OPERA America is pleased to announce the recipients of its 2020 National Opera Trustee Recognition Awards. Now in their 13th year, these awards honor outstanding trustees of U.S. opera companies for their exemplary leadership and generosity on behalf of their respective organizations. OPERA America's Professional Company Members are invited each year to nominate one of their trustees for this award.
'If evidence were needed that imaginative staging can provide us with access to difficult works of art, then it was offered in abundance by the Los Angeles Master Chorale in an extraordinary performance of Orlando di Lasso's a cappella masterpiece, Lagrime di San Pietro ...' (Simon Williams, Opera News)
Yeltsin in Texas, a world premiere, will open the Opera in the Heights (Oh!) New Works Festival during Spring 2020. This comedic chamber opera, with music by Evan Mack and libretto by Josh McGuire, dramatizes the unlikely but true story in 1989 of Russian president Boris Yeltsin's visit to a Houston supermarket and the eye-opening experience that shattered his view of communism. Performances take place February 22, 28 at 7:30pm and March 1 at 2pm.
In conjunction with its upcoming revival of 1776 directed by Terrie and Bradley Bloom Artistic Director Diane Paulus, American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) at Harvard University will host a series of conversations with acclaimed Harvard scholars that consider the Declaration of Independence and topics and themes raised by the musical.
Laura Linney is back on Broadway in the new one-woman play, My Name is Lucy Barton! Linney has won many awards throughout her successful stage and screen career, including 2 Golden Globes, 3 Primetime Emmys, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a Webby Award, and a Muse Award. In addition, she has been nominated for 3 Academy Awards and 4 Tony Awards. Check out a roundup of some of her acceptance speeches!
Broadway San Jose General Manager Gretchen Feyer announced today the six productions that will make up the company's 2020a?'21 season. The season includes the return of the Broadway blockbuster, Disney's THE LION KING (July 15a?'August 9, 2020); the pre-Broadway engagement of 1776 (September 29a?'October 4, 2020), directed by Tony Awarda?'winner Diane Paulus; the Tony and Grammy Awarda?'winning pop culture phenomenon, DEAR EVAN HANSEN (November 10a?'29, 2020); the romantic and adventurea?'filled musical, ANASTASIA (January 26a?'31, 2021); the Bay Area premiere of the hit musical comedy, TOOTSIE (March 23a?'28, 2021); and the delectable Roald Dahl's CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY (May 4a?'9, 2021).
The Spring Lake Theatre Company will present the award-winning and revolutionary 1776 the Musical - with a twist!
Visit the Cathedral of the Rockies on Friday, January 24 for a recital with Grammy Award-winning artists soprano Jessica E. Jones and tenor Thomas Glenn with special guests Michele & Jason Detwiler. Accompanied by pianist Betsi Hodges, they will perform music by Bellini, Bizet, Crumb, Delibes, Gounod, Mozart, Wolf, Strauss, Verdi and more.
She's beautiful, and she's here! Today, January 8th, marks the birthday of Tony Award winner Cynthia Erivo! To celebrate the powerhouse performer's special day, we're looking back at the opening night of her Broadway debut in The Color Purple! Check out the video to see Cynthia alongside Jennifer Hudson, Danielle Brooks, and more bringing the beloved show back to the Great White Way!
According to Variety, Tony winner Cynthia Erivo was asked to sing at the BAFTAs - despite the fact that the British awards show only nominated white actors in best leading and supporting actor categories.
Pasadena Playhouse Producing Artistic Director Danny Feldman has announced the on -sale of tickets for the Los Angeles premiere of Ann - written by and starring Holland Taylor and directed by Benjamin Endsley Klein from May 27 to June 28, 2020, and a new production of Irving Berlin's Annie Get Your Gun with book by Herbert and Dorothy Fields, directed by Sarna Lapine, from July 28-August 23, 2020.
Acclaimed actor Tom Hanks opens up about his reaction to winning the Cecil B. DeMille Award at the 77th Golden Globes, what movie scene he'd love to relive and how he knows Rita Wilson is still the one.
Watch all of Tom Hanks' Golden Globe Awards acceptance speeches.
As BroadwayWorld previously reported, Roundabout Theatre Company and the American Repertory Theater at Harvard University will bring a new production of 1776 to Broadway! Featuring a book by Peter Stone, music & lyrics by Sherman Edwards, and directed by Tony Award winner Diane Paulus, Broadway performances will begin Spring 2021 at the American Airlines Theatre (227 West 42nd Street).
My name is Lucy Barton is officially in previews on Broadway! Four-time Emmy winner, two-time Golden Globe winner, three-time Academy Award and four-time Tony nominee Laura Linney returns to Broadway in a haunting new solo play adapted by Rona Munro from the bestselling novel by Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout.
Cynthia Erivo will receive the Breakthrough Performance Award at the the Palm Springs Film Festival on January 2
Award-winning actress, singer, and songwriter Cynthia Erivo pays tribute to 2019 Kennedy Center Honoree Earth, Wind & Fire.
OPERA America has awarded $220,000 in Repertoire Development Grants to The American Opera Project (New York, NY) in consortium with Seagle Music Colony (Schroon Lake, NY), Beth Morrison Projects (New York, NY), Houston Grand Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, San Diego Opera and The Dallas Opera. The grants provide technical and financial support to OPERA America Professional Company Members and their producing partners to enhance the quality, quantity and creativity of new American opera and music theater.
Danielle Brooks and John Keating have been selected to receive the 2019 Joe A. Callaway Award presented by the Actors' Equity Foundation. The award, honoring the best performance in a professional production of a classic play (one written prior to World War ll) in the New York metropolitan area, will be presented at Actors' Equity Association's Eastern Regional Membership Meeting at 2 pm on Monday January 13, 2020 at the Equity offices, 165 West 46th Street in New York. The announcement was made by Judy Rice, President of the Foundation, and Joan Glazer, Managing Director.
Broadway legend Carolee Carmello took a break from life in Yonkers to talk to me about Hello, Dolly!, life on tour, and so much more.
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