Joan Didion News

GableStage, the Coral Gables based theatre company that has made its home in the Biltmore Hotel for over 24 years, announced its 2022-23 season. Five new productions, which illuminate the company’s mission of “confronting today’s issues and ideas” will account for 130 performances from October - July. Find out the full schedule and how to get tickets.

Nashville-based magnetic indie-folk singer-songwriter Alicia Blue says her newest single 'Saline Waters' (from her new EP Inner Child Work via Magnetic Moon) is about facing mortality and is like a 'darker and more aggressive take on Joni Mitchell's' classic 'Circle Game.'

Earl McGrath was the ultimate ’70s jet setter, an art collector and comic bon vivant, who stumbled into the record business and discovered Daryl Hall and John Oates, and later Jim Carroll, while holding court at his legendary salons in Los Angeles and New York. Atlantic founder Ahmet Ertegun gave Earl his own label, Clean Records, in 1970.

GableStage presents The Year of Magical Thinking, an account of the year following the death of writer Joan Didion's husband John Gregory Dunne in 2003. The book was immediately acclaimed as a classic memoir about mourning. It won the 2005 National Book Award for Nonfiction and was a finalist for both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Autobiography.

For the first time since 2020, the Aurora Fox Arts Center will present a full season of four mainstage shows and two smaller black box shows. The Aurora Fox’s 38th season will include Joan Didion’s theatrical adaption of her best-selling memoir, “The Year of Magical Thinking;” the Colorado premieres of “Futurity” by César Alvarez and The Lisps and more.

Remy Bumppo Theatre Company has announced the casting and design team for the final show in its 2022 Season, THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING by Joan Didion and directed by Gabrielle Randle-Bent. The show will run from April 27 through June 5, 2022 at Theater Wit, 1229 W. Belmont Avenue in Chicago.

Fifth wave emo rock band Tiny Stills is excited to share their brand new single and music video, “Bleeding Out.” Produced by Mike Pepe (Taking Back Sunday, As It Is, Sydney Sprague), this anthemic and hooky emo pop/punk track is about reclaiming power after a toxic relationship.

In 1966, Cavett wrote and hosted the special, WHERE IT’S AT, produced by Bud Yorkin and Norman Lear. In 1968, Cavett was hired by ABC to host THIS MORNING, which was renamed THE DICK CAVETT SHOW and moved to prime time and then to late night, where it ran opposite THE TONIGHT SHOW STARRING JOHNNY CARSON.

Didion's popular novels include Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Play It as It Lays, Run River, A Book of Common Prayer and The White Album. Didion's work was seen on the stage in 2007 with an adaption of her book The Year of Magical Thinking. The play was produced at the Booth Theatre and starred Vanessa Redgrave.

Kathleen Turner brings her much-lauded and well-reviewed autobiographical solo show to Town Hall for the holidays

BroadwayHD has unveiled a lineup of star-studded titles with classic movie musicals, concerts and spectacular theater performances. Kicking off the month on November 1st is the 1976 musical romantic drama film, A Star is Born, featuring Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson.

Remy Bumppo Theatre Company, under the new artistic leadership of Marti Lyons, will welcome audiences back to the theatre after almost two years with two plays starting in March of 2022.

Melissa Errioc is home in New York and home at 54 Below, and the sold-out shows there are proof that she was missed.

An adaptation of the award- winning, bestselling memoir, Cesear's Forum is offering Joan Didion’s candid drama THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING, in a limited six-week November/December engagement, at Kennedy's Down Under, Playhouse Square, Cleveland, Ohio. 

Little Yellow House Studio 'Spotlight Tuesday,' a virtual conversation series, returns for a second season throughout the month of October, featuring Vermont theater artists Barbara Lloyd on October 5th and Reva Stover on October 19th.

Steele's new single was co-produced with Brian Malouf, who has previous worked with Michael Jackson and Madonna.

Keen Company will continue the 2020-’21 Season with the benefit re-broadcast of The Year of Magical Thinking adapted from Joan Didion’s best-selling memoir and starring Kathleen Chalfant in a one-woman tour de force performance. 

Unfurling the raw emotions associated with sickness, death and grief are not new  topics in literature. But author Joan Didion has suffered immense loss and tragedy in losing her husband and daughter, and uses this as the narrative of her book turned one woman play  THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING. In Didion's own words her emotions may not seem raw, but they are truly rich with a deep sense of introspection and self awareness. And during the time of Covid, where live theatre is still on hold, Buffalo's Irish Classical Theatre is presenting it's second virtual performance with Didion's  gripping play.

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, March 13-14, 2021.

Keen Company is continuing its 2020-’21 Season with the benefit broadcast of The Year of Magical Thinking adapted from Joan Didion’s best-selling memoir and starring Kathleen Chalfant in a one-woman tour de force performance.