This month throughout The Kennedy Center there is programming surrounding the theme of “Unexpected Italy.” The National Symphony Orchestra will feature two programs, the first contained …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:58PM“Triptych (Eyes of One on Another)” will be staged at BAM Howard Gilman Opera House, New York, from June 6 through June 8, 2019. Directed by Kaneza Schaal, “Triptych (Eyes of One on An…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 11:51PM“Cabaret” with Book by Joe Masteroff, based on the play by John Van Deuten and stories by Christopher Isherwood with Music by John Kander and Lyrics by Fred Ebb is presently playing at S…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:46PMWinners are here for the 2019 Chita Rivera Awards, honoring the best in dance during the 2018-2019 theater and film seasons. This year's ceremony was held on May 19 at NYU's Skirball Cente…
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Winners were announced during a May 19 ceremony at the NYU Skirball Center, co-hosted by Tony winners Ann Reinking and Ben Vereen.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:55PMIn life, how often do we slow down and think about why we do what we do? How much does the answer to that question influence how we actually go forward in the world? Michael Ian Cedar, presi…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 10:47PMAt more than 350 movie theaters across the country, including several in San Diego County, the world-famous ballet troupe will present performances of Alberto Alonso-choreographed "Carmen Su…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 10:20PMThe Cannes Film Festival is intended to celebrate the best of cinema. It’s the favored venue for world-class auteurs such as Terrence Malick, Pedro Almodóvar, Ken Loach, and Hirokazu Kore…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:20PMDepending on ticket sales, the R-rated musical fantasia about Elton John could have ripple effects for its star, its studio and the wider film industry.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:20PMIn Dave Malloy’s ravishing new a cappella chamber musical, members of an addiction support group compare notes on getting lost in the web.
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Abrasive as a subpar episode of Maude and reaching a sour psychological thriller-style finale out of Craig’s Wife, Happy Talk is playwright Jesse Eisenberg’s muddled family drama. It�…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:53PMBy: David Sheward
May 19, 2019: When profit becomes the prime motive of conduct, bad things happens. That’s the message of a new English play and two American revivals. These plays wer…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:53PM★★★★ Dave Malloy delivers a powerful new musical that's too thoughtful for Broadway
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:51PM★★★★ Eight singer-actors, under Annie Tippe's flawless direction, sing out 12-Step woes
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:50PM★★★★ Director Erica Schmidt and an all-female cast update Shakespeare’s bloody tragedy for the Instagram age
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:41PM★★ Director Erica Schmidt wrongly thinks that a girls-school spin is how to treat the Bard
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:40PMListen: David Byrne to Bring “Theatrical Concert” to Bway, Drama League Award Winners, Discussing TodayTix Fundraising with Oliver Roth! [display_podcast] “Today on Broadway” is a da…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 09:21PMIn a world that is consumed by political correctness, Avenue Q, which made its debut at the Conejo Players Theatre May 3 for a brief two-weekend run, shatters Broadway conventions with its r…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 09:10PMEmory would not be pleased. As Michael tells us in THE BOYS IN THE BAND, his friend Emory can “recite...Continue Reading
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Hadestown won best Broadway choreography and Alice By Heart best Off-Broadway choreography in the third annual Chita Rivera Awards honoring excellence in dance and choregraphy. Complete list…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:36PMNominations for the 2019 Chita Rivera Awards were announced today. In keeping with the mission of the Chita Rivera Awards, nominators considered shows and films that opened during the 2018-2…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:32PMLeslie Odom, Jr. delivered the keynote address at Carnegie Mellon University's 122nd Commencement at 11 a.m. Sunday, May 19, in Gesling Stadium on campus.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:32PMAlexandra Palace theatre, LondonIn Facing the Beast, the US comic offers an erratic hour of uncharitable observations and forced ‘edge’
As he mentions several times during his latest sho…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:32PMAt the end of “Mac Beth,” Macduff severs Macbeth’s head and then she takes a selfie of it, posing with two of her fellow murderous teenage girls, all dressed in parochial school unifor…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:12PMFew plays have been as ruthlessly photographic depicting the pornographic incest of lobbying and corruption as well as the clash of idealism and pragmatism as Sarah Burgess’ Kings, current…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:06PMAre cities urban anymore? Or are the suburbs moving in? New buildings across the country are offering parking, private entrances, “parks,” and other perks of suburban life – downtown. …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:03PMWouk shot to the top of the lists with The Caine Mutiny in 1951, and he remained there “for most of a career that extended past his 100th year thanks to page-turners like Marjorie Mornings…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:03PMIn his new lyrical chorus, 'Octet,' Dave Malloy probes the inner lives of eight online addicts who meet in a church basement for a program where they find comfort in each other’s stories.
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Bri Ng Schwartz: “An intent to make space for artists with diverse backgrounds can get lost in translation when the impact is harmful. … All of my recent experiences [as an Asian-America…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:42PM“Content warnings” — a more effective term than “trigger warnings” — “aren’t about treating audiences like they are incapable of handling the material a play presents. Instea…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:42PM“Right now, Thomas is starring in the Canadian Opera Company’s latest production of Otello in Toronto. In the past, the role has received criticism for casting white actors who have had …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:42PM“In mid-April, Performance Space New York hosted I wanna be with you everywhere (IWBWYE), a three-day festival “of, by, and for” disabled artists and writers. … The organizers adhere…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:42PMHilary Amnah: “While working in the public sector for much of my arts administration career, I have been complicit in adhering to largely inequitable practices — especially when it comes…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:42PMAileen Alon: “While most of my career has been in the arts, I’ve never been employed by an arts organization. … In fact, I’ve probably been able to do more for the arts and culture s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:42PMPlot twists, bingeing, and deep curiosity about characters are nothing new. Cuba exported tons of radionovelas, as they were called, from the 1930s through the 1950s. After the Revolution, �…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:42PMNozkowski’s “small, insistent, richly hued abstractions upended the heroic scale of postwar New York art and helped push painting in a more accessible, personal and wryly self-aware dire…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:42PMWill this start some dominos falling or reinforce the agencies’ intransigence? “Verve, a young Los Angeles agency focusing primarily on writers, is the biggest agency so far to make peac…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:42PMAïda Muluneh once worked as a photojournalist for The Washington Post. That didn’t go perfectly. “‘Are you an artist, or are you a journalist?’ her boss asked.” By now, the answer…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:42PMBeckford danced with the companies of Florelle Batsford, Anna Halprin, and Welland Lathrop – and “when Beckford came onstage, the audience would gasp in surprise.” In 1947, for the Oak…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:42PMJatra stars used to be major celebrities, but now they have to work second (or third) jobs to make ends meet. “Jatra originated in Bangladesh and the eastern Indian states of Odisha and Bi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:42PMThe Fairy Princess is very happy to announce that Keanu Reeves is having a really good weekend, and it looks like it will translate into a great month of May for him. Here are three reasons …
SOURCE: fairyprincessdiaries.com at 05:35PMIn Elise Forier Edie’s play, Alice Ripley plays a conservative Texas parent inspired to fight for the rights of her child’s gender identity.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:32PMThere is a limit to how much can be revealed about The New Group production of Jesse Eisenberg’s “Happy Talk,” without crossing into spoiler territory. That there are five characters i…
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For decades, costume designer Bob Mackie has created the looks Cher fans love. Now, he is a Tony Award nominee for the new Broadway musical “The Cher Show.”
SOURCE: CBS 2 TV at 02:08PM“It only took twenty years”, he told me as we sipped cider and watched a light rain spread a bit of Spring over Albany, “and twenty years…
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SOURCE: Medium at 02:03PMIt's time to dance because The Prom's Becca Lee is taking over BroadwayWorld's Instagram Story tomorrow, May 20th Be sure to tune in as Beccatakes you behind the scenes of the show's special…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:03PMPeople wondered whether an ailing, exhausted Eugene O'Neill was done with writing when he arrived in Danville. Anything but, with the Nobel Prize winner penning his greatest works in his hou…
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 02:00PMThe choreographer of the Tarell Alvin McCraney play marks a massive milestone in Tony history with her nomination.
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Review by Matt Smith “We need to learn from the past, so we don’t make the same mistakes.” Such is the overarching idea behind The Bigot, the provocative and politically-charged …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 01:53PMA board member made the announcement of her gift at a quasi-40th birthday party for the museum on Saturday night. That fits with new director Klaus Biesenbach’s vision. “‘We are not ai…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:18PMWhy? Because of some not so great romance novel tropes. Novelist Liz Lincoln: “We need to start putting abortion in our books. … As an alternative to marrying virtual strangers after a s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:18PMIt’s time to stop being angry about classical music’s place in the world, and move toward acceptance. – Greg Sandow
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:18PMOr, if not to blame, then to illuminate how we understand our moon. “If technologies once found only in SF do sometimes become real they do not, in so doing, always cease to be science fic…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:18PMThere is, however, downward pressure on the market – which may eventually hit actors, directors, and everyone else working on films in the pocketbook. And – let’s face it – Disney is…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:18PMThis weekend, Glenda Jackson was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Lillys, an organization that honors women in the theater. Jackson was honored onstage following a perfor…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:03PMOn Day 22, we're bringing it back to the 2005 ceremony, when David Yazbeck, a 2019 nominee for the score of Tootsie, brought the long con to Tony night with Tony Award-winner Norbert Leo But…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:03PMBy Douglas Mayo
Douglas Mayo reviews Summer Street – The Hilarious Aussie Soap Opera Musical by Andrew Norris now playing at Waterloo East Theatre. Summer Street Waterloo East Theatre 16 M…
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Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere review A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams @ Mister Rogers Theater, Encores! production of High Button Shoes, Enter Laughing:…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 12:40PMTonight ‘Game Of Thrones’, will be ending after eight years of bloody battles, dangerous dragons and white walkers galore. Fans of the series who share a love for performing arts most c…
SOURCE: theatrenerds.com at 12:30PMArts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual art, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.
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SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:24PMLove London Love Culture’s Emma Clarendon spoke to Louise Jameson and Thomas Mahy about reprising their roles in Vincent River at the Trafalgar Studios.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMLooking through the archives of the New York Pulic Library for the Performing Arts, the current production was not the first attempt to adapt the 1933 film.
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Casting has been announced for Actually, a play by Photograph 51 playwright Anna Ziegler at Trafalgar Studios 2.
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Chloe Moss's play How Love Is Spelt is to receive its first major revival at Southwark Playhouse this September. Book tickets now.
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SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 11:34AMCharles Villiers Stanford's bold Mass Via victrix is finally heard; Pablo Heras-Casado wraps up his survey of the Mendelssohn symphonies in high style; Anna Shelest completes her performance…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:18AMThis Is Not Happening serves up welcome shots of honestly and reality that hit you in the most ticklish parts of your own amusingly flawed, hilariously stupid humanity.
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SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:18AMOn the night of the Whitney Biennial opening,” a crowd of over 150 activists gathered at the Whitney Museum for their largest action yet: a culmination of Nine Weeks of Art and Action, a …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:06AMLongtime editor Gary Fisketjon, founder of Vintage Contemporary and a vice-president at the company, was asked to leave after a suspension and an investigation because of “a breach of comp…
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Today we check in with a Tony nominee from To Kill a Mockingbird, the great Celia Keenan-Bolger
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:48AMAlban Arena, St AlbansMurray’s Pub Landlord character, a patriotic little Englander, is well-placed to comment on our political moment, but Murray seems unwilling to take sides
“Having y…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:36AMAmy Seiwert admits that upbeat pieces are not necessarily what she’s known for as a choreographer.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 10:27AMThe director explains what drew her to the season-opener this summer at the Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park
I’ve wanted to direct Thornton Wilder’s Our Town for a long time.
The play …
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 10:24AMThe 'Machine' has some spectacular moments, but it's noisy, distracting, and dangerous
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 10:18AMYou know how many vendors want us to leave email addresses when we buy online? Well, Google knows all about that. It says it doesn’t do anything with the data. Maybe! “Google offers user…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:03AMThe show, which has earned a lot more viewers in its contentious final season, “was a mass-market hit for the era of no social consensus. … It divided its audience from start to finish, …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:03AMHardline Hindu activists, empowered by the 2014 election of Narenda Modi as prime minister, have been doing things like this to plays they deem unpatriotic: “Hours before the show was due …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:03AMKyo was discovered by a film scout in 1949 while she was performing in a dance revue. She worked with Akira Kurosawa, Kenji Mizoguchi and Teinosuke Kinugasa, and she continued to act unti…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:03AMInevitably writers will gravitate to the world they most often inhabit and about which they can speak with a degree of authority whether that be professionally, publically or privately.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMWhat are the Girls actor’s top four theatrical experiences?
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The 2019 Chita Rivera Awards will be presented today, May 19, 2019 at 730pm at the NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts 566 LaGuardia Place off Washington Square Park, and produced by…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:42AMThe actor on playing a factory owner in Rutherford and Son, shyness, and Peter Mannion’s take on Brexit
Roger Allam is a distinguished English actor whose stage work has ranged from Inspec…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:32AMAssembly Hall theatre, Tunbridge WellsThere may be a weary air to some of the obligatory scripted smut, but Clary’s affectionate put-downs remain acutely calibrated
A week shy of his 60th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:32AMBirthday celebration this week doubles as a fundraiser for local company's move into new Casa Familiar project in San Ysidro
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 09:32AMOak View Group co-founders Tim Leiweke and Irving Azoff were among the luminaries on hand to mark Pollstar’s inaugural Impact 50 list recognizing the executives shaping the present and fut…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:32AMAntonio Banderas said a heart attack he suffered two years ago spurred him into a health kick but also allowed him to reinvent himself as an actor, including as he prepared to take on the le…
SOURCE: Reuters at 09:32AMJulia Roberts and Shirley MacLaine face off in a scene from "Steel Magnolias," which is being re-released in theaters with Fathom Events
SOURCE: USA Today at 09:32AMBy Herbert Sigüenza. Herbert Siguenza, co-founder of the Latino performance troupe Culture Clash, talks about his unconventional writing path, his time working with the collective, and find…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 09:00AMFor the Honest Pint production of Matthew Lopez's THE LEGEND OF GEORGIA MCBRIDE, Director Susannah Hough enlisted the help of Vivica C. Coxx, Durham’s Drag Diva, to coach the cast (Matthew…
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"Bold and poetic", "exciting", "must-see" - check out what reviewers have been saying about Bella Heesom's new show about female sexuality, Rejoicing at her Wondrous Vulva the Young Woman Ap…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:30AMYoung Vic; Shakespeare’s Globe, LondonAn outstanding cast portray a family stuck together while falling apart in the Young Vic’s Death of a Salesman. At the Globe, enter Falstaff, Harry …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:03AMSadler’s Wells, LondonA new work by Marion Motin holds its own alongside two old favourites in this Rambert triple billIt’s a good idea from Rambert’s new leadership team of Helen Shut…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:03AMLeeds PlayhouseA play set in 1964 about young mothers forced to give up their babies for adoption is as fresh as when first performed in 1998The action of Amanda Whittington’s bittersweet …
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The House of Blue Leaves gets as funny and touching a production from Palm Beach Dramaworks as anyone can ask for. Its virtues include superb direction, a flawless creative team and a wall-t…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:18AMThe playwright, known for her seminal drama about the experiences of a black family in Chicago, was born May 19, 1935.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMErica Schmidt's adaptation, set in an American urban wasteland, opens Off-Broadway May 19.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe new show from the Great Comet composer is inspired by Internet comment boards, scientific debates, religious texts, and Sufi poetry.
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