The second weekend of the Charm City Fringe Festival is in full swing! There are still lots of performances happening Saturday and Sunday, plus Fringe After Dark fun, so go see something! Th…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:51PMThis jubilant production, choreographed by Annie-B Parson, transforms an icon of alienation into a cosmically cozy senior statesman.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:48PMWho is a Jew? Will you go with me to the Ballyhoo ball? Those are two questions the Jewish upper-middle-class Freitag family kvetch about during the happenings of playwright Alfred Uhry’s …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:41PMCritics Review “American Utopia” on Broadway, Broadway Stars Join “Aretha” Biopic, and “HSM: TM: TS” Picks Up Season 2 Renewal 1) Reviews are in for David Byrne’s “American U…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 11:40PMWith practically every news bulletin filled with images of protests around the world, a musical based around the 1984 Miners strike in Britain could hardly be more relevant. However, far fro…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 11:30PMhttps://www.buzzsprout.com/123341/1900928-198-anthony-veneziale.mp3 Usually, these intros are all about giving you a tease of information to get you to listen to the podcast: Somewhere in th…
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Tristan Sturrock's Cyrano: vibrant energy matched by depth
Tom Morris’s production of Cyrano starts with a procession of nuns, some of them bearded, chanting verses from the medieval mysti…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 09:42PMWindmill Theatre Co has announced its 2020 live theatre season, including a brand new work about the creation of the universe, a regional tour for a robot, and the 10th anniversary return of…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 09:29PMDrama involves conflict. That’s why so many plays rely on husbands, wives and lovers. As Katharine Hepburn famously said, “Marriage...Continue Reading
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SOURCE: broadwayselect.com at 09:23PMOne of rock’s great questions, a rung or two below Are You Experienced? and maybe Which One’s Pink? but still right up there, has got to be Why A Big Suit? David Byrne asked himself that…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00PM“We’re on a road to nowhere,” David Byrne sings in the final encore of his Broadway concert, “American Utopia,” at the Hudson Theatre. Can we get an encore of that encore, please?�…
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Sometimes it’s not easy to walk in parental footsteps, especially for gifted children of the famous. But if they’re fortunate, their own art can be a guide out of the shadows. This is th…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 06:50PMI’m a huge fan of the late, Pulitzer Prize-winning American playwright (and Oscar-nominated actor) Sam Shepard. How wonderful to be able to see and discuss one of his late plays, Ages of…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 06:18PMThe Lyons family of New York were a vital part of New York’s Seneca Village. They “were Seneca Village property owners, educators and dedicated abolitionists, running a boardinghouse for…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:06PMThat’s right: Fanfiction, with its hookups of likely and unlikely characters, its absolute refusal to live by the rules of the world set by authors like J.K. Rowling and Suzanne Collins, e…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:06PMThe hours are good, the patrons can be terrible, the dreams live … for a while. “A lot of actors, directors and writers work front of house, with most of us spending our days auditioning…
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CABIN FEVER AT ITS CRAZIEST Make of this what you will. All too predictably, every review that Grey House receives will be different. Because this new work by Red Orchid Theatre ensemble m…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:55PMThe clarinetist who played at Barack Obama’s inauguration talks about playing with passion, staying humble, setting goals, giving your all on every occasion, and overcoming negativity. (vi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:33PM“It’s time for cultural philanthropy to get more creative. … A small-but-growing number of funders are working with arts and culture organizations and individual donors to address ineq…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:33PM“Singleton demurs when described as a composer of classical music. ‘I know that I write music. I’m a composer. So, categorization always gets us in trouble because it defines us very n…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:33PM“Threewalls, a cultural nonprofit that supports visual artists in Chicago, has announced that it will award $900,000 to artists who identify as African, Latinx, Asian, Arab, or Native Amer…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:33PM“Saeed Jones has worn many hats: teacher, poet, and culture editor at BuzzFeed, among many other things. (Also, he joins a growing group of writers willing to admit that they were high sch…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:33PM“Dancer, choreographer and dance professor Leah Glenn wields that strong magic [and dance] to teach, increase understanding and make all lives better. And so it is no surprise that in 2012…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:33PM“Perhaps it was only possible in the neighborhoods of East L.A. that two gay, Mexican immigrants could partner with a religious sister to found one of L.A.’s oldest and most important al…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:33PM“Theater Latté Da [in Minneapolis] has announced the establishment of the NEXT Generation Commission, designed to support the creation and development of musicals by women and artists of …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:33PM“In 2017, 41 percent of female-identifying and 18 percent of male-identifying students reported experiencing sexual assault at Tulane University in New Orleans. Since those stats were rele…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:33PM“[It’s] one of the most overlooked success stories in our field: how a century-old theatre of color, once in a state of crisis, has been revitalized and rejuvenated. In a time when there…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:33PMWell, it’s because of a brief scene with a map, you see. “It’s not every day that a largely forgettable Dreamworks yeti movie can come under fire from multiple national governments for…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:33PMThe narration begins, “You were too young to lose your mum, and we were too young to organize a funeral. So because we were in Yorkshire, with nowhere else we wanted to be and nothing else…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:33PMCan a madrasa that teaches children of suicide bombers to draw and dance help them get deprogrammed from hours and hours of militant videos? The school is sure trying, but “when they first…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:33PMIn Columbus, Ohio, ballerina Rachael Parini was the inspiration for a 90-foot billboard that advertises the BalletMet company, but it means more than that to her – it means that young danc…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:33PMSwings are more than understudies – they have to learn multiple roles within one show. Twenty-year-old swing Debôrah Godchaser, who was barely born when Lion King opened, says she’s lea…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:33PMThe three-story mural, created for the Catholic youth Grace House in New York, has been cut out and preserved for auction. The Haring Foundation is not thrilled by the idea of the auction. �…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:33PMA consultant tells the BSO that it needs a “vision” in order to deal with the debt and the uncertain future. The consultant said that “the BSO should be building a blueprint for the ne…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:33PMThe vast majority of Inuit artists, even the celebrated ones, “eke out an existence.” Canada’s famed reconciliation isn’t touching their lives much. “Many support large extended fa…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:33PMJia Tolentino, New Yorker writer and extremely online person, follows the advice of a computer scientist. First thing to do: Give up everything optional on your phone and computer for 30 day…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:33PMVine and Instagram did it first (and, let’s be honest, Vine was great, RIP Vine), and now TikTok is the new way for kids to become social media-famous. How the heck is a school supposed to…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:33PMThe choreographer has a new memoir out. In an interview, he describes “the sissy tests” of middle school – and turning those humiliating, degrading moments into dance. – NPR
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:33PMWhy did Elizabeth Strout return to her dour, challenging protagonist – and how the heck did Olive Kitteridge become such a cultural force to begin with, a bestselling book that turned into…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:33PMClark was “an African-American expressionist painter who used a broom and bold colors to capture the natural world and to convey emotions about the racial injustice of the 1960s, earning h…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:33PMDanceEast, IpswichThe expressionist aesthetics of Egon Schiele’s nudes should make for riveting dance, but Shobana Jeyasingh’s production is a bit too beige
It’s easy to see why the wo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18PMThe “Arrested Development” actress made quite the New York stage debut, repeating one fiery scene opposite about 100 different actors in “The Second Woman.”
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This is a non-union production, and that means the actors are being paid a fraction of what they would be getting if the tour were offering performers a union contract.
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SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:54PMSydney Lyric theatreDance is the rightful soul of a show that reminds us we’re stronger, and better, when we look out for each other
There might not be a musical easier to love than Billy …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:12PMTo paraphrase A Chorus Line for the Wick Theatre’s Hot Shoe Shuffle: Dance 10, Books 3. Whenever this troupe of supremely talented terpsichoreans start tapping in precision sync, backed by…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:12PMLetts trips over the line between objectifying women and satirizing the objectification of women.
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SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 02:07PMIn his 20th and final year as artistic director of The Australian Ballet, David McAllister has programmed Australian and world premieres alongside established works that made an indelible ma…
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A trio of ripped-from-the-headlines dramas dominates the coming week on New York stages, plus the Broadway return of a talented Tony nominee and a cabaret evening with the composers of Legal…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:54PMHalloween Treats Abound with October releases on BroadwayHD
October 20, 2019: BroadwayHD kicked off the month of October with a binge-worthy lineup of performances that are sure to ex…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 12:33PMThe happiest and worst memories are those that last, re-playing over and over in one’s head. Movies have the same effect, like smiling when thinking about Han Solo winking at Princess Le…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 12:33PMPeter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere talk about Little Shop of Horrors, Linda Vista, Soft Power, Forbidden Broadway: The Next Generation, Is this a Room @ Vineyard, Mrs. Ste…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 12:31PMBroadway stars Adinah Alexander and Brandi Chavonne Massey have been friends for years, ever since starring together in Wicked. On Monday, October 21 at 7pm, the two will be singing up a sto…
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Growing up in a strict Muslim family, Amrou Al-Kadhi felt worthless, but found a new freedom and community in the world of drag
I am a therapist couch hopper (sorry to any of my cuckolded sh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AMLinbury theatre, Royal Opera House; Sadler’s Wells, LondonPam Tanowitz’s dazzling new piece for the Royal Ballet worked perfectly alongside Ashton and Cunningham. Elsewhere, the best of …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AMOld Vic, LondonDuncan Macmillan’s two-hander is a frenetic portrait of flawed love in a flawed world, exposing the neuroses of a modern couple who struggle to put their principles aside
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AMBackup dancers aren’t very “backup” anymore; instead, like the 16-year-old who began touring with Janet Jackson at age 12 and is now a major social media influencer, they’re at the c…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:42AMWe regret it an awful lot as well, Dame Julie. But oh, the stories she’s accumulated, this one quite early: “I had forgotten to pack my dress shoes, so my mother painted white ballet sli…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:42AMSure, Peter Handke spoke at the funeral of Serbian war criminal Slobodan Milošević in 2006, and sure, before that he had compared the fate of Serbia to that of Jewish people during the Hol…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:42AMThis is a bit of a problem for the massive company: “The big question now is whether some of Netflix’s existing subscribers will decide to cancel its service and defect to cheaper altern…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:42AMLittle People are statistically rare among the general population; so are good actors, to my mind. It stands to reason that individuals who answer to both descriptions would be rarer than ra…
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