New Kira Obolensky Musical 'THE OVERCOAT' to Kick Off Reading Series at Playwrights' Center
by BWW News Desk - November 21, 2017 As chilly weather settles into Minnesota, local playwright Kira Obolensky has a wintery new musical to share. 'The Overcoat: A Low-Fi Musical' is the first play in the Playwrights' Center's 2017-18 Ruth Easton New Play Series, a long-running series offering Playwrights' Center Core Writers 20 hours ...
Tessa Bide Productions Launches THE ANARCHIST'S MOBILE LIBRARY, An Interactive Audio And BSL Adventure
by A.A. Cristi - November 18, 2020 Award-winning family theatre company Tessa Bide Productions have adapted their successful interactive live show, The Anarchist's Mobile Library, into an interactive audio and British Sign Language (BSL) adventure for children and their families to play from home. It is available to play from Saturda...
University of Wisconsin Opera Presents 'I Wish It So: Marc Blitzstein – the Man in His Music'
by Stephi Wild - October 20, 2020 This fall, University Opera presents its first project of 2020-21 in video format as it turns to the music of Marc Blitzstein (1905-1964). I WISH IT SO: MARC BLITZSTEIN – THE MAN IN HIS MUSIC will be released on the Mead Witter School of Music YouTube channel on October 23 at 8 pm....
Patricia Milton's Play ACCUSED! Opens This July At Central Works
by A.A. Cristi - May 22, 2024 Patricia Milton's play ACCUSED! opens on July 13 at Central Works, marking the final comic caper in the series. ...
REVIEW: Thomas Bernhard's THE PRESIDENT Retains A Resonance In The 21st Century
by Jade Kops - April 19, 2024 Sydney Theatre Company and Gate Theatre’s-production of Thomas Bernhard’s THE PRESIDENT arrives in Sydney following it’s Dublin season. Directed by Gate’s Tom Creed, the political satire, translated by Gitta Honegger, from 1975 retains a relevance in the contemporary world of leaders that forget th...
ACCUSED! By Patricia Milton Extends At Central Works
by A.A. Cristi - August 01, 2024 Central Works extends the run of THE COMEDY ACCUSED! by Patricia Milton through August 18. Don't miss this engaging and thought-provoking play at the Berkeley City Club....
Lifeline Theatre Presents THE MAN WHO WAS THURSDAY
by Julie Musbach - January 03, 2019 Lifeline Theatre presents The Man Who Was Thursday, adapted by Lifeline Theatre ensemble member Bilal Dardai and directed by Jess Hutchinson. Dardai and Hutchinson return to this 1908 satire after having first mounted it at New Leaf Theatre, where Hutchinson was the Artistic Director, in 2009 (Non-E...
Video: HACKNEY EMPIRE: ON THE SHOULDERS OF GIANTS Short Film Celebrates Hackney Empire 120th Anniversary
by Chloe Rabinowitz - December 09, 2022 Watch the short film HACKNEY EMPIRE: ON THE SHOULDERS OF GIANTS, celebrating Hackney Empire's 120th Birthday year....
Patricia Milton's ACCUSED! Opens In July At Central Works
by A.A. Cristi - June 13, 2024 Patricia Milton's play ACCUSED! opens at Central Works on July 13....
HBO Announces THE ANARCHISTS Original Documentary Series
by Michael Major - June 22, 2022 With intimate access to the main players, THE ANARCHISTS features first-hand accounts from Berwick, the figurehead of the movement; anarchy activists Lisa and Nathan Freeman who left the United States with their children to find a freer life in Mexico; and John Galton and Lily Forester, American fug...
Rhinebeck Writers Retreat to Host Residencies for 23 Writers of Nine New Musicals
by Chloe Rabinowitz - May 26, 2021 Celebrating its 10th anniversary, Rhinebeck Writers Retreat will host nine weeklong in-person residencies for 23 musical theatre writers of nine new musicals between June 27 and August 29. Writers include Tony-nominee Beth Malone, Emily Saliers of Indigo Girls; Jonathan Larson winners Avi Amon, Sar...
LPC & Pregones/PRTT Announce The Greater Good Commission Recipients
by A.A. Cristi - September 02, 2020 Darrel Alejandro Holnes, Latinx Playwrights Circle, and Pregones/PRTT are thrilled to announce that the playwrights selected for the Greater Good Commission and Festival are Christin Eve Cato, Julissa Contreras, Candice D'Meza, Shenny De Los Angeles, and Rachel Lynett. ...
3-Course Play BREAKFAST LUNCH DINNER' Gets Live Streamed Reading By Echo Theater Company
by A.A. Cristi - July 27, 2020 The Echo Theater Company, named LA Weekly's a?oeBest Bet for Ballsy Original Plays,a?? presents an online reading of a three-course play with recipes by Kira Obolensky. Ingredients: a middle-class Midwestern family, a modest urban kitchen, a larger-than-life mother who visits, a striving woman, a so...
Echo Theater Company Selects Six Young Playwrights for 2020 National Young Playwrights in Residence Program
by Chloe Rabinowitz - May 04, 2020 Long recognized for its dedication to creating new work for the theater, Los Angeles-based Echo Theater Company is uniquely positioned to nurture the next generation of playwrights during the current public health crisis....
LPC & Pregones/PRTT Announce The Greater Good Commission Recipients
by A.A. Cristi - September 02, 2020 Darrel Alejandro Holnes, Latinx Playwrights Circle, and Pregones/PRTT are thrilled to announce that the playwrights selected for the Greater Good Commission and Festival are Christin Eve Cato, Julissa Contreras, Candice D'Meza, Shenny De Los Angeles, and Rachel Lynett. ...
Eleven Performances Join the Performance Lab Series at UCL's Bloomsbury Theatre and Grant Museum of Zoology
by Stephi Wild - March 25, 2019 Experience eleven energetic live performances created from eleven experiments in science and the arts, as they explode onto the Bloomsbury Theatre's stage and the Grant Museum of Zoology in the first exciting PERFORMANCE LAB season from Monday 29 April 2019 - Thursday 20 June 2019....
New Kira Obolensky Musical 'THE OVERCOAT' to Kick Off Reading Series at Playwrights' Center
by BWW News Desk - November 21, 2017 As chilly weather settles into Minnesota, local playwright Kira Obolensky has a wintery new musical to share. 'The Overcoat: A Low-Fi Musical' is the first play in the Playwrights' Center's 2017-18 Ruth Easton New Play Series, a long-running series offering Playwrights' Center Core Writers 20 hours ...
Antoine Hodge, Metropolitan Opera Performer Known For PORGY AND BESS, Dies Due to COVID-19
by Stephi Wild - February 25, 2021 Hodge's other past roles include Colline in La bohème, Beo/Amatio di Nicolao in Gianni Schicchi, the Master of Ceremonies in Cendrillon, Mr. Page in The Merry Wives of Windsor, Mr. Gobineau in The Medium, Yundt in Curs Bryant's The Anarchists, and more....
Trademark Theater Announces the Launch of New Commissioning Platform
by Chloe Rabinowitz - April 28, 2020 Trademark Theater announces the launch of a brand-new commissioning platform today. The platform awards artists with development opportunities for their new works as well as a two-week workshop and staged reading in an upcoming season....
Lifeline Announces 2018-2019 Season Lineup
by A.A. Cristi - February 02, 2018 Lifeline Theatre Artistic Director Dorothy Milne and the artistic ensemble announce their 2018-19 season of Big Stories, Up Close. It's another year of unforgettable stories brought to life, from beloved classics to modern titles....
This May, American Experience Salutes Women Trailblazers With Four Encore Broadcasts
by Tori Hartshorn - April 09, 2019 AMERICAN EXPERIENCE will present a special salute to “Women in History” this May with encore broadcasts of four films that celebrate extraordinary women: Amelia Earhart, Annie Oakley, Emma Goldman and Rachel Carson. From the groundbreaking work of the scientist who launched the modern environmental ... |