A tongue-in-cheek take on the Jane Austen classic misfires
It is a truth perhaps not quite but almost universally accepted that Jane Austen’s "Pride and Prejudice", beloved of GSCE Englis…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 10:42PMThe Subways Are for Sleeping star was also the first recipient of the Isabelle Stevenson Award.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:34PMThe Legendary Performer and Humanitarian Phyllis Newman Passes Away at the Age of 86 “Today on Broadway” is a daily, Monday through Friday, podcast hitting the top theatre headlines of t…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 10:18PMThis one-mentalist show, in which Mr. Brown peers into the minds of his audience, offers exhilaration and comfort to New York City’s head cases.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:06PMWhen Man of La Mancha is performed as well as MNM Theatre Company’s production, then the magic is savoring how the innate worth of ideals ultimately prevails over an all-too-recognizable w…
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The one thing I can absolutely tell you about “Secret.” You will be kicking yourself if you don’t snatch up a ticket while you can!
SOURCE: cititour.com at 09:50PMBroadway.com's #LiveAtFive is a daily news show on Facebook Live, in which our editors discuss the newest buzz on Broadway, chat with stage stars about their current projects and take quest…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:18PMMaking is U.S. debut 19 years after its Scottish premiere in an actual park, Douglas Maxwell’s "Decky Does a Bronco" is a worthy addition to the dramatic literature of plays about childhoo…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:17PMThose Judy Garland fans who hated END OF THE RAINBOW – and Lord knows there were thousands – are about...Continue Reading
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SOURCE: broadwayselect.com at 09:03PMWhen I was a kid, enthusiastically attending every show on Broadway, I never would have predicted that, in the new millennium, theaters on The Great White Way would be home not just to great…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:00PMCritics and audiences are sworn to secrecy – well, requested politely but firmly to do so – by the masterful British magician (or take your pick: mentalist, hypnotist, “psychological i…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00PMWhere did that infernal banana go? This is not the kind of question you expect to be rattling around your brain during an evening of theater. And yet rattle me it did more than once during…
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The Woolly Mammoth Theater Company has rocket-launched its 40th anniversary season with a searing production of Jackie Sibblies Drury’s Fairview, winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Dram…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:58PMAfter a highly successful animated film, a long-running Broadway show, a live-action movie version, various spin-offs, and innumerable theme park, cruise ship, and school productions, the Di…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:41PM★★★★ UK illusionist offers evening of protean prestidigitation and purely astonishing fun
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:41PM★★★★ The British TV and Netflix star brings his psychological intrigue to Broadway
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:40PM★★★★ A Sunnyside, Queens stoop is the unlikely setting for a thrilling affirmation of how we can learn to get along
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:30PMIn his Broadway debut, Derren Brown performs some dozen mind games and magic tricks over 150 minutes that depend on audience participation, all of which are meant to provoke us to ask: “Ho…
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Why is this such a secret? “Without the essential first step, without a creative reimagining of nature, a conceiving of hypotheses for what might be going on behind the perceived surface o…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:06PMOh, you thought it was just painting collections, or the sculpture garden? Nope: “Gender bias in favor of males extends to fossil and museum collections of mammals.” – Hyperallergic
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:06PMNo, and it’s wild that we think there is one. “Technology has improved the world, and our lives, in plenty of ways. But it often seems we are willing to overlook significant potential do…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:06PMCelebrity in the 21st century: The actor Jeremy Renner was nominated for Oscars two years in a row, with The Hurt Locker and The Town. Then Marvel came calling. Then he got his own app. Then…
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Kate McLeod, Head of School and Teacher Services at Atlanta’s High Museum of Art: “One of the High’s overarching goals in the past few years is to grow and expand inclusive programming…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:48PM“Nourished by Kenyan culture, the transnational artist is filling the niches on the Fifth Avenue facade, for the first time in the Met’s history. It’s a step on the museum’s rocky ro…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:48PM“Pulitzer Prize finalist Branden Jacobs-Jenkins speaks to Tom Wicker about mourning Toni Morrison, his love for London and how his play Appropriate – being staged at the Donmar – has b…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:48PM“Photographer Richard Ross has documented the U.S. juvenile justice system for the better part of a decade. In tonight’s ‘Brief But Spectacular’, Ross shares what it feels like to ho…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:48PM“[The Kennedy Center has] long struggled with a sense of isolation, a geographic and elite island apart from the surrounding city. To counter that, the center began its popular and free Mi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:48PMHere was the situation the day before Saturday’s opening night: “With Domingo staying away from Los Angeles while an internal investigation is underway, the company pushed ahead Friday o…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:48PM“Making classical music a more equitable place demands a cultural change – and cultural changes don’t happen without conversation and action. Just in the past five or so years, there h…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:48PMThough a man has been arrested “in connection with” the burglary, Maurizio Cattelan’s artwork hasn’t yet been recovered. “The golden lavatory, named America, drew large crowds when…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:48PMTheodore Seuss Geisel died in 1991, but his widow was cleaning out a closet in 2013 when she came across a box of his unpublished, and some unfinished, manuscripts. Or, as the Times headline…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:48PMGirls outnumber boys up to 20 to 1 in ballet classes, and so it seems like ballet would be one place – maybe the only place – where women would have the majority of leadership roles. Nop…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:48PMThe crisis is this: As in the U.S., the number of teacher-librarians or librarians in schools has declined precipitously. Why? “Many principals opt to replace them with cheaper ‘library …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:48PMUsed to be, the U.S. TV landscape had a few reality shows, nothing spectacular, nothing great. But 1999 changed things: “The drama, the spectacle and arguably the artifice of reality telev…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:48PMThe promise – unlimited films for $10 a month – went far beyond its founders’ capital and far beyond what the market could support. But for a limited time in 2017, MoviePass was poised…
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Olivier-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 it's all about the most well-known onstage…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:42PMA flesh-eating plant, a lusty Sicilian widow and a teenage demigod are just three of the intriguing characters taking the stage on and off Broadway this week. Check out our five must-do even…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:42PMJena Tesse Fox, Peter Filichia, and James Marino talk about Betrayal, Derren Brown: Secret, The Huntington Theatre Company’s world premiere of The Purists, and Red Bull Theater presents Am…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 12:08PM TABULA RASA NYC THEATER AND PERFORMANCE LAB Proudly Presents the World Premiere of the Spanish Language Version of “Powerful production by Ramiro Antonio Sandoval.” – Carlos Navedo,…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 12:06PMNew docu-drama The King of Hell’s Palace about the Chinese blood-contamination scandal of 1990s is about corruption and cover-up.
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I’m a workaholic. I get validation from working hard and seeing results. It could be why in all the different avenues of working in…
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SOURCE: Medium at 10:30AMBarbara Newhall Follett saw her first book – about a wild little girl who longs to be free from structures of brick and glass – published when she was 12. By the time she was 25, “Barb…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:12AMWell, that’s poetic, and sounds incredibly Irish. The director of the new Museum of Literature Ireland says, “We’re in competition with a lot of venues backed by private drinks compani…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:12AMActor Robert Williams (1894-1931) was on the fast track to stardom when death snatched him the moment he arrived. The North Carolina native ran away as a teenager to perform in tent shows an…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:12AMBy Michael Bobbitt, Raymond O. Caldwell. Michael J.
SOURCE: HowlRound at 10:09AMPalpable objects seen by us on the stage are much more necessary and important for us actors than colorful canvases that we do not see. Sculptural things live with us and we with them, whi…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:04AMBe More Chill’s Gerard Canonico, Hercules’ Tamika Lawrence and more reveal what it’s like to perform on Broadway and lead your own band at the same time.
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Royal Lyceum, EdinburghDavid Greig follows Tarkovsky and Soderbergh with this bold, rewarding take on Stanisław Lem’s novel about a sentient planet speaking to its visitors
If a sentient …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:12AMSiddons was an advertising copywriter before her buddy Pat Conroy, author of Prince of Tides, urged her to write about Atlanta – which she did. But that wasn’t her only topic. “‘The …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:06AMIt’s an important question as The Goldfinch, based on a rather lengthy novel, hits theatres. And then … what about movies based on Stephen King books? “The more sophisticated the sourc…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:06AMSometimes you just need a study to back up what seemingly everyone (at least the women) already knows: “The fields of design, production, and technical theatre are the most male-dominated…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:06AMThe painting, by Daniel Buren, is described as “a cotton canvas with white and red vertical stripes,” and the attacker was being held for psychiatric evaluation. – BBC
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:06AMFor one thing, there’s a limit to what you can portray on screen (who knew?): “The film depicts only a fraction of the staff required for similar occasions, as they would simply not fit…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:06AMLast week, Bill Maher made a comment, “Fat-shaming needs to make a comeback.” As an actor, educator, and combat artist, Tara Nicole Williams, has experienced fat-shaming and bullying and…
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The drama tackling race, sex and slavery by the youngest black male playwright on Broadway is seeing queues and grabbing the attention of theater’s biggest names
Slave Play does not offic…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:03AMOld Vic; Lyric Hammersmith, London; Minerva, Chichester Lucy Prebble’s take on the Litvinenko murder swivels brilliantly between tragedy and farce, while Ibsen’s women still have much to…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:03AMJubilee Hall, AldeburghEve Austin is vividly volatile as a schoolgirl adrift over summer holidays in Sophie Ellerby’s slow-burning drama for HighTide
Year 9 is said to be the toughest for …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:03AMJay McGuiness was a member of the popular English boy band The Wanted and won the 2015 edition of Strictly Come Dancing, the U.K. precursor to Dancing with the Stars. But he is currently ret…
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Millennial Notes Doherty & Barclay Reclaim Participation in Politics by Fritz Mad’Laine As the final numbers trickled in on the night of the 2016 election, Americans watched in horror …
SOURCE: Theatrius at 12:21AMIt isn’t every day you see a play that merges Becket and Martha Graham. That’s my takeaway from watching the hybrid form of Surfacing play out at the Atlas: Three actors are strictly cir…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:03AMFollowing a sold-out off-Broadway engagement with Atlantic Theater Company, the acclaimed Derren Brown: Secret opens at Broadway's Cort Theatre on September 15. Andrew O'Connor and Andy Ny…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:03AMThe two-time Olivier Award-winning mentalist and illusionist makes his Broadway debut at the Cort Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMDyllόn Burnside, Yvette Gonzalez-Nacer, Ana Isabelle, and Isabelle McCalla are among the performers for the first concert.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMIn IMPRESSIONS: 600 Highwaymen's "Manmade Earth" at the Invisible Dog Art Center as part of FIAF's Crossing the Line Festival, "In athleisure or jeans and T-shirts, and, for two, hijabs, th…
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