Wednesday, November 6, 2024
Monday, November 4, 2024

The play that changed my life: ‘Caryl Churchill’s Cloud 9 had us dancing in the aisles’ by Susan Croft

Premiering in 1979, this liberating production questioned gender and sexuality, with Antony Sher playing an upright father and a bearded five-year-old girl In 1979, I was at Dartington Colle…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:12AM
Monday, October 14, 2024

What is a liberated body? “Talking” Exorcism = Liberation with Yanira Castro by Maura Nguyễn Donohue (she/they)

An appropriately multi-modal effort towards dialogue about Yanira Castro's Exorcism = Liberation, a massive public art project that began in July and continues until election day. 

SOURCE: Culture Bot at 02:02PM
Friday, September 27, 2024

‘A temple of liberation’: behind the unwavering rise of the National Black Theatre by David Smith In Washington

Created in 1968 and making groundbreaking strides, the organisation is looking to further expand Home is where the heart is but it also brought hardships for the National Black Theatre (NBT)…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:11AM
Friday, September 13, 2024

Yanira Castro/a canary torsi and her latest public art event, "Exorcism = Liberation" by The Dance Enthusiast

"Exorcism = Liberation is an act of intervention, a rehearsal for collective action during a critical American election. This is the launch of a new public art project during the 2024 Presid…

SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM
Wednesday, June 26, 2024

Broadway Bares: Hit the Strip Highlights by Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS

The bright lights of Vegas couldn’t compete with the starpower of more than 200 of NYC’s most dazzling dancers as they erupted into electrifying modern-day burlesque production numbers a…

SOURCE: YouTube at 02:24PM
Friday, June 14, 2024

Liberation

SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:00AM
Thursday, May 30, 2024

Quantum Leap with Renee Harrison by Yura Sapi, Renee Harrison

By Yura Sapi, Renee Harrison. ​​In this episode, Renee Harrison, founder of Black Girls Do Theater, discusses evolving the theatre industry, envisioning a post-liberation future, and emb…

SOURCE: HowlRound at 09:10AM
Friday, May 24, 2024

Catching Up With Tony Kushner by Frank Rizzo

Tony Kushner, the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning playwright of “Angels in America” and Steven Spielberg’s go-to screenwriter over the last 20 years, is never short of opinions t…

SOURCE: ShowRiz at 11:40PM
Thursday, May 23, 2024
Saturday, May 11, 2024

Book Review: K-Drama School by Nicole Serratore

  Grace Jung’s educational and frequently breezy book K-Drama School: A Pop Culture Inquiry Into Why We Love Korean Television is a great starting place if you don’t have any Korean cu…

SOURCE: Mildly Bitter's Musings at 03:45PM
Friday, May 3, 2024

Broadway Bares: Hit the Strip - Amber Ardolino and John Juan Mercado by Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS

At Broadway Bares: Hit the Strip, our showgirls and showqueens drip and dazzle with effortless allure ✨ Enter our world of luxury and liberation on Sunday, June 23. Get tickets now at bro…

SOURCE: YouTube at 06:06PM
Saturday, April 27, 2024

"Mother Play" is a Work of True Compassion by Jan Simpson

After seeing Mother Play, Paula Vogel’s semi-autobiographical three-hander which opened at the Hayes Theater on the very last day of the 2023-2024 theater season, my friends and I went nex…

SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:32AM
Sunday, April 21, 2024

RuPaul’s Drag Race Finale Viewing Party and HOUSEOFLOVE by Barbare Sturua

It's more than just a viewing party; it's more than just cocktails; it's more than just performances; it's more than just electrifying drag shows and bright makeup! You might ask - what more…

SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 01:28PM
Saturday, April 20, 2024

My Variety Review: New Broadway Musical "Lempicka" by Frank Rizzo

To the list of larger-than-life, survivalist women in musical theater, add Tamara de Lempicka — but with an asterisk. The name of the Polish-born portraitist who died in 1980 might not be …

SOURCE: ShowRiz at 08:55AM
Friday, April 19, 2024

Liberation Squares review – polemic comedy about state surveillance by Mark Fisher

Nottingham PlayhouseThree unsuspecting teenagers find themselves under close observation in this satirical swipe at the government’s Prevent strategy The three GCSE students in Sonali Bha…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:42AM
Thursday, April 11, 2024

Roundabout Sets Opening Dates for 2024-25 Broadway and Off-Broadway Season by Darryn King

Roundabout Theatre Company has set opening dates for the shows in its 2024-25 theatrical season. Preview performance dates are yet to be announced. The Broadway premiere of Yellow Face, w…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:18PM
Monday, March 4, 2024

Recasting, Restorying, and Restructuring Shakespeare for Liberation by Rainier Pearl-Styles

By Rainier Pearl-Styles. Educator Rainier Pearl-Styles recounts their experience of devising a show in response to Shakespeare’s Macbeth, using tenets of Paolo Freire’s theory of liberat…

SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:18AM
Sunday, March 3, 2024

A Sign of the Times by Joel Benjamin

This York Theatre Company production at the New World Stages, following a presentation at Goodspeed Musicals in 2016, shoehorns these songs into a book by Lindsey Hope Pearlman from a story …

SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:52PM
Friday, March 1, 2024

Big Love is a great kick-off for [producing body] by Kayla Pulley

Chicago Dramatists has been transformed into a realm where love clashes with tradition, liberation grapples with convention, and the echoes of ancient narratives resound in contemporary soci…

SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 09:40AM
Tuesday, February 20, 2024

Sunset Baby by Joseph Pisano

"Ain't nothin' sentimental about a dead revolution." Wearing a too-short, too-tight dress, shiny thigh-high boots, and a long fuchsia wig, the twentysomething Nina (Moses Ingram) attempts to…

SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:33PM
Wednesday, February 14, 2024

Chilina Kennedy Makes Joy the Medium and the Message in A Sign of the Times by Hayley Levitt

Chilina Kennedy has cultivated a kinship with the 1960s. It could be how the melodies, which she compares to “putting on a warm blanket,” suit her voice. Or, it could be the decade’s i…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:18PM
Tuesday, January 23, 2024

Pride House by Victor Gluck, Editor-In-Chief

While “Pride” has come to stand for Gay Liberation in contemporary times, Beatrice has named her house after Jane Austen’s novel as it is made clear when she names her new guesthouse �…

SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:44AM
Thursday, January 18, 2024

The Rebel’s Clinic by Sasha Frere-Jones

On violence, liberation, and the collective: a new biography of Frantz Fanon by Adam Shatz. The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon, by Adam Shatz, Farrar, Straus and…

SOURCE: 4columns at 07:00PM

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2024-2025 BROADWAY SEASON
Jun 05, 2024: Home - Todd Haimes Theatre
Jul 11, 2024: Oh, Mary! - Lyceum Theatre
Jul 30, 2024: Job - Hayes Theater
Sep 12, 2024: The Roommate - Booth Theatre
Nov 14, 2024: Tammy Faye - Palace Theatre
Dec 12, 2024: Cult of Love - Hayes Theater
Dec 19, 2024: Gypsy - Majestic Theatre
Mar 15, 2025: Purpose - Hayes Theater
Apr 01, 2025: Glengarry Glen Ross
Apr 10, 2025: Smash - Imperial Theatre
TBA: Titanic