Chausson's Opera Presents KING ARTHUR Fully Staged U.S. Premiere, Live At Bard SummerScape
by BWW News Desk - June 01, 2021
Committed since its inception to reviving important but neglected operas, Bard SummerScape has long proven itself “an indispensable part of the summer operatic landscape” (Musical America). This year's immersion in “Nadia Boulanger and Her World” presents the long overdue first fully staged American production of King Arthur (“Le roi Arthus”), the only opera by Boulanger's compatriot and close contemporary Ernest Chausson.
by BWW News Desk - June 01, 2021
Committed since its inception to reviving important but neglected operas, Bard SummerScape has long proven itself “an indispensable part of the summer operatic landscape” (Musical America). This year's immersion in “Nadia Boulanger and Her World” presents the long overdue first fully staged American production of King Arthur (“Le roi Arthus”), the only opera by Boulanger's compatriot and close contemporary Ernest Chausson.
BIRDBATH to be Presented on Demand by KNOW Theatre
by BWW News Desk - June 01, 2021
KNOW Theatre will present Binghamton, N.Y., native Leonard Melfi's classic play 'Birdbath' for on-demand virtual performances from June 4-13. This production will be fully staged and recorded for online streaming whenever viewers want to watch.
by BWW News Desk - June 01, 2021
KNOW Theatre will present Binghamton, N.Y., native Leonard Melfi's classic play 'Birdbath' for on-demand virtual performances from June 4-13. This production will be fully staged and recorded for online streaming whenever viewers want to watch.
Franklin Stage Company Announces Outdoor 2021 Summer Season
by BWW News Desk - May 28, 2021
The Franklin Stage Company has announced the lineup of their 25th season, from July 4th weekend through August 29. All performances will be held on the lawn outside the theater. The season will open July 3rd with an opening reception for an art exhibit titled Franklin Stage Company and the Evolution of Chapel Hall.
by BWW News Desk - May 28, 2021
The Franklin Stage Company has announced the lineup of their 25th season, from July 4th weekend through August 29. All performances will be held on the lawn outside the theater. The season will open July 3rd with an opening reception for an art exhibit titled Franklin Stage Company and the Evolution of Chapel Hall.
Clayton Opera House Announces Summer 2021 Lineup
by BWW News Desk - May 28, 2021
Clayton Opera House is officially open for the summer! A lineup of upcoming musical performances, as well as speakers, has been announced, kicking off on June 4.
by BWW News Desk - May 28, 2021
Clayton Opera House is officially open for the summer! A lineup of upcoming musical performances, as well as speakers, has been announced, kicking off on June 4.
Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival 2021 Returns Live August 4 - 22
by BWW News Desk - May 27, 2021
The 38th annual festival presents 13 concerts August 4-22 at its regular venues – the festival's home, the Bridgehampton Presbyterian Church, as well as the Parrish Art Museum and Channing Sculpture Garden.
by BWW News Desk - May 27, 2021
The 38th annual festival presents 13 concerts August 4-22 at its regular venues – the festival's home, the Bridgehampton Presbyterian Church, as well as the Parrish Art Museum and Channing Sculpture Garden.
The Philadelphia Orchestra to Return to Saratoga Performing Arts Center
by BWW News Desk - May 27, 2021
Saratoga Performing Arts Center announced today that The Philadelphia Orchestra will return to its summer home in Saratoga Springs for its residency on August 11-14, 2021, marking the company’s first live performances at SPAC since the COVID-19 pandemic hit.
by BWW News Desk - May 27, 2021
Saratoga Performing Arts Center announced today that The Philadelphia Orchestra will return to its summer home in Saratoga Springs for its residency on August 11-14, 2021, marking the company’s first live performances at SPAC since the COVID-19 pandemic hit.
Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra Announces Summer 2021 Concert Series
by BWW News Desk - May 27, 2021
On Thursday, June 3rd and Friday, June 4th Summer Serenade, a program featuring Mozart, Tchaikovsky and Beethoven will be conducted by Music Director Designate Andreas Delfs.
by BWW News Desk - May 27, 2021
On Thursday, June 3rd and Friday, June 4th Summer Serenade, a program featuring Mozart, Tchaikovsky and Beethoven will be conducted by Music Director Designate Andreas Delfs.
Damon J. Gillespie To Star in Hangar Theatre's Outdoor Production of THE REALNESS in June
by BWW News Desk - May 26, 2021
Damon J. Gillespie (he/him) will star as T.O. in The REALNESS: another break beat play, the opening show of the Hangar Theatre’s first ever outdoor season! The REALNESS another beat break play was written by Idris Goodwin, and will be directed by Hangar alum, Kyle Haden.
by BWW News Desk - May 26, 2021
Damon J. Gillespie (he/him) will star as T.O. in The REALNESS: another break beat play, the opening show of the Hangar Theatre’s first ever outdoor season! The REALNESS another beat break play was written by Idris Goodwin, and will be directed by Hangar alum, Kyle Haden.
Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra Announces 2021 Season
by BWW News Desk - May 22, 2021
The CSO in 2021 will offer 14 performances between July 10 and Aug. 14, with concerts in Weeks Three through Eight of the Chautauqua Summer Assembly, and members will also provide support to the Chautauqua Opera Company’s production of Scalia/Ginsburg.
by BWW News Desk - May 22, 2021
The CSO in 2021 will offer 14 performances between July 10 and Aug. 14, with concerts in Weeks Three through Eight of the Chautauqua Summer Assembly, and members will also provide support to the Chautauqua Opera Company’s production of Scalia/Ginsburg.
The Roger Rees Awards and Harmony Helper Celebrate Excellence In Choral Performance With New Award
by BWW News Desk - May 21, 2021
The Broadway Education Alliance has announced the 2020-2021 winner and finalists of the first annual Harmony Helper sponsored award to recognize outstanding high school choirs.
by BWW News Desk - May 21, 2021
The Broadway Education Alliance has announced the 2020-2021 winner and finalists of the first annual Harmony Helper sponsored award to recognize outstanding high school choirs.
Saratoga Performing Arts Center Relaunches Ellen Reid Soundwalk In Year-Long Installation
by BWW News Desk - May 20, 2021
Saratoga Performing Arts Center announces today that it will relaunch Ellen Reid SOUNDWALK, a GPS-enabled work of public art that uses music to illuminate the natural environment in the Saratoga Spa State Park. Following the popularity of its initial launch in the Park last September, SOUNDWALK will return as a year-round installation that will be available starting today, May 20, 2021 until June 1, 2022.
by BWW News Desk - May 20, 2021
Saratoga Performing Arts Center announces today that it will relaunch Ellen Reid SOUNDWALK, a GPS-enabled work of public art that uses music to illuminate the natural environment in the Saratoga Spa State Park. Following the popularity of its initial launch in the Park last September, SOUNDWALK will return as a year-round installation that will be available starting today, May 20, 2021 until June 1, 2022.
World Premiere Outdoor Production of Kara-Lynn Vaeni's SHAPE to be Presented by The Kitchen Theatre Company
by BWW News Desk - May 18, 2021
The Kitchen Theatre Company will conclude it's 2020-2021 season with the world premiere SHAPE. This action-packed feminist comedy is written and directed by Southern Methodist University Professor Kara-Lynn Vaeni+ and offers a forthright look into fitness, body image, and how we define strength.
by BWW News Desk - May 18, 2021
The Kitchen Theatre Company will conclude it's 2020-2021 season with the world premiere SHAPE. This action-packed feminist comedy is written and directed by Southern Methodist University Professor Kara-Lynn Vaeni+ and offers a forthright look into fitness, body image, and how we define strength.
Douglas Carter Beane Pens and Directs New Book For BABES IN ARMS as Part of Forestburgh Playhouse's Season
by BWW News Desk - May 18, 2021
Celebrating its 75th Anniversary as “The Miracle of the Forest,” Forestburgh Playhouse, under the leadership of Producing Artistic Director Franklin Trapp, proudly announces its Diamond Anniversary Season of musicals and plays, along with a summer series of outdoor concerts in compliance with local social distancing measures.
by BWW News Desk - May 18, 2021
Celebrating its 75th Anniversary as “The Miracle of the Forest,” Forestburgh Playhouse, under the leadership of Producing Artistic Director Franklin Trapp, proudly announces its Diamond Anniversary Season of musicals and plays, along with a summer series of outdoor concerts in compliance with local social distancing measures.
Albany Symphony Will Present The American Music Festival in June
by BWW News Desk - May 17, 2021
Two-time GRAMMY award-winning Albany Symphony launches its annual American Music Festival celebrating cutting-edge composers and musicians, starting Thursday, June 10th through Sunday June 13th at the Palace Theatre.
by BWW News Desk - May 17, 2021
Two-time GRAMMY award-winning Albany Symphony launches its annual American Music Festival celebrating cutting-edge composers and musicians, starting Thursday, June 10th through Sunday June 13th at the Palace Theatre.
Hoff-Barthelson Music School Offers In-Person, Socially-Distanced Summer Arts Program
by BWW News Desk - May 15, 2021
Hoff-Barthelson Music School is the ideal setting for a stimulating, challenging, fun-filled, and safely socially distanced summer arts program for students in grades 1-12.
by BWW News Desk - May 15, 2021
Hoff-Barthelson Music School is the ideal setting for a stimulating, challenging, fun-filled, and safely socially distanced summer arts program for students in grades 1-12.
BST Returns To Live Performance With The Bridge Street Belly Dance Project
by BWW News Desk - May 13, 2021
Catskill's Bridge Street Theatre returns to live performance on June 12 with what has always been one of its most exciting and popular annual events: the 2021 edition of Bridge Street Belly Dance.
by BWW News Desk - May 13, 2021
Catskill's Bridge Street Theatre returns to live performance on June 12 with what has always been one of its most exciting and popular annual events: the 2021 edition of Bridge Street Belly Dance.
Salem's Gardenworks Farm Will Host Open Air Fort Salem Theater Fundraiser Concert
by BWW News Desk - May 11, 2021
This summer, Gardenworks Farm has announced a summer kickoff concert, benefitting the grand reopening of Fort Salem Theater under new ownership. Guests will be invited for an evening of Salem Under the Stars, an open-air fundraiser concert featuring voices of the theater's past and present.
by BWW News Desk - May 11, 2021
This summer, Gardenworks Farm has announced a summer kickoff concert, benefitting the grand reopening of Fort Salem Theater under new ownership. Guests will be invited for an evening of Salem Under the Stars, an open-air fundraiser concert featuring voices of the theater's past and present.
Rochester City Ballet Will Return to In-Person Shows With A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
by BWW News Desk - May 11, 2021
Rochester City Ballet will make its triumphant and long-awaited return to Live-in Person performances by mounting a fully produced staging of Artistic Director Robert Gardner’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
by BWW News Desk - May 11, 2021
Rochester City Ballet will make its triumphant and long-awaited return to Live-in Person performances by mounting a fully produced staging of Artistic Director Robert Gardner’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
The New Deal Creative Arts Center Presents ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST
by BWW News Desk - May 10, 2021
Set in a mental hospital in the 1960s, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest follows RP McMurphy who contrived to serve a short sentence in an airy mental institution rather than in a prison. He learns this was a mistake, as he clashes with the head nurse, Nurse Ratched.
by BWW News Desk - May 10, 2021
Set in a mental hospital in the 1960s, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest follows RP McMurphy who contrived to serve a short sentence in an airy mental institution rather than in a prison. He learns this was a mistake, as he clashes with the head nurse, Nurse Ratched.
'I was waiting for the echo of a better day' Will Open Bard SummerScape 2021
by BWW News Desk - May 10, 2021
Bard SummerScape 2021 opens with the live world premiere of I was waiting for the echo of a better day, a major new commission from Pam Tanowitz, the Fisher Center's inaugural Choreographer-in-Residence, with Jessie Montgomery, next Composer-in-Residence of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
by BWW News Desk - May 10, 2021
Bard SummerScape 2021 opens with the live world premiere of I was waiting for the echo of a better day, a major new commission from Pam Tanowitz, the Fisher Center's inaugural Choreographer-in-Residence, with Jessie Montgomery, next Composer-in-Residence of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
Binghamton University Cancels TWILIGHT: LOS ANGELES, 1992 in Response to Casting Concerns
by BWW News Desk - May 10, 2021
Binghamton University's previously announced production of “Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992” has been canceled in response to student pushback.
by BWW News Desk - May 10, 2021
Binghamton University's previously announced production of “Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992” has been canceled in response to student pushback.
BWW Review: I AND YOU at Syracuse Stage
by Timothy Treanor - May 06, 2021
There is an astonishing turn of events toward the end of I and You, but let’s not talk about that. Let’s talk about Walt Whitman instead. Whitman was a revolutionary who overthrew poetry. He trashed the self-conscious, hyperstylized European tropes which had dominated the art and substituted something purely American: a rough, colloquial, muscular free verse which tumbles over itself like the streams and brooks of his Long Island home.
by Timothy Treanor - May 06, 2021
There is an astonishing turn of events toward the end of I and You, but let’s not talk about that. Let’s talk about Walt Whitman instead. Whitman was a revolutionary who overthrew poetry. He trashed the self-conscious, hyperstylized European tropes which had dominated the art and substituted something purely American: a rough, colloquial, muscular free verse which tumbles over itself like the streams and brooks of his Long Island home.
Adirondack Theatre Festival Announces 2021 Production Lineup
by BWW News Desk - May 06, 2021
Interim Producing Artistic Director Martha Banta announces Adirondack Theatre Festival is returning to the Charles R. Wood Theater for its 27th season.
by BWW News Desk - May 06, 2021
Interim Producing Artistic Director Martha Banta announces Adirondack Theatre Festival is returning to the Charles R. Wood Theater for its 27th season.
Kitchen Theatre Company Pays Homage To Its History With BLOOM WHERE YOU'RE PLANTED
by BWW News Desk - May 04, 2021
The Kitchen Theatre Company finishes out the streaming portion of its 2020-2021 Season, The Journey to 30, with Bloom Where You're Planted: A Twenty Year Artistic Journey, a film by Artistic Director Emerita Rachel Lampert and former Associate Producing Director, Lesley Greene.
by BWW News Desk - May 04, 2021
The Kitchen Theatre Company finishes out the streaming portion of its 2020-2021 Season, The Journey to 30, with Bloom Where You're Planted: A Twenty Year Artistic Journey, a film by Artistic Director Emerita Rachel Lampert and former Associate Producing Director, Lesley Greene.
USITT Launches National Demographic Survey
by BWW News Desk - May 04, 2021
The Institute has partnered with SMU DataArts Workforce Demographics to collect key demographic data. The Entertainment Design and Technology Workforce Demographics Survey is a first-of-its-kind data gathering instrument to focus on the industry and is expected to help better understand the demographics of the current workforce and those of the communities in which they operate.
by BWW News Desk - May 04, 2021
The Institute has partnered with SMU DataArts Workforce Demographics to collect key demographic data. The Entertainment Design and Technology Workforce Demographics Survey is a first-of-its-kind data gathering instrument to focus on the industry and is expected to help better understand the demographics of the current workforce and those of the communities in which they operate.
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