Barnes News

The Stratford Festival’s “Romeo and Juliet” premiered December 10 and is available on demand through March 8, 2021. Falling headlong in love, two teenagers defy the long-simmering hatred between their families.

Jenine Krause and David Scandiffio, Co-Chairs of the Young People’s Theatre (YPT) Board of Directors, today announced the appointment of Herbie Barnes as the next Artistic Director of YPT.

Diamond Head Theatre will present Shout! The Mod Musical playing from March 12 through March 21. Opening weekend starts on Friday, March 12 at 7:30 PM; Saturday at 7:30 PM and Sunday at 4:00 PM. The rest of the run continues Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings at 7:30 PM with additional shows on Saturday at 3:00 PM and Sunday at 4:00 PM.

WP Theater along with Monica Bill Barnes & Company, have announced the second extension of Keep Moving, which will now stream through March 14, 2021. the companies are co-presenting the show in a collaboration with the performers - Manuela Agudelo, Olivia Brown, Kai Chen, Anakeiry Cruz, Sarahisoke Days, Katherine De La Cruz, and more.  

Gulfshore Playhouse, Naples' premier professional theater, continues to garner support for its state-of-the-art Cultural Campus with numerous new multimillion gifts for the Capital Campaign.

Today, Talk Is Free Theatre released the title and cast of acclaimed artists for one more reading as part of Dinner à la Art. Riot was written in 1995 by Andrew Moodie and will be streaming for one night only on April 8, 2021. Directing this Chalmers Canadian Play Award winner is actor, playwright, and co-founder of Blue Bird Theatre Collective, Tawiah M'Carthy.

Gulfshore Playhouse is continuing to garner support for its state-of-the-art Cultural Campus with numerous new multimillion gifts for the Capital Campaign. The new Baker Theatre and Education Center on the Gulfshore Playhouse Cultural Campus will feature two new state-of-the-art theaters.

ELYOT & AMANDA: ALL ALONE from Noël Coward's PRIVATE LIVES is currently streaming online. This production is part of Playhouse on Park's 12th Main Stage Season, and will now be available to stream through March 7, 2021.

Elyot and Amanda: All Alone, the brilliant adaptation of Noël Coward's Private Lives, currently available to stream at home through February 28th - has been extended by Playhouse on Park and will be available through March 7th.

“Delilah” is executive produced by Craig Wright, Charles Randolph-Wright, and Oprah Winfrey.  In 2020, “Greenleaf” was the year’s most-watched original cable series with African-American viewers. 

'The Vanishing Half' centers on identical twin sisters who run away from their small, southern Black community at age 16. As adults, it’s not just the shape of their daily lives that is different, it’s everything: their families, their communities, the essence of who they are.

WP Theater and Monica Bill Barnes & Co have announced that Keep Moving will extend, and now stream through March 7, 2021. Keep Moving is a theatrically innovative and heartfelt look into how one group of women preserve their identities as artists and dancers during a time when there are no studios or theaters to move in.

The Marsh continues its Women’s History Month celebration throughout March with Heather Harpham’s highly kinetic, semi-comic romp about climate change, BURNING. Using movement, song, monologue, and other otherworldly images, this work roams through the landscapes of climate change where comedy, tragedy, activism, and cautious optimism collide.

Steppenwolf Theatre Company presents Duchess! Duchess! Duchess! by emerging playwright Vivian J.O. Barnes, the fourth of six productions debuting on its Steppenwolf NOW virtual stage.

Nottingham based playwright Mufaro Makubika is to adapt US based NoViolet Bulawayo's Man Booker Prize shortlisted We Need New Names for the UK stage in a new world premiere commissioned by East Midlands based Fifth Word theatre company. 

Matthew Bourne’s “Romeo and Juliet” is premiering Thursday, February 18 at 5:00 p.m. and streaming Friday, February 19 at 5 and 8 pm; Saturday, February 20 at 2, 5 and 8 p.m. and Sunday, February 21 at 1 and 6:30 p.m. (all times Pacific).

New York Theatre Ballet School has announced its Summer Intensive from June 28 - July 10, 2021. Providing world class Cecchetti training, the two-week program will be led by Artistic Director Diana Byer, NYTB Principal Dancer Amanda Treiber, plus guest faculty.

Northern Stage announced the 2021 recipients of the BOLD Theater Women’s Leadership Circle grant, which marks its 4th year with 2 new inductees into its unprecedented $3.5 million grant funded by the Helen Gurley Brown Foundation to support and promote women+ artistic directors and their associates in professional theaters across the United States.

Earlier this month, writer and director P Burton-Morgan's Metta Theatre, in conjunction with Perfect Pitch, released the studio cast EP of their hip hop musical In the Willows, adapted from Kenneth Grahame's classic The Wind in the Willows. Long devoted to new British musical theatre, Burton-Morgan explains more about keeping busy during the pandemic with this project, and others, in a guest blog.

Collaboraction, Chicago's theater for social change, is launching Family Tree Stories, a new mixed media project that will illuminate how systemic oppression impacts our ancestral narratives and how interconnected our family stories actually are.