On Sunday, February 21, beginning at 5 pm, Theater Resources Unlimited (TRU) – the leading non-profit network for developing theater professionals – presents its annual fundraising gala …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:22PMAs of 3:00am this morning, Facebook has restricted AussieTheatre’s ability to communicate with our audience via their platform, crippling our
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:20PMCategories like "Broadway Musicals" or "Tony Award Winners" are no strangers to "Jeopardy!", but this week theater buffs would have won big if the knew the correct response to Monday night's…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 07:12PM“When the first COVID-19 lockdown rippled across the Bay Area last March, the dance community reeled. … But as the pandemic unfolded, the crews adapted: leveraging technology to rehearse…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:06PM“There is a certain visceral quality about being in the same location together and experiencing art. I’m giddy with anticipation at the thought of reconnecting with that important part o…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:06PM“Comic creators have been wrestling with contemporary Australia and its identities in a series of publication coming out this year. What they show is a nation divided by racism and on a co…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:06PMHis city—our cities—aren’t empty now. They’re just pretty much shut down. There’s a social media campaign attached to the Jazz & Heritage Foundation’s new outreach efforts, a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:06PM“Your poem was meant to be a complex double portrait of both the Black caregiver and your white grandmother, and the racist logic and history that bound them both. Did you, a young white p…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:06PM“The phenomenon of the historian traumatized by history remains unstudied and is not widely known. Yet anyone who has documented depravity knows the symptoms. After writing a book on the A…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:06PM“Our data consists of digital editions of 200 works of prize-winning fiction, divided into four subcorpora of equal size: U.S.-American, French, German, and a collection of novels drawn fr…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:06PMYouTube is planning an official rollout for “Applause,” a feature—already in testing—that lets viewers make cash payments to their favorite creators by initiating an on-screen clappi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:06PMJust as some computer scientists seem oblivious to ethical concerns, others appear to be trigger-happy with their moral outrage. – The New Yorker
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:06PMReturning home can be challenging… A clearly distressed twenty-something guy is driving on a lonely country road when he pulls over to call his father. “Dad, it’s me.” Judging by the…
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Plus: Leslie Odom, Jr. pens an ode to Hamilton co-star Anthony Ramos for Time Magazine's TIME100 Next list.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:56PMThe Drama League will continue its tradition of honoring the outstanding accomplishments of the New York theatrical community with a ceremony, which will be pre-recorded and streamed on May …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:54PMHere's a quick roundup of stories you might have missed recently.
Idina Menzel Curates Broadway Playlist
Idina Menzel has performed some fan-favorite showstoppers throughout her career. …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:54PMThe upcoming comedy series comes from Tina Fey, Robert Carlock, and Meredith Scardino.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:36PMDespite being apart, the School of Drama at Carnegie Mellon University community came together and did what theatre folks do best: use creativity and determination to make it work.
Durin…
SOURCE: YouTube at 04:18PM(from Shakespeare & Beyond, February 16, 2021.) | Federal Theatre Project production of Macbeth in 1936. Courtesy Library of Congress A struggling economy. Unemployed artists. Hard…
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For the third time, a program in honor of writer and playwright Sholem Asch is being organized on Wednesday, which falls seven weeks before Easter. This year, that day is Wednesday, February…
SOURCE: forward.com at 02:55PMMint Theater Company, renowned for finding and producing worthwhile plays from the past that have been lost or forgotten, has continued its mission through the pandemic and theater shutdown…
SOURCE: Stage Directions at 02:54PMThe Actors Fund recently offered this webinar – Every Artist Insured. This webinar offers a comprehensive, unbiased overview of health insurance options nationally. It’s geared towards t…
SOURCE: Stage Directions at 02:52PMThe Zanies on Wells Street will reopen this weekend with Rocky Laporte. Laugh Factory on Broadway reopens in early March.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:45PMShure has received many requests for recommendations on the best ways to clean and disinfect our products. Here is a video from Shure on their recommendations of cleaning procedures for its …
SOURCE: Stage Directions at 02:42PMThe visionary Michael Curry of Michael Curry Design has a special message for you in support of the Costume Industry Coalition and the CIC Recovery Fund: Curry is a leading expert on charact…
SOURCE: Stage Directions at 02:30PMdisguise have launched a new internship program designed to seek out, train, and invite the very best talent from other under-represented backgrounds into the technology industry. disguise h…
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The first time I saw myself on-screen was in 1972. The film was “Lady Sings the Blues,” a cinematic masterpiece about jazz icon Billie Holiday. At 13 years old, I could not believe I was…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:53PMI’ve been lucky enough to play women who have marked history with their brilliance, and at the same time have somehow changed the way we see the world. Like many of the Black women in hist…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:53PMBefore it airs nationwide, we're offering a look at the newest episode of Broadway Profiles. Hosted by Emmy-winning anchor Tamsen Fadal and powered by Broadway.com, this installment will …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:48PMThe Congress for Jewish Culture presents theater, music, films, song and sketches in a Facebook celebration of Sholem Asch, the Yiddish writer best known for his play “God of Vengeance.”…
SOURCE: jewishweek.timesofisrael.com at 01:47PM“Called E.N.O. Breathe and developed by the English National Opera in collaboration with a London hospital, the six-week program offers patients customized vocal lessons: clinically proven…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:42PMLast summer, after the pandemic led to the layoff of two-thirds of the company’s staff and accusations by alumni of color of serious race issues, co-owner and executive producer Andrew Ale…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:42PMThat’s what could happen in the English city of Coventry: the Swedish furniture chain closed its store there last year, Coventry is the UK’s City of Culture for 2021, and the big interio…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:42PMIt wasn’t just because she likened being a conservative in America today to being a Jew in 1930s Germany on Instagram. “Carano had become a lightning rod among Star Wars fans and a heada…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:42PMA group of 85 Newfields employees and members of the Board of Governors released a public letter Tuesday that calls for president Charles Venable to step down after the arts campus apologi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:42PMThese days, Bang is a sprawling artistic conglomerate, with an annual budget of $2 million to $2.5 million, a dedicated record label, a virtuoso chamber ensemble (the Bang on a Can All-Stars…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:42PMChloé Zhao came to L.A. from Beijing to finish high school and go to college, got a poli-sci degree from Mount Holyoke, went to NYU film school, and ended up making three feature films at t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:42PMScorsese acknowledges streamers benefit his career (without Netflix there would be no “The Irishman,” and without Apple there would be no “Killers of the Flower Moon” on the way), bu…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:42PMThe Detroit Symphony’s assistant principal bassoonist from 1969-2004, he had been with the orchestra one year when he launched the Save Orchestra Hall campaign, which rescued from the wrec…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:42PMIt's just you on a video call with a Court Theatre cast member for a 10-minute monologue. And the actor can see you, too.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:35PMPLASA, the association for the live entertainment technology industry, and the ABTT (Association of British Theatre Technicians) announce a collaboration that will bring the 2021 editions of…
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The Drama League will also present DirectorFest 2021 with Cristina Angeles, Signe V. Harriday, Taylor Haven Holt, Cait Robinson, and Emma Rosa Went.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:59PMToday, Ash Wednesday, the Congress for Jewish Culture will host a special celebration of writer Sholem Asch, with an online event titled ASCH WEDNESDAY. Sholem Asch is best known for his pla…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:49PMIn honor of Black History Month, Broadway.com is once again inviting Broadway artists to celebrate the Black theatermakers who inspire them. Stars are taking this chance to honor their fri…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:36PMLectrosonics, together with a number of dealers, industry manufacturers, and end users, has been spearheading a social media campaign for the last few weeks, Sound is Essential, to emphasize…
SOURCE: Stage Directions at 12:30PMTony and Emmy winner is famed for her roles "The Good Wife," The Good Fight" and "Big Bang Theory."
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by Calder Holbrook. @calderholbrook. NORTH NEWTON, Kans. - Officials at Bethel College have announced that undergraduate theater major Er...
SOURCE: www.thebroadwaybeat.com at 11:59AMActress Seyi Omooba has lost her employment tribunal case alleging breach of contract and religious discrimination for her dismissal from a production of The Color Purple.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:53AMAn appreciative nod to Thomas Cott for calling attention to San Francisco Symphony’s adoption of dynamic typeface as part of an effort to shift perceptions about the organization. You ar…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:48AMThe nationally recognized School of Design and Production (D&P) will launch a groundbreaking new graduate program in animatronics for fall 2021, Dean Michael J. Kelley has announced. The…
SOURCE: Stage Directions at 11:47AMCongratulations are in order! Broadway pair Bradley Gibson and Adam Hyndman have revealed that they have gotten married! The two took to Instagram to share that they got married at the Litt…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:40AMPurchase tickets at Joyce.Org: https://www.joyce.org/ronald-k-brown-evidence
Ronald K. Brown/EVIDENCE continues its 35th Anniversary celebration with a livestream performance event featurin…
SOURCE: YouTube at 11:40AMEmbodying the Thornton Wilder character “helped heal something inside me that I hadn’t even realized had been broken,” says one.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:33AMBest wishes are in order for Broadway couple Adam Hyndman and Bradley Gibson. They were married in Las Vegas on February 1 and announced the news on Instagram.
Vie…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:33AMRoy Bickel will receive the ESTA Lifetime Technical Achievement Award on April 6, 2021, at the virtual New World Rigging Symposium. The ESTA Board of Directors and Technical Standards Counci…
SOURCE: Stage Directions at 11:33AMAfrofemononomy will explore Black women, art, health, and balance.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:18AMLast June, hundreds of BIPOC theatre makers came together in signing 'We See You, White American Theater'- a letter addressing racism in the industry and demanding change. Now, seven months…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:18AMBut Protect Our Parks says more legal challenges are coming for the Jackson Park plan.
It was hot on the August day in 2016 when Mayor Rahm Emanuel presented the…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 11:15AMTony winner Jason Michael Webb will direct the production of the Jason Robert Brown musical.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:10AMProducer Mark Cortale has announced that six stars of the stage and screen will join the late-February - March 2021 line-up of The Seth Concert Series, the live weekly series based on Seth R…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:03AMTheatrical licensor Music Theatre International has just announced the creation of a weekend-long event, All Together Now!: A Global Event Celebrating Local Theatre, in which schools and th…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:01AMA pandemic sweeps the land and the government introduces new quarantine rules - yes, that is the plot of The White Plague, not the news headlines.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMNew York, NY: Theatrical licensor Music Theatre International (MTI) announces the creation of a weekend-long event , All Together Now!
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The theatrical licensor will make an all-new musical revue available to perform free of charge as part of the weekend event.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:59AMActors from Broadway and London’s West End team up for the Shakespeare@ Home, all-free radio play Julius Caesar, which launches Monday February 22nd at 7pm EST. The Tony Nominated actor Pa…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 10:57AMAn accountability report released by the We See You, White American Theater collective (WSYWAT) points to more than 100 theater institutions nationwide that have responded to the group’s B…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:37AMHarris's new book, Mike Nichols: A Life, is available now.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:36AMThe annual festival will feature six public readings and three invite-only presentations.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 10:34AMNot content to simply stand as an example for so many others, she moved and lived and breathed a legacy into being.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 10:32AMBut keeping their balance during COVID has been the toughest challenge many have faced.
On March 9 last year, Ayana Strutz, a professional dancer and actress fro…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 10:30AMA star-studded list of guests will make appearances in season two, including Whoopi Goldberg, Ben Schwartz, Jim Parsons, Simon Pegg, Cate Blanchett, Nick Frost, Josh Gad, Christoph Waltz, K…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:29AMSan Jose Stage company, in collaboration with the African-American Shakespeare Company, will present L. Peter Callender's drama.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:27AMJames Joyce has “Bloomsday.” Robert Burns has “Burns Night.” Now Sholem Asch has his own literary celebration as well, “Asch Wednesday.” The program, held this year for the third…
SOURCE: forward.com at 10:23AMPresentations include the 30th anniversary of George C. Wolfe’s “The Colored Museum”; Andréa Burns in “Bad Dates”; and a solo show by Riz Ahmed.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18AMJason Michael Webb will direct Jason Robert Brown's musical, taking place in a New York City apartment.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:06AMThe classic variety show comes to Disney Plus this Friday.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:06AMThe comedy will be presented beginning in March.
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Seven months later, over 100 theatre organizations have responded with action to BIPOC demands.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:59AMToday (February 17) in live streaming: Patrick Page visits Backstage Live, Melissa Manchester's Birthday bash on Stars in the House, and more!
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:56AMSeth Rudetsky and James Wesley's daily series benefits The Actors Fund.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:45AMChristopher Pennock, whose long career in daytime drama is best remembered for his portrayal of a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde character on ABC’s supernatural soap Dark Shadows, died Feb. 12 fo…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:43AMReview: Stuck with You, Graeae5.0Overall ScoreIf you’re enjoying our content, then please consider becoming a patreon with every penny going towards keeping paying AYT going and paying our…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:36AMBette talks about getting vaccinated, keeping busy during quarantine, her daughter getting married, being married by an Elvis impersonator in Vegas in 1984, her new children’s book “The …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:30AMLook back at the 10 most recent productions to play over 100 performances at the venue.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:30AM (Chris Wiegand’s article appeared in the Guardian, 2/16; Photo: Slapstick and sentimental songs … Pat Kirkwood in the 1956 musical comedy Stars in Your Eyes. Photograph: networkonair…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:24AMAn administrative court in Montpellier ruled that Louis Aliot, mayor of Perpignan (and Marine Le Pen’s number-two in the far-right party National Rally, and also her ex-partner), could not…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:24AMA British employment tribunal unanimously rejected Seyi Omooba’s claims of breach of contract and religious discrimination, finding that “there is no breach of contract because the claim…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:24AMThe company’s first staged presentation, set for April and May, will be a 90-minute English-language adaptation of Rossini’s Barber of Seville on an outdoor stage (repurposing what would…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:24AMAll On Her Own is an unusual monologue which holds the attention throughout; although perhaps the borderline hysterics of the original version are ultimately truer to the play as written.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMThe season will feature virtual offerings on O! as well as onstage productions, including OSF's first winter season production.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 09:00AM
February marks Black History Month and what better time to delve into the rich catalog of plays by BIPOC writers. Here are our starter suggestions!
SOURCE: blog.stageagent.com at 08:31AMToday’s “Talk” features NY Theatre Barn, TCN, Baryshnikov Arts Center, Cherry Orchard Festival Foundation, Unravelled, Smithtown, Food for Thought Productions, NYC Indie Film Festival,…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:15AMThe home, built between the 1820s and 1830s, has remained closed to the public. Until now.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 08:12AMOther attractions, like City Museum, the St. Louis Science Center, and the Missouri History Museum are closed anyway on Tuesdays.
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MSG to Welcome Back Fans, Streaming Theatre News on Bonnie Milligan, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Michael Urie, and More! “Today on Broadway” is a daily, Monday through Friday, podcast hitting th…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 07:55AMCovert Firmament has many pieces available to watch and listen to as part of the Living Record Festival until 22 February 2021.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:30AMThe Hong Kong Disneyland theme park will reopen on Friday (Feb. 19, 2021) after being closed due to a fourth wave of the coronavirus outbreak in the city. All visitors will have to provide t…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:26AMLongtime Disney executive Jenny Cohen has been named head of social responsibility for the company. Cohen, a veteran brand management executive, will report to CEO Bob Chapek in her role as …
SOURCE: Variety at 07:26AMS.F. Opera bets on spring to launch drive-in performances, including a new 'Barber of Seville.' But San Franciscans will have to cross the Golden Gate to see them.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:26AMWhen Bob Avian passed away on January 21, a true Broadway great was lost to us. And yet, probably even to many theater fans, his name doesn't really ring a bell. In a career that spanned nea…
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 07:12AMJagged Little Pill co-stars Celia Rose Gooding and Lauren Patten reunited (virtually) for a conversation hosted by TDF. The pair talked about the show, their friendship, Alanis Morissette, a…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:08AMThe tilt between our actual selves and our idealised selves will never cease to be an existential tension
This stunningly delivered online monologue from a bereaved widow to her husband feel…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 07:03AMThe failure to lift our eyes and see that our core work can and should be connecting people with art is the principal source of the problems we have experienced over the last 20-30 years. �…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:03AMBill Evans plays “My Foolish Heart” on British TV in 1965, with Chuck Israels on bass and Larry Bunker on drums:
(This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that…
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This week's list includes The Wellsongs Project, featuring Kate Baldwin, Ethan Slater, and more. Plus, check out Don't Lose Your Head: Life Lessons from the Six Ex-Wives of Henry VIII, whic…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:35AMNearly one year after theatres were forced to close by the onset of the Covid pandemic, prime minister Boris Johnson has delivered the first indication that auditoria could reopen.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:30AMOur writer’s adaptation of “The Illusionist” was slated for a tryout run. Lockdown, a tragic death, cancer and quarantine got in the way, but didn’t stop the show.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:24AMToday's top stories: Sister Act has been postponed in the West End until 2022, and Whoopi Goldberg has departed the cast, Madison Square Garden will re-open next week for a Knicks game, and …
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