Seattle Opera Presents RIGOLETTO
by A.A. Cristi - July 01, 2019 For years, Lindy Hume, stage director of Seattle Opera's August production of Rigoletto, has been frustrated by the way opera celebrates misogyny through its “bad boy” characters. In beloved works such as Don Giovanni, Carmen, and Tosca, sopranos must rehearse how to fall, how to be stabbed, brutali...
Tonight's POOCH PALOOZA Celebrity Fashion Show To Benefit JFS Pet Food Pantry
by A.A. Cristi - December 17, 2019 First there were a?oebarka?? mitzvah celebrations. Then pet Shabbats, and now: the first Pooch Palooza Fashion Show and Benefit ushering in the holiday of Hanukkah! ...
Actor Coby Bird And Agent Gail Williamson Host A Discussion On Casting The Differently Abled
by A.A. Cristi - September 12, 2019 Executive producer of the world premiere of Jessica Cavanagh's Self-Injurious Behavior, Ronnie Marmo, and producer Bren Rapp, with the assistance of Joanne Lara of Autism Works Now, Matthew Asner and Navah Paskowitz Asner of The Ed Asner Family Center and others on the front lines in the community, ...
IFC Center Announces Lineup for 2019 Split Screens Festival
by Kaitlin Milligan - May 09, 2019 IFC Center today announced an impressive and wide-ranging lineup for the third annual Split Screens Festival (www.splitscreensfestival.com) taking place Wednesday, May 29 through Monday, June 3, 2019, at the IFC Center in New York City. The festival consists of special events offering a variety of l...
BWW Review: Revenge is Never Sweet in Independent Shakespeare Co.'s TITUS ANDRONICUS
by Ellen Dostal - August 08, 2018 TITUS ANDRONICUS is one of Shakespeare's bloodiest tragedies. Characters are stabbed, beheaded, mutilated, raped, baked in a pie, and one is even buried up to his neck and left to die. At first glance it may not sound like an obvious choice for families who attend the Griffith Park Free Shakespeare ...
Victory Gardens Theater Presents BREACH By Antoinette Nwandu
by A.A. Cristi - January 18, 2018 Victory Gardens Theater continues its 43rd season with BREACH: a manifesto on race in america through the eyes of a black girl recovering from self-hate, written by Antoinette Nwandu and directed by Lisa Portes. BREACH runs February 9 March 11, 2018, with the press performance on Friday, Fe...
Segerstrom Center for the Arts to Celebrate International Women's Month With Free Event
by Chloe Rabinowitz - March 09, 2020 Segerstrom Center for the Arts is celebrating International Women's Month on Saturday, March 21 on the Julianne and George Argyros Plaza with a FREE event where you can meet inspiring female creators and indulge your own DIY spirit at Rock, Paper, Scissors: ¡DAMAS! Live music pulsating from the Argy...
Asolo Repertory Theatre Presents THE LIFESPAN OF A FACT
by Chloe Rabinowitz - December 23, 2019 Asolo Rep continues its winter repertory season with the recent Broadway sizzling hit dramedy THE LIFESPAN OF A FACT, by Jeremy Kareken & David Murrell and Gordon Farrell. Directed by Asolo Rep Associate Artistic Director Celine Rosenthal, THE LIFESPAN OF A FACT previews January 22 and 23, opens Jan...
Mimi Lien & Pig Iron's SUPERTERRANEAN Opens Tonight At The Philly Fringe Festival
by A.A. Cristi - September 05, 2019 The world premiere of SUPERTERRANEAN by Tony Award winner Mimi Lien, and acclaimed Fringe veterans Pig Iron Theatre Company, directed by Dan Rothenberg, opens tonight, and continues through September 15 as part of the Philly Fringe Festival at 2300 Arena (2300 South Swanson Street)....
House And Hip Hop Converge at The Dance Center This April
by A.A. Cristi - March 13, 2018 The Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago, partnering with national and local community organizations, artist practitioners and scholars, continues its B-Series, a biannual celebration of hip hop and street dance, with Under 1 Roof: A House & Hip-Hop Convergence featuring B-Bout It, a street-danc...
Dublin Fringe Festival Announces its 2018 Edition
by Stephi Wild - July 12, 2018 Dublin Fringe Festival 2018 returns for another two week city take-over offering 16 days of brand new shows from dreamers and doers, wordsmiths and radicals, crafters and grafters, pirates and bad bitches, this September:...
Inaugural YIDDISHFEST Announces Full Lineup of Events
by Chloe Rabinowitz - December 04, 2019 The Yiddishkayt Initiative (YI) (Avi Hoffman, Producing Artistic Director) and Theater for the New City (Crystal Field, Artistic Director) have announced the full lineup of events for the inaugural YI Love New York YiddishFest. This selection of performances, screenings, and discussions centered aro...
The Philip K. Dick Science Fiction Film Festival Announces Bi-Coastal Event
by Kaitlin Milligan - February 13, 2019 The Philip K. Dick Science Fiction Film Festival, the annual festival that honors legendary novelist Philip K. Dick through the dynamic power of science fiction film, is returning for its seventh outing with a full schedule of events. For the first time since its inception, the festival will hold a ...
BWW Interview: Storm Large on Revisiting Her Autobiographical Solo Show CRAZY ENOUGH a Decade After Its Acclaimed Premiere
by Krista Garver - June 07, 2019 Storm Large is a rock star, a memoirist, and the creator/star of the autobiographical musical CRAZY ENOUGH, which was originally commissioned by Portland Center Stage at The Armory. Premiering in 2009, CRAZY ENOUGH ran for 21 weeks straight and still holds the record as the longest-running and most ...
Garden State Film To Present Live Script Reading Of 2019 Screenplay Competition Winner
by Julie Musbach - March 19, 2019 In addition to the over 245 fabulous films from around the globe screening throughout The 17th Annual Garden State Film Festival's spectacular FIVE-DAY EVENT March 27-31st, GSFF is presenting the following informative and inspiring professional panel discussions. These lively discussions and worksho...
Dustin Hoffman Accusers Thank John Oliver for Interview Confrontation
by A.A. Cristi - December 27, 2017 The women who have stepped forward to accuse actor Dustin Hoffman of sexual misconduct, tweeted a thank-you letter to comedian, John Oliver, for his confrontation with Hoffman on the topic at an interview earlier this month....
Linda Eder, Alice Ripley, David Yazbek Ft. Lilli Cooper and More are Heading to Feinstein's/54 Below This Month
by Chloe Rabinowitz - March 02, 2020 This Month, FEINSTEIN'S/54 BELOW will present some of the brightest stars from Broadway, cabaret, jazz, and beyond. To purchase tickets or for more information, visit www.54Below.com/Feinsteins or call (646) 476-3551....
The 32nd Annual Virginia Film Festival Announces Lineup
by Abigail Charpentier - September 25, 2019 The 32nd Annual Virginia Film Festival will feature a deep and diverse program of more than 150 films, including some of the hottest titles on the festival circuit today, and an array of special guests from throughout the industry, and from across the globe. This year's lineup includes award-winning...
TCG Awards Audience (R)Evolution Exploration Grants
by Julie Musbach - July 09, 2019 Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national organization for U.S. theatre, is pleased to announce the recipients of Audience (R)Evolution Exploration Grants....
Programming Announced for 2018 INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF ARTS & IDEAS
by A.A. Cristi - April 26, 2018 The International Festival of Arts & Ideas today announced complete details for Festival 2018, which opens on June 9 and continues for two weeks through June23 in New Haven, Connecticut. ...
Interview: FAMOUS Returns to The 11:11 as a Tighter, More Visually Stunning Play Addressing the Cost of Fame
by Shari Barrett - May 10, 2019 FAMOUS re-opened in April after a successful run in 2018. I decided to speak with the show's Creator/Director Michael Leoni (ML) and producers Michelle Kaufer (MK) and Cassidy Pepper (CP), about how the new production uses stylized movements by the characters, enhanced lighting and sound designs, to...
COMPOSITION OF A WOMAN to Receive Reading
by Julie Musbach - April 18, 2018 In this age where women are hyper-evaluating their relationships to the world and to men and to each other, stories about women and their struggles with beauty and validation are important. Composition of a Woman mirrors the tangible and realistic world with its surreal equivalent in order to examin...
INHALED By Isabelle Duval Offers Personal Story About Overcoming Domestic Abuse
by A.A. Cristi - November 11, 2019 November is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Fresh from her successful book signing at Indigo, Montreal author Isabelle Duval shares her dark story of overcoming an abusive and dangerous relationship with a narcissist and sociopath in the transgressive thriller, Inhaled. Duval finally esc...
SAVE THE DATE: Nashville Theater Calendar for November 12, 2018
by Jeffrey Ellis - November 13, 2018 Looking ahead, you'll find a number of new productions on tap, including a whole slew of holiday favorites, for your entertainment pleasure, thanks to the efforts of theater companies all over Middle Tennessee. Here's our calendar for November 12, 2018, to help you plot your course through next Febr...
INHALED By Isabelle Duval Offers Personal Story About Overcoming Domestic Abuse
by A.A. Cristi - November 11, 2019 November is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Fresh from her successful book signing at Indigo, Montreal author Isabelle Duval shares her dark story of overcoming an abusive and dangerous relationship with a narcissist and sociopath in the transgressive thriller, Inhaled. Duval finally esc... |