see auditions in action!
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SOURCE: officiallondontheatre.com at 11:41AMThere are five bodies on stage, encased in plastic. The opening of the Northern Ireland Opera/Lyric Theatre co-production of Sweeney Todd is
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:38AMHaving achieved widespread popularity on RuPaul’s Drag Race as his larger-than-life alter-ego Mimi Imfurst, Braden Chapman is a critically-acclaimed actor, singer, director, writer, and pr…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:34AMSpecial guests will include Kristy Cates, Jennifer DiNoia, and Lianah Sta. Ana.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:31AMCasting is officially complete for the West End transfer of Waitress! Newcomers Fifi Christophers and Arabella Duffy will share the role of Lulu in the previously announced production, set t…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:24AMThe new four-building, $33 million complex “will be the home to the Tanglewood Learning Institute (TLI) … The schedule of 140 ticketed events includes four deep-immersion weekends, n…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:24AMThe Lab Theater, a converted warehouse, is right next door to the company’s own rehearsal and office space (called the Opera Center) in Minneapolis’s North Loop. Since 2006, inde…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:24AMThe Australian mega-musical opened November 8 at the Broadway Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:22AMWhether he’s capturing David Lee Roth or Bed-Stuy street style, Montana Levi Blanco’s secret: an anthropological attention to detail and “amazing aggressive shopping.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:18AMBy: David Sheward
February 7, 2019: The life of Arturo Toscanini, perhaps the greatest conductor of the 20th century, would make a fascinating drama. In addition to collaborating with al…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:17AMA series of special events and workshops will celebrate the centenary of the late actor, activist, and master teacher.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:07AMBirmingham City Council has scaled down proposed cuts to arts funding following a public consultation of its budget. It was announced in
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:06AM★★★★ Encores’ latest is a thorough charmer, though not quite the blockbuster it could be
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 11:05AMPresenting itself as a new British farce, Jack Milner and Mark Stevenson’s play initially feels like a straight-forward, if old fashioned comedy.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:04AMGary Lineker and Jon Snow are among the household names who will take part in a one-off conversation event at Battersea Arts
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:04AMBright Star Tony Award nominee and star of the current Call Me Madam revival at Encores, Carmen Cusack returns to Feinstein's54 Below with a brand new show on Wednesday, February 13 at 7pm a…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:04AMOn February 11, New York Theatre Workshop is celebrating 40 years of bringing the work of visionary artists to adventurous audiences. Each season, from its home in New York's East Village, N…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:04AMThe four-time Emmy Award winner is in talks to direct the latest screen incarnation of the 1959 Broadway classic.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:01AMIf you don’t know who Marie Kondo is, then you’re probably living under a very untidy rock. Marie Kondo is the author of the bestselling The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up an…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMThe Avenue Q puppets are back in one of the naughtiest and funniest musicals around, and they will make you laugh, cringe, gasp and howl as they make their way round the UK.
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★★★★ Carmen Cusack goes for broke and nicely gets there in the satirical Ethel Merman showcase
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 10:58AMAnother post in celebration of Black History Month. February 7 is the birthday of stage and screen actor Leonard Jackson (1928-2013), billed in his early years as L. Errol Jaye. From Jackson…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:54AMWith performances by the San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus, Britney Coleman, and more, the epic choral work tells the story of more than a century of LGBTQ history in America.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:53AMSweating the small stuff: Sally Hales reviews Rose Lewenstein's new play, which explores climate change through an intimate depiction of a relationship.
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SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 10:45AMHere are five acting the exercises from my book 100 Acting exercises for 8–18-Year-Olds to help children and teenagers to improve their acting technique: 1. Packing a bag with given circum…
SOURCE: theatrenerds.com at 10:40AMWilliams stepped into the title role in the West End production January 28.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:38AMFrom a community arts organizer in Rhode Island to a literary manager in Texas, from a theatre architect in Illinois to a Wisconsin actor, here are some theatre workers to have on your radar.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 10:36AMThe season's closing pairing presents Danny Dyer and a radio revelationIt was back to the very beginning for this final instalment of “Pinter at the Pinter”, with its pairing of A S…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 10:32AMPerformances will begin in May at London’s Charing Cross Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:26AMWith a second summit between the leaders of the U.S. and North Korea, Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un, scheduled for the end of this month in Vietnam, the timing for John Feffer’s latest�…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:24AM“This was somebody who was writing for 50 years without publishing, so that’s a lot of material. So there’s not a reluctance or a protectiveness: when it’s ready, we&…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:18AM“The Academy’s thinking is that awards for Sound Editing and Documentary Short eat up minutes and help push the show’s barnstorming conclusion — winners in the lead actin…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:18AMThat would be none other than the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. “It regularly films dance productions in the city, preserving the present for the future; it aims to …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:18AM“In announcing its fourth-quarter earnings, the Stockholm company said it had acquired Gimlet Media, the studio behind the popular podcasts Crimetown, Reply All and StartUp, and Anchor…
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The brevity of political satire's shelf life tends to rival that of a tray of supermarket eggs, but it seems one of the quips penned by Howard Lindsay and Russell Crouse for the book of thei…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:54AMFrom the Broadway Company and current 1st National tour of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,Madeline Doherty. Maddieadmits that fear and intimidation have been some of the best partners in …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:54AMYour chance to celebrate true love this month includes tickets to one of Broadway’s hottest shows and a meal at the Palm West Side.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:46AMFor months now, I have repeatedly issued a few humble requests to actor/Lady Bird stan/A Star Is Born director Bradley Cooper, mostly via Vulture dot com, and my own personal Twitter: What h…
SOURCE: Vulture at 09:45AMWest End, let's get ready to rock: a new year group have been announced to play the kids' cast of Andrew Lloyd Webber's School Of Rock The Musical!
The post New kids cast announced for the …
SOURCE: officiallondontheatre.com at 09:44AMRobert B. Mantell (Robert Bruce Mantell, 1854-1928 — he was named after his ancestor Robert the Bruce) was born this day. I’ll cut to the chase with the most interesting bit of t…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:42AMWalker, who will star opposite Tracy Letts and Annette Bening in the upcoming revival, was last seen on Broadway in American Psycho.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:36AMAs part of her ongoing post-show Q&A series, on Wednesday 6 March 2019, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock will be at the world premiere production of Alexander Matthews' urgent new environ…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:30AMActor Andrew William Smith and the Pittsburgh theater aim to start a conversation with open minds and hearts about the often divisive issue.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 09:15AMClive Swift will be best remembered as the henpecked husband to Patricia Routledge’s painfully snobbish wife Hyacinth Bucket (“pronounced Bouquet!”) in Roy
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:12AM“James Haskins, managing director of the Wilma Theater in Philadelphia, will take the same title at the Guthrie,” and new development director Mollie Alexander Hogan comes from K…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:12AMThe gift from Rockefeller’s estate is the largest in the museum’s history. “[His] mother, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, was one of the founders of MoMA in 1929, and he carried …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:12AM“In an exclusive interview with the Guardian, his son Matt Salinger has finally revealed, definitively, that his father never stopped writing and that almost ‘all of what he wrot…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:12AMTransport Group reimagines this Vietnam War-era play in a mesmerizing new Off-Broadway production directed by Jack Cummings III.
The post Paying the Price for a Higher Purpose: ‘The Tr…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 09:12AMIt's hard to credit the profusion of top talent that has been involved in this project over the past six months
SOURCE: The Independent at 09:12AMMichelle Fairley and Irfan Shamji are the winners of this year’s Clarence Derwent awards. The awards, from union Equity, honour best supporting
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMYour guide to more than 100 high schools in our region that are about to raise the curtain on an annual rite of spring.
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Performances will begin March 16 at 59E59 Theaters.
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:59AMPerformances will begin March 16 at 59E59 Theaters.
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:59AMBy Paul T Davies
Paul T Davies reviews Pinter Seven presented as part of the Pinter at the Pinter season
This post REVIEW: Pinter Seven, Harold Pinter Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭ first appeared …
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 08:49AMReview: The Cult of K*nzo, Camden People's Theatre3.0Overall ScoreDebonair fashion icon that I am, I probably ought to say that I was previously so oblivious to Kenzo that I didn’t even kn…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:48AMThis is not a post on a particular modality, but rather a sharing on the importance of recognizing what your body needs. Your body is your first house, your home, your vessel, your temple, a…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:48AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on February 7 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:48AMIn this new version of the ancient Greek myth, Icarus starts out as an average modern schoolboy. But sofa wars and sibling
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:46AMWe take the occasion of Zsa Zsa’s birthday to shed some light on the mysterious phenomenon of the Gabor Sisters. When I was a kid, Zsa Zsa (1917-2016) was the most enigmatic, extremely…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:36AMYoung’s Greenwich Village music store, the Folklore Center, “was also equal parts hiring hall; Schwab’s Pharmacy, where young hopefuls awaited discovery; matchbox recital s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:06AM“The controversial initiative, which is due to launch on 1 May [at the rate of €3], applies to day-trippers … From early 2020, the fee will rise to between €6 and €10 depending…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:06AM“Workers at the Vancouver Art Gallery in Canada went on strike on Tuesday over claims that the museum’s wage policies are unfair. According to members of the union CUPE Local 15, ten…
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The annual Reims Scènes d’Europe festival showcases contemporary creation from around Europe. This year, it is focused on emerging artists from Spain.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:48AMLife’s not always easy on Breck Road. Money is tight, Gran is incontinent and sometimes you wish you could click your ruby
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:41AMReview: Cost of Living, Hampstead Theatre 3.0stars A beautiful performance by four exceptional actors that feels too subtle and slow-paced to really pack a punch. Before the play, audience m…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:32AMReview: Welcome to the UK, Bunker Theatre 3.0Overall Score There’s a significant difference between a show that talks about refugees, and a show on this topic whose actors actually are ref…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:32AMReview: Avenue Q, New Wimbledon Theatre4.0starsAvenue Q first hit the stage in 2003: an offensive romp of a musical comedy that invites you down to Sesame Street, after hours. It’s the sto…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:32AMReview of the Saturday, February 2, 2019 matinee performance at the Richard Rodgers Theatre in New York City. Starring Michael Luwoye, Denee Benton, Daniel Breaker, Mandy Gonzalez, Ryan Vasq…
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 07:32AMRoyal Opera House, LondonFrom Aletta Collins’ refreshing abstraction to Calvin Richardson’s human piñatas, this is just what the Royal needsThe musicians of the London Sinfonietta are i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:32AMNext season includes “The Last American Hammer,” a satirical treatment of a one-man militia raging against the tyranny of the government.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 07:30AMWe knew the West End production of Les Misérables was moving to the Gielgud Theatre while the Queen’s was being refurbished but we couldn’t have predicted that the venue would be hostin…
SOURCE: Stage Faves at 07:30AMIt's a twelve-hour flight from California to London. How can you make a relationship work when time, distance and cultural differences separate you? American Scott Kettner has flown back to …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:29AMHere’s my list of recommended Broadway, off-Broadway, and out-of-town shows, updated weekly. In all cases, I gave these shows favorable reviews (if sometimes qualifiedly so) in The Wa…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM“There is one rule that works in every calamity. Be it pestilence, war, or famine, the rich get richer and poor get poorer. The poor even help arrange it.” Will Rogers, Daily T…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMSuperhoe at the Royal Court is a bright new monologue about coming of age in the Instagram era that really rocks its youthful socks.
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Lee Lomas comes from the growing breed of performers who is not content to wait for auditions to come around. He's taken it on himself to step up and create the work he wants to star in and …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:59AMJodie Prenger will star in a new tour of A Taste of Honey, produced by the National Theatre. Bijan Sheibani’s production ran
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:44AMHackney Showroom in East London is to leave its current home due to “unsustainable rent increases” and move to new premises in
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:42AMA stage manager is fighting for £200,000 compensation after he claims an accident involving scenery at the Royal Opera House left him
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:42AMCirque du Soleil Entertainment Group has purchased The Works Entertainment, the company behind shows such as The Illusionists. The company said the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:42AMSinger and Guitarist Ana Popovic will take centerstage to showcase her new album at Paris’ New Morning on April 2, 2019.Ana Popovic holds great respect in the world of blues-rock. She will…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 06:35AMThe music video and short film director talks about ‘cosmic archaeology’ and documenting the black experience
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 06:26AMHarold Pinter theatre, LondonDyer and Freeman excel as gunmen in The Dumb Waiter and Jamie Lloyd’s staging of A Slight Ache, with John Heffernan and Gemma Whelan, is a revelationThe season…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24AMAlanis Morissette, who will be represented on Broadway next season with Jagged Little Pill, will be celebrated in story and song at Feinstein's54 Below on Sunday, March 10th, 2019, at 700pm …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:24AMGood morning, BroadwayWorld One day more until Friday Power through the rest of your week by catching up on the top Broadway news
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:24AMThe 2019 MAKERS Conference kicked-off last night with a first look at the upcoming Broadway play What the Constitution Means to Me from playwright Heidi Schreck. The show explores how Shreck…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:24AMLeah Nanako Winkler knew she wanted to be a writer when she was about seven. The playwright had been underestimated in her
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:20AMBBC3 presenter Stacey Dooley will talk about some of her career best work at London’s Southbank Centre on February 13, 2019.Southbank Centre calls it a rare opportunity to listen first-han…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 06:14AM
New Jamie New and a new cast mean new production shots for Everybody’s Talking About Jamie! Who knew! (well, us, that’s why we’re sharing them…)With the new cast of Everybody’s Tal…
SOURCE: officiallondontheatre.com at 05:55AMThe Crypt Sessions in Harlem, always a thoughtfully-curated series, offered a concert on Tuesday night with the kind of repertoire, venue, and penetrating performance that yielded fresh ques…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:54AMWhen Bob finally walks out on Walt, he places an ad on Craigslist to advertise the spare room. Walt has always suffered
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:45AMA role in a forthcoming stage version of CBeebies’ Twirlywoos is to be job shared between two performers with young children, marking
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:36AMBroadwayWorld is saddened to learn of the passing of Candice Earley. According to an obituary, she passed away at home after an, 8-year struggle with Multiple Systems Atrophy. She was 68.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:18AMWhat a difference a few months can make; when the Jamie Lloyd Company first announced its Pinter at the Pinter season finale show back in May (before Betrayal was added to the programme), th…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AM
The 2019–2020 season kicks off September 18 with the world premiere of Philip Venables and Ted Huffman’s Denis & Katya.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:59AMIt was déjà-vu-all-over-again when I returned yesterday from a California sojourn to the “news” about how permanent-collection installations in the new MegaMoMA (my sobriquet, not thei…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:48AMWritten and directed by Jordan Peele, “Us” will release on March 21, 2019 in movie theaters across the US.According to IMDb, “Us” is the story of Adelaide Wilson, who accompanied by …
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 04:45AMPoldark star Ruby Bentall stars in the first London revival of James Phillips' award-winning espionage drama The Rubenstein Kiss. We talk to her about playing a Soviet spy and sacrificing ev…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:30AMAlte Oper, Frankfurt presents a show that reveals the uniqueness of the Abramović method and music from March 20-24, 2019.According to the website of Alte Oper, in these two sessions one ge…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 04:18AMStrange meeting: Tracey Sinclair reviews Gary Kitching and Steve Byron's two-hander about men left behind by social systems.
The post Review: Bacon Knees and Sausage Fingers at Alphabetti Th…
SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 04:12AMRachael Beck and Michael Cormick are cornerstones of the Australian musical theatre industry. The pair have performed dozens of iconic leading roles, including The Phantom of the Opera, Cat…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 04:12AM
“Beatrix Cenci,” an opera in two acts by Alberto Ginastera comes on stage in a new production at Opera national du Rhin from March 17-April 7, 2019.Set to a Spanish libretto by Ginastera…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 03:43AMNational Theatre transfer hits the West End sweet spotThe Fifties? They were terrible: bone-cold houses where people huddled round the fireplace for heat, empty Sundays that lasted a month, …
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 03:42AMGenesis Revelations presents Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1975 masterpiece “The Passenger,” to be screened on February 26, 2019.Jointly written by Mark Peploe, Peter Wollen, and Antonioni,…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 03:32AM
Corey Poole reports for Music Canada that musician, label owner, and music festival founder Miranda Mulholland, in association with Music Canada, will present a panel discussion at the Folk …
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 02:58AMHBO Films has acquired the rights to “Share,” a feature adaptation of Pippa Bianco’s prize-winning short film of the same name.“A cautionary tale about social media, ‘Share’ foll…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 02:54AM“The Harry Potter Film Concert” series returns to Singapore’s Esplanade Theatre on March 1 and 2, 2019.Directed by the master of fantasy Alfonso Cuaron, “Harry Potter and the Prisone…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 02:09AM
If you saw The Play That Goes Wrong last year, you’ll need no urging to see this new production by the Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society, because Peter Pan Goes Wrong is more lavish, funni…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 12:51AMA film by Oscar nominated director Christian Frei, “Genesis 2.0” is playing at Berlin’s Tilsiter Lichtspiele through February 28, 2019.Co-Directed by Maxim Arbugaev, Genesis 2.0 observ…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 12:37AM Japanese broadcaster Nippon TV has announced to bring a new scripted format “Weakest Beast” from scriptwriter Akiko Nogi to MIPTV this April. The press release states that the…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 12:15AMHarvest Rain has announced that Australian stage and screen legend, Simon Gallaher, will play the much-coveted role of The Wizard in The Wizard of Oz – Arena Spectacular when it tours…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 12:13AMRecently there have been some conversations around my organization and town in general about whether it is worthwhile to try to bolster an existing endowment. People have mentioned that ther…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:04AMLudovic Hunter-Tilney lives on the same road as the bestselling musician. But, as their meeting shows, their realities are very different
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:00AMTony nominee Leigh Silverman directs the new play, starring Becca Blackwell and co-presented by WP Theater and NYTW.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMNYCB presents sneaker ballets by Jerome Robbins and Justin Peck---When Justin Peck's The Times Are Racing premiered two years ago at New York City Ballet, it offered an exciting jolt. There …
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