Timothy Ware to Headline The Seeing Place's DUTCHMAN
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jul 15, 2020
While the live-performance season is on hold nationwide, The Seeing Place continues to produce great plays by distinguished playwrights. Up next is an online reading of DUTCHMAN, a one-act drama by Amiri Baraka (produced and published in 1964 under the playwright's original name LeRoi Jones).
BWW Review: THE DEEP BLUE SEA, National Theatre At Home
by Anthony Walker-Cook - Jul 10, 2020
The latest NT at Home digital offering is Terence Rattigan's 1952 play The Deep Blue Sea, which was performed at the National Theatre in 2016. Directed by Carrie Cracknell and starring the indomitable Helen McCrory, this post-war microcosm bristles with desperate passion.
VIDEO: Raffi And Yo-Yo Ma Duet Marks 40th Anniversary Of 'Baby Beluga'
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jul 9, 2020
It's been nearly 40 years since Raffi, the internationally renowned children's entertainer and advocate, released his iconic album Baby Beluga. Millions of people grew up with the words of the title song, which follows a little white whale through his happy day, and which helped spark both a public appreciation of a threatened species and Raffi's own climate activism.
Food Network Weekly Schedule Highlights Announced
by A.A. Cristi - Jun 25, 2020
Get your grills ready as Food Network celebrates the Fourth of July with a weekly schedule packed with premieres, marathons and grilling and summer eats-themed episodes. Throughout the week, don't miss new episodes of fan-favorites including Beat Bobby Flay, Big Time Bake, Chopped, Guy's Grocery Games, Restaurant: Impossible, Supermarket Stakeout: What Would Alex Make?, Worst Cooks in America and more.
The Coterie Announces Summer Drama Classes
by Stephi Wild - May 29, 2020
The Coterie Theatre School is offering its summer session of drama classes as both live, interactive online instruction as well as in-person classes (whenever possible).
PlayGround Announces Winners of This Year's Young Playwrights Contest
by A.A. Cristi - May 20, 2020
PlayGround has announced the winners of this year's Young Playwrights Contest. The venerated playwright incubator will debut the four selected short plays by Bay Area teen playwrights, performed live online by professional actors, June 12th at 8PM PT as part of its innovative PlayGround Zoom Fest.Â
FLASHBACK: French Without Tears, Orange Tree Theatre
by Aliya Al-Hassan - Apr 27, 2020
In 2015 the Orange Tree theatre staged Terence Rattigan's 1936 comedy French Without Tears to critical acclaim. It was such a hit that it was revived in 2016 and then proceeded to go on a successful nationwide tour.
The story follows a group of young men who are attending a summer French school in order to pass a diplomatic exam. Their studies are interrupted by the beautiful Diana whose systematic temptation and seduction of several members of the group causes both chaos and heartbreak.
BWW Spotlight Series: Meet Ronnie Marmo â€" An Actor, Director, Producer, Playwright, and Artistic Director of Theatre 68 in NoHo and NYC
by Shari Barrett - Mar 27, 2020
With the current theatre world on hiatus, I have created a Spotlight Series on Broadway World Los Angeles which features interviews with some of the many talented artists who make our Los Angeles theatre community so exciting and vibrant thanks to their ongoing contribution to keeping the arts alive in the City of the Angels. And like all of us, how are they dealing with the abrupt end of productions in which they were involved? This Spotlight focuses on Ronnie Marmo, an actor, director, producer, playwright, and Artistic Director of Theatre 68 who has been touring the country with his dynamic solo show I'm Not A Comedian...I'm Lenny Bruce. I attended the show more than once and was excited to hear the news of its New York City and Chicago production dates, which of course are now on hold.
National Theatre Collection Will Be Available To Pupils And Teachers At Home
by Stephi Wild - Mar 26, 2020
Following the announcement from the UK Government for all UK schools to close in light of the Coronavirus pandemic, the National Theatre Collection will now be available to pupils and teachers at state schools and state-funded further education colleges via remote access in partnership with Bloomsbury Publishing.
Meet the Cast of THE LEHMAN TRILOGY - Now in Previews on Broadway!
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Mar 7, 2020
The Lehman Trilogy is officially in previews on Broadway! This strictly limited, 16-week engagement comes to Broadway on the heels of runs at London's National Theatre and New York's Park Avenue Armory, as well as an engagement in London's West End. Written by Stefano Massini, directed by Academy Award and Tony Award winner Sam Mendes, and starring its original cast of Simon Russell Beale, Adam Godley, and Ben Miles, The Lehman Trilogy opens officially at Broadway's Nederlander Theatre (208 West 41st Street) on Thursday, March 26, 2020.
Photo Flash: LOOK BACK IN ANGER Revival Continues at The Gene Frankel Theatre
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Feb 24, 2020
Celtic Lion Productions  present a rare revival of LOOK BACK IN ANGER, John Osborne's searing portrayal of the savagery of the human heart. Called the 'most vivid play of the decade' by the New York Times, the influence of Osborne's 1956 masterwork on generations of playwrights cannot be underestimated. It is directed by Aimée Fortier at The Gene Frankel Theatre where it runs through February 29..
Photo Flash: The Seeing Place's World Premiere Of ANIMAL FARM
by A.A. Cristi - Feb 17, 2020
To kick off its landmark 10th Season, The Seeing Place announces its world premiere adaptation of George Orwell's dystopian novel, ANIMAL FARM. This play is being performed by an ensemble of just four actors, which results in a fast-paced, tightly drawn interpretation of this timely story.