New Group News

Today (July 20) in live streaming: The Muny brings Magic to your home, Red Bull Theatre presents a new play festival, and so much more!

TheatreWorks Silicon Valley's production of Paul Gordon's Pride and Prejudice is now streaming on Amazon

Today, The Cleveland Orchestra launches its second collection of concert audio recordings on TCO Classics, featuring performances recorded live at Severance Hall during the Orchestra's celebrated Prometheus Project - a festival dedicated to the exploration of Ludwig van Beethoven's music that closed out the ensemble's Centennial Season in 2018

Today (July 16) in live streaming: Broadway barks is back, MCC presents Good As New, and so much more!

The New Group Off Stage will present a Reunion Reading Series featuring original casts of iconic plays from the company's first 25 years. This benefit Reunion Reading Series kicks off tonight, July 16 at 7:00pm with Sharr White's The True.

Red Bull Theater today announced the cast for their tenth annual festival of 10-minute plays of heightened language and classic themes, featuring two brand new commissions from Jeremy O. Harris and Theresa Rebeck, alongside six brand new plays that have been selected from hundreds of open submissions from playwrights across the country.

WAM Theatre's Elder Ensemble and People of Color Ensemble will present an online exhibit of original art centered around the theme of suffrage and citizenship. The individual pieces - including visual art, songs, monologues, poetry, dramatic scenes, dance and photography - will be showcased in a free online gallery on the WAM website.

The New Group Off Stage and NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council) have announced Facing the Rising Tide: A free digital festival of play readings and conversations about environmental racism, the climate crisis and hope featuring five plays, each followed by a discussion.

Red Bull Theater today announced the selections for their tenth annual festival of 10-minute plays of heightened language and classic themes, featuring two brand new commissions from Jeremy O. Harris and Theresa Rebeck, alongside six brand new plays that have been selected from hundreds of open submissions from playwrights across the country.

The Black Theatre Network has announced Black Theatre Week: A Virtual Event.

Join alumni of Carnegie Hall's three acclaimed national youth ensembles—the National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America (NYO-USA), NYO2, and NYO Jazz—as they help the incoming class kick off its online summer program.

The New Group Off Stage will present a Reunion Reading Series featuring original casts of iconic plays from the company's first 25 years.

A 2016 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study estimated if we do nothing about current rates of HIV transmission, one in two Black men who have sex with men will be diagnosed with HIV in his lifetime. That study was the launching point for 'one in two,' a play by Donja R. Love which will have a virtual reading on Saturday, June 27th.

With concerns about how the coronavirus pandemic will affect the performing arts community in the Coachella Valley and beyond, a new group has formed for a common good. Six local, producing theatre companies have created the Alliance of Desert Theatres. Its mission statement reads:  The Alliance of Desert Theatres is a cooperative of producing theatre companies that network and take action in order to advocate for and nurture a vibrant performing arts community.

On Thursday, June 18, 2020, The Cleveland Orchestra launches TCO Classics, a new series of free, on-demand full-length concert recordings available for online streaming.  This new series offers music-lovers around the world a new opportunity to enjoy great performances from the Orchestra's extensive recorded archives.  Selected from across six decades of live concert recordings, the series can be listened to at clevelandorchestra.com/classics.

Being a part of Temple University's theater program has been an absolute pleasure so far. From the friends that I've made to the professors I have worked with, there is no doubt in my mind that I made the correct decision in entering the world of theater, or at least taking the first step.

This spring, innovative Canadian theatre company Why Not will launch ThisGen 2020 Fellowship, a national leadership program to support exceptional female-identifying BIPOC (Black Indigenous Person of Colour) theatre artists advancing to the next level of their career. Why Not Theatre will pair each Fellow with both a national and an international mentor working at the highest level of their craft to engage in conversation, as well as provide Fellows with support, skill-building opportunities, and access to new networks.

Los Angeles-based Echo Theater Company, dedicated to creating new work for the theater, has announced the nine writers who will participate in the company's 2020 Playwrights Lab.

The New Group continues its newly-launched live online conversation series, 'Why We Do It,' announcing a new slate of guests including Zoe Kazan (June 17), Nico Santos (June 24), Natasha Lyonne (July 1), Nat Wolff (July 8), Suzanne Vega (July 15), Clint Ramos (July 22) and Maulik Pancholy (July 29).

The premiere of Socially Unacceptable, written by Matt Steinberg and directed by Ran Xia, will be presented on Zoom.