Theatre
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The Catastrophist by Lauren Guderson
True Story About Pandemic Expert, Her Husband
By: - Jan 26th, 2021Though not a play about COVID19, it is a true story of a pandemic expert. An interactive deep dive into the profundities of scientific exploration and the harrowing realities of facing your own mortality, The Catastrophist by Lauren Gunderson is a world premiere theatrical experience built of and for this moment in time.
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TFANA Streams an Outsider Rehearsal
John Douglas Thompson Takes on Shylock
By: - Jan 28th, 2021Preparing for live-reopening, Theatre for a New Audience (TFANA) is sharing its rehearsal process. Arin Arbus, a regular as TFANA, directs. She and John Douglas Thompson have worked together on Otello and Macbeth. Now they take on Shylock and Merchant of Venice.
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15-Minute Musical Challenge
New Musicals Emerge from Contest
By: - Feb 11th, 2021Five new short musicals will mark their world premieres virtually. The shows came out of the National Alliance for Musical Theatre's "15-Minute Musical Challenge." The Cleveland-area's Beck Center for the Arts, in collaboration with the Baldwin Wallace University Music Theatre Program, will present the shows.
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New Federal Theatre is Fifty
Woodie King Jr,'s Iconic Contribution
By: - Feb 16th, 2021Theater royalty recognizing theater, television and movie royalty was the fantastic vibe when the New Federal Theatre recently celebrated its Golden 50th Anniversary and successfully operating from 1970 to 2020 and of course, it will keep on keepin’ on! It was a celebration fit for a king and it was for a king, Mr. Woodie King Jr., founder of New Federal Theatre and a man I love to call Mr. Theatre.
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Long Distance Affair
An Immersive, Intimate Theatrical Experience.
By: - Feb 15th, 2021Long Distance Affair takes you on a virtual trip across the world to view short plays. Miami's Juggerknot Theatre Company and New York's PopUP Theatrics run the program. Travel to Lagos, Nigeria; Mumbai, India; Mexico City, Mexico; Los Angeles, Calif., Portland, Oregon; and Beirut, Lebanon. The current run of Long Distance Affair continues through Feb. 21.
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The Belle of Amherst
A co-production Between Two Southeast Florida Companies
By: - Feb 19th, 2021Actors' Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre in Coral Gables and Palm Beach Dramaworks in West Palm Beach will pair up to produce a play about Emily Dickinson. The co-production of The Belle of Amherst will stream from April 2-6. A crew will film the production on Palm Beach Dramaworks’ mainstage. No audience members will be present.
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10X10 New Play Festival at Barrington Stage Company
Tenth Season of Popular Festival Now Virtual
By: - Feb 22nd, 2021The annual mid winter 10X10 New Play Festival new play festival is back for its tenth year. This time virtual from Barrington Stage Company in Pittsfield. The plays are generally fun. Ones your don't care for are gone in ten minutes and there are nine more to consider. There are always hits and misses and it's fun to participate and debate.
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New Federal Theatre Celebrates Black History Month
Plays by Laurence Holder, Jeff Stetson and Mfundi Vundla
By: - Feb 21st, 2021New Federal Theatre is presenting three classic plays during Black History Month. The troupe has mastered the streaming form, using individual, adjoining screens for the actors and cleverly breaking the 4th wall of streaming, the line that divides one screen from another. Malcolm X and Rev. Martin Luther King can even arm wrestle in this form.
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Compensation in South Florida
A Word Premiere Production by Island City Stage
By: - Feb 23rd, 2021In Compensation, the characters experience a profound yearning for family and connection. The world premiere production by Island City Stage, near Ft. Lauderdale, is streaming online through Feb. 28. Compensation is a lean, focused, heartfelt, and sometimes funny piece.
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Safe House
An Immersive Theatrical Experience in Sarasota
By: - Mar 03rd, 2021Audiences will find a missing person in the show Safe House, a hybrid between a film and a live show. Sarasota's Urbanite Theatre's production runs through April 4.
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Pat White Keeps New Federal Theatre Alive and Well
Multi-talented Executive Producer
By: - Mar 02nd, 2021Patricia “Pat” White is a mainstay of the New Federal Theatre (NFT). For twenty-five years she has handled all the details of running the producing company. This allows founder Woodie King Jr. to read scripts until 2 o’clock in the morning.
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The Art of Sacrifice by Anthony Clarvoe
Produced by Remote Theater
By: - Mar 08th, 2021While no others loomed so large in the public’s fascination, “The Queen’s Gambit” was certainly not the first performance work to feature chess as a central theme. Among others was Anthony Clarvoe’s play “The Art of Sacrifice” which was first produced in 2006. This production is captured with Zoom technology. Director Desdemona Chiang has chosen to use conventional Zoom format with actors facing separate fixed cameras. With this limitation, actors appear as talking heads delivering competing monologues.
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Kleban Prize for Musical Theatre
Award Honors Most Promising Artists
By: - Mar 10th, 2021This year, the presentation of the Kleban Prize for Musical Theatre will be digital. The event honoring promising lyricists and librettists will stream at 7 p.m. EST Monday, March 15. Melissa Li, Benjamin Scheuer, and Kit Yan are this year's winners. The award's namesake, Edward Kleban, is the late Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning lyricist of A Chorus Line.
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New Federal Theatre Celebrates Women's History Month
Riverting Production of Pearl Cleag's Hospice
By: - Mar 13th, 2021New Federal Theatre has always promoted the inclusion of women artists as part of its mission. It is no surprise that they are offering works by and with women for Women’s History Month. They appeal to everyone. Petronia Paley and Margaret Odette are featured in the two-hander, Hospice by Pearl Cleage. Billed as a reading, the performances are full characterizations by actors.
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[hieroglyph] by Erika Dickerson-Despenza
San Francisco Playhouse and Lorraine Hansberry Theatre
By: - Mar 15th, 2021Playwright Erika Dickerson-Despenza’s poignant drama deals with trauma and loss that most of us, thankfully, will never have to handle. She speaks to the fears that women particularly suffer – and moreso, women of color; and moreso yet, teenage girls of color. These core elements are enhanced by a rich exploration of boundaries – parent-child, teacher-student, parent-teacher, friend-to-friend, as well as those of professional and sexual propriety.
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Jericho
New Normal Rep's inaugural production
By: - Mar 15th, 2021New Normal Rep.'s inaugural production is the dramedy Jericho, by the company's artistic director, Jack Canfora. The new online theater company's debut production features strong acting, quality direction. Jericho is streaming through April 4 at NewNormalRep.org. The play is touching and funny, but not particularly original.
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The Irish Repertory Theatre Presents The Aran Islands
Synge's Language Captured Brilliantly by Brendon Conroy
By: - Mar 18th, 2021The Irish Repertory Theatre has given ten streamed performances, or arranged for them, during the time of Covid. Each one has added immensely to our pleasure. The latest comes straight from Dublin. It is a one man performance on stage by the actor Brendan Conroy. His lilting voice, describing the bleak Aran Islands and the lives of its inhabitants draws us in. We quickly understand that the man who wrote the words, J. M. Synge, was a musician. As words roll in Conroy's mouth, we hear musical phrases, dips and crescendos, textured takes on vowels and consonants.
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Thornton Wilder's Our Town
Howard Sherman on an American Icon
By: - Apr 08th, 2021Thornton Wilder's Our Town is a widely produced icon of American Theatre. It is the subject of a new oral history by Howard Sherman.
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Julliard :Launches Julliard Live
Presenting Music, Dance and Drama
By: - Apr 08th, 2021Juilliard announces the launch of Juilliard LIVE, a new streaming initiative offering performances from across its three divisions—music, dance, and drama—online to a global audience. The broad initiative, part of the school’s long-term strategic plan, was accelerated over the past year when indoor performances were halted due to the pandemic. With a mix of livestreamed and on-demand content, Juilliard LIVE expands student performance opportunities both now and in the future, and it will increase accessibility to the performing arts for audiences around the world.
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Les Arts Florissants at Versailles
William Christie Brings Us Charpentier
By: - Apr 12th, 2021The always delightful Les Arts Florissants’ bring us a performance of Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s Grand Motets, now available on Qwest TV. Qwest was developed by Quincy Jones, whose middle name is “Delight.” And delight is what he brings us with the 17th century music of Marc-Antoine Charpentier.
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Lisa Ramirez Performs Eliot's The Waste Land
April is the Cruelest Month
By: - Apr 13th, 2021John Wilkens has adapted “The Waste Land” to the stage as a vehicle for a solo performer. Oakland Theater Project has produced the staging, starring the multi-talented Lisa Ramirez and directed by Michael Socrates Moran. This production is the first live performance with a live audience sanctioned by Actors Equity in the state of California since the start of the pandemic. But to accomplish the approval, the performance is outdoors, and the audience remain in their cars.
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The Niceties
At Southeast Florida's Island City Stage
By: - Apr 12th, 2021The Niceties is an explosive drama that asks us how we might be contributing to systemic racism. The Eleanor Burgess drama takes place on a prestigious university in the Northeast. Island City Stage in suburban Ft. Lauderdale is presenting the show in person and online. In-person performances continue through April 18. Streaming will be available from April 16-25.
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Huntington Theatre 2021
Season Starts in Late August
By: - Apr 14th, 2021The Huntington announces the return to live, in-person performances following an incomparable year-and-a-half of stages left dark because of the global pandemic. The 7-play season will begin on August 27, 2021 and take place primarily at the Wimberly Theatre in the Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA in the South End while The Huntington Theatre undergoes a transformational renovation; one production will take place at the Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre.
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Huntington Theatre World Premiere
Black Beans Project to Live Stream
By: - Apr 21st, 2021The Huntington presents Black Beans Project, a world premiere digital work by Huntington artist-in-residence Melinda Lopez and award-winning performer Joel Perez, directed by Jaime Castañeda, and available for on-demand streaming from May 11 – 30, 2021.
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A Letter To Harvey Milk: The Musical
Coming Out in San Francisco
By: - Apr 23rd, 2021A Letter to Harvey Milk had a successful run at the Acorn Theatre in New York in 2018. It is streming free with suggested donations for the Actor’s Fund and The Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society. Now it is streaming live.
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