According to Variety, Walt Disney Studios is working on a jukebox-style movie musical featuring the music of Lionel Richie. The film tentatively shares the name of one of Richie's best-kno…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:56PMThe inaugural awards, scheduled for Juneteenth, will honor the achievements of Black theater artists both on and off-Broadway.
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SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 06:48PMAs protest and rallies against racial injustice and the killing of Black lives continue, there is a seismic shift happening in the country as the civic unrest is shining a blinding light on …
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:44PMIn this week’s round-up of new works, we hope you will find a moment to reflect on the events of the last few weeks and the history of oppression in this country. We also hope you find a m…
SOURCE: fringearts.com at 06:24PMActors' Equity Association issued a statement following media reports that Texas has a record high number of hospitalized COVID-19 patients weeks following its early reopening.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:17PMNetflix has begun sharing viewership results with its creators, resulting in what DuVernay called “astounding numbers” that are in dismaying contrast to how her major studio films, “A …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:06PMConsider that “everything we see around us – rocks and planets, frogs and trees, your body and brain – is made up of nothing but protons, electrons and neutrons put together in very co…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:06PMWith only a trickle of EU tourists arriving, Italians have a historic opportunity: the chance to see their own masterpieces free from throngs of tourists and by booking just days in advanc…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:06PMProducer Marie Cisco created a public Google spreadsheet and titled it “Theaters Not Speaking Out.” It was open for anyone to edit, and it had a simple directive: “Add names to this do…
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Piercing drama, Pipeline by Dominique Morisseau, free on BroadwayHD beginning today.
June 9, 2020: Live From Lincoln Center, in partnership with BroadwayHD, starting today is bringing…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 05:58PMSilence is complicity. But what happens when you’re Black and you’ve been silent? What are you being complicit about? Kyle V. Hiller considers a different kind of silence.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:46PMA classically-trained singer and actress with a strong musical theatre background, Jennifer Roberts has also appeared on television and in film. About her versatiity, the late critic William…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 05:45PMImprov artistes Balasree Viswanathan and Laxmi Priya talk about the creative spin they have given to their performances Balasree Viswanathan and Arjun Mehra, co-artistic director and artisti…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 05:45PMIn scenes broadcast around the world, anti-racism protesters taking part in the global Black Lives Matter movement tore down the statue of Edward Colston on Sunday and threw it into Bristol …
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 05:36PMThe Pulitzer and Tony-winning writers will talk about their careers in the streamed panel discussions.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:32PMBelow an alphabetical list of theater by and about African Americans that is available online now (and coming soon), much of it directly relevant to the Black Lives Matter movement, all of i…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:29PMThis Wednesday (tomorrow!), Thursday and Friday June 10, 11 and 12, 2020, the Broadway Advocacy Coalition will be holding a three part forum for the Broadway community - Broadway for Black L…
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 05:25PMEditor’s note: Kelundra Smith is an Atlanta-based arts journalist and theater critic who’s...
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SOURCE: ArtsATL at 05:24PMThe company will center its 2020-21 season on New Haven with community partnerships and outdoor performances.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:23PMStars in the House continued this afternoon (2pm) with Regional Theatre Spotlight On: REDHOUSE ARTS CENTER with Hunter Foster, Jen Cody, Mike DiSalvo, Marc Palmieri, and Temar Underwood.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:21PM7 organizations partner on free screenings of art and interviews honoring the life and death of George Floyd.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:17PM
With 'The Minutes' on hold, Pendleton is passing time with 'The American Clock' and Zoom scene study classes.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:59PMThis year marks the 50th anniversary of New York’s first Pride Parade. And despite the ongoing shutdown of large public gatherings to guard against the spread of the coronavirus, the cele…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:56PMLast week, ASCAP Experience: Home Edition paused its programming in solidarity with the black community and all standing for racial justice.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:54PM‘Identidad (As We Are),’ screened online at the 2020 Philadelphia Latino Film Festival, reflects on Peru’s tumultuous history leading up to its 2018 return to the FIFA World Cup. Chris…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:53PMThe event will be presented on Juneteenth.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:48PMRamirez will receive a $5,000 commission, with an additional $2,500 each going to 2 theatres that aid in the play's development.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:25PMKansas Thespians find timely message in classic play
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SOURCE: Dramatics Magazine at 04:19PMThe divine Nicole Vanessa Ortiz was in rehearsal for the previously scheduled production of Sister Act at the Paper Mill Playhouse when COVID-19 put theater on pause. She was preparing to t…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:18PM
Downes will perform works by Black composers as the SubCulture program goes digital.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:55PMTo many scientists and doctors, the risk of singing is clear. “It’s not safe for people to simply return to the choir room and pick things up,” Lucinda Halstead, the president-elect of…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:54PM“To mark his farewell, Mad‘s ‘Usual Gang of Idiots’ will salute Jaffee with a tribute issue next week. It will be the magazine’s final regular issue to offer new material, includin…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:54PMI was convinced again that between the dreams of the stage director and their realization there is a tremendous difference, and that the theatre is first of all intended for the actor and ca…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:48PMTheater J and Round House will stay shuttered until 2021. But Mosaic may be back this summer.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:36PMIn a class on combatting conspiracy theories and misinformation in the era of COVID-19, I teach teenagers to recognize dangerous distractions from reality. But what about the conspiracies th…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:28PMNYC public school students who participated in the project this year attended a virtual celebration.
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“Long was the right man at the right time in 1957, when he came to Houston to establish Meredith Long & Co. With less than a million residents then, the city had two art museums, three…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:48PMThe museum withdrew the show when it got uncomfortable with the content. Shaun Leonardo, the artist, says he wasn’t consulted. Now the museum has apologized for the cancellation. – The N…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:48PMThe streamed ceremony will include a pre-show virtual red carpet, original musical numbers, presenters, and performers.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:38PMPear Theatre in Mountain View is moving ahead in today’s virtual world with a season announcement/subscription kick-off party June 12. Pear Artistic Director Sinjin Jones will host the Pea…
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 02:37PMThe annual award will support a Black male or male-identifying theatre artist with resources to develop new work.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:28PMNicole Vanessa Ortiz checks in with Paul Wontorek.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:06PMGeorge Street Playhouse: Please join our fellow New Brunswick Performing Arts Center member company Crossroads Theatre Company as they celebrate the life and work of Co-founder Lee Kenneth R…
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Padrón reshapes his planned 2020–2021 lineup through the Connecticut company’s One City, Many Stages initiative.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:57PMThe live stream benefits the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:50PM“Museum exhibitions take an exceptional amount of planning — from curatorial conception to filling out loan forms and insurance, to shipping, hanging, and displaying works. Getting a sho…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:48PMAs the novel coronavirus spread, the machinery of live classical performance ground to a halt months ago, putting thousands out of work; the industry will be one of the last to return to ful…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:48PM“The entertainment industry has generally followed the official line: blithe ignorance and denial giving way to grudging admission of a problem, but only as far as the ‘bad apple’ theo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:48PM“We have brought this on ourselves because of our absolute disrespect for animals and the environment,” she said. “Our disrespect for wild animals and our disrespect for farmed animals…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:48PM“[Even] as krump has journeyed from the streets to screens and stages, it remains a protest art,” writes Sarah Kaufman. That’s why, at a demonstration on Sunday in Santa Monica, Jo’A…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:48PM“If the music industry wants to support black lives, labels and platforms can start with amending contracts, distributing royalties, diversifying boardrooms, and retroactively paying back …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:48PMA handful of dancers have taken to Instagram to directly call out the problems they’ve seen in their own companies. – Dance Magazine
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:48PMWith his Geffen Stayhouse show 'The Present,' the illusionist aims to make a connection among dazzled, far-flung audiences via Zoom.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:48PMMPs told future is grim unless government steps in with more support after Covid-19 crisis
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:42PMIt would be a tragedy if the lockdown left drama narrower and risk-averse. Our chief critic hears from Kwame Kwei-Armah, Indhu Rubasingham, Lynette Linton and Rachel De-lahay
As protests ove…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:42PMAmerica is reckoning with its racist institutions, including police forces that disproportionately target Black people and people of color. But what about the officers working inside this sy…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 01:39PMRed Bull Theater today announced the next event of its special FREE programming to provide an opportunity for its community of artists and theater lovers to gather in the virtual space durin…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:32PMQuarantine Cabaret and Cocktails, produced and hosted by entertainer and LML Music founder, Lee Lessack, and actor and frequent SNL regular, Robert Bannon, made its debut nine weeks ago on F…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:32PMMark Fisher Fitness's Steward of Strength Harold Gibbons is here to show you the Adductor Rockback, a fantastic stretch for opening your inner things - the adductor muscles! Start on all f…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:31PMSee how long it takes to put this puzzle together.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:12PMBroadway Black, the multimedia organization highlighting the achievements of Black theatre artists, is pleased to announce the inaugural Antonyo Awards, a celebration of the Black Broadway a…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 01:09PMIn the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, which has resulted in the shutdown of Broadway, off-Broadway and theaters across the United States, The Shubert Foundation has awarded a total of $32…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:03PMThe 24 Hour Plays: Viral Monologues will present “Fists Up/Underlying Conditions,” a special event featuring Black artists to benefit Communities United For Police Reform, on June 9 on I…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:03PMThe musical follows a Japanese-American family in the aftermath of Pearl Harbor.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:00PMAfter several of unrest, artists have started to reclaim parts of Oakland by turning plywood that is used to protect windows as canvas for murals that tell the stories of the Black Lives Mat…
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 01:00PM
In honor of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights Aids, look back at the beloved fundraising celebration.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:44PMI felt the need to express some thoughts about The Book of Mormon since I currently play Nabulungi in the Broadway company. I shared a video the other day from a fellow Black member of the t…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 12:42PMThis week’s guests will be Luba Mason, Phyllis Pastore, Nina Gabianelli, Bob Diamond, Bob Egan, Jovan E’Sean and a weekly mystery guest!
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 12:39PMThe Broadway Advocacy Coalition is hosting a three day online seminar to discuss racism in the Broadway community. The forum, entitled “Broadway for Black Lives Matter Again” brands itse…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 12:33PMThere are few playwrights in the American theatre that have made an impact as large as August Wilson’s. Wilson’s Pittsburgh cycle chronicling life in every decade of the 20th century is …
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 12:29PMErica Daniels and Steve Miller are leaving their posts at Victory Gardens after weeks of controversy.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:23PMDo you hear the people sing? Revolution is the song 2020 seems to be singing so we are casting a show that’s all about revolution, Les Miserables. Currently cracking Broadway top 10 longes…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 12:22PMLast summer, Brittney Johnson made history as the first Black woman to play Glinda in the musical Wicked. Brittney had previously been seen on Broadway in Motown the musical, Beautiful: The …
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 12:21PMA Strange Loop is a musical about a plus sized, queer, Black man and so far it has won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Lambda Literary Award, Off-Broadway Alliance Award, New York Drama Critic…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 12:11PM“In response to the national crisis in the aftermath of the murders of Ahmaud Arbery (Brunswick, GA), Breonna Taylor (Louisville, KY), and most recently George Floyd (Minneapolis, MI) THIR…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 12:10PMAsmeret Ghebremichael is known to many as a veteran in the theatre community with a career spanning over 20 years with credits on Broadway and West End. She has been seen in the original com…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 12:07PMSignatories include Lynn Nottage, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and many more luminaries of the theater.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:06PMThe program helps develop the careers of Black theater producers.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:06PMThe episode will feature a roster of Black artists performing to benefit Communities United For Police Reform.
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The Philadelphia-based Wilma Theater presented the work in 2018.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:59AMMichael James Scott will join the team of Broadway.com's popular daily live news show #LiveatFive on Tuesday, June 9 at 5PM ET. The Aladdin star will host a roundtable discussion with not…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:54AMCast members from the musical perform the Berry Gordy, Hal Davis, Bob West, and Willie Hutch tune while offering words of wisdom and inspiration.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:53AMA statement, from names including Viola Davis and Lynn Nottage, decries the ‘white fragility’ of American theatre
A roster of more than 300 leading stage artists have signed a letter dec…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:36AMEven though these are difficult times, Emily Dickinson’s poem “Hope” reminds everyone that life is not hopeless, saying, “’Hope’ is the thing with feathers, That perches in the s…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:28AMLove 'em or hate 'em, musicals based on films have been on Broadway for decades. There have been some great ones (Grand Hotel, Sunset Boulevard), and some not so great ones (you know what we…
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 11:24AMAnd we are back! Well, next week, anyway. 🙂 First, we are returning to The Producer’s Perspective LIVE starting next Tuesday, June 16 at 8 PM EDT. Second, since even NYC herself ha…
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OperaDelaware made its first foray into pandemic-era performance with ‘Drive-Through Arias,’ a three-performance program featuring a trio of singers bringing opera’s greatest hits to t…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 10:48AMNot only will library staff have to deal with a raft of new safety procedures and protective equipment, they will be faced with enforcing mask-wearing and distancing rules on potentially rec…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:32AMAndrew Alexander, who helped launch the careers of dozens of prominent performers since he purchased Second City’s Toronto outpost in 1974 and the Chicago flagship in 1985, issued an apolo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:32AMOf the record 560 non-profit companies, 78 New York City theatres received funds.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:26AMIt appears Indiana University’s Center for Cultural Affairs was having some sort of virtual convening around the topic of New. Not Normal: Artists, the Creative Sector, and Innovation afte…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:06AMReading that the Globe may struggle to come back from this current crisis without the help of donations and emergency funding didn’t seem quite real.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMSeven Black playwrights will be celebrated in the first season of the online series launching July 8 on Zoom.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:00AM
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Reading Rep Theatre is to open its first permanent home in 2021. The new cultural hub will allow the company to continue to produce ambitious work
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SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 09:43AMCynthia Erivo, Viola Davis, Suzan-Lori Parks, Lynn Nottage, and Lin-Manuel Miranda are among the signatories of the powerful letter.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:42AMThe producers of the award-winning musical Everybody's Talking About Jamie have proudly announced the show's anticipated return to the stage. Though the Apollo Theatre doors remain closed f…
SOURCE: London Theatre Direct at 09:40AMGuidelines, issued on Monday by the state’s Dept. of Public Health and currently under review by the governor’s office, require spacing between seats, masks required of all customers whe…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:32AMDomingo Hindoyan will succeed Vasily Petrenko on the podium of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic in September 2021. A former assistant to Daniel Barenboim at the Staatsoper in Berlin, Hindoya…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:32AMGov. Greg Abbott’s Phase III reopening guidelines covering “performance halls,” effective June 10, allow audiences up to 50% of capacity at indoor venues; there’s no such limit for o…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:32AMAvailable onlineThe scuzzy end of show business and all its sozzled, sentimental excesses are captured by the ex-standup in a heartfelt monologue
I last saw Les Dennis on stage two years ago…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:32AMAs he returns to his role in Katori Hall’s The Mountaintop, the actor, writer and director talks about Black Lives Matter, Martin Luther King and the state of UK theatre
This is the third …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:32AMWhen are the Small Box theater companies going to throw off the straightjacket of conventional space-bound theater and explore alternative venues? Black Lives Matter Plaza was created overni…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:30AMEarlier today, Julian Bird, Chief Executive of Society Of London Theatre and UK Theatre gave oral evidence to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) as part of the inq…
SOURCE: officiallondontheatre.com at 09:30AMOn 1 July, there will be special fully cast, abridged virtual production of Rachel Wagstaff’s highly acclaimed adaptation of Birdsong. Find out more, here!
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SOURCE: officiallondontheatre.com at 09:00AMLindsay and Kaveh, star of the international hit film Argo, get in way over their heads with Rodgers and Hammerstein’s extremely dated classic, the King and I.
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Westfield News ArtsBeat 6/9/20. The Pitch returns to open Majestic season. Online programs from James Barry, Hartford Stage and arts news for WMass and No.CT.
SOURCE: thewestfieldnews.com at 08:19AMThe Seoul run of The Phantom of the Opera is continuing to run amidst the health crisis.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:03AMA group of BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) theatremakers have published a letter to 'White American Theater' addressing racism in the industry and demanding change.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:03AMCBS aired its sing-a-long of Grease on Sunday night, a replacement for the annual Tony Awards, which were cancelled this year due to the health crisis.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:03AMCDHP has conducted over 130 video interviews and conversations, and currently has over 120 edited clips available on their website.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM
In our latest Living Room Concert, the wonderful Sophie Isaacs performs 'At Last' - the Mack Gordon and Harry Warren song made famous by the likes of Etta James, Glenn Miller, Celine Dion an…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:59AMDrama Desks Announce New Air Date, BC/EFA Donates $125k to BLM Causes, “Pipeline” Available to Stream for Free “Today on Broadway” is a daily, Monday through Friday, podcast hitting …
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 07:55AMThe Drive In at Troubadour Meridian Water in London keeps getting more and more exciting! The venue continues to add more films and live shows to its performance schedule for its highly an…
SOURCE: London Theatre Direct at 07:35AMHi! Don’t worry, this isn’t the “big sick”, it’s the one I mentioned a couple of weeks ago in my Vaudevisuals interview with Jim Moore. I’ve actually gotten a repetitive stress i…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:03AMFrom 2010:
I find it hard to grasp that one of the founding members of a performing ensemble that has long been so much a part of my aesthetic life is no longer with us. The good news—if y…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM“‘I always think one needs a drink at this time,’ he said, as they approached his front door.
“‘A drink?’ said Marian in a surprised tone, and Aylwin realized that they were so m…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMThe Cree playwright, whose ‘The Cave’ is part of the online Luminato Festival, says ‘the greater the challenge the greater the fight,’ whether it’s anti-Black racism, climate chang…
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