Brighton Fringe Review: THE CITY OF LADIES, Rotunda Theatre Brighton - Squeak
by Kat Mokrynski - May 30, 2025
The City of Ladies, described as an “offbeat comedy exploring the radical ladies of the past through puppetry, drag, and special hats,” has quite the unique premise. Two muses, Ladies Rectitude and Reason, visit a medieval woman named Christine de Pizan, who is struggling with what it means to be a woman in the 15th century.
MACBETH Cast Announced At Shakespeare's Globe
by A.A. Cristi - Jan 28, 2025
Shakespeare’s Globe has announced the cast of this year’s Playing Shakespeare with Deutsche Bank production, Macbeth, directed by Lucy Cuthbertson (Director of Education, Shakespeare’s Globe) in the Globe Theatre.
Review: Top Singing and Tap Dancing Highlight Richard Tucker Awards Gala
by Richard Sasanow - Nov 2, 2024
As usual, the gala concert of the Richard Tucker Music Foundation started off with an interloper from the golden age of opera: Richard Tucker himself, singing Mascagni’s “Addio alla Madre” from CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA. A tough act to follow for those singing live at Carnegie Hall, but happily no one seemed daunted by it. That doesn’t mean everything went smoothly at the gala concert, which is par for the course of the annual event. Despite the prestige of the Richard Tucker Awards, the world doesn’t stop when the Tucker Foundation comes a calling.
Ensemble For These Times Reveals 2024/25 Home Season “Women In Transit”
by Stephi Wild - Aug 26, 2024
Bay Area-based contemporary music group Ensemble for These Times has announced its 17th Home Season entitled 'Women in Transit,' the first in a two-year exploration of the transformational effects of women's border-crossing and liminality in 'our times.'
Drama Book Shop and JMGC Reveal August and September Events
by Blair Ingenthron - Aug 10, 2024
DBS welcomes a diverse range of guests from the stages of Broadway to the intimate settings of Off-Broadway, Off Off Broadway, and beyond. These discussions include Q&As, readings, and special guests.
Review: Met's Laffont Competition Unleashes New Artists on Grateful Audience
by Richard Sasanow - Mar 21, 2024
No matter how many “star” performances the Met manages to muster in the course of a season, there’s nothing quite as exciting as the Laffont Grand Finals Concert—formerly known as the Met’s National Auditions Finals—which took place this past Sunday afternoon for its 70th season, when we got to hear up-and-comers who might have knocked our socks off at the concert itself or could at some time in the future.
PROOF OF THE PUDDING Comes to 54 Below
by Stephi Wild - Mar 21, 2024
54 BELOW, Broadway’s Supper Club, will present Proof of the Pudding in Jazz Is Hot. Need Proof? on Tuesday, April 16th at 9:30pm!
92NY to Present CECILE MCLORIN SALVANT: BOOK OF AYRES Next Month
by Blair Ingenthron - Mar 20, 2024
The 92nd Street Y, New York has announced Cécile McLorin Salvant: Book of Ayres, the world premiere of a 92NY 150th anniversary commission, drawing from her brilliance in jazz, expertise in Baroque music, and more, on Saturday, April 13 at 7:30 pm.