Artists Speak Out about Racism in Theatre, BC/EFA Donates $25,000 to Color of Change “Today on Broadway” is a daily, Monday through Friday, podcast hitting the top theatre headlines of t…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 09:45PMA Presidential Election Year Is Like the Wild West . . . When rumors about Geraldine Ferraro–the first woman vice-presidential nominee by a major party in U.S history–reached First Lady …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:34PMI hear from nearly all corners of the arts sector that there is “no going back to normal” — that something fundamental needs to be redesigned in our systems to make them more equitable…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:33PMCrowds are essential to this moment — and, really, to opera as an art form. Choruses fill the stage; musicians cram into the orchestra pit; thousands of people sit shoulder to shoulder in …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:33PMThe Chicago Lyric Opera plans to spend $23 million from its $173 million endowment this year, almost triple what it typically takes. It canceled its season in March, furloughed staff and cut…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:33PMInstagram and Twitter accounts, from top record label to everyday people, were full of black squares posted in response to the deaths of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor. Most …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:33PMNOTHINGS IS SOMETHING ELSE Shortly before the COVID-19 pandemic shut down theaters around the world, a slew of stage and cabaret favorites got together at Joe’s Pub to celebrate the vibran…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:22PMScreen Australia has announced $2.1 million of production funding for 12 projects funded through the Producer Program and two through the Commissioned Program. Projects include SHANE, a fea…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 09:17PM
Especially when our city is in crisis, BSR is a team. This is not the beginning of the work for editors Alaina and Kyle. And it’s far from the end.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:59PM"We are not looking for empathy. We are not victims. We are only asking for humanity and equality."
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:52PM“We are not looking for empathy. We are not victims. We are only asking for humanity and equality.”
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:52PMThe Broadway actor raises her voice to call on the theatre industry to stop racism, offer solutions, raise up Black voices, and more.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:52PMFrom suggested donations to ways to learn to be an anti-racist, here are some ways to volunteer time and money to Black Lives Matter.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:52PMPlaybill is committed to fighting for the Black community.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:52PMThe annual celebration of multidisciplinary performance adjusts for the times.
Pivot Arts has been an incubator for multidisciplinary performance for nearly a de…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 04:50PMOff-Broadway's formidable Irish Repertory Theatre forges ahead with a season of online programming celebrating the theater company's rich cultural heritage over the last 32 years.
The post I…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 04:48PMLocated in the heart of downtown Durham, the Carolina Theatre has been a center of the city’s arts and cultural life for nearly a century. The Carolina Theatre’s Board of Trustees seeks …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42PM“A deadly thunderstorm that rolled across parts of northern India damaged sections of the Taj Mahal complex, including the main gate and a railing running below its five lofty domes, offic…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42PM“‘Talking About Race‘ is a Web-based initiative that uses videos, role-playing exercises and question-based activities to explore the origins and definitions of race and identity. Buil…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42PMOrlando Ballet invites applications and nominations for this important co-leadership position, working closely with Artistic Director Robert Hill.
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42PMWhile she did sing some Italian roles (Gilda, Lucia, Rosina) and even a few German ones (the Queen of the Night, Zerbinetta), Mesplé won worldwide acclaim for the French concert and opera r…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42PMThis past Friday night, as the KCPD prepared to confront people demonstrating against police violence in Minneapolis and elsewhere, security guards on duty at the closed museum agreed to pol…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42PMA 22-page white paper with dozens of requirements and recommendations, delivered to Govs. Gavin Newsom (CA) and Andrew Cuomo (NY) as well as the Los Angeles County Department of Public Healt…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42PM“We have been made aware that a musician of the Austin Symphony Orchestra has made an offensive post on their social media account regarding the protests across our country. This language …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42PMCreativity can seem like a tool for solving problems: We need a new word for the ocean! But creativity doesn’t just solve problems; it also makes or discovers new problems to solve. Hundre…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42PM“The most widely-read books are translated foreign bestsellers. There is little space for Russian talent — and if you want to be one of the chosen few to secure a book deal, that means s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42PM“It’s paradoxical but true: On TikTok, a platform driven largely by dance, people with little to no dance background are becoming megastars — and highly-trained dancers can seem like f…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42PM“Discomfort has now become an essential part of pop culture connoisseurship, and it has forced audiences to become much more sophisticated as they decide what, if anything, is worth salvag…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42PM“As a composer, Bach would have been highly attuned to the effects of a church’s acoustics on the performance of music. He was known, for example, to have preferred composing for the Tho…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42PMThe loss of any regional theatre, whether it is Nuffield Southampton announcing it has gone into administration or the Royal Lyceum in Edinburgh taking the painful decision to hibernate unti…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42PMWhat he and Jeanne-Claude, his wife and collaborator, achieved was so different from the work of anyone else, and on such a huge scale—seventy-five hundred saffron-colored nylon “gates,�…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42PMI’m not yet sure how much my life will change without choir: without the paper cuts and warmups, the imagistic instructions from conductors (bite the apple, smell the rose, blow the birthd…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42PMMonday evening, in three Southern states—Florida, Alabama, and Virginia—protesters toppled graffiti-covered statues celebrating the former Confederate government that fought to uphold th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42PMIn three short months Americans have shifted from tuning into the daily drama surrounding the democratic primaries, to daily Covid-19 briefings and debates over whether or not lives matter m…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:18PMAn interview with collector and Instagrammer Julia Carusillo
Oh, to quarantine inside a Polly Pocket, safe and enclosed, all the comforts of home sculpted in col…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 04:05PM
George Street Playhouse: Tune in for Part 2 of this exciting two-part discussion on set design! Join Artistic Director David Saint with Scenic Designers Jason Simms and James Youmans to lear…
SOURCE: YouTube at 11:44AMEditors’ Note: Colman Domingo, playwright, director and actor, was researching his musical (with co-author Patricia McGregor) about the iconic Nat King Cole when he realized the great sing…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:43AMHow do you make audiences laugh in a town that hates show-offs and loves to hassle performers? Our writer gets some hot tips as she continues her comedy tour
In 2005, you could fit the whole…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:42AMIan McKellen and Lesley Manville perform in fundraising videos organised by Collins for Equity’s benevolent fund for creatives
The actor Michelle Collins has warned that the screen and sta…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:42AMConference veterans and networking mavens Neil Bardhan and Marta Rusek have your guide to organizing virtual gatherings that don’t suck (unless they involve Dracula).
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:30AMA one-off concert presented by Barn Theatre has been announced. Set to take place on 6 June 2020, the concert will feature a whole host of West End stars honouring the work of Loserville com…
SOURCE: London Theatre Direct at 11:10AMDue to the continuing lockdown, alongside Government advice that social distancing will need to remain in place for some time, the Company has made the difficult decision to postpone all rem…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AM
The previously announced Obie Awards have been postponed. The 65th annual celebration of off and off-off Broadway theater had been scheduled to take place on June 4. Details for the reschedu…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:36AMPerformances are canceled and theaters are dark all around the world, but the long-touring Broadway production of Phantom has continued to fill a 1,600-seat house in Seoul for eight shows a …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:35AMThe awards honoring Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway theatre were to take place June 4 on YouTube.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:34AMSaying that now is no time for “celebration or diversion,” the presenters of the annual Obie Awards for excellent in Off and Off Off Broadway theater, have postponed this year’s virtua…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:23AMThe project's all-volunteer staff stands in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:08AMIn addition to Tony winner Chita Rivera, the 2013 concert also featured Tommy Tune and Ben Vereen, plus a video tribute from John Kander.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:01AMThe chaos of national politics in the mid-1970s seemed light years away in 2014, but how arrogant that assumption seems now.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMBill Berloni shares his expert training philosophy, backstage stories with his pups, and his best advice to train your canine while stuck at home.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:00AMIsaac Gomez’s powerful the way she spoke is now available as an original audio-play.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:00AMPeter Pan Live to be the next instalment in Andrew Lloyd Webber's YouTube series "The Shows Must Go On", it has been confirmed. The musical stars Christopher Walken (Hairspray, Antz, Sleepy …
SOURCE: London Theatre Direct at 10:00AM
Because of coronavirus, festival goes virtual with live streams and online art exhibitions.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 09:55AMWhile Broadway remains shut down, BroadwayWorld is keeping up with your favorite stars and giving you a peek at what they have been up to! Check out yesterday's highlights from some of your …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:48AMToday we shine a spotlight on the Fountain Theatre in Los Angeles with Artistic Director Stephen Sachs.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:48AMBy Douglas Mayo
The RSC (Royal Shakespeare Company) updates production plans for 2020 in both Stratford and London due to COVID-19 pandemic.
This post RSC updates performance plans for 2020 …
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 09:46AMOur loss yesterday of Christo, the canny conceptual artist with tangible appeal, is a poignant reminder of more innocent times — 16 days in early 2005 when New Yorkers from all walks of li…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:06AMThe Gershwin threat was seemingly felt by all American-born classical musicians: they feared his genius. European-born classical musicians weren’t threatened, and the list of Gershwin admi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:06AMThe Paris landmark, which had been the world’s most visited museum, opens its doors on July 6 following the coronavirus lockdown. But safety limitations have been placed on crowd flow, and…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:06AM“The company, which last performed live on March 11, now hopes to return with a gala on New Year’s Eve after its longest interruption in more than a century. It is a gap that is projecte…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:06AM“I hope to see us take a breath, to rest, to unlearn grind culture, to seek to be with each other in meaningful ways and not self-serving ones."
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 09:00AMImelda Staunton won't be back where she belongs - the theatre, that is - quite when we expected. HELLO, DOLLY! is the latest West End postponement in the face of the ongoing coronavirus cris…
SOURCE: Stage Faves at 09:00AM
Stars in The House continued Monday night (8pm) with Schele Williams and Robin de Jesús. This episode was in support of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:48AMStars and creators of Apple TV+'s Central Park gathered virtually for a panel at Paley Front Row 2020 to celebrate their show. Among those appearing in the conversation are Josh Gad, Daveed …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:48AMSeveral major stage actors including Judi Dench have been pictured wearing their "The Show Must Go On" merch. Designed by the Theatre Support Fund, so far the t-shirts and other merchandise …
SOURCE: London Theatre Direct at 08:30AMArtsBeat on Pioneer Valley Radio 6/2/20. James Barry's Corona Covers. A theatre book club at Berkshire Theatre Group, and dance on TV. Segment begins at: 14:24.
SOURCE: pioneervalleyradio.com at 08:29AMWestfield News ArtsBeat 6/2/20. Online programs from TheaterWorks, Berkshire Theatre Group, Springfield Symphony Orchestra, K&E Theater, plus arts news from WMass and NoCT.
SOURCE: thewestfieldnews.com at 08:28AMA few small, nimble organizations have found creative ways to shift online and hold modified, virtual versions of the live festivals planned for June.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMCreated in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Theatre Support Fund has managed to raise more than £125,000 with its The Show Must Go On! t-shirts, notebooks, and other special merchand…
SOURCE: London Theatre Direct at 08:00AM
On today’s episode, Ashley talks with Backstage senior staff writer Casey Mink about the Broadway COVID-19 shutdown, including her recent reporting for Vanity Fair about when we should exp…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 07:55AMThe idea of re-performing Lungs while the actors safely socially distance got me thinking about other plays which have been performed over the past year or two that could be similarly revive…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:30AMAvailable onlineParticipants delve into the dodgy dealings of a Tory MP and big pharma in this clever blend of theatre and gaming
Hottest front-room seats: the best theatre and dance to watc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AMAnother decade, another plethora of Sondheim shows! While we all wait for a new Sondheim show (PLEASE, STEVE!), there certainly hasn't been a lack of his works to enjoy. Over the past ten ye…
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 07:18AMArts groups scramble after the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts reneges on grants for operating expenses.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 07:01AMFrom 2006:
Fame is intense but fleeting in a TV-driven culture, which is one of the many reasons why I love watching the old What’s My Line? kinescopes that air at three-thirty each morn…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM“There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.”
Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory
Continue reading Almanac: Graham Greene on childhood at About…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AM
Work is something that every single on of us is thinking about at the moment. Charlie & Jeff are having entirely different Lockdown work experiences under the same roof. Is it possible t…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:42AMToday's top stories: Broadway on Demand postponed its Tony Awards celebration set for this Sunday, Peter Pan Live! will stream this weekend, and more!
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:32AMIn 1995, after the fall of the Wall, Berlin had started to be rebuilt, but was still in a state of disrepair. There, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, two of the world’s most important land artis…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 05:21AM'Second star to the right and straight on 'til morning': Peter Pan Live! is next up on The Shows Must Go On YouTube channel this Friday. How well do you know the Broadway musical? Watch the …
SOURCE: Stage Faves at 05:00AM
Who is Lilli Waters? I’m a Melbourne based artist who creates dark and ethereal photographs, melding rawness and fantasy, and often exploring femininity and the female form in nature. What…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 04:57AMInternationally acclaimed musicians Suzie Quatro, Katie Noonan, Nicole Car and Matthew Lee Robinson will select four singers to be the winners of the ASC@Home International Singing Competiti…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 04:13AMThe playwright and the director Elizabeth Newman on how they reimagined their new theatre production for radio in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak
‘We never ask the right question of t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:03AMThroughout theatre’s shutdown, photographer Ellie Kurttz has been taking portraits of creatives remotely, capturing images from video calls. Portraits in Isolation is her document of this …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:03AMPlaywright Sarah Ruhl on how the new theater site 3Views changed its mission after the pandemic hit.
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Sydney based artist Debra Phillips has been announced as the recipient of the prestigious Murray Art Museum Albury National Photography Prize 2020, winning a cash prize of $30,000 for her wo…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 01:49AMTEG Dainty wish to announce the rescheduled dates for Jim Steinman’s BAT OUT OF HELL – THE ROCK MUSICAL. The jaw dropping, heart stopping,
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:39AMLast week I had a post on Arts Hacker featuring the Event Safety Alliance’s (ESA) Reopening Guide for live event venues. You may have already seen the guide being passed around by a lot …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:32AMThe COVID-19 pandemic has closed theaters around the world, including New York’s Broadway and London’s West End, Buenos Aires’ Calle Corrientes, and Gran Vía in Madrid. The theater se…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:17AMToday, we're wishing a very happy birthday to Tony-nominee Norm Lewis!
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:02AM