In Going From Broke, six new cast members drowning in massive debt get help from inspirational guests and financial experts to overcome their financial struggles.
Williamstown Theatre Festival has announced the recipient of the 2021 L. Arnold Weissberger New Play Award and the 2022 Jay Harris Commission, as well as recipients of 2021 WTF Commissions through WTF’s Andrew Martin-Weber New Play and Musical Commissioning Program.
Stories have an amazing way of bringing to life experiences and concepts that otherwise might be too complex, too unfamiliar, or too uninteresting. And, while some might write off storytelling as something reserved only for childhood, it is, in fact, one of the most common ways we humans have passed along the oral histories of our lives for generations. So, if given the ability to tell the stories of your own life – would you be the hero? What about when others hear and interpret it? This is the case for Edward Bloom, the larger than life “hero” of the story of BIG FISH – now onstage (and streaming) at the Titusville Playhouse in Titusville, Florida.
Center Theatre Group has announced their Digital Stage schedule for April 26 – May 2, 2021. The Civilians’ digital premiere production of “Black Feminist Video Game” by Darrel Alejandro Holneswill stream at 5 pm from Tuesday, April 27 through Sunday, May 2.
Big Fish is set to begin performances at Titusville Playhouse tonight, April 23 2021 and run through May 15! Based on the acclaimed film directed by Tim Burton, BIG FISH tells the story of Edward Bloom, a traveling salesman who lives life to its fullest…and then some!
Radio 4, Talawa Theatre Company - the UK's leading Black British theatre company, and producers feral inc, will come together to showcase original audio dramas by three promising young writers.
Oregon Shakespeare Festival today announced that Laura Burgos is the organization’s new Director of Marketing and Communications, effective immediately. Burgos’s new position is the latest chapter in a dynamic career spanning a diversity of performing arts disciplines, organizations, and roles.
After 16 months waiting for opening night, the cast of THE MUSIC MAN sings louder than 76 trombones in a big parade.
Rising is the solo show that launched the extraordinary performer and choreographer Aakash Odedra onto the dance scene. On 24 and 25 May, it will be the first live work back on the main stage at Curve, Leicester where Odedra is an Associate Artist. After that, the show tours to Oxford and Poole.
The London Climate Change Festival will present SONG FOR NATURE, a specially created concert to raise awareness of Climate Change. SONG FOR NATURE was filmed over three days on stage at the London Coliseum, and all around this iconic building.
You've heard enough about my experience with COVID-era Broadway School. I wanted to ask my peers how they were holding up (and catch up with their current favorite things).
The Washington, D.C. area performing arts organization Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts has awarded grants to eight local high schools across metropolitan Washington, D.C. grants to fund music, dance, or theater projects at their respective schools, as part of Wolf Trap's Grants for High School Performing Arts Teachers Program.
The Oregon Shakespeare Festival announced today Anyania (Ahn-ya-nigh-ah) Muse will become its Director of Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Access (IDEA) on April 12, 2021. In this newly evolved role, Muse will join OSF's leadership team, providing vision and strategy for the integration of IDEA into all facets of OSF's operations. Muse will design, communicate, execute and monitor programs and initiatives that actively promote and foster a radically inclusive culture that is an anti-racist, anti-sexist, anti-homophobic, and anti-ableist at the company.
Hope is on the horizon! With the acceleration of vaccine distribution and a new timetable to begin reopening NYC, some of the first re-openings have recently been announced. We've rounded up all of the latest news on the current state of Broadway for April 2021.
“Gods and Monsters” is inspired in part by the pioneering Victorian Assyriologist George Smith, who died in Aleppo in 1876, stranded in a cholera epidemic, heartbroken and writing feverishly to his wife and six children back in England.
The Kenneth Rainin Foundation announced today the inaugural recipients of The Rainin Fellowship, a new initiative to support visionary artists working across disciplines in the Bay Area.
The Kenneth Rainin Foundation announced today the inaugural recipients of The Rainin Fellowship, a new initiative to support visionary artists working across disciplines in the Bay Area. Administered by United States Artists, the Fellowship has awarded four artists with unrestricted grants of $100,000.
Spring is here, vaccines are rolling out, and New York City, slowly but surely, is getting ready for the renaissance of 2021. The lights of Broadway are still dim for now, but we are stepping out of the dark ages nonetheless. Since New York Governor Andrew Cuomo began expanding arts re-openings earlier this month, several off-Broadway shows and NYC venues have announced plans to return.
The Civilians will present the digital premiere of Black Feminist Video Game by Darrel Alejandro Holnes. Black Feminist Video Game follows close on the heels of The Civilians’ smash hit Russian Troll Farm, which was heralded by The New York Times as one of the best shows of 2020.
Today, The 24 Hour Plays announced that the 10th annual application for The 24 Hour Plays: Nationals will be available starting March 24, 2021 and will run through April 11, 2021. The 24 Hour Plays: Nationals will take place virtually (for the second year in a row) and applicants from everywhere are engaged to apply.
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