Robinson News

Today (January 15) in live streaming: Adam Pascal in concert, Blue Ridge ​by Abby Rosebrock, and more!

Celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the Ridgewood Guild International Film Festival! The #RGIFF is back to deliver some of 2020's most exciting indie cinema in a new virtual format. From January 27th to January 31st enjoy over 80 films and 20 hours of content ranging from dramas, comedies, student films, music videos, international flicks and more.

Baryshnikov Arts Center has announced the Digital Spring 2021 season of free online presentations, featuring premieres of new works commissioned by BAC. BAC has continued supporting the development of new work by providing resources for artists to realize their creative visions specifically for online presentation

In what continues to be a challenging time for dancemakers to find ways to make and present work, the Pillow has deepened many of its preexisting relationships with artists as well as opened its doors for new ventures, resulting in a diverse and provocative array of artistic projects from January through June.

Ava Giorgione of Harrisburg will appear in a groundbreaking virtual musical, A Killer Party: A Murder Mystery Musical, produced by 'BAA Onstage'. The show was conceived as a new style of online theatre by Jason Howland, Nathan Tysen, Kait Kerrigan, Rachel Axler and a team of 40+ Broadway professionals.

Irish Repertory Theatre has announced their Theatre @ Home Winter Festival, a four-week repertory retrospective of all of the original digital productions created by Irish Repertory Theatre during the COVID-19 shut-down, from January 26 – February 21, 2021.

Aldis talks about playing Jim Brown in One Night in Miami, working with Regina King, being cast as Hawkman in the new DC Black Adam movie, receiving a call from Dwayne The Rock Johnson, and sharing the good news with his family.

Acclaimed actor Wendell Pierce is pushing forward a new way of imagining live theater in a lingering pandemic, which has shuttered in-person arts experiences throughout the country. 

Artistic Director Robert Falls announces a virtual fundraiser to support Goodman GoodWork—inclusive of the theater's nationally-recognized, award-winning Education and Engagement programming. “Reimagining Tomorrow” centers on the possibility, opportunity and change in the American Theater after a time when remote work, e-learning and social distance have challenged the fundamental human connection at the industry's core.

A three year revitalization project taking place inside of Asheville, North Carolina's historic Southside neighborhood has come to fruition with the opening of SoundSpace @ Rabbit's, the city's first public access music rehearsal facility.

Metropolitan Playhouse presents its next free 'screened' readings, live-streamed at no charge, with talkback to follow: AFTERMATH, Mary P. Burrill, January 16, 2021 at 8 PM Eastern, available at www.metropolitanplayhouse.org.

Given the catastrophic effects of the pandemic on the sector in 2020, the trends are intended to provide clarity and guidance to arts and culture executives and managers for strategic planning to revitalize and reimagine their organizations during the coming year.

At this time of national trauma and unrest, The Homebound Project has decided to temporarily postpone the Sixth Edition of its online theater initiative, which was scheduled to stream online January 13–17, 2021.

On Tuesday, January 12, at 7 PM, the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey (VACNJ) will host artists Yvette Molina and Elisabeth Smolarz for a virtual discussion titled Community Storytelling Through Contemporary Art. The conversation, which will focus on the artists' communal storytelling projects on view at VACNJ—Big Bang Votive and The Encyclopedia of Things, respectively—will be moderated by Art Center Curator Mary Birmingham.  

The OBIE-winning HERE has announced programming for its HERE There Everywhere winter and spring 2021 season. The season launches with the ninth annual PROTOTYPE: Opera | Theatre | Now (January 8–16), the premier global festival of opera-theatre and music-theatre which has been completely re-envisioned in light of the COVID-19 crisis.

Broadway Records announced today the release of the Grammy Award-winning recording of THE COLOR PURPLE as a double record set printed on purple vinyl. It will be available on February 5, 2021.

Theatre Journal The Flashpaper, in partnership with Broadway Advocacy Coalition, will host an Open Forum on January 17, 2021, at 3pm to explore precise ways the industry can make theatre more just in 2021 and beyond. 

Chanhassen Dinner Theatres has announced it will resume its live concerts and comedy shows beginning January 15 with an exciting new lineup to cheer and delight audiences, longing more than ever to get back to live entertainment experiences.

Get your astral house in order! When Astrology keeps Goodman Ace from getting a raise at work, his wife, Jane, decides to explore what all the fuss is about. Will Jane's sign be compatible with anything? From the comedy radio classic, 'Easy Aces,' the marital misadventures of the Aces will keep you laughing.

Activate your imagination and prepare for take-off as Mr. Ben and the Opera House Gang launch into the extraordinary world of theatre through five, fifteen-minute episodes, unveiled weekly starting Saturday, January 9th.