Here TV and the Here TV Incubator Launch Work In Progress Starring, Written and Directed by Tay Barrett
by Macon Prickett - April 17, 2018 'Work In Progress,' set in sunny Los Angeles, is a six-part, half-hour comedy that follows a fictionalized version of Tay as she decides to quit her dead-end retail job and pursue a career as a 'Documentarian Sociologist.' In this first season, she seeks to answer the age-old question: 'why do we wo...
Playground Announces Inaugural Innovators Showcase
by A.A. Cristi - July 08, 2019 PlayGround announces the lineup for the inaugural INNOVATORS SHOWCASE, August 1-25, 2019 at Potrero Stage, featuring 25 performances and staged readings of innovative new theatre by the 2019 class of PlayGround's Innovator Incubator. Highlights of this year's Showcase include Theatre Cultura's premi...
Additions Announced For FIAF's 2020 Animation First Festival
by A.A. Cristi - January 16, 2020 The French Institute Alliance Française is pleased to announce additions to its 2020 Animation First festival, including the US premiere of Hello World!, an exhibition of illustrator/filmmaker Lorenzo Mattotti's New Yorker covers, as well as expanded programs of shorts, video games, virtual and augm...
The Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago Has Announced First Driehaus Commissioned Artist
by Chloe Rabinowitz - December 31, 2019 The Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago, long committed to offering Chicago's small and mid-sized contemporary dance companies opportunities for artistic development and performance, announces the first Richard H. Driehaus Commissioned Artist: Lucky Plush Productions....
WORK IN PROGRESS to Debut on December 8 on Showtime
by Kaitlin Milligan - August 02, 2019 WORK IN PROGRESS, a new half-hour comedy series created by Abby McEnany and Tim Mason, will debut Sunday, December 8 at 11 PM ET/PT....
EDINBURGH 2019: BWW Review: PHOEBE ROBINSON: SORRY, HARRIET TUBMAN, Assembly
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 15, 2019 Best known as the co-creator and co-star of hit podcast 2 Dope Queens, interviewing the likes of Jon Stewart, Tig Nataro and Michelle Obama to name just a few. Phoebe is also a New York Times best-selling author of You Can't Touch My Hair & Other Things I Still Have To Explain and her second book Ev...
Line-up Announced For January's Ferment Fortnight
by Stephi Wild - December 16, 2019 Marking its 10-year anniversary, bi-annual work-in-progress festival Ferment Fortnight is back in The Weston Studio and ready to showcase some of the finest innovation-seekers and theatre-makers the South West has to offer....
LGBTQ Indie-Pop Band CARRY ILLINOIS Announce New EP & Austin Release Show
by Macon Prickett - April 16, 2018 Carry Illinois, the indie-pop band founded and fronted by Lizzy Lehman, have announced the release of the new EP, Work in Progress, on 5/25/18. The band will celebrate the release that same day with a show at Cheer Up Charlies in their hometown of Austin, TX....
Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company To Join Germany/Luxembourg Choreographer Hannah Ma In Workshop And Performance At Tuchfabrik Center In Trier, Germany October 2018
by Alan Henry - October 16, 2018 Nai-Ni Chen opened her 2019 season with a theme of collaboration and outreach, especially with other diverse, immigrant women choreographers from all over the world. On October 22, Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company will conduct a weeklong residency and choreographic exchange with Germany's HannahMaDance hea...
Jewish Museum to Present Zoom Conversation Featuring Comedian Josh Gondelman
by Chloe Rabinowitz - March 23, 2020 On Thursday, March 26, 2020 at 7 pm, The Jewish Museum will present Life-A Work in Progress, a Zoom conversation with award winning comedian and author Josh Gondelman (Nice Try: Stories of Best Intentions and Mixed Results), author Rebecca Dinerstein Knight (Hex), and Tablet Magazinea??a?? Deputy Ed...
WORK IN PROGRESS Renewed for Second Season
by Kaitlin Milligan - January 13, 2020 SHOWTIME has picked up a second season of the critically acclaimed comedy series WORK IN PROGRESS. Created and written by Chicago improv mainstays Abby McEnany and Tim Mason and co-written by Lilly Wachowski (The Matrix), the series stars McEnany as a fictionalized version of herself whose misfortun...
Bubble Bubble Toil And Trouble: 7th Annual New Works Festival From 3 Girls Theater Company Takes Over Z Below For Eleven Days
by Julie Musbach - June 22, 2018 3 Girls Theater Company presents the 2018 edition of its New Works Festival, this year taking place at Z Below in the Mission District. Now in its 7thyear, this year's festival is designed around the theme of "Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble," a line lifted from Shakespeare's MacBeth where three wi...
Sarah Gibson Named L.A. Chamber Orchestra 18-19 Sound Investment Commissioning Program Composer
by A.A. Cristi - May 29, 2018 Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra's Sound Investment commissioning program, established to engage audiences in developing a new piece of music composed especially to suit its unparalleled musical talents, features Los Angeles-based Sarah Gibson as its 2018-19 Sound Investment composer. Her work will be...
The Revised LET'S DANCE INTERNATIONAL FRONTIERS Dance Festival Comes to Leicester
by Stephi Wild - March 23, 2020 Let's Dance International Frontiers (LDIF) is the annual dance festival in Leicester which opens every year on April 29th (International Dance Day) bringing diversity to the forefront with a strong programme of performances, workshops, films and discussion featuring dancers and choreographers from a...
The Theater Project to Host First Virtual Event
by Chloe Rabinowitz - April 09, 2020 The Theater Project is hosting its first virtual event: a reading of Vile Things in Dark Corners at 2 PM, Saturday, April 18. Registration is required for this live event, which will be hosted on the Zoom teleconferencing platform....
Premiere Of Ivan Ayr's Debut Feature SONI Gets A Standing Ovation At The Festival
by Stephi Wild - September 08, 2018 Director Ivan Ayr's debut feature Soni had its World Premiere at recently concluded 75th Venice International Film Festival where it received a standing ovation at the festival, with a long and engaging Q & A post the screening....
Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company To Join Germany/Luxembourg Choreographer Hannah Ma In Workshop And Performance At Tuchfabrik Center In Trier, Germany October 2018
by Alan Henry - October 16, 2018 Nai-Ni Chen opened her 2019 season with a theme of collaboration and outreach, especially with other diverse, immigrant women choreographers from all over the world. On October 22, Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company will conduct a weeklong residency and choreographic exchange with Germany's HannahMaDance hea...
Meet the Cast of COISA MAIS LINDA, New Netflix Brazilian Original Series Set in the 50s
by Tori Hartshorn - July 02, 2018 Netflix, the world's leading internet entertainment service, announced the main cast of Brazilian original series, Coisa Mais Linda. The seven episodes series commenced principal photography this week in Brazil....
The Actors Centre, London Announces Changes
by Stephi Wild - February 17, 2020 The Actors Centre is kicking 2020 into high gear by announcing major programming changes including a new senior leadership team....
The Human Race Theatre Company Presents Regional Premiere Of GLORIA: A LIFE
by Stephi Wild - February 19, 2020 The Human Race Theatre Company is continuing its 2019-2020 'Women of Influence Season' with the Dayton premiere of Gloria: A Life, a new play celebrating the life and legacy of one of the most important figures of America's feminist movement....
VIDEO: Showtime Releases Trailer for New Comedy Series WORK IN PROGRESS
by Kaitlin Milligan - October 31, 2019 SHOWTIME has released the official poster and trailer for its new half-hour comedy series WORK IN PROGRESS, created by Chicago improv mainstays Abby McEnany and Tim Mason and co-written by Lilly Wachowski (The Matrix, Sense8), premiering on Sunday, December 8 at 11 p.m. ET/PT. A funny and uniquely h...
BWW Review: Paul Hood Presents I, JOURNEYMAN Premiere in Mechanicsburg
by Marakay Rogers - August 12, 2018 Little Theatre of Mechanicsburg presented the premiere of local playwright Paul Hood's new I, JOURNEYMAN, a psychological suspense play examining the effects of guilt and secrecy....
Glasgow International Comedy Festival: Our Top Picks
by Natalie O'Donoghue - February 27, 2018 BroadwayWorld reviewer Natalie O'Donoghue lists her top picks for the 2018 Glasgow International Comedy Festival.... |