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The Show Must Go Online Announce Full Cast For Livestreamed Reading Of TIMON OF ATHENS

Two-time OnComm award-winning, The Show Must Go Online, the global digital theatre movement producing live performances of the chronology of Shakespeare's plays weekly, today announce the full cast for their upcoming livestreamed performed reading of William Shakespeare's Timon of Athens with Ben Crystal in the titular role and introduced by Sir Simon Russell Beale.

Long Beach Opera Announces Three Programs For Fall 2020

While the Covid-19 pandemic has shuttered many performing arts organizations around the world, Long Beach Opera (LBO) has been industriously devising live innovative performance opportunities for both its artists and audiences. 

The Show Must Go Online Announce Full Cast For Livestreamed Reading Of HAMLET

Two-time OnComm award-winning, The Show Must Go Online, the global digital theatre movement producing live performances of the chronology of Shakespeare's plays weekly, today announce the full cast for their upcoming livestreamed performed reading of William Shakespeare's Hamlet.

Birmingham Opera Company Appoints Alpesh Chauhan As Music Director

Birmingham Opera Company, has today announced that conductor Alpesh Chauhan will join the organization as Music Director from 1 July 2020. Chauhan will stand alongside Artistic Director Graham Vick leading the company on its mission to make great opera for all the peoples of Birmingham.

The Barbican Extends Closure to 30 June

Today (1 April), the Barbican Centre has announced that it will extend the closure the building until 30 June. All events scheduled for that period will be cancelled or postponed, and ticket money will be refunded.

Barbican Theatre: What You Need To Know

Chamberlin, Powell & Bon's brutalist design is an instantly recognisable part of London's architecture; the grade II listed building formed the inspiration for the film adaptation of JG Ballard's novel High-Rise. Formerly the home of the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Barbican Theatre was also the original London home of long-running musical Les Misérables before its transfer to the West End.

Met Orchestra Will Tour Internationally In June 2021, For The First Time In Almost 20 Years

The Metropolitan Opera today announces that the Met Orchestra will tour Europe in the summer of 2021, immediately following its annual residency at Carnegie Hall. With all performances conducted by the Met's Jeanette Lerman-Neubauer Music Director, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, the tour includes stops at the Barbican Centre in London on June 29, 2021; the Philharmonie in Paris on June 30 and July 1, 2021; and the Festspielhaus in Baden-Baden, Germany, on July 3 and 4, 2021. Four of the world's leading opera stars join the Met Orchestra: mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato, who will sing selections from Berlioz's Les Troyens, and soprano Christine Goerke, tenor Brandon Jovanovich, and bass Günther Groissböck, who will perform the first act of Wagner's Die Walküre.

Brits Off Broadway: NDT Head To New York To Co-Curate Festival With 59E59

New Diorama Theatre has announced the programme for Brits Off Broadway this spring, hosting the finest Off West End theatre on American soil. This festival is co-curated with New York's 59E59 and takes place at the Drama Desk Award-winning Midtown theatre from Tuesday 14 April to Sunday 28 June.

Jonathan Biss Performs Beethoven's Last Three Piano Sonatas At 92nd Street Y

On the anniversary of Beethoven's death, March 26, pianist Jonathan Biss gives a solo recital of the composer's last three piano sonatasa?"Op. 109 in E major, Op. 110 in A-flat major, and Op. 111 in C minora?"at 92nd Street Y's Kaufmann Concert Hall. The performance, which takes place at 7:30 p.m. that evening, continues Mr. Biss's decade-long immersion in the music of Beethovena?"including recording and lecture cycles of all 32 piano sonatasa?"leading up to the worldwide celebrations of the composer's 250th birthday this year. Tickets from $35 are available at 92Y.org or by calling (212) 415-5500.

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