![]() by Stephi Wild - December 18, 2019 In their continuing effort to make Broadway more accessible, BroadwayHD, the premier streaming service for live theater, announced today that they have partnered with Broadway & Beyond Theatricals to bring BroadwayHD digital captures to performing arts centers and regional playhouses across the U.S.... ![]() by A.A. Cristi - October 22, 2020 While LA Opera awaits its cue to return to live performances onstage, the company has turned to creating an array of online content through the LA Opera On Now initiative, which will soon expand to include a series of exciting new Digital Shorts commissions as well as a November 14 stream of The Ano... ![]() by Sarah Jae Leiber - November 11, 2020 National Geographic announced today that 'The Hot Zone,' the network's highest-rated scripted series to date, has been greenlit for a second season, which will focus on the anthrax attacks of 2001.... ![]() by Stephi Wild - April 06, 2020 Susan Crockett, Ruth Eckerd Hall President & CEO, announced today that Ruth Eckerd Hall has been awarded a Top Workplaces 2020 honor by The Tampa Bay Times for the first time in the history of the performing arts center.... ![]() by A.A. Cristi - June 14, 2019 East Lynne Theater Company, Cape May Stage, and GABLES joined forces to support LGBTQ+ Gay Pride Month with 'Cape Pride: Two Staged Readings.' On June 10, 'The Normal Heart' was at Cape May Stage, and on Monday, June 24, 'The Temperamentals' by Jon Marans, will be at The First Presbyterian Church o... ![]() by Stephi Wild - May 13, 2019 Taking the lead in Exchange Theatre's thrilling political adaptation of Jean-Paul Sartre's classic The Flies is French actress Meena Rayann (Game of Thrones, HBO; Hilda, Odds On Productions 2019; multi-award winning No Love Lost, Intelligent Ink Films) as the downtrodden Electra and in his professio... ![]() by Michael Dale - June 29, 2019 Unlike the vast majority of musicals granted concert productions by City Center's Encores! Off-Center, the collaborate effort known as WORKING did not play an Off-Broadway run before hitting Times Square. Instead, Chicago's Goodman Theatre production transferred to the 46th Street Theatre in 1978, w... ![]() by Stephi Wild - May 15, 2020 The Quincy Symphony Orchestra & Chorus has partnered with WGEM-TV to broadcast three concerts in May.... ![]() by Stephi Wild - July 12, 2019 Paines Plough have appointed Frankie Meredith as their 2019 fellow. THE BIG ROOM Playwright Fellowship is awarded annually to a writer of exceptional promise at the very start of their career. The Fellowship invites the writer to spend nine months on attachment to Paines Plough who design a bespoke ... ![]() by Stephi Wild - June 10, 2020 Nottingham Playhouse today announces Naomi Obeng as the winner of its recent call out for a professional writer to create its 2020 festive family show, Jack and the Beanstalk.... ![]() by A.A. Cristi - October 14, 2020 On November 14, 2020, LA Opera will present the company premiere of The Anonymous Lover (L'Amant Anonyme), a 1780 opera by Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges (1745-1799), who is widely regarded as the first Black classical composer known to history.... ![]() by Maria Nockin - November 15, 2020 Joseph Bologne, the Chevalier de Saint-Georges, was a Black man born in 1745 to a slave and a slaveholder on the island of Guadeloupe. Few know Bologne wrote operas and most of them have been lost. Only L’Amant Anonyme remains in its entirety. You can hear some of the stylistic traits of both Mozar... ![]() by Chloe Rabinowitz - November 06, 2019 As the architecturally significant and majestic home of Lyric Opera of Chicago marks its 90th anniversary this week, Lyric's president, general director & CEO, Anthony Freud, announced that the company plans to undertake one of the most ambitious improvement projects in its history. Over the summer ... ![]() by A.A. Cristi - October 28, 2019 Cheryl Strayed's TINY BEAUTIFUL THINGS, the best selling book that collects the highlights of The Rumpus's “Dear Sugar” advice columns, is loved for its insight, humor, and compassion. Nia Vardalos, the star of MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING, along with Marshall Heyman and Thomas Kail, co-conceived a stag... ![]() by Chloe Rabinowitz - July 28, 2020 LA Opera announced today that it is postponing four productions that were scheduled for later this year to the fall of 2021 due to concerns for artist and patron safety regarding COVID-19.... ![]() by Stephi Wild - April 26, 2019 Shakespeare's Globe is delighted to announce its upcoming programme of events to mark Refugee Week, taking place between 17 and 23 June 2019. Joining the UK-wide celebration of the contribution of refugees to our national community, the Globe will invite refugee artists, performers and audiences to ... ![]() by Chloe Rabinowitz - April 30, 2020 Jun Maeda, the Obie Award-winning designer and resident set designer at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club (ETC) since 1970, died on Monday, April 6 - three days after his 79th birthday - at Mt. Sinai West Hospital in Manhattan.... ![]() by Stephi Wild - May 02, 2020 Conversations surrounding mental health will be coming directly into people's homes through the inaugural 320 Festival, now happening completely virtually May 8th-10th.... ![]() by A.A. Cristi - October 06, 2020 Colorado Ballet received a $500,000 matching grant for the company's Relief & Recovery Fund that was launched after canceling all fall 2020 productions, including The Nutcracker, to help offset losses of nearly $4 million in revenue. A generous couple, who have requested to remain anonymous, will ma... ![]() by A.A. Cristi - June 26, 2019 Florida Repertory Theatre's leadership and Board of Directors are pleased to announce it has purchased the Bradford block in downtown Fort Myers, which contains the Historic Arcade Theatre, ArtStage Studio Theatre, and other Florida Rep facilities, as well as the parking lot across Bay Street. This ... ![]() by Stephi Wild - August 27, 2019 Crowded Fire Theater (CFT), known as a vital home for new play development and production on the West Coast, announced Ard, Keiko Shimosato Carreiro, Everett Elton Bradman, Erin Gilley, and Ashley Smiley as the fourth year IGNITE FUND awardees. The IGNITE FUND awards $10,000 in total annually to sup... ![]() by A.A. Cristi - October 14, 2020 On November 14, 2020, LA Opera will present the company premiere of The Anonymous Lover (L'Amant Anonyme), a 1780 opera by Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges (1745-1799), who is widely regarded as the first Black classical composer known to history.... ![]() by Julie Musbach - June 06, 2019 Austin Playhouse announces their 20th Anniversary Season celebrating the human connections at the heart of live theatre.... ![]() by A.A. Cristi - October 08, 2020 While LA Opera awaits its cue to return to live performances onstage, the company has turned to creating an array of online content through the LA Opera At Home initiative, which will soon expand to include a series of exciting new Digital Shorts commissions as well as a November 14 stream of The An... |