Cassandra Kubinski is a singer, songwriter, yogi, and voice-over actress. Cassandra’s story of beginning in musical theatre really struck a chord with me, which is why I was so eager to in…
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24PM“I’ll do anything to prove that theatres can re-open safely,” he tweeted.
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:12PMAt the peak of his popularity he was asked by guitar manufacturer Gibson to design two models, the Trini Lopez Standard and the Lopez Deluxe, owners of which include Dave Grohl and Noel Gall…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:03PMGoogle is, as Joanne McNeil writes, “the intermediary between my ideas and action forward, the glue between my questions and answers, a placeholder for thoughts and a way to sort my desire…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:03PMDecades, even centuries, of history and tradition are disappearing because of market forces, and the pandemic that we are all suffering through has sped matters up. – The Critic
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:03PMOn Thursday, August 13, Club Cumming – the hot queer intimate cabaret space in the East Village, co-founded by the multi-award-winning Scottish-born actor and LGBTQIA+ activist Alan Cummin…
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Actors' Equity Association released a statement regarding reports that Walt Disney World has agreed to provide space for an on-site center for COVID testing at Walt Disney World.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:54PMCHATS FOR CHANGE UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance (CAP UCLA) presents Artists-In-Presidents: Fireside Chats for 2020. This project is one of this season’s micro-commissions and a…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:50PM'We couldn't be more excited to finally be able share our show with theatre lovers everywhere,' says production's producers
SOURCE: The Independent at 05:42PMVirtual events across the country next week will commemorate the milestone and join the fight still yet to be won.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:32PMThe Chapel in SF presents Red Room Orchestra performing David Lynch scores in a socially distanced outdoor show that includes dinner.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 05:31PMORIGINAL CAST OF THE BALLAD OF EMMETT TILL REUNITES FOR ONLINE READING ON 65TH ANNIVERSARY OF TILL’S MURDER The original director and cast of the Fountain Theatre’s 2010 brilliant, mov…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:19PMLast week, we introduced August's Musical of the Month, Floyd Collins an off-Broadway show that was a critical success and musical fan's dream, but had a short run in the mid-90s. You can s…
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Plus: Get the details on the upcoming Madonna of Damascus live stream, benefitting the NAACP.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:53PMSpeeches for Characters Coming Out of their Shells
Written by Amanda Grace
August 12, 2020
A wise ogre once said that people are like onions, and these characters are full of layers. Fr…
SOURCE: performerstuff.com at 04:52PMIn reality, museums merely reflect the massive inequalities in society at large. After the pandemic, museums may represent an even greater concentration of wealth in fewer hands. The America…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:48PMOn one side of the debate, there were those who said the low prices were a way of coping with the prevailing circumstances in our economy. On the other were those who want art to claim its v…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:48PML.A.’s Latino Theater Company has announced its Fall 2020 Season., which naturally will be shown virtually. Beginning Tuesday August 18, 2020, and over the next five months, the company wi…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:40PMIt's going to be a long time before we're back doing live theatre at full capacity indoors, but there is plenty of work to do until then.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:33PMThe Houston company's season will bring theatre to couches and front lawns alike.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:11PMBy Lauren Gunderson. Playwright Lauren Gunderson presents Rad Adaptation (Radaptation?) with Octavio Solis and Kate Hamill livestreaming on the global, commons-based, peer produced HowlRound…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:11PMThe companies will operate with joint management but separate boards and finances.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:10PMThings could not be stranger now on Broadway. With the season demolished, and no Tony Awards, and no fall season, producers are
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 04:06PM
History of Medicine in California, a 1938 ten-panel fresco by Bernard Zakheim, is in a building at UCal-San Francisco that the school is going to tear down and replace. UCSF gave Zakheim’s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:42PM“The important idea here is this – there is a sharp difference between the meaning of the concept of art (which certainly doesn’t need you to be indispensable) and the meaning of the p…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:42PM“It’s a transition that has taken on particular urgency given the fact that the speaker pool for the world’s threatened and endangered languages skews older — precisely the populatio…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:42PMIn his too short, too fast, too hard, too brilliant 34 years, Parker transformed an art form, no less than Mozart or Chopin or Gershwin did in their similarly brief time among us. Like those…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:42PMThe ghazal “is an intimate and relatively short lyric form of verse from the Middle East and South Asia. The form thrives in such languages as Arabic, Persian, Urdu, and now English.” Cl…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:42PMWhen someone chooses not to follow public health guidelines around the coronavirus, they’re defecting from the public good. It’s the moral equivalent of the tragedy of the commons: If ev…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:42PMThe pandemic has darkened theaters around the country. So this summer, some are staging scenes in parks and fields for small groups of masked patrons.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:42PMThe company — which operates its U.S. headquarters out of Los Angeles and hired Disney veteran Kevin Mayer as its CEO this spring — said it has been working with the government for nearl…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:42PMComposer Andrew Lloyd Webber, who recently vowed to reopen London’s The Phantom of the Opera despite what the show’s producer called a “huge financial hit” from the coronavirus shutd…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:36PMR&H Goes Pop, the online series bringing modern version of Rodgers and Hammerstein musical theatre classics continues! This afternoon, Syndee Winters brought us a brand new "Where or Whe…
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Review: GRIP, Reading Fringe Festival2.0StarsGRIP centres around Trev (Scott Howland, who is also the playwright) and is narrated by Gaz Hayden. Hayden’s character sets out each scene mean…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:42PMFrom To Kill a Mockingbird to Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812, look at some of the shows that originated from books.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:36PMAndrew Lloyd Webber has revealed via Twitter, that he is going to be vaccinated for the Oxford COVID-19 trial.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:36PMThe National Comedy Center, the nationa??s official cultural institution dedicated to comedy is presenting its acclaimed Lucille Ball Comedy Festival virtually this year, featuring conve…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:36PMThe video marks the latest installment of the Rodgers and Hammerstein YouTube page "R&H Goes Pop! — At Home."
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:24PMThe Broadway stars will take part in a reading of Rob Ulin's new play for Barrington Stage Company and the Actors Fund.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:24PMFaculty from the two theatre programs will take your questions during Playbill and The Growing Studio's live stream.
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By Douglas Mayo
This week on Throwback Thursday we speak to Jason Manford whose was most recently seen on tour in Kander and Ebb's Curtains around the UK.
This post THROWBACK THURSDAY: Jason…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 01:59PMSunday, August 9, 2020, Theater of War Productions performed “Antigone in Ferguson” via Zoom. The production was translated, directed, and conducted by Bryan Doerries and co-facilitated …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:54PMA virtual reading of Rob Ulin's Judgment Day will take place on August 22 at 7:30PM ET to benefit both Barrington Stage Company and The Actors Fund. The livestream, which will star Patti LuP…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:42PMReview: The Secret Love Life of Ophelia, Greenwich Theatre Online3.0starsFirst performed in 2001, The Secret Love Life of Ophelia is Steven Berkoff’s attempt to breathe depth and intimacy …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:36PM Producers Grove Entertainment (Beth Williams), Frank Marshall and The Araca Group announced today that Diana A New Musical will premiere on Netflix next year ahead of the Broadway …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 01:23PMWe've rounded up the restaurants, attractions and shop that you can now visit in the West End including some exciting offers you won't want to miss!
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SOURCE: officiallondontheatre.com at 01:07PMA few area theatre companies are beginning to offer live performances. One of them is Creative Cauldron in Falls Church, VA which is presenting its summer cabaret season for at-home viewing …
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Writer Ryan Calais Cameron hopes film about black veteran dying in police custody will ignite conversation about racism
A play about a notorious case of a black man dying in police custody i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:54PMIn an unprecedented move, postponed musical Diana will be filmed without an audience and shown on Netflix before its new official opening in 2021
A musical based on the life of Diana, Prince…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:54PMIn a new series, we open up Guardian photographer Tristram Kenton’s archive of stage photos. This week: Anton Chekhov productions with a cast including the Redgraves, Dominic West and Chiw…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:54PMPatina Miller and Brandon Michael Nase host the Broadway for Racial Justice event.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:51PMThe Broadway alum performs the Rodgers and Hart tune from Babes in Arms.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:50PMThe presentation, premiering August 22, will support Barrington Stage Company and The Actors Fund.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:42PMDiana is headed to Netflix. Producers of the on-hold Broadway bio-musical about Princess Diana of Wales, unveiled plans to premiere a filmed version of the show before opening night at the …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:32PMMore audience members will now be able to experience the previously announced engagement of Jesus Christ Superstar at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre in London. Beginning on August 19, five…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:32PMCovenant House, the international charity providing housing, food and healthcare to children and youth facing homelessness, will bring a star-packed Sleep Out online on August 24 beginning …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:32PMMCC's previously postponed Miscast20, an online version of the annual gala featuring Broadway stars performing songs from roles in which they would never be cast, has a new date. Tune in to …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:32PMThe annual gala, featuring stars of stage and screen performing songs from roles in which they would never be cast, will be presented virtually in September.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:31PMJenn Freeman (aka Po'Chop) probes femininity, gender, rage, and history in a five-part dance film.
Small-town girl finds adventure, fame, and love in the big cit…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 12:30PM“We can all agree that systemic racism should be eradicated at all levels on all fronts (in every employment sector and other areas), but the arts presents a particularly challenging arena…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:24PM“In Goethe’s 1810 treatise on color he wrote, ‘red-yellow gives an impression of warmth and gladness.’ He added that ‘the feelings they excite are quick, lively, aspiring.’ His i…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:24PMMCC Theater announced today that their annual gala, Miscast20, will take place on MCC Theater's YouTube Channel on Sunday, September 13, 2020 at 8PM ET.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:24PMShine Global has announced a freewheeling night of conversation between John Leguizamo and Shine Global Co-Founder and Academy Award-nominated producer Albie Hecht.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:24PMWe beg your pardon, we're getting another brand new streaming Broadway musical!? Headlines broke this morning that upcoming Broadway musical DIANA is now set for a Netflix stream ahead of th…
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 12:17PMBy Mark Ludmon
Mark Ludmon reviews the musical Fanny and Stella now playing at The Eagle London in their new Garden Theatre. Book Now!
This post REVIEW: Fanny and Stella, Garden Theatre at T…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 12:12PMOther events and activities include a behind-the-scenes look at NBPAC member company George Street Playhouse and an interview with Managing Director Kelly Ryman; a yoga session with Carla Ha…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:10PMThe shortlist has been revealed for the 1st Annual Women's Prize for Playwriting. 35 works were selected from a total of 1,169 submissions. The winner will be announced sometime in the autu…
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The show was previously scheduled to open on Broadway in March.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:54AMThe Diana musical will be performed without an audience for a recording that is scheduled to premiere on Netflix next year.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:54AMBy Mark Ludmon
Theatres and other arts and events venues across the UK were lit up in red last night in a show of solidarity as part of a campaign to save the live events and entertainment s…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 11:37AMThe gold standard of international exhibitions, cancelled this year, is displaying glories from previous editions
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 11:19AM“In interviews with more than 20 past and present performers, staff members and others, as well as with the leadership, the challenge of making these enormous changes becomes clear. This i…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:18AM“Examining the period between April 1 through July 31,” the Brookings Institution paper by Richard Florida and Michael Seman “estimates that some 2.7 million creative Americans were fi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:18AMProducers Grove Entertainment (Beth Williams), Frank Marshall and The Araca Group announced today that Diana: A New Musical will premiere on Netflix next year ahead of the
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By Douglas Mayo
Diana the musical is to be filmed to premiere on Netflix ahead of the shows May 2021 opening at Broadway's Longacre Theatre.
This post Diana the musical heads to Netflix prio…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 10:47AMThe group has already collected over 9,000 signatures on an open call letter to support the arts industry.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:42AMThe musical heads back to Regent's Park Open Air Theatre August 14–September 27.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:42AMBefore debuting on Broadway, Diana: A True Musical Story will be available for streaming on Netflix. Diana originally began previews on March 2, 2020, and was scheduled to open on March 31 …
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 10:26AMActors’ Equity has approved the safety plan for the filming of “Diana” on Netflix, the union announced Wednesday. The safety plan includes “an isolation plan” for the actors and st…
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 10:22AMIt was announced today that Broadway's Diana musical will be screened on Netflix next year ahead of it's opening in New York.
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SOURCE: officiallondontheatre.com at 10:18AMThe show will be recorded in the empty Broadway theater where it had been playing in previews, and still plans to open in May 2021.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18AMWonderfully, the origin of this post was the photo above, which I came across on the internet while searching for something else. One doesn’t just stumble across the films of Pauline Frede…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:18AMAlso, expect performances from Beth Malone, Erin Dilly, Stephen R. Buntrock, Colby Dezelick, and more.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:17AMCatching up with Thespian alum Billy Recce
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SOURCE: Dramatics Magazine at 10:17AMA crafty sci-fi thriller that fans of the genre will find compelling
SOURCE: phindie.com at 10:16AM“Theatres are entering a critical stage in their fight for survival, with the cancellation of the 2020/21 pantomime season expected to cost the industry more than £90 million in lost reve…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:12AMAccording to reports on the Russian broadcast network RBC, one dancer at the Bolshoi (where rehearsals for the fall are underway) has gotten sick and 59 dancers and rehearsal pianists have b…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:12AM“The Senate of the City of Berlin has announced a decision to allow choral singing in closed spaces to resume, under very strict and precise regulation.” (Very strict and precise, in fac…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:12AM“Raised in a Boston tenement with a shared bathroom, … Sumner Redstone [was] a combative and daring dealmaker who in his 60s turned his family’s movie theater chain into one of the wor…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:12AM“Shedding the Fox name entirely from 20th Century Fox Television in the wake of the Disney-Fox merger, that studio will now be known as 20th Television. … Nixing ‘Fox’ from 20th TV w…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:12AMOne amazing thing that has come out of Covid-19 theatre is more filmed theatre. My latest theatre experience from the comfort of my own couch was Moment of Grace by Bren Gosling, presented b…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AM“Diana” will shoot a filmed version of the musical for Netflix ahead of an expected 2021 Broadway opening. The musical will be filmed without an audience at the Longacre Theatre, where…
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 10:00AMIn a Broadway first, Diana: A New Musical, the stage production about Princess Diana that went dark with the COVID shutdown just prior to its opening night, will premiere on Netflix next yea…
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The musical had begun previews March 2, about a week before the Broadway shutdown caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:59AMShannon Murphy’s mix of teen tragedy and mercurial energy creates a soaring film — until a disappointing third act
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 09:46AMA teen summer camp for future US statesmen makes for a gripping documentary that’s at once optimistic and bleak
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 09:45AM Following his Off-Broadway debut in the 2018 revival of Smokey Joe’s Café, Jelani Remy joined the Broadway company of Ain’t Too Proud and would ultimately step up to fill the shoes…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:40AMOh no! John Rosenberg is moving to LA! To see him off and celebrate the 20th episode of Chosen by Committee, the podders got together and recorded LIVE in John's backyard!
SOURCE: phindie.com at 09:35AMAugust 26, 2020, marks the centennial of the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution, giving women the right to vote. To commemorate the momentous anniversary, special even…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:30AMThe Emmy winner will discuss his work on On the Town, Smash, and more while answering your questions live on The Broadway Q&A from Playbill and The Growing Studio.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:26AMThere is a moment in theater that I live for. I’m onstage, responding truthfully in the moment as if for the first time, embodying my skin as another person and existing in a brilliant atm…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:26AMWestfield News ArtsBeat 8/11/20. Chester Theatre presents a virtual "King Lear", adapted and directed by Daniel Elihu Kramer; a film doc about Olympia Dukakis screens al fresco in the Berksh…
SOURCE: thewestfieldnews.com at 09:16AMZoom technique classes, rehearsing with masks and then, at last, “Back to work!” for a performance at Kaatsbaan in New York
SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:06AMAugust 12th marks National Vinyl Record Day. The first song that came to mind was sung by one of the coolest ladies - Annie Golden - singing "Spin Those Records" from the 2019 Off-Broadway m…
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At This Theatre shares the stories of historical theatres in Times Square and beyond.
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:45AMAvailable onlineThis half-hour play about call-centre workers is an unsettlingly effective study of the isolation inflicted by coronavirus
The best theatre and dance to watch online
This new…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:32AMThe Edinburgh fringe may have been cancelled but there are plenty of online gigs to enjoy featuring Dane Baptiste, Ivo Graham, Sarah Millican and more
The line between charity gigs and norma…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:32AMThis ingeniously designed mystery game is a summer escape made with wonder and wellbeing at its heart
The best theatre and dance to watch online
If you grew up reading The Famous Five and Th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:32AMThis rambunctious fringe musical serves up a fascinating true story with charm and pizazz
In a purgatorial summer, this boisterous, camp and chaotically charming musical is a tonic. It’s a…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 08:24AMThe supersized lineup for the fifth and final episode of The Muny 2020 Summer Variety Hour Live! has been announced. This free, live-streamed program will air on Monday, August 17, at 8:15 p…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:06AMThe record-breaking stage play that picks up right where Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows left off will now remain closed until at least 21 February 2021 due to the pandemic. Harry Potte…
SOURCE: London Theatre Direct at 08:00AM
On today’s episode of “Tell Me More,” Matt speaks the most respected man in entertainment awards journalism, The Hollywood Reporter’s Scott Feinberg. On Aug. 7, Feinberg published an…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 07:55AMFrom 16 August, you can catch Mark Bartlett's Albion starring Victoria Hamilton and Daisy Edgar Jones on BBC Four and BBC iplayer. Find out more.
The post Catch Victoria Hamilton & Daisy…
SOURCE: officiallondontheatre.com at 07:44AMFor a lot of us, these last few months have provided an opportunity to clean out and organize our closets, cupboards, garages, and workshops. (Stick with me, there will be a point to this.) …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:03AMJulie Andrews sings “Wouldn’t It Be Loverly?” (from My Fair Lady) on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1961. Because she was replaced by Audrey Hepburn in the screen version, his is the only s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM“I can’t imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.”
C.S. Lewis, letter to Arthur Greeves, February 1932
Continue reading Almanac: C.S. Lewis on rereading books at …
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Hundreds of venues and theatres across the UK were lit up in red last night to urge the Government to provide urgent support for the industry.
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SOURCE: officiallondontheatre.com at 05:56AMToday's top stories Beetlejuice has won the BroadwayWorld Album Award for Best New Broadway Cast Recording, and more!
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:54AMThe Off-West End venue has revealed their plans for staging socially distanced productions this autumn, including shows starring Hello, Dolly!'s Imelda Staunton.
SOURCE: London Theatre Direct at 05:30AMEnjoy live screen relays of Jesus Christ Superstar: The Concert from the lawn at The Regent's Park Open Air Theatre for just £20! Find out more.
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SOURCE: officiallondontheatre.com at 05:23AMThe online event will take place this Saturday, August 15.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:18AMJeff Cohen's new play, featuring Jessica Hecht and Richard Kind, will stream later this month.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:18AMAndrew Barth Feldman's Broadway Whodunit will stream its second edition on August 30.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:18AMInvite the kids to help you out with this week's crossword.
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