Theatre
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James Darrah At Boston Lyric Opera
Creating Streamed Productions
By: - Nov 24th, 2020Boston Lyric Opera, ever on the lookout for startling innovations that work, has hired Darrah to produce a stop motion feature-length animated version of Philip Glass’s The Fall of the House of Usher.
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The Ballad of Janis Matthews and the Dodo Scouts
New, Original Musical Presented As a Radio Series
By: - Nov 28th, 2020South Miami-based Area Stage Company is presenting a new, original musical as an online radio series. The Ballad of Janis Matthews & The Dodo Scouts takes place in Colorado during the 1960's. Area Stage will present the musical as a four-part radio series. The musical's live world premiere is scheduled for Summer 2021.
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Barrington Stage Company 2020 Associate Artists
David Lander, Jeffrey Page and Alysha Umphress.
By: - Nov 30th, 2020Barrington Stage Company (BSC), announces the 2020 Associate Artists – lighting designer David Lander, director/choreographer Jeffrey Page and actress Alysha Umphress.
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Closer Than Ever
Maltby & Shire Musical Revue in South Florida
By: - Dec 01st, 2020South Florida's MNM Theatre Company is streaming the musical revue 'Closer Than Ever' through Dec. 31. Director Jonathan Van Dyke has found a creative way to make the actors look like they're close to each other on screen. 'Closer Than Ever' is a riveting, sung-thru song cycle.
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Italian & American Playwrights Project
Live on US Non-Profit Digital Theatre Platform
By: - Dec 07th, 2020New York theatre curators Valeria Orani and Frank Hentschker will host the Third Edition of the Italian & American Playwrights Project (IAPP) on Monday, December 14, 2020, 4:30 pm live on US Non-Profit Digital Theatre Platform www.HowlRound.com.
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Ring In the New Year With New Play Development
Annual Festival Develops New Works
By: - Dec 07th, 2020Palm Beach Dramaworks' third annual New Year/New Plays Festival will take place via Zoom. This year, the South Florida theater company's annual event will last five days, instead of the usual three. Audiences assist in the process of writing new plays by offering feedback.
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Barrington Stage Company Awards Spark Grants
Intended to Spark New Work
By: - Dec 09th, 2020Barrington Stage Company (BSC), is pleased to announce the first round of Spark Grants of $2,500 each to eleven artists with whom Barrington Stage Company has either collaborated with on past work or looks forward to collaborating with in the future. Each recipient was awarded the grant under the single condition that the money be used to spark the artist’s creativity.
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A Christmas Carol
Dickens' Classic is Streaming through Early January
By: - Dec 11th, 2020Tony Award-winning Broadway actor Jefferson Mays plays more than 50 characters in an online streaming version of A Christmas Carol. This production is a filmed version of Geffen Playhouse's 2018 production. Streaming continues thru early January.
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Norm Lewis Returns to A.R.T.
Norm Lewis: Christmastime Is Here
By: - Dec 12th, 2020Norm Lewis: Christmastime Is Here premieres Thursday, December 17 at 8PM and streams on demand through December 31. It is part of the 54 Below Premieres series. Previously he co stared with Audra McDonald in Porgy and Bess at American Repertory Theatre.
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Virtual Theatre
Through Pandemic and Beyond
By: - Dec 12th, 2020Virtual theater has come in many forms during the last eight pandemic months. Our most recent theater review was actor/clown Bill Irwin’s new version of his bravura performance of On Beckett adapted for livestreaming by Irish Repertory Theatre. In this article, we look at how virtual theater is faring in Chicago and beyond.
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An Iliad Live Streamed
North Coast Repertory Theatre
By: - Dec 14th, 2020NCRT latest foray into filmed stage plays which ‘opened’ on December 9th is streaming the play “An Iliad” through January 3, 2021. The play, freely, adapted, by Lisa Peterson and Denis O’Hare from ancient Greek playwright Homer, creates a modern dress production of Homer’s “Iliad’. Deftly directed by savvy NCRT artistic director David Ellenstein, “An Iliad” stars award winning actor Richard Baird in a powerful, mesmerizing, tour-de-force, performance that leaves the streaming home audience in a state of awe.
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Irish Repertory Theatre's Meet Me In St. Louis
Holiday Treat Directed by Charlotte Moore
By: - Dec 13th, 2020The Irish Repertory Theatre has brought superb streamed theatre to the public this fall. Their most recent production, streaming now, is Meet Me in St. Louis. It is just the right champagne for the holiday season.
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Shakespeare & Company Greetings
If music be the food of love, play on
By: - Dec 18th, 2020Holiday greetings from Allyn Burrows the artistic director of Shakespeare & Company. With hope for a New Year and a lively summer season.
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August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Astonishing Netflix Production with Viola Davis and Chadwick Boseman
By: - Dec 19th, 2020Previously, Denzel Washington produced and co-starred (with Viola Davis) in August Wilson's "Fences." Now he has produced Wilson's "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" with the late Chadwick Boseman. Washington plans to film the other eight plays in Wilson's iconic Pittsburgh or Century Cycle. For the decade of the 1920s Wilson took a side trip to Chicago and a recording session with the Mother of the Blues the great Ma Rainey. The best news is that the new release is available to stream on Netflix. The production is destined for a bundle of nominations during awards season.
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Ann Reinking at 71
Late Broadway Star Shone as Roxie Hart in Chicago
By: - Dec 19th, 2020Ann Reinking died in her sleep at age 71. The late Broadway star's extensive work in musical theater included playing Roxie Hart in 'Chicago.' She performed on Broadway for three decades.
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David Bowie's Lazarus
2017 London Production to be Live Streamed
By: - Dec 20th, 2020David Bowie's Lazarus. As luck will have it, the London Production, filmed in 2017, is available for streaming from January 8 - January 10.
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Seven Deadly Sins
A Safe Outdoor Theatrical Experience in Miami Beach.
By: - Dec 21st, 2020Socially-distanced, mask-clad audience members are taking in 'Seven Deadly Sins,' a production of short plays in Miami Beach. Miami New Drama is staging 'Seven Deadly Sins' live and in person, with COVID safety protocols. 'Seven Deadly Sins' runs through Jan. 17 on Miami Beach's Lincoln Road, an outdoor shopping and dining promenade.
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Rebecca Luker at 59
Thirty-year Broadway Star dies of A.L.S.
By: - Dec 24th, 2020Broadway soprano Rebecca Luker died on Wednesday, Dec. 23 at a Manhattan hospital from A.L.S. Luker received Tony Award nominations for her work in Show Boat, The Music Man, and Mary Poppins. Luker announced in February that doctors diagnosed her with A.L.S. Her last appearance came in June via Zoom.
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Tom Stoppard’s The Coast of Utopia
Riveting Nine Hour Trilogy of 19th Century Russians
By: - Dec 27th, 2020Recently I had a chance to revisit the most spectacular theater experience I’ve ever had. It took place on a weekend in February 2007. Over the course of two days, I experienced all nine hours of The Coast of Utopia, Tom Stoppard’s trilogy on 19th century Russian intellectuals and revolutionaries.
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Pen/Man/Ship by Christina Anderson
Moliere in the Park Streams Its First Contemporary Play
By: - Dec 27th, 2020Moliere in the Park, with their streaming team Andy Carluccio and Liminal Entertainment Technologies, LLC are presenting Christina Anderson’s pen/man/ship free through January 4th. It is a powerful play set on a boat passage that reverses the more familiar journey of black Africans.
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Readers Series Slated
At Ft. Lauderdale's Thinking Cap Theatre
By: - Jan 03rd, 2021Thinking Cap Theatre in Southeast Florida is launching a virtual series in which participants will read plays and then discuss them with artists. The first installment, "Race on the American Stage" kicks off this month. Pulitzer Prize-winning Fairview and the multi Tony-nominated Slave Play are among the featured works.
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Compensation in South Florida
World Premiere Production by Island City Stage
By: - Jan 12th, 2021Southeast Florida's Island City Stage will present the world premiere production of Compensation. The play is about a young woman who becomes a surrogate for a gay couple. The production will open Feb. 5, with two weekends of live performances. A week later, the company will present Compensation virtually.
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Arts Critic Sandy Katz at 80
Traveling Sandy Was an ATCA Member
By: - Jan 13th, 2021Sandy Katz, a theatre critic and travel writer from Charleston, Carolina, busted out with charisma and personality. Dubbed “Traveling Sandy” her bags were always packed for any destination.
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World Travel and New Plays
Southeast Florida Theater Companies Present Diverse Offerings
By: - Jan 21st, 2021Theatre Lab, Florida Atlantic University's professional resident theater company, will offer its new play festival online this year. Miami’s Juggerknot Theatre Company and the international-based PopUP Theatrics offer the chance to travel the world from the comfort of your home. "Travel" to places such as Lagos, Mumbai, Portland-Oregon, Beirut, Los Angeles, and Mexico City.
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Theatre @ Home Winter Festival.
New York City's Irish Repertory Theatre
By: - Jan 23rd, 2021Irish Repertory Theatre (IRT) will show all nine of its original digital productions created during the pandemic. The festival starts on Jan. 26 and runs through Feb. 21. The event includes pieces by Brian Friel, James Joyce, Conor McPherson, and Eugene O'Neill. While there is no cost, IRT encourages donations.
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