Not to be confused with the autobiographical Shia LaBoeuf feature Honey Boy, of course. But seriously: The film, a documentary about a woman in North Macedonia living in isolation with her d…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:12PMThat may sound weird when Netflix also has Scorsese and Noah Baumbach out with Oscar-nominated movies at the moment (not to mention last year’s Roma), but: “The idea is to forge relation…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:12PMYou’ve probably heard of Harry Belafonte’s connection to the Civil Rights Movement, but … McDonald’s? Yes. The history of McDonald’s includes a large number of Black-owned franchis…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:12PMPerhaps writers are out of love with romantic love, not only marriage. “If the romance fantasy was long doled out to women as a compensation for powerlessness elsewhere, contemporary write…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:12PMPublic sector workers, dancers, and musicians have been on strike since December, with cancellations costing the Paris Opera nearly 15 million euros. But Saturday night, the production of Ta…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:12PMAs controversy continues to swirl (for instance, as HuffPost recounts the ways American Dirt takes passages from Latinx writers’ nonfiction books on immigration) and as the book itself cli…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:12PMLast night, the night before the 62nd Grammys, Sean “Diddy” Coombs called out the awards for their lack of diversity – and a decades-long refusal to recognize rap and hip hop. The NYT …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:12PMThis move has “raised a business question about what kind of platform Amazon wants to be.” In part, it’s problematic because Amazon bought the big review site Goodreads in 2013. One wr…
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Soprano Natasha Wilson proved a show-stealer, her charismatic whimsy and light, supple voice proving an absolute delight.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 01:20PMIn 1833, Britain took out a loan to compensate slave owners – only recently paid off. Juliet Gilkes Romero reveals the shameful history that inspired her play The Whip
‘This gives me goo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:18PMBelgrade theatre, CoventryFine performances carry this tale of a young African girl’s arrival in Queen Victoria’s court interlaced with a modern family’s move from London to Cheshire
J…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:18PMThey create, sustain, and promote inequality – and a lack of public funding is increasing the issue. “The trend of putting on safer exhibitions by established artists to guarantee high v…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:03PMLion was the main producer for Hairspray and Jelly’s Last Jam, and she also played a major role in bringing Angels in America to Broadway. The artists she worked with remember how warm and…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:03PMBy: David Sheward
January 25, 2019: Few performers can endow the simple culinary acts of making a sandwich or ladling gravy with as much meaning as Jane Alexander. The reserved, precise…
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Review: Romantics Anonymous, Bristol Old Vic3.0starsReader Rating 0 VotesRomance has a particular ‘look’, physique, voice and even vibe, which ruffled shirts, excessive sweating and an i…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:42PMAs their episodes of The Goes Wrong Show continue to delight television audiences, I was delighted to continue my series of Mischief Theatre talks with a return to the Vaudeville Theatre to …
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 12:36PMWith Dinner Bell, Taproot taps into the duality of the South: honey-sweet
hospitality coupled with hypocrisy. Plus: Visits to Centrifuge and
Monsters Under the Bed.
SOURCE: ashevillestages.com at 12:29PMOlivier-winning actress Elaine Paige is giving Broadway.com listeners a chance to hear her BBC Radio 2 show, Elaine Paige on Sunday. This week, Paige introduces audiences to the new Broadwa…
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Molly Rose Heller is a multi-disciplinary, queer theatre-maker based in NYC. Select directing credits include: Notes from the Basement (Watermill Center Residency, Corkscrew Festival, Cente…
SOURCE: Visible Soul at 11:54AMOlivia Levine is a queer actor, comedian and writer based in NYC. Originally from San Francisco, she moved to NYC for college, and received her B.A. in Theatre from Barnard College. Other t…
SOURCE: Visible Soul at 11:54AMIt’s a wonderful fact: whenever I have no post planned for the day something always falls into my lap anyway. I’ve long been interested in Philly’s Mummer’s Parade, drawing as it doe…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:54AMA.J. Ditty is an actor/writer/slash-mark enthusiast currently living in Brooklyn. NYC: Puffs; or, Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic and Magic (New World Stages/…
SOURCE: Visible Soul at 11:54AMIn the heart of Chinatown, the collection was central to the history of Chinese Americans – and, because the building is structurally unsound, no one can go in to retrieve the water-soaked…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:54AMShe’s a rising star of Season 3 (and 4) of The Crown, an executive producer for Killing Eve, and – oh yes – a writer and director of a movie whose trailer has been viewed more than 3 m…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:54AMby Justin Ayer. @justayer (Instagram), @justinayer (Twitter). NEW YORK, NY - A group of aspiring Stagecraft students and BroadwayCon guests who attended a la...
SOURCE: www.thebroadwaybeat.com at 11:34AMby Justin Ayer. @justayer (Instagram), @justinayer (Twitter). NEW YORK, NY - A group of aspiring Stagecraft students and BroadwayCon guests who attended a late Sunday seminar on stage striki…
SOURCE: www.thebroadwaybeat.com at 11:34AMBy Mark Ludmon
Mark Ludmon looks at the Vault Festival 2020 and highlights some of the productions in the first two weeks of the festival.
This post Vault Festival 2020: preview of theatre i…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 11:08AM“In a field that so far has relied largely on show-by-show contracts for intimacy directors, a salaried position with benefits is a significant step. … ‘It confirms that the company ha…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03AMCombining recent controversies – a statement King made about the Oscars and the reaction to American Dirt – author Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez explains what publishing is like for many Latinx…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03AMJimmie Allen, who hit the charts with “Best Shot” in 2019, says, “I was excited and a little sad to be the first Black artist to launch a career with a number one in country just becau…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03AMWith past colleagues backing her up (that story here), the ousted head of the Recording Academy says that she didn’t want to be the story as the 2020 Grammys get underway – but she could…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03AMThe Denver Art Museum has cast Monet as a sort of Romantic painter, looking for the truth in unalloyed nature – and perhaps finding it. But instead of demonstrating oneness with pure natur…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03AMSasha Waltz and Johannes Ohman had signed five-year contracts to lead the young ballet company (that was, in 2004, created as a consolidation of three opera ballets), but the protests agains…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03AMGrime is a music style that came from London hip hop and electronic dance music – and now a grime artist, Lionness, has decided to team up with a London ballet company to “merge two worl…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03AMThis is a hot time for symphonies showing Harry Potter movies while performing, live, John Williams’ scores. But, well, why? John Jesensky, who works for CineConcerts and has conducted man…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03AMThere’s a new cast for the British musical Everybody’s Talking About Jamie and the reviews are in! Find out what critics thought with our review round up….
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In the fourth of multi-talented AYT writer, Emma Bentley’s series of very personal articles, she talks about believing, as many of us do, that she needs to look a certain way to get an act…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:42AMLyttelton; Jermyn Street; Boulevard, LondonA pregnant question hangs over Lucy Kirkwood’s elegant new courthouse drama, while a superlative Beckett triple bill could teach Cormac McCarthy …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AMFebruary events include the Bay Area International Children's film festival, black choreographers festival, Tom Jones celebration and more.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 08:00AMIn 1999, two high school seniors went on a shooting rampage at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, killing 13 people and wounding 20 others before turning their guns on themselves.…
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