Tom Skelton

Underbelly Unveils 2025 Programme For 25th Year at the Edinburgh Fringe
by Stephi Wild - May 6, 2025

2025 marks Underbelly's 25th year at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, celebrating a milestone year at the heart of the world's biggest arts festival. Tickets for the 2025 programme are on sale now.

Dayton Opera Unveils Star-Studded Cast And Conductors For Verdi's AIDA
by A.A. Cristi - Feb 26, 2025

The Dayton Performing Arts Alliance has announced the cast and conductors for Dayton Opera's upcoming production of Verdi's Aida at the Schuster Center.

Interview: Theatre Life with Jennifer Tipton
by Elliot Lanes - Feb 10, 2025

Longevity is becoming rarer and rarer in the performing arts. Today’s subject Jennifer Tipton has been a lighting designer for theatre, opera, ballet, and more for over 65 years and in the process has given us a body of work that is unparalleled. Her current project American Ballet Theatre’s (ABT’s) production of Crime and Punishment will be playing at Kennedy Center in the Opera House from February 12th through the 16th.

Amara McNeil Receives 2023 Howard Binkley Fellowship
by Stephi Wild - May 15, 2023

The Howell Binkley Fellowship Program has announced its 2023 Fellow, Amara McNeil. Amara is a New York-based, Hartford-raised, theatrical lighting designer and filmmaker. 

2020 VISIONS (WHAT IF I HADN'T GONE BLIND) Comes to Adelaide Fringe
by A.A. Cristi - Mar 6, 2020

Could you see the funny side to going blind? Ten years on from losing most of his sight, Tom Skelton looks back at a decade of being blind and wonders what might have been. His 2020 visions explore his regrets, the what ifs, and the realities of life as a VIP (Visually Impaired Person!). Skelton ruefully imagines his sighted self going on to shape the last ten years of history, but would Tom from 2020 really swap places with fantasy Tom with 20:20 vision? Perth Fringe World Weekly Comedy Award Winner 2020!

Groundbreaking Women in Theater: Lighting Designer Beverly Emmons
by Adrienne Onofri - Mar 13, 2005

Emmons, a seven-time Tony nominee, is spotlighted in the second of BWW's special Women's History Month profiles.