Meet the playwrights from the 2nd week of LA's first TogetherLAFestival. Presented by Alternative Theatre Los Angeles (ATLA) in association with LA Stage Alliance (LASA), a?oeTogether LA: A Virtual Stage Festivala?? is celebrating the vibrant and diverse intimate theatre scene of the greater Los Angeles area.
Shakespeare & Company News
by Chloe Rabinowitz -
SCSU Theatre opens its 2020-21 season in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis with a radio presentation of Henrik Ibsen's An Enemy of the People: broadcasting live on their Facebook page October 9-11th and October 15-18th at 8:00PM
by A.A. Cristi -
Centerstage Theatre has announced participation in The Great Seattle Arts Adventure of October, 2020. They have teamed up with 22 other arts organizations from the greater Puget Sound area to help keep awareness of the arts alive in the hearts of friends and patrons this season, through a fun and educational digital scavenger-hunt.
by Stephi Wild -
All aboard The G&S Express for the very model of a modern major mash up as award-winning Charles Court Opera, a?oeThe masters of G&S in small spaces,a?? take on the - probably ill advised - challenge of performing the complete works of Gilbert & Sullivan - in just 75 minutes!
by A.A. Cristi -
On Tuesday, October 13 a radio production of Sinclair Lewis' novel It Can't Happen Here will broadcast at 5PM PDT/8PM EDT via YouTube. Written in 1935 during the rise of fascism in Europe, Lewis' darkly satirical It Can't Happen Here follows the ascent of a demagogue who becomes president of the United States by promising to return the country to greatness.
by Chloe Rabinowitz -
Berkeley Repertory Theatre today has announced that nearly 100 organizations nationwide are onboard to share the free radio play, It Can't Happen Here. The new audio adaptation will premiere on Tuesday, October 13 at 5pm PT/8pm ET, followed by a live Q&A with the creative team, director Lisa Peterson & co-adaptors Tony Taccone & Bennett S. Cohen.
by Stephi Wild -
The Royal Shakespeare Company will focus its programming in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre Stratford-upon-Avon over the coming year, with the Swan Theatre and The Other Place remaining closed until 2022.
by Chloe Rabinowitz -
Tennessee Shakespeare Company launches its fourth annual Free Shakespeare Shout-Out Series on October 11 outdoors at Shelby Farms Park with the country's first modern pandemic production of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, sponsored by Evans/Petree, P.C. and Campbell Clinic.
by Chloe Rabinowitz -
Theatre Rhinoceros presents a FREE Zoom presentation: THE DEBUT OF GEORGIA by Boni Alvarez, directed by Ely Sonny Orquiza on October 13, 2020 at 7pm for free.
by Chloe Rabinowitz -
LA Stage Alliance (LASA) in association with Alternative Theatre Los Angeles (ATLA) presents 'Together LA: A Virtual Stage Festival' celebrating the vibrant and diverse intimate theatre scene of the greater Los Angeles area. The Festival will feature the Ophelia's Jump production of the 10-minute play Cuddle by Melissa Jane Osborne.
by Stephi Wild -
Sir Patrick Stewart has posted the final sonnet in his #ASonnetADay series, which has been going on since the start of the pandemic in March.
by Michael Dale -
After an impressive inaugural production of HAMLET in the atmospheric surroundings of Jersey City's Grace Church Van Vorst, Artistic Director Sean Hagerty's Shakespeare@, like so many theatre companies around the country, was suddenly placed in the position rethinking its immediate future.
by A.A. Cristi -
Pittsburgh Public Theater will join theaters across the nation to help spread the word about Berkeley Rep's YouTube radio production of Sinclair Lewis' novel It Can't Happen Here on Tuesday, October 13 at 8pm ET.
by Chloe Rabinowitz -
'Humor is tolerant, tender; its ridicule caresses. Wit stabs, begs pardon a?" and turns the weapon in the wound. Humor is a sweet wine; wit a dry; and we know which is preferred by the connoisseur. Of course, if you fire live rounds, be prepared for return fire.'
by A.A. Cristi -
On Tuesday, October 13 a radio production of Sinclair Lewisa?? novel It Cana??t Happen Here will broadcast at 5PM PDT/8PM EDT via YouTube.
by Chloe Rabinowitz -
The National Theatre of Scotland is set to continue its new work over the coming months, with an innovative mix of streamed theatre and digital projects, including two new productions from leading Scottish creatives Hannah Lavery and Adura Onashile, both addressing urgent contemporary and historical issues around race in Scotland today.
by Sarah Leiber -
Friend of the show and author of the new book 'Trumpty Dumpty Wanted a Crown,' John Lithgow, enlisted the help of famous friends to read excerpts to create shareable clips in place of a book tour.
by Stephi Wild -
The Royal Shakespeare Company has today announced that Juliet Gilkes Romero's urgent and provocative new play, The Whip, will receive its online premiere this October as part of Black History Month. The new audio recording is commissioned by the Royal Shakespeare Company and directed by Kimberley Sykes.
by Chloe Rabinowitz -
Yale School of Drama, the only graduate-level professional conservatory in the English-speaking world to offer training in every theatrical discipline, announces newly promoted and newly appointed faculty members, effective for the 2020-21 academic year.
by Chloe Rabinowitz -
Tennessee Shakespeare Company continues its 'Essential' 13th performance season on Friday, October 9 with an election season look at William Shakespeare's most political and perhaps relevant tragedy in Like to a Lonely Dragon: Shakespeare's Election of Coriolanus.
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