The P Word - 2022 - West End Articles Page 11

The Box Café JC is teaming up with OpenRoad Poetry to present the OpenRoad Poetry Spoken Word Celebration in December. Learn more about the event here!

Room, Room, Room will return to New York City for a third run of performances presented at SubletSeries@HERE.

When the wild project launched its do-or-die capital campaign a couple of weeks back, an industry reeling from several hits to the off-off-Broadway community braced for another one. However, even though the downtown arts community had suffered several losses, the news that the non-profit needed to raise $1 million in only three months caught many by surprise.

Ukrainian Contemporary Music Festival has revealed its 2025 festival 'Letters and Notes' at the Dimenna Center in New York City. See full programming and see how to purchase tickets.

Imani C. Holingsworth has been appointed as the new Director of Education at The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills.

Rapper Cordae will embark on The Crossroads Tour in 2025. The 23-city trek kicks off on Wednesday, February 5 at Ace of Spades in Sacramento, CA, making stops in Los Angeles, Houston, Atlanta, Toronto, New York and more.

The cast has been announced for the world premiere of Belly of the Beast, an award-winning new play from a debut playwright, Saana Sze. Learn more about the show and the cast here!

San Francisco Playhouse is currently collaborating with a lineup of 16 established and emerging playwrights to pen new plays. Learn more about the plays and about the Playhouse!

As a part of the International Fringe Encore series, British comedian Emmanuel Sonubi is bringing his show, Curriculum Vitae, to the SoHo Playhouse. Recently, we had the chance to chat with Sonubi about his show’s upcoming run. We discussed how he first got started in the world of comedy, what his creative process for Curriculum Vitae has been like and how he’s checking something off of his bucket list!

GYPSY is coming back to Broadway, starring Audra McDonald! The production begins previews at Broadway’s newly renovated Majestic Theatre. Meet the cast of GYPSY here!

K-pop powerhouse ENHYPEN return with their dreamy 2nd Studio Repackage Album ROMANCE : UNTOLD -daydream-. The recording expands upon themes from their 2nd studio album released earlier this year in July. Listen to it now!

Andy Sandberg, Artistic Director and CEO of the Hermitage Artist Retreat, has announced that California-based playwright Naomi Iizuka has been selected as the fifth recipient of the Hermitage Major Theater Award (HMTA).

As I sat in the audience, waiting for the performance of War Horse In Concert, a Pops presentation for the Wichita Symphony, I overhead several audience members discussing their expectations for what they were about to experience. “Is this a play?”  “It looks like there are narrators!” “Is this different from a regular concert?” Most “In Concert” performances are based on well known musicals, but War Horse In Concert is based on War Horse Suite 2022, a symphonic work derived from the score of the play with the same name. The play is based on the original story written by Michael Morpurgo. War Horse: The Story in Concert premiered at London’s Royal Albert Hall in 2016, with music composed by Adrian Sutton, and the narration was adapted from the play script written in 1982 by Nick Stafford. The performance consisted of a very simple staged version of the piece, with multiple actors playing multiple roles, supplying dialogue at the important points in the story. There was also a main singer and a chorus to help convey the emotions that the spoken word can fail to supply. This allows the orchestra to feature the score so the story to be told by both the music and the word. A concert version is usually a scaled down production, sans sets, props, elaborate costumes, and in the case of War Horse, the puppets used to portray the horses. The audience is asked to use their imaginations, and their mind’s eye, to fill in the remainder of the story.

Erica Peck is no stranger to being associated with theatre that garners a cult following. Currently, she is starring as Molly Brown in the musical comedy TITANIQUE. Here, she talks to BWW about this exciting opportunity to celebrate the music of Céline Dion, while bringing the comedy and the vocals to the stage at the Segal Centre in Montreal.

Theatrical producer Mandy Greenfield has launched her own independent production company, Red Yes Studio. The company aims to commission, develop, and produce bold new work for the stage and screen.

Discover the lineup for the 36th ISRAEL FILM FESTIVAL in Los Angeles, featuring a diverse selection of films from November 13-26, 2024.

On Saturday, October 26, from 4-7pm, Compagnia de'Colombari’s Whitman on Walls! (WoW!) will come to Queens in collaboration with St. John’s University. The event is an afternoon screening of seven films by Compagnia de' Colombari and original poems by St. John's students and faculty in response to Walt Whitman's 'Song of Myself' at the D’Angelo Center.

Science in Theatre Festival will return to Brooklyn Art Haus, featuring original plays and discussions that merge theater with scientific research. Explore the ethics and implications of new discoveries.

Esteemed American playwrights Cherríe Moraga and Richard Wesley have been announced as the 2024 recipients of the Legacy Playwright Awards. Learn more about the playwrights and about the awards.

Yeat has unveiled the official music video for “GO2WORK” featuring Summrs, from his fifth LP LYFESTYLE, out now. Watch the new video!

The Royal Ballet season continues with its first modern bill - Encounters: Four contemporary ballets. For some, like me, the four works presented are all new, but in actuality only two of the four are premières. And one of those is in fact a development of an existing (2022) pas de deux into a bigger scale work.

The Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center in San Antonio announced three plays for its Teatro Salon Table Reading Series, scheduled for November-December 2024, showcasing new works and local talent.

Maureen Nolan and Coronation Street’s Emrhys Cooper are set to head a the cast for St Helens Theatre Royal’s festive family show this Christmas. Meet the cast in new photos!

The Apollo Theater has announced its 2024 holiday programming, featuring events for all ages, including music, dance, and family-friendly performances, celebrating the festive season in Harlem.

Samuel L. Jackson visited The Tonight Show on Monday, where he previewed Malcolm Washington's upcoming film adaptation of August Wilson's The Piano Lesson. Jackson also shared a short clip from the film, which can be seen as part of the interview. Watch it now!