Cultural Industry News

La Chapelle Scènes Contemporaines will present for the second time La Vie littéraire by and with Mathieu Arsenault. A Rhizome and Arsenault's production, shown in the context of the Festival International de littérature (FIL), La Vie Litteraire, originally Arsenault's book, has been adapted for the stage by Christian Lapointe.

David Meredith, Albany Theatre Chair, says 'Zarah has a genuine and deep interest in the Arts and is playing an active role in the campaign to save and support the UK arts industry that has been so badly affected by the Coronavirus pandemic.

Melbourne Theatre Company announced today that its production of As You Like It, due to open this September, will be postponed until 2021.

The UK Government has announced a £1.57 billion rescue package to help the nation's cultural, arts and heritage institutions weather the impact of Coronavirus. It follows weeks of lobbying from arts leaders of impending disaster, and the closure of venues like Nuffield Southampton Theatres. 

ITV reported that Prime Minister Boris Johnson has made a statement about bringing theatre back to the UK as fast and as safely as possible. 

Johanne Goyette, founder and president of ATMA Classique, and Guillaume Lombart, founder and president of Ad Litteram jointly announced that Ad Litteram, a leading company with more than 20 years of experience in the music industry, has entered into an agreement to acquire the ATMA Classique label, effective April 1, 2020.

In anticipation of the 10-year anniversary of the SLAM (Save Live Australia's Music) Rally, the Australian Music Vault has added a newly commissioned digital moving image work to their 360-degree experiential room, The Amplifier.

The Australian Music Vault has captured the stories of some of the most formidable pioneers and innovators from the Australian music scene including Judith Durham AO and Archie Roach AM in their latest offering, Long Play Series.

It has been one almighty year for ARIA Hall of Fame inductees Human Nature and to top it all off, there is now a dedicated display in a new section of the Australian Music Vault celebrating their 30-year legacy.

The famous Melbourne Music Bus Tour is hitting the road once more with another series of guided tours around the sacred music sites of Melbourne between November 2019 and June 2020. After three extremely successful editions, Arts Centre Melbourne and the Australian Music Vault are inviting punters to once again join Melbourne musicologist Bruce Milne and music journalist Mary Mihelakos in these two-hour guided tours twice a month.

Paper Mill Playhouse (Mark S. Hoebee-Producing Artistic Director, Mike Stotts-Managing Director), recipient of the 2016 Regional Theatre Tony Award, is pleased to announce it has won two, 2019 Discover Jersey Arts People's Choice Awards.  Paper Mill Playhouse was awarded, "Favorite Large Theater to See a Musical," and "Favorite Choral Group" by the ArtPride New Jersey Foundation. Presented by Discover Jersey Arts, a program of the ArtPride New Jersey Foundation and New Jersey State Council on the Arts, the annual Awards highlight the work of New Jersey's vital and thriving arts community. 

The Australian Chamber Orchestra (ACO) Instrument Fund today announced the acquisition of its fourth 'Golden Age' string instrument: a violin made in 1590 by influential Italian instrument makers Antonio and Hieronymus Amati. The acquisition was funded by Australian industry super fund Media Super, who injected AU$1 million into the Fund to enable the purchase of the instrument. The 1590 Brothers Amati violin will be played by ACO violinist Ike See.

Hamlet Machine, an adaptation of Shakespeare's Hamlet and Henrikh Muller's Hamletmachine by Ani Vardanyan, will officially start performance Off-Broadway on October 24th, 2018 at Theatre Row (410 W 42nd St.)

Hamlet Machine, an adaptation of Shakespeare's Hamlet and Henrikh Muller's Hamletmachine by Ani Vardanyan, will officially start performance Off-Broadway on October 24th, 2018 at Theatre Row (410 W 42nd St.)

Black Button Eyes Productions is pleased to announce its 2017-18 season, kicking off in late summer 2017 with the Chicago storefront premiere of SHOCKHEADED PETER, the silly and sinister musical based on Heinrich Hoffmann's popular German children's book The Struwwelpeter.

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Black Button Eyes Productions is pleased to announce casting for the Chicago storefront premiere of SHOCKHEADED PETER, the silly and sinister musical based on Heinrich Hoffmann's popular German children's book The Struwwelpeter.

Black Button Eyes Productions is pleased to announce its 2017-18 season, kicking off in late summer 2017 with the Chicago storefront premiere of SHOCKHEADED PETER, the silly and sinister musical based on Heinrich Hoffmann's popular German children's book The Struwwelpeter.

American agriculture is responsible for providing the necessities of everyday life ... food, fiber, clothing and even fuel. That's the message of National Ag Day, which will be celebrated March 18, 2017 at the Washington Pavilion. Producers, agricultural associations, corporations, universities, government agencies and countless others across America will gather to celebrate the abundance provided by agriculture.

The New Group's production of Sam Shepard's Pulitzer & Obie prize-winning play, Buried Child, directed by Scott Elliott, and starring the multi award-winning, international star Ed Harris (whose credits include the first hit series of Westworld as the mysterious Man in Black, Pollock, The Hours and The Truman Show), is now extending its critically acclaimed West End run at Trafalgar Studios until Saturday 4 March 2017.