St. Ann's Warehouse, Landmark Productions, and Project Arts Centre present Mark O'Rowe's enigmatic play The Approach, live-streamed from the Project Arts Centre stage in Dublin (January 21, 23, & 24) and then offered on-demand for a limited time only (January 25-31).
Premiere Stages, the professional theatre company in residence at Kean University, has named current Kean University student Lucien Edme (Class of '21) and alumnus Megan Hoche (Class of '08, '10 ) as the winners of the 2021 Bauer Boucher Playwriting Awards, named for longtime donors W. John Bauer and Nancy Boucher.
The National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene (NYTF) production of Soul to Soul, the electrifying and emotionally captivating theatrical concert that explores the parallels between African American and Jewish music, will be presented virtually this Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
Steep Theatre will welcome several new members to its ensemble of artists. Laura Alcalá Baker, Debo Balogun, Chris Chmelik, Destini Huston, Omer Abbas Salem, and Joe Schermoly are Steep’s newest Ensemble Members. All six of these artists have played pivotal roles in Steep’s artistic development over the past several years, and the company is honored to have them involved in shaping the organization’s future.
The Jewish Plays Project has announced the 10 finalists for the 10th Annual Jewish Playwriting Contest. Over 250 playwrights from forty states and eight countries submitted plays to the contest. This year, nine of the 10 finalist plays were written by women, the most in the JPP's history.
The Apothetae, a theater company committed to the production of works that explore and illuminate the 'Disabled Experience,' and The Lark, a play development lab devoted to equity, community, and the power of an individual artistic voice, have announced Drewcella Davis as the 2020-22 Apothetae and Lark Playwriting Fellow.
Jujamcyn Theaters is celebrating the holidays with a special tribute to all of their shows and artists of the past and present with the simple message: 'We are apart. We are together.' Watch the touching video below!
Peter Rothstein's ALL IS CALM: THE CHRISTMAS TRUCE OF 1914 is the next production in Playhouse on Park's 12th Main Stage Season. It will be available to stream online from December 16, 2020 - January 3, 2021. There are also 3 opportunities to attend a public screening at Cinestudio in Hartford.
Assistant Director Sammi Cannold (Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812) has been spending time in London and Seoul during this pandemic, seeing first-hand how theater has survived and at times thrived despite shutdowns and surges in case numbers.
The Family Film Awards announced the nominees for its 24th ceremony honoring the best of Family Television, Film, and Music and its telecast presented by DYF Entertainment. Nominees and award winners in each category are selected by a Blue Ribbon Panel made up of entertainment industry executives.
The Family Film Awards announced the nominees for its 24th ceremony honoring the best of Family Television, Film, and Music and its telecast presented by DYF Entertainment.
Page 73 has announced Bleu Beckford-Burrell, Marvin González De León, Jessica Huang, April Ranger, and Haygen-Brice Walker as finalists for the Page 73 Playwriting Fellowship. Page 73 is, for the first time in the award’s history, providing an honorarium of $1,000 for all finalists.
Sit in the Stalls today announce their brand new project ‘New Year, New Songs, New Writers’ starting in January 2021.
SDCF has announced two host venues for its Lloyd Richards New Futures Residency program: Cornerstone Theater Company in Los Angeles; and Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, Oregon. The company’s respective artistic directors, Michael John Garcés and Nataki Garrett, will each mentor a visionary mid-career Black director or choreographer.
Rhinebeck Writers Retreat is presenting a streamed reading of the new musical TL;DR: THELMA LOUISE; DYKE REMIX, with book and lyrics by EllaRose Chary, music and lyrics by Brandon James Gwinn, and directed by Sherri Eden Barber.
Playwright August Wilson will be honored with a commemorative Forever stamp next year.
Peter Rothstein’s ALL IS CALM: THE CHRISTMAS TRUCE OF 1914 is the next production in Playhouse on Park’s 12th Main Stage Season. It will be available to stream online from December 16, 2020 - January 3, 2021. There are also 3 opportunities to attend a public screening at Cinestudio in Hartford.
AXIOS on HBO continues with a new episode MONDAY, DECEMBER 7 (11:00-11:30 p.m. ET/PT), featuring insightful and news making interviews with top leaders and decision makers from a range of sectors.
The 2021 Adelaide Festival program, prepared over this past turbulent year under ever-changing circumstances, may just turn out to be one of the most necessary – and memorable.
Playwrights from across the country join together for an upcoming anthology of drama. Contributors include Chicago writers Emma Rund and John Joseph Enright, Baltimore actor Alexander Scally ,and several other playwrights.
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