(Bennett’s monologue appeared in the London Review of Books, 7/16.) An ordinary kitchen. Gwen, a middle-aged woman, talks to the camera. He pulled up his trousers. ‘You are nice…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:51PMThe reunion will be hosted by Dori Berinstein on the Broadway Podcast Network.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:25PMScience fiction writers have, indeed, always embraced globality. In interplanetary texts, humans of all nations, races and genders have to come together as one people in the face of alien in…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24PM“We keep hearing that this is a post-truth era, that feelings beat facts, people no longer care what’s true, and we’re heading for ruin. Opponents of Brexit and Donald Trump not only f…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24PMThe League of Professional Theatre Women will present the award in October.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:17PMThe funds will support young and emerging artists and art administrators.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:15PM
The special event combines The Dramatist Guild Awards, The Dramatist Guild Foundation Awards, and The Lilly Awards.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:54PMThe special event combines The Dramatists Guild Awards, The Dramatists Guild Foundation Awards, and The Lilly Awards.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:54PMWith this week’s Guest Host Michael Orland and featuring Ashley Argota, Dan Bauer, The Bleam Sisters, Hadiza Dockeray, Robin Lyon, Julie Sheppard, Nancy Timpanaro, Peter Allen Vogt, Myste…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 04:44PMThe July 20 live stream benefits The Actors Fund.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:37PMAin't Too Proud star Jelani Remy has been keeping busy in quarantine! The former Broadway.com vlogger has created a virtual fundraiser NextGen Spotlight, which will air on July 27 at 8PM ET…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:32PMViva la vie boheme! An exciting roster is set for this week's episodes of Stars in the House, a daily online series from SiriusXM On Broadway personality Seth Rudetsky and his husband, produ…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:32PMAs previously announced, Aladdin star Michael James Scott has joined the team of Broadway.com's popular daily live news show #LiveatFive to host a weekly roundtable discussion with theater s…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:32PMInspired by the 16th-century "dance plague," the short experimental piece features a score from his Under the Skin collaborator Mica Levi.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:30PMFor those wanting transformation, a crisis is a terrible thing to waste. But will hardship economics allow for new possibilities from our most prominent venues or will it just be a matter of…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:18PMThe Broadway program publication hasn’t printed programs since Broadway went dark. Website and social media traffic is up, but advertising has collapsed. “Just as it would be impossible …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:18PMThe politics of nostalgia doesn’t capitalise on people’s memories of particular past events they might have experienced. Instead, it makes use of propaganda about the way things were, in…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:18PMAlthough I spent college and most of my NBA career in Los Angeles, it wasn’t until I retired from basketball and began my second career as a writer specializing in African American history…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:18PMOn Sunday, August 2 at 7PM EST the St. George Theatre will present the 'Let's Hang On' Virtual Telethon to benefit the theatre's relief fund in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:12PMNew York City Center is presenting the #EncoresArchives series! They will be posting daily highlights from their musical theater vault from Encores!, Encores! Off-Center, and Gala production…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:12PMFor the first time, the Dramatists Guild of America will join with the Dramatists Guild Foundation and the Lillys to announce their annual awards, which will be streamed across various platf…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:12PMApple TV+ has shared a clip from the season one finale episode of Central Park, entitled a?oeA Fish Called Snakeheada?? premiering Friday, July 24.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:12PMWomen Warriors: Monologues for Girls Who’ve Got Bite
Amanda Grace
July 20, 2020
I was halfway through my undergraduate degree, sitting amongst piles of plays in the third-floor stacks…
SOURCE: performerstuff.com at 04:11PMSeth Rudetsky and James Wesley announced today that Adam Pascal and Anthony Rapp will share their memories from the phenomenon that was the original Broadway production of 'RENT' to support …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:11PMAs BroadwayWorld reported last week, Culture secretary Oliver Dowden recently announced on Twitter that UK theatres and music halls will be allowed to reopen on August 1, with socially dist…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:04PM
The creator and host of Little Known Facts debuts her new series as an homage to the Tony Awards, starting with a Patti LuPone interview.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:59PMThe original song is part of the #BeApart project, benefiting Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS and other relief organizations.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:57PMHow Chicago zinemakers are adapting to the pandemic
In May 2020, the Quimby's Bookstore Instagram started going live with a New Stuff This Week video. Store mana…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 03:30PMSaudi Arabia’s Minister of Culture, Badr bin Abdullah bin Mohammed bin Farhan Al Saud, announced that the Kingdom is preparing to add music, theatre, and art departments in its universitie…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 03:28PMHe's the one that they want! Brett Haley, who helmed the films The Hero and Hearts Beat Loud, will direct Paramount's previously announced Grease movie prequel, Summer Loving. Leah McKend…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:24PMThe live theater season, slated to open in October, has been delayed until January. Live streaming and digital events are in the works.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 03:22PM
The company's 50th anniversary season will be presented when it is safe to welcome audiences.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:58PMWe sure do miss you! While we are apart, our Artistic Producers, Zach Blackwood and Katy Dammers, will prep a new list each week to keep your ears and eyes full until we can be together agai…
SOURCE: fringearts.com at 02:51PMThe July 27 special event will benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:50PMSee what titles the New York City institution will present (virtually) July 20–26.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:46PMHamilton Disney+ “The world turned upside down”, proclaim the cast of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton (2016) after an epic retelling of siege of Yorktown, which led to the British surren…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 02:36PM"Stars and the Moon" has been a staple in concerts and cabarets by some of musical theatre's best and beloved. We read how there's a New Moon on July 20th so what better day for an Ultimate …
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 02:36PMThe movie will follow Danny and Sandy's summer fling.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:36PMThe three-time Tony winner will chat live on The Broadway Q&A from Playbill and The Growing Studio July 22.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:00PM
Emma Palzere-Rae performs an excerpt of her one-woman play, The Woodhull Project, about 1872 Presidential candidate, Victoria Woodhull.
Toast the Vote!
Join the CT Chapter of the Leag…
SOURCE: reflectionsinthelight.blogspot.com at 01:57PMAs the London theatre celebrates its 125th birthday, we look back at past productions, with a cast list including Barbara Windsor, Kenneth Branagh and Adrian Lester Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:36PMAfter five trying months in Lancashire, Big Kid Circus is now at centre of mystery after performers disappear
Last week, Jhanys Corrales and Sandy Triana, two of the circus’s high-profile …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:36PMFor theatres, these last few months have been critical, but these next few months are essential. Emma Rogerson discusses the present and future pressures on UK theatres and whether, in the f…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:32PMA few months ago, we launched Flying Free: Wicked Inspired Songs, a video series presented with ASCAP featuring four songwriters who revisit Oz and pen an original song. Today, we’re proud…
SOURCE: YouTube at 01:18PMTrip Advisor's number 1 ranked walking tour for London are ready to lead musical lovers on an all-singing all-dancing tour around Theatreland
The post Silent Disco Walking Tours to resume in…
SOURCE: officiallondontheatre.com at 01:13PMOlivier Award winner Andrew Scott, known for his work on season two of Fleabag, is set to star in Stephen Beresford's new play Three Kings. Directed by Matthew Warchus, the five performances…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:12PMFrom the Upper West Side to The Berkshires! Berkshire Theatre Group has announced that Tony winner Brian Stokes Mitchell is set to take the—socially distanced—stage at the Colonial Theat…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:12PMAs part of the virtual benefit event AIDS Walk: Live at Home, Broadway faves Megan Hilty, Shoshana Bean and Katharine McPhee united for a mash-up of some of Andrew Lloyd Webber's beloved s…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:12PMOn Thursday, July 16, seven gender diverse artists and leaders in our theatre community gathered for a Roundtable to talk about the barriers that Black women, femmes, and nonbinary folx face…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:12PMThe Last Dance, now streaming on Netflix, is a 10-part documentary series spotlighting Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls dynasty leading up to their last run at a championship in 1997-98.…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 01:04PMWhile some authors say the fiction can help people learn how to resist and persist, Black people in the U.S. say it’s more of a mirror. “Assume where America has always been is a tragedy…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:03PMIt may be closed on its 65th anniversary, but that’s the only appropriate choice. “For me and many Southern California residents, Disneyland is more than a theme park; it is where I go …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:03PMParker was a huge supporter of civil rights and gave most of her estate to Martin Luther King (whom she had never met) when she died in 1967. When King died, the estate was transferred to th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:03PMAt the centenary of his birth, NPR has an appreciation of those he mentored and his influence on the music world of today. “Isaac Stern’s tombstone simply reads, Isaac Stern, fiddler. Th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:03PMAccording to the publisher’s own history, Elliott founded the magazine during a summer holiday from Keele University, where he was studying. “He produced the first edition on the kitchen…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:03PMThe Tony and Pulitzer winner chats live on The Broadway Q&A, from Playbill and The Growing Studio, at 1 PM ET.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:01PM
The concert will support Higher Heights for America and its work mobilizing and electing Black women, and Field Team 6's efforts registering Democratic voters.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:58PMThe New York opera house is pioneering pay-per-view live performances over 12 weeks with top international singers
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:51PMGo behind the scenes of Phantom's 25th Anniversary performance, where we discover all about the Phantom's iconic mask, while Christopher Tucker talks through the history of the Phantom's dis…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 12:51PMAdmji, the author of Stunning and 3C, explores his life and how he became an artist in the book, which is out now.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:48PMProceeds will go to the Berkshire Theatre Group, The Actors Fund, and Black Theatre United.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:21PMSeen on stage in The Little Dog Laughed and The Duchess of Malfi, Lloyd plays Bernard Marx on the new streaming adaptation of the classic Aldous Huxley dystopian novel.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:05PM
“Rooms2020” was to have been presented in a live season which was aborted by the current Covid crisis. Instead, the troupe has presented the work artfully streamed in a version that is m…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:54AMTransport Group will broadcast the video recording of the world-premiere musical to raise funds for the Black Theatre Network.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:33AMHere's what to catch from theatre organizations and more July 20–24.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:30AMWhen Covid-19 struck, theatre photographer Ali Wright lost her livelihood – alongside thousands of other freelance stage creatives and actors. Many have turned their skills to use during l…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:24AMAvailable onlineFloods plunge Britain into a state of emergency in an engrossing audio play performed by 14- to 18-year-olds
Ben Weatherill’s audio play is set in the year 2025 when a flo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:24AMAhead of PBS’ Great Performances presentation during the Broadway at Home series, look back at the Tony Award-nominated production.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:18AMHere’s episode 14 of our AYT in Isolation series and we’re talking to Olivia Munk who is part of the very exciting company, Part of the Main. The bearer of many hats, Olivia has worked a…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:18AMAll of our nostalgic dreams are coming true to give us the nineties/ West End mash-up we never knew we needed.
The post Drive-in screening of Spice World with West End leading ladies hits Lo…
SOURCE: officiallondontheatre.com at 11:09AMYou had one dream. You wanted to be in a show. Or direct a show. Or write a show. What did you get instead? A @#$% show. I can’t even imagine what it must be like to be you rig…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM
#Stageworthy News. Every year for the past decade, I’ve written a preview guide to the dozen or so annual summer theater festivals in New York. Most have been canceled this year, at least …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:55AMThis article is part of the Dramaturgs’ Network’s Invisible Diaries series. In a moment of freedom from time and gravity. Noticing information entering my body As if there is nothing e…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 10:36AMCommunications that don’t involve asking for money (donation, ticket sale, etc.) are important to keep patrons engaged and deepen their relationship with your organization. Here are some i…
SOURCE: artshacker.com at 10:33AMThe new play by Stephen Beresford will be live streamed from the Old Vic stage for five performances.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:24AMThree Kings will be performed for five shows, with tickets on sale now.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:24AMFounder Joe Rosko hosts the Broadway alum for a quick workout to get the week started.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:21AMFrom the Guggenheim in Bilbao to the virtual Vatican collections, here's where to get your culture fix online.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 10:15AMThe virtual performance was part of New York and San Francisco's remote AIDS Walk.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:04AMNigel Slater’s Toast is a top quality production full of heartwarming moments and alimentary temptations – grab yourself a Walnut Whip and make yourself comfy.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMThis week we look at one of my favorite Theatre souvenirs, The Lights Of Broadway Show Cards! Finally, Broadway trading cards!! Whether you're an OG Lightcatcher or have never heard of these…
SOURCE: YouTube at 10:00AMTheatre Producer Paul Taylor-Mills is going to spice up your summer with a West End meets Spice Girls concert. The Drive In at Troubadour Meridian Water is the place to be with various film…
SOURCE: London Theatre Direct at 10:00AMMichael Park taught us how "to break in a glove" in the original Broadway cast ofDear Evan Hansen. It's his birthday! We found a #MCM Man Crush Monday worthy throwback clip from his days on …
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 10:00AM
The historical musical stars West End alum Jed Berry and Kane Verrall.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:56AMConor McPherson's play, re-imagined for the screen, will play virtually July 21–25, reuniting the cast of the original run.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:52AMMorgan Bullock’s TikTok videos went viral, and then came the backlash. The dancer diplomatically says, “I think people use the term appropriation without understanding what it means.” …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:48AMIt’s just too, too weird. “To someone living exclusively online, many of Freud’s “primitive beliefs” would be literal truths. The dead live on in their videos and social media feed…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:48AMOpening with socially distanced audiences on August 1st? Not likely, say theatres. “For most theatres it will not be economically viable to reopen with 30%-40% audience required under soci…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:48AMNatasha Trethewey, former poet laureate of the U.S.: “When people talk about how getting rid of [Stone Mountain] would be erasing history – well, the monument itself is already an erasur…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:48AMSapardi, an influential poet and cultural critic, founded the Indonesian Literary Scholars Association and served as a dean at the University of Indonesia. One author: “As long as I’ve k…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:48AMBy Mark Ludmon
Lyricist Don Black is working on a gender-switched version of Tell Me on a Sunday changing the main character to a gay man.
This post New version of Tell Me on a Sunday switch…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 09:34AMBrendan Bradley’s Future Stages creates a no-mask, no-risk communal space to produce theatre and reinvigorate audiences and performers alike.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:32AMThis event supporting the Educational Theatre Foundation will feature appearances from Chita Rivera, Don Cheadle, Vanessa Williams, Audra McDonald, and more.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:31AMBy Jan Cohen-Cruz. Jan Cohen-Cruz shares the results of her recent survey about community-based and socially engaged theatremakers in the United States, which looked at commonalities across …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 09:28AMBy . La MaMa Experimental Theater Club presents Café La MaMa Live: July Month livestreaming on the global, commons-based, peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Tuesday 21 Ju…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 09:27AM2020-21 ITO on student leadership
The post Five Questions with <br/>Jeyna Lynn Gonzales appeared first on Dramatics Magazine Online.
SOURCE: Dramatics Magazine at 09:26AMSee 11 of our favorite submissions so far, and then submit your own!
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:22AMClips from past productions of The Little Mermaid, Singin' in the Rain, The Wiz, and The Music Man will also be presented.
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Sure, people might pay $20 for a concert – but will they do what’s even better, what the Met would like them to do? “The recitals are intended to stimulate donations. ‘Fund-raising e…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:48AMAt least partially – the biggest ad buyer this year on the social media giant has decided to pull its Disney Plus and Hulu ads, probably, along with hundreds of other advertisers, over con…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:48AMThe graduating MFA class of 2020 at the Oregon College of Art and Craft has, to put it mildly, been through some things. But they may be the only graduating MFA class in the country to have …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:48AMLast week, Netflix suddenly decided to “reveal” its Top 10 movies of all time. Hm. “The catch was that Netflix provided the ranking and the numbers itself, meaning there was no way to …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:48AMWhat’s that about? “Are these enablers true believers or just cynical opportunists? Do they believe the lies they tell and the conspiracies they invent or are they simply greedy for weal…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:48AMThere aren’t many in England, even in the capital city – and it took two years to raise the funds for this one. “Price’s latest statue will be one of very few in Britain of black fem…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:48AMIt’s hard to settle on a bop when there’s no one to bop with and no place to dance to that bop. “This level of turnover has not been seen since 1990, the year before Nielsen SoundSc…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:48AMThe 'Fleabag' actor will headline the theatre's new livestreamed play 'Three Kings' beginning 29 July
SOURCE: The Independent at 08:18AMFor 'The Parsnip Ship,' audio theater is not a stopgap for live drama; this is an accessible and pure artform unto itself.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 08:00AM
UK Theaters Open/NY Theaters Don’t, Rosie Confirms “Funny Girl” Revival, Broadway Stars in Hallmark Christmas Movies “Today on Broadway” is a daily, Monday through Friday, podcast …
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 07:55AMKwame Kwei-Armah, Julia Wissert and Eva Doumbia met online this week to talk about challenging the establishment, Black Lives Matter and the issue of white universality.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:48AMhttp://broadwayshowbiz.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/aham.mp3
SOURCE: broadwayshowbiz.com at 07:45AMArena Stage, whose ten-play season was cancelled earlier this year by coronavirus, has announced that it intends to restage in 2021 three of the plays it lost this year. To that contingent, …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:42AMWe are obsessed with show logos and window cards! We just LOVE them. So we thought it'd be fun to have a show logo tournament, you know, like March Madness. We poured over the archives and d…
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 07:32AMBy Mark Ludmon
Mikron Theatre Company are planning to tour two new shows in 2021 after a successful fundraising drive.
This post Mikron Theatre Company plans 2021 tours after fundraiser firs…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 07:27AMBy Douglas Mayo
The Donmar Warehouse is to re-open temporarily this August with Blindness - a socially distanced sound installation voiced by Juliet Stevenson.
This post Donmar re-opens in A…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 07:14AMDan Duryea is Jack Benny’s guest star in “Death Across the Lunch Counter,” a spoof of the opening scene of Robert Siodmak’s The Killers. This clip is an excerpt from an episode of …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM“You’re only allowed three great women in your lifetime. They come along like the great fighters, every ten years.”
Chazz Palminteri, screenplay for A Bronx Tale
Continue reading Alma…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AM
New production with Fleabag and Sherlock actor will be performed to an empty auditorium, directed by Matthew Warchus
One year on from his award-winning run in Noël Coward’s Present Laught…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:54AMMichael Longhurst, Rebecca Front, Nathaniel Martello-White and more discuss the theatres that have inspired and challenged them Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:54AMThe next production to be streamed from an empty Old Vic has been written especially for Andrew Scott, by Pride writer Stephen Beresford.
The post Andrew Scott to star in next Old Vic: In Ca…
SOURCE: officiallondontheatre.com at 05:53AMOne of the first outdoor theatre seasons to be announced as lockdown eases, The New Normal will take place at The Royal Victoria Patriotic Building in Wandsworth, London from 3-31 August 202…
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