Taking this pandemic as an opportunity to incubate new works, The Song Collective is engaging with 6 playwrights in an effort to inject new perspectives into the American Theatre canon. The inaugural cohort for the Song Collective's Việt Writers Lab brings together a community of dynamic Vietnamese artists from across the United States and Canada.
The Hollywood Critics Association (HCA) announced today their first wave of honorary awards for the 4th Annual HCA Awards Ceremony taking place in Los Angeles on March 5, 2021.
New York Theatre Barn will host a free live stream of its New Works Series on Wednesday, December 16, 2020 at 7PM EDT, featuring excerpts from the new musicals Garden of Starflowers and An Incomplete List of All The Things I’m Going To Miss When The World is No Longer.
East West Players, the nation's premiere Asian American theatre organization, is partnering up with online musician AJ Rafael for Crazy Talented Asians, a concert series started by Rafael in September 2018.
Luca Silvestrini, Artistic Director of Luca Silvestrini’s Protein has been awarded a prestigious Premio della Critica by the Associazione Nazionale Critici di Teatro (ANCT). The ANCT awards, given annually by Italy’s national association of theatre critics, exist to celebrate the vitality of the performing arts sector.
East West Players, the nation’s premiere Asian American theatre organization, has teamed up with musician AJ Rafael for a holiday musical celebration which features performances and appearances by prominent Asian American artists, including many who have appeared on the stage.
The Ringwald Theatre has announced the release of their new Christmas show, Have Yourself a MISERY Little Christmas. This is the final production performed in their former Ferndale location and will be available to stream December 4-31, 2020.
EPIC Players, New York's premier neuro-diverse theatre company, presents its latest production amidst a global pandemic: She Kills Monsters: Virtual Realms, proving that we can continue to create meaningful art, virtually, in times of COVID-19.
El Programa Noche de Museos, iniciativa del Gobierno de la Ciudad de México, cumple 11 años de operación. A través de sus actividades ha acercado a diversos grupos ciudadanos con los museos, en materia de preservación del patrimonio material e inmaterial y difusión de la vasta diversidad de expresiones culturales y artísticas en el país.
Sugar plum fairies may only be dancing in our heads this holiday season, but you can still embrace those good wintery feelings with Theatre Three's short virtual production of Twas the Night at Theatre Three, available December 21-24.
New York Theatre Barn will continue to host weekly free live streams of its New Works Series each Wednesday evening at 7PM ET. Available on New York Theatre Barn's YouTube channel and Broadway on Demand, each installment of the live 45-minute series includes excerpts from two new musicals and a conversation with the writers and creative team.
Though not a traditional year, The Nutmeg Ballet Conservatory has worked hard to ensure that its traditional holiday presentation of The Nutcracker will go on. The 2020 production will be presented virtually from the Warner Theatre's Main Stage during the first two weekends of December. Six performances will be streamed with additional opportunities to view recorded shows.
Filipino alternative Pop-Rock artist JC Gurango aka Acropolis Blues is due to release his new single 'City' on Thursday 17th December 2020 following on from his successful debut album 'The Marketplace' in 2018.
On Sunday November 15, Long Beach Opera (LBO) presented Songbook, an online program of 20 new songs by relatively unknown composers. It was LBO board member, Raulee Marcus, who had the idea to commission songs rather than have a gala fundraiser. LBO created a list of established opera composers who had some link to the company and asked them to be mentors. An illustrious quintet of successful composers: Anthony Davis, David Lang, George Lewis, Annie Gosfield, and Du Yun all accepted.
Original Works Publishing has announced the publication of SEVEN DEADLY TENS (A Sinful Collection of Short Plays) by Jonathan Josephson. Each of the internationally-produced, award-winning 10-minute plays was inspired by one of Dante's Seven Deadly Sins, playfully mixing stories of humanity at its worst with wry humor.
Thornhill Theatre Space is hosting a month-long event that showcases material from new musicals from around the globe. The event, titled 'New Musical November' will run the whole month of November and will feature musicals of all genres, created by artists of all ages.
Music has always been able to get us through the most turbulent times in this nation's history. With the ongoing pandemic and all the other craziness that is happening right now, Signature Theatre gives us Signature Vinyl. It's a cinematic concert experience that will make you forget everything in the world for a little while as some of Signature's top performers put their spin (no pun intended) on some classics from the 60's and 70's.
Signature Theatre's cinematic concert Signature Vinyl is now available for streaming. This fully-produced, 80 minute professionally filmed experience features 26 local singers and musicians, and was safely filmed at several outdoor locations across the DC area.
The Scottsboro Boys opened on Broadway 10 years ago today, on October 31, 2010. Director Susan Stroman, David Thompson (writer) and the Original Broadway Cast reunited to talk about the experience, and perform one of the signature songs from the show 'Commencing In Chattanooga.'
Broadway might be dark, but that doesn't mean that theatre isn't happening everywhere! Below, check out where you can get your daily fix of Broadway this weekend, October 231-November 1, 2020.
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