Voltaire News

BroadwayWorld is saddened to report that playwright Arthur Giron passed away February 2, 2022. He co-wrote the Broadway musical Amazing Grace (2015) with Christopher Smith.

No Reverse Records is introducing Saffron Lips, a R&B/soul/jazz duo featuring Stephanie Jae Park (currently Eliza Hamilton on the Philip Tour of Hamilton) and OBC original cast member and dance captain, Voltaire Wade-Greene. 

This February, Outcry Theatre will present Lipstick Traces, its first professional production since before the pandemic. Based on Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century by Greil Marcus, Lipstick Traces was originally created and produced by Rude Mechs. The world premiere production took place in Austin, TX at The Off Center in 2000.

The Adelaide Festival Board has announced the appointment of Louise Adler AM as Director of Adelaide Writers’ Week for the 2023 – 2025 Festivals. Louise Adler, who is currently Publisher-at-Large for Hachette Australia and Vice Chancellor’s Professorial Fellow at Monash University, will take up the position early in 2022.

Daddy Long Legs opens on Friday, November 19 at the Black Box Theatre. “Daddy Long Legs”, music and lyrics by Paul Gordon, book by John Caird, based on the novel by Jean Webster and directed by Nikka Ziemer is a charming and thoughtful story of a young woman of eighteen named Jerusha Abbott played by Cristina Zermeno, who lives in an orphanage.

The Odyssey Theatre Ensemble re-opens its re-envisioning of the Odyssey's 1969 West Coast premiere of The Serpent, the Obie award-winning play by Jean-Claude van Itallie. The production initially opened in March, 2020 as part of the Odyssey's 50th Anniversary “Circa '69” Season, but was shuttered five days later by the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic.

How could you not love a play about theater critics? Especially where, as in Tom Stoppard’s The Real Inspector Hound, now available in virtual format through Spooky Action Theater’s website, the critics are pompous, abrasive and criminally uninformed. Moon (Robert Bowen Smith) and Birdboot (Steve Beall), critics both, are the only audience – perhaps we should say witnesses – to the butchery known as Murder in Muldoon Manor. Muldoon is an enterprise so catastrophic that it makes Nothing On (the calamity being performed by the actors in Noises Off) seem like Beckett, or Shakespeare, or – Stoppard.

Anatomical Heart productions rather fittingly closed their debut performance just as National Science Week was kicking off. Their performance of EMILIE: LA MARQUISE DU CHATELET DEFENDS HER LIFE TONIGHT was a treat as much for theatre enthusiasts as it was for science enthusiasts.

Chances are you haven't heard of Emilie. She made contributions to science and philosophy, but she is most well known simply for being Voltaire’s lover. Anatomical Heart Productions are seeking to change Emilie’s place in history, and Alan Gill who plays Voltaire stopped to chat about the play, the company, and history's problematic view of women.

Collaboraction launched its 25th season at Moonrise Sunset, a “full moon affair” that also marked one of Chicago's first outdoor summer events, Thursday, June 24 at Rockwell on the River.

Bloomberg Philanthropies today announced the launch of the Digital Accelerator Program to help cultural non-profit organizations stabilize and thrive in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic through strategic improvements to their technology infrastructure.

A stunning rework, Tiga’s remix of ‘Angel Eyes’ is a collaborative effort between one of Montreal’s greatest dance music exports remixing one of its finest synth-pop bands.

Urbano Project has announced that Gabriel Sosa and Sam Richardson will be the two Artists in Residence working on the theme of Radical Care in Winter 2021, leading virtual Youth Artist Projects for Boston Public School teens from January through March.

After a sold out show last month, SATURDAY COMEDY STARS returns in January featuring comedians from Channel 10’s The Project, Just For Laughs, the Melbourne International Comedy Festival Gala and more!

Futurama, the legendary post-punk festival, is back after 40 years and takes place at the Invisible Wind factory / Make Arts Centre and Ten Streets Social in Liverpool over two days, 3rd and 4th of April 2021.

Saturday Comedy Stars is coming to Club Voltair. The performance features comedians from Channel 10’s The Project, Just For Laughs, the Melbourne International Comedy Festival Gala and more!

Club Voltaire is presenting Saturday Comedy Stars next month! This show features comedians from Channel 10’s The Project, Montreal’s Just For Laughs, the Melbourne International Comedy Festival Gala and more!

Opera. It's widely regarded as an elitist artform, and not without good reason; tickets are sold at astronomical prices, with audiences tending to consist of the same higher-income bracket earners. This is something 29 year old composer Nicholas Gentile wants to change. A talented musician and singer in his own right, Gentile stumbled across Émilie's story in 2019 when he was commissioned to write a new opera for Fine Music Australia.

On Saturday, August 15th, at 4pm PT/7pm ET, members of the original cast of the Tony Award-Winning Broadway Musical Hamilton will come together for the final 'HAM4CHANGE' virtual event to support organizations focused on ending systematic racism.

What have the original cast members, ensemble members, swings, and standbys of Hamilton been up to lately? Check out their latest projects!