Hershey Felder Presents has announced a one-time-only live stream musical event to benefit 13 theatres and arts organizations across the United States, as they work to offset the devastating economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
BroadwayWorld announced today the judges for the NEXT ON STAGE competition sponsored by Broadway Records! Inspired by your favorite network TV singing contests, the site is inviting high school and college aged students to submit videos of themselves performing a song from the musical theatre canon to enter the competition.
FOX (6.034 million viewers, #2; adults 18-49: 1.6, #1) cruised to another demo victory on Wednesday with fresh installments of 'The Masked Singer' (7.484 million viewers, #2; adults 18-49: 2.0, #1) and 'The Masked Singer: After the Mask' (4.584 million viewers, #5; adults 18-49: 1.2, #3).
In response to the continually evolving novel coronavirus outbreak, Round House Theatre is updating its previously announced 2020-2021 Season. The upcoming season will now include Cost of Living by Martyna Majok. The previously announced God of Carnage will be postponed until the 2021-2022 Season. All remaining shows are still slated to continue, but the schedule has been updated. The Tempest, which is expected to draw in the largest crowds, will now perform at later dates.
In response to the coronavirus pandemic, Folger Theatre is altering the programming schedule for its 2020/21 'On the Road' season of plays. In working to ensure the well-being and safety of patrons, Folger Theatre, along with its project partners the National Building Museum and the University of South Carolina, have made the decision to postpone the 2020 summer production of A Midsummer Night's Dream and the National Building Museum's Summer Block Party, featuring the Folger Shakespeare Playhouse, to Summer 2021.
Disney is reportedly developing a live-action remake of Hercules!
Local award-winning children's theatre company, Valley Youth Theatre (VYT), had to cancel the last two shows of their 31st season and all upcoming performing arts camps and classes for the spring. With no incoming revenue, they have decided to look to the future and launch their a?oeInvest in VYTa?? campaign, awarding a ticket to each of their next six productions for every $100 invested in VYT during the COVID-19 crisis.
Today, Showtime Networks Inc. announced that Erin Calhoun has been promoted to Executive Vice President, Communications, the company's top communications post. She will assume her new role on May 4. The announcement was made by David Nevins, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Showtime Networks Inc., to whom Calhoun will report.
To protect the health and safety of our staff and the community, The Fox Cities Performing Arts Center is closed starting Wednesday, March 25, until we can evaluate a safe time to re-open given the ever-changing situation. Limited staff will be working remotely with full access to the information and technology necessary to keep you informed of any show or event changes.
FotoFocus, the non-profit arts organization behind America's largest photography biennial, announces today that in lieu of presenting the fifth FotoFocus Biennial, originally slated for October 2020, it will pledge its Biennial budget to financially support the Greater Cincinnati, Northern Kentucky, Dayton and Columbus, Ohio art communities during the coronavirus pandemic.
Smithsonian Channels' May programming features the premiere of “An American Aristocrat's Guide To Great Estates,” an all-access pass into Great Britain's most magnificent homes, hosted by Julie Montagu, Viscountess Hinchingbrooke.
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ABC (5.062 million viewers, #2; adults 18-49: 0.8, #1) held off the demo competition on Sunday with a rebroadcast of 'The Disney Family Singalong' (3.200 million viewers, #7; adults 18-49: 0.6, #T4) followed by new episodes of 'American Idol' (6.044 million viewers, #4; adults 18-49: 1.0, #1)
World-renowned DJ and producer KSHMR and Spanish artist Sak Noel have joined forces on new single 'Bruk It Down', out Friday 24th April via KSHMR's label Dharma Worldwide.
Broadway and television icon Linda Lavin and award-winning pianist Billy Stritch come together once again to present 'May Day,' their sixth online concert this Friday, May 1 at 3pm EDT.
The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center is proud to announce the fourth weekly line-up of its new global series, SEGAL TALKS. New York, US, and international theatre artists, curators, researchers and academics will talk daily for one hour with Segal Center's director, Frank Hentschker, about life and art in the Time of Corona and speak about challenges, sorrows, and hopes for the new Weltzustanda?"the State of the World. The Segal Center is the only theatre institution in New York City and the US creating original programming every day during the week.
The Marsh San Francisco has long been known as the city's breeding ground for new performance. Like theater companies the world over, The Marsh is also having to invent new ways of engaging with audiences while in-person performances are suspended due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Their creative solution is called MarshStream, which offers a mind-boggling variety of programming seven days a week, including game nights, live performance readings, performance development classes, and archived performance streams. Content is being offered via Zoom, YouTube, Instagram, Spotify, Google Podcasts and iTunes. For weekly event schedules and additional information, visit www.themarsh.org. BroadwayWorld recently caught up with Stephanie Weisman, The Marsh's Founder/Artistic Director, to learn more about MarshStream and check in on how she and The Marsh are weathering the pandemic.
ABC (6.141 million viewers, #1; adults 18-49: 1.6, #1) got a boost on Thursday thanks to its primetime coverage of the '2020 NFL Draft - Round 1' (6.141 million viewers, #1; adults 18-49: 1.6, #1).
FOX (6.701 million viewers, #1; adults 18-49: 1.7, #1) continued its reign on Wednesday thanks to a new 'The Masked Singer' (7.875 million viewers, #2; adults 18-49: 2.0, #1) and 'The Masked Singer: After the Mask' (5.526 million viewers, #4; adults 18-49: 1.4, #3).
Songwriting duo Thomas Mizer & Curtis Moore, who wrote five original songs for the Amazon Original Series 'The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel' Season 3, channeled their creativity into reuniting the show's dynamic singing trio The Silver Belles (Alysha Deslorieux, Brennyn Lark, and Markita Prescott) to perform an unreleased original song from the show entitled “Madly in Love.”
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