English National Ballet has launched their series Wednesday Watch Parties with the 2016 production of Annabelle Lopez Ochoa's critically acclaimed Broken Wings, featuring Tamara Rojo in the role of Frida Kahlo alongside legendary ballet star Irek Mukhamedov as Diego Rivera. The music, by Peter Salem, is performed by English National Ballet Philharmonic.
Today, TEDxBroadway organizers announced a new series of online conversations with a central theme in light of the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on the Broadway community -- 'What's the best WE can be right now?'
Red Bull Theater today announced the next event of its special benefit programming to provide an opportunity for its community of artists and theater lovers to gather in the virtual space during this unprecedented time of COVID-19: a RemarkaBull Podversation with Elizabeth Marvel.
Morgan Anita Wood, Vincent Jamal Hooper, Henry Mansfield and Monet Sabel were the latest guests on Seniorly Presents: Curtain Up! a live show created in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Watch the episode below!
Steppenwolf Theatre Company is replacing its 2020 Gala with a special online event, Pants Optional: A Steppenwolf Soirée, celebrating the power of theatre and raising vital funds to keep it alive during a time of necessary social-distancing.
The newest episode of The Fabulous Invalid Podcast features composer Jeanine Tesori doing a deep dive into the brand new album from her show 'Soft Power, which was released last week! Jeanine goes track by track in discussion with the podcast's hosts, Rob Russo and Jamie DuMont. Listen below!
To commemorate their company raising more than $1 million for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS over their three year run, the national touring cast of Disney's Aladdin created this special music video for 'Buy Back the Time.'
WREG has reported that husband and wife Brandon and Virginia Ramey, who are dancers with Ballet Memphis, have found ways to continue dancing at home, after the Ballet's performance of Cinderella was cancelled- they debuted the character 'Cindy' to the world via video.
WCBD News has reported on couple Leah Edwards and husband Dimitri Pitta who are entertaining their neighbors by performing concerts while social distancing from their driveway!
Gordon Cox, Contributing Theater Editor for 'Variety' and host of Variety's 'Stagecraft' podcast, is featured in this episode of THEATER: All the Moving Parts, hosted by Patrick Pacheco, premiering on Friday, April 24th, 9:30PM on CUNY TV.
Broadway Bounty Hunter - Original Cast Recording will be available on digital and streaming formats on Friday, April 24. The new musical comedy features music and lyrics by Tony Award nominee Joe Iconis ('Smash,' Be More Chill), who also co-wrote the book with Lance Rubin (Denton Little's Deathdate), and Jason SweetTooth Williams (Be More Chill).
Acclaimed theatre artist Francesca Millican-Slater returns with an offshoot of her hit Edinburgh Fringe show turned podcast Stories to Tell in the Middle of the Night with a very special set of stories that are about now. When we are all staying at home.
It's hard to believe that it's been four years since Emma Rice made her debut at Shakespeare's Globe, beginning her brief tenure as artistic director with the Wonders season and her own production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. As a Shakespeare fan (I was one of those rare beings: someone who actually enjoyed studying his plays at school), I'd been meaning to go to the Globe for some time but had never quite got round to it a?' and I'd never seen anything by Emma Rice before. How times change.
Just as BLEEDING LOVE takes place in a world where people are locked in because it's too dangerous to go outside, this podcast was recorded by actors in their apartments, in a world where it's too dangerous to go outside.
Broadway Records announced that Tony Nominee Caitlin Kinnunen will sing the title role of Frankie in the upcoming Cast Concept Album for FRANKIE! THE MUSICAL, featuring music and lyrics by teen writer Elise Marra.
Orlando Shakes in partnership with UCF will provide an on demand video of the company's 2017 production of Showtime With Shakespeare: A Magic Tree House Adventure to all Orange County Public Schools (OCPS) fourth grade students (approx. 15,000 students) with a post-show digital quiz and 'Magic Tree House Alive! Distance Learning Workshop' to be assigned to students with built in video homework for assessment.
The St. Louis High School Musical Theatre Awards (SLHSMTA) will announce eligible nominees during a virtual medallion ceremony hosted by Mike Isaacson (The Muny Artistic Director & Executive Producer) and Mandy Murphey (KTVI Fox 2 News Anchor).
The UConn Asian and Asian American Studies Institute, UConn Puppet Arts Program, and Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry present a talkback about Nicotiana: A Shadow Puppet Play with Crankies by Rumput, featuring Balinese puppeteer I Gusti Putu Sudarta.
National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene continues to bring the stage to global audiences when Folksbiene LIVE! features Daniel Kahn (Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish, Netflix's Unorthodox) presenting Yiddish Blues in Berlin on Wednesday, April 29 at 7:00 PM. The special event will feature new and old songs of hope and despair in Yiddish and English.
In this time of social distancing and remaining responsibly indoors, we are all looking for ways to brighten our days and get moving any way we can! In the spirit of celebrating theater and providing motivation to get up and get shakin', we're taking a look back and paying tribute to some of the greatest dance numbers in musical theater history! Today's number, 'Brotherhood of Man' from How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying.
Billy Porter, the cast of Jagged Little Pill, Alex Newell, George Salazar, and more have joined GLAAD's livestream event, a?oeTogether in Pride: You are Not Alone,a?? on Sunday, April 26 at 8pm ET on GLAAD's YouTube channel and Facebook Live.
The Stratford Festival is launching a film festival during this period of social isolation, offering free streaming of 12 Shakespeare productions captured as part of its Stratford Festival On Film series. It launches today, on Shakespeare's birthday, with King Lear, directed by Artistic Director Antoni Cimolino and featuring Colm Feore in the title role.