The League of Professional Theatre Women, an organization which has been championing women in the professional theatre for over three decades, announces their 38th season of programming, events, and advocacy along with new officers and board members. All events this season will be presented online via Zoom, unless otherwise noted.
An annual competition celebrating the very best in contemporary art is set to reveal three worthy winners later this week.
Denouement by John Morton, a Traverse Theatre Company and Lyric Theatre Belfast co-production, featuring lead performances from Ian McElhinney (the inimitable Granda Joe in Derry Girls , Game of Thrones) and Marie Jones (In the Name of the Father), directed by Gareth Nicholls (Ulster American, Crocodile Fever) .
OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network announced today a straight-to-series order for the new original drama series “Delilah,” from acclaimed “Greenleaf” creator Craig Wright, who will serve as executive producer along with Charles Randolph-Wright and Oprah Winfrey.
The Traverse Theatre and Lyric Theatre Belfast have announced a new co-production, following their successful collaboration on 2019 audience favourite, Crocodile Fever.
Yahoo Finance has reported that theater is being brought back to life in the UK thanks to the return to theatres' original roots- outdoor performances. The Open Air Theatre in Regent's Park, the Roman Theatre, the Minack and more are among the venues presenting performances.
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, founding Directors Shawn Ryan and John Ainsworth announced today that Young Actors' Theatre Camp, one of the nation's premier theatre and drama camps held in California's Santa Cruz mountains, has gone entirely virtual.
Contemporary Open Competition is returning in 2020 to celebrate 10 years of exceptional art, and this year is introducing one or two changes to make it more diverse than ever before.
Warrington Museum & Art Gallery is embarking on an exciting new project thanks to support from Arts Council England.
Irish Arts Center (IAC), based in New York City and renowned for presenting the best in Irish and Irish-American arts and culture, presents two free live-streamed Ragas to Reels performances from Utsav Lal, the prodigious 27-year-old pianist whose raga-inflected trad music has earned him marquee billing at Dublin's National Concert Hall. Deriving fresh inspiration from ancient musical tradition, Lal draws on the depths of his diverse musical influences to develop his unique voice for the piano and his long-term project Ragas to Reels brings a deep and meaningful meeting of two living musical traditionsa?"Indian Classical Music and Irish Traditional Music.
Irish Arts Center (IAC), based in New York City and renowned for presenting the best in Irish and Irish-American arts and culture, today announces a reimagined Spring 2020 season, responding to the obstacles and needs of our current moment of social distancing with trademark creativity, invention, and emphasis on community.
Charitable variety show, Mondays Dark, will partner with The Actors Fund, to raise funds for the Las Vegas entertainment community through a telethon event held from 5 - 11 p.m. PST on Monday, April 27.
Today's top stories: & Juliet, Fiddler on the Roof, Dear Evan Hansen, and more have been nominated for 2020 Olivier Awards, and more!
Photos have been released of three-time Emmy Award nominee Dot-Marie Jones as Bourbon Room owner Dennis Dupree in the 10th Anniversary Production of ROCK OF AGES at New World Stages (340 W 50th St). The three-time Emmy Award nominee is making her New York stage debut in a limited engagement through April 19, 2020.
This Month, FEINSTEIN'S/54 BELOW will present some of the brightest stars from Broadway, cabaret, jazz, and beyond. To purchase tickets or for more information, visit www.54Below.com/Feinsteins or call (646) 476-3551.
FEINSTEIN'S/54 BELOW, Broadway's Supper Club, will present Dot-Marie Jones (Glee, Rock of Ages) in 'WEIRD! THE MUSICAL IN CONCERT!' for one night only on March 22, 2020 at 9:30pm. Weird! The Musical is a new original musical based on the popular books, The Weird Series by Erin Frankel & Paula Heaphy, which tells one story of bullying from three different female perspectives, one who is being bullied, a bystander, and the one using bullying behavior.
Today's top stories: Lin-Manuel Miranda reveals the Hamilton film will be released in October 2021, and more!
Producer Michael Cohl/S2BN Entertainment, in association with Barry Habib, Scott Prisand/Seth Fass, Tony Smith, and Randi Zuckerberg/Mara Burros-Sandler have announced that three-time Emmy Award nominee Dot-Marie Jones ('Glee') will make her New York stage debut as Bourbon Room owner Dennis Dupree in the 10th Anniversary Production of Rock of Ages at New World Stages (340 W 50th St) for eight weeks only, from February 24 through April 19, 2020.
Irish Arts Center (IAC), a multidisciplinary arts center dedicated to bringing people of all backgrounds together through the excellence and dynamism of Irish culture, announces programming for the Spring 2020 season. The organization enters the new decade with a robust and multiform season, the last (for now) in its 51st Street home, prior to the highly anticipated opening of the New Irish Arts Center, fittingly showcasing the organization's enduring interest in bridging tradition and innovation. (The Center's 51st Street venue will be renovated following the opening of the new, adjacent 11th Avenue building, which it will ultimately adjoin.) As IAC prepares its momentous transformation, they continue to focus a long-held core vision for inclusively pairing and coalescing boundary-pushing contemporary work from Ireland, America, and around the world, with an appreciation of Irish artistic history and tradition. Whether in music, theater, dance, literature, or any collision of forms, IAC's seasons carry with them Ireland and Irish America's cultural legacies; panoramic visions of current artistic movements; and maps to the vast potentials of their futures.
Paines Plough have today announced casting for the transfer of Sam Steiner's YOU STUPID DARKNESS! to Southwark Playhouse, a co-production with Theatre Royal Plymouth. An urgent play about the struggle for optimism and community amid the chaos of a collapsing world, the production is directed by former Paines Plough co-Artistic Director James Grieve and the cast includes: Andrew Finnigan; Jenni Maitland; Lydia Larson; Andy Rush. The show opened at Theatre Royal Plymouth earlier this year and will run at Southwark Playhouse from 16 January - 22 February with a Press Night on Monday 20 January.
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