John Kelly News

The perfect holiday gift for children, or a new family tradition to start with loved ones, this virtual holiday theater experience will warm hearts and instill a sense of magical hope this holiday season.

Strawdog Theatre Company is pleased to launch its all-virtual 33rd season with two live-streamed performances of The Four, an original poem written and directed by Interim Artistic Director Kamille Dawkins and performed by Strawdog ensemble members.

Still, Here is an audio walking tour, led by Access All Areas Black Cab Company, a collective of autistic and learning disabled artists. Still, Here looks at the artists unique experience of lockdown and will launch on the day when the borough would normally have celebrated Hackney Carnival on Sunday 13 September - Saturday 31 October 2020, at various locations throughout Hackney.

La MaMa E.T.C., in partnership with CultureHub, announced today the public launch of LiveLab, a free, open-source performance and video collaboration software built by artists for artists.

The COVID-19 pandemic has had such a powerful impact on every industry. Project Angel Food started during the AIDS pandemic in 1989 and continues to operate to serve the Los Angeles community during COVID-19.

Mabou Mines has  announced the expansion of the funding allowing the company to honor three artists with the 2020 RUTH MALECZECH AWARD. The awardees are JOHN KELLY, JENNIFER KIDWELL AND SHEILA TOUSEY.

The 2018 World Premiere production of the experimental opera The Echo Drift is now available for audiences to watch for free on The American Opera Project website, www.aopopera.org.

The Thomas Edison Black Maria Film Festival in partnership with the Hoboken Historical Museum, presents the launch of the Black Maria Virtual Film Festival showcasing award-winning selected shorts from the 2020 season and the Festival's archive.

In George Gershwin's short 38 years, he and his brother Ira wrote dozens of the most beloved songs of all time, changing the art of songwriting forever.

Following the announcement of the return of Cream Classical In The Park on Saturday 18th July, which attracted over 35,000 last year, Cream HQ have unleashed the line-up for the 2020 edition which features a showcase of true dance music legends.  

Deadline reports that 'Hercules' voice actor Tate Donovan will star in 'Blood Relative,' a new Fox pilot about forensic genealogy.

Love is in the air at Joe's Pub! Excited for Valentine's Day? Check out Stew & Heidi of The Negro Problem: Black History Valentine's Day Month (Feb. 5), Brown Girls Burlesque: Love Got Game - Valentine's Edition (Feb. 12), and Isaac Oliver Is Your Valentine (Feb. 13). Hate Valentine's Day? Then, Lea DeLaria: f**k Love is your ticket (Feb. 14). Indifferent to Valentine's Day? See Barb Jungr: Bob, Brel and Me (Feb. 14 & 15). Also, for the love of music and performance, don't miss Southern Avenue's soul/blues/R&B fusion (Feb. 5), The Loser's Lounge: The Rat Pack - Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., and More (Feb. 6-8), Celtic legends Genticorum (Feb. 9), renown soul singer Morgan James (Feb. 9), celebrated feminist comic Jaime Loftus (Feb. 10), game changing singer-songwriter-guitarist FLAX (Feb. 11), an exploration of early Dolly Parton with Nath Ann Carrera (Feb. 12), mesmerizing soul performances at Xavier and Friends: Ladies Of Soul Tribute - Special Chaka Khan Edition (Feb. 13), and raucous live music with rib-tickling storytelling from the award winning MESHELLE (Feb. 15).

From Hello, Dolly! and Mame to La Cage aux Folles, no one has written 'showtunes' with as much exuberance as Jerry Herman whose musicals offer an optimistic approach to the human condition, finding common ground with his audience by showing us that the differences between us are, in fact, what unite us. Lyrics & Lyricists 2020 season continues with a celebration of the composer, lyricist and songwriter whose joyful scores have sent us from the theater humming for more than 50 years. Singing them at L&L are Quentin Earl Darrington (Once on This Island), Cady Huffman (The Will Rogers Follies, Chicago, The Producers), Bryonha Marie Parham (The Gershwin's Porgy and Bess, Prince of Broadway), and Ryan Vona (Once, Beautiful).

The Society of Fellows of the American Academy in Rome presents SALONE!, a multimedia/live performance event showcasing the work of world-renown choreographers, artists, composers, actors, and artisans who have each been awarded the prestigious Rome Prize. The premiere event will take place on March 24, 2020, at Roulette in Brooklyn, within a vibrant theater-in-the-round atmosphere welcoming the full engagement of attendees.

Lyrics & Lyricists opens its new season with a salute to Yip Harburg, who appeared on the 92nd Street Y stage for L&L's first show in December 1970. Harburg was a master lyricist, poet, and book writer who worked with more than 40 composers in writing over 600 songs, including such classics as 'April in Paris,' 'Old Devil Moon,' 'Lydia, the Tattooed Lady,' 'Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?,' 'Paper Moon,' and, of course, 'Over the Rainbow.' Mikaela Bennett, Clifton Duncan, Desi Oakley, Megan Sikora and Nick Spangler bring Harburg's story to life-from his Lower East Side childhood to being blacklisted by HUAC. Matt Kunkel's direction, with musical direction by Paul Masse and a script by Jon Marans, weaves together Harburg's comedic and political sides.

NYTB/Chamber Works (Diana Byer, Founder and Artistic Director) announces its return to Danspace Project with their REP program (February 13 - 15), this year featuring two world premieres: Robert La Fosse's A Soldier's Tale and Antonia Franceschi's untitled new work. The program also features Sir Richard Alston's company premiere of Shimmer and Pam Tanowitz's Double Andante.

New York Live Arts' Live Feed creative residency and commissioning program presents a studio showing of new work in development by Christoper Williams, Wednesday, November 6th, 2019, at 8:00pm.

Strawdog Theatre Company is pleased to launch its 32nd season, “Truth,” with the Chicago premiere of Lucy Prebble's bold drama THE EFFECT, directed by ensemble member Elly Green*, playing October 13 – November 23, 2019 at 1802 W. Berenice Ave. in Chicago's Northcenter neighborhood. Tickets are currently available at www.strawdog.org. The press opening is Saturday, October 19 at 7:30 pm.

Performance Space New York continues The Stages Seriesa?"rethinking the dominant form and aesthetics that have informed the stage for centuriesa?"with Martine Gutierrez's Circle (November 20, 22-23).

Strawdog Theatre Company launches its 32nd season, a?oeTruth,a?? with the Chicago premiere of Lucy Prebble's bold drama THE EFFECT, directed by ensemble member Elly Green*, playing October 13 a?" November 23, 2019 at1802 W. Berenice Ave. in Chicago's Northcenter neighborhood.