Even if King Arthur didn’t return to the aid of Great Britain during World War II, other heroes like Wonder Woman, Captain America, Sherlock Holmes and The Scarlet Pimpernel aided th…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 10:46PMThe heroine of Ben Weatherill’s play is strong, witty and learning disabled. So is Sarah Gordy who portrays her. About time too, say the writer and actor
When Ben Weatherill set out to wri…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:24PMListen: Taylor Mac at The Flea, Vosk Triplett Sayle BECOMING NANCY At Alliance, Musicians and League Duet, Video from BACK TO THE FUTURE Musical and PIAZZA, Intimacy Directors on Broadway, a…
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SUSAN KIM is delighted to be back at the Marathon. Plays: The Joy Luck Club, The Arrangement, Where It Came From, Memento Mori, Pandora, Dreamtime for Alice, Rapid Eye Movement, Seventh…
SOURCE: Visible Soul at 08:24PMFRANCE-LUCE BENSON is a proud member at Ensemble Studio Theatre. Her play Detained was awarded a grant from the Miranda Foundation to be developed at EST and will premiere later this year…
SOURCE: Visible Soul at 08:24PMBy: David Sheward
June 26, 2019: Toni Stone is probably the most famous athlete you never heard of. From 1949 to 1954, she played baseball in the Negro Leagues and was the first woman o…
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Over 9 years ago I wrote about a TED Talk given by Golan Levin where he was demonstrating technology that being used to generate images based on sound input. The things he was doing was fun …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 07:33PM“It is believed that students who spend school time in music classes, rather than further developing their skills in math, science, and English classes, will underperform in those discipli…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:33PMSidewalk Labs, the smart-city startup from Google parent company Alphabet, has released its master innovation and development plan to turn a sizable swath of Toronto’s Lake Ontario shore…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:33PM“Most of us already lead creative and cultural lives: we join book clubs, we take craft classes, we stream music,” the strategy document says. “The task for the Arts Council is to enab…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:33PMAfter over 200 studies, we know that the more people endorse materialism, the worse their wellbeing. They’re less empathic, less prosocial, more competitive. They’re less likely to suppo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:33PMDirector Eric Schaeffer, costume designer Erik Teague and scenic designer Paul Tate dePoo III walked us through the world-premiere musical's ambitious aesthetic.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:33PMHere's a quick roundup of stories you might have missed today.Bette Midler to Perform at New York City Pride
Stage-and-screen legend Bette Midler, a 2017 Tony winner for her incredible turn …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 07:18PMMallory Portnoy and Damon Daunno in Oklahoma! (Photo: Little Fang)Mallory Portnoy has been cackling her way through Daniel Fish's reimagined Oklahoma! since its first production at Bard Coll…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 07:18PMFull casting is set for the highly anticipated new musical Becoming Nancy, slated to make its world premiere this fall at the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta, GA. The previously announced produc…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 07:18PMKaitlyn Black stops by to chat about #DateMe: An OkCupid Experiment and more with Ryan Lee Gilbert.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 07:18PMIn 2007, Dominic Cooke said he intended to stage ‘middle-class dramas’ at London’s Royal Court – but where is that fare now?
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Striking stage version of Thomas Vinterberg and Tobias Lindholm's 2012 film
For a while, child abuse has been banished from our stages. After all, there is a limit, surely, to how much pain …
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 06:54PM(Nancy Coleman’s article appeared in the New York Times, 6/21; via Pam Green.) Jeremy Wechsler was on his way to rehearsal one morning in March when his phone started, and then wouldn’t …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:36PMWhether it’s your website, email marketing templates, or landing pages, user testing is a critical step toward the end of a digital redesign process. Implemented properly, the process shou…
SOURCE: artshacker.com at 06:27PM18-year-olds Ekele Ukegbu and Ethan Kelso took home top Jimmy Awards after an emotional and entertaining event.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 06:25PMTo transmogrify Seuss, What a difficult task! Just how do they do it? And well might you ask! This master of mayhem Who leaps from the page, How could he possibly be Put on the stage? In dra…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:19PMBy Douglas Mayo
Andrew Lloyd Webber will have reason to celebrate as he once again breaks records on 27 June 2019 by having five of his musicals running concurrently in London!
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The union for Broadway’s musicians announced a three-year bargaining agreement with producers today, a pact the union says features the largest wage increase in two decades. The agreement …
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:46PMLocal 802, the union representing musicians playing on Broadway and elsewhere, announced a new collective bargaining agreement Wednesday that entitles Broadway musicians to wage increases an…
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 05:42PMFrom allosexual to zaza and zir, terms you won't find in your Funk & Wagnalls
Allosexual Used within the asexual community to mean someone who is not asexua…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 05:21PMSadler’s Wells, LondonThree dances with differing tones and temperament, including Jessica Lang’s Lyric Pieces and Ruth Brill’s Peter and the Wolf, make for an ambiguous show
As a titl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:12PMMy friend Alan Drury, who has died aged 70, was a playwright responsible for some outstanding and distinctive work during the 1970s and 80s.
His first big success came in 1975 with The Man H…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:12PMThe playwright and actress on her younger self: “I would tell her to keep resisting.”
SOURCE: ShowTickets.com at 05:04PMThe Westfield News Group ArtsBeat 6/26/19. Summer theatre in full swing at Chester Theatre and Barrington Stage. A new executive director for Hartford Stage, and arts news for WMass and No.C…
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Now celebrating its tenth anniversary in a limited engagement at New World Stages, Rock of Ages has far surpassed its Pop fifteen minutes of fame. With a high-energy high-decibel score cover…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:57PMYour guide to some of the biggest LGBTQ events this weekend
From Bronzeville to Boystown and
beyond, here are some of the events closing out this anniversary P…
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SOURCE: broadwayselect.com at 04:39PMSee the lineup of titles slated to take the stage in the 31st annual festival this October.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:27PMThe play reading and fundraiser aims to bring awareness to conditions at migrant border facilities and advise attendees on how they can help.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:21PMPassero’s expressive tenor voice, twinkling eyes, seasoned character actor presence which recalls that of Michael Tucker and jovial personality enables him to entertainingly chronicle his …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:17PMThe Obie-winning summer festival returns to the New Ohio Theatre, with a slate of shows directed entirely by women.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:08PMThe David Greig play marks the inaugural production by Donmar's new artistic director, Michael Longhurst.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:08PMThe popular platform celebrated the women of the Broadway musical with a glam photoshoot with photographer Kai Ravelson.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:06PMJeremy Dutcher incorporates in his live and recorded music an unusual and affecting act of legacy, playing transcribed wax recordings from 1911 by an early anthropologist of a tribal elder s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:06PMIt’s a 140-ton, 100-foot crane that used to lift freight at the docks in Bristol. Now — decked out with multiple speakers that shoot flames into the air, all powered by a generator that …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:06PMThe group is primarily concerned about the latest design’s 10% reduction in size and museum director Michael Govan’s plan to disburse objects from the permanent collection to future s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:06PMThe development is the latest in what has been a tumultuous year for the N.R.A. It has struggled to right its finances; faced investigations in Congress and by Letitia James, the New York a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:06PMJoseph Haj: “When I see artistic directors who have a five-show season directing three of the shows, I think: nobody’s that interesting, nobody. I don’t care how beautiful and thrillin…
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“Breakdancing moved a step closer to the 2024 Olympics on Tuesday, and now organizers can look to book a street venue in Paris. Called breaking in Olympic circles, its medal debut was last…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:33PMAs the desire for an authoritative dictionary of American English developed in the first half of the 19th century, there was a serious battle between the partisans of Noah Webster — who wa…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:33PMBeing a philosopher on brain rest is like being a point guard on hand rest. The major asset for your profession is suddenly not working reliably. – The New York Times
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:33PMA Q&A with two curators at the museum at the Rhode Island School of Design about the issues of provenance, law, and diplomacy around the future return of the museum’s 18th-century scul…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:33PMAmazon remains defiant that it is doing more than enough to combat the issue. In its blog post, the company claimed that in 2018 alone it “invested over $400 million in personnel and tools…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:33PMKnown for her roles in Wicked and Hair, Levy also originated the role of Elsa in Disney’s stage adaptation of the 2013 blockbuster movie.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:32PMThe one-hour special will feature a live performance from Broadway's New Amsterdam Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:30PMRelive the roaring ‘20s this summer at these NYC sites and events
SOURCE: ShowTickets.com at 02:18PMThe Chicago-based improv troupe steers to the middle for laughs at the Kennedy Center.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:12PMMichael R. Jackson's new musical, "A Strange Loop," follows a young artist at war with a host of demons — not least of which, the punishing thoughts in his own head.
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Echo in the Canyon is a sublimely moving documentary celebration of a nonpareil moment when, a half century ago, the Southern California scene boasted giants of music.
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SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:42PMFinding independent films that may or may not receive wider distribution, as well as talking to filmmakers anxious to answer questions about their work, are great reasons to travel to the P…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:42PMAN APP-ETITE FOR AMOUR Sooner or later you knew an Internet application would get its own show, especially when it plays Dan Cupid, hooking up randy seekers of one-night stands or permanent …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:41PMSeven people at the helm of current Broadway shows share why their associate directors are indispensable.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:40PMThe post-show series offers fans the chance to sing songs from Sara Bareilles’ Tony-nominated score on a Broadway stage.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:11PMBirmingham Royal Ballet’s Unleashed is a gripping mixed bill of works by established and emerging female choreographers. Like English National Ballet’s recent
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:03PMI realised very quickly to believe in the critics that have described Matthew Bourne as a wonderful storyteller. Through physical movement, relationships between characters, facial expressio…
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NiteLife Exchange (NLE) celebrates Fred Aiese (FA) with Six Questions:
NiteLife Exchange: When did you realize you had the gift of singing and what were your early influences?
Fred Aiese: …
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 12:59PMHaggis McLeod has been programming Glastonbury’s non-music performance for three decades and is one of the few to work directly with festival
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:52PMThe annual showcase of new works from around the globe will kick off July 8, with performances in various locations around New York City.
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Grease in concert offers fans the chance to relive the classic film musical starring Olivia Newton John and John Travolta with a live orchestra at venues across the UK. Fo…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 12:42PMThe stage adaptation of the ’80s comedy will play the U.K. in 2020.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:32PMJosef Swickard (Peter Josef Schwickerath, 1866-1940) seems like a really unlikely guy to have wound up in in a lot of silent slapstick comedies. Just look at him! The aristocratic looking Co…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 12:24PMYou can tell that someone is a silent comedy geek — as opposed to just a silent movie geek — if they know Ernest Torrence (1878-1933) primarily as Buster Keaton’s rough, tough riverb…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 12:24PMMatthew AmendtHometown: Indiana, PA. Current Town: Brooklyn, NYQ: What are you working on now?A: A new play called THE COMEDIAN'S TRAGEDY running at the Access Theater until July 6th, a…
SOURCE: ADAM SZYMKOWICZ at 12:19PMPerformances begin July 10 under the direction of Brett Smock.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:07PMCreation myths and family histories meld in a wildly theatrical, startling new comedy that explores what it means to walk the edge between cultures. The Fountain Theatre, in association wi…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.com at 12:06PMLynn Nottage's Pulitzer-winner thrives in this Donmar Warehouse production, while Stephen Mallatratt's 1989 thriller runs on and on
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 12:00PMAmelie is a slick, clever and hugely appealing production which reveals the heart of the original in a way which the initial Broadway production did not, if the clips of the latter are to be…
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Here’s how to win a pair of tickets to see these acting powerhouses on stage in New York City—plus a free steakhouse dinner.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:50AM“Liberal Democrat peer Patrick Boyle started the debate, in which he asked the government what ‘assessment they have made of the operation of the theatre market in London’ and what ste…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AM“Judith and Holofernes, which was found under an old mattress in the attic of a house in the French city of Toulouse, was snapped up by a foreign buyer, the auction house selling it said o…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AMThe novel, which has already won the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, has received the first-ever Orwell Prize for political fiction. The more-established Orwell …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AM“With original drawings lost and no digital records, photographs of the historic clock were the only clue experts had about how they might rebuild it. Then French clockmaker Jean-Baptiste …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AMRobert Smith: “She subverted both sides of the high-low equation, ridiculing and exaggerating Abstract Expressionist technique while imbuing popular culture characters with raw, uncontroll…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AM“Haredim – a Hebrew word meaning ‘those who tremble at the word of God’ that encompasses a multiplicity of ultra-Orthodox Jewish sects – tend to isolate themselves from secular soc…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AM“The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra owed its vendors $2.1 million as of late April … That’s almost an 81% increase over the $1.2 million the orchestra owed to merchants as of Sept. 25, 2…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AM“A stalwart at New York City Opera and the Metropolitan Opera, [he] was celebrated for his acting ability. His voice was modestly scaled, but he used it cannily, always finding ways for vo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AM“As anti-Semitic rhetoric and hate crimes resurge, is it still funny for us to be our own punching bags? Is it safe? In joking about money, neuroses, and the demasculinized Jewish man, are…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AMShannon Paulus discovered them in college and found them a sort of miracle cure for pre-performance anxiety, just as so many performers have. Then she learned the hard way about the dangers …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AM“As if dominating movie theaters weren’t enough, Marvel is about to move into high school theater as well. The publisher has announced a partnership with theatrical publisher Samuel Fren…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AM“Mailer on the moonshot: loads of words, loads of money. A big deal for Life magazine. And for Mailer? Grim opportunism. Out of tune, bardically bereft, plucking (as it were) flaccid str…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AMA host of stage alums will celebrate the punk-pop star in July.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:33AMIncoming Festival was started by two critics Eleanor Turney and Jake Orr. They tell Ava Wong Davies about supporting mid-career artists, engaging
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:30AMOne thing the 17 actors on stage at Riverside Church couldn’t see last night as they performed Robert Schenkkan’s “The Investigation”: the
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 11:18AMI attended this extraordinary performance last night at the magnificent Riverside Church on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. Annette Bening is the host.
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 11:18AMSummer can be cruel on Broadway — especially if there are no Tony Awards in mid June for shows that are suffering
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 11:18AMTo make the actors comfortable, the director of “Frankie and Johnny” brought in an expert in staging sex scenes — Broadway’s first, and certainly not its last.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:12AMHelen Hunt, Christopher Jackson, and Javier Muñoz star in the 1978 musical based on Studs Terkel's book of interviews with American workers.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:10AMAcclaimed dramatist Tom Stoppard will debut his latest work in London next year. Titled Leopoldstadt, the world premiere play will begin previews on January 25, 2020 and open on February 12 …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:06AMPut on your dancing shoes and get ready to sing out with a super fun group of stars. Casting is here for Mamma Mia! The Party, the new site-specific experience set to debut in London this su…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:06AMElementary? The cast who will solve the cast of Sherlock Holmes and The Invisible Thing has been revealed! We can't wait to see this brilliant restaging that will bring London's most famous …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:02AMRandom and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
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A £90 million council scheme for a new theatre and office complex in Tunbridge Wells has been put on hold after facing
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:54AMThere’s not much to laugh at in politics today. Nor is it easy to make fun of diversity, gender, Putin, or Pepsi. But that doesn’t prevent the team of talented comedians at Second City…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:54AMThe 2019 Tony nominee recalls performances by Norm Lewis, Chuck Cooper, Victoria Clark, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, and more.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:53AMA conversation with Maria Manuela Goyanes of Woolly Mammoth and Studio Theatre's David Muse about what makes theatre political.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:51AMby Christopher Faison
Christopher Faison (right) and Laura Benanti in My Fair Lady (Photo by Eric Liebowitz/NBC)
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SOURCE: www.theensemblist.com at 10:50AMDerby Theatre and Bradford’s Theatre in the Mill have been selected to pilot a £3 million scheme that aims to developing local
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:42AMHolley Fain talks all things Caitlin Carney in the Tony-winning play The Ferryman.
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 10:41AMThe acclaimed chamber musical will debut in Melbourne in a production from Antipodes Theatre Company.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:38AMThis week, we welcome Frozen ensemblist Cajai Fellows Johnson to the Main Stem and learn about her journey to making her Broadway debut.
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SOURCE: www.theensemblist.com at 10:37AMBy Editorial Staff
Mamma Mia! The Party London have announced the full cast for the upcoming immersive theatrical and dining experience opening at the O2.
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SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 10:36AMRobert Schenkkan’s dramatic interpretation of the Mueller report was presented by Law Works June 24.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:34AMThe immersive production will begin in August.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:34AMPortsmouth’s Kings Theatre has announced proposals for a £4 million renovation. The project would see three neighbouring shop units demolished to make
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:33AMCast members from the show sang “All I Ever Need Is You” and “The Way of Love.”
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:30AMShe worked her G-stringed butt off to make it a success, but in the end, “The Cher Show” just wasn’t strong enough to make it. Despite non-stop promo appearances on “The Tonight Show…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:14AMThe monologuist is telling his most personal story ever at the Public Theatre, and he finds that music helps the medicine go down.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 10:02AMLove London Love Culture’s Emma Clarendon picks out some of the shows on Broadway she wants most to see…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMThe Stage has unwittingly found itself at the centre of a media storm over the Boris Johnson domestic disturbance. Tabard should explain.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:00AMThe revival of Noël Coward’s comedy also stars Game of Thrones’ Indira Varma.
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By Catherine M. Young. Catherine M.
SOURCE: HowlRound at 09:57AMTo celebrate a decade of presenting Shakespeare at St Paul’s Church in Covent Garden, Daniel Winder’s Iris Theatre is staging Hamlet. The
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:55AMThe production will begin performances at London’s Wyndham’s Theatre in January 2020.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:54AMThe Tony winner will be accompanied by Tony-winning composer-lyricist Marc Shaiman.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:52AMTwo of Broadway’s more imposing figures are calling it quits: King Kong and The Cher Show have posted closing notices, the latest exits in the annual post-Tony culling. Each production wil…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:49AMThe musical, now beginning its return engagement Off-Broadway at New World Stages, welcomed celebrities, friends, and cast members old and new to celebrate the show's 10th anniversary.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:46AMHusband and wife Feargus Woods Dunlop and Heather Westwell co-founded New Old Friends and have discovered a knack - and award-winning success - bringing detective stories to family audiences…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:31AMFrozen's new trio of stars, Ryannnn Redmond, Joe Caroll, & Noah Ricketts, perform their musical numbers from the Disney hit.
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 09:29AMAge 19. I was getting off the plane from Kenyon College to be home for Thanksgiving Break. My dad had colon cancer, but I didn’t think it was serious. My mom picked me up, and before I cou…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:24AMSpent many years waiting for the right play of mine to head to the Fringe again. Loved the experience in 2010 and plan to love it all over again with this show. But it’s a very different s…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:24AMOld Vic, London Scott is richly funny as a peacocking Peter Pan whose theatrical bohemia is threatened by outsiders
Andrew Scott gives a virtuosic performance in Noël Coward’s imperishabl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AMWe greet summer with daily outdoor dance events...and a few in the comfort of AC.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 09:00AMJune 28, 1979: Following Margaret Thatcher’s election as prime minister, the new Conservative government passed its first spending review, resulting in a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMJune is widely celebrated throughout the UK as being the month to celebrate Pride. The month is used to embrace a culture that was once suppressed, and what better way to do this than to wat…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMIt’s taken Mark Cornell three years to realise: “Theatres need to look to cinemas to improve audience comfort”, arguing theatregoers are enduring
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMFu-GEN Theatre Company’s wildly ambitious show Fearless lets drivers around Markham pick up actors and experience theatre in their own vehicles.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 09:00AM
First soloist Linnar Looris, a native son, has been named artistic director; Jared Matthews, who was a longtime soloist at ABT before coming to Houston as a principal dancer, will be assista…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:54AM“The unspecified procedure [at the Cleveland Clinic] was, according to MTT’s statement in his announcement of taking medical leave, ‘in continuation of treatment for a heart condition …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:54AMIt's a new season, and it looks like things are going to start with a scorching summer on Broadway. And I don't just mean the city heat. We saw this season's first musical last summer in Bos…
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 07:48AMDon’t expect a piece that deals with depression to be, well, depressing, thanks to animation and a funky, gamer-inspired soundscape.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 07:30AMThe classic advice for writers is to 'write what you know'. That's exactly what journalist and playwright Tony Leliw has done in creating his new comedy Sushi Girls. Find out how playing ho…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:26AMPlaywright James Graham may have had two plays in the West End at the same time but can he handle ten questions from me?!
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMA friend and I started a sketch group last year, which has now grown to five people and started to build a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:00AMIs it a good idea to do “big” monologues for auditions (e.g. Hamlet, Lady Macbeth, Fleabag, anything Victoria Wood), or better to
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:00AMSelina Fillinger's drama gets in some good shots in at quick-fix concepts of closure, healing, and even justice.
The 2016 Brock Turner rape trial, which ended wi…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMThe gears keep spinning, but we never get anywhere.
I suppose it would be difficult not to make a mechanical engine the central metaphor of any play about Ada By…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMBut the dance sequences undermine the attempts to address serious issues.
The house music scene that dominated Chicago in the 80s comes alive again at the Chopin…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMIn the title role, Will Lidke is a nova of charisma.
It hasn't always been blindingly obvious that Hedwig and the Angry Inch is a riff on Plato's "Symposium." Bu…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMIn the first of our two-part interview, Bare: A Pop Opera star Darragh Cowley discusses playing ‘the golden boy’ and why 2019 is the right time to revive Damon Intrabartolo and Jon Hartm…
SOURCE: Stage Faves at 07:00AMTheater on the Lake kicks off its season with a free three-day seminar for the Chicago theater community.
As this cold, wet June wore on and no schedule had been…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AM
Plans have been announced to demolish a 358-seat theatre in Ilford and replace it with a 900-seat performing arts venue. The venue
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:55AMCan we watch and create theatre without any political intention? Is apoliticism an insidious tool? After watching two very different shows, Aidan Bracebridge is left wondering. A few months …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:42AMIt's not every day that you're taught to deliver a knockout blow with the butt of a gun, or, at least, appear to convincingly do so, but that's what's been happening in rehearsals for the wo…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:33AMAn oversized, disembodied gold hand greets me as I enter Cora Cahan’s office. Its fingers, which dangle over Madame Tussauds across the street, appear to be stirring something — possibl…
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 06:30AMHave you forgotten why everyone fell in love with Queen of the Mist when it ran at the Jack Studio? Well, no, probably not. How could you forget?! But just in case check out the trailer for …
SOURCE: Stage Faves at 06:22AMLaura Wade’s The Watsons is to transfer to the Menier Chocolate Factory in London. The play, adapted from the unfinished novel by
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:17AMNow in its fourth year, outdoor touring company Shakespeare in the Squares is taking a breezy, easy-going Dream on a circuit of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:13AMThe Irish star is sublimely funny - and moving, too - in Noël Coward classic
"Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?" can be heard pulsating through the Old Vic auditorium as the curtain rises o…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 06:12AMI was coming up for A levels and applying to university and drama schools and writing to loads of reps to get
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:00AMMeet our panel: We have given our panellists pen-names and used stock images but their biographies reflect their real career details… Gary
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:00AMHow did you start off in theatre? I was an actor for several years and, after a long West End run, I
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Tom Stoppard has announced he will premiere a new play in the West End next year, directed by Patrick Marber. Leopoldstadt, which
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:58AMAs a result of the centrality of government funding for the arts in South America, the emphasis in much of the work in the arts there appears to be on developing connections with communities…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:42AMDid you see that video of two teenagers baffled by a dial phone? Nothing is guaranteed to make you feel jurassic like watching the routine technology of your childhood appear irrefutably for…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:42AMBy Editorial Staff
Leopoldstadt, a new play by Tom Stoppard directed by Patrick Marber is to be produced by Sonia Friedman Productions at the Wyndham's Theatre in February 2020.
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SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 05:38AMWere you blown away by THE VIEW UPSTAIRS' performance - and John Partridge's flares! - at West End Live this past weekend? Don't miss the opportunity to hear directly from the stellar cast o…
SOURCE: Stage Faves at 05:30AMSonia Friedman Productions has announces the world premiere of Leopoldstadt, a new play by Tom Stoppard, directed by Patrick Marber.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:07AMIn a diverse career, the charismatic dancer, choreographer and actor James Supervia danced for Frederick Ashton and Rudolf Nureyev, appeared in pantomime,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMDavid Morrissey speaks obvious sense when he expresses concerns about the increasing difficulty of breaking into the acting profession for people from
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Celebrating Brisbane’s wonderfully diverse queer communities, Brisbane Powerhouse presents this June / July, the fifth MELT: Festival of Queer Arts and Culture with a program of spectacula…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 01:54AMThis vicious circle of song optimization / playlist optimization may be the path of least resistance but it can ultimately lead to an unsatisfying overall music experience. Classical music p…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:03AMSome of the earliest scientific studies of creativity focused on personality. And some evidence suggests that innovation comes easier to people with certain personality types. A 1998 review …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:03AMApart from his tombstone and the old stone buildings, every Kafka attraction I visited was built in the 21st century. Czechoslovakia’s uneasy leaders had tried to scrub Kafka from Prague�…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:03AMFor museums determined to build collections of today’s contemporary art—which is also getting pricey, as works by women and artists of color steadily gain in value—“it’s a waiting …
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ITV has commissioned two part drama, “Honour,” starring Keeley Hawes as the real-life detective who brought five killers to justice in the true story of Banaz Mahmod, the young Londoner …
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 12:48AMRecapping the 2019 ITF’s Tuesday
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SOURCE: Dramatics Magazine at 12:16AMWho is Nancye Hayes? Nancye Hayes is an actress, singer, dancer, choreographer, and director who has enjoyed a fortunate career that spans well over five decades. What would you do different…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 12:03AMHalley Feiffer's re-imagining of Chekhov’s Three Sisters debuts in New York in a production from MCC and Williamstown Theater Festival.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMCanadian Opera Company also scores with Eugene Onegin, the big winner in the opera category, as awards honouring Toronto’s theatre community got handed out Tuesday.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 12:00AMIn IMPRESSIONS: Hadar Ahuvia’s “The Dances are For Us” at Danspace Project, "While their pedestrian clothes mark individuality, Jewish ancestry becomes the connective tissue of experi…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AMGrace McLean on her unconventional new musical about the groundbreaking Hildegard von Bingen---Writer-performer Grace McLean has made a career out of appearing in period pieces. In Natasha, …
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