VIDEO: Kylie Ferris, Anmarie D'Ortenzio, and Ty Schirmer Go AROUND BROADWAY IN 80 DAYSby BWW News Desk - June 3, 2020Check out Kylie Ferris from Waubonsie Valley High School performing 'Journey To The Past' from ANASTASIA, Anmarie D'Ortenzio from Lincoln-Way East High School performing 'Burn' from HAMILTON, and Ty Schirmer from Oak Park River Forest High School performing 'Runaway With Me' from THE MAD ONES for the Broadway in Chicago Around Broadway in 80 Days. Hangar Theatre Company Presents Free Virtual KIDDSTUFF Showsby BWW News Desk - June 3, 2020The Hangar Theatre Company will present its lively summer theatre series for young audiences, KIDDSTUFF, from June 13 to July 25, 2020. All will be presented live and virtually. Each show will be directed by Hangar Drama League Directing Fellow alumni, and performed by the 2020 Virtual Lab Company, a troupe of rising artists from across the nation. BWW Review: UNPRECEDENTED - EPISODE FIVE, BBC iPlayerby Aliya Al-Hassan - June 4, 2020As part of the BBC Arts' Culture in Quarantine initiative, Unprecedented is a series of 14 plays written by a diverse group of playwrights; conceived, produced and performed during lockdown. Episodes one to four were broadcast on BBC Four, with the final episode released exclusively on iPlayer Irondale Postpones Tomorrow's Performance of JULIUS CAESARby BWW News Desk - June 3, 2020Irondale Ensemble is re-imagining their critically acclaimed mega-text, The 1599 Project through a 4-part virtual series, streaming live: Henry V on May 28, Julius Caesar on June 4, As You Like It on June 11, and Hamlet on June 18. BWW Review: UNPRECEDENTED - EPISODE FOUR, BBC iPlayerby Aliya Al-Hassan - June 3, 2020As part of BBC Arts' Culture in Quarantine initiative (partnering with Headlong and Century Films), 14 plays were filmed and produced during lockdown to reflect the diversity of experiences and emotions that are being felt across the world.
Episode 4 begins with Deborah Bruce's Kat and Zaccy, which looks at how family loyalties are tested as children with divorced parents must choose where they stay during the lockdown. This well-observed play expertly pinpoints the side of the mother who feels she has been abandoned and the child who says he cannot come home. Play Reading Fridays Postpones DOG SEES GODby BWW News Desk - June 3, 2020Play Reading Fridays, a new company set to do bi-monthly readings of plays for The Actors Fund until New York theatre comes back, has postponed their next production. MCC Theater Will Broadcast PUES NADA June 3by BWW News Desk - June 3, 2020MCC Theater announces their latest LIVE LABS: ONE ACTS , Aziza Barnes' Pues Nada , will be presented on Wednesday, June 3rd at 5:30 pm for free on the MCC Theater YouTube channel. Hola Mexico Virtual Theater To Continue With Online Screenings Of Acclaimed Mexican Filmsby BWW News Desk - June 3, 2020The Hola Mexico Virtual Theatre presented by the Hola Mexico Film Festival series has been extended due to the online series' popularity. The festival wants to continue giving viewers the chance to see some of the best films that have come out of Mexico in recent years and serve as a reminder of how much Mexican cinema has grown in the past two decades. QPAC Hosts Online Concert To Celebrate Queensland Dayby BWW News Desk - June 3, 2020Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC) will celebrate Queensland Day by welcoming artists back to the Concert Hall stage for the first time in nearly three months as it presents an online concert for Queensland Day.
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