The ceremony was held May 5 at NYU Skirball Center, hosted by Mike Birbiglia.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:37PMThe Ensemble for the Romantic Century’s production synthesizes dramatic narrative with chamber music and some fantastic puppetry.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18PMChristopher Chen’s contemplative drama at Soho Rep uses E.M. Forster’s “A Passage to India” as a template for exploring, and exploding, nationalism.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18PMThe Off-Broadway League today announced nominations in 19 categories - and bestowed one special award - for the 34th Annual Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Achievement Off-Broadway. Th…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:12PMIf you're like this male theatre critic, you'll spend the first twenty minutes or so of Halley Feiffer's The Pain of My Belligerence wondering why the woman at the center of the story is put…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:12PMVisibility, advocacy, and hope were the big themes Saturday at the 30th annual GLAAD awards, which saw the largest attendance that the ceremony has ever seen with more than 1,300 guests. Mad…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:08PMTribeca Film Festival founder Robert De Niro laid into Trump once again at the premiere of "Yesterday," which imagines a world without The Beatles.
SOURCE: USA Today at 10:08PMMadonna, a pioneer for gay rights, accepted the Advocate for Change Award at the 2019 GLAAD Media Awards with a rousing speech.
SOURCE: USA Today at 10:07PMAnd as hard as it is to get on the list, it’s just as easy to get pushed off of it.
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:07PMListen: “Jagged Little Pill” to Open on Broadway this Fall, Lucille Lortel Winners, and More! [display_podcast] “Today on Broadway” is a daily, Monday through Friday, podcast hitting…
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A show that’s sold old since previews is pretty much reviewer-proof, but, if possible, try to catch Mrs. Murray’s Menagerie at Ars Nova at Greenwich House (27 Barrow Street, NYC…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 08:16PMBolden is an intense film, depicting a life lived in a horrifically racist time and place.
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SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:12PMNUMBNESS: CHAPTER 2, breach birthed into being by One-Eighth Theater is a quick firing collage of absurdist clues to find your way through the maze of each moment. Reality, rules, linear, …
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 08:07PMBaltimore-born Johnny Hudgins (1896-1990) was billed in vaudeville, burlesque, nightclubs, and musicals as “the Wah Wah Man”. The nickname arose from his act, which consisted of a comica…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:06PMWhew! With a few hours to spare, I just happened to notice that today is National Astronaut Day. Inspiration enough for a little listicle about a classic comedy subgenre too little acknowled…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:06PMNot to be confused with KENNY Baker, or this Benny or that Benny, Benny Baker (Benjamin Michael Zifkin, 1907-1994) was a comedian from St. Joe, Missouri, who broke into vaudeville and burles…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:06PMKatherine Jenkins, Britain’s best selling classical artist of the past 25 years, will be travelling down under for an Australian Tour in November. For the first time since her 2011 tour wi…
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Cabaret Katie! picks for the month of May include:
Fred Aiese with Rick Jensen @ Don’t Tell Mama – May 5th * Wendy Kaufman Harper with Rick Jensen @ Don’t Tell Mama – May 5th * Kare…
SOURCE: YouTube at 05:59PMBy Douglas Mayo
With half-term coming up BritishTheatre.com highlights some of the best shows for children and families in London's West End.
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SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 05:56PMThough it was storming outside, the stars shone brightly inside for Strathmore’s Annual Spring Gala Saturday night. Raising funds for the educational and artistic programs that impact over…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:33PMWell, British Film Institute, you wanted to “start a conversation,” and you sure have. – BBC
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:33PMWhat a heartbreak her life was after To Kill a Mockingbird, and her attempted true-crime book turned out similarly: “Despite amassing more than enough Maxwelliana for a book, she could not…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:33PMMore than a century after Marcel Duchamp’s (1887–1968) ready made Fountain was rejected from display in New York and over five decades since the last significant exhibition of his work …
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 05:15PM“it’s going to rain the entire time. Do you still wanna do this?”- was the text I got at 7am today.
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SOURCE: Medium at 05:03PMIn an opera trifecta, the people’s baritone Amartuvshin Enkhbat, award winning tenor Liparit Avetisyan and local rising star Stacey Alleaume come together to star in Elijah Moshinsky’s r…
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As Maria, Mikael Bennett the breakout star of this superb and brilliantly cast production.
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 04:59PMThere’s some massive underrepresentation, and certainly underfunding. For the new El Chicano, for instance, the filmmaker says, “It took a bunch of Canadian hockey fans to get behind an …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PMReviewed by Judd Hollander
The one thing most people will tell you when it comes to dreams is that they often don't make sense. Either literally or chronologically. Different people from v…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 04:06PMWhat is particularly satisfying about this production is how it complements the Irish Rep's two earlier O'Casey productions.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 04:02PMDanish writer Hans Christian Andersen (1805-75), best known as the author of nearly 3400 fairytales, including such iconic stories as The Princess and the Pea, The Little Mermaid, and The U…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:00PMRaising the curtain on another program of spectacular events, dazzling performances and provocative discussions, MELT: Festival of Queer Arts and Culture returns to the Brisbane Powerhouse f…
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What good is sitting alone in your room this week If you don't already have plans to see a Broadway show, come out to see your favorite Broadway stars in a cabaret act instead. After Broadwa…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:33PMThe Tony Awards are like Christmas in June for theatre lovers, and that makes this year's nominees the reason for the season. This year's Tony nominees transported us with the magic of theat…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:33PMThe seductive intelligence of a manifesto. – Jan Herman
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:18PMVulture somehow found time to photograph and interview a lot of people on the list: “The nominees spoke about their shows, their collaborators, their group texts, and their reactions to be…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:18PMThe Delos experiment: “In the absence of human contact – only guards and archaeologists have inhabited Delos in more recent times – the remains of a sanctuary and entire city have surv…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:18PMThe current, vociferous debate over classic Broadway musicals is not unlike that over the Constitution of the United States. On the one hand, you have those who argue that the Constitution s…
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By Ross Heath Arlington’s Gunston Arts Center was the place to be on Saturday night. Always a joy to hear the National Chamber Ensemble which delivered joy with its season finale concert o…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:54PMThe show, a sequel with all-new material to the original She The People, is billed as “a mimosa-and-madness-fueled foray” that “roasts the patriarchy.”
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 02:50PMPlaywright best known for Children of a Lesser God, which was turned into a 1986 hit filmThe playwright Mark Medoff, who has died aged 79, wrote Children of a Lesser God, the story of a deaf…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:42PMVarious venues, LeedsWith interactive surveillance games, reconstructions of student protests and interventions in a shopping centre, the biennial festival reconfigured audiences’ relation…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:42PMAlly Theatre Company will receive the 2019 John Aniello Award for Outstanding Emerging Theatre Company at the 35th Annual Helen Hayes Awards. At its core mission, Ally Theatre Company is com…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:39PMToday being the birthday of Hollywood actor Tyrone Power (1914-1958), it seemed fitting for a long overdue explication of his distinguished lineage. Power was a fourth generation actor, and …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 02:36PMJune Lang (Winifred June Vlasek, 1917-2005) started out performing in amateur theatricals in her native Minneapolis from age five. Two years later her family had moved to Los Angeles and Jun…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 02:36PMIn 2018 Monumental Theatre Company was the recipient of the prestigious theatreWashington John Aniello Award for Outstanding Emerging Theatre Company. The Aniello Award aims to give public r…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:33PMAre abandoned malls a special category, or are they more like abandoned warehouses, boarded-up downtowns, left-behind elementary schools? Right now, they seem to be bleak – and a growing i…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:12PMCongrats to the Jazz Journalists Association award winners! – Doug Ramsey
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:12PMSpooner made her name with a photo of the woman at the center of the John Profumo scandal, but she did much more. “‘Who’d ever imagine a woman might be a photographer on a national new…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:12PMAt Rosmersholm, “there is a slight problem with damp.” – David Jays
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Is a young Asian woman a ghost or a melancholiac’s hallucination? That is the haunting question vividly answered in playwright Prince Gomolvilas’ gripping thriller "The Brothers Paranorm…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:58PMThe album “Our Endless Numbered Days” was released in March 2004 and quickly became a definitive indie album of the decade. Sam Beam, the driving force behind the band Iron and Wine, joi…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:44PMArts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual art, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.
The post Coming Attractions: May 5 through 21 — What Will Light Your …
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:33PMIn the case of a scene set in the Lodz Ghetto, the lineup of characters on the way to the concentration camps veered, for me, close to Holocaust porn.
The post Theater Review: Another View o…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:33PMAdam Roberts: “Over five years ago, Gail Dalrymple, Robert Pierson, and I sat down to conceive of a performance company that would celebrate the creative work of adult actors with disabili…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:12PM“At a moment when there is a longstanding heated debate over how artists and pop culture figures should engage in social activism, the life and career of musical legend Edward Kennedy ‘D…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:12PMVu Le: “‘Solutions Privilege’ [is] the privilege of expecting easy and instant solutions that would align with one’s worldview and not challenge one’s privilege. It manifests in th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:12PMPhil Buchanan, president of the Center for Effective Philanthropy, argues that the most important thing that grant makers can do is make sure the nonprofits they fund can attract good staff …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:12PMReporter John-John Williams IV profiles Soulful Symphony, a racially and culturally diverse orchestra which begins a three-year residency at the Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Md. i…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:12PMThe movie Where Hands Touch is about a young adult romance – about what happened to the generation of biracial young Germans who were born to white German mothers and French colonial Afric…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:12PMSome have suggested it was as stroke, but he showed no other signs of impairment. His injury suggests it may have been something else: “The ulnar nerve runs from the shoulder to the little…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:12PMThe fault lies in contemporary politics, of course, but also in the origins of the discipline: “In Europe, academic study of the Middle Ages developed in tandem with a romantic nationalism…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:12PMDavid Bedella says he has to focus on LA instead of London. “TV offers celebrity and financial security and these things are important in an age where you don’t know where your next job …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:12PMPoet Imtiaz Dharker had been tipped by several British news sources as the next poet laureate, following Carol Ann Duffy, but she said no: “I had to weigh the privacy I need to write poems…
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Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere review Tootsie, The Poor of New York @ Metropolitan Playhouse, The Christians @ Bristol Riverside Theatre, The Franca Rame Project @ Iro…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 11:52AMAfter our July 2018 interview about Mairi Dorman-Phaneuf’s More About The Melody, I am thrilled to sit back down with Mairi to discuss her next installment. This show will spotlight the mu…
SOURCE: Call Me Adam at 11:48AMFree Admission at ARF Alumni Reunion/Pet Celebration day at Adoption Center in Wainscott
May 5, 2019: On Saturday morning from 10am till noon ARF honored our furry friends with a pet cel…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:34AMHampstead theatre, LondonBrenton’s ambitious but muddled new drama follows a gifted young Syrian woman who attracts the attentions of an Oxford classicist, Euripides and MI5
Edward Hall en…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:24AMRonny Whyte is not only considered a premiere interpreter of Classic American Popular song, he is also an outstanding jazz pianist and an award-winning songwriter.
Birdland, Thursday, May 9…
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Drury Lane Theatre's staging, directed with a keen eye for the monstrous (and the monstrously funny) by Mitch Sebastian, lives up to Dahl’s book.
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 10:56AMThe comic, or maybe graphic novel series, Love and Rockets is “the rare pop cultural artifact that renders Latinas not as archetypes, but as rich and profound human beings full of messy co…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:48AMIt’s a pop music festival, of course (where are we with that equal rep, classical and new music festivals?). But not of course, because no other festival has achieved anything like parity.…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:48AMRosmersholm strongly revived, while Andrea Levy's thick novel, Serling's series adapted well enough
The post From London: Henrik Ibsen, Andrea Levy, Rod Serling Honored Variously appeared fi…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 10:20AMIt is the stereotyping of women in theatre that has been one of the biggest motivators for Emmy Happisburgh to create her own company, aptly named Contentment Productions.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AM
Astounding combination of theatre and installation tells the wrenching story of two Afghan child refugees
Flight is a show by experimental Scottish theatre company Vox Motus, adapted from th…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 09:54AMFounder and artistic director Ruben Valenzuela assembled an extraordinary ensemble of instrumentalists and singers who gave a gleaming, juicy performance of music now 320 years old, making i…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 09:53AMBalboa Park institution puts up story of Greek deities who try to help a hapless modern-day academic
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 09:53AMThere’s definitely a new quick path to EGOT — or at least three-quarters of it. First Cynthia Erivo won a Tony, Grammy and Emmy for “The Color Purple.” Then Ben Platt and Rachel Bay …
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 09:52AMIf you’re hanging around Everyman Theatre this summer, you might hear the gritty growl of a buzzsaw or the dull thump of hammers. Those are the sounds a theater company makes when it expan…
SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun Subscription at 09:52AMHas YouTube become the new center of gravity for primetime? That’s the narrative it wants Madison Avenue to believe — especially as it relates to coveted younger demos. The Google-owned …
SOURCE: Variety at 09:52AMAdam Sandler returned to “Saturday Night Live” for the first time since 1995 to sing a chorus of “I got fired by NBC” in his opening monologue, with help from Chris Rock and Pete Dav…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:52AMWESTFIELD- The Westfield Theater Group will soon perform an original musical in honor of Westfield’s 350th birthday at the Westfield Woman’s Club starting on May 10th. The play, called �…
SOURCE: thewestfieldnews.com at 09:48AMAuctioneers hope a 1979 costume created by a “Star Wars” costume designer will garner at least $1 million.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:48AM“The End of Sex,” a new play by Gay Walch at the Big Victory Theatre, commences with the kind of wink-wink, nudge-nudge sexual innuendo that could have been lifted from an episode of “…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:48AMAs the sun was going down Thursday night, the steel of Walt Disney Concert Hall reflected the colors of twilight and an oncoming chill in the air added a sense of expectancy. A baby grand pi…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:48AMWhen Amber Gray was auditioning for “Hadestown,” Anais Mitchell’s folk-operatic reimagining of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth, she nearly blew it. The actress, who was making her Broadw…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:48AMStirring photography, music inspired by the Silk Road and everything you needed to know about the Tony Award nominations but were afraid to ask. I’m Carolina A. Miranda, staff writer at th…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:48AMA volunteer usher: “We don’t realize the richness this music brings into our lives until we don’t have it. … Our souls were hungry.” – Chicago Tribune
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:48AMIn her writing on her site and in her massively popular books, Evans “confronted every controversial issue in American evangelical culture. She wrote about biblical literalism, racism, abo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:48AMThat is to say, occasionally trans women get cast as women, no need to elaborate, and sometimes trans men get cast as men, ditto. But. “While television has made great strides in L.G.B.T.Q…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:48AMMargo Martindale, who is so famously called that name that it’s her official title on the Netflix show Bojack Horseman: “Sometimes you do things for money, and sometimes you do things fo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:48AMBring It On, Hamilton, the most recent revival of CATS, the revival of Falsettos, and this season’s Head Over Heels are just a few of the credits my guests today have on their impress…
SOURCE: Beltline to Broadway at 09:00AMThe Tony Award-winning musical, starring Gwen Verdon and Stephen Douglass, opened at the 46th Street Theatre on May 5, 1955.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:00AMBy Sean Anthony Chia. Sean Anthony Chia discusses Kristiana Rae Colón’s good friday, placing it within what he calls “theatre of the unashamed.”
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By Julian Eaves
Julian Eaves reviews Ben Alderton's Hell Yes I'm Tough Enough now playing at the Park Theatre.
This post REVIEW: Hell Yes I’m Tough Enough, Park Theatre ✭✭✭✭ first …
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 08:54AMTonight, May 5, the Off-Broadway League will present the 34th Annual Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Achievement Off-Broadway.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:54AMThe music Nick Waterhouse performs (almost all of which he writes) is consistently retro—not to mention relentlessly danceable and fun.
The post Music Preview: Soul Man Cometh — Nick Wa…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:48AMMaryann Plunkett, Sarah Street and Ed Malone Photo credit: Carol RoseggIt would be very easy to be under the delusion that I was not, in fact, at the Irish Repertory Theater in NYC but ra…
SOURCE: simonsaltzman.blogspot.com at 08:19AMBack for its 16th year, the festival can take in big names and emerging stars, from teenaged breakdancers to the stupendous South Korean Jinjo Crew
SOURCE: The Independent at 08:18AMJude, Howard Brenton’s new cerebral tragi-comedy about a Syrian refugee’s Oxford dreams, is just too gnomic.
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