The New Works Virtual Festival will stream 20 new non-musical scripts every day from December 4th - 24th of 2020 (19 plays, 1 teleplay) featuring the work of a diverse group of writers and all-star cast members. A 21st piece will be selected from holiday-themed submissions to be streamed on December 25th.
Spot-On Arts Academy has announced their top 10 contestants in their national talent search Give my Regards... Having announced their initial top 20 contestants last August from a pool of emerging artists spanning across 46 states and 7 countries, the top 10 have been selected after nearly 3 months of mentorship and training.
Based on Dean B Kaner's hit off-Broadway play of the same name, 'The Jerry Duncan Show,' a new comedic political web series has debuted on YouTube. The acclaimed NYC run was met with praise and was unable to finish due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Christina Bianco took over our Instagram story yesterday leading up to her Birdland concert tonight! Missed all the fun? No worries-- check out highlights from her takeover below!
There's no doubt Christina Bianco can put on an excellent performance! Check out some of her past gigs before this week's Birdland concert on October 30 at 8 p.m.!
In celebration of her Birdland Jazz concert on October 30, Christina Bianco will be taking over our Instagram today, October 29! Follow along with us on BroadwayWorld's Instagram.
Tonight, original NEWSical The Musical cast members Christine Pedi and Christina Bianco, will make special guest appearances during the streaming Actors Fund benefit of this history making “pandemic performance”.
In anticipation of the debut of their digital album, The Rocky Horror Skivvies Show, The Skivvies (Lauren Molina and Nick Cearley), Rob Morrison, and Michael Kushner have released a new music video, Super Heroes. The album is set to be released in the last week of October.
The pivot continues. Over the course of the last week, we have continued to see more stories about theatres going digital, going outdoors, going to the postal service - all in the name of creating art in a world that we have not seen in our current collective experiences. Much of this pivoting is coming from a need to survive, but what is being discovered is deeply inspired, and likely to impact the form for decades to come. We've seen it ourselves through our BroadwayWorld events platform - what started as a small experiment has grown to sending nearly half a million dollars in ticket revenue to our partners, with thousands of new audience members connecting to these artists in a way we couldn't have predicted one year ago. Beyond the changing art, the industry is at a key moment in institutional evolution - make sure to check out the essay from the late Diane Rodriguez we link to later in the newsletter. But ultimately, artists make art, and we also have some highlights of artists at all points in their careers continuing to find ways to create even as the world we're used to endlessly shifts around us.
Internationally acclaimed singer, actor, and impressionist Christina Bianco is no stranger to the Rivertowns. After playing Cunégonde in a production of Candide almost twenty years ago, Bianco returned to the Irvington Theater stage this summer to film her wildly hilarious multimedia concert, which streams on Saturday, November 14 at 7:30pm.