Our body is wonderfully complex and multifaceted. Yet broken down into its simplest parts, it is a collection of bones, muscles, fascia and other types of tissue. A dancer’s instrument is …
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 08:51PMNatalie Reid is kicking up her heels in her ninth Christmas season with the Radio City Rockettes. As a longtime Rockette veteran, Reid has grown to love her crazy busy schedule during the l…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 08:49PMPUNK’D In many ways, Gregory S. Moss’s 1980s-themed punkplay feels like a dream. Props and seasons are generically labeled. Flights of fancy are realized like make-believe. Even the era …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:46PMNUTCRACKER ROUGE is a scopophiliac’s nirvana. The deep pleasure of “looking” is sated by being able to gaze unbidden into the erotic, sensual and sexy crack in the universe opened by t…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 08:18PMYes, the water’s up, but the population is also dropping fast. “In the central Castello District, master artisan Paolo Brandolisio — one of only four remaining makers of oars and oar p…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:12PMSince the last bookstore closed, people in the town on Kodiak Island have had to use thrift stores and online purchases for their books. But two residents who moved back home to care for ill…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:12PMHe was born and raised in Soviet-occupied Latvia and trained in what was then Leningrad; he became well-known in the West as music director of the Oslo Philharmonic and then the Pittsburgh S…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:12PMIn 2007 alone, it was produced by the estimable Manhattan Theatre Club and won The Susan Smith Blackburn Prize that...Continue Reading
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The last week of July 2019 was business as usual for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child on Broadway. Sales rose less than 2 percent to $1.4 million, according to data from the Broadway Lea…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 07:57PMJohn Patrick Shanley’s writing has certain hallmarks. Born in The Bronx, a number of his works, say the screenplay for Moonstruck (1988), and Doubt: A Parable (2005 Pulitzer Prize for Dram…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 07:55PMToday is World AIDS Day. AIDS has been around so long that there’s a new wave of plays about the epidemic. This is not nostalgia. There were 1.7 million people newly diagnosed with HIV in…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:26PMAustralia’s national circus company, Circus Oz has announced exciting new artistic plans that will reposition the company within the new National Performing Arts Partnerships Framework ann…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:15PMFrom a young age, Aurora Richardson has had her sights set on the stage. After being encouraged by her high school drama teacher to pursue a career in the Arts, Aurora a Brisbane native from…
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By Bob Shuman John Doyle’s production of Macbeth, playing through December 15 at Classic Stage Company (CSC), should fit into the current zeitgeist exactly. In a world of 280-character …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:48PMNearly everyone was filled with a joyous feeling as they watched Scrooge learn what happiness he could bring to his fellowman. As the hand bell choir assembles like a Christmas card vignette…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 05:48PMRICHARD HOLBROOK: HOLIDAY CHESTNUTS FROM CHRISTMASES PAST AND PRESENT, will be presented at Don’t Tell Mama on Monday, December 2, 2019 at 7:00 PM.and on Sunday, December 22, 2019 at 8:30 …
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 05:44PMIrving Burgie, the songwriter best known for his calypso hit Day-O, has died at age 95, according to the BBC. The cause of death was a result of complications from heart failure.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:43PMOn this morning's episode of CBS Sunday Morning, the new musical Jagged Little Pill was featured. The musical is based on the music from the album of the same name, by Alanis Morissette.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:30PMStay in or go out? Whatever your preference, we’ve gathered great options in our list of must-do events for the week of December 2 through 8, including SpongeBob on the small screen, Les M…
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Maddeningly alternating between being an absorbing historical drama and a grating exercise in self-indulgence, "A Bright Room Called Day" is author Tony Kushner’s reimagining of his 198…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:59PMRonan Farrow, one of the leading journalists of the #MeToo movement, has written ‘Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators,’ a gloriously cinematic narrative of…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:59PMBelow is a selection of New York theater opening in December, organized chronologically by opening date, including the one Broadway musical, “Jagged Little Pill,” with songs by Alanis Mo…
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“Alec Fields, a junior at Forest Hills High School in Pennsylvania, … was one of 144 middle and high school students who were interviewed about seeing themselves reflected — or not —…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:54PM“Led by four jazz musicians, Tribe’s members put out their own records; published a widely influential, Afrocentric magazine with a circulation reaching 25,000; organized concerts, often…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:54PM“Five years ago, 12-year-old Tamir Rice was shot and killed in a public park by a Cleveland police officer. The incident quickly became a rallying point for a growing national conversation…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:54PM“HarperCollins Children’s Books has announced the debut of Heartdrum, an imprint devoted to publishing books by Native creators that introduce young Native protagonists and showcase the …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:54PM“In previous decades, musicians may have learned [such] skills [as grant writing, marketing, and audience development] on the fly, but more and more educational institutions are beginning …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:54PM“A priority for educational philanthropists is to help schools compensate for social inequalities, which was true of the funders who supported arts education in Baltimore and Boston. But i…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:54PM“A new orchestra of musicians from multiple South Asian countries aims to promote understanding through music. Co-founder Nirupama Rao discusses the role orchestras can play in building br…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:54PMThe nation’s largest city has the nation’s largest Native American population, with 112,000 individuals representing more than 75 tribal nations. Most of those people arrive in New York …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:54PM“The purpose of this study was to explore a fledgling community-school music partnership, Making Music, and to examine the benefits and challenges of this partnership. The partnership was …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:54PMAs the monument “Rumors of War” prepares to leave Times Square for its permanent home in Richmond, some security officers talk about their time as special “art ambassadors” slash sec…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:54PMIt’s generational, really: “The old consensus decreed that in order to build a respectable legacy, an estate should protect what the artist had already put out and be discerning with any…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:54PMAs In the Cut is reissued, “What is more shocking about the book in 2019 than 1995 … is not the violence, or the fact of a woman having sexual desire, but how little else has changed –…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:54PMTo be blunt, well, ugh: “Beyond the curious clicks they draw, gift guides often allow publishers to sell outright sponsorships or subtly blend content and commerce through back-end deals w…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:54PMWell, no time to confront those fears like filming a Noah Bambach movie, of course. Julie Hagerty has been in everything from Airplane to Lost In America (and a whole lot more), but it was n…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:54PMMcClinton, who was mourned on actors’ Instagram feeds and Twitter posts as soon as word spread that he had passed, was “a noted director who was a favorite of the playwright August Wilso…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:54PMYalom, who was a professor of French at Stanford before she segued into writing history books for a wider audience, admired the salons of the 18th century in France and ran one of her own in…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:54PMBecause of the music, Lauderdale “had become the de facto social director of Portland’s underground political scene, staging rallies, parties and functions at coffeehouses, private homes…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:54PM“The choreographer’s commitment to dance as a catalyst for social change can be seen at a museum show in Seattle and in a new work for the Alvin Ailey company.” – The New York Times
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:54PMAnd on the other hand, dancers really have to keep their feeds up to become big stars. It’s a responsibility far away from the rehearsal studio. – The Observer (NY).
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:54PMLesbians, the producers of The L Word thought after the show ended its run in 2009, would become more omnipresent in mainstream U.S. culture. Maybe true, but no queer women’s ensemble show…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:54PMIn Portland, Oregon ArtsWatch’s Matthew Neil Andrews is writing a series about classical music and meaning. For instance: We know music can help people process trauma (think of the Boston …
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Several current productions reference the impact of AIDS on the theater community by subject matter and their creators.
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SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 02:54PMThe long career of Ethel Shutta (1896-1976) has several distinct phases: 1) childhood in vaudeville; 2) young womanhood on Broadway; 3) middle aged woman on radio and singing with big bands;…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 02:48PMLeeds PlayhouseDorothy turns eco-warrior, seeking justice in an unjust world, in this visually exciting production of the children’s classic
Check out the internet theory that Greta Thunbe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:48PMThey revel in filth and have names like Sinderella and Jack Off the Beanstalk. But is there more to X-rated panto than gross-out gags?
Panto season is under way and Pinocchio is on stage in …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:48PMHoming Birds is a rich and evocative play that is well worth seeing.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:20PMWhen the Gilets Jaunes (“Yellow Vest”) protests broke out just a little over a year ago, the leaderless, populist movement was somewhat baffling – as with so much of French social life…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 02:06PMOn Day TWO of our Christmas Advent Calendar AussieTheatre has a double pass to giveaway for Come From Away at the Comedy Theatre Melbourne. A global success story, Come From Away opened on B…
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German researchers started working on this new dictionary in the 1890s, thinking it would take 10-15 years of work. But “the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (T.L.L.) has seen the fall of an empi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:33AMFines probably seemed like a great idea at the time – an encouragement for children (and adults) to keep track of time, keep track of library books and DVDs, and go back into the library t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:33AMOne of the ideas of Les Arcs was to make skiing holidays easier and more affordable for French holidaygoers. “This huge block of holiday apartments is cantilevered into the hillside, one s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:33AMAnd a very merry apocalypse to you too. Artist Anne Hardy got the Tate Britain commission this year, and she says she worked back from the Winter Solstice, “creating what could be a ransac…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:33AMBroadway is … people, of course, and despite how touristy some of the shows can get, “there’s still a weird, gritty New York patina in there somewhere,” says one of four photographer…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:33AMThe Cuban artist has been making important work first in Cuba and then in Puerto Rico for decades. “But outside the Caribbean archipelago, she has been largely ignored. Until the mid-80s, …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:33AMPlaywright Aleshea Harris, who won the Obie Award in 2018 for Is God Is, “is part of a vanguard of young, African American playwrights boring into questions of race and history through hum…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:33AMBroadway’s Hudson Theatre may be a stop on his international tour, but as the only venue of its kind on the list, you won’t see the Talking Heads frontman like this anywhere else.
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’Tis the season of Jane Austen, at least among local theater companies. “The Wickhams’ Christmas at Pemberley,” Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon’s companion piece to their “Pri…
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 09:59AMSome brief words of tribute for African American character actress Etta McDaniel (1890-1946), younger sister of Sam McDaniel, and older sister of Oscar winning Hattie McDaniel. Etta started …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:33AMThe playwright and director on Middle East musicals, Bob Dylan bootlegs, and walking the Earth as he thinks about playsBorn in Dublin in 1971, playwright, director and screenwriter Conor McP…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:03AMRoyal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon; Bush; Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonA new musical adaptation of David Walliams’s book scores on all counts; director Bijan Sheibani makes a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:03AMChequer Mead, East GrinsteadAttacks on Extinction Rebellion and smashed avacado keep Dee in default pissed-off mode, but there are a few inspired moments
Jack Dee speaks out of a diagonal mo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:03AMDavid Javerbaum’s hilarious comedy An Act Of God effectively brings the ten commandments into the 21st century.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMBy Sally Lobel. Introducing the second installment of the Parent-Artist Advocacy series, Sally Lobel talks about how the parent-artist community and the disability community have the potenti…
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Stratford Circus Arts Centre; Sadler’s Wells, LondonNew works hit home as hip-hop collective Myself UK hits 10. And Indian classical dance that feels like new
In front of a wildly supporti…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:12AMUstinov Studio, Theatre Royal BathHansol Jung’s tale of two lonely Koreans who meet online is witty but overstuffed with ideasWe are in Seoul. Guk Minsung is a “goose father”, one of t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:12AMThe year is coming to a close and so must some shows in London Theatre. The weather is certainly colder now, and we can hardly believe 2019 is coming to an end, just as we can’t believe mo…
SOURCE: London Theatre Direct at 04:00AMWe’re approaching the end of the year but like Elsa from Frozen the cold doesn’t bother us because we’re embracing the festive side of winter. Whilst there is uncertainty over whether…
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