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The event is hosted by The Black Magic Networks Co-founder Annika Allen, with special guest pre-recorded performances on the night from multi award winning Actors, Sharon D Clarke MBE, Amanda Huxtable, Judith Jacob, Jade Samuels, Everal A Walsh, Flo Wilson and a live reading from the writer herself.

Theater Resources Unlimited will present a Writer-Producer Virtual Speed Date: The Art of the Pitch, on Sunday, April 25, 2021. The popular event is now reformatted for Zoom, with more tech and less noise: each writer will be in an individual breakout room with each of the eleven producers.

Whether you do it in-person with your 'quarantine bubble', or online using a service like Netflix Party or Discord's video screening feature, here are some theatre movies and pro-shots to add to your Friday night plans.

Renell Shaw, composer, songwriter and Associate Artist of Hackney Empire, today releases a new video to accompany his Ivor Novello award-winning composition THE VISION THEY HAD (FROM THE WINDRUSH SUITE).

Los Angeles Ballet celebrates Fifteen Years of Outstanding Performances at its Season 15 Gala.  This special virtual event will take place on Saturday, May 1, 2021.  

Long Beach Opera has announced a revised 2021 Season, which will include an exciting return to live opera performance in May with an immersive drive-in Phillip Glass opera, the company’s first venture into longform digital content with a world premiere operatic television series in June, and an outdoor live performance of two operas in August.

New Perspectives and The Brighton Festival present House Mother Normal, a digital installation telling of the lives of eight characters in a nursing home under the watchful eye of House Mother. Directed by Tim Crouch, the production, which can be viewed online or at 6 Dukes Lane, Brighton, merges the individual chapters of B.S. Johnson’s novel.

A discussion with Creator Susan Cinoman, Producers Tracey Knight Narang, Terry Nardozzi and Playwright Cheryl Davis in discussion about the upcoming Period Piece project.

Multiple Grammy Award winner Sharon Isbin, recently recognized as the 2020 Instrumentalist of the Year by Musical America, will appear on the Meany Center for the Performing Arts Meany on Screen Series April 2-9, 2021.

Second Chances is an online fundraising concert raising funds for Sophia Moore to receive the hip replacement she desperately needs. For 8 years Sophia has been on and off crutches and in excruciating pain causing her to struggle to follow her dream of becoming a musical theatre performer.

Stages Theatre Company has announced its 2021-2022 season, featuring a diverse blend of plays and musicals focusing on friendships, adventures, and discoveries. The Imagine the Journey season's seven-show lineup includes five musical productions, three world-premieres, a dance collaboration with Escalate Dance & Theatre Studio and more.

Moonstone Connections episode 6 is now available. The episode features SCOTT C. SICKLES, an LGBTQ/biracial Korean American writer whose plays have been performed in New York City, across the U.S., and internationally in Canada, Australia, the UK, Hungary, Singapore, Indonesia, and Lebanon.

The film uses a Zoom call visual to offer a bird song for Egyptian filmmaker Shady Habash and Egyptian queer activist, Sarah Hegazi, who lost their lives enduring the horrors of wrongful detention. 

Sharon Osbourne has officially departed the daytime talkshow, The Talk, after facing accusations of racism earlier this month.

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Broadway Rose Theatre Company has announced that it will mount the musical The Last Five Years, and make it available for streaming April 23 - May 16.

New Hampshire Theatre Project’s Annual Storytelling Festival is coming to The Music Hall's Historic Theater in the heart of Portsmouth, NH. On Saturday, April 10 at 8pm for one night only, five captivating storytellers will share personal and traditional tales inspired by the theme “What Are You Waiting For?”

This year, with the support of the Jewish nonprofit Reboot, the Saturday Night Seder team is adding digital content leading up to and throughout the week of Passover. These new features include: a behind-the-scenes MAKING-OF short documentary; a new BEHIND THE SCENES interview and performance of “Next Year” and more.

Huntington Theatre Company today announced the start of major construction of The Huntington Theatre, its historic home on Huntington Avenue, beginning an 18-month construction period that will restore, renovate, and modernize the 95-year-old Boston landmark.  

More than sixty performers and playwrights from stage and screen have joined together for Period Piece, a special project to destigmatize menstrual cycles. This original work about periods and the people who get them will premiere Monday, April 12, 2021 at 8 pm ET with performances Monday, April 19 and Monday, April 26.