I have long mentally penalized character actor Donald MacBride (1893-1957) for being one of the most annoying parts of one of the worst Marx Brothers movies, Room Service (1938). He’s that…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 06:24PMWang Jingchun, who won the Best Actor award at Cannes, says, “The rising box office is a really good thing. At its worst, we hardly had a box office to speak of. There also used to be a pr…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:06PMThe Music Publishers Association may long for the past, but they’re also trying to plan for the future. “There still is not a lot of ‘jumping to digital’ at professional orchestras s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:06PMBefore you dismiss the idea...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:06PMIn 1977, artists fought for a sculpture park in Yorkshire – but it was a very, very uphill climb. “More than 40 years later the stubbornness appears to have paid off. The YSP is at the h…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:06PMIt’s for security, officials say, as they ban books about coding and cybersecurity off of lists of books prisoners can receive. But some on the lists date back to the 1990s – and no one�…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:06PMJon Chu, on Asian and Asian American actors in Hollywood: “What’s great about this whole movement is that instead of getting one shot at this next time, maybe we get five. I just hope we…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:06PMLast summer, we offered a special photo gallery of the 50 greatest entertainers still waiting to be selected for the Kennedy Center Honors. Among that group were country music superstar Reba…
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by Eric Ulloa
“So, Mr. Goldstone is married to Uncle Jocko?”
My fellow farm boy, older and wiser by five years, turned to me laughing and said, “Gays can’t get married. They’re par…
SOURCE: www.theensemblist.com at 04:57PMEmploying her charming accent with its expressive vocal cadences and exhibiting her alluring sleek physicality and charismatic presence, Moloney totally embodies Molly Bloom as she forcefull…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:36PMby Anna Altheide
The Ensemblist spoke with five actors (Nikhil Saboo, Kimberly Dodson, Khadija Tariyan, Jack Sippe…
SOURCE: www.theensemblist.com at 04:36PM
That’s the hope as Rose Theater gets a large new building and plans to open one of the country’s biggest theatre academies – a “game-changer” for Omaha, but perhaps for the wider t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:30PMDaniel Glenn’s astutely goofy portrait of legislative gridlock in the Plymouth Colony casts women as some seriously conflicted founding fathers.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:18PMLast Saturday night, June 22nd, I was privileged to experience one of the most enjoyable theatre productions in my recent memory. It was intimate, personal, and refreshingly authentic. You c…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:09PMOnce again Fairfax’s Hub Theatre will be introducing a new playwright, and a new play that highlights America’s common humanity, to a wider DMV audience. This time the playwright is Sam …
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“Co-founder of [the company] Part of the Night, Olivia Munk, said: ‘My co-founder Jessica Bickel-Barlow and I realised that while we weren’t comfortable going to a pub or club alone, w…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:48PM“In its 15-year history, more than half of Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru’s productions have been directed by women and close to half have been written by female playwrights. Notably, of the …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:48PM“Terence Blanchard knows from experience that an opera that sounds and looks different from the classic repertory can bring new audiences to an old art form. ‘An elderly African American…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:48PM“Among the throng of honky-tonk bars in downtown Nashville is the Z. Alexander Looby Theatre — home to the Tennessee Women’s Theater Project. American Theatre caught up with company’…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:48PMSurprising no one who has pr-oordered, ordered, put on reserve at the library, or flat-out bought books mentioned by friends and authors on Twitter or Instagram or Facebook, the consensus is…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:48PMJacobin Magazine’s take on the Baltimore Symphony musicians’ lockout emphasizes worker solidarity, even for elite musicians. “A lockout is probably the nastiest of tactics used by orch…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:48PMCanadian soprano and OG Cosette, Rebecca Caine
Rebecca Caine may have been in a couple of musicals you’ve heard of before, but my introduction to her was through Tête à Tête’s insp…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PM
I remember being so bored by my high school American history class that I got a D in it. This was not normal. My report cards always had A’s and B’s. So the kindly elderly woman who taug…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:56PMPitt “created phantasmagorical worlds in ingenious animated films that dealt with miracles, mortality, depression and women’s sexuality.” – The New York Times
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:36PMThis is actually advice for parents: “We don’t read Ramona, or Junie B. Jones, or The Wild Robot in the bathtub. Those are bedtime books. Bath time is for epics, myths, and classics.…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:36PMNow this is a worthy portrait subject: “Olimpia Maidalchini Pamphilj was the power behind the papal throne, and the reputed lover as well as sister-in-law of Pope Innocent X. Nicknamed Pap…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:36PMThe original “restoration” in a small town in Spain reminded many people of, well, Tintin. This is different, and better. – The New York Times
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:36PMSherald knew she had the mural space on a Target in Philadelphia, and she wanted to paint someone who, to her, represented the community. A young woman in an arts program provided the spark.…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:36PMThough much of the online discussion featured some questions for how the paper decides what’s front-page news, it quickly shifted to the content, and, well, this became front-page news. �…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:36PMYes, there’s even a new home redecoration show called “Unspouse My House.” What the … oh, there’s a reason for this. “If shows like The Bachelor provide a narratively satisfying,…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:36PMThe singer’s first album since 2011 shows off the depth and layers of her career. – Doug Ramsey
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:36PMSo much that President Macron just awarded him a Legion d’Honneur, France’s highest award for civilians. – BBC
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:36PMWe can’t say it better than this: “The career of Joan Mitchell, who once likened Clement Greenberg to a ‘toilet seat,’ ought to remind us of how tribal the art world continues to be.…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:36PMSo progressive! “After three centuries of Broets (I’m not sorry) hogging the big chair, Oxford University—arguably the world’s most venerable institution of higher education—has el…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:36PMWhen people have a hard time seeing climate change as real, Hollywood could step forward – but it could also cause more problems. “While Hollywood’s version of climate change might bri…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:36PMFertility in the arts at the Jacob’s Pillow Gala. – Deborah Jowitt
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:36PMSelz’s views strongly shaped MoMA’s take on European and non-Abstract Expressionist art during the late 1950s and early 1960s, and his time at Berkeley made the museum “a locus of acti…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:36PMWritten and directed by Conor McPherson, with music and lyrics by Bob Dylan, Girl From The North Country won two Olivier Awards when it was last in the West End and was an all-round critical…
SOURCE: Stage Faves at 12:30PMBy Joseph Haj, Rob Melrose. Artistic directors Joe Haj, of Minneapolis’s Guthrie Theater, and Rob Melrose, of Houston’s Alley Theatre, talk about confidence and fearlessness, a company o…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:00PM
The magnificent production of Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish donated every seat in the Stage 42 Theater to refugees from around the globe in celebration and in honor of World Refugee D…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 11:52AMThe 2019-2020 Broadway season is still in formation, but there’s enough exciting already scheduled to offer this preview: Lin-Manuel is producing his hip-hop improv group on Broadway, and …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:49AMPeter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere talk about The Secret Life of Bees @ Atlantic Theater Company, Transport Group’s Sweet Charity in Concert, The Mountains Look Differen…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 11:30AMOver 50 years on and the Age of Aquarius is still providing a relevant, controversial (in parts) and – eventually – thunderously entertaining piece of musical theatre in Hair.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AM
I was on an airplane, flying back to the States from Heathrow. I had stopped, as is my habit, at the National Theatre Bookstore before heading back, and purchased my weight in playscripts.…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:36AMI get the birthday for the late Michael Wilson (1952-1996), Coney Island USA’s famous Illustrated Man, from this photo spread of his 1989 birthday party by John A. Moser. Wilson was one of…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:33AMFinborough, LondonDion Boucicault’s convoluted melodrama is elevated by the earnestness and imagination of Phil Willmott’s canny revival
“Spare me the theatricals,” pleads a characte…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:33AMToday being the first day of Pride Week (here in New York anyway), we thought we’d use the occasion for a brief tribute to the historic situation comedy Love Sidney (1981-83). Love, Sidney…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:33AMBy Editorial Staff
New production photos have been released of Ashley Roberts, Blake Harrison and Lucie Jones in the London production of Waitress the musical at the Adelphi Theatre.
This po…
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