We live in a world run through with Fault Lines. Al Jazeera's Fault Lines takes you beyond the headlines and holds the powerful to account, as we examine the US' role in the world.
Malthouse Theatre Announces Part 2 Of Its 2022 Season Featuring Three New Australian Works
by Stephi Wild - June 01, 2022
Malthouse Theatre today unveiled three more works in its Season 2022 line up including the world premieres of Anna K starring Caroline Craig ((Underbelly, Blue Heelers) a sinister comedy by Ra Chapman who is making her mainstage debut with K-BOX plus the premiere of Monsters, a co-production with S...
Samantha Shay's MOTHER MELANCHOLIA Will Have On-Demand Screenings to Benefit Ukraine
by Marissa Tomeo - May 04, 2022
From May 9-15, Samantha Shay’s short film Mother Melancholia will be available for on-demand viewing via pay what you can, and all funds raised will go towards aiding the Ukrainian people. The film is a multi-layered portrait of four women set to a soundtrack for the end of the world. As part of...
Indie-Pop Duo Girlpool Announces Fall Tour and Shares New Album
by Marissa Tomeo - April 30, 2022
Avery Tucker and Harmony Tividad have been making critically-acclaimed music as Girlpool since they were high schoolers, scurrying around Los Angeles’ all-ages concert spaces and skipping class to play gigs with their friends. ...
Alexis Thompson's Artwork 'Threat?' Wins 'People's Choice Award' At 2022 Embracing Our Differences' Exhibit
by A.A. Cristi - April 25, 2022
“At what age do Black men and women become a threat to society?” asks Alexis Thompson, a university student at North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University from Roxboro, North Carolina, and the winner of this year's 'People's Choice Award' at Embracing Our Differences' 19th annua...
Gary Becks Poetry Book STATE OF THE UNION Released
by A.A. Cristi - April 12, 2022
State of the Union - American Sketches a poetry collection by Gary Beck is available now. ...
Director Gary Becks Releases New Poetry Book 'Lacerations'
by Marissa Tomeo - March 20, 2022
Director and writer Gary Becks has released a new poetry book, Lacerations. Lacerations is a poetry collection that looks at the many injuries we incur, mentally, emotionally and physically as we strive to do better in this difficult life....
Girlpool Announce New Album 'Forgiveness'
by Michael Major - January 19, 2022
Girlpool, the Los Angeles duo comprised of Avery Tucker (he/him) and Harmony Tividad (she/her), announce their new album, Forgiveness. The announcement comes with an Amalia Irons-directed video for the album’s lead single “Lie Love Lullaby.” Watch the new music video now!...
Kennedy Center & Washington National Opera to Present World Premiere of WRITTEN IN STONE
by Chloe Rabinowitz - January 14, 2022
A surveyor ponders the meaning of memory and monuments. A young girl scout seeks a place for herself in history. A Black father and son find themselves on opposite sides of a same-sex marriage rally. And the vision of 22-year-old Asian American undergraduate Maya Lin is the catalyst for a reappraisa...
New Works by John Sims and James E. Reynolds to Debut at La MaMa in December
by Chloe Rabinowitz - November 17, 2021
New, provocative works by John Sims and James E. Reynolds will debut at La MaMa’s Ellen Stewart Theatre (66 E. 4 St.) in December....
Signature Theatre Announces One-Week Extension for TWILIGHT: LOS ANGELES, 1992
by Chloe Rabinowitz - November 03, 2021
Signature Theatre has announced one-week extension for Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992, National Humanities Medal-recipient Anna Deavere Smith’s gathering of voices surrounding the 1992 L.A. civil unrest in a complex portrait of a city’s racial anguish....
Signature Theatre Announces the Cast of TWILIGHT: LOS ANGELES, 1992
by Chloe Rabinowitz - September 17, 2021
Signature Theatre has announced the cast of Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992, National Humanities Medal-recipient Anna Deavere Smith’s gathering of voices surrounding the 1992 L.A. civil unrest in a complex portrait of a city’s racial anguish....
Review Roundup: THE HUMANS Film Starring Jayne Houdyshell, Beanie Feldstein, Amy Schumer, & More
by Michael Major - September 13, 2021
The Humans was adapted from the Tony winning play of the same name. It’s written/directed by Stephen Karam, who helmed the play as well. The cast includes Beanie Feldstein, Richard Jenkins, Amy Schumer, Steven Yeun, June Squibb and Jayne Houdyshell. It’s a tense, intimate and occasionally funny...
Gary Becks Chapbook 'Bryant Park Poems' Released
by Stephi Wild - August 12, 2021
'Bryant Park is at 42nd Street between 5th and 6th Avenues in New York City that was first a potters field, then a reservoir with 50 foot walls, a Union Army encampment and finally a jewel of a park in 1934. By the 1970's it had become a drug infested, dangerous place. My theatre company presented a...
The Armory Show Announces Platform 2021
by Stephi Wild - July 21, 2021
The program will feature eight large-scale installations that propose modes of address grounded in research and propelled by empathy that will allow visitors to negotiate the unsettling conditions that define our current reality....
Great Barrington Public Theater Presents David Mamet's THE CHRISTOPHER BOY'S COMMUNION, July 29
by A.A. Cristi - July 19, 2021
Great Barrington Public Theater caps its eclectic season of new plays with a new drama by David Mamet, The Christopher Boy's Communion, in performance July 29 - August 8 at the Daniel Arts Center at Bard College at Simon's Rock in Great Barrington, Mass. The Christopher Boy's Communion is a gripping...
VIDEO: See a Preview of Anna Deavere Smith's TWILIGHT: LOS ANGELES, 1992 at Signature Theatre's
by Chloe Rabinowitz - July 15, 2021
Signature Theatre has announced a 35-minute video preview of playwright, actor, and scholar Anna Deavere Smith’s Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992, directed by Taibi Magar, ahead of the Fall 2021 production on the Irene Diamond Stage....
Gary Becks New Poetry Book MOTIFS Released
by Chloe Rabinowitz - July 07, 2021
Gary Beck has spent most of his adult life as a theater director and worked as an art dealer when he couldn't earn a living in the theater. He has also been a tennis pro, a ditch digger and a salvage diver. His original plays and translations of Moliere, Aristophanes and Sophocles have been produced...
WE ARE SCIENTISTS Announce New Album & Single
by TV News Desk - July 01, 2021
The anticipated album is already shaping up to be one of the band’s most hit-tastic albums to date with the inclusion of recently acclaimed bangers 'I Cut My Own Hair' and 'Fault Lines' alongside today's new single 'Contact High.'...
Virtual Theatre Today: Friday, June 4- Alex Newell, Next on Stage, and More!
by Nicole Rosky - June 04, 2021
Today (June 4) in live streaming: a Kate & Allie reunion on Stars in the House, Alex Newell visits Backstage Live, and more!...
VIDEO: On This Day, May 31- THE BOYS IN THE BAND Opens On Broadway Starring Jim Parsons, Zachary Quinto, Andrew Rannells and More!
by A.A. Cristi - May 31, 2021
On this day in 2018, Matt Crowley's seminal play, The Boys in the Band, opened at Broadway's Booth Theatre....
Elgin Share Brand New Video for 'Stone's Throw'
by Sarah Jae Leiber - May 20, 2021
Regarding the single singer Paul Butler says, 'The song is a self-evaluation at a low point. Very much a different version of myself, someone I most probably couldn't relate to anymore. But a version that needed to happen.' ...
Gary Beck's Novel 'Flawed Connections' Released
by Stephi Wild - May 20, 2021
Flawed Connections is about Four close friends who leave Yale to start a computer gaming business. Start-up money allows them a luxurious, continent spanning lifestyle, while developing their first game. It is a hit that attracts hordes of devoted gamers and instantly the pressure of follow-up games...
Tatiana Maslany & John Carpenter Unveil New Podcast Projects From Realm
by Sarah Jae Leiber - May 12, 2021
Subscribers of Realm+ will be able to listen to shows completely ad-free, receive early access to shows for binge listening, and gain access to exclusive bonus content for $2.99 a month. The first three titles available on the premium offering are The Vela, Low Life, and The Shadow Files of Morgan ...
Elgin Release Emotive New Single 'Stone's Throw'
by Sarah Jae Leiber - May 07, 2021
The Dublin duo Elgin is completed with Anthony Furey and the pair came together having travelled the breadth of the globe as the acclaimed collective The Young Folk and now with Weightless / Still they continue their musical journey under the name Elgin....
Gary Beck's Poetry Book 'Resonance' Released
by Stephi Wild - April 18, 2021
Resonance is a collection of poems that examine individual and cultural experiences, from the simple and lyrical, to the painful direct, in this complicated life that rewards some and punishes....
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