Unwrapped: LGBTIQA+ communities connect through arts and culture

Facilitated by the Greater Dandenong City Council, local LGBTIQA+ artists and communities will connect and celebrate through a range of virtual activities as part of Unwrapped this November.…

Audience Development – Empowering Youth Through Theatre: “Democrisis” by Jules Buchholtz

Why democracies are not about doing the right thing, but about how the right thing is always being done in the right way. Politics as a Narrative and the Problems Therein The starting point …

A Simple Space is back for an exclusive digital season

Critically acclaimed circus production A Simple Space by Gravity & Other Myths is returning to Arts Centre Melbourne audiences after a hugely successful sold out season back in 2018. Thi…

David Greybeard: giant chimpanzee to take up residence in the heart of Melbourne

A large-scale public artwork of iconic chimpanzee David Greybeard, muse of ground-breaking scientist Dr Jane Goodall, is set to bring conservation and the environment into focus at Arts Cent…

Theatre Review: At Home with Silhouette Stages: ‘New Ways to Dream’ by Lee Jeffreys

Taking their show on the digital road for the first time, Silhouette Stages celebrates the theatre’s past 17 years with the New Ways to Dream, streaming through December 6, 2020. A look b…

Make some noise. The Drummer Queens have arrived, live, loud & ready to rule!

Following its World Premiere season in Sydney in February 2021, the Producers of the Drummer Queens have anounced the new must-see original Australian theatrical experience will play in Melb…

Make some noise. The Drummer Queens have arrived by Sean McLoughlin

Eight extraordinary women. One brand new show that will blow your mind It was announced today that the new must-see original

BWW Exclusive: BARE: A POP OPERA Celebrates 20 Years- Watch Now!

Join BWW and the original producers of the cult hit, bare: a pop opera, at 8pm ET for a  virtual celebration of the critically acclaimed coming-of-age musical from Jon Hartmere and the late…

Stand-up on Allen Street by Darryl Reilly

The atmosphere of a comedy club was replicated outside a NYC café at this Filipino-centric event held during the pandemic where polished comics entertained a masked audience. The post St…

She Was a Star Before ‘Emily in Paris’ by Alex Hawgood

Ashley Park is practically a Broadway veteran and has been nominated for a Tony and Grammy.

Can theatres survive the pandemic? For Brave Spirits, the answer is no. by Tim Treanor

The economic havoc caused by the coronavirus has claimed another local victim – Brave Spirits Theatre. The nine-year-old company was in the midst of an ambitious project to produce Shakesp…

Global hit musical COME FROM AWAY announces Brisbane season by Sean McLoughlin

Producers Rodney Rigby and Junkyard Dog Productions are thrilled to announce that the worldwide smash hit, Tony and Olivier award-winning

Vsevolod Meyerhold: The Revolutionary Communist Director Executed By Stalin by Valeria Paikova

Vsevolod Meyerhold was a personality of great contradictions, and one of the movers and shakers in the 20th-century theatre. It’s not an exaggeration to say that he influenced the art of p…

Transnational Chinese Theatres in Pandemic Times by Rossella Ferrari

I have hesitated for a while to engage with the increasingly ubiquitous “[insert own subject field] in times of Covid-19” catchphrase, or variations thereof. This is because of some pers…

An encounter with Batsheva: Ohad Naharin’s ‘YAG: The Movie’ by Admin

November 21, 2020.Filmed October 2020, at Batsheva’s Varda Studio, Suzanne Dellal Center, Tel Aviv. Presented online. YAG: The Movie, Ohad Naharin’s first piece adapted specifically for …

Opening 1 December at Sydney’s Capitol Theatre – first look at Disney’s Frozen

Disney’s Frozen, the hit Broadway musical, will open its doors on Tuesday 1 December at the Capitol Theatre in Sydney. An inspiring tale of sisterhood and true love, it features the songs …

Recognising the arts leaders, philanthropists and partners advancing Australia’s arts sector by Sean McLoughlin

Today, Creative Partnerships Australia announced the nine luminary recipients of the 2020 Creative Partnerships Awards. The Awards recognise remarkable individuals

This Week on Broadway for November 22, 2020: Our Favorite Moments with Theater Celebrities by James Marino

Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere talk about their favorite moments with theater celebrities. This Week on Broadway has been coming to you every week since 2009. It is th…

NSO @ Home LIVE • November 22 • Nurit Bar-Josef, Efi Hackmey & Gabrielle Pho by The Kennedy Center

The Burdens Review: William Jackson Harper and Ali Ahn as comically squabbling Jewish siblings intent on homicide by New York Theater

“The Burdens” is a dark comedy starring William Jackson Harper and Ali Ahn as a brother and a sister who plot to kill their grandfather. But it’s also a play on words, and that makes…

Creative Partnership Awards – recognising the arts leaders, philanthropists and partners advancing Australia’s arts sector

Creative Partnerships Australia have announced the nine luminary recipients of the 2020 Creative Partnerships Awards. The Awards recognise remarkable individuals who have devoted years, deca…

BWW Review: Bill Irwin's ON BECKETT / IN SCREEN Takes A Clown's-Eye View Of The Modernist's Words

'I am not a Beckett scholar,' Bill Irwin advises viewers at the outset. 'Mine is an actor's relationship to this language. By which I mean the deep knowledge that comes from committing words…

Review: American Blues Theater’s ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ is the don’t-miss show this lonely holiday season by Chris Jones

American Blues is presenting its long-running, old time radio-style show via Zoom this year, performed live each night for the audience from the actors' homes.

The York Theatre Company "Road Side" Show (And Tell) Series by York Theatre Company

Hear All About Upcoming Films on This Week's Elaine Paige on Sunday by Broadway.com

Olivier-winning actress Elaine Paige is giving Broadway.com listeners a chance to hear her BBC Radio 2 show, Elaine Paige on Sunday. This week, Paige is giving listeners an update on what's …

Robert Vaughn: The Man from “The Man from U.N.C.L.E.” by Trav S.D.

Earlier this month, we had a little run on famous Minnesotans all in a row: Ignatius Donnelly, Gig Young, and June Marlowe. We resume it today with a post on the late Robert Vaughn (1932-201…

ARE STREAMED PLAYS THEATER OR TV? UNIONS SETTLE A DISPUTE by Robert Shuman

(Michael Paulson’s article appeared in The New York Times, 11/19; Actors’ Equity and SAG-AFTRA’s agreement clears the way for more entertainment during the pandemic winter; via Pam Gre…

The Seven Deadly Sins: The Weill-Brecht 40-Minute Opera in Top Form by David Finkle

★★★★★ Director-choreographer Gary Clarke leads strong cast through each sin with hectic ease The post The Seven Deadly Sins: The Weill-Brecht 40-Minute Opera in Top Form appeared f…

Creating A Campus Play When That Play Is ‘Spring Awakening’ And There’s A Pandemic On by Artsjournal2

Says a former theatre student of Baldwin Wallace University’s Victoria Bussert, “Theatres have shut down everywhere, and this woman is just like, ‘Fuck that! We’re doing a play, we�…

VIDEO: Dame Judi Dench Pleas For People to Keep Theatre Alive Amidst the Pandemic

Judi Dench recently appeared on the Andrew Marr Show to plea for people to keep live theatre alive during the age of the pandemic.

‘A richly rewarding experience’: FALLING STARS – Union Theatre (Online review) by Emma Clarendon

Written and conceived by Peter Polycarpou, Falling Stars is a charming and fascinating exploration of composers, collaborators and publishers of the 1920s.

THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA Begins Performances in Taiwan With An Audience of Over 5000

The cast of The Phantom of the Opera has completed a 14-day quarantine and begun performances in Taiwan on November 19 at Taipei Arena.

VIDEO: Tim Minchin Releases Lyric Video For 'If This Plane Goes Down'

Tim Minchin has released a new lyric video for his song 'If This Plane Goes Down.' The song is featured on his debut album, Apart Together, which is available now!

In-Person Theatre During Covid-19: Quarantine, Ventilate, And Be Ready To Quit by Artsjournal2

A recent New Jersey show demonstrates that, if the perfect factors come together, Equity theatre can happen – though it will be more rare in the winter, certainly. “The whole time we wer…

Tiny chamber concert series strikes audience gold in crisis by Olivia Hampton

When Ellen Hwangbo launched a Washington, DC, chamber concert series in November 2019 that included a venue just a stone’s throw from the White House, little seemed brazen about it. But wi…

‘Powerful, funny & thoroughly engaging’: NAKED – Cockpit Theatre (Online review) by Tom Bolton

NAKED is a powerful, funny and thoroughly engaging piece of physical theatre. It is the first show from performers Luke Vincent and Paige-Marie Baker-Carroll of the NAKEDpresents queer colle…

How I Spend It: Claire Wilcox, author and curator, on her love of Borrower-sized treasures

The V&A’s senior fashion curator describes a lifelong passion for tiny things

Lin-Manuel Miranda: 'Death suffuses my work, and part of that is growing up in New York' by Miranda Sawyer

The acclaimed writer and performer on watching cat videos with ‘hot priest’ Andrew Scott, and why Hamilton reminds him of his own father Lin-Manuel Miranda created and starred in the mus…

The Success of Frozen: Location, Location, Location? by Peter J Snee

At the risk of being proven embarrassingly wrong, here’s a bold prediction: when Frozen: The Musical opens in Sydney this December,

Podcast ‘Hunting Ghislaine’ asks how Maxwell became a monster

John Sweeney attempts to understand Jeffrey Epstein’s girlfriend, beginning with her press baron father

Christmas on the Square Comes to Netflix November 21, Starring Dolly Parton, Christine Baranski, and Jenifer Lewis by Ryan McPhee

Debbie Allen directs and choreographs the holiday musical, featuring an original score by Parton herself.