Benjamin News

The Johnson Hall Performing Arts Center has received an anonymous donation of up to $500,000. The Gardiner theatre will use the money to help complete a renovation project. This is a matching gift donation, which means the donor will match any money donated by the public, up to $500,000.

Leading Medway-based theatre company Icon Theatre, who celebrate their 20th anniversary this year, have announced the cast and creative team for their forthcoming dance and light production If Not Now, which will see breathtaking visuals by NOVAK projected on to Rochester Castle and a company of 175 perform as part of Medway Light Nights. 

Dayton Live announces a digital lottery for HAMILTON tickets that will begin in conjunction with the show's first performance, January 26, 2022 in Dayton at the Benjamin & Marian Schuster Performing Arts Center.

OffWestEnd has announced 86 finalists for its Offies awards 2022. The Offies recognise and celebrate the excellence, innovation and ingenuity of independent, fringe and alternative theatres across London, helping to raise their profiles and rewarding the new talent that they nurture, which is essential for the future of the theatre industry.

This February, BAM will pay tribute to groundbreaking actress Cicely Tyson, who passed away in 2021 and left behind a formidable legacy and a 60-year career that included several Emmys, a Tony Award, an honorary Oscar, and a Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Jagged Little Pill star Antonio Cipriano has been cast as a series regular on the upcoming National Treasure series on Disney+.

The Canticum Novum Singers, Harold Rosenbaum, Conductor and Artistic Director, will present all the choral movements from J.S. Bach's Cantatas 13 through 24 live in concert and online on Saturday, January 29 at 8:00 PM, with piano accompanist Will Healey at St. Michael's Episcopal Church.

Casting for the revival of the critically acclaimed production Small Island is announced today as the company begin rehearsals. Adapted by Helen Edmundson from Andrea Levy's prize-winning novel and directed by Rufus Norris, the production will open on 24 February in the Olivier theatre.  

Jermyn Street Theatre has announced the cast for the second production of its Outsiders Season, the world premiere of award-winning playwright Crystal Skillman's Rain and Zoe Save the World.

The Academy of Vocal Arts will present Tchaikovsky's beloved Eugene Onegin, for four performances only January 22-29, 2022.

Today Birmingham Rep announced that the world premiere of Coming to England, the stage adaptation by David Wood of Baroness Floella Benjamin’s award-winning book will now play revised dates of Thursday 31st March - Saturday 16th April 2022.

The Broadway Advocacy Coalition (BAC) announces the class of fellows selected to participate in the second annual BAC Artivism Fellowship, created to support artist-activists using their tools to have an impact on the world around them. 

In the final weeks of Franz Schubert's tragically short life, he wrote one of the great masterworks in all of chamber music — his Quintet in C Major. In this new five-part course, Jonathan Coopersmith, Chair of Musical Studies at the Curtis Institute of Music, explores the work in depth, as well as the creative burst that spawned it.

‘Three Degrees’ soul sensation Sheila Ferguson will star as ‘Mama Morton’ in the acclaimed UK and Ireland tour of the international smash hit musical CHICAGO. Sheila joins the recently announced Russell Watson as ‘Billy Flynn’, Faye Brookes as ‘Roxie Hart’, Djalenga Scott as ‘Velma Kelly’, Jamie Baughan as ‘Amos Hart’ and B.E. Wong as ‘Mary Sunshine’.

AT THIS PERFORMANCE…  returns to The Green Room 42 featuring Standbys, Understudies and Alternates from COMPANY; MOULIN ROUGE!; JAGGED LITTLE PILL; AIN'T TOO PROUD: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE TEMPTATIONS: WAITRESS; ASSASSINS and LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS on Monday, January 24th at 7 PM.                      

This January, the English National Opera (the ENO) revives Jonathan Miller’s staging of Puccini’s best-loved opera at the London Coliseum.

Reyes | Finn  will present Practice, the gallery’s third solo exhibition of work by Detroit-based artist James Benjamin Franklin, which will be on view from January 15th–February 26th, 2022.

The New World Symphony, America's Orchestral Academy and Artistic Director Michael Tilson Thomas have announced I Dream a World: The Harlem Renaissance and Beyond, a multi-disciplinary, multi-tiered festival that celebrates the history and influence of this cultural movement.

New York City Ballet today announced that it is postponing the start of its 2022 Winter Season at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts for nine days due to the recent surge of COVID-19 in New York City, which resulted in the Company not being able to rehearse during the last two weeks of December.

Hugh Jackman returned to The Music Man last night! The star had previously tested positive for Covid-19 and was forced to sit out performances of the show.