For many professors, the sudden transition was a struggle. For Malan, it was the natural extension of a decade’s worth of experimentation. “Our team is fortunate to have been doing this …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:54PMNo one has had time to truly refine their ideas about personal life in a state of widespread isolation and existential dread, and literature, even when political, is a fundamentally personal…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:54PMThe workers — public-facing staffers who watched over galleries and answered questions about art — had announced plans to unionize with AFSCME in early November over concerns related to …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:54PM“It’s the first time in my position that I feel like I’m truly being heard,” she explains of how she’s using her voice to raise awareness, later adding, “This has been my life’…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:54PMAndrew Lloyd Webber is calling on the UK government to establish a clear schedule and target date on when theatres can re-open at a financially viable capacity.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:48PMFind out which Broadway songs have our readers belting it out on the road!
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Here's a quick roundup of stories you might have missed recently.
Cynthia Erivo Set for Movie Musical Talent Show
Tony, Emmy and Grammy Award winner Cynthia Erivo has a new film project.�…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:54PMT. Oliver Reid, Warren Adams, Reginald “Reggie” Van Lee, Afton Battle and Aaliytha Stevens have announced the formation of the Black Theatre Coalition (BTC). The new organization aims t…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:54PMWith global protests calling for justice and racial equality, Black Broadway artists are using their voices to promote change. In an effort to keep the conversation growing, Broadway.com inv…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:54PMIt's been over 130 days since Broadway shut down due to the novel coronavirus. With the earliest return date expected to be in 2021, Broadway actors have been finding new ways to connect wit…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:54PMTune in next Wednesday, July 29 (and every other Wednesday at 4pm EDT) to watch the next episode right here at BroadwayWorld or on Facebook Live. And while you wait, catch up with last week…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:32PMDuring todaya??s exciting Comic-Con@Home panel for HBO and BBCa??s HIS DARK MATERIALS, fans were treated to the first official trailer for the upcoming second season of the drama series, wh…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:32PMThe artists-in-residence will make their way to Massachusetts, while the fellows will work from New York City.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:29PMThe Ailey All Access broadcast is from Three by Three, a 1985 PBS Great Performances television special.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:27PMJessica Blank and Erik Jensen's documentary-style feature for The Public Theater draws inspiration from interviews with NYC frontline medical workers.
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SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 05:18PMAvailable onlineInspired by Bach, Mussorgsky and Ravel, works from Opera Ballet Vlaanderen’s archive reveal deep classical instincts
No matter how experimental dance gets, there remains a …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:12PMCritics say redundancy proposal ‘unfathomable’ and could damage future of theatre in the south-west
The Theatre Royal Plymouth has been criticised for proposing to make its entire creat…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:12PMTheatre reopens at 30% capacity for Beverley Knight performance to showcase stringent hygiene methods
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SOURCE: Playbill at 04:57PMA new survey from Shugoll Research shows that area theatergoers are even more reluctant to return to theater in the face of the coronavirus than they were when the survey was conducted last …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:42PMAhead of the musical's 45th anniversary, revisit the many Playbill covers of the original production's legendary Broadway run.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:27PMNow that the matter of a contemporary spire or roof for the medieval landmark has been settled, here’s an update on removing the (partially melted) scaffolding around the outside of the ca…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PM“In a survey released Wednesday of 760 museum directors, 33% of them said there was either a ‘significant risk’ of closing permanently by next fall or that they didn’t know if their …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PM“Interviews with artists and producers suggest that there are more than a dozen plays and musicals with Black writers circling Broadway — meaning, in most cases, that the shows have been…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PM“As part of the Times, Serial Productions will independently commission and edit its own stories, which ‘will now be amplified by the Times,’ the company said.” (The price was report…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PM“1. The old song ‘Rip it up and start again’ applies to sardine-seating business models not only for airlines but also theatres. …5. International touring productions will be reimag…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PMSo far, at least, this isn’t as bad as many people had feared. A presidential spokesman, talking about plans to turn the historic Istanbul monument back into a mosque, said that Christian …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PMClive Gillinson: “What would it mean to close Seventh Avenue from 47th to 57th streets to vehicular traffic, creating a pedestrian mall for the arts, anchored by Carnegie Hall to the north…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PMA child star who was once dubbed “the Scottish Shirley Temple,” she “grew up to become one of the most dynamic jazz artists of her generation, writing lyrics and electrifying audiences…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PMHer departure has unleashed a tempest in the art circles of Canada, where the Montreal museum is viewed as something of a national treasure; the debate over why Nathalie Bondil was let go ha…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PMSaida Grundy: “While the crafters of anti-racist reading lists are mostly making an earnest effort to educate people, literature and dialogue cannot supplant restorative social policies an…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PM“While we never mind insisting that art can change the world, we get fuzzy when pressed on the details of how. In pursuing “usefulness,” the past decades have witnessed an increasing i…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PMHis name is Joseph Boulogne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges. “Presumably intended as a compliment, this erasure of Boulogne’s name not only subjugates him to an arbitrary white standard, but…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PM“We put over 100 people who were madly in love into a brain scanner using fMRI. We noticed those who had fallen in love in the first eight months had a lot of activity in brain regions lin…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PMSarah Kaufman: “The throughline of WOD is: Show us something we’ve never seen before. As a dance critic, I want to see that, too, whenever I’m in the theater. What new revelation jumps…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PMWhat is needed is “not just a bailout” but a “long-term plan” that would enable the sector to “come out the other side. What we’ve seen is a lack of joined-up thinking across gov…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PM“In the 15 years between the inception of a fully-integrated bi-directional digital medium—the internet—and the onset of the coronavirus pandemic bringing with it imposed social distan…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PMThe Wilma salvages its scrapped production of Aleshea Harris’s ‘Is God Is’ as a streaming audio production. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:14PMBelow are videos of the five plays of the Facing the Rising Tide theater festival, organized by the New Group Theater with the Natural Resources Defense Council. In each video, a discussion …
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It’s not just the weather that’s steaming; there are some sizzling shows streaming this Saturday to keep you entertained and engaged, with a choreographed concert of pop favorites from t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:57PMCo-founders T. Oliver Reid, Warren Adams, and Reginald “Reggie” Van Lee, along with Executive Director Afton Battle and Board Member Aaliytha Stevens, announced today the formation of th…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 03:49PMThe Black Theatre Coalition, a new organization co-founded by T. Oliver Reid, Warren Adams and Reginald “Reggie” Van Lee, seeks to increase employment opportunities for Black theater pro…
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 03:47PMA new organization called Black Theatre Coalition has launched its inaugural program to increase work opportunities for Black theater professionals by at least 500% within the next 10 years.…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:39PMThe collective is co-founded by T. Oliver Reid, Warren Adams, and Reggie Van Lee.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:24PMThe Miseducation forum follows the Coalition's three-day Broadway For Black Lives Matter...Again forum held earlier this year.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:22PMCo-founders T. Oliver Reid, Warren Adams, and Reginald 'Reggie' Van Lee, along with Executive Director Afton Battle and Board Member Aaliytha Stevens, announced today the formation of the Bl…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:18PMBIPOC staff members from The Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York have submitted a letter to the organization, demanding that they take action to 'dismantle systemic racism' and pointing …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:18PMMegan Hilty is stopping by The Seth Concert Series this weekend and we wanted to look back at some of our favorite past performances of hers!
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:18PMBlack Dance Stories is exactly what it sounds like and precisely what we need right now. It’s a distillation of insightful moments in post-performance talkbacks spliced with casual convers…
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How can you get your cultural fix when many arts institutions remain closed? Our writers offer suggestions for what to listen to, read and watch.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:54PMGeorge Street Playhouse: In this episode, we chat Sound Design and Composition with Scott Killian of CREATING CLAIRE, OUTSIDE MULLINGAR, GOOD PEOPLE, and others! What goes into creating brea…
SOURCE: YouTube at 02:49PMMichael James Scott hosts a roundtable discussion with Broadway ensemble members John Eric Parker, Ariel Reid, Nick Rashad Burroughs, Dennis Stowe and Tracee Beazer.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:42PMAndrew Barth Feldman stops by to chat about Broadway Whodunit? and more!
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:42PMAudiences eager to watch Oscar winner and Broadway alum Jennifer Hudson take on the role of music icon Aretha Franklin will have to wait a little longer. Deadline reports that the film Res…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:42PMWe 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 02:34PMThe revised schedule includes Broadway, dance, opera and orchestra events built around hope for a new phase of the pandemic.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:24PMTheater vets Warren Adams and T. Oliver Reid have teamed up with a philanthropist to find jobs for young black colleagues.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:24PMa 40-minute feature well worth seeing that's available with your ticket to the wonderful film of the show with its
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SOURCE: ADAM SZYMKOWICZ at 01:48PMFIRST FOLIO THEATRE ANNOUNCES UPDATE TO 2020-2021 SEASON SCHEDULING In response to the current health situation, and in accordance with their commitment to maintaining a safe environment for…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:41PMThe reunion will benefit The Actors Fund.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:38PMWhile Congress debates how much (or how little) to parse out to the entertainment industry in the next COVID-19 relief package, a group of Broadway insiders is making clear just how wide and…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:28PMThe show is created by Hannah Bos and Paul Thureen of the Debate Society.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:24PMFor the 108th Kritzerland show, it's a tribute to one of the most beloved songwriting teams in Broadway history, Kander and Ebb. The music and lyrics of John Kander and Fred Ebb have been de…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:06PMHBO will adapt the critically acclaimed stage show, BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME, based on the #1 New York Times bestseller of the same name by author and journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates, as an H…
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Vanessa Williams, Renée Fleming, and more are scheduled to be part of the physically distanced live evenings that will also be streamed.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:58PMAC Bonifacio stars opposite real life best friend Gabe De Guzman in this dance video set to her single "Slide into My DM"!
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SOURCE: YouTube at 12:54PMToday was a milestone moment for live theatre, as Beverley Knight took to the stage of the London Palladium, to perform to the first live audience in months
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SOURCE: officiallondontheatre.com at 12:47PM BROADWAY STARS, EQUITY ACTORS, AND COLLEGE PROFESSORS JOIN RENOWNED FACULTY Iron Crow Theatre announces the launch of its 2020 Summer Theatre Immersion, a one-week virtual inte…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:38PMFollowing Play It Forward, the Broadway producer officially launches On The Stage Streaming.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:37PMThe program will offer the writers and directors physical and mental space to create at the Massachusetts venue (under proper health protocols).
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:13PMThe Broadway Community Project, from Playbill, Situation Interactive, and two industry veterans, aims to put faces and names to all roles across the theatre landscape.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:09PMThe John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts has announced on-site and digital programming initiatives to bridge the period between now and the 2021 season, which is set to begin on J…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:03PMThis is the Dear Evan Hansen star's first time voicing a Disney character.
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The thunder gets louder on the stand-up's new special, Trampoline in a Ditch.
It’s not restaurants, music, or even comedy that Kyle Kinane misses most: it’s…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 11:45AMBarrington Stage will present a Rodgers and Hammerstein show this August.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:42AMAudra McDonald made a guest appearance on the animated musical series, Central Park! McDonald sings the song 'New York Doesn't Like Your Face,' written by Fiona Apple.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:38AMManual Cinema, a Chicago arts collective, is highlighting four of its productions — vivacious hybrids of film and theater — in a virtual retrospective.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:32AMThe West End revival of C.P.Taylor’s Good, starring David Tennant and directed by Dominic Cooke, has been postponed until the spring of 2021 as a result of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. T…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:24AMJust breathe, Prom fans! The previously announced film adaptation of the Tony-nominated musical The Prom is restarting production after being put on pause due to COVID-19. According to The H…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:24AMThe show explores the truths of existence, identity, ancestry, and community.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:19AMThe show explores the truths of existence, identity, ancestry, and community.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:19AMEmpty playhouses caught on camera and an online 'Merchant' complete a typically varied week of theatrical fare
Theatres will begin gently unlocking their doors as we head into August. In the…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 11:18AM Rumor has it that famed Ellen’s Stardust Diner and its counterpart, The Iridium Jazz Club (located in the basement), may be closed for good based upon rent monies owed in the sum of ove…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 11:14AM Broadway Records announced today the release of Live Your Life: Live at Feinstein’s/54 Below, the recording of Nick Cordero’s cabaret performance, directed and music directed by …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 11:08AMRead the 27-page document here.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:06AMAt the end of our conference last year, I told my team . . . “Next year, we’re going to do something totally different!” Little did I know! 🙂 The theater is a constantly evolving ar…
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Victoria Clark, Ann Harada, and Greg Hildreth will also join in the festivities ahead of a viewing party for the original Julie Andrews broadcast.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:54AMNicholas will replace interim executive and artistic director Thom Seymour Jr.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 10:46AMTwo-term ITO nurtures grassroots growth
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SOURCE: Dramatics Magazine at 10:45AMPerformances are slated to begin August 25 at the Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:43AMGloria DeHaven (1925-2016) was born into show business, the daughter of vaudeville, stage and screen veterans Carter DeHaven and Flora Parker. Carter DeHaven was assistant director on Cha…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:42AMCurrently streaming on Peacock, the British thriller stars Miles opposite Holliday Grainger and Callum Turner.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:31AM Stage and screen star, Linda Purl, presents a benefit performance for The Actors Fund. Based on Joan Didion’s National Book Award-winning memoir, THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING is the rem…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 10:20AMChloe O. Davis' My Tribute to Black Broadway and Black Choreographers: I Thrive Now Because You Dared Then will also be presented.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:12AMStarting today Thursday July 23, Friday July 24 and Saturday July 25, The Other Palace is presenting a very special virtual production of the ever popular Jason Robert Brown four person show…
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 10:08AMClaire Louise Amias’ pair of plays, The Masks of Aphra Behn and Oranges & Ink, resurrect Aphra Behn from a place of relative obscurity into sharp relief as a chatty, warm, and witty ra…
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While 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 09:54AMTune in this Thursday, July 23 at 12pm ET for a very special RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN CINDERELLA cast reunion featuring members of the 2013 Broadway production: Laura Osnes, Santino Fontana…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:54AMThe tour of Sara Bareilles’ hit musical will kick off at The Alhambra Theatre, Bradford.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:40AMGot your weekend plans? We have some nifty, shelter-at-home ideas, from greatsummer songs to a New Orleans virtual vacay.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 09:30AMThe reunion benefits The Actors Fund.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:27AMTo launch TheatreWorks Silicon Valley’s “New Works from Home” series, the company will offer a benefit online reading of Suzanne Bradbeer’s comedy “Shakespeare in Vegas” through …
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 09:16AMHow a cross-cultural collaboration took shape over video call, then in person, affirming universal truths about both human experience and theatre practice.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 09:00AMFrom Shakespeare's "King Lear" to a moon-landing-themed new play to the S.F. Mime Troupe, here are Bay Area theater shows you can enjoy at home.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 09:00AM
“For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf,” “Thoughts of a Colored Man,” and More Seek Homes on Broadway for Spring 2021; New Safety Guidelines For Broa…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 07:55AMC.P. Taylor's chilling tale of morality and the Holocaust, Good, will now see David Tennant back in the West End in Spring 2021.
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SOURCE: officiallondontheatre.com at 07:46AMIn the final part of our series, UK arts figures give the lowdown on the precious places that nurtured their careers
‘I’ve wrestled, climbed the walls and got a black eye there’ Contin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AMThe West End revival of C.P.Taylor’s Good starring David Tennant, and directed by Dominic Cooke, was originally supposed to open in October 2020 but has now been postponed until Spring 20…
SOURCE: London Theatre Direct at 07:01AM“It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.”
Alfred North Whitehead, Science and the Modern World
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As part of its continued digital evolution in the wake of COVID-19, Victorian Opera has adapted an opera for babies and toddlers into an interactive online children’s book: Baby Bilby Sing…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 04:35AMRead more about the conclusions and recommendations of the DCMS Committee's first report for the theatre and performing arts sector.
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SOURCE: officiallondontheatre.com at 04:31AMFrom classic Andrew Lloyd Webber plays to the release of a recording of the original cast of Hamilton, theatre lovers have been able to stream the best of the stage at home during the lockdo…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:26AMI bristle at the idea that plays are ‘not the real thing’ unless they are live – I fell in love with Shakespeare and Beckett through televised performances
Every theatregoer I know is …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:12AMShe has played cops, rockers, monarchs and murderers. As Helen Mirren turns 75, we celebrate her astonishing career – and remember her letter to the Guardian that led to questions in parli…
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Celebrating the power of music to connect across divides, define an era and thrill the soul, Utopia Avenue is the spectacular new novel from the bestselling author of Cloud Atlas and The Bo…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 02:21AMTrue to her outspoken nature, Nathalie Bondil, the summarily sacked 13-year director of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, is not going quietly. Having gotten a taste of her feistiness and gr…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:12AMI reported on her last stand with fellow vocalese icon Jon Hendricks, at the Blue Note in Manhattan for the newspaper City Arts. – Howard Mandel
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:12AMProgramming theatre for the Egg in Bath is like shopping for Christmas presents for local families – I long to give gifts again
I have a confession. For the first two months of lockdown, I…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:04AMBy Stefan Brün, India Nicole Burton , Holly Holsinger, Olivia Lilley. Holly Holsinger, India Nicole Burton, Olivia Lilley, and Stefan Brün talk about devising in the United States, how ea…
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HOTA, Home of the Arts has partnered with Griffith University to present an exciting new thought leadership conversation series A
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:59AMPlus, Viola Davis will moderate a virtual Town Hall with Leader Stacey Abrams on Friday for Black Theatre United.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:18AMThis week, Quarantine Cabaret and Cocktails welcomes the original members of a?oeSide Showa?? on Broadway including Tony winner Alice Ripley, Tony nominee Emily Skinner, Tony nominee Norm…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:07AMPlus: traffic numbers released for digital fairs; White Cube hosts London graduates; Messums opens in Yorkshire
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:00AMThe Oscar winner and Tony nominee was born July 23, 1967.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMichael West is scheduled to make a guest appearance.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Jason Robert Brown song cycle, directed by Séimí Campbell, was filmed entirely in isolation.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMby Grant Cleaveland. @cleaveland_g. ITHACA, NY - As the country struggles to deal with the financial ramifications of COVID-19, one pluc...
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