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The Santa Fe Opera Names 44 Apprentice Singers For The 2024 Season
by A.A. Cristi - Dec 21, 2023

The Santa Fe Opera has announced the 44 members of its 2024 Apprentice Program for Singers.

Review: THE TEMPEST at Round House Theatre // Folger Theatre
by Rachael F. Goldberg - Dec 2, 2022

It’s clear that a tremendous amount of talent, effort, and care has gone into this telling of The Tempest, and those affiliated certainly deserve high praise. Do yourself a favor and go see this production.

90.9 WGUC to Broadcast Cincinnati Opera's 2022 SUMMER FESTIVAL on Sunday Evenings in November
by Blair Ingenthron - Oct 23, 2022

On Sunday evenings this November, Cincinnati Opera will partner with 90.9 WGUC, Cincinnati's classical public radio station, to broadcast select productions from its 2022 Summer Festival. Each broadcast will begin at 8 p.m. ET. You can listen on air at 90.9 FM and online at wguc.org.

NO PLACE TO GO, SHEAR MADNESS & More Lead Washington DC's October Top 10
by BWW Staff - Oct 7, 2022

Washington, DC is never lacking outstanding theatre, whether epic Broadway shows, engrossing dramas or bold fringe offerings. BroadwayWorld is rounding up our top recommended theatre every month. Coming up in September are The Color Purple, No Place To Go, Shear Madness and more!

Review: DANCE NATION at Olney Theatre
by Martrese Meachum - Oct 5, 2022

Dance Nation, Olney Theatre's 22-23 Season opener, is a 2019 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama by playwright and performer Clare Barron and directed for Olney Theatre by Jenna Place. The play follows a 'tweenage dance team from Liverpool, Ohio, more is at stake than a first-place trophy.' Its about the battle between self doubt and self belief as well as the devotion required in order to be truly great at something.

Video: Cast Members of DANCE NATION at Olney Theatre Center Discuss Their Approach to Playing Tweens
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Sep 30, 2022

Dance Nation by Clare Barron and directed by Jenna Place opened Olney Theatre Center's 84th season in the Mulitz-Gudelsky Theatre Lab. The production is scheduled to run through Sunday October 30, 2022. See the actors discuss their approach to the roles here!

DANCE NATION Opens Olney Theatre's Season This Month
by Stephi Wild - Sep 7, 2022

Dance Nation by Clare Barron and directed by Jenna Place opens Olney Theatre Center's 84th season in the Mulitz-Gudelsky Theatre Lab. Preview performances begin Wednesday, September 28.

THE COLOR PURPLE, NO PLACE TO GO & More Lead Washington DC's September Top 10
by BWW Staff - Sep 1, 2022

Washington, DC is never lacking outstanding theatre, whether epic Broadway shows, engrossing dramas or bold fringe offerings. BroadwayWorld is rounding up our top recommended theatre every month. Coming up in September are The Color Purple, No Place To Go, Shear Madness and more!

Cincinnati Opera 2022 Summer Festival Continues With FIERCE And THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE
by A.A. Cristi - Jun 28, 2022

This July 6 through 10, Cincinnati Opera continues its 2022 Summer Festival with two uplifting productions: the world premiere of Fierce (July 6, 9, 10 at SCPA's Corbett Theater), with music by William Menefield and libretto by Sheila Williams, and Gilbert and Sullivan's hilarious The Pirates of Penzance (July 7, 8, 10 at Cincinnati Music Hall).

BWW Review: MARYS SEACOLE at Mosaic Theater Company
by Mary Lincer - May 9, 2022

Mary Seacole (1805-1881) had more skills than José Andres; in addition to establishing catering in war zones (Seacole set up a rest stop for British soldiers near the front lines during the Crimean War.), she also provided health care services during Jamaica's 1850 cholera epidemic and Panama's the following year.

Cincinnati Opera Announces Cast, Production, And Schedule Updates For 2022 Summer Festival
by A.A. Cristi - Feb 11, 2022

Cincinnati Opera today shared updated cast, production, and schedule details for its 2022 Summer Festival, which will take place June 18 through July 31, 2022. After two seasons away, the company returns this summer to its longtime performance venues, Cincinnati Music Hall and the School for Creative and Performing Arts (SCPA).

Palm Beach Opera Presents Sold-Out Performance Of Purcell's DIDO AND AENEAS
by Stephi Wild - Jan 14, 2022

Palm Beach Opera presented an exclusive Season Opening Celebration and intimate outdoor performance of Purcell's Baroque gem “Dido and Aeneas” at the Norton Museum Sculpture Garden on Dec. 11.

THE THANKSGIVING PLAY Will Reopen the Olney Theatre Next Month
by Stephi Wild - Sep 15, 2021

This return to the stage is also a homecoming for the cast of The Thanksgiving Play, featuring a quartet of actors returning to Olney Theatre. 

Olney Theatre Center Announces 2021-22 Season
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jul 20, 2021

In addition to its six-play membership season, the Montgomery County institution returns with an equally busy schedule of concerts, special productions, presentations, and even more curated programming to build off of the success of its summer series: Olney Outdoors.

VIDEO: Olney Theatre Center Announces 2020-21 Season on Facebook Live; BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, THE HUMANS, HEDWIG, and More!
by Stephi Wild - Apr 5, 2020

Olney Theatre Center took to Facebook live to announced its 2020-21 season yesterday!

BWW Review: Folger Theatre's LOVE's LABOR'S LOST at the Folger Shakespeare Library
by Hannah Wing - May 7, 2019

Folger Theatre's Love's Labor's Lost, directed by Vivienne Benesch, compliments the uniqueness of this comedy through a delightfully funny cast and production set during the 1930's.

LOVE'S LABOR'S LOST Ends Folger's 2019/20 Season
by A.A. Cristi - Mar 28, 2019

Mind vs. Matter. Game on. Folger Theatre concludes its 2018/19 season of characters that "shake the world" with Love's Labor's Lost, Shakespeare's quick-witted comedy filled with oaths, trickery, and confessions of love. Vivienne Benesch, the 2017 winner of the annual Zelda Fichandler Award, makes her Folger directorial debut.

BWW Reviews: OIL at Olney Theatre Center - It's an American Premiere
by Charles Shubow - Mar 11, 2019

Let me start this review with a comment by Olney's Artistic Director, Jason Loewith's comment in the program. 'After all my years in this business, many of them championing playwrights and new plays, it takes a lot to knock my socks off. I can count on two hands the experiences that reshaped by understanding of live theater and its possibilities. The world premiere of Ella Hickson's OIL in London two years was one of them. It is a blazingly, ambitious, as intellectually thrilling, as emotionally resonant as most the great works I've seen this century.'

Olney Theatre Presents Their Second U.S. Premiere Of The Season With OIL By Ella Hickson
by A.A. Cristi - Jan 25, 2019

The American Premiere of Ella Hickson's Oil directed by Tracy Brigden begins its Olney Theatre Center run in the Mulitz-Gudelsky Theatre Lab on February 27 and runs through March 31.  Invited Press Night is Saturday, March 2 at 7:45pm.

BWW Review: Thought-Provoking and Stunning KING JOHN at Folger Theatre
by Pamela Roberts - Nov 1, 2018

Political legitimacy and enduring human connections are at the forefront of a gorgeous and spare King John at the Folger Theatre. In the assured hands of Helen Hayes Award-winning director Aaron Posner, and with a dynamic and gifted cast, the production makes a powerful case for bringing King John off the shelf and onto the stage far more often.