• Karen Olivo Won’t Return to ‘Moulin Rouge!’
    Wednesday, April 14, 2021 from NYT > Theater
    Citing recent reports of abusive behavior, including by the powerful producer Scott Rudin, the actress said advocacy matters more than a lucrative role.
  • The Brief, Brilliant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry
    Wednesday, April 14, 2021 from NYT > Theater
    Soyica Diggs Colbert’s “Radical Vision” situates the playwright of “A Raisin in the Sun” as a writer who offered “a road map to negotiate Black suffering in the past and present.”
  • Review: Close Quarters and Distant Love in ‘The Last Five Years’
    Wednesday, April 14, 2021 from NYT > Theater
    Casting Black actors and filming in a claustrophobic New York apartment revitalizes Jason Robert Brown’s popular two-character musical.
  • Miami Outdoor Theater Hit Announces a New York Arrival
    Wednesday, April 14, 2021 from NYT > Theater
    “The Seven Deadly Sins,” a theatrical anthology series, will start off on June 23 at a series of storefront windows in the Meatpacking District.
  • Theater to Stream: ‘Assassins’ and ‘Romeo and Juliet’
    Wednesday, April 14, 2021 from NYT > Theater
    Highlights include a virtual production of Adam Rapp’s “The Sound Inside” and a new reading series by Roundabout Theater Company.
  • Put Down Your Book. It’s Time to Act Out.
    Wednesday, April 14, 2021 from NYT > Theater
    With playhouses closed, theater fans have taken drama into their own hands and mouths, forming play reading groups online and off.
  • 25 Free Performances Come to Bryant Park Starting in June
    Wednesday, April 14, 2021 from NYT > Theater
    The park will host events for live audiences of 200 with institutions including the New York Philharmonic, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Joe’s Pub and the Classical Theater of Harlem.
  • Review: A Perfect Storm of Weather and Racism in ‘shadow/land’
    Tuesday, April 13, 2021 from NYT > Theater
    Erika Dickerson-Despenza’s play about Black women struggling to survive Hurricane Katrina gets an ear-tingling podcast production.
  • Edinburgh Festivals Will Go Ahead, in Person and Online
    Tuesday, April 13, 2021 from NYT > Theater
    The Edinburgh International Festival, canceled last year, said it would proceed in August thanks to three specially built pavilions.
  • Jeremy O. Harris's Grad School Reunion
    Monday, April 12, 2021 from NYT > Theater
  • Things To Do At Home
    Friday, April 9, 2021 from NYT > Theater
    This week, spend story time with the National Postal Museum, listen to a lecture from the artist Lorraine O’Grady or take a Syrian cooking class.
  • Paul Ritter, British Stage, Film and TV Actor, Dies at 54
    Friday, April 9, 2021 from NYT > Theater
    A familiar face to British theatergoers, he was also well known for his role as an eccentric father on the popular sitcom “Friday Night Dinner.”
  • 5 Things to Do This Weekend
    Friday, April 9, 2021 from NYT > Theater
    Our critics and writers have selected noteworthy cultural events to experience virtually and in person in New York City.
  • ‘Only Child’ Review: A Magnetic Performer Without a Story to Match
    Thursday, April 8, 2021 from NYT > Theater
    The autobiographical solo show from Daniel J. Watts shows off his skill with spoken word and dance, but doesn’t add up to more than the sum of its parts.
  • Williamstown Festival Will Take the Shows Outside
    Thursday, April 8, 2021 from NYT > Theater
    After a lost live 2020, the theater will stage a musical at a museum’s reflecting pool and an immersive show, all over town, based on real events.
  • Poems! Songs! Demands! It’s Not Theater, but It’s … Something
    Thursday, April 8, 2021 from NYT > Theater
    Performing-arts protesters locked out by the pandemic have occupied playhouses across France, but drama is not allowed. Cue the “agoras.”
  • Erika Dickerson-Despenza Wins Blackburn Prize for ‘cullud wattah’
    Wednesday, April 7, 2021 from NYT > Theater
    The play is about the effect of the Flint, Mich., water crisis on three generations of women.
  • At 91, John Cullum Is Ready to Try Something New
    Wednesday, April 7, 2021 from NYT > Theater
    The Tony-winning musical theater actor and TV star planned to debut a cabaret show in 2019. Illness hit, then the pandemic. But he hasn’t been stopped.
  • A Theater Photographer Senses a Broadway Bloom
    Wednesday, April 7, 2021 from NYT > Theater
    For Sara Krulwich, who has shot productions for The New York Times for more than two decades, a series of recent assignments hinted at an industry revival.
  • ‘Blindness’ Review: Listening to the Sound of Theater Again
    Tuesday, April 6, 2021 from NYT > Theater
    Stimulating and immersive — yet actor-free — this audio adaptation of the Saramago novel brings the terror of an epidemic into your ears.
  • Musicals lyrics quiz: Can you guess the musical from song lyrics?
    Monday, March 22, 2021 from Daily Express :: Theatre Feed
    MUSICALS usually include songs which help to tell the story of the characters and their lives in any given moment - so can you guess which musicals these lyrics belong to?
  • West End theatre legends plead for Eat Out To Help Out scheme to get shows touring
    Thursday, February 4, 2021 from Daily Express :: Theatre Feed
    BRITAIN'S theatre producers are pleading for a ‘Eat Out To Help Out-style scheme to ensure they can get touring productions can get back on the road post pandemic.
  • Christmas pantomimes: Here's our celebrity panto highs and lows
    Wednesday, December 23, 2020 from Daily Express :: Theatre Feed
    This year our favourite pantomimes are behind us! Thanks to coronavirus, most of us have missed our seasonal sprinkling of fairy dust, magic beans, glass slippers, genies and wicked witches. All being well, these festive treats will be...
  • Theatre review: London's top productions including Everybody's Talking about Jamie and Six
    Sunday, December 20, 2020 from Daily Express :: Theatre Feed
    A round-up of the best shows you will find on London's stages...
  • A Christmas Carol review: Disneyfied musical brings warmth and cheer to the pandemic gloom
    Wednesday, December 16, 2020 from Daily Express :: Theatre Feed
    A CHRISTMAS CAROL review. Alan Menken's Disneyfied musical provides a warm dash of festive cheer to an otherwise gloomy year.
  • Royal Opera House: Nutcracker returns to the stage for Christmas
    Sunday, December 13, 2020 from Daily Express :: Theatre Feed
    THE ROYAL Ballet returned in triumphant style to cheering crowds this weekend with a fully staged Nutcracker.
  • Christmas pantomimes: The best socially-distanced pantos and shows to stream at home
    Thursday, December 10, 2020 from Daily Express :: Theatre Feed
    CHRISTMAS may feel a little different this year, but panto fans can still get a chance to watch a big show but from the comfort of their own homes.
  • Strictly Jamie Laing: Everybody's Talking About Jamie 'Drag queen' musical and new film
    Saturday, December 5, 2020 from Daily Express :: Theatre Feed
    STRICTLY STAR Jamie Laing performs the jive tonight for Musicals Week to a track from hit show Everybody's Talking About Jamie, which reopens in London's West End next week. It has also been made into a new star-studded film.
  • Strictly star Bill Bailey announces Xmas show: Christmas Larks - Tickets on sale now
    Tuesday, November 24, 2020 from Daily Express :: Theatre Feed
    STRICTLY COME DANCING star Bill Bailey is waltzing in London's West End straight after the show for a jolly Xmas treat: Christmas Larks. Tickets, dates and booking info here.
  • Theatre: Watch top productions online to help lift the lockdown gloom
    Friday, November 20, 2020 from Daily Express :: Theatre Feed
    Theatres are set to reopen in December on a strictly Covid-controlled basis. In the meantime, anyone missing a trip to their local venue will find a little comfort viewing can do much to alleviate the gloom this dark and chilly November.
  • Coronavirus: Matthew Bourne productions to be broadcast on TV
    Thursday, April 16, 2020 from The Stage | News Headlines
    Matthew Bourne shows including Romeo and Juliet, Swan Lake and The Car Man will be screened on Sky Arts as part of
  • Coronavirus: Graeae and Jack Thorne collaborate on digital lockdown programme
    Thursday, April 16, 2020 from The Stage | News Headlines
    Disabled-led theatre company Graeae has announced plans for a three-month digital programme designed to celebrate D/deaf and disabled artists. Harry Potter playwright
  • Cross-party research into creative diversity calls for evidence
    Thursday, April 16, 2020 from The Stage | News Headlines
    The All-Party Parliamentary Group for Creative Diversity is calling for evidence for a year-long research project into how to boost diversity and
  • Coronavirus: Future of rural touring at risk as 1,000 performances cancelled
    Thursday, April 16, 2020 from The Stage | News Headlines
    More than 1,000 performances in rural communities have already been cancelled as a result of coronavirus, leaving many organisations at risk of
  • Coronavirus: Old Vic will need ‘critical’ fundraising, warns Matthew Warchus
    Thursday, April 16, 2020 from The Stage | News Headlines
    Old Vic artistic director Matthew Warchus has revealed plans to reopen the venue in November, but has warned that “a critical and
  • Coronavirus: Bristol Old Vic launches online platform
    Thursday, April 16, 2020 from The Stage | News Headlines
    Bristol Old Vic is launching a digital theatre platform for its audiences and artists during the Covid-19 pandemic. Called Bristol Old Vic
  • Coronavirus: Octagon Theatre forced to delay reopening following £10m redevelopment
    Thursday, April 16, 2020 from The Stage | News Headlines
    The reopening of Bolton’s Octagon Theatre following a £10 million redevelopment has been postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic, leaving the organisation
  • Coronavirus: London fringe theatre feeds vulnerable local people
    Wednesday, April 15, 2020 from The Stage | News Headlines
    West London venue the Playground Theatre has begun to make free meals for local elderly and vulnerable people while its doors are
  • Coronavirus: Leading drama schools move teaching online for remainder of academic year
    Wednesday, April 15, 2020 from The Stage | News Headlines
    Top UK drama schools including RADA and Arts Educational Schools London have shifted all teaching online at least until September. The move
  • Coronavirus: Seyi Omooba tribunal postponed as lockdown continues
    Wednesday, April 15, 2020 from The Stage | News Headlines
    A tribunal being brought against Curve Theatre in Leicester by Seyi Omooba – the performer removed from a production of The Color
  • Review: Outsiders and Gun Violence in This Flat Earth
    Monday, April 9, 2018 from TheaterMania.com
    Lindsey Ferrentino's latest drama takes place in the wake of a school shooting.
  • Theater News: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Makes Broadway Box Office History
    Monday, April 9, 2018 from TheaterMania.com
    The new play conjures the highest grosses ever for a play.
  • Theater News: Corkscrew Theater Festival Announces Lineup for Second Season
    Monday, April 9, 2018 from TheaterMania.com
    The monthlong event will take place at Paradise Factory.
  • Theater News: Mary McDonnell to Be Presented With 2018 Pell Award
    Monday, April 9, 2018 from TheaterMania.com
    Trinity Repertory Company will award the honor on May 21.
  • Theater News: Cynthia Erivo, Judy Kuhn Set for Classic Stage Company's 50th Birthday
    Monday, April 9, 2018 from TheaterMania.com
    Donna McKechnie will also be part of the lineup of performers.
  • Theater News: Robert O'Hara to Direct New York Premiere of Aziza Barnes's BLKS
    Monday, April 9, 2018 from TheaterMania.com
    Barnes's play will be presented by MCC Theater.
  • Photo Flash: Phylicia Rashad-Led Our Lady of 121st Street Now in Rehearsals
    Monday, April 9, 2018 from TheaterMania.com
    The production marks the New York directorial debut for Tony Award winner Phylicia Rashad.
  • Theater News: Full Cast, Creative Team Announced for New Group's Peace for Mary Frances
    Monday, April 9, 2018 from TheaterMania.com
    Heather Burns, J. Smith-Cameron, and more will join Lois Smith in the world premiere of Lily Thorne's new play, directed by Lila Neugebauer.
  • Theater News: Tony Nominee Colman Domingo Joins Feeding the Dragon Talkback
    Monday, April 9, 2018 from TheaterMania.com
    The new work is written and performed by Sharon Washington.
  • Theater News: Little Known Facts Host Ilana Levine Joins Play That Goes Wrong Talkback
    Monday, April 9, 2018 from TheaterMania.com
    The Olivier Award-winning comedy opened on Broadway last April at the Lyceum Theatre.
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