Mud/Drowning - 2022 - Off-Broadway Articles Page 12

At times exquisitely lovely and, at others, confronting and brutal.

The Gift Theatre has announced its 2022 season, launching this spring with a return to live performances with the Chicago premiere of Naomi Iizuka's drama At The Vanishing Point, directed by Lavina Jadhwani.

The previously unrecorded Drone Mass was described by its composer, the late Jóhann Jóhannsson, as “a contemporary oratorio.” Written for voices, string quartet and electronics, it was commissioned and premiered by the American Contemporary Music Ensemble, aka ACME, who toured and recorded with Jóhannsson for almost ten years.

Before Benicio Bryant competed on “America’s Got Talent”’; before Macklemore was “poppin’ tags” or J’Nai Bridges was gracing the Metropolitan Opera stage, these artists were youth participants in More Music @ The Moore.

The GRAMMY nominated Christian group, Casting Crowns is bringing their signature sound to Playhouse Square March 31, 2022,

After closing out the Winter Concert Series on March 20, 2021, Beg, Steal or Borrow brings their warm harmonies back to the Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center for an evening of bluegrass, Friday, April 15th, 2022 at 7:00PM.

Departing from Port Canaveral, Florida onboard Carnival Magic, SR23 docks at Half Moon Cay in The Bahamas, Grand Turk in Turks & Caicos Islands and Dominican Republic’s Amber Cove, a new stop for ShipRockers. ShipRocked 2023 performers will be announced in the coming months. Watch the 2023 festival announcement video now!

Antaeus Theatre Company kicks off the 2022 season with its signature ClassicsFest series, offering two staged readings each of three “modern classics” over the course of six days.

Today, the New Victory Theater announced that three on-demand shows are now available to rent for $15. The virtual offerings, available exclusively on demand, include Honolulu Theatre for Youth’s Stories of Oceania, Second Hand Dance’s Sunny Days, Insect Hands, and Night Tree, and Theatre Lovett’s The Girl Who Forgot to Sing Badly. 

Tamara Rojo doesn't go far enough in re-inventing Raymonda, its new story lacking the boldness of its new setting in the Crimean War.

Butterfly Theatre takes Shakespeare outdoors.

Antaeus Theatre Company returns to in-person performances in 2022 with two reading series and two full productions. All performances will take place at the Kiki & David Gindler Performing Arts Center in Glendale, CA.

Sarah Elizabeth Haines is a violist and violinist, she plays both instruments in the touring production of Tony award-winning Hamilton. Previously, she’s toured with Les Misérables and Kansas City Choir Boy (featuring Courtney Love) and been a co-bandleader of Americana-folk band Bellehouse and a member of orchestral rock band Emanuel and the Fear.

In 1935, the brilliant photographer and artist Dora Maar meets Pablo Picasso at a cafe in Paris. Thus begins a relationship with the most famous artist in the world.

 The Auditorium Theatre’s National Geographic Live Series will return on January 23, 2022 with Wild Hope, featuring National Geographic photographer and filmmaker Ami Vitale. 

What could have been a cute, bittersweet May-December romcom is transformed into a transcendent homage to the lost art of oral history by the thoughtful script of Pulitzer Prize and two-time Tony nominee Martin Sherman and an exceptionally moving performance by Donald Currie. Gently Down the Stream intelligently speaks to a generation of gay men lucky enough to have survived the carnage of our pasts and reinforces the fact that we did survive, will always remember, but must move on. Theatre this moving comes around rarely folks, so this is a must-see.

Families everywhere are invited to enjoy a wintry walk in the forest this festive season as Second Hand Dance's Night Tree Films go live on Sadler's Wells Digital Stage. Based on Eve Bunting's book Night Tree, this pair of dance films are a gentle sensory journey through nature to explore at home.

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.

Mabou Mines today announces its Winter/Spring 2022 season, with the iconic company re-engaging its past to celebrate its 50th anniversary—and presenting new work that continues to vitally push the boundaries of theatrical experience.

The Public Theater announced the full line-up today for the 18th annual UNDER THE RADAR FESTIVAL, running January 12-30, 2022. The innovative festival of The Public’s winter season returns to in-person performances at The Public Theater and partner venues Mabou Mines and PS21 with work by artists from across the U.S. and around the world.

Rehearsal images have been released for Hampstead Theatre’s production of Alan Plater’s Peggy For You, directed by Richard Wilson and starring Tamsin Greig in the title role, from 10 December until 29 January 2022.  

Melbourne-based alternative-heavy band Future Static have just revealed their anthemic new single ‘Waves’ - produced by Christopher Vernon (Belle Haven, Windwaker) and Sam Bianco (Loose End) – accompanied by a cinematic video, shot and directed by Liam Davidson (Bad/Love).

Sadler’s Wells has announced that Ballo Arthur Pita’s The Little Match Girl and Second Hand Dance’s Night Tree Films will be available on Sadler’s Wells Digital Stage for the festive season.

Tamsin Greig will be joined in the cast by Josh Finan (The Responder, BBC One; Shook, Papatango Theatre Co - Southwark Playhouse/UK tour), Trevor Fox (My Brilliant Friend, National Theatre; The Jungle, New York/San Francisco/Playhouse Theatre/Young Vic), Danusia Samal (Maryland, Royal Court; The Great, Hula) and Jos Vantyler (King Lear, Old Vic; Love's Labour's Lost, Shakespeare's Globe).

Golden Thread Productions, the first US theatre company devoted to the Middle East, has announced two mainstage selections for their upcoming 2022 season. This is the first season curated by new Executive Artistic Director Sahar Assaf, bridging the past to a new era with Torange Yeghiazarian and Sahar Assaf each directing one of the season selections.