Ever considered mixing work and play? Taking your dance group on a destination training vacation is a great way to do just that. Disney World and Universal Orlando have programs specifically…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 11:47PMIn June, San Francisco Ballet (SFB) announced 10 promotions, three new company members and five apprentices for the 2020 repertory season. Soloists promoted to principals include Benjamin …
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 11:36PMThe 2019 Victorian Premier’s Design Awards are open for entries, with innovative projects from across the state’s design and architectural community eligible to be nominated. “The Andr…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 11:20PMSix short plays offer up a variety of styles for the 13th edition of Summer Shorts .
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The second program of “Summer Shorts 2019,” at 59E59 Theaters, is a patchy evening including a contribution by Neil LaBute.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:36PMFollowing up on Luis Alfaro’s critically acclaimed Chicano retelling of Sophocles’ "Oedipus Rex" called "Oedipus El Rey," The Public Theater now stages his equally relevant and timely "M…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:28PMFrom the award-winning author of the acclaimed New York Times bestseller, The Last Painting of Sara de Vos, comes a luminous novel tracing the intertwined fates of a silent-film director a…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 10:28PMThe Shed, New York, NY.July 24, 2019. Maze is a world premiere Shed commission with dancers from The D.R.E.A.M. Ring and The Shed’s FlexNYC program. It was co-directed by Reggie ‘Regg Ro…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 10:26PMAbrons Arts Center, New York, NY. July 11, 2019. Sheena Annalise founded Arch Contemporary Ballet “to ensure the continuous evolution of ballet, designed for an inclusive and varied 21st …
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 10:10PMTiny bubbles, huge bubbles, round bubbles, square bubbles, long bubbles, clear bubbles, white bubbles, floating bubbles, bouncing bubbles, stacked bubbles, bubbles within bubbles, rainbow-c…
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Your response to this production will no doubt depend on how many other productions of Madama Butterfly you’ve experienced. If your preference is for a storybook telling of the tragic tale…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 09:44PMSan Fran “Cursed Child” Cast Announced, Deirdre O’Connell to Lead Lucas Hnath’s “Dana H.,” “The Prom” Hosts On-Stage Wedding “Today on Broadway” is a daily, Monday throug…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 09:37PMArtistic director and cellist Sara Sitzer says the festival has a great lineup this year
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 09:06PMSo, you may ask, with CHICAGO playing right down the street from where I live, why would I take four...Continue Reading
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SOURCE: broadwayselect.com at 09:03PM“White, a blank page or canvas. The challenge, bring order to the whole through design, composition, tension, balance, light, and harmony…” Stephen Sondheim’s Tony, Olivier, Drama De…
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It's National Sisters Day and Hamilton is celebrating by tributing Broadway's favorite sisters, the Schuyler Sisters! Dance along with Angelica, Eliza, and Peggy!
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:22PMHistorically, dancers haven’t been “encouraged to hone their intellect as well as their technical skill,” says Stephanie Miller, associate director of Liberal Education for Arts Profes…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 08:19PMPleasance Courtyard, EdinburghJessica Ross doesn’t come anywhere close to making moral or dramatic sense of why four nurses killed elderly patients
How to account for the four Austrian nur…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18PMWe’ve heard it before — “I’m too old to start dancing.” Yet accomplished dance artists like Ayodele Casel show us that it’s never too late to start. Casel, celebrated tap dance a…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 08:17PMState Street Ballet, based in Santa Barbara, CA, is celebrating its 25th year and has announced an exciting year of performances and events to commemorate this special anniversary. The mar…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 08:16PMEarlier this year, Só Dança introduced its revolutionary Elektra pointe shoe, which features groundbreaking technology and even a customizable, interchangeable shank system. As part of th…
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Joe Rivera
This week, we welcome The Lion King’s Joe Rivera to the Main Stem and learn about his journey toward making his Broadway…
SOURCE: www.theensemblist.com at 07:48PM“[Glaucía] da Silva plays in a quartet called Orquestra de Rua (Orchestra of the Street), alongside other classical musicians from Rio’s favelas. They met through a local youth music in…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:24PMKyle V. Hiller: “I’ve long felt that my relationship with pop culture, media, and art have lacked something. It took me years to realize that I just wasn’t finding voices like my own r…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:24PM“There need to be multiple voices channeling that learning, from multiple stakeholders who have a cultural authority in this conversation. And I think that’s somewhat new, but it felt re…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:24PM“We’ve always been a teaching and training organization. And one of the things that we realized will help ensure our ongoing relevance is that we need museum professionals who more accur…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:24PM“There have been quick and outwardly-positive changes that highlight inclusivity, but broad and meaningful change requires long-term work and systemic shifts in how theatres operate. … I…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:24PM“Tara Beagan’s drama about a Blackfoot woman seeking to avenge her sister’s murder confronts the violence suffered by Indigenous women from the standpoint of those affected.” – The…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:24PM“Making a ballet company more diverse doesn’t happen overnight — and it needs to happen at the level of its youngest students, to create generations of dancers who look like all of us.…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:24PM“While it was nominated for two Tony Awards, it did not win any of them. It has no stars, a tiny cast, and no special effects, and everyone both onstage and backstage are Broadway newbies.…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:24PMPennebaker’s documentary filmmaking stretched across more than six decades, and in that time, he “chronicled a who’s who of other pop music and entertainment world figures and icons ov…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:24PMOne animator said, “I will only get myself in trouble if I comment on the ‘other’ version,” so there’s that point of view. Another: “I think some of my colleagues forget that whe…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:24PMPulitzer Prize-winning novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen: “Fantasy cannot be dismissed as mere entertainment, especially when we keep repeating the fantasy. Fantasy — and our enjoyment of it �…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:24PMAnd not just the lobby – some hotels commission artists or exhibits for every bit of space, including rooms, conference rooms, cafeterias and much more. – The New York Times
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When Harry Clayton-Wright came out to his parents at 14, his mother accepted this revelation but was unable to talk to him
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:34PMTraverse, EdinburghStef Smith’s latest production depicts the two female leads rejecting male classification and raising themselves up
Stef Smith wrote a fascinating dystopian drama in Hum…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:32PM★★★★ The ever-exuberant entertainer delivers a dandy Broadway concert
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 03:30PM★★★ A smart topical comedy outshines lesser works in an annual off-Broadway festival
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 03:29PMAmy Booth-Steel has been through the mill. A successful jobbing actor and a popular member of the theatre community, the trajectory of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:09PMA few days after the passing of Paul Krassner seems an appropriate time for a little birthday appreciation of comedian, actor and journalist/author Richard Belzer (b. 1944). belzer is undoub…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 03:06PMDuring a conference on “Bürgerböhne” – or participatory theatre for citizens – “it became clear to me that not all countries—or even communities—have the same ideas about how…
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For decades in Canada, Indigenous women went missing and were murdered with little government response or action. Tara Beagan’s play Deer Woman
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:28PMArtists ask to be paid in euros and dollars as pound continues to fall amid no-deal risk
Increasing numbers of artists are asking to be paid in dollars and euros instead of sterling because …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:12PMSummerhall, EdinburghWith a flurry of feathers and splash of water, Kim Donohoe and Pete Lannon ask how much can ever know another creature
At a moment when we urgently need to reassess our …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:12PMDuring the curtain call for “The Prom,” a show that celebrates inclusivity, a lesbian couple exchanged their marriage vows.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:06PMLorne Michaels: “He was a force to be reckoned with, and his presence and strength were something I came to rely on. … He will be missed, but if God has him now, despite all the arguing,…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:06PMThe artistic director of the Fulham Opera (which is doing Die Meistersinger this summer) says there’s good reason for smaller opera halls: “The immediacy, the storytelling, the quality o…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:06PMNafissa Thompson-Spires’ first book, the short story collection The Heads of Colored People, is short-listed for the Gordon Burn Prize (a prize for a book that follows Burn’s “bold foo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:06PMThe federal government is not happy with the town of Tournal, where, after years of argument and discussion, a crane pulled apart the bridge over the Scheldt, in sections. “A crowd on the …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:06PMThat is, reader’s block means you’re not reading a book. Why? – The New York Times
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:06PMThe author of the viral hit short story “Cat Person” says that it’s not easy. to deal with constant questions about sex. “Write a book about the way young women use words to fight ba…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:06PMBut she said no, every time, and the film seems to have turned out OK. “It broke the box office record set by Avengers: Endgame for per-screen average, taking in $351,330 in four theater…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:06PMThen it became a “productivity tool” for work, and “regular folks don’t want to organize their private lives as if they were office jobs.” But it’s not too late to save the techn…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:06PMAfter decades in peril – “Mao’s Communist government debated tearing down the complex, or creating a vast Soviet-style wedding cake palace opposite it.” – the Forbidden City comple…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:06PMPaley won a MacArthur “Genius” Grant for her work. Her methods met with resistance during the era of quantification and textbook standardization, but “in addition to teaching children,…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:06PMTim Waterstone – no longer associated with the stores that bear his name – says that “the competition simply wasn’t up to scratch. ‘I didn’t feel guilty,’ he says. ‘I’d jus…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:06PMOf course, eccentric dance wasn’t new when the movies started recording it. “Eccentric dance can trace its origins to ancient times and has roots in many cultures. But perhaps no place d…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:06PMThe timeline: Last August, “more than 40 artists removed their work from the exhibition Hope to Nope at the Design Museum in London after the museum housed an event hosted by the arms …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:06PMWow, thanks for your data mining project, New York Public Library! Why, though? Because “until the 1976 Copyright Act, US works were not copyrighted unless they were registered, and then t…
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Annapolis Summer Garden Theatre’s production of Mamma Mia! is a colorful, fun-filled spectacle. With Music and Lyrics by Benny Anderson and Bjorn Ulvaeus, and Book by Catherine Johnson, t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:48PMA central feature of Matt Franco's solo piece Alpha Who? is panoramic scenography that responds to the performer. Learn more about this how this "painting in movement" is created, check out …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:19PMEdinburgh PlayhouseMomentous dance and strong performances make Helen Pickett’s canny reworking of the story a gift of a show
Choreographer Helen Pickett’s clever reinvention of The Cruc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:12PMOur photographer hits the ground running to capture highlights, from a journey through Kate Grenville’s The Secret River to a fierce look at power by comedian Lucy McCormick Continue readi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:12PMThis week, you can see Broadway stars doing it all, all over town—sweating for the fans at Bryant Park, baring their abs at Joe’s Pub, inspiring minions at Green Room 42... All that and …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:06PMOlivier-winning actress Elaine Paige is giving Broadway.com listeners a chance to hear her BBC Radio 2 show, Elaine Paige on Sunday, and this week is all about remembering Harold Prince, t…
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“Ah’m nae angel,” sneers Andy Clark’s Tartuffe, one of theatre’s great con artists, as he attempts to downplay his own manipulative awfulness
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:20AMRoyal Lyceum, EdinburghDirector Milo Rau asks disturbing political questions while attempting to honour the real-life victim of a senseless homophobic crime
This is exactly the kind of show …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:06AMUnderbelly, EdinburghBarrel Organ are on the trail of something in this bewildering piece of devised theatre, but something’s not right
My notes are full of question marks. In a retreat fr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:06AMPleasance Courtyard, EdinburghCohen crackles with attitude as she serves up an alarming but entertaining song-and-chat about sex, love and self-image
One of the most eye-catching newcomers a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:06AMWhat’s more impressive than five performing Locust Sisters? How about the fact there were actually seven? Hilda was an opera singer, who performed at least once on radio in 1929. Rose was …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:03AMArtistic director Jeff Wise talks about his production of Life Sucks and why he chooses to improvise his seasons.
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For Erin Mackey, the role of Glinda in “Wicked” feels as comfortable as sliding into a pair of ruby slippers. After 10 years away from the show, Mackey is reprising the role of the Good …
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 09:55AMMarcus Brigstocke has made regular appearances at the Edinburgh Fringe since winning the BBC New Comedy Award in 1996, either doing stand-up
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:47AMHear what Jason Robert Brown has to say to about his music, shows, and Hal Prince, the man he called a role model and friend.
About the Guest
The New York Times refers to Jason as “a leadi…
SOURCE: Beltline to Broadway at 09:00AMBy verity healey. verity healey does a deep-dive into the Our Stage – 4th European Bürgerbühne Festival, which took place in Dresden, Germany, in May 2019.
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Three mass shootings in a single week — in Gilroy, California last Sunday leaving three dead; in El Paso,Texas leaving at least 20 dead Sunday: in Dayton, Ohio, leaving at least nine dead …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:56AMLast week in London, I was a spy alongside 007. I was a 1920’s socialite who did the Charleston at Jay Gatsby’s party where I was asked…
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SOURCE: Medium at 08:33AMWe seem to have gone backwards in acknowledging Jennifer Ann Redmond’s useful books. Recently we profiled her biography of Corliss Palmer, but it turns out that’s her most recent offerin…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:32AMJocelyn Allgood, who participates in several community theatres near her in Texas, says that “it’s our small contribution to humanity — to ease the burden of life, to make you laugh, t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:30AMSassy, rude and distinctly scuzzy round the edges, the Anonymous Badger Creative’s production of Down It Fresher! in the Free Fringe is a case of writing what you know about.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMIn honor of the 21-time Tony Award winner, Playbill looks back at the creation of some of his biggest hits on Broadway.
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Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghRobins delivers a masterclass in tone, tempo and character as he shares his failed attempts at flirting and home improvement
If you’re John Robins, there’s …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:33AMUnderbelly Cowgate, EdinburghNicola Wren deploys considerable charm in a not-really-showbiz story of childhood pantos, movie bit-parts and self-acceptance
The Edinburgh fringe is good at bri…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:33AMThere is a smorgasbord of styles for us to digest. Is it a true love story? Is it a farce? A tragedy? Is it a tale told with tongue in highly rouged cheek or is it just a glitzy and glam…
SOURCE: Talk Entertainment at 07:32AMIn Ireland, the eight amendment referendum didn’t just change the law around abortion; in Rachel Trezise’s Cotton Fingers, it inspired a teen
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“Get On Your Feet, get up and make it happen!” That is just Mauricio Martinez has done, making himself a household name in Mexico and Latin America. Two years ago this international sens…
SOURCE: Call Me Adam at 06:54AMIt’s sad to note that Arthur Miller’s 1953 conflation of the Salem witch trials and the McCarthy hearings of the playwright’s own
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:49AMReview: '8' A Steampunk Opera, The Other Palace4.0stars‘8’ A Steampunk Opera, is a dark new musical with gloriously powerful voices, slow sliding melodies and an obscure plot line. This …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:33AMHow much of our lives do we remember? Are there benefits to forgetting? Luca Rutherford’s nuanced, thoughtful show explores the role that
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:27AMThe Enron playwright talks about retelling the murder of the KGB whistleblower, our surreal political era, and how Billie Piper helped her through dark times
Lucy Prebble operates an “elep…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24AMRoyal Opera House, LondonWhat Yuri Grigorovich’s Soviet-era ballet lacks in subtlety it makes up for in sheer virtuosity and spectacle
Liberation! Courage! Indomitable will! Sacrifice for …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24AMTroubadour White City, LondonDespite a soaring lead and plenty of ideas, this production doesn’t quite get off the ground
Although a new theatre ought to be a cause for celebration, the Tr…
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