BBC Audio Drama Awards 2023 Winners Announced
by Aliya Al-Hassan - Mar 20, 2023
Actor, producer and director Martin Jarvis OBE (Just William, The Forsyte Saga, Eastenders, Doctor Who) has won the BBC Audio Drama award for Lifetime Achievement, presented at Broadcasting House’s Radio Theatre.
Finalists in the 2023 BBC Audio Drama Awards Announced
by Aliya Al-Hassan - Feb 8, 2023
The finalists in the 2023 BBC Audio Drama Awards have today been announced, with a wealth of talent such as Toby Jones, Danielle Vitalis and Ken Cheng all in the running for the top spots.
Announcing Winter-Spring Authors in the American Inspiration Series in Boston's Back Bay
by A.A. Cristi - Jan 28, 2020
The American Inspiration author series, presented by American Ancestors and New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS), has announced its winter-spring lineup of authors. The series presents best-selling authors and their latest books exploring themes of personal identity, families and immigration, and social and cultural history.
Updated Schedule Announced For HEARTSPACE: A Performance Residency
by A.A. Cristi - Nov 15, 2019
THE EARTH, THAT IS SUFFICIENT, a year-long, iterative, transnational, ensemble-driven performance project exploring the precarity of human relationships to extraction, consumption and power, culminates in the HEARTSPACE residency and transdisciplinary performance at the Anacostia Playhouse.
New Author Series American Inspiration To Feature Talks On The Battle Of Vicksburg And More
by A.A. Cristi - Nov 6, 2019
The new American Inspiration author series, presented by American Ancestors and New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS) headquartered in Boston's Back Bay, moves into the second half of its fall season on Tuesday, November 12, with a presentation by the historian and producer Donald L. Miller about his acclaimed new work Vicksburg: Grant's Campaign That Broke the Confederacy.
The Welders Present THE EARTH, THAT IS SUFFICIENT
by Stephi Wild - Sep 6, 2019
In the midst of international and local organizing to demand action on climate justice, Welder Lead Producing Playwright Annalisa Dias is exploring how performance can foster hope in this time of anxiety. THE EARTH, THAT IS SUFFICIENT is an iterative, transnational ensemble-driven performance project that is taking place in three phases. PHASE 2: HARVEST MUSHROOMS began in August and will continue through September.
Announcing The Creators Of THE EARTH, THAT IS SUFFICIENT
by A.A. Cristi - Feb 27, 2019
Annalisa Dias, a Producing Playwright with the Welders' Playwrights Collective, has assembled a dynamic, transnational team of collaborators that will be engaging in an emergent devising and creation process throughout 2019. the earth, that is sufficient is part of Dias' ongoing inquiry into contemplative arts practice as a response to the rampant social inequities and anthropogenic climate change caused by late-stage capitalism. The development process of the earth, that is sufficient is grounded in emergent process design (building off of Adrienne Maree Brown's definition of Emergent Strategy).
Peak Performances Presents SMASHED
by Stephi Wild - Nov 8, 2018
Peak Performances' 2018-2019 season of genre-and-convention-defying performances continues with Smashed, Gandini Juggling's acclaimed work inspired by the choreography of Pina Bausch, directed by Sean Gandini and assistant directed by Kati Yla-Hokkala. Smashed is set at a tea party with a group of mild-tempered, buttoned-up attendees, juggling apples in perfect, cordial unison-until their movements reveal and give way to growing, often gendered power tensions in a crescendo of destruction. Set to a soundtrack ranging from Bach to Louis Armstrong to Tammy Wynette, the Gandinis display a virtuosic blend of skills, precision, and theatricality that leaves the audience breathless. Formed in 1992 by world-renowned jugglers Gandini and Yla-Hokkala, Gandini Juggling continues to be at the vanguard of contemporary circus. In 2016 the company contributed juggling choreography for the Olivier Award-winning English National Opera (ENO) production of Philip Glass's Akhnaten. Prior to their Peak Performances engagement, Gandini Juggling has been working with MSU mathematical sciences professors Mika Munakata and Ashuwin Vaidya to develop a juggling classroom module for their National Science Foundation-funded project called Engaged Learning through Creativity in Mathematics and Science. Smashed comes to the Alexander Kasser Theater at Montclair State University (1 Normal Ave., Montclair, NJ) December 13-16.
The Welders Receive Grants For The Development Of New Work
by Stephi Wild - Mar 7, 2018
The Welders-Washington's only playwrights' collective devoted exclusively to developing and producing new plays-has received funding for artistic development of projects by individual artists Annalisa Dias, Rachel Hynes and Hannah Hessel Ratner, and the company has been awarded additional funding from the DC Commission on Arts and Humanities specifically to support artistic development.
New Civil War History Book, KENTUCKY'S REBEL PRESS, Released this Week
by A.A. Cristi - Jan 10, 2018
Throughout the Civil War, the influence of the popular press and its skillful use of propaganda was extremely significant in Kentucky. Union and Confederate sympathizers were scattered throughout the border slave state, and in 1860, at least twenty-eight of the Commonwealth's approximately sixty newspapers were pro-Confederate, making the secessionist cause seem stronger in Kentucky than it was in reality. In addition, the impact of these rebel presses reached beyond the region to readers throughout the nation.
Photo Exclusive: First Look at THE ODYSSEY at The Scoop
by Roy Tan - Aug 11, 2017
Ancient Greece's greatest epic story The Odyssey comes to London this summer as a thrilling 3-part open-air theatre experience played out in The Scoop amphitheatre overlooking Tower Bridge - and it's completely free. BroadwayWorld has an exclusive first look at the cast below!
THE ODYSSEY Comes to London this Summer as a Free 3-Part Open-Air Theatre Experience
by BWW News Desk - May 8, 2017
In a stunning setting on the banks of the River Thames, in The Scoop sunken ampitheatre, London's Free Open Air Theatre Season promises to excite audiences for its 14th year by returning to its critically acclaimed classical roots with a reimagining of one of the world's great epics - Homer's Greek epic, The Odyssey.