Edmonton's Freewill Shakespeare in the Park Announces Summer Programming
by Chloe Rabinowitz - April 23, 2021 They will be pivoting from the event in its usual form: amphitheatre seating, drinks, snacks, and big Shakespeare cast and crew wandering in and out of audiences. They will be offering outdoor & physically distant opportunities to experience Shakespeare in true Freewill style later in the summer wh...
100 YEARS | 100 WOMEN 2021 Conversation Series Announced
by Chloe Rabinowitz - April 26, 2021 Park Avenue Armory has announced the 100 Years | 100 Women Conversation Series in collaboration with The Metropolitan Museum of Art, a continuation of the 100 Years | 100 Women initiative celebrating the centennial of the 19th Amendment's ratification granting some women the right to vote. ...
BWW Blog: Sharing Their Stories - An Interview with Megan Lohne
by Student Blogger: Leah Packer - January 28, 2021 The latest installment of 'Sharing Their Stories' features Megan Lohne, a theater creator, agent, and overall innovator!...
BWW Review: KASTA LA VISTA at Teatr Polski
by Natalia Jarczynska - June 04, 2021 Kasta La Vista is a comical spectacle but with a bitter aftertaste. French author Sébastien Thiery made sure that his text was absurd, funny but also scary and all this mixture makes the show so special....
Kelly Tweeddale Steps Down As Executive Director Of San Francisco Ballet
by A.A. Cristi - June 28, 2021 The Board of Directors of the San Francisco Ballet announced today that Kelly Tweeddale is leaving her position as Executive Director. Chief Development Officer Danielle St. Germain-Gordon has taken on the responsibility of Interim Executive Director while SF Ballet undertakes an international searc...
Scottsdale Arts To Host Virtual ARTrageous Gala
by A.A. Cristi - March 11, 2021 Scottsdale Arts has pivoted its elegant fundraising event, The ARTrageous Gala, to become a love-themed virtual celebration at 7 p.m. Saturday, April 10, 2021. ...
BWW Feature: How Broadway Women's Alliance Is Changing the Game for Women in Theatre
by A.A. Cristi - January 17, 2021 Since its official launch on January 23, 2020, the Broadway Women's Alliance has developed into a legitimate and thriving enterprise. Over the past year, BWA has hosted numerous salons, seminars, happy hours and networking events, creating a tight- knit community of women from all corners of show bu...
New Orleans' World Of Wings Comes To Philly With Help From Chef Jose Garces
by A.A. Cristi - July 08, 2021 New Orleans' famous World of Wings will fly the coop and head north to Philadelphia this summer as the start of a major national expansion. Ballard Brands teams up with Garces restaurants for a new ghost kitchen that will operate out of The Olde Bar in Old City District. For Philly's wing lovers, th...
The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage to Focus on Recovery Funding for Philadelphia Arts and History Organizations in 2021
by Stephi Wild - January 19, 2021 The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage (the Center) has announced that its 2021 grant making will focus on assisting arts and history organizations in the Philadelphia region to recover from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, pivoting from its usual project grants for individual public programs and e...
EASTER Dining Options Around the City
by Marina Kennedy - March 28, 2021 Dine out and savor a meal on Easter or enjoy the take out and delivery options. We have a nice selection of restaurants in NYC that will make the holiday weekend a pleasure....
BWW Interview: Director Bernadette Armstrong Pivoting Across The Continents With THE CANTERVILLE GHOST
by Gil Kaan - March 17, 2021 The intercontinental collaboration of Open-Door Playhouse and Our Kid and Me Productions THE CANTERVILLE GHOST premieres online March 24, 2021. Open-Door creator Bernadette Armstrong directs this adaptation of the short story by Oscar Wilde featuring a combined cast from Los Angeles and Oxford, U.K....
Seattle Opera Unveils First Outdoor Recital Series—and More
by A.A. Cristi - May 19, 2021 From a new streaming production of Tosca filmed at a historic Seattle cathedral, to live outdoor recitals at Seattle Center, and a conductor dialogue on race and gender, there's plenty of ways to engage with music through Seattle Opera's June offerings....
New Orleans' World Of Wings Comes To Philly With Help From Chef Jose Garces
by A.A. Cristi - July 08, 2021 New Orleans' famous World of Wings will fly the coop and head north to Philadelphia this summer as the start of a major national expansion. Ballard Brands teams up with Garces restaurants for a new ghost kitchen that will operate out of The Olde Bar in Old City District. For Philly's wing lovers, th...
BWW Feature: How Broadway Women's Alliance Is Changing the Game for Women in Theatre
by A.A. Cristi - January 17, 2021 Since its official launch on January 23, 2020, the Broadway Women's Alliance has developed into a legitimate and thriving enterprise. Over the past year, BWA has hosted numerous salons, seminars, happy hours and networking events, creating a tight- knit community of women from all corners of show bu...
Detroit Public TV, PBS Books And ASALH Partnership To Celebrate Black Authors
by A.A. Cristi - February 03, 2021 As the nation struggles to understand its past and forge a more equitable future, PBS Books and ASALH (Association for the Study of African American Life and History) have formed a new alliance, committed to highlighting the most acclaimed and important African American authors of our time and the i...
BWW Feature: How Broadway Women's Alliance Is Changing the Game for Women in Theatre
by A.A. Cristi - January 17, 2021 Since its official launch on January 23, 2020, the Broadway Women's Alliance has developed into a legitimate and thriving enterprise. Over the past year, BWA has hosted numerous salons, seminars, happy hours and networking events, creating a tight- knit community of women from all corners of show bu...
Old Globe Plans to Reopen as Early as June 2021
by Stephi Wild - April 10, 2021 The theater has begun to ramp up toward in-person events in its outdoor Lowell Davies Festival Theatre and hopes to schedule events as early as the first week of June. ...
The Washington Ballet to Conclude 2020/21 Season With Silas Farley's Werner Sonata and Dana Genshaft's ORPHEUS
by Chloe Rabinowitz - May 24, 2021 The Washington Ballet will conclude its all-digital 2020/21 season with Silas Farley's Werner Sonata and Dana Genshaft's Orpheus, premiering on the global arts streaming platform Marquee TV beginning June 18, 2021, at 7:00PM ET....
Gallery Players Presents Jana Robbins And Haley Swindal in WE JUST MOVE ON!
by Chloe Rabinowitz - February 15, 2021 Gallery Players and the Jewish Community Center of Greater Columbus has announced their next virtual program on Saturday, March 6 beginning at 7:15PM. Performed and recorded in NYC just for their Columbus audience, WE JUST MOVE ON! Songs of Kander and Ebb is going to be a virtual event you won't wan...
Theatre Now New York Announces National Musical Writers Group
by Chloe Rabinowitz - February 17, 2021 Theatre Now New York has established a new National Musical Writers Group which will bring together lyricists and composers from across the nation. The inaugural group members include: Jason Aguirre and Adam J. Rineer (Philadelphia); Mark Evan Chimsky (Portland, ME) and Zev Burrows (New York City); ...
Tel Aviv Museum Of Art Receives $15M Supporting Comprehensive Upgrade Of Main Building
by Stephi Wild - June 07, 2021 The landmark donation from the US-based foundation will support an extensive upgrade of the museum's main building to enhance visitor experience, expand programming, and install new, state-of-the-art, environmentally efficient systems....
BWW Feature: Blindspot Collective's interactive SAFA'S STORY Helps Students Build a Foundation to Build A Better Future
by E.H. Reiter - March 15, 2021 Catherine Hannah Schrock, the Director of Community Development for Blindspot Collective, along with some teachers and performers, discuss the impact of SAFA'S STORY on students and how it was important for this program to continue in a virtual form....
BWW Interview: From PUBLIC OFFICE to SWEATSHOP, Kristina Wong Pivots FROM NUMBER TO NAME
by Gil Kaan - April 05, 2021 Performance artist/comedian/writer Kristina Wong will world premiere her FROM NUMBER TO NAME for East West Players (in partnership with API Rise Saturday), April 10 and Sunday, April 11, 2021. This funny lady strikes a more serious tone in telling the true-life accounts of formerly incarcerated Asia...
Northern Light Theatre Streams THE LOOK in Honor of World Theatre Day
by A.A. Cristi - March 23, 2021 World Theatre Day on March 27 is a global celebration of the Theatre Arts. While Northern Light Theatre continues to wait for the time where everyone can all gather in a theatre again – which is hopefully soon –they have remained committed to producing a season of work....
BWW Feature: THEATRE FROM A DISTANCE With ALBERTA THEATRE PROJECTS
by Vicki Trask - May 28, 2021 Alberta Theatre Projects, celebrating 49 years this coming season, is airing the seventh and final reading of their 2021 Playwrights Projects on Friday May 28th 2021 over Zoom. The company is known for original plays and adaptations of Canadian works, pulling from artists all over the country. I sat... |