VIDEO: Sammy Rae & The Friends Covers Billy Joel's 'The River Of Dreams'
by Michael Major
- Oct 18, 2022
In this episode of ReImagined At Home, Rae — the frontwoman of eight-piece group Sammy Rae & The Friends — takes center stage with her uke to deliver a scat-filled cover of Joel's GRAMMY-nominated single. She puts her own spin on the track with undulating vocals, showing off her range as well her jazz sensibilities. Watch the video performance now!
Review: BARRACKING FOR THE UMPIRE at Subiaco Arts Centre
by David Bravos
- Oct 18, 2022
The crux of BARRACKING FOR THE UMPIRE puts AFL in a different light, one that is swiftly becoming worryingly relevant. This heart-warming and humourous look at country life is a gorgeous debut play from the multi-talented Andrea Gibbs, and one that offers plenty for theatre fans and sports fans alike.
Student Blog: “We Have Always Been Here”- The Need for LGBTQIA+ History in Theatre
by Student Blogger: Meredith Muirhead
- Oct 17, 2022
It goes back to the days of Vsevolod Meyerhold- theatre has a social responsibility; that is, theatre has the responsibility to lift the voices and tell the stories of every kind of person and every community. Theatre is the most magical form of storytelling, and the possibilities for just how these stories can be told are endless. Having just had the wonderful opportunity to see The Anthropologists’ No Pants in Tucson (a devised work by and for the queer and feminist community), I’ve started thinking about how much the theatre world needs more of this kind of work, this queer-focused and queer-based work. This is the kind of work whose main objective is to tell the stories of a community that still struggles to be heard. After learning that each vignette in this particular piece is based on true stories, I realized that there are probably just thousands of other stories that were never so much as examined that are just waiting to be told onstage.
Tickets for WICKED and Disney's FROZEN JR. at Dr. Phillips Center Now On Sale
by Blair Ingenthron
- Oct 16, 2022
Tickets for two Broadway musicals coming to the arts center this January 2023 are now on sale. The third show of the AdventHealth Broadway in Orlando 22/23 season, Wicked––the untold true story of the Witches of Oz––will perform 24 times in Walt Disney Theater from January 25–February 12, 2023. Dr. Phillips Center will also present a Youth Theater Production of Disney's Frozen Jr. from January 13–15, 2023 in Alexis & Jim Pugh Theater.
Review: LA BOHÈME, Royal Opera House
by Michael Higgs
- Oct 15, 2022
Focusing on uncontroversial flamboyance, Richard Jones’s revival of his 2017 production of La bohème is a visual spectacle with plenty to please the eye.
Interview: Gregory Yang of FIRE IN THE NEW WORLD at Park Square Theatre
by Jared Fessler
- Oct 14, 2022
Don't miss this savvy detective caper that's smart and fun with a dash of social commentary and plenty of sly intrigue! Sam Shikaze, hard-boiled private eye, fights crime in Vancouver's Japantown in the years after WWII. This time he's up against a big time developer intent on bulldozing the community and the New World Hotel. But when the developer's beautiful Japanese American wife goes missing, it's up to Sam to fi
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