Keyshia Cole Unveils 'The Way It Is 20th Anniversary Tour'
by Josh Sharpe - Apr 17, 2025
Keyshia Cole has officially announced The Way It Is 20th Anniversary Tour. The North America arena tour kicks off July 1 at CFG Bank Arena in Baltimore and hits key cities including Brooklyn, Atlanta, New Orleans, Detroit, and Houston.
CARMEN Comes to Opera in the Park This Summer
by Stephi Wild - Feb 17, 2025
OPERA IN THE PARK Portland has announced its return to Peninsula Park this summer! On July 27, 2025, OPERA IN THE PARK Portland will present George Bizet’s Carmen in Peninsula Park.
Interview: Lyndsay Burch and Elizabeth Baidoo on the First Annual JUNETEENTH ART WALK
by Courtney Symes - Jun 17, 2024
On June 17, 2021, the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act was signed into law, effectively making June 19tha federally recognized holiday. It commemorates the end of slavery in the United States and the June 19, 1865 enforcement of the Emancipation Proclamation in Texas. In honor of the holiday, two local theatres are having a celebration at each of their venues before leading a walk to the state capitol to join others observing the day. I was honored to speak with Lyndsay Burch, Executive Director and CEO of the B St. Theatre, and Elizabeth Baidoo, Marketing and Community Development Manager of Celebration Arts, about what they have planned for the community this Wednesday.
Touchstone Theatre Will Present ALICE IN BETHLEHEM This Month
by Stephi Wild - Jun 13, 2024
Touchstone Theatre will present Alice in Bethlehem – a new, interactive, family friendly show created and performed by the second year Touchstone Theatre/Moravian University MFA students, and helmed by Ensemble Member Matt Prideaux.
Review: ROSE: YOU ARE WHO YOU EAT at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
by David Friscic - Jun 11, 2024
Rose: You Are Who You Eat is an irreverent (yet, concurrently, affectionate) look at a performer/cabaret artist’s autobiographical impulse and gender identity questions/affirmations set against the metaphor of cannibalism as a “who gets devoured?”/”feasting/ingestion” metaphor ---that plays into “double entendres” on family, the role of the mother and the individual evolving in the womb. This extremely quixotic and subversive play by ultra-creative performer and writer John Jarboe celebrates queerness while “riffing -off” on themes of memory, trying to connect to identity and breaking through dissonance into a celebration of the autonomous self.
Aperol® Returns to Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival®
by Marina Kennedy - Mar 29, 2024
Aperol®, the iconic Italian aperitivo, is returning to Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival® for its second year, bringing along the quintessential expressions of Italian culture and source of its namesake, the tradition of Aperitivo.
John Jarboe's ROSE Extends at La Mama ETC
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Dec 5, 2023
Due to popular demand, John Jarboe's Rose: You Are Who You Eat extends its run at La Mama ETC. This heartfelt and humorous musical explores the true story of gender cannibalism through song, storytelling, and wordplay.