John Ward News

The cast has been set for Upstart! Shakespeare’s Rebel Daughter Judith as the new play by American writer Mary Jane Schaefer will make its UK Premiere at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

The Joffrey Ballet and the American Guild of Musical Artists, the union that represents the Joffrey's 46 Company Artists and Joffrey stage management, have reached a new five-year collective bargaining agreement, beginning July 1, 2022, and running through June 30, 2027.

England's exquisite Stile Antico, one of the world's most accomplished vocal ensembles, returns with a program that evokes hope and renewal. 

Parthenia, New York's premiere viol consort, will be in concert on Friday, February 7 at 7:30 PM, performing Theatrical Music for Dramatic Times - Songs and instrumental pieces from Monteverdi to Purcell, at The Church of Saint Luke in the Fields, 487 Hudson Street in Manhattan.

Christopher Lydon has been cast as the Reverend John Ward in a?oeSaltonstall's Triala?? a new play about the Salem Witch Trials on stage at The Larcom Theatre in Beverly, Mass., October 17-27.

On Saturday, July 20th, The John and Alice Coltrane Home, in conjunction with the Town of Huntington and the Huntington Arts Council, will present a truly unique cultural and family-friendly event as the Fifth Annual Coltrane Day Music Festival returns to Heckscher Park! The all-day festival will feature live performances, music workshops, family activities, and a wide range of local food vendors, non-profit organizations, and businesses celebrating the legacy of music giants and humanitarians John and Alice Coltrane, who lived in Dix Hills. 

Parthenia, New York's premiere viol consort, will be in concert on Sunday, November 4 at 4:00 PM, performing Music with Her Silver Sound at Corpus Christi Church, 529 West 121st Street in Manhattan.

DumbWise's adaptation of Electra has been five years in the making (and counting!). One of the questions I remember being asked early on in its genesis was 'Why now?'. It's a question I had struggled with, not because It wasn't vitally important, but because I'm always preoccupied initially with the energy, attitude and atmosphere of a story - the panoramic thinking comes much later for me.

A Mother clings to power whilst her Daughter screams murder. An estranged Son is coming home. A bloody family saga sprawling decades is about to reach its conclusion. Everything is about to change. DumbWise reinvent the murderous Greek myth of power and prophecy as a lyrical modern epic with a live punk-rock score.

The Eli and Edythe Broad Stage in Santa Monica and Bated Breath present the U.S. Premiere of Shakespeare his wife and the dog by Philip Whitchurch, featuring its originating cast: Whitchurch as Shakespeare and Sally Edwards as Anne Hathaway, and directed as it was in the U.K. by Julia St John, for twelve performances only, January 18 through 28 with a press opening on January 19.

The Eli and Edythe Broad Stage in Santa Monica and Bated Breath present the U.S. Premiere of Shakespeare his wife and the dog by Philip Whitchurch, featuring its originating cast: Whitchurch as Shakespeare and Sally Edwards as Anne Hathaway, and directed as it was in the U.K. by Julia St John, for twelve performances only, January 18 through 28 with a press opening on January 19.

The Kennedy Center hosts its 15th annual Page-to-Stage New Play Festival from Today, September 3 to Monday, September 5, 2016, featuring more than 50 theaters from the D.C. metropolitan area, all with a mission to produce and support new work.

The Kennedy Center hosts its 15th annual Page-to-Stage New Play Festival from Saturday, September 3 to Monday, September 5, 2016, featuring more than 50 theaters from the D.C. metropolitan area, all with a mission to produce and support new work.

Red Ladder Theatre Company and DumbWise present the world premiere stage adaptation of Monty Python Terry Jones' children's book, NICOBOBINUS. An adventurous family musical adaptation of the award-winning author's tale about the boy 'who could do anything', NICOBOBINUS premieres at LOST Theatre, Vauxhall from 11 December - 3 January 2015.

Current star of NO MAN'S LAND and WAITING FOR GODOT on Broadway, Ian McKellen, who grew up in Bolton, sent a heartfelt letter to his childhood theatre offering support and encouragement.

DumbWise Theatre's new actor-musician production of Faust premieres this month at The Warren as part of the Brighton Fringe Festival in a run tonight, May 22 to 25. It will transfer to Oxford House, London, this June.

DumbWise Theatre's new actor-musician production of Faust premieres this May at The Warren at the Brighton Fringe Festival this May. It will transfer to Oxford House, London, this June. Directed by John Ward, with Musical Direction by David Hewson, Faust is the first production in a new programme of adapted 'musical' works from DumbWise Theatre.

Internationally acclaimed Tenor Anthony Kearns brought guests of the Fasig-Tipton Sales Pavilion to a rumbling applause after his impressive performance for the first-ever 'A Night at the Pavilion: A Tribute to Kentucky's Horses.' The event, hosted by the Equine Health and Welfare Alliance, Inc. (EHWA), was held on Sunday evening, July 10 - just two days before the summer yearling sale.

Internationally acclaimed Tenor Anthony Kearns brought guests of the Fasig-Tipton Sales Pavilion to a rumbling applause after his impressive performance for the first-ever 'A Night at the Pavilion: A Tribute to Kentucky's Horses.' The event, hosted by the Equine Health and Welfare Alliance, Inc. (EHWA), was held on Sunday evening, July 10 - just two days before the summer yearling sale.