Washington National Opera's Macbeth | Nov. 13 - 23, 2024 by The Kennedy Center

https://www.kennedy-center.org/wno/home/2024-2025/macbeth/ NEW PRODUCTION Power’s price, paid in blood. Massive ensembles. White hot arias. The dark recesses of the mind. Verdi’s adap…

Étienne Dupuis as Macbeth in WNO's Macbeth | Nov. 13 - 23, 2024 by The Kennedy Center

https://www.kennedy-center.org/wno/home/2024-2025/macbeth/ NEW PRODUCTION Power’s price, paid in blood. Massive ensembles. White hot arias. The dark recesses of the mind. Verdi’s adap…

Madison McFerrin - Millennium Stage (November 16, 2024) by The Kennedy Center

Subscribe to The Kennedy Center! http://bit.ly/2gNFrtb Live Tonight on Millennium Stage: “A musical background to her unique vocal abilities and heightened social consciousness.” —Exc…

Love and Liberation

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…

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. 

‘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)…

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…

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…

Liberation

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…

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…

The Anti “Yogi” Liberation Not Lululemon

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…

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…

"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…

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…

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 …

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…

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…

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…

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 …

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…

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…

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…

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 �…

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…