Guest Blog: 'I Had Set Myself an Impossible Task'; Writer and Actor Lucinda Coyle on the Challenges and Triumphs of Creating OUR FIRST LAST
by Guest Author - June 02, 2023 Writing Our Last First was never going to be easy. From the start I had set myself up for an impossible task and opened myself up to criticism…but that was why I needed to write it....
Broadway DNA Will Present Industry Reading of SMJ's SWAY
by Stephi Wild - October 25, 2022 Broadway DNA will present a private industry reading of SMJ's SWAY at Open Jar Studios in Midtown Manhattan November 17 at 2 and 7 PM....
The 14/48 Projects Present Family Parks Show MEGA HERO RANGERS GO GO GO SUPREME!!!
by Stephi Wild - June 02, 2022 The 14/48 Projects returns to Seattle parks once again this summer with Mega Hero Rangers Go Go Go Supreme!!!. Written and produced by Andy Park-Buffelen, directed by Michael Nevárez, and managed by Rosemary Lisa Jones, this new play will be performed FREE in parks around Seattle starting July 9, 20...
Review: WHO'S HOLIDAY Is a Holiday Tradition at The Studio Theatre
by Theresa Bertram - December 20, 2022 What did our critic think of WHO'S HOLIDAY at The Studio Theatre?...
WE ARE THE LAND Comes to ArtsEmerson This Month
by Stephi Wild - September 05, 2023 ArtsEmersonw ill bring the Wampanoag Nation's We Are The Land to Boston audiences as its first stage production of its 2023-2024 season. Following its premiere in Plymouth, UK, We Are The Land comes to Boston for a very special two performance engagement from September 29 – 30, 2023 at the Emerson C...
World Premiere of A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS to Open at Seattle Opera in February
by Chloe Rabinowitz - November 29, 2022 On February 25, 2023, McCaw Hall will host the world premiere of A Thousand Splendid Suns, written by composer Sheila Silver and librettist Stephen Kitsakos, based on the gripping novel by Khaled Hosseini....
The Holy Gasp Releases New Album '…And the Lord Hath Taken Away'
by Michael Major - April 11, 2023 Toronto-born founder of The Holy Gasp, Benjamin Hackman, along with fellow composer, Anthony William Wallace, and Maestro Robert W. Stevenson, continue their undefinable style, aiming their artform towards the intersection of words and music on the newly released album, “…And the Lord Hath Taken Awa...
Wright State Theatre to Stage Lynn Nottage's SWEAT
by Marissa Tomeo - January 16, 2022 Wright State Theatre will stage Lynn Nottage’s Pulitzer Prize winning drama, Sweat, as its first play of 2022, running February 3-13th. As if lifted from our own local headlines, this gripping drama takes us into the lives of middle-American industrial workers facing the end of their livelihoods as ...
Theater Wit Returns To Live Shows With MR BURNS Next Month
by Stephi Wild - July 28, 2021 Wit’s 2015 Chicago premiere of Mr. Burns was one of the company’s most acclaimed productions ever, and post-pandemic, it couldn’t be more prescient. Wit’s new production revival also reunites many of the original cast and creative team....
S. Dylan Zwickel's THE MOSS MAIDENS Makes SheNYC History With Two Extensions
by Blair Ingenthron - July 29, 2023 The Moss Maidens from playwright S. Dylan Zwickel makes SheNYC Arts Summer Theater Festival history as the first production to be extended twice in the festival's eight-year existence. ...
World Premiere of A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS to Open at Seattle Opera in February
by Chloe Rabinowitz - November 29, 2022 On February 25, 2023, McCaw Hall will host the world premiere of A Thousand Splendid Suns, written by composer Sheila Silver and librettist Stephen Kitsakos, based on the gripping novel by Khaled Hosseini....
American Alliance For Theatre And Education Hosts 3rd Annual Leaders Of Color Institute
by A.A. Cristi - November 10, 2022 The American Alliance for Theatre and Education (AATE), a nonprofit organization that serves youth theatre education artists, scholars, and practitioners, will host the Leaders of Color Institute as a space for BIPOC/GM to learn and innovate within the field....
Review: THE REVENGE OF POPPERFACE, The Place
by Matthew Paluch - September 10, 2023 The Revenge of Popperface by Gareth Chambers invites the audience to muse over 'an experimental exploration of masculinity' through the occult and opera no less....
A CHORUS LINE Opens July 30 at Desert Stages Theatre
by Stephi Wild - July 20, 2021 In the DST production, teens and young adults portray the dancers vying for a spot in the “chorus line” of a Broadway musical. After the first round of cuts, Zach (played by Anand Khalsa), the director and choreographer, asks each dancer to speak about themselves. ...
Open-Door Playhouse Debuts GRACE Next Month
by Stephi Wild - April 15, 2024 Open-Door Playhouse will continue to present short plays in podcast form. Its upcoming play Grace will debut on May 14, 2024 online....
HELEN ON WHEELS Will Be Performed by Pigs Do Fly Productions Next Month
by Carol Kassie - November 15, 2021 Pigs Do Fly Productions' Helen on Wheels managed just one performance before the pandemic forced the show to shutter in March 2020. However, Pigs' founder and Executive Producer Ellen Wacher vowed Pigs Do Fly Productions and the show would be back when the time was right. Now, with Florida COVID num...
Norwegian National Opera Chorus and the Norwegian National Opera Orchestra Present PARSIFAL ACT 3
by Stephi Wild - July 21, 2022 Parsifal is the last music drama written by Richard Wagner. Its final act may very well feature the master’s most powerful piece of music. Now you can experience it as a concert – complete with brilliant soloists, the Norwegian National Opera Chorus and the Norwegian National Opera Orchestra!...
Acclaimed Filmmaker Roya Sadat Directs World Premiere of A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS at Seattle Opera
by Stephi Wild - February 03, 2023 When acclaimed Afghan filmmaker Roya Sadat agreed to direct the operatic premiere of A Thousand Splendid Suns, the challenges encountered by the story's Mariam and Laila, two women brought together under brutal Taliban rule, were a reminder of a traumatic period in Afghanistan's history. ...
Pigs Do Fly Productions Brings Back HELEN ON WHEELS For A Full Run At Empire Stage
by Carol Kassie - November 03, 2021 Pigs Do Fly Productions' Helen on Wheels managed just one performance before the pandemic forced the show to shutter in March 2020. ...
Review: LA TRAVIATA, London Coliseum
by Franco Milazzo - October 24, 2023 Much shorter than Richard Eyre’s three-hour plus version for the ROH, Peter Konwitschny’s La Traviata perhaps should be renamed La Trav or L’ Abbreviata. Its breathless sprint over 105 uninterrupted minutes takes more than it gives but there’s an admirable boldness to it all....
Review: WHERE WE BELONG at Portland Center Stage
by Krista Garver - March 08, 2023 Madeline Sayet’s sweeping and poetic one-person play WHERE WE BELONG tells the story of Achokayis, a Mohegan theatre-maker, who in 2015 moves to England to get her PhD in Shakespeare. It deals with issues that we as a country have actively worked to avoid talking about, or at least to relegate them ...
MuMu Shares 'Wrapped Up (Post Roe)' Single
by Michael Major - August 09, 2022 With the recent, abhorrent overturning of Roe v. Wade at the hands of the U.S. Supreme Court, MuMu felt a responsibility to share a live session of her track 'Wrapped Up,' a song that retells the challenges of unplanned pregnancy. It expresses the vitality of one's right to choose, and the detriment...
Dave Lombardo Announces Debut Solo Album 'Rites of Percussion'
by Michael Major - March 08, 2023 Dave Lombardo will release his debut solo album, Rites of Percussion. The 13-track collection, previewed with the release of “Journey of the Host,' is the result of a 40-year career that saw Lombardo rise to prominence as a co-founder of Slayer, earn two GRAMMY-Awards, and expand his repertoire acro...
Iqaluit-Based Inuit Hip-Hop Musician Shauna Seeteenak Releases “See The Light”
by A.A. Cristi - August 23, 2021 With a speakeasy style that lulls listeners into an entranced state, Inuk hip-hop artist Shauna Seeteenak releases her powerful and spine-chilling new single, 'See The Light' - available now....
Photos: THE OK TRENTON PROJECT Debuts At Passage Theatre Company
by A.A. Cristi - February 22, 2022 Based on a true story and composed of verbatim interviews from those directly involved, The OK Trenton Project, presented by Passage Theatre Company in Trenton, New Jersey, is an experience that explores the role art plays in the community and the consequences faced when it’s taken away. The world ... |