2021 Segal Center Awards For Civic Engagement In The Arts Announced
Since the outbreak of the Corona Pandemic, The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center at the Graduate Center, CUNY has presented a series of public talks during The Time of Corona with over 300 artists and institutions from over 50 countries. The aim of the initiatives presented were to introduce artistic projects and concepts that develop a new perspective on social and institutional developments in the field of art, especially performance art.
The Playwrights Realm Announces Revamped Community Programming
As The Playwrights Realm's 15th anniversary Restart Season continues, its community programming, which last season offered 40 free workshops and classes to over 1,200 attendees, will continue to play a key role in its mission to support playwrights and the theater community at large, with the primary goal of offering visible paths toward improving all forms of access within the industry.
Creative Capital Launches Free Online Coping Workshops
Organized by Yara Travieso and Brighid Greene of La Medeaa?" a Creative Capital project that, as an immersive musical and simulcast film, re-imagines Euripides' myth into a Latin-disco-pop-feminist variety showa?" the panel will focus on livestreaming for artists and art institutions from creative, curatorial, and technical perspectives.
Howlround At Emerson College Announces Jamie Gahlon As Director
HowlRound, a free and open platform for theatremakers worldwide located at Emerson College, proudly announces Jamie Gahlon as its new director. Gahlon is a co-founder of HowlRound and most recently served as its interim director following the departure of co-founder/director P. Carl in November 2017. Previously, she was senior creative producer.
DVR ALERT: Watch Lin-Manuel Miranda in Dramatists Guild Panel LIVE Now!
Dramatists Guild of America continues its 2nd Annual National Conference in Chicago 'Having Our Say: Our History, Our Future' livestreaming on the global, peer produced, open source HowlRound TV channel at howlround.tv today, Friday, August 23. Check out a conversation with Lin-Manuel Miranda LIVE NOW from 3pm-3:45pm PDT / 5pm-5:45pm CDT / 6pm-6:45pm EDT, hosted by Larry Dean Harris.
Arena Stage Presents 'Mystery of Irma Vep'
Arena Stage presents Charles Ludlam's comic masterpiece The Mystery of Irma Vep. This clever, quick-change marathon ransacks literary, cinematic and pop culture as it satirizes everything from Hitchcock's Rebecca and classic horror film The Mummy's Curse to Wuthering Heights and Shakespeare. Arena Stage is excited to welcome back Brad Oscar (Broadway's Spamalot and The Producers, Arena's Cabaret and Damn Yankees) and J. Fred Shiffman (The Arthur Miller Festival, She Loves Me, Cabaret) as they portray all of the characters--men, women and monsters--in this gender-bending 'tour de force.' The Mystery of Irma Vep runs June 6 - July 13 at Arena Stage in Crystal City. The press opening performance is Thursday, June 12 at 8:00 p.m.