Oregon Shakespeare Festival has announced the month-long, five-play O! Reading Series. For this new initiative, five directors who are part of OSF’s artistic staff have each chosen a play to be performed as a live digital staged reading by some of OSF’s favorite actors.
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It’s a month filled with music and masterful performances as BroadwayHD today announced their upcoming slate of titles joining the platform. Starting July 1, celebrate Independence Day early with the patriotic classic and musical tour de force, Yankee Doodle Dandy, starring Academy Award Winner James Cagney.
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The Presidio Theatre presents a bright new addition to the Bay Area holiday entertainment landscape this December 2-31 with the world premiere of the panto, The Magic Lamp, that reframes the classic tale of Aladdin.
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The African-American Shakespeare company is elated to announce what Artistic Director L Peter Callender is a calling a season of “splendor and renewal” featuring 4 productions, live-and-in-person: The Complete Works of Shakespeare (Abridged); Cinderella; The Glass Menagerie; and Richard II. There will also be a special streaming-only edition of Twelfth Night.
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A major new cultural exchange between Australia and the United Kingdom (UK) has been announced today, celebrating the diverse and innovative artist communities and cultural sectors of each nation.
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International theatre group The Blind Cupid Shakespeare Company is joining Sour Grapes Productions' 'So Many Shakespeares 2021' festival with an English-Italian version of The Comedy of Errors/La Commedia degli Errori.
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‘Express G&S’ will now play the newly configured, socially distanced Pleasance Theatre, London N1, from Wednesday 23 June - Friday 2 July, 2021.
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Student activists from New Haven's Ice the Beef present their own spin of Shakespeare's classic tragedy, Romeo and Juliet, after a year-long residency with the teaching artists of Elm Shakespeare Company.
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This new production forms part of their outdoor summer creative communities programme in partnership with the Shakespeare North Playhouse, supported by Arts Council England and Knowsley Council.
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The youth group stars of Ice the Beef tackle Shakespeare's classic tragedy with the help of Elm Shakespeare Company. Ice the Beef is a Connecticut nonprofit committed to gun violence prevention through education, creative expression, and amplifying community voices. With a focus on cultural diversity and accessibility, Elm has been breathing new life into timeless stories for the Greater New Haven community since 1995.
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Yale Repertory Theatre will welcome audiences back to its theaters beginning in January 2022 for a season of three plays! The season will begin with a new production of Today is My Birthday, a critically-acclaimed comedy about loneliness in the age of connectivity, written by Susan Soon He Stanton and directed by Mina Morita.
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Two lovers, each with hidden secrets, struggle to prosper as gin hawkers. At a time in the 18th century when the average Briton drank 1.5 litres of gin every day, women were being locked up in cells to sober up and disorder was breaking out on every street corner, panic spreads among the upper classes who look to the magistrates, the Church and even their tipsy Queen to restore sobriety.
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Learn more about how and where to purchase tickets for the upcoming production, starring Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster. Preview performances of The Music Man are set to begin on Monday, December 20, 2021, with Opening Night scheduled for Thursday, February 10, 2022 at the Winter Garden Theatre.
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Matilda The Musical is now booking through to 13 February 2022. Learn more about the cast, the production, and how to book tickets here!
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Following a sold-out season at the Sydney Opera House in 2020, this new Australian production will premiere in Brisbane at QPAC's Playhouse Theatre in November and make a return to the Studio at Sydney Opera House from December. Learn who is in the cast and how to get tickets.
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Elm Shakespeare Company is gearing up for a great summer with summer camps for youth ages 7-12 and 13-18. In 2020, after the success of our online residencies, ESC re-designed our camp programs into engaging, creative, and fun online activities for our campers! This year, our camps are back! In-person and outdoors.
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Play On Shakespeare today announced their summer 2021 season. Play On Shakespeare’s mission is to enhance the understanding of Shakespeare’s plays in performance for theatre professionals, students, teachers, and audiences by engaging with contemporary translations and adaptations.
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Theatre Communications Group has announced the recipients of the first round of the 2021 Edgerton Foundation New Play Awards. The awards, totaling $1,072,000, allow 28 productions extra time for the development and rehearsal of new plays with the entire creative team, hoping to extend the life of the world premiere play after its first run.
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All's Well That Ends Well will be performed Fridays through Sundays, July 23 through August 1. Friday performances begin at 6:30 PM, with weekend performances at 4 PM. Audience is encouraged to bring lawn chairs and blankets for best comfort in the beautiful natural performance space.
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The 60th anniversary production of Beckett's masterwork Happy Days, newly opened at west London's Riverside Studios, is indistinguishable from the keen eye of its director, Trevor Nunn, who across more than six decades has contributed many of the most significant (not to mention quite a few of the best) productions in my experience. We look back at a seismic career and select five productions for the ages.
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