Alan Cumming, Kal Penn, Sutton Foster, and More Join Chicago Humanities FestivalSeptember 9, 2021Headliners include Tony Award-winning actor and singer Sutton Foster; Academy Award-winning director Ron Howard with his brother, actor Clint Howard; Design Matters podcast host Debbie Millman; actor and former White House staffer Kal Penn; Tony Award-winning actor Alan Cumming; PEN/Hemingway award-winning writer Teju Cole; and Illinois Poet Laureate Angela Jackson.
Segerstrom Center for the Arts and American Ballet Theatre Announce PartnershipSeptember 9, 2021The American Ballet Theatre has been named the official dance company of Segerstrom Center for the Arts. Segerstrom Center for the Arts President Casey Reitz and American Ballet Theatre (ABT) Executive Director Kara Medoff Barnett announced today a three-year partnership combining the resources of America’s National Ballet Company and one of the nation’s leading presenters of dance.
HBO Max Renews GOSSIP GIRL for Second SeasonSeptember 9, 2021Season one stars Jordan Alexander, Eli Brown, Thomas Doherty, Tavi Gevinson, Emily Alyn Lind, Evan Mock, Zion Moreno, Whitney Peak and Savannah Lee Smith with Todd Almond, Adam Chanler-Berat, Johnathan Fernandez and Jason Gotay.
WICKED, BRING IT ON!, and More Revealed for Full Performance Schedule of WEST END LIVE 2021September 9, 20212021’s event will see the best line-up in West End LIVE history, with previously unannounced Wicked performing alongside debuts from long-running favourites Hamilton and The Book Of Mormon - as well as a plethora of new hit shows including Disney’s Frozen, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cinderella, The Prince Of Egypt, Dear Evan Hansen, Back To The Future: The Musical, Pretty Woman: The Musical and many more.
Two River Theater Announces 10th Annual Crossing Borders FestivalSeptember 9, 2021Since 2011, Two River Theater has introduced new voices from across the country to their annual Crossing Borders (Cruzano Fronteras) Festival of new plays by Latinx playwrights. This year’s playwrights explore stories about family history, computer science, teens navigating the “new normal”, and a makeshift family arriving at the cusp of the 22nd century.
The Rep to Honor Late Artistic Director Steven Woolf at Public MemorialSeptember 9, 2021The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis (The Rep) will honor the life and legacy of longtime esteemed artistic director Steven Woolf in a special public memorial, Remembering Steven - Celebrating A Life in the Theatre, on Saturday, October 16, 2021, at 11 a.m. on The Mainstage at the Loretto-Hilton Center.
Box Office for COMPANY Resumes Business at Bernard B. Jacobs TheatreSeptember 9, 2021The box office at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre (242 West 45th) reopens for business today at 12:00 PM for the highly anticipated return of Marianne Elliott’s revolutionary staging of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s seminal musical masterpiece, Company.
Experience Live Comedy and Theater at ASYLUM NYCSeptember 9, 2021Since its reopening on April 23rd, ASYLUM NYC has rocketed to the top of the
scene, and has become home to the best and brightest of New York’s professional
comedy and theatre community.
Bowen McCauley Dance Company to Present Two Artists Reunite for the Company's Season 25 Finale at Kennedy CenterSeptember 9, 2021Bowen McCauley Dance Company (BMDC) has announced their program, Two Artists Reunite for the Company’s Season 25 Finale, for September 14, 2021 at 7:00PM at the Kennedy Center. Bowen McCauley Dance Company’s Silver Anniversary finale is a one-night ‘in-person’ performance featuring two world premieres with live musical accompaniment. These world premieres build on a repertoire of over 100 original dance works choreographed by Lucy Bowen McCauley in the Company’s 25 year history.
19 Current College Students Share Their Back to School ExperiencesSeptember 10, 2021We've reached out to 19 of our college student bloggers to see how their colleges and universities are planning to create a safe environment with classes, on campus activities and the impacts on performing arts courses and productions, along with vaccine and mask mandates.
Social Roundup: The Theater Community Gathers for Trans March on BroadwaySeptember 7, 2021As BroadwayWorld previously reported, a Trans March on Broadway was held on Monday, September 6 in New York City. Sis, an actress and activist in the theatre community called attention to the erasure of trans bodies within the theatre and entertainment industries with the march.