Original Cast Member Jason Gray Returns to BYUtv's STUDIO C
Family entertainment network BYUtv today announced that original 'Studio C' cast member Jason Gray will return to the fan-favorite sketch comedy show in fall 2021....
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Ayo Edebiri Will Replace Jenny Slate on BIG MOUTH
Variety reports that actor and writer Ayo Edebiri will replace Jenny Slate playing Missy on 'Big Mouth.' ...
Geffen Playhouse Announced Six Local Writers Participating in the Third Cycle of The Writers' Room
Geffen Playhouse today announced its selection of six local writers to participate in the third cycle of The Writersa?? Room, a forum for engagement and collaboration between Los Angeles playwrights. ...
Geffen Playhouse Selects Playwrights For The Writers' Room 2020/2021 Cycle
Geffen Playhouse today announced its selection of six local writers to participate in the third cycle of The Writersa?? Room, a forum for engagement and collaboration between Los Angeles playwrights. The participants for 2020/2021 are Meghan Brown, Diana Burbano, Donald Jolly, Matthew Paul Olmos...
Keir Starmer Praises Coventry's Belgrade Theatre and Calls For Further Government Support For Arts
Labour Leader Keir Starmer has praised the outreach work done by Coventry's Belgrade Theatre and the way communities of Coventry have pulled together through lockdown, speaking at the party's Summer Reception for the creative industries....
Ojai Playwrights Conference Announces 2020 Season Featuring 15 Online Plays
Ojai Playwrights Conference has announced a series of online, intimate artistic residencies and programs designed for 2020 circumstances, continuing for the 23rd season the work of developing new plays and providing support for diverse writers both emerging and established....
BWW Interview: THIS WILL BE Ali MacLean's YEAR @ SheLa Arts
The third annual SheLA Arts' Summer Theater Festival has gone completely digital this year, running July 13 through July 19, 2020. I had the socially distant chance to pose a few questions to one of the five elected playwrights chosen for this year's festival, Ali MacLean, whose THIS WILL BE OUR YEA...
University Of Arizona's School Of Theatre, Film & Television to Present Digital Industry Event
The University of Arizona's School of Theatre, Film & Television presents the 15th edition of I DREAM IN WIDESCREEN (IDIWS), the annual showcase of undergraduate thesis films celebrating a wide range of new filmmaking voices. This year, the event will include a series of sidebar conversations featur...
Noor Theatre Announces Heather Raffo, Sylvia Khoury, And Sahar Jahani As Part Of The Second Pop Collab COHORT
Writers Sahar Jahani (Ramy, 13 Reasons Why, Just One Night), Sylvia Khoury (Selling Kabul, Power Strip, Against the Hillside), and Heather Raffo (Noura, 9 Parts of Desire) will comprise Noor Theatre's second Artists Advancing Cultural Change Cohort in partnership with Pop Culture Collaborative to de...
Soho Theatre Announces Soho Six, Record Verity Bargate Award Submissions, Three New On Demand Plays, and Masterclasses
The Soho Theatre has announced Soho Six, Record Verity Bargate Award submissions, plus new on-demand plays and masterclasses....
AFI Announces Winners Of 2020 Writers' Room Ready Awards
The American Film Institute (AFI) announced today the recipients of the 2020 Writers' Room Ready Awards, which recognizes outstanding work by AFI Conservatory Screenwriting Fellows. The 2020 winners are: Haley Bartels, Christina Kingsleigh Licud, Kenda Greenwood Moran and Alessandro Pederzoli....
Geffen Playhouse is Now Accepting Applications for The Writers' Room Playwrights Group
Geffen Playhouse is now accepting applications for the 2020/2021 cycle of The Writers' Room playwrights group, it was announced today. Now entering its third year, the next group of playwrights chosen will begin their residency in September 2020....
BWW Interview: ZOEY'S EXTRAORDINARY PLAYLIST Creator Austin Winsberg Talks The Show's Collaboration with Deaf West Theater Company
On Sunday, April 5th's episode of Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist, Zoey engages with her father's caregiver's daughter, Abigail , who is deaf, and hears her heart song as 'Fight Song.' The number takes place in the deaf dorm on a college campus and is entirely done in American Sign Language and dance ...
Bryan Cranston to Make Directorial Debut at Geffen Playhouse; THE INHERITANCE Included in 2020/21 Season
Geffen Playhouse today announced six productions that will make up the 2020/2021 season in its Gil Cates and Audrey Skirball Kenis Theaters, with two additional productions to be announced. This marks the 25TH anniversary season for Geffen Playhouse, which will launch September 8, 2020, and run thro...
Boundless Theatre Announces The Cast For RADIO ELUSIA PODCAST
Boundless Theatre presents the full cast for Nina Segal's bold debut fiction podcast: Radio Elusia. The new five-episode drama, directed by Boundless' Artistic Director Rob Drummer, will launch in April 2020. Robert Awosusi joins Drummer as Associate Director in directing Joseph Adelakun, Valerie Va...
BWW Review: OUR LADY J's Concert For Lincoln Center's American Songbook Enlivened And Enlighted The Crowd About This Golden-Voiced American Songwriter
Finally, Our Lady J's return to musical performing after so long in the writers' room yielded a bountiful evening of new compositions and surprising covers, and though we would have wished her to dial back the electro-processing of her fine voice just a bit, this evening for modern music lovers was ...
The Center for Cultural Power and 5050by2020 Launch THE DISRUPTORS FELLOWSHIP
The Center for Cultural Power, formerly CultureStrike, in partnership with 5050by2020 announced today the launch of The Disruptors Fellowship a?" a five-month program that will be awarded to ten artists of color who identify as trans and/or non-binary, disabled, undocumented and/or formerly undocume...
Lin-Manuel Miranda, Julie Taymor & More Will Host Events at Sundance
Sundance Institute will curate dozens of offscreen events, including behind-the-scenes panels on the art of filmmaking, musical performances and a?" around the theme of Imagined Futures a?" a public Bonfire and several extended post-screening conversations (known as IF Screenings), at the 2020 Sunda...
A Scripted Comedy Show is Coming To Baltimore's Station North With THE GREATEST SKETCH SHOW IN AMERICA
The nonprofit Baltimore Improv Group (BIG) brings scripted comedy to Maryland audiences with The Greatest Sketch Show in America for one-night only....
CBS Announces The 20 Performers Participating In The 2020 Showcase
CBS today announced the 20 performers participating in the 2020 SHOWCASE, which will begin its run of six shows on Jan. 14 at the El Portal Theatre in Los Angeles....
Geva Theatre Center's 47th Season Continues with SLOW FOOD
Geva Theatre Center presents Slow Food, by Wendy MacLeod and directed by Skip Greer, in the Elaine P. Wilson Stage from January 14 through February 9....
Natasha Lyonne Reacts to RUSSIAN DOLL Golden Globe Nomination
'Russian Doll' actress Natasha Lyonne reacted to her recent Golden Globe nomination in a statement. See it below....
5 LESBIANS EATING A QUICHE Will Premiere at The City Theatre
This holiday season, The City Theatre serves up hilarity with the Austin premiere comedy 5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche. Lot of laughs are the order of the day as this cult favorite of theatre companies nationwide dishes up a fun and farcical celebration of sisterhood and survival....
BWW Review: THE ANTIPODES, National Theatre
Is this a great time to tell stories, shedding light in dark times? Or is it an impossible task? That's the loose premise of Annie Baker's wilfully elusive new piece, featuring the brainstorming session from hell a?' or possibly about hell, or in hell. Immaculately directed by Baker herself and desi...
Sheffield Theatres Opens New Creative Hub To Support Local Artists
Artistic Director of Sheffield Theatres, Robert Hastie, today announces a new creative hub dedicated to talent development. The Bank, as it will be known, will become home to a wealth of new talent as Sheffield Theatres expands its commitment to local theatre makers as well as the company's existing...
