Silver News

This Week's New Classified Listings on BroadwayWorld for 2/25/2021 include new jobs for those looking to work in the theatre industry.

#WomxnCrush Music has revealed plans for an unprecedented, fully-immersive, four-part virtual educational series to celebrate its Fourth Anniversary. The leading arts and music non-profit will unveil its 'Connect + Educate' events on March 2 and run bi-weekly through April 24.

Distortion: 2008-2019 follows Mould through a number of standout records that include some of his most celebrated work - collected here are District Line (2008), Life and Times (2009), Silver Age (2012), Beauty & Ruin (2014), Patch the Sky (2016) and Sunshine Rock (2019).

Beck Center has a sterling reputation of cultivating talented performers who go on to success in hit Broadway shows and associated tours. Some of the theatre's alums will perform in a virtual engagement which runs March 5 to March 28, 2021, as part of Beck Center for the Arts' 87th Professional Theater Season.

It is West Texas' largest dedicated performance venue--bringing the city's vibrant performing arts community including the Lubbock Symphony Orchestra, Ballet Lubbock, and the Lubbock Independent School District, along with a variety of professional touring productions, under one roof. 

Centenary Stage Company will open the World Premiere production of Turning by Darrah Cloud Thursday, February 25 at 7:30 PM with performances running in the Sitnik Theatre of the Lackland Performing Arts Center until March 7.  Centenary Stage Company will also offer a Live Stream option for the Sunday, February 28 2:00 PM performance.

The Buddy Holly Hall of Performing Arts and Sciences, a new state-of-the-art performance venue in Lubbock, Texas, recently inaugurated its landmark building with a series of socially-distanced, limited capacity performances.

Today, Bella Union has announced the return of Will Stratton, whose new album The Changing Wilderness will be released on May 7th, 2021. Today Stratton has also shared first track titled 'Tokens' and its accompanying lyric video.

Cinema Tropical has announced the U.S. virtual theatrical release of the Brazilian documentary film My Darling Supermarket (Meu Querido Supermercado), the debut feature by Tali Yankelevich. Her humorous portrait of a Brazilian supermarket opens on Wednesday, February 24, 2021 at Film Forum in New York City, followed by other cities nationwide.

Casting has today been announced for The Kindling Hour, the third and final part in a trilogy of online productions from multi-award winning theatre and experience makers, Swamp Motel.

In this ‘special circumstances’ year, the Offies 2021 Awards Ceremony celebrated the creativity and resilience of our artists in fringe, alternative and independent theatre in a time of crisis who have found new ways to produce fresh and inventive work for thousands of stay-at-home audiences.

American Ballet Theatre and National Sawdust have joined forces to present the World Premiere of What Becomes of Love?, a dance film choreographed and directed by Sonya Tayeh and set to music by Rhye (Mike Milosh). What Becomes of Love? will be co-hosted by American Ballet Theatre and National Sawdust on Facebook on Thursday, March 4 at 6 P.M. ET.

Simon Basey laid his heart and soul bare.

What do you do when you can't hit the road in 2020? You turn your home studio into a premiere virtual performance destination with a popular ongoing series of weekly shows on the StageIt Platform, invite your musical friends to be your guests, record all the performances, and a year later release an extraordinary album of duets Alone Together.

This evening, the first ever virtual American Traditions Vocal Competition ended an incredible week celebrating and preserving all styles of classic American music with the final round featuring five phenomenal performers competing for the gold.  

On February 26, the venerated multi-instrumentalist and composer Joe Chambers will release Samba de Maracatu, a notable Blue Note Records return for a significant figure in the label’s history. The album’s Brazilian flavored title track “Samba de Maracatu,” is available today to stream or download.

The multi-award winning play, Roadkill, was directed and conceived by Cora Bissett, the Artistic  Director and founder of a Scottish company called Pachamama, and has been performed all over the  world, though I saw it in 2010 at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

16 weeks, 112 days, that’s how long I have left until graduation. The days are long, but the weeks are quick, one blink and it’ll all be over before I know it. [...] I just want to be done, but at the same time a part of me isn’t sure I’m ready for what comes next. 

Mint Theater Company will continue its Silver Lining Streaming Series with the on-demand streaming of the three-camera archival recording (filmed in HD!) of Women Without Men by Hazel Ellis, directed by Jenn Thompson beginning Monday, February 22nd, and continuing through March 21st.

“This song is essentially a prequel to our track ‘Closure,’ despite being written after that relationship ended. It’s the words you wish you could cut loose and tell your crush, but you’re both too uncertain to say.  Now you have a song you can play for that person instead.”