Over the past few weeks, Australians have become used to seeing empty shelves in their local supermarkets. Coronavirus-induced panic buying has quickly depleted stocks of products like pasta…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 11:40PMI jumped at the amazing opportunity to interview Glace Chase ahead of her brand new work Triple X, which was
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 11:17PMMarch 22 marks Stephen Sondheim's 90th birthday. It's impossible to state the great contribution and influences this titan of the stage has made to musical theater (though his nine Tony Awar…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:12PMHello readers! My name’s Rhiannon Irving and I’m that person. I’m a Melbourne based costumier and “person-with-a-compost-bin”. At the end
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 11:04PMWe're celebrating the great man's birthday with favourite numbers - mine's from 'Follies'
Surely there’s never been a more apt time for Sondheim’s great cry of defiance? “I’m Still H…
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Check out on the YouTube channel below for the one-night only return of the Rosie O’Donnell Show with a cavalcade of Broadway stars — Rosie promises “3,000 guests.” Donation page for…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:55PMTheir doors maybe temporarily closed so Melbourne Museum, Immigration Museum and Scienceworks are coming to a screen near you with Museum at Home. “Museums play a vital role in our communi…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 06:49PMEr, maybe move online this year, film festivals? “Cannes organizers are looking at the possibility of postponing the event by about six weeks, until late June, in the optimistic hope that …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:12PMInspired by Italy, Rogers Park got itself together to sing the popular 1980s rocker’s “Livin’ on a Prayer.” The singer himself joined in via Instagram, and a local radio station chan…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:12PMThis week’s edition of what we can watch while stuck at home and missing all of the culture outside our walls. – The New York Times
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:12PMSays one professor of media psychology on why so many people are watching, say, “The Great British Baking Show” and other comfort watches or re-watches: “There’s a lot of comfort in …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:12PMHatch and his wife, artist and filmmaker Camille Billops, “created a vast archive of interviews with black actors, singers, writers and artists. … He became an expert in the history of b…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:12PMAfter days – and lots of angry tweets, posts, and other pushback from staff who said they had no masks, no gloves, no hand sanitizer, and were still being forced to take cash – and the C…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:12PMThis story came out before Sir Patrick Stewart performed “Let us not to the marriage of true minds/Admit impediments” (aka Shakespeare’s Sonnet 116) on Instagram, but there are plenty …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:12PMThe Northridge Earthquake didn’t even stop box office reporting. But COVID-19 has, as almost all movie theatres have closed. – Los Angeles Times
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:12PMHis double music life: “As William O. Smith, he pioneered unorthodox techniques for his instrument and developed ways to notate them for other players. Composers like Luigi Nono, Pauline …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:12PMWelcome back to Musical Mondays! My name is Gabi and I am a self-confessed musical junkie. In case you missed
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(The post Oberammergau Passion Play Canceled as Coronavirus Locks Down Germany appeared first in The New York Times; Photo: The New York Times; via Pam Green.) Over 400 years ago, villagers…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:51PMStephen Sondheim’s 90th birthday is today. While tributes to his great musicals and greatest songs have been written, we are paying tribute to his greatest roles. The fifteen book musica…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:18PMHamilton-alum, Javier Munoz, has joined those answering the call for hospital supplies.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:12PMDaniel Dae Kim, most recently seen on Broadway as the King in the Barlett Sher revival of The King and I, took to Instagram to announce he has tested positive for COVID-19.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:12PMTodrick Hall took to Twitter to voice his opinion on friend Taylor Swift's fully leaked phone call with Kanye West.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:09PMOpera singer Placido Domingo has tested positive for coronavirus.
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Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere talk with Grover Dale about his career including the Original Broadway Cast of West Side Story, Li’l Abner, Greenwillow, and Sail Away…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 01:59PMLen Cariou and Liz Callaway also stop by the daily series, created by Seth Rudetsky and James Wesley, to benefit The Actors Fund in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:59PMTo mark the 80th birthday of composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim in 2010, Playbill.com asked Broadway songwriters to do the impossible—pick their favorite songs by the master. A decade late…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:42PMYew, who was ending his run as artistic director of Victory Gardens in Chicago: “We will emerge with new stories to tell. We will revisit old tales that give our lives new meaning and sust…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:30PMA celebration today of minor movie star Virginia Grey (1917-2004) who appeared in films with many classic comedians. But first a detour into the life of her father, whose career was also rel…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 01:12PMI can see and hear the face and voice of Cliff Norton (1918-2003) in my head so clearly but have struggled in vain to identify the ONE place I know him from. The answer is probably a thousan…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 01:12PMHamilton and In the Heights alum Javier Muñoz has joined the ongoing effort to provide overwhelmed hospitals and medical workers with valuable resources during the COVID-19 pandemic.
“I…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:06PMThe national tour of Once On This Island has ended its scheduled run early, Tony-nominated director Michael Arden announced on Instagram on March 21. While many national tours have canceled…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:06PMDonna Murphy may have received her first Tony Award in 1994 for playing the lovesick Fosca in Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s musical Passion, but the two-time Tony winner auditioned …
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Susan Egan, Laura Osnes, and Courtney Reed went digital with their Broadway Princess Party, performing a parody of I Can Go the Distance from Hercules!
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:45PMThe Actors Fund has teamed with SiriusXM Broadway host Seth Rudetsky and his husband, producer James Wesley, to produce a daily mini-online show, entitled Stars in The House, featuring stars…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:30PMHead Over Heels star Bonnie Milligan recommends listening to the 1953 Leonard Bernstein classic.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:30PMNeed a fix of your favorite Broadway stars' voices while stuck inside! Check out our list of 10 audiobooks narrated by Broadway stars!
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:27PMBy Mark Ludmon
The winners have been announced today in the annual awards for shows at the Vault Festival 2020 awards. Which shows were your favourites?
This post Winners revealed in Vault F…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 12:14PMThe composer-lyricist has left an indelible legacy
Here's an irony worthy of the work of Stephen Sondheim, an artist who clearly knows a thing or two about the multiple manifestations of th…
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Take a delightful trip back to the early aughts in style.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:59AMWatch the actor’s passionate rendition of the anthem from the Tony-winning Dear Evan Hansen.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:55AMIn honor of the composers' shared birthday on March 22, find out which of their musicals aligns with your astrological sign!
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:43AMThat’s not its official name, and it won’t be a competition, but EuroVision organizers said “the show will ‘honour the songs and artists’ that were due to take part of the contest …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:36AMThe “emergency relief agreement” negotiated by the Broadway League and 14 different unions created an agreement “to pay hundreds of actors, musicians, stagehands and others for the fir…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:36AMPestilence was rife in the Bard’s time, closing theatres and ravaging life. Did he write his bleak, desperate drama while self-isolating? We sift the evidence
While those of us stuck in s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:32AMLast week we all had moments where the reality of what we were about to go through as a species hit home
In a Southend Oxfam shop last week, I found a decadent 70s paperback of Clark Ashton …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:32AMThe exercises listed below can be adapted to distance and online learning opportunities. Students work individually (rather than with partners or in groups). Group work and discussions can b…
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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. This week, Paige debuts a special edition of her show, …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:54AMMarch 22 marks Stephen Sondheim's 90th birthday. It's impossible to state the great contribution and influences this titan of the stage has made to musical theater, but we're taking a stab a…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:54AMWhen people ask me what a Producer does, my favorite answer is “A Producer gets people in a room.” That’s a bit hard these days. So when I had an idea last week, I turned to three Pr…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 10:51AMLike many parents across the US right now, Daphne Sashin was looking for something to keep her kids occupied while her family shelters in place during the coronavirus outbreak.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 10:49AMThe South Side company anticipates losses of $450,000 and will keep on seven staff members at reduced salaries.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 10:40AMDelair starred in Laurel and Hardy’s last movie, but she was best known for starring in 1940s thrillers directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot, some of which were made during the Nazi occupatio…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:36AMWhy? Because everyone’s at home – and everyone needs bandwidth. “European Commissioner Thierry Breton had asked streamers to take measures to prevent congestion on the internet. One of…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:36AMDebbie Allen, star and choreographer of Fame, has been hosting dance lessons and classes since Wednesday. “‘While all of us are dealing with this uncertainty and darkness, we will bring …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:36AMOne film art director: “Over one hour, everything was cancelled. That’s £28,000 gone in an instant. My head started spinning. I realised the knock-on effect this would have in the indus…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:36AMYou can read an awful lot for free through libraries’ online services. Also, here are some tips on how to find reading community when your book group can’t meet in person. – The Washin…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:36AMLuisa Roldán revolutionized the use of terra cotta for small devotional figurines and was a court sculptor for the final Hapsburg Spanish king – in the 1690s. Her work was sent to Mexico …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:36AMRogers was the original country star selling out arenas, long before Garth Brooks or Shania Twain in the 1990s. “Rogers’s popularity stemmed partly from his genial persona and rugged goo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:36AMMichael Urie has taken the #ShakespeareChallenge to a new level! The actor took to Twitter to post a video of himself performing Hamlet as Arnold Beckoff from Torch Song.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:36AMIn honor of Stephen Sondheim's birthday today, Jason Robert Brown released a video of his SubCulture concert, which featured Sondheim, from June 2019.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:36AMRandy Rainbow is at it again with a new song parody. This time, he takes on the song 'I Can Go the Distance' from Hercules, and makes it relevant to today's age of social distancing.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:36AMIn honor of Andrew Lloyd Webber's birthday today, we're flashing back to this video from Andrew Lloyd Webber: The Royal Albert Hall Celebration!
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:36AMIn honor of Stephen Sondheim's 90th birthday today, we're flashing back to his 80th birthday concert!
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:36AMSocial distancing won't stop these musicians from playing together!
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:36AMOprah Winfrey has launched a new series, Oprah Talks COVID-19, on Apple TV. Her first episode features an interview with Idris Elba, and his wife Sabrina Dhowre, who Winfrey talked to via vi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:32AMFirst of all, theatre can acknowledge the uncertainty, anxiety, grief, and pain of this time – and the resilience that so many people are bringing right now. “Some theatres … have reco…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:30AMBy Douglas Mayo
Victoria Hamilton-Barritt has been cast as Cinderella's stepmother in Andrew Lloyd Webber's new musical Cinderella.
This post Victoria Hamilton-Barritt cast as Stepmother in …
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 10:26AMAs part of Feinstein's/54 Below's 54 Below at Home series, they are debuting previously unreleased videos from their vault. Their most recent video is of Norbert Leo Butz singing 'Fight the …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:18AMIn honor of Sondheim’s 90th birthday, Jason Robert Brown and SubCulture release footage from this past summer’s Brown-Sondheim concert.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:00AM
Today Stephen Sondheim turns 90 years old, a milestone birthday that theater lovers have been celebrating for weeks now. Here are 10 videos of terrific permeances of his songs, and some Twit…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:53AM“Never has it been more important or urgent to protect and prepare marginalized and underserved communities –those who will be hit hardest by this pandemic,” CLF’s executive director…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 07:48AMLyttelton, LondonRobert Lepage’s extraordinary, seven-hour fusion of horror, romance and French farce made for a fitting final show before London’s theatres went into lockdown
This was t…
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Crucible, SheffieldDirector Robert Hastie makes the most of the now-nostalgic shared space between audience and cast
Writing a review, today, feels strange. Coriolanus was the last performan…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:42AMCancelled due to Covid-19. Stay tuned for more information. Songs of Love, Hope and Remembrance Aron Bederson and Frank Ponzio at The Duplex Sunday April 5 at 4 PM Returning to The Duplex, s…
SOURCE: www.cabarethotspot.com at 02:00AMCancelled due to Covid-19. Stay tuned for more information Camille Diamond in: The Second Best Cabaret Show You’ll Ever See! Don’t Tell Mama, April 3rd at 7:00pm and April 5th at 1:00pm …
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Wondering what may draw young people to theatre? It’s a theatre about them, with them and specially designed for them. This is what The Arrival, performed on 22 February 2020 at the Nation…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:19AMIn Italy, in the hard times due to the national sanitary alert for COVID-19, everyday life is completely destroyed. The number of deaths is constantly increasing, and anguish is the dominant…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:17AMAn additional group of talented stars have signed on to take part in the upcoming special return episode of The Rosie O'Donnell Show. The previously announced event, presented in support of …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:03AMJulia Miles, founder of off-Broadway’s seminal Women’s Project who championed the cause of female playwrights and theater artists, died on March 18. According to a statement from WP Th…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:03AMMarch 22 marks Stephen Sondheim's 90th birthday. It's impossible to state the great contribution and influences this titan of the stage has made to musical theater, but we're taking a stab a…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:03AMRuthie Ann Miles, the Tony-winning actress whose life was met with unimaginable tragedy in 2018, announced heartwarming news on March 21. Miles and her husband, Jonathan Blumenstein, are ex…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:03AMThe new series consists of gentle, everyday sounds from the world, and it’s a tonic for those in self-isolation
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