Collaboraction, Chicago's theater for social change, has added four new staff members, all committed to collaborating with a diverse community of Chicagoans, artists, activists and under-represented voices to create original theatrical experiences that cultivate dialogue and action around the city's most critical social issues.
This week's Theater Stories features the Shubert Theatre! Learn about one of the longest running Broadway shows of all time, A Chorus Line, the incredibly successful production of To Kill a Mockingbird, the star-studded revival of Hello, Dolly! and more.
The Virtual Performers will be premiering their Love Song Cabaret - 'Cupid's Cabaret' on Friday, February 12th & Saturday, February 13th, 2021 at 7pm EST. This is a FREE virtual event, no tickets are required!
Just one day after receiving the national spotlight, tonight, Tuesday, February 2 at 6 p.m. is the next live installment of Collaboraction's live web show Becoming: Unlearning White Supremacy. Anyone looking to become an active anti-racist is welcome to join. Visit collaboraction.org to register and receive the Zoom link.
A new study of performing arts organizations in the U.S., Canada and the U.K. released today by international arts management consultants TRG Arts and U.K. arts data specialists Purple Seven shows a decline in philanthropic revenue in 2020 on both sides of the Atlantic.
Vivian (Hadley Robinson), a seemingly shy 16-year-old, has always preferred to keep her head down and fly under the radar. But when the arrival of a new student (Alycia Pascual-Peña) forces her to examine the unchecked behavior of her fellow students running rampant at her high school, Vivian realizes she’s fed up.
Like everyone's favorite sister, Meri Ziev brings happiness and positivity wherever she goes, whether she's performing at Birdland, online or in her driveway. And that's how you built a fandom.
Join Collaboraction's Artistic Director, Anthony Moseley and Executive Director, Dr. Marcus Robinson, for Becoming: Unlearning White Supremacy and Creating a Path to Active Anti-racism.
Parthenia, New York's premiere viol consort, will present Exuberance is Beauty: William Blake, the Viol, and the Book, a virtual event on Wednesday, February 17 @ 3PM, in cooperation with The Morgan Library and Museum.
In honor of Black History month, Stars in the House is dedicating all Tuesday episodes to Black Theatre United. Tonight at 8pm, the first guest host, NaTasha Yvette Williams, invited a prestigious group of talented women to celebrate the legacy of Cicely Tyson- Linda Twine, Jordin Sparks, Angela Robinson, Rhonda Ross, and Dr. Traci Gardner.
The Atlanta Opera has now released the first three Love Letters to Atlanta. Hailed as “a series of affecting short films” (Wall Street Journal), this new video series gives individual members of the Atlanta Opera Company Players – twelve world-class singers hired for the duration of the season, all of whom are resident in Atlanta and the southeast – the chance to celebrate the Georgia capital and its inhabitants by singing a song of personal significance at an iconic Atlanta venue.
M-34 presents Franz Kafka's Letter To My Father, translated by Hannah Stokes and Richard Stokes, developed by James Rutherford and Michael Guagno, directed by James Rutherford, and performed by Michael Guagno.
What if longtime friends Jim Brunberg and Ben Landsverk came clean about the fact that their bevy of instrumental theme songs and film soundtracks—including the New York Times' famed podcast The Daily, Cheryl Strayed's Dear Sugar Radio, and many indie film scores—were only half of the story? Well, there's no need to get rhetorical, because the day has come for Brunberg and Landsverk, known collectively as the Portland-based duo Wonderly, to share their other side with the world.
The unforgettable world of Ellen Reid’s p r i s m returns to LA Opera for two weeks. This time, the Pulitzer Prize-winning piece is streaming on your home screen. Composer Reid and librettist Roxie Perkins' sobering story follows a mother and daughter as they explore the trauma of sexual abuse and the elasticity of memory that follows.
Broadway might be dark, but that doesn't mean that theatre isn't happening everywhere! Below, check out where you can get your daily fix of Broadway this weekend, January 30-31, 2020.