Texas-Based VORTEX Repertory Company Sues State Over Drag Ban Bill
by Stephi Wild - August 14, 2023 Texas-based VORTEX Repertory Company has filed a lawsuit against the state over a drag ban bill....
Matthew Bourne's SLEEPING BEAUTY Returns to Cinemas in the UK
by Stephi Wild - April 19, 2023 Marking the 10th anniversary of Matthew Bourne’s gothic romance, Trafalgar Releasing is delighted to announce that a brand-new filmed recording of Sleeping Beauty is being released in cinemas across the UK on Wednesday 28th June and Sunday 2nd July 2023. International screenings will follow in the a...
Arts, Entertainment, And Media Unions Urge Congress To Pass FY 2022 Funding For The Arts
by A.A. Cristi - January 21, 2022 Today, the Department for Professional Employees, AFL-CIO sent a letter to House and Senate Appropriations Committee leadership urging the passage of a Fiscal Year 2022 appropriations bill that funds the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for Humanities at $201 million each ...
DEATH OF A SALESMAN's McKinley Belcher III to Marry Boyfriend Blake Fox; Andre De Shields Will Officiate
by Stephi Wild - January 17, 2023 BroadwayWorld congratulates McKinley Belcher III on his wedding to longtime boyfriend Blake Fox!...
AUREA ENSEMBLE PRESENTS a Concert Celebrating The Ideals Of Democracy And Equality
by Stephi Wild - September 13, 2022 What happens when artists meet at the margins of their disciplines and push the boundaries back and forth? What happens is AUREA-a performance ensemble engaged in a joyous pursuit to investigate and invigorate the harmony of music and the spoken word....
Peter Morén's SunYears Debut 'Come Fetch My Soul!'
by Michael Major - February 15, 2023 For the album, Morén enlisted fellow indie artists Ron Sexsmith, Jess Williamson, Eric Johnson (Fruit Bats, Bonny Light Horseman), and Kathryn Williams, which resulted in multiple duets throughout the album. The closing track “Wake Up,” written during a songwriting retreat, features Ren Harvieu....
Actors' Equity: Delays In Vaccinations Further Damage The Arts Industry
by A.A. Cristi - January 21, 2021 Actors' Equity has released a statement in response to the news that New York City is not doing vaccine distribution today and has canceled over 23,000 vaccination appointments this week....
Xana Drops New Single 'babyblue'
by Michael Major - June 05, 2023 Based in Vancouver, Canada, Xana is an emerging pop powerhouse. Her command of pop music keeps her songwriting enthralling, as her blissful vocals glide across the most intimate storytelling and worldbuilding. It’s her intoxicating vibrance that sets Xana apart, as she encompasses themes of LGBTQ ro...
Art House Gallery Presents TRANS-LUCID By Frank Ippolito
by A.A. Cristi - March 28, 2023 Art House Productions present “Trans-lucid” - an exhibition of illuminated works by Frank Ippolito in the Art House Gallery, April 15 through April 30, 2023. Ippolito is an artist based in Jersey City. His fascination with the scattering of light passing through a translucent surface is the focus of...
Previews: The Dramatic Spectacle of UNDER THE VOLCANO to Engulf Ciputra Artpreneur
by Rakaputra Paputungan - August 18, 2022 Based on a hundred year old poem, Bumi Purna Indonesia and Ciputra Artpreneur will bring the bombastic yet poignant UNDER THE VOLCANO to Jakarta on August 27. The production will run twice, starting at 16.00 and 20.00, at the Ciputra Artpreneur Theater....
Greek National Opera to Stream 3RD GNO Online Festival
THE LADY IN THE MOONLIGHT
by A.A. Cristi - December 28, 2020 A dramatic monologue for mezzo-soprano, narrator, clarinet, viola and guitar, The Lady in the Moonlight (1977) is, from both the technical and the expressive point of view, one of the greatest achievements in the invaluable oeuvre of Yorgo Sicilianos(1920-2005), undoubtedly one of the most serious r...
Gianandrea Noseda To Receive The Puccini Award
by Stephi Wild - July 20, 2023 Gianandrea Noseda will receive the Puccini Award in the city of the composer's birth. He concludes a tour with the Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia at the Puccini Festival....
Review: 12:37, Finborough Theatre
by Alexander Cohen - December 02, 2022 A meandering meditation on Zionism in desperate need of refinement...
Artist Series Concerts of Sarasota Presents WOMEN OF NOTE
by Chloe Rabinowitz - February 01, 2021 Artist Series Concerts of Sarasota will present a live performance of “Women of Note,” its celebration of female artists and composers in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the passage of women’s right to vote....
Kim Gordon Releases New Song 'Grass Jeans' With Proceeds To Fund Texas Choice
by Michael Major - December 02, 2021 Kim Gordon shares a new track “Grass Jeans,” recorded with touring band members Sterling Laws, Sarah Register & Camilla Charlesworth and is the first new music since releasing her critically acclaimed solo debut, No Home Record. All proceeds from the month of December for the song will be benefiting...
NOH8 Campaign to Hold Open Photo Shoot at Playhouse On Park
by Blair Ingenthron - December 31, 2022 NOH8 will hold an open photo shoot at Playhouse on Park on Monday, January 30th from 6pm - 8pm in conjunction with their production of Paula Vogel's INDECENT. ...
Jason Eady Announces New Album 'To the Passage of Time' Out August 27
by Sarah Jae Leiber - May 19, 2021 ''My Best Friend' is one of the first songs I wrote for this new record. When it came time to record it, we went back to the stripped down country sounds of fiddle and steel guitar, and kept the production simple to give the lyrics plenty of space,' said Eady about the song. ...
Jason Eady Releases New Song 'French Summer Sun'
by Sarah Jae Leiber - June 22, 2021 With its nuanced exploration of aging and loss and the fragility of life, To the Passage of Time arrives as the Mississippi-bred artist’s most lyrically complex and compelling work to date....
NC Alternative Rock Group OCNS To Release Latest Single 'How Late It Was'
by Chloe Rabinowitz - January 09, 2023 Raleigh, NC-based alternative rock group OCNS is back with their latest track, the nostalgic 'HOW LATE IT WAS,' set for release on January 20th....
Shawn Kirchner's THE LIGHT OF HOPE RETURNING Comes to La Verne This Weekend
by Stephi Wild - December 12, 2022 THE LIGHT OF HOPE RETURNING by Shawn Kirchner, sung by the La Verne Church of the Brethren Sanctuary Choir will be performed Sunday, December 18 at 4 p.m. and Wednesday, December 21 at 7:30 p.m. Mr. Kirchner will provide piano accompaniment as the choir ends a three-year COVID-induced drought of Chr...
20TH CENTURY BLUES Will Open Hopewell Theatre's 2021-22 Season in September
by Stephi Wild - July 29, 2021 Four women meet once a year for a photo shoot, chronicling their changing (and aging) selves as they navigate love, careers, children, and the complications of history and the passage of time. But when these private photographs threaten to go public, relationships are tested, forcing the women to co...
Edie Carey Releases New Album 'The Veil'
by Michael Major - June 07, 2022 Folk/Americana singer-songwriter Edie Carey has released her eleventh album The Veil. Produced by Scott Wiley, the album features Grammy-nominated friend and frequent collaborator Rose Cousins and Mai Bloomfield (Jason Mraz, Sara Bareilles). Edie Carey will celebrate The Veil on tour throughout the ...
Object of Affection (mems of Fury, Death Bells) Announce Debut Album & Share Single 'Half Life'
by Michael Major - January 05, 2023 Since the release of their 2020 S/T, self released EP and most recent single “Through and Through” (Suicide Squeeze), the band have already shared the stage with accomplished peers Ceremony, Fiddlehead, Special Interest, Gulch, so on. Watch the music video for the lead single now!...
The Chamlins In THE PRIME OF OUR LIVES Comes to The Laurie Beechman in June
by Stephi Wild - May 26, 2023 THE PRIME OF OUR LIVES premieres at the Laurie Beechman Theatre Saturday, June 10th at 4pm....
BWW Review: South Coast Repertory Revisits Classic Play OUR TOWN
by Michael Quintos - May 25, 2022 Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1938 three-act play OUR TOWN has a superb new iteration now performing at South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa, CA through June 4, 2022. Directed by Beth Lopes, the show employs a wonderfully diverse cast, as it re-stages its seemingly ordinary but ultimately ... |