Phelps News

GRAMMY® Award-nominated rock band NEEDTOBREATHE have released an official music video for ‘Banks’, taken from their critically acclaimed new album Out of Body.

Following the Government's announcement on 31 October 2020 of new national restrictions from 5 November 2020, the new spine-chilling ghost story, WHEN DARKNESS FALLS, which was due to play a limited season from 25 November to 12 December 2020 at The Union Theatre in London, will now be postponed. 

Fresh off the release of his new mixtape EXTRA EXTRA!, Lou Phelps releases a video for “New Friends” directed by Igal Perets and the song itself produced by Kaytranada.

Pacific Northwest Ballet is honored to announce the receipt of a million-dollar gift from the Friday Foundation. With this gift – designated to the Pacific Northwest Ballet Foundation – PNB has created a new endowment, the Jane Lang Davis New Works Fund. Annual income from the invested fund will be used in perpetuity to provide support for one new ballet each season, and/or support the full breadth of PNB’s New Works initiative, including workshops for emerging artists.

The Manhattan Association of Cabarets (MAC) has announced the 2020 winners of the Dottie Burman and John Wallowitch songwriting awards. Each recipient receives $500.

A new spine-chilling ghost story, WHEN DARKNESS FALLS, will play a limited season, from 23 November to 12 December 2020, at The Union Theatre in London.  Written by James Milton and Paul Morrissey and directed by Paul Morrissey, Will Barton will play John Blondel and Alex Phelps The Speaker.  The audience will be socially distanced.

The 46th season premiere of “Saturday Night Live” has grown by +10% in adults 18-49 and +6% in total viewers in “live plus same day” “official national” ratings that include out-of-home viewing, increasing versus the preliminary “fast official' ratings released on Sunday by Nielsen Media Research.

Two-time OnComm award-winning, The Show Must Go Online, the global digital theatre movement producing live performances of the chronology of Shakespeare's plays weekly, today announce the full cast for their upcoming livestreamed performed reading of William Shakespeare's Timon of Athens with Ben Crystal in the titular role and introduced by Sir Simon Russell Beale.

The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center has announced a Fall Season of digital concerts to replace each of the performances originally scheduled for Alice Tully Hall -- Front Row Mainstage, 16 newly-curated concerts drawn from CMS's vast archive of high-quality recordings.

Hedgepig Ensemble Theatre  in partnership with Ma-Yi Theater Company, American Players Theatre, and The Classical Theatre of Harlem is thrilled to announce the curated 2020 EXPAND THE CANON plays. 

Trademark Theater presents the first project of their newly announced digital season: an audio play version of the company's 2018 interpersonal/socio-political drama Understood written by local playwright Tyler Mills.

The Barn Theatre and Aaron Sidwell have announced the cast and creatives for the third and final series of their re-imagined Shakespeare series, Bard From The Barn.

Singnasium has announced the fall 2020 lineup of online classes and workshops starting in mid-September. Helping you stay creative, hone your skills, or even pick up some new ones, are Singnasium's goals with this new offering of classes.

In partnership with the first annual Milwaukee Black Theater Festival, Milwaukee Rep will host the 20/20 Vision for Milwaukee Arts, a one-day virtual conference on September 9, 2020 from 1-4pm CT.

Hedgepig Ensemble Theatre is partnering with Ma-Yi Theater Company and The Classical Theatre of Harlem to launch their new initiative, EXPAND THE CANON, an annual curated list of nine classical plays that are timely, producible, and written by a diverse group of women.

Trademark Theater is announcing their re-imagined 2020-2021 season today. The season includes an audio play version of the company's 2018 interpersonal/socio-political drama Understood written by local playwright Tyler Mills, as well as two workshops of commissioned new works by David Darrow, Kira Obolensky and Harrision David Rivers, each presented digitally.

Local burlesque and performance artist Po'Chop | Jenn Freeman, Rebuild Foundation and Chicago Dancemakers Forum today announced “LITANY,” a five-part dance film manifested and performed by resident artist Po'Chop.

Marquee TV will be celebrating the work of the Royal Shakespeare Company by showcasing a selection of performances from the Company's 2019/20 season.

Check out this week's list of new and upcoming book, music, and film releases, including a Hadestown lyric book, new music from Telly Leung, Melissa Errico, and more!