Frantisek Uhliř’s Welcome New Album by Artsjournal1

Some time ago, I wrote on Rifftides, “The Czech Frantisek Uhliř is one of the greatest bassists in the world.” Leading his septet on his new release, Story of my life, he is as powerful…

LIGHTS UP ON THE ARTS returns by Peter J Snee

After an overwhelmingly positive response to their first online concert, Joshua Robson Productions and host/director James Cutler will return to

TheaterMania Live with Victoria Clark by TheaterMania

The problem with arts funding in Australia goes right back to its inception by Arts Review

The arts and culture sector has had its share of trouncing in recent years: funding dropped 4.9% in the decade 2007-2008 to 2017-2018, promised arts policy was short-lived, or not realised a…

Today on Broadway: Tuesday, May 26, 2020 by Matt Tamanini

Broadway Return ‘Not Until There’s a F*cking Vaccine,’ Matt Reviews “The Present” from the Geffen “Today on Broadway” is a daily, Monday through Friday, podcast hitting the top…

Theatrical Coronalypse in Belarus by Alexander Mantush

  The global pandemic of coronavirus infection has stopped theatrical activity around the world. Although no quarantine measures have been officially introduced in the Republic of Belarus, …

Emerging Writers’ Festival announces 2020 Ambassadors by Arts Review

The Emerging Writers’ Festival is one of Australia’s most established and well-respected literary festivals. It continues in 2020 with the online festival featuring storytellers of all k…

Watch Wicked's Eden Espinosa, Brandi Chavonne Massey, Julia Murney, and Jessica Vosk on Stars in the House May 25 by Andrew Gans

The daily series from Seth Rudetsky and James Wesley benefits The Actors Fund.

Will the show go on? Survey says no. by Pauline Adamek

In recent days we’ve seen Broadway shuttered through early September and now a recent global study of nearly 12,000 consumers indicated that 64% will return to live theater slowly or not …

Eaton Hotel Presents: Petworth Jazz featuring Imani-Grace, Luke Stewart and Pat Cain by The Kennedy Center

Othello Trailer | Stratford Festival On Film by Stratford Festival

Merry Wives of Windsor Trailer | Stratford Festival On Film by Stratford Festival

Hola Mexico Film Festival goes virtual by Pauline Adamek

Hola Mexico Film Festival, the largest Mexican film festival outside of Mexico, proudly presents the Hola Mexico Virtual Theatre online film series. Hola Mexico Film Festival has announc…

Vocal Technique Workshop Series by David Sabella

David Sabella / CABARET HOTSPOT! is produces 6 week Vocal Technique Workshop series Find your authentic voice! Understanding how your voice works will give you the “keys to the kingdom” …

Watch: Telly Leung Sings “You Matter” by Matthew Wexler

Broadway actor Telly Leung releases the heartwarming song 'You Matter" on Instagram, and can be seen in "Allegiance" on Broadway on Demand on May 29. The post Watch: Telly Leung Sings “Yo…

For Memorial Day & National Tap Dance Day: Several WW II Musicals by Trav S.D.

Today thanks to a happy accident, Memorial Day and National Tap Dance Day coincide this year. I thought it might be apropos to observe them both with a look at patriotic Hollywood musicals o…

Podcast: LITTLE KNOWN FACTS with Ilana Levine and Special Guest, Lena Hall!

Right after high school Lena Hall had her first professional audition and it was for the national tour of Cats. She got the job and quickly was moved into the Broadway production and that wa…

Even in a pandemic, there are some questions only storytellers can answer by Anndee Hochman

Stephen King wrote ‘The Stand’ and Camus wrote ‘The Plague.’ They’re not the first or the last to mine rampant sickness for human meaning. Anndee Hochman wonders how our storytelle…

Victory Gardens playwrights ensemble resigns by Catey Sullivan

Restructuring at the top causes an exodus—again. Friday’s resignation of seven playwrights from Chicago’s Tony-winning, 46-year-old Victory Gardens Theater…

NEW VOICES 2014: OH WHAT A NIGHT by Paper Mill Playhouse

Watch Tony Winner Laura Benanti Guest Host Stars in the House May 25 by Andrew Gans

The daily series from Seth Rudetsky and James Wesley benefits The Actors Fund.

‘Now Your Colors Sing’ by Gerald Levinson by Peter Burwasser

A new double album from Swarthmore-based composer Gerald Levinson is a retrospective of a leading light of the Philadelphia new-music scene and beyond, bursting with bright hues and grand so…

BWW Exclusive: Ben Rimalower's Broken Records QuaranStreams with Liza in New Orleans

In this episode, Ben and Daniel discuss the 1982 broadcast of the Tony-winning musical 'Ain't Misbehavin',' starring Nell Carter, André DeShields, Armelia McQueen, Ken Page, and Charlayne W…

Rolf Hochhuth obituary by Michael Coveney

German dramatist best known for his 1963 play Der Stellvertreter (The Representative) about the Catholic church and the HolocaustIt is rare nowadays for a playwright to trigger public contro…

The Broadway Q&A with Marc Shaiman by Playbill

Anno Domino review – marital woe and toxic politics in Ayckbourn's lockdown play by Arifa Akbar

Available onlineThe playwright and his wife, actor Heather Stoney, play all eight parts – from 70-somethings to teenagers – in his 84th drama Alan Ayckbourn’s hefty oeuvre lingers on t…

WeRNotVirus: plays to highlight Covid-19 racism against Asians by Lanre Bakare Arts and Culture Correspondent

Project including monologues will be shown on Zoom to help expose ‘hidden problem’ in UK Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage A series of plays and monologue…

From Us to You, Thank You | Stratford Festival by Stratford Festival

Opening Night Watch Party | Stratford Festival by Stratford Festival

Post-COVID Performing Arts: Like a Trip to the Car Wash by Alan Harrison

Restorationists expect a familiar process will always work: they’re about the car wash. Opportunists look to innovate: they're about getting the car clean. The post Post-COVID Performing A…

Rehearsals in PPE and other big changes to expect when theaters reopen in DC by David Siegel

We will open again. The COVID-19 virus will neither darken nor silence us even with the many scary unknowns before us. We know reopening for DMV theater will happen. The date may be uncertai…

‘It’s taken us so long to get our head around it’: rehearsing theatre over Zoom #2 by Justin Murray

In the second of our series of Notes From The Front Line, I talk to Grace Church of Guttersnipe Theatre about their process of continuing to develop their devised project in lockdown over Zo…

ABT Met Memory with Soloist Alexandre Hammoudi by American Ballet Theatre

Jeanne Crain: Miss Pan-Pacific and Pinky by Trav S.D.

Jeanne Crain (1925-2003) represents an interesting and somewhat rare phenomenon: she is at the center of numerous important, popular, and lasting classic movies — but one tends to remember…

THIS WEEK ON THE LIVESTREAM: Lynn Ahrens, Kelly Devine, Adrian Bryan-Brown and more!

We had a week of big laughs on last week’s Livestream, and not just because I can’t seem to get through an episode without screwing something up.  🙂 If you missed any of the industry…

THE CIVILIANS 9TH ANNUAL R&D GROUP FINDINGS SERIES, NOW ONLINE | APPS OPEN FOR 20-21 R&D GROUP by Robert Shuman

(via John Wyszniewski at Everyman Agency.) 2020-21 R&D Group: All applications must be submitted by June 22nd, 2020 for consideration. The Civilians (Steve Cosson, Artistic Director; M…

STAFF PICK: "Anything Goes" from Goodspeed's 2016 production ANYTHING GOES by Goodspeed Musicals

STAFF PICK: "Cold Feets" from Goodspeed's THE DROWSY CHAPERONE by Goodspeed Musicals

Livestreaming School of Resistance - Episode Two: Make the World Habitable Again

By . NTGent presents School of Resistance - Episode Two: Make the World Habitable Again livestreaming on the global, commons-based, peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Th…

BROADWAY HEAT: The Championship! Round One by JK

Well, this is it! After what has been an...odd...season, and after 11 individual competitions and well over a thousand votes, we are now ready for the biggest poll of the whole year:The 2019…

GRACE NOTES: Monday, May 25, 2020 by Susan Grace

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Memorial Day 2020: Remembering Those Who Died of COVID-19 by New York Theater

Memorial Day, which became an official national holiday in 1971, was created to honor Americans who died in military service. But it feels appropriate to use the day this year also to honor …

‘Christopher Green is a performer of charisma, with interesting body language & a vision in pink’: NO SHOW – Yard Theatre by Louise Penn

I wanted to try out something from The Yard Online’s day of fun, and chose No Show, a Zoom performance which sounded something a bit different. It’s ...

What’s Ahead for Off-Off Broadway: The Most Vulnerable but Vital Spaces for Theater? by David Cote

The loss of incubators for emerging stage talent will be devastating if Off-Off Broadway venues can't be saved.

City of Asylum lines up local arts innovators by Sharon Eberson / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

RealTime Interventions and BOOM Concepts are among the local creators taking their works to “The Show Must Go(Online).”

BroadwayRadio Special: Ellyn Marie Marsh on ‘Obsessed with Disappeared’ and Staying Busy During Quarantine by Matt Tamanini

On today’s special Memorial Day episode of BroadwayRadio, Matt speaks with one of the funniest and busiest people on Broadway, Ellyn Marie Marsh. On Wednesday, she (along with Patrick Hind…

Just because: a 1958 interview with Kingsley Amis by Terry Teachout

Kingsley Amis is interviewed by Simon Raven on Monitor. The interview, introduced by Huw Wheldon, was originally telecast by the BBC on February 2, 1958: (This is the latest in a series of…

Playbill Calendar: Your Guide to Live Streams, Concerts, and More May 25-31 by Roberto Araujo

A look at the week ahead.

Almanac: Disraeli on despair by Terry Teachout

“Despair is the conclusion of fools.” Benjamin Disraeli, The Wondrous Tale of Alroy Continue reading Almanac: Disraeli on despair at About Last Night.

Victorian Opera postpone THE WHO’S TOMMY by Gabi Bergman

Today, Victorian Opera made the difficult decision to postpone their August production of The Who’s Tommy to 2021, with dates to

Southbank Centre warns it may have to stay closed until spring 2021 by Mark Brown

London arts organisation calls for more funds as Covid-19 lockdown hits cash reserves Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage The UK’s largest arts and cultural …

James Graham on This House: 'I'm writing a sort-of sequel – with an unlikely hero' by Arifa Akbar

As his parliamentary epic is streamed for National Theatre at Home, the playwright discusses politics of the past and present – and the future of theatre The best theatre and dance to wat…

Lenny Bruce is Out Again review – the sound of distilled provocation by Brian Logan

Audio downloadSixty years on, the taboo-busting comic can seem incoherent and insensitive but there’s no doubting his masterful wordplay He may be the least listened-to of standup icons. N…

Shetler Studios In New York City Closes Due To Economic Downturn by Jeff Lunden

For 30 years, Shetler Studios provided affordable space in New York's theater district for rehearsals, readings, classes and auditions. The owners can't afford to continue because of the pan…

‘There’s a fresh sprightliness to so much of the music that’s hard to resist’: RAGS – The Musical (Album review) by Ian Foster

Sometimes a musical just doesn’t grab you, and so it was for me with Rags The Musical. The universe clearly wants me to hear it one way or another though, as Ghostlight Records are now rel…

Arts Centre Melbourne’s Big Night In announce new lineup for Episode 5 by Sean McLoughlin

Australian pop icons and ARIA Hall Of Fame inductees, Human Nature, much-loved drag performer Courtney Act and musical theatre power

Antipodes Theatre Company announces Artists and Projects for Winter Development Retreat by Arts Review

Antipodes Theatre Company has announced the artists who will be participating in their inaugural Winter Development Retreat this June 2020. A total of eight projects were selected, ranging f…

Clayton With a Period, Full Stop by Artsjournal1

Clayton Patterson’s importance in general, but especially on the Lower East Side of New York City, comes from his commitment to social and political values for the good of his community. H…

The Online Stephen J Chifunyise International Theatre Festival by Takudzwa Chihambakwe

When Zimbabwean theatre practitioner Stephen Joel Chifunyise passed on last year, Theatre in The Park, the organizers of the Harare International Theater Festival saw it befitting to rename …

Victorian Opera postpones The Who’s Tommy to 2021 by Arts Review

In view of ensuring the safety of Victorian Opera’s community of audiences, artists and staff amidst the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, the company has made several decisions regarding its …

On the Couch with Flora Carbo by Arts Review

Who is Flora Carbo? A Melbourne based saxophonist who loves creating and sharing music, celebrating the April release of her sophomore album, Voice. Usually can be found performing around Me…

Streaming Streetcar and Mad Forest by David Sheward

There is one upside to all the theaters being closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Through streaming, YouTube, Zoom and other digital platforms, we get a chance to catch up with intriguing p…

Michael Xufu Huang on opening a private museum in Bejing at 26

Among China’s newest contemporary art venues, X marks the spot

Can’t Take My Eyes Off You — how Frankie Valli’s 1967 hit was adopted by Welsh football fans

The song has been belted out lustily at games — and widely covered

Unemployed Actor With No Insurance Living Through Pandemic Excited to Have Extra Day Off I Guess by Broadway Beat

by Zach Raffio. @zachraffio. CINCINNATI, Oh. - Local unemployed actor Caroline Finn, who hasn’t had a paying role since the coronavirus pandemic halted all l...

From Hamilton to Angels in America, Check Out the Past Decade of Drama Desk Award-Winning Productions by Marc J. Franklin

Ahead of the 65th annual ceremony on May 31, we revisit the shows that took home the award's top honors.

Checking In With… Dear Evan Hansen Tony Winner Rachel Bay Jones by Andrew Gans

The new feature series catches up with Broadway actors during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

Costume Close-Ups: Can You Guess These Broadway Costumes? by Nathan Skethway

See if you can figure out which iconic Broadway costume you're seeing in this challenging quiz.

Unemployed Actor With No Insurance Living Through Pandemic Excited to Have Extra Day Off I Guess by Broadway Beat

by Zach Raffio. @zachraffio. CINCINNATI, Oh. - Local unemployed actor Caroline Finn, who hasn’t had a paying role since the coronavirus p...