In its 9th year the St Lou Fringe Festival explores the pioneering new medium of virtual performing arts. Current events have inspired our artists to explore the issues of Black Lives Matter, COVID-19, Trans Rights, and even the making of an opera about a St. Louis Pulitzer Prize winning poet in their presented works. The St. Lou Fringe Virtual Festival kicks off on Zoom August 15, 2020 and runs through August 23.
Created as part of a wider theatre project in association with RADA, the short film My Darling Christopher will be shared as part of HOME Manchester's Homemakers Festival. My Darling Christopher has been written, cast, shot and edited all during lockdown by Hot Coals Theatre, who create visual theatre accessible to both hearing and d/Deaf audiences in a shared experience.
New Ohio Theatre has announced that the 27th annual Obie Award-winning Ice Factory Festival will be live-streamed online for the first time, and will feature four new works over four weeks, July 24 - August 15, 2020.
On July 8 (7:30pm) The Public Theater will present the world premiere of THE LINE, written by Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen and directed by Blank . The live-streamed play, bringing first-person stories of New York City's first responders during the COVID-19 pandemic to the digital stage, was commissioned by The Public Theater and written specifically for the digital sphere.
Simona Rodano, a world-renowned songstress and multiple award-winner, is at it again! From her tiny apartment in Queens, the artist aka The Italian Fairy® spreads her love for Italy and her appreciation for the Italian way of life through edutainment.
The Original Theatre Company commemorate the 104th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme by bringing their adaptation of Sebastian Faulks's Birdsong to the screen. Building on the techniques used to stream during the early stages of lockdown, Birdsong loses none of its power, relevance, or sense of storytelling.
Out of the Box Theatrics will present Nocturne and You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown on Zoom this July 2020. A portion of ticket sales will go to Campaign Zero, the comprehensive platform of research-based policy solutions to end police brutality in America.
Respected club performer and acting teacher Corinna Sowers Adler speaks with Stephen Mosher about the balance of living with the person with whom you run a business, the role of a good mentor, and a love to last for all time.
A digital weekend-long event to train theatre makers in essential creative digital skills, where participants will work together to create a digital project in just 48 hours Inspired by 'Hackathons' and 'Games Jams' of digital industries, DramJam seeks to facilitate UK Theatre makers of all levels in taking their first steps to beginning a digital practice. Participants are grouped together, given a prompt and tasked with creating a collaborative digital project such as a short film, online performance or even a radio play, in just 48 hours.
New York City actress Alison Chace is no stranger to bringing people together virtually a?" a skill coming in handy during the coronavirus pandemic. Through her side-hustle business Pink Wisdom, she's hosted an online support network, galvanizing women to invigorate their love lives and careers, for years. Now, missing actors who are also part of The Barrow Group Theatre Company's Tuesday Master Class, Chace is contributing to an in-house Zoom theater group.
After three months of performing streaming concerts online, Mike Renzi and Nicolas King have set a standard for what online content could and should look like -- but they had it mastered from their very first show.
American Shakespeare Center announced today that in response to COVID-19 it will move its celebrated ASC Theatre Camp into the virtual world. Called #SHXCamp, this new approach to summer learning is a socially-distant, three-week immersive intensive for teens conducted entirely online.
Fairfield Center Stage, a community theater group, continues its 2019/20 season with a special livestream performance of WIT, May 30, 2020. This performance is in lieu of the postponed run from March due to COVID-19. The production, led by Director Brian Crook (Associate Artistic Director) has obtained special permission by playwright Margaret Edson and Dramatists Play Service to present this special virtual performance.
On Sunday, May 31st, 2020, Owl & Pussycat Theatre Co. and Eastern Bridge Theatre Troupe present the first ever Virtual Edition of The Crossover Series with a free workshop performance of a new play written specifically for the live-streaming platform, DREAMING OF SEXUAL HEALING, SORT OF by Theo Salter, directed by Anna Rak, featuring performances by Adam Dorsey, Ashley Ford, Christine Lane, Sean Dillingham & Spencer Irwin - streamed Live on Facebook.
Play-PerView has announced programming and casting for two new upcoming events through June 13th along with the debut of a?oeThe Debrief,a?? Play-PerView's new Instagram Live series.
Masquerade Theatre's production of Proof proves that the virtually impossible can be, well, virtually possible. Though Proof was the company's first production, The Masque has already proven to be a collective of flexible, committed and talented artists.