Living Theatre News

After a remarkable year of shifting and adapting, Centaur Theatre concludes its whirlwind 53rd season with the Canadian premiere of A Play for the Living in a Time of Extinction by Miranda Rose Hall – the theatre's first mainstage production of 2022.

If every theatre review compared each show to the last presentation by the same company, we would be lost beyond the already limited capabilities of “thumbs up vs thumbs down” or “three and a half stars”.

Advancing to their second World Premiere this season, live performance returns to the stage at Skylight Theatre on March 12th, in partnership with Playwrights' Arena. Award winning playwright Boni B. Alvarez captures the pulse of the times we’re living in as he gives audiences a bird’s eye view of Apartment Living.

BroadwayWorld is saddened to report that playwright Kenneth H. Brown has died at age 86. Brown is a playwright, actor, director and producer who has been active in theatre since 1971. He is best known for his play The Brig, based on his experiences as a U.S. Marine. 

BroadwayWord speaks to much in-demand playwright Miranda Rose Hall about her newest work, the darkly comic thriller 'The Kind Ones,' now receiving its world premiere production live onstage at San Francisco's venerable Magic Theatre through February 20th.

“Desire Under the Elms,” Eugene O’Neill’s masterpiece of erotic desire takes a Greek tragedy and sets it on an American Gothic farmstead. The son can see that his father’s new young wife plans to push him out. His passionate hatred for her is only matched by hers for him. Blinded by passion, they are set on a collision course.

Voyage Theater Company will present a staged reading of RHAPSODY M, written and directed by Dennis Yueh-Yeh Li, on Saturday, December 11 at 3PM and at 7PM, as part of its PARTS UNKNOWN Play Reading Series.

Elliot & Me is a musical comedy based on the lives of songwriter Elliot Willensky and his younger brother Steven. The brothers have written a 2 man show they are preparing to pitch to legendary Broadway producer Max Stone. It’s a heartfelt story of brotherly love based on a powerful bond that has grown through the years.

The Hangar Theatre welcomes you back to their Outdoor Stage (in a heated, open-sided tent) for Night of The Living Musicals, Saturday October 23rd from 3-5 PM!

After a sold out installation in 2020, local acts as well as internationally celebrated arts groups will again utilize innovative technology to activate Scranton storefronts as stages for socially-distant live theater.

Now in its 31st year, The Living Room Series (LRS) is a new play development program that embodies The Blank's commitment to developing new work by diverse voices from both established and emerging writers.

The debut of Liminal Archive was presented at the New Ohio Theatre in part of the 28th annual Obie Award-winning Ice Factory Festival. The immersive theatrical production highlights the ongoing pandemic various performing artists from all over the globe providing intense glimpses of isolation during quarantine.

Fourteen prominent American writer/directors are part of a worldwide roster of over 100 global theater artists lending their voices July 20, 2021 to 'HowlRound for India,' a 24-hour online marathon of live readings and talks honoring the Indian theater community for its efforts in facing Covid-19. 

Through interviews, photography and podcasts, young women are documenting the part that pioneering women have played in shaping the theatre landscape of the region. These young women received training in photography, film and oral history capture delivered by an all- female team of practitioners.

Yet, even with the hardships this theatre has gone through, and the uncertainty of the future, all involved with WHILE THE LIGHTS WERE OUT made sure to go out on that stage and give it their all. They rose up, like a David to the mighty Goliath, to deliver entertainment for an audience that strives for it.

Living Record Productions presents The Living Roots Micro Festival. A spin off micro festival of seven seed digital arts commissions including binaural poetry, soundscapes, narrative shorts and a digital art gallery.  Streaming 5 – 17 April 2021.

The Lark, an international play development laboratory dedicated to amplifying the voices of playwrights, is thrilled to announce May Adrales (Vietgone, Luce) as its new Artistic Director.

Shows currently on offer are  Tina, Lion King, Aladdin, Mamma Mia, Pretty Woman and the list goes on. This is good news for EU  Citizens who, post-Brexit, may have difficulties now working in London. 

As the pandemic wears on I have been thinking about what I am going to miss as spring approaches. Certain things such as being able to view the cherry blossoms in person, giving directions to the National Zoo as a lost tourist stands in front of a sign saying “Zoo this way” are just two examples.

Ken Rea’s bestselling book The Outstanding Actor: Seven Keys to Success is published in a new edition by Methuen Drama. This second edition incorporates up to date interviews with actors and creatives, a foreword by former student Lily James, and for the first time, Rea shares some of his key techniques with HD video recordings.