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Intercultural Conversations Grants $174,500 To 13 Local Theatre Companies
by Stephi Wild - February 26, 2025
Twice a year the Cole Foundation’s Intercultural Conversations-Conversations Interculturelles (IC-CI) program disperses hundreds of thousands of dollars to support professional Montreal theatre....
Three Films From Lee Grant to be Re-Released to Theatres This Summer by Hope Runs High
by Chloe Rabinowitz - May 24, 2024
Three films by Academy Award-winning actor/director Lee Grant have been restored and are being re-released to theatres this summer by Hope Runs High. Learn where to watch! ...
Joseph Fioretti Will Present Fioretti•Family, Friends & Flowers To Raise Money for Ukraine
by Stephi Wild - February 27, 2024
Oscar award-winning movie producer Joseph Fioretti, who is best known for Down and Out in America and Baghdad ER, will present a new art exhibition entitled Fioretti•Family, Friends & Flowers, devoted to supporting humanitarian efforts in Ukraine from March 15th – March 29th at the Ukraini...
Free Tickets Released For TRIBE at the Young Vic
by Stephi Wild - September 05, 2023
Free tickets have been released for Tribe, a Young Vic Taking Part and Beth Centre production. Tribe explores and celebrates the power and vulnerability of sisterhood and is a love letter to the families we choose....
SEEKING DELPHI Premieres At VAULT Festival This Month
by A.A. Cristi - March 06, 2023
Seeking Delphi is a deeply compelling, painfully stark and shameless play about three homeless women seeking out stability, security and a way to change their fate....
Ruth Wilson Will Appear as Part of Young Vic's New Season
by Aliya Al-Hassan - February 09, 2023
Golden Globe and Olivier Award winner Ruth Wilson will star in the internationally acclaimed epic The Second Woman – one woman, one scene, one hundred men, one electrifying 24-hour performance....
ClimateChangeTheatR Launches On TikTok And Instagram
by Chloe Rabinowitz - February 02, 2023
Launching 2023, @climatechangetheatR brings the joy of puppets and music to the very immediate and serious topic of climate change. ...
Details Announced for THE 5th CHICAGO INTERNATIONAL PUPPET THEATER FESTIVAL
by Chloe Rabinowitz - December 13, 2022
Tickets are now on sale for the 5th Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival, the largest of its kind in North America, returning January 18-29, 2023, at venues large and small throughout the city....
Houses on The Moon to Honor Jane Dubin and Aaliytha Stevens at Their AMPLIFY 2022 Gala Celebration
by Chloe Rabinowitz - August 25, 2022
New York Off-Broadway theatre company, Houses on The Moon, will honor Tony Award-Winning producer Jane Dubin and SpotCo COO Aaliytha Stevens at their AMPLIFY 2022 Gala Celebration on Monday, October 3, 2022 at Green Room 42 (4th Floor, Yotel, 570 10th Avenue)....
Photos: First Look At ELIZABETH FRY: THE ANGEL OF PRISONS At Canning Town Library
by A.A. Cristi - August 24, 2022
Three prisoners have a story to tell. It’s the story of Elizabeth Fry and how she changed prisons forever. But this is not a history lesson. You’ll hear both contemporary and historical language. You’ll see both modern-day and period mash-up costumes. Because the question remains the same toda...
Cast and Creative Team Announced For YV Unpacked: LOVE REIGN
by Stephi Wild - August 26, 2021
Love Reign, written by Shereen Jasmin Phillips and directed by Stef O'Driscoll, is an eclectic piece of new writing, fusing narrative and a live, soulful house soundtrack to create an exhilarating storytelling experience. Venues hosting the YV Unpacked tour of Love Reign will i...
Fuel Announces a Programme of Work For 2021
by Stephi Wild - May 20, 2021
Featuring a range of artforms and practitioners, the programme represents the culmination of months of planning and preparation. Alongside the live work, McGrath has announced a permanent addition to the Fuel rosta - Fuel Digital. A place where digital streams of new and existing work are presente...
Clean Break Reveals Full Details Of Its Heritage Exhibition: 'I Am A Theatre: 40 Years Of Clean Break Theatre Company'
by Stephi Wild - May 12, 2021
Clean Break celebrates four decades of creating ground-breaking theatre on women's experience of the criminal justice system with its retrospective exhibition 'I am a theatre': 40 years of Clean Break Theatre Company. ...
Jennie Harney-Fleming, Phillip Attmore and More Bring Incarcerated Artists' Work To Life In Virtual Collaboration Event
by Chloe Rabinowitz - May 07, 2021
Shining Light, a non-profit organization that brings arts and personal development programs to prisons and jails throughout the country, has partnered with Broadway actors, professional musicians and dancers, and independent filmmakers to produce 10 original creative works written by men and women i...
Deafinitely Theatre Announces Bursary Recipients For Deaf And Hard Of Hearing Theatre Freelancers
by Stephi Wild - February 11, 2021
Deafinitely Theatre today announces the recipients for their bursary supporting deaf or hard of hearing freelance theatre practitioners and performers during the Covid-19 pandemic. ...
Photoville Festival Expands Across All Five Boroughs For 2020 Edition
by A.A. Cristi - August 31, 2020
Brooklyn-based non-profit Photoville (co-founded by Laura Roumanos, Sam Barzilay, and Dave Shelley; formerly United Photo Industries) announces Photoville NYC 2020, the ninth year of the festival celebrating and showcasing photographers and organizations from New York and around the world, and adapt...
BroadwayHD Introduces Trailblazers Category, Spotlighting Underrepresented Voices in the Theater Community
by Chloe Rabinowitz - March 03, 2020
BroadwayHD's CEO Bonnie Comley has announced a new initiative to put the spotlight on underrepresented voices in the theater community, with a special Trailblazers Category....
BWW Blog: Royal Central School of Speech and Drama's Martin Wylde on Commissioning New Work for Central Students
by BWW News Desk - January 07, 2020
Martin Wylde is an acting teacher, theatre director and active advocate of both new writing and new work, commissioning and developing plays within the conservatoire and for industry. As Principal Lecturer and Programme Leader for MA Acting at London's Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, he te...
THE TRANSFIGURATION OF BENJAMIN BANNEKER Comes to La MaMa
by Stephi Wild - December 18, 2019
Theodora Skipitares has achieved renown for her large-scale puppetry epics on such topics as physics, genetics and medicine. An early American giant of science is the subject of her latest multi-media spectacle, 'The Transfiguration of Benjamin Banneker.' It celebrates the life of the free black ma...
EDINBURGH 2019: SHIT Q&A
by Natalie O'Donoghue - July 27, 2019
Coming directly from the incredibly prestigious theatre festival VENICE BIENNALE TEATRO 2019, long-time collaborators - writer Patricia Cornelius and director Susie Dee - shine a neon striplight on the intersections of class and misogony, bringing three thoroughly nasty girls on stage in SHIT a?" an...
Clean Break Announces 40th Anniversary Season Two - SWEATBOX, REBEL VOICES, and More!
by Stephi Wild - April 02, 2019
Clean Break continues its 40th anniversary year following the success of its Spring season, which opened with the sold-out run of Inside Bitch at the Royal Court Theatre....
Creative Team Announced For INSIDE BITCH
by Stephi Wild - February 04, 2019
You've seen Orange is the New Black. You've seen Locked Up. You've seen Bad Girls. So, what have we got that's different? Well, for one, we've been to prison....
Topeka K. Sam Inks TV Production Deal Inspired by her Fight for Female Criminal Justice Reform
by Tori Hartshorn - October 29, 2018
44 Blue Productions, the innovative and acclaimed independent production house that is part of Red Arrow Studios, has partnered with activist and social entrepreneur Topeka K. Sam, to develop both scripted and unscripted series inspired by her fight to change the culture of degradation, humiliation ...
Clean Break's 40th Anniversary To Include Royal Court, Arcola, Cardboard Citizens + Anthology Of Monologues
by A.A. Cristi - October 22, 2018
Clean Break celebrates four decades of making inspiring theatre with its 40th anniversary in 2019....
Award Winning Best Selling Author Davina Kotulski's Book 'It's Never...
by Robert Diamond - October 17, 2018
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