THE VAGRANT TRILOGY Extends at The Public Theater
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Mar 31, 2022
The Public Theater will begin performances for the New York premiere of THE VAGRANT TRILOGY on Friday, April 8 with a Joseph Papp Free Performance, after the cancellation of the 2020 production just five days before the first performance and a two-year postponement due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Deafinitely Theatre Announces Full Line-up For 20th Anniversary Season
by A.A. Cristi - Mar 10, 2022
Deafinitely Theatre, led by Artistic Director Paula Garfield, today announce the full line-up for their 20th Anniversary Season. First in the line-up is James Baldwin's innovative new show, staged on board a bus, Getting There, produced by Toucan Theatre and Oxford Playhouse, in association with Deafinitely Theatre and Be Free Young Carers.
Shakespeare's Globe Announces Relaunch Of Globe Player
by Stephi Wild - Dec 7, 2021
Shakespeare's Globe has announced the relaunch of their video-on-demand streaming service, Globe Player. The original platform was the first of its kind and the upgrade enables audiences to subscribe or pay-on-demand for world-class Shakespeare productions to devices internationally.
Hudson Warehouse Theater Company Announces its 18th Season
by Stephi Wild - Jun 12, 2021
The public is invited to join the company on July 3rd, Saturday, 2021, at 4pm, to help launch their new season and the exciting reveal of their new brand and name. Celebrations will take place at their performance space behind The Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument at West 89th and Riverside Drive, in Riverside Park. (Rain date: July 4th at 4pm.)
BWW Interview: Kimiko Glenn is the New Voice of BABY SHARK
by Sarah Jae Leiber - Mar 25, 2021
Glenn played Dawn Pinket in the original Broadway production of Waitress (2016). Other theatre credits include: Love's Labour's Lost (2013, Delacorte Theatre); Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (La Jolla Playhouse, 2012); and Spring Awakening (National Tour, 2008-2010).
Huntington Announces A CHRISTMAS CAROL Featuring Jefferson Mays
by A.A. Cristi - Nov 10, 2020
Huntington Theatre Company announces it has joined a consortium of theatres across the US to present a special filmed version of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol this holiday season, featuring Tony Award winner Jefferson Mays.
Opera Returns With RIVAL QUEENS By Divaria Productions
by A.A. Cristi - Oct 20, 2020
Bay Street Theater & Sag Harbor Center for the Arts has announced the virtual world premiere of Divaria Productions' original biopic opera Rival Queens on Thursday, November 12, at 8 p.m. at baystreet.org.
Podcast: LITTLE KNOWN FACTS with Ilana Levine and Special Guest, Rebecca Naomi Jones!
by Little Known Facts w/ Ilana Levine - May 4, 2020
Today's episode features Rebecca Naomi Jones- best known for her performances in the Broadway rock musicals Passing Strange, American Idiot, and Hedwig and the Angry Inch.Jones was born in New York City, New York, to a musician father. Her mother is Jewish and her father is African-American. Jones performed in the children's chorus of the Metropolitan Opera as a youth and graduated from the Berkeley Carroll School in 1999. 'I did theatre all throughout middle school and high school and was really into it, the same with singing,' she said.
NOTES FROM A SMALL ISLAND Will Embark on UK Tour
by Stephi Wild - Mar 6, 2020
Jon Culshaw will star as 'Bill Bryson' in a brand-new stage production of Bryson's award-winning memoir NOTES FROM A SMALL ISLAND adapted by BAFTA and Olivier Award winning playwright Tim Whitnall. Directed by the Watermill's Artistic Director Paul Hart, the production will have its world premiere in Newbury on Thursday 24 September and play until Saturday 31 October, with a national press night on Monday 28 September. The production will then tour to Malvern, Cambridge, and Richmond, with further dates to announced.