I work with civic data and teach about the power of data collection, so I want to believe that data (in the form of video footage depicting police brutality against Black people) can effect …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:13PMIn a capitalist society, viewed from the point of view of consumers, cheap food looks like an unequivocal democratic good, because it enables people to feed themselves, even on relatively lo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:13PMIn honor of Hamilton's premiere on Disney+ beginning Friday July 3rd, we're rewinding tomorrow back to these incredible mini performances specifically highlighting the incredible company of …
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Dominique Morisseau, who received a 2019 Tony nomination for writing the book for The Temptations musical Ain't Too Proud, has a new project. According to Deadline, she is penning the new H…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:34PMThe Broadway revival of Richard Greenberg's 2003 Tony-winning play Take Me Out will now begin performances during the week of March 22, 2021 with opening night set for April 22 at the Helen …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:34PMTony winner Leslie Odom Jr. looks back on Episode 3 of his Aaron Burr, Sir vlog and looks ahead to the release of the Hamilton film!
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:34PMMCC Theater has announced a special benefit reading and discussion of Peter Hedges’ Good As New, starring Julianne Moore and Kaitlyn Dever. Directed by Hedges, the presentation will take p…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:34PMWhile it is certainly not inevitable that children lose their sense of wonder as they grow up, and while adults are in principle as capable of experiencing wonder as children, it is to be ex…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:12PMThe prison library program will give each of the 1,000 prisons the same 500-book collection selected by the project’s leaders. The collections, which Dr. Alexander called “freedom librar…
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As Hollywood and major league sports’ restarting looks to be stymied by soaring coronavirus cases, some of the biggest players in the arena want Mitch McConnell and Nancy Pelosi to change …
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:54PMIllustrious venue says the government’s plans for the industry give them no ‘confidence or clarity to be able to restart any activities in the immediate future’
The Royal Exchange in M…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:54PMTheatre’s chief executive says government is standing by as vital industry is allowed to ‘fade into the dust’
More than half of the workforce at Norwich theatre are at risk of redundan…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:54PMThe streaming Seder aired on YouTube in April to benefit the CDC Foundation's Coronavirus Emergency Response Fund.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:53PMBy Editorial Staff
In the first of our Throwback Thursday chats we caught up with Danny Becker, star of The Other Palace's Lockdown production of The Last Five Years.
This post THROWBACK THU…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 03:23PMNearly a thousand arts organizations across the country are receiving funds from the CARES Act. But the National Endowment for the Arts says the $44 million in grants it announced today is n…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 03:18PMHeld every Friday, the Live With Atlantic series is free and takes place over Zoom.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:18PMThe coronavirus pandemic might have snuffed live fireworks, but there is plenty to see and do, from "Hamilton" to virtual parades.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 03:10PMTune in the first Sunday of each month for tea and tunes.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:09PMStephen Russell at the University of Alabama at Birmingham developed the course “Prescribing Art: How Observation Enhances Medicine” to teach students to slow down and observe without wo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:06PMYes, they has been used in the singular since the late Middle Ages, but people complained about it, and looked for a different solution, back then and ever since. The effort to come up with …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:06PMIndia has banned video-sharing social network TikTok and messaging platform WeChat along with 57 other Chinese developed apps over national security and privacy concerns, as tensions between…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:06PMThe last 20 years at Arena Stage could be called the years of Molly Smith. Since she began, although the quality of the productions remained high, the focus changed to American musicals an…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:04PMAnthony Ramos is pretty great! The Grammy winner made his Broadway debut as John Laurens/Philip Hamilton in back in 2015. In 5 years, discover some of the amazing things he has accomplished…
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“Dance came from the people and should always be delivered back to the people,” Alvin Ailey said. Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, a key part (but not all of) his legacy, works by t…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 02:54PMThe choreographer of The Phantom of the Opera and Cats died July 1, 2018.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:39PMCharles Dickens is known as one of the greatest novelists in the English language, yet his interest in the theatrical is less widely known. During his later years, Dickens would take to the …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:11PM“The only thing that really matters in life is your progeny, the people who come after you, the people you send out to the world. They’re either toxic or nontoxic.” – Los Angeles Tim…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:05PMLaurence Tomei and Douglas Nelson say that, as mentioned, online undergraduate classes should have no more than 12 students. In person, on campus classes should be no larger than 18 students…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:05PMNatalia Boesch: “Living-room ballet has always been a big part of my life, whether I was working out choreographic ideas or just giving myself barre. But, as I write this, living-room ball…
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Belarus Free Theatre — outlawed by its homeland’s dictatorship, forced to rehearse and perform in secret, and with its artistic directors living in asylum abroad — has years of experie…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PMAmazingly, not only has the group continued the girls’ education online, it has used the constraints to its advantage by bringing in guest artists for master classes and increasing one-on-…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PMThe Hamilton alum and NYC-based musician perform a familiar tune from The Sound of Music.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:45PMBroadwayWorld has just learned that Second Stage Theater's planned production of Richard Greenberg's Tony Award-winning play, Take Me Out, which had been postponed due to the current Broadw…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:42PMMembers of the Film & TV Music community, made up of composers, songwriters, music editors, music supervisors, studio executives and more, contributed their talents to SOUNDTRACK OF OUR …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:40PMThe legendary boxer's life will be brought to the screen in HBO's new limited series, Unruly.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:40PMThe Broadway star is still fighting hard 90 days into his hospital stay, with support from his wife Amanda Kloots.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:24PMThe “Hamilton” CD, the score to the hit Broadway show, was released on September 25, 2015. It was a hit right away,
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 12:18PMIt’s Canada Day today and well past time I should talk about my favorite comedy show of all time, SCTV. I’ve referred to it three dozen times so far on Travalanche, and written about sev…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 12:18PM‘Hamilton’, ‘Homemade’, ‘Family Romance LLC’, ‘The Booksellers’, ‘Lynn and Lucy’ and ‘Fanny Lye Deliver’d’ — all reviewed by Danny Leigh
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:13PMRachel John and Cedric Neal will also star in Jason Robert Brown's beloved song cycle.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:12PMTheaterMania chats with the cast and creative team of the musical.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:12PMThe Thornton Wilder play will be directed by Bartlett Sher.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:12PMRichard Greenberg's play will be directed by Scott Ellis.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:12PMSecond Stage Theater’s production of Take Me Out, by Richard Greenberg, plans to open on Broadway in April of 2021. Postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the Broadway suspension, the …
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 12:11PMThe Wilma Globe model is inspired by Shakespeare's Globe theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:09PMEnhancing the magic and dreamy qualities of the play, Nicholas Hytner’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a delightful two hours of comedy, love and misunderstandings.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMProducers of Broadway’s Take Me Out starring Patrick J. Adams, Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Jesse Williams have set an opening date of April 22, 2021, with previews beginning March 22. The Sec…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:00PM“Take Me Out,” starring Jesse Williams, Jesse Tyler Ferguson and more, has rescheduled its Broadway run to spring 2021. The revival of Richard Greenberg’s play, produced by Second Stag…
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 12:00PMThe Tony-winning director-choreographer will answer your questions on The Broadway Q&A.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00PMBoris Johnson is under more intense pressure after MPs took advantage of today's Prime Minister's Questions (PMQs) to slam him for failing to take up government responsibility to support t…
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The Second Stage production will star Jesse Williams, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, and Patrick J. Adams.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:59AMI don’t know how I’ve managed to survive the simultaneous losses of my beloved spouse and the art form to which I have devoted more than a decade and a half of my life. But I’m still h…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:54AM“[Terrence] Orr’s vision included growth for the entire organization. Ticket sales, PBT School enrollment and the organization’s physical footprint in the Strip District all increased …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:54AMIn Barcelona, they performed for plants. But at Madrid’s Teatro Real, it’s a real staging for a real (though smaller) audience. “The opening scenes of merriment have taken on a sombre …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:54AMThe budget passed by the City Council cuts municipal support for the arts citywide by 40% to $5.84 million, and even that amount is $1 million more than the mayor proposed as he attempted to…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:54AMIt’s a bit of welcome news after major cuts from the city government: “467 Philadelphia-area arts and culture groups plus more than a thousand individual artists are receiving a total of…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:54AM“Ava DuVernay, Stanley Nelson, Sabaah Folayan and Damon Davis have all made movies that help explain our nation’s current efforts to face hundreds of years of inequity. Here’s what the…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:54AM“Ordained on the same day as his brother, Ratzinger proved to be a talented musician and went on oversee the recording of numerous masterpieces and concert tours around the world by the Re…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:54AM“For decades, the Met’s programming has been associated with a kind of elegant classicism. The Breuer, it seemed, would allow the museum to strike a new balance between grandeur and some…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:54AM“Literary critics say [that Bless Me, Ultima,] Anaya’s World War II-era novel about a young Mexican-American boy’s relationship with an older curandera, or healer, influenced a generat…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:54AMSomething is palpably different among playwrights of the millennial generation, who are envisioning, demanding and conjuring into existence a new and more diverse spectatorship. Their relati…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:54AMApple Family Productions has announced the world premiere of AND SO WE COME FORTH: The Apple Family: A Dinner on Zoom, the latest play in the Rhinebeck Panorama, written and directed by Ton…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:42AMWe're giving two readers a chance to win a ticket to The Seth Rudetsky Concert Series starring Melissa Errico! The winners will receive a ticket to the virtual concert. Enter now!
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:42AMDon Lemon and Dana Bash will host The Fourth in America.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:42AMSir Ian McKellen has launched a new charity fundraiser to support backstage and front of house theatre workers, kicking it off with a donation of £40,000.
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SOURCE: officiallondontheatre.com at 11:40AMAlternately funny and touching, Artists in Residence is a reminder that, even in frustrating days, creativity and community shine a light.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:34AMPatina Miller, Amber Gray, and more sing on this batch of original songs about life in quarantine and a hopeful future.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:31AMThe Olivier winner will perform First, Do No Harm by Bernadine Evaristo.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:29AMby Ivvone Zhou. @w451st. WASHINGTON D.C. — In an exclusive interview with American opera star Renee Fleming, the diva expressed concerns ...
SOURCE: www.thebroadwaybeat.com at 11:24AMProducer Scott Rudin has reported he will bring actor Dustin Hoffman to star in an upcoming production of Our Town on Broadway. Hoffman will take on the role of Stage Manager in Thornton Wi…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 11:21AMLook back at the 10 most recent productions to play over 100 performances at the beloved theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:20AMThornton Wilder's classic play Our Town is getting a Broadway revival starring two-time Oscar winner Dustin Hoffman as the Stage Manager in 2021. To Kill a Mockingbird director Bartlett She…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:13AMRamin Karimloo, Rachel Tucker, Rachel John and Cedric Neal will perform a special presentation of Jason Robert Brown's Songs for a New World. Filmed entirely in isolation, the stream will be…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:13AMHollywood movie star and highly prolific stage actor Ian McKellen (X-Men, The Lord of the Rings) has started a new fundraising initiative to help theatre workers in need. In special collab…
SOURCE: London Theatre Direct at 11:10AMThe stage and screen star joined Playbill's Stream Stealers June 30 to discuss the fifth and final season of the OWN series, as well as HBO Max's upcoming The Flight Attendant.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:03AMStreaming is all the rage these days . . . whether that means an opportunity to watch a musical shot in New York City like this one, or whether that’s a blogger like me who turns his camer…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM
Black Stories Matter, a live online storytelling show benefiting Black Lives Matter DC, will be presented by the DMV’s Better Said Than Done on Zoom July 10, 2020. Black Stories Matter fea…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:59AMThespian Playworks winner on theatre for social change
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SOURCE: Dramatics Magazine at 10:50AMToby Schmitz, seen on Broadway in The Present, will perform the play.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:41AMThe Wilma Theater in Philadelphia has put considerable thought into how they can bring their next season (beginning in late 2020 or early 2021) to audience members, all while ensuring that t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:34AMStephanie Ybarra, who currently serves as artistic director at Baltimore Center Stage and is also a co-founder of Artists Anti-Racism Coalition, recently was a guest on Variety's Stagecra…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:34AMToday (July 1) in live streaming: Lin-Manuel Miranda is the special guest on The Chaos Twins, Lauren Patten visits Backstage Live, and so much more!
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:34AMActor and playwright, Eric Ulloa, today announced his new podcast, Do You Hear the People Sing?, a theater person's guide to saving democracy.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:34AMChristopher Jackson has signed with CAA, Deadline reports. Creative Artists Agency LLC or CAA is an American talent and sports agency based in Los Angeles, California.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:34AMThe streaming event, benefiting The Ali Forney Center, is written and hosted by Justin Sayre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:33AMBroadway stars shared who and what they love most about their northern neighbors in a video from Theatre Calgary.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:17AMGet a great bang for you buck when you sign up for any of these kits.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:16AMCelebrating the legacy of Margaret Holloway, New Haven's Shakespeare Lady and a true Connecticut theater icon.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:07AMThe Tony- and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical arrives on Disney+ July 3; here's how to ensure your watch party will blow us all away.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:06AMWhen Margherita “Madge” Evans (1909-1981) chalked up her final screen credit in 1958 she had been a professional for nearly a half century. She started out as a child model at age two, i…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:06AMThe current circumstances mean that there are questions about whether there will even be a usual theatre awards season next winter/spring, especially as there may, ostensibly, be little to g…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMUK Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden has fired back on Twitter in response to criticism on how he has been handling the coronavirus crisis. The only problem with the MP's defence? The whole t…
SOURCE: London Theatre Direct at 10:00AM
The Jason Robert Brown song cycle, directed by Séimí Campbell, will be filmed entirely in isolation.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:41AMThe Apple family reunites online for another free Zoom play, available on YouTube.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:30AMAhead of the Tony Awards, CBS released a unique Hamilton video - a 360 degree view of Aaron Burr's "Wait For It" with the whole cast led by Tony award winning Leslie Odom, Jr..
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 09:30AMBilly Porter and Rita Moreno will take part in a discussion about Terrence McNally: Every Act of Life, tonight at 9pm.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:24AMStars in the House continues today (2pm) with Plays In The House: DIE, MOMMIE, DIE!: By Charles Busch. Starring Charles Busch, Jennifer Cody, Brandon Contreras, Willie Garson, Ruth Williamso…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:24AMWhile Broadway remains shut down, BroadwayWorld is keeping up with your favorite stars and giving you a peek at what they have been up to! Check out yesterday's highlights from some of your …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:24AMThe next video in the YouTube series R&H Goes Live!, a spinoff of their existing R&H Goes Pop! video series, will feature Austin Scott (Girl From the North Country, Hamilton) and Al…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:24AMWe sure do miss you! While we are apart, our Artistic Producers, Zach Blackwood and Katy Dammers, will prep a new list each week to keep your ears and eyes full until we can be together agai…
SOURCE: fringearts.com at 09:22AMLambert Jackson Productions in association with The Other Palace today announced a virtual production of Jason Robert Brown’s Songs For A New World.
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SOURCE: officiallondontheatre.com at 09:22AMThe Wilma, seeking to reopen in Philadelphia, says it will erect a new seating structure in which every party is in its own separate box.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:12AMAs COVID-19 continues to ravage the country, its effects on the arts have been devastating. Many organizations have turned to creative ways to raise funds in an effort to offset losses from …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:05AMWhile most of us will be celebrating Independence Day remotely this year, there’s a significant selection of virtual performances by New York theater artists that will enrich your 4th of J…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:00AMAbout the Guests
Mac and Judy McCord create puppets and train actors to be puppeteers in theatrical productions throughout North Carolina. For more information visit www.tanglewoodpuppets.
K…
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Your fine arts to-do list: Lorraine Hansberry, Michaelangelo, Richard Nelson and Shakespeare.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:42AMSharon D Clarke will be performing a newly commissioned monologue, First, Do No Harm, on 5 July to celebrate the NHS' 72nd birthday. Find out more, here.
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SOURCE: officiallondontheatre.com at 08:38AMBAYARD: A New Musical will be presented as part of a four night festival featuring original musicals by Richard Allen and Taran Gray. The virtual festival raises money for Broadway Cares/E…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:18AMThe late-night hub is replacing its cancelled fringe programme with new virtual offerings alongside archive footage
The Gilded Balloon, Edinburgh’s uproarious palace of late-night comedy,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18AMA virtual production will be streamed of Jason Robert Brown's Songs For A New World, filmed entirely in isolation. Séimí Campbell directs Rachel John (Hamilton), Ramin Karimloo (Phantom of…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:18AMClick here for July 1 openings Below is the day-by-day calendar of “theater openings”* in July, 2020. The big news is the release of “Hamilton” online at Disney Plus — and (less h…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:01AMLondon's Arts Theatre has announced that all performances of SIX The Musical up to and including Sunday, 27 September 2020 have been suspended. Officially, the West End has cancelled perform…
SOURCE: London Theatre Direct at 08:00AM
Dustin Hoffman to Lead “Our Town” on Broadway, Hamil-Film Gets Rave Reviews, “Hadestown” Teams Up with Who Now? “Today on Broadway” is a daily, Monday through Friday, podcast hit…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 07:55AMThe holiday staple alone can help keep a company afloat all year long.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:48AMToday, on the second anniversary of the death of choreographer Dame Gillian Lynne, The Lynne and Land Foundation has announced grants to the Royal Ballet School, ArtsEd, LAMDA and the Royal …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:45AMThis time around, the One That Got Away came about by accident. Like many of you, I've been cleaning, de-cluttering, and reorganizing. I finally got around to dusting off my vinyl collectio…
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 07:32AMThe Book of Job Project presents dramatic readings by acclaimed actors of The Book of Job as a catalyst for powerful, guided conversations about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic upon in…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:18AMA new video has been released of Telly Leung performing 'Wrestling' from But I'm A Cheerleader - The Musical!
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:18AMSix the Musical has cancelled all West End performances through 27 September.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:18AMArtistic directors say it’s a ‘civic duty’ to open up as their venues play a vital role for their communities beyond entertainment
The easing of coronavirus restrictions means that fro…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12AMNeed something new to listen to, read, or watch? Check out this week's list of new and upcoming releases, including the soundtrack to Royalties, a book about the making of West Side Story, a…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:11AMLilli Palmer interviews Thornton Wilder in an extremely rare TV appearance on The Lilli Palmer Show. This clip was originally telecast on NBC in 1952:
(This is the latest in a series of …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM“Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.”
Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle
Continue reading Almanac: Dodie Smith on depression at About Last Night.
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Who is Jo Fabro of The Fabulous Botting Flower? I am the “Fabulous” part of our name, and the other 2 members are the botting and flower parts. I am a singer and songwriter from Sydney a…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 06:27AMToday's top stories: Read the reviews for Hamilton on Disney+, a new Hamilton documentary featuring the original cast will premiere on July 3, and more!
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:10AMTheatre photography is one of the most important ways to promote a new production and simultaneously one of the elements audiences – and probably most creatives – actively think least ab…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMReal Art Ways will host its first event since the coronavirus closed its doors in March, a two-week run of “Good Trouble,” paired with a Zoom community conversation with Hartford activis…
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