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Soho Theatre Announces Soho Six, Record Verity Bargate Award Submissions, Three New On Demand Plays, and Masterclasses
by Stephi Wild - May 14, 2020
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
by Kaitlin Milligan - April 30, 2020
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
by Chloe Rabinowitz - April 06, 2020
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
by Kaitlin Milligan - April 04, 2020
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
by Stephi Wild - March 10, 2020
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
by Stephi Wild - February 27, 2020
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
by Bobby Patrick - February 19, 2020
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
by Chloe Rabinowitz - February 14, 2020
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
by Sarah Jae Leiber - January 16, 2020
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
by Chloe Rabinowitz - January 14, 2020
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
by Kaitlin Milligan - January 06, 2020
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
by Chloe Rabinowitz - December 27, 2019
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
by Sarah Jae Leiber - December 09, 2019
'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
by Stephi Wild - November 08, 2019
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
by Marianka Swain - October 31, 2019
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
by Stephi Wild - October 17, 2019
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...
VIDEO: Watch Lake Bell Talk About Her Husband & The Apocalypse on JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE!
by Sarah Leiber - September 19, 2019
Lake Bell came on 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' to talk about living in LA, her husband Scott Campbell's intense preparations for the apocalypse, her show 'Bless This Mess,' working with Dax Shepard, and her love of the writers' room. Watch the clip below!...
The Playwrights Realm Announces 2019-2020 Writing Fellows And 2019-2020 Scratchpad Series Playwrights
by A.A. Cristi - September 06, 2019
The Playwrights Realm today announces recipients of two career-propelling development programs the organizationa?"led by Founding Artistic Director Katherine Kovner and Producing Director Roberta Pereiraa?"offers to gifted, incisive, and diverse playwrights. Now entering its thirteenth season, The R...
Pace University Launches Writing for Diversity and Equity in Theater and Media Arts Fellows Program
by Julie Musbach - August 28, 2019
Today, Pace University announced the launch of a new program, a?oeWriting for Diversity and Equity in Theater and Media Arts Fellows Program,a?? supported by a three-year grant of $585,000 from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Eligible undergraduates majoring in one of several Pace arts and humaniti...
Geffen Playhouse Selects Playwrights For The Writers' Room
by Stephi Wild - August 28, 2019
Geffen Playhouse today announced its selection of six local writers to participate in the second cycle of The Writers' Room, a forum for engagement and collaboration between Los Angeles playwrights. The participants for 2019/2020 are Boni B. Alvarez, Chloé Hung, Inda Craig-Galván, Juan José Alfon...
BWW Interview: Playwright Jen Silverman Spells Out Conjuring Up Her WITCH
by Gil Kaan - August 24, 2019
The west coast premiere of Jen Silverman's WITCH will launch the Geffen Playhouse's 2019/2020 season, having begun previews August 20, 2019. Originally commissioned by and premiering at Writers Theatre, WITCH centers on a charming outsider arriving to the quiet village of Edmonton bargaining for sou...
Sideshow Theatre Company Announces 2019-20 Season
by Julie Musbach - July 18, 2019
Sideshow Theatre Company announce sits 2019-20 Season, launching this fall with the U.S. premiere of Alistair McDowall's mind-bending sci-fi thriller X, directed by artistic director Jonathan L. Green. The season concludes next spring with the world premiere of Brynne Frauenhoffer's brash, incisive ...
THIRTEEN to Premiere SID CAESAR: ON THE LANGUAGE OF COMEDY
by Kaitlin Milligan - July 16, 2019
For more than 50 years, public television has provided unsurpassed access to the performing arts, including the very best of theater, dance, opera, classical, jazz, popular music, and comedy. Now, New York metro-area public television station THIRTEEN presents the exclusive broadcast premiere of a n...
BOOK OF MORMON Star AJ Holmes Brings Hour Of Stand Up To Edinburgh Fringe
by Stephi Wild - June 30, 2019
Polymathic twenty-nine year old of (way too...) MANY talents, AJ Holmes is an award-winning actor, musician, composer, improviser, musical theatre performer, music director, coach, stand up, songwriter, and storyteller. The guy plays piano, he plays guitar, and he might even be drumming a bit. Best ...
The New Colony Presents the UNCHARTED Festival
by Julie Musbach - June 14, 2019
The New Colony presents UNCHARTED, a two-week showcase of plays at different points in their journeys to production, playing July 11 - 20, 2019 at TNC's resident home, The Den Theatre (2B) 1331 N. Milwaukee Ave. in Chicago's Wicker Park neighborhood....
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