The Tony Award-winning regional theater hosts an online gala with guest stars including Norm Lewis, Stephanie J. Block, Laura Benanti and more.
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SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 06:42PMBy Douglas Mayo
Birmingham Repertory Theatre’s building may be closed, but The REP’s creative team keep the conversation going with the launch of REPurposed.
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SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 06:28PMYounger, digitally minded collectors are predictably more receptive to online purchases, albeit at relatively low price levels. By contrast, more experienced collectors, conscious of possibl…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:12PMIn the last week, protesters all over the country have come to see their barely walkable cities the way New Yorkers always have seen theirs, as a matrix of public space that must be fluid, f…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:12PMQuestions about what sort of future human beings might create tend to be limited by the horizon of the management strategies of market capitalism. This version of the future isn’t about ra…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:12PMLast week’s small beginnings showed a way forward, demonstrating what an crucial role the BBC can and must play to aid a potential recovery of classical music before it is safe for venues …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:12PMThe executive director of Chicago’s Victory Gardens Theater said Monday that she was leaving after protests about her also assuming the artistic director role.
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Originally scheduled to stream on 31 May, it has been announced that the 65th Annual Drama Desk Awards will now be streamed on 13 June 2020.
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In his new biography of late Phillies pitcher Roy Halladay, longtime local baseball writer Todd Zolecki shows how even the best athletes are facing more struggles than you know. Stephen Silv…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:52PMThespian Troupe 4982 served up comedic rhythm and fun
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SOURCE: Dramatics Magazine at 05:51PMThe Tony Kusher-Jeanine Tesori musical led the pack in the musical theatre division with eight nominations.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:49PMTheatres across the U.S., shut down due to the pandemic, scramble to make their lobbies refuges for protesters to rest and recharge.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:39PMFollowing the killing of George Floyd, there have been protests as well as candid discussions regarding racism in the theater community. On June 5, a Change.org petition was started, advocat…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:18PMTony winner Cecily Tyson has been named this year's recipient of the Peabody Awards’ Career Achievement Award. Every year, the award is given to individuals whose work and commitment to br…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:18PMAfter being postponed, the 65th annual Drama Desk Awards have been rescheduled for June 13 at 7:30PM ET. The winners will be announced during a special digital presentation of Spectrum News …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:18PMJune 8, 2020: The 65th Annual Drama Desk Awards will air Saturday, June 13th, at 7:30pm ET. The special presentation will air on Spectrum News NY1’s and stream on NY1.com, and DramaDeskA…
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New York Theatre Barn presents An All-Female Tribute to Edna Ferber with half of its donations supporting The Black Women’s Playwright Group.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:57PMThe play, presented in full, explores the reactions of a Black community in the aftermath of a police shooting.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:51PMTo continue this year’s milestone celebration of Stephen Sondheim’s 90th birthday, Off-Broadway’s The Sheen Center is teaming up with Poetry in America – a new series produced by Ver…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:45PMStrange Loop, Michael R. Jackson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning musical, is, itself, stuck in a strange loop. The smash Off-Broadway hit was scheduled to come to Woolly Mammoth Theatre in Septem…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:32PMThe pre-recorded 65th Annual Drama Desk Awards, postponed due to the Black Lives Matter protests in New York, has been rescheduled for streaming on Saturday, June 13, at 7:30pm ET. The speci…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:21PMScheduled to air May 31, the pre-recorded online ceremony was postponed in solidarity with Black Lives Matter protests.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:14PMIllusionist Helder Guimarães' newest live show, presented on Zoom, includes a package delivery to every audience member's home.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:12PM“The power of the narrative that comes out of Hollywood — that not only travels to this country but travels globally; that creates a worldview, a mental model of black people and black c…
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A review of this week's streaming show "The Infinite Wrench Goes Viral," a rapid response with a handful of plays responding to George Floyd events.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:57PMThe star's career has spanned decades of work on TV and film, in addition to her stage performances.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:57PMThe first—and last—film Charles Laughton ever directed was poorly received and badly marketed in its initial release, though it's now widely, and rightfully, acclaimed
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 03:40PMIn 1964, Playbill sat down with the critically acclaimed writer to discuss his Broadway show and the "drab Shubert Alley route" he refused to take as a playwright.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:13PMAn impressive roster of Broadway talents is set for this week's episodes of Stars in the House, a daily online series from SiriusXM On Broadway personality Seth Rudetsky and his husband, pro…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:06PMThe online event raised more than $300,000 for the Young Adult Institute to support of the intellectual and developmental disabilities community.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:06PMHere's a quick roundup of stories you might have missed recently.
Anna Deavere Smith's Twilight: Los Angeles Returns to PBS June 8
Tony-nominated scribe Anna Deavere Smith took to Twitter o…
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Despite the unexpected anticlimax, Mr. Thomas’s time in San Francisco should not go unmarked as it comes to a close. From the beginning, it has been a remarkable musical marriage. Mr. Thom…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PMThe future of daily life on Hollywood sets will not be the same when movies and TV productions start up again. Entertainment studios and labor unions this week agreed to a detailed set of pr…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PMThe free streaming initiative from The Metropolitan Opera continues June 8–14.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:27PMThe star of Glee and Broadway's Once On This Island offers a message of hope with the Marc Shaiman-Scott Wittman tune.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:24PMIn his new audio comedy, Alan Ayckbourn does more than write: He and his wife, Heather Stoney, portray several couples in disarray.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:18PMSubmit your question for Gold, and you might get to ask it live on Playbill and The Growing Studio's The Broadway Q&A.
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The Great Night In Gala on Sunday, June 14, is open to the public and includes the Pirates’ Josh Bell, illustrator Mo Willems and more.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 01:56PMFor the first time in over 100 years, the famous St. Louis stage will remain dark.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:54PMThe BAC grant will support the coalition's ongoing efforts to help Broadway become an anti-racist and equitable community.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:54PMSong co-writer Marc Shaiman lent his keyboard to the video, performed as a tribute to George Floyd and as a rallying cry to defeat racism and police violence.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:54PMThe live stream benefits the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:50PMAfter work on the Golden Gate Bridge’s sidewalks to bolster their wind resistance, nearby residents of San Francisco are complaining that the 1.7 mile-long structure makes a creepy droning…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:42PMNgozi Anyanwu is an alumni of the 8-month program empowering the next generation of producers, general managers, and curators.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:20PMThe Pulitzers go for Modernism with Eugene O'Neill's 1928 drama winner
SOURCE: phindie.com at 01:07PMFind out which schools made the list, culled from surveys of alumni, academics, and industry professionals.
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A slew of Broadway stars took part in the virtual event benefiting the intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD) community.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:46PMEconomic support already wasn’t great before the pandemic in Oregon, ranked 39th in the country for its support of the arts. “The subscription model, which has been the life-blood of so …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:42PMIn the late 1950s, Northern joined the Metropolitan Opera symphony, “where, he later recalled, as the only African-American member he was often subjected to racist abuse — reminiscent of…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:42PMTheatre workers who design and build productions are perfect for this moment, some of them say. “‘For anyone who has arts training, they are taught early on how to collaborate with peopl…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:42PMIn a sign that the lockdown really is loosening up, and perhaps that art can’t be stopped, “anyone wandering along a quiet street in central Seville at 8:30pm on Saturday would have witn…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:42PMNew lidar technology revealed the formerly hidden, at least from the ground, site. The “lidar survey found 21 other monumental platforms, clustered in groups around the region. But Aguada …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:42PMNot that authors didn’t know; or rather, not that authors of color, especially Black authors, didn’t know – but the numbers are stark. The hashtag #PublishingPaidMe, started by author …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:42PMQuarantined during a cholera epidemic 190 years ago, the poet excelled. “Pushkin, who would never be allowed to travel outside Russia and was now stranded in the countryside amid ‘rain, …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:42PMThere’s no clarity about it. One responder from Los Angeles: “Without a vaccine or a cure, to attend a performance would not be a rational choice. The issue is not the statistical prob…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:42PMHow should food writing work? “On the one hand, it should communicate the demands of craft, expressing the physical skill of cookery with words on a page; on the other, food writing should…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:42PMWhy do people tend to think crime has increased or stayed at a high level? Well, perhaps it’s the many cop shows on TV. And those series have some issues. “Of the 26 series from the 2017…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:42PMWho are the great writers of Spain’s Golden Age? Well, they’re men, of course … or, wait a second, we’ve been missing a whole bunch of information. “Recognition of these women and …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:42PMBut many murals – like one to Eric Garner, who gasped out, “I can’t breathe” before he suffocated as an NYPD officer held him in a chokehold in 2014 – get painted over or destroyed…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:42PMHere’s the issue with the issues, at least around race: “Such efforts to meaningfully contribute to the conversation are especially sensitive because many of the institutions are led by …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:42PMIf you’re not worried about Covid-19, now may be the time to visit Rome and the Vatican, where the museums have a limited number of people allowed per hour and many other coronavirus preca…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:42PMIt’s difficult to see a way of easing social distancing for audiences to make theatres and venues viable during the pandemic, but this was not the case for performers. “There’s no fine…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:42PMStar Wars actor responds on social media following his impassioned speech at an anti-racism rally in London last week
Star Wars actor John Boyega has expressed his thanks for the “love and…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:42PMThe late Filipino cultural activist and performance artist’s solo show was filmed in 2014.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:37PMThe designer-driven project, co-curated by Clint Ramos and Cha See, launches June 8.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:21PMThe designer-driven project, co-curated by Clint Ramos and Cha See, launches June 8.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:21PM(Michael Billington’s article appeared in the Guardian, 6/8; photo: Harriet Walter as Biddy in Three Birds Alighting on a Field at the Royal Court in 1991. Photograph: Donald Cooper/Alamy)…
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As a result of the coronavirus crisis, the Muny stage will be empty this summer for the first time in over 100 years. The St. Louis theater has postponed its previously announced 2020 lineup…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:54AMIn the wake of both the COVID-19 crisis as well as the global protests sparked by the killing of George Floyd, Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS is lending a helping hand. The organization …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:54AMToronto Alliance for the Performing Arts announces 243 nominations, with winners to be announced June 29.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 11:43AMDancers perform outside locked-down venues in a film accompanied by Living in a Ghost Town and co-created by Mick Jagger’s partner, Melanie Hamrick
Summer’s here and, with the UK’s art…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:36AM#Stageworthy News of the Week New York City is set to reopen today — partially — 100 days after the first New Yorker was discovered infected by the coronavirus. But most believe at least…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:36AMRead a piece from playwright Azure D. Osborne-Lee, who describes their experiences being 'a fat Black nonbinary trans queer person' in the theatre community, discrimination they have faced,…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:06AMStars in the House continues today (2pm) with Regional Theatre Spotlight On: PHILADELPHIA THEATRE COMPANY with Paige Price, Tamara Anderson, Jen Childs, Scott Greer, Amanda Morton, Georgi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:06AMFor close to a decade, since the launch of the first edition at the House of Commons in 2011, the Arts Index has been an essential tool for anyone looking to take our country’s cultural pu…
SOURCE: officiallondontheatre.com at 11:01AMThere was a lot of talk about the “re-opening” of our country and of Broadway before George Floyd’s tragic murder. But now, it has become painfully clear that a “re-opening” is not…
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The U.K.-based African theatre company will offer a free six-month program beginning in June.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:57AMWatch just a few of the highlights from the Tony winner's career on stage and screen.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:55AMIt's no secret that Broadway and Glee alum Alex Newell has a set of powerful pipes. The talented performer took part in delivering a message on June 7—as a result of the killing of George …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:54AMThis week in the life of Seth Rudetsky, Seth shares stories from when Uggams started out in showbiz at age 6, through her teens years, starring in Broadway’s Hallelujah Baby!, and more.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:46AMBroadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS today announced $125,000 in immediate grants to the Broadway Advocacy Coalition and three other anti-racism organizations. The grants include a $50,000 comm…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:33AMThe live stream reading will air on Playbill June 12.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:15AMWith the 2020 ceremony put on hold, Playbill revisits the 2015-2019 awards.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:10AMThe other beneficiaries include The Bail Project, Color of Change, and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:05AMLife on the lowest rung of the theatrical ladder. There are lots of in-jokes with digs at actors, directors, the rehearsal process, theatrical agents, critics and the site-specific trend.
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Playbox Theatre have announced its guests for a new series of Chatterbox giving young people a change to speak to artists and industry professionals.
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SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 07:56AMThe sheer creativity and inventiveness of the protesters was on full display at every turn as they each seemed to come prepared with energy and a message. As if re-experiencing What to Send …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:48AMConsidering all that is going on in the world, it seems petty to lament that the Tony Awards didn't happen last night. Still, I really missed it; it was just another reminder of what used to…
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 07:42AMTheater actors are learning to navigate being together 24/7 and living without a stage.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:36AMMany theatres have put out statements of support for Black Lives Matter protesters, and some have put up posters saying the same things on their boarded-up windows. Then New York Theatre Wor…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:18AMAvailable onlineBBC Young Dancer winners Connor Scott and Vidya Patel bring together two different styles in a compelling collaboration
Hottest front-room seats: the best theatre and dance t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12AMJack Mangan interviews Carson McCullers on board the S.S. Queen Mary. This clip was originally telecast in 1951 by WJZ-TV as part of Ship’s Reporter, a TV series in which Mangan intervie…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AMWe are living, I have frequently been told, through weird times. Maybe. But do weird times necessarily require weird art? Do bad times provoke bad art?
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMFor trouble comes to all of us: the rat
Has courage, in adversity, to fight;
But what a shining animal is man,
Who knows, when pain subsides, that is not that,
For worse than that must follo…
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The 102-year-old venue will produce a series of online shows to be announced.
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:59AMAmazon Prime VideoQuinoa, veganism and lakehouses are ticked off on the Bronx comic’s journey to affluence but her charm shines through
Lockdown laughs: where to watch online comedy
The …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:06AMSurvey says increasing reliance on box office sales left arts exposed during Covid-19 crisis
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:06AMWith DMV theaters still shuttered because of COVID-19, there has been the opportunity to explore original streaming content written by local playwrights. One of those playwrights is Northern…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:01AMActor behind video familiar to audiences of Cincinnati Shakespeare Company, Kentucky Shakespeare, StageOne Family Theatre
SOURCE: artsbureau.substack.com at 06:00AMMembers of the Broadway community are pushing for change in the industry amid a national reckoning on racial inequality. Last week, several Black members of the theater community posted st…
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 06:00AMLike all businesses dependent on congregating, COVID-19 and social distancing have sent the performing arts industry into crisis mode.
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Today's top stories: Randy Rainbow has released a hilarious new Trump parody, CBS Sunday Morning chatted with Bernadette Peters, Andre De Shields, and more!
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:36AMThe Black Death “was the most devastating incident in human history. It altered not only human society but the imagination itself. Its traces can be perceived today, and perhaps more lucid…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:03AMWhy did the protesters pull down Edward Colston’s statue? “The 18ft bronze statue, erected in 1895, has long been a focal point for anger at the city’s role in the slave trade and th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:03AMNigel Slater’s Toast returns to the Lawrence Batley Theatre as a brand-new online adaptation - part radio play, part animated film - airing from 1 to 31 July 2020.
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The frame lingered some seconds too long on Frances McDormand, playing Jocasta, just long enough to glimpse her listening mournfully, painfully, to Oscar Isaac, playing Oedipus. On a stage, …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 12:36AMEvery day, every part of our lives is flooded with digital. BLEED (Biennial Live Event in the Everyday Digital) is a
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:19AMWith momentum building around the globe for the international human rights movement, Black Lives Matter (BLM), the theatre industry has
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