Hurrah for the green shoots in our beleaguered industry. Lots of venues are mounting new shows and bringing back our favourites over the next few weeks and months - albeit with social distancing and safety measures in place. Here are some of the live theatrical goodies on offer.
Songs For A New World played at The London Palladium on Sunday 11 October – marking a return for musical theatre to the West End.
Maui Academy of Performing Arts will present a virtual production of Songs for a New World. The production will live stream on November 6 and 7.
The current production of The Last Five Years now playing at Southwark Playhouse until 14 November confirms it has been filmed and will be released worldwide over 5 days via new platform stream.theatre.
SALT Performing Arts presents The Last Five Years, perhaps the most suitable for socially-distant adaptation of any musical! Enjoy this performance, complete with live pit orchestra, from the comfort and safety of the spacious hillside behind SALT Chester Springs.
Jason Robert Brown's The Last Five Years has a brilliantly problematic narrative - two souls taking us on a journey of their relationship, but one in chronological order (Jamie), and one in reverse (Cathy). Jonathan O'Boyle's version takes it to the upper echelons of directorial genius by creating an actor-muso production where the actors are entwined at all times through the music itself - and now, I can't imagine consuming this musical in any other way.
ACT of Connecticut will be presenting The Last Five Years, both in person and streaming, October 28th through November 15th.
Billy Porter hosted this Sunday's ALCU Bill of Rights Gala, which consisted of an hour-long program celebrating the work of the ACLU. The event also served as a call to vote.
The Elon University Performing Arts Department will hold their inaugural all-Black cabaret headlined The Moment. Through the lenses of Black artists, this celebratory event will question how the performing arts can be transformed, deconstructed, and rebuilt.
The Winter Park Playhouse continues its virtual musical entertainment this Fall with a brand new cabaret - Back Home to Broadway - featuring professional vocalist Laura Hodos with Christopher Leavy on piano.
The Barn Theatre has announced casting for their 2020 Theatre Recovery Season productions of Marry Me A Little and Peter Pan.
It's six years since Before After premiered at what was then the St James Studio, with Hadley Fraser and Caroline Sheen in the lead roles. It's a shame that it's taken so long for us to see it again, as it's a rather charming piece - made all the more so by the return of Fraser and his real-life partner Rosalie Craig.
Today we celebrate the Broadway revival of Kaufman and Hart's You Can't Take It with You, which opened on this day in 2014.
The live-streamed production of Jason Robert Brown's Songs For A New World that we enjoyed during lockdown is now coming to the stage, with two socially distanced shows at the London Palladium on 11 October. Rachel Tucker, who is known for Come From Away and Wicked amongst an impressive list of West End and Broadway credits, plays Woman 2 in this contemporary musical song cycle.
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Theatre West Virginia reopens with The Last Five Years at the Raleigh Playhouse! Performances take place September 24-27.
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The Last Five Years is one of the few musicals that seems as if Jason Robert Brown wrote it precisely with a pandemic in mind.
The world's oldest working, mechanised paper mill is surely not haunted? Although some spooky happenings have definitely been reported as the nights have been getting longer.
This has been such an unprecedented time; however, I find artists all over are remaining optimistic and taking the best approaches to continue their training.
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