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In York, they're taking the panto around to socially distanced audiences at community centres in every neighborhood. In Coventry, they're streaming from a studio and using sound effects in p…
Says the chief executive of the theatre in the town of Malvern in Worcestershire, "The panto is crucial for the theatre, as we are unsubsidised, but also for the local economy, to which the …
"Lights Up, the latest phase of the broadcaster's Culture In Quarantine initiative, will feature a combination of premieres and older plays recorded for the first time. … The initiative be…
The DriveINSIDE theatre, which is approved for operating even under Britain's Tier 3 pandemic restrictions, will have a four-week run in Manchester in March before touring the rest of the UK…
After the pandemic blew up the plans of every American stage company for this year, Blanka Zizka, director of the Wilma Theater in Philadelphia, got the idea to create a COVID bubble for cas…
Almost six months after co-owner Andrew Alexander left the company after accusations of embedded institutional racism there, Jon Carr has been named to succeed him as executive producer. A l…
"Per the theater's mission statement on its website, the Squirrel's goal is to become 'New York's premier destination for sketch and improv comedy, …" The guiding principles of the theater…
"This month, theatre reopenings in England were abruptly brought to a halt by the second lockdown. As the future of live performance remains uncertain, producers and those running venues exp…
Matthew López has been engaged by Searchlight Pictures to write a screen adaptation of Leading Men, the Christopher Castellani novel about Williams and his longtime lover Frank Merlo. LÅ
It seems you can't keep England's antic, anarchic holiday tradition down, even as disease stalks the land. Chris Wiegand talks to producers who are putting their pantos on film and in car pa…
"Under the agreement, which is tentatively scheduled to last until Dec. 31, 2021, the two unions agreed that Equity will cover work recorded for digital distribution that replaces, or supple…
"Complaints by staff members and months of internal conflict have led to the ouster of Mosaic Theater Company Artistic Director Ari Roth. … The end to Roth's tenure at the company he set u…
The musical, which was to be one of the centerpieces of the Sydney Festival in January, was postponed and withdrawn from the festival by the producer after a trans non-binary actor launched …
Heidi Schreck's What the Constitution Means to Me has become "the grandmother of [a] genre" that includes, just this fall, Kristina Wong for Public Office (about Wong's run for a local commi…
"When the second wave of [the pandemic] hit, theatres in South Korea remained open. How? By approaching theatre as a controlled event, says New York-based director Sammi Cannold, who observe…
Believed to be the first woman to play tuba in a fully professional orchestra in the U.S., she was hired by the Boston Pops in 1955, after her second time at Tanglewood, and went on to hold …
"A Hindu rights activist based in Nevada is accusing the Houston Ballet of cultural insensitivity and is urging it to cancel its upcoming performances of La Bayadère, scheduled for February…
The tale of the author's cremains, which would likely have amused her as much as irked her, includes appearances by Martin Luther King and the NAACP (to whom she left her estate), Lillian He…
Back in 2001, a group of people decided to take the tempo direction in John Cage's 1985 work As Slow As Possible to an extreme and began a performance (of the composer's 1987 arrangement for…
"[Gail] Harrity, 70, who joined the museum in 1997 as chief operating officer and was named president in 2009" " that is, second-in-command after the museum's director " "has been on top of …
Using articles in this past weekend's Mail on Sunday and Sunday Times, secretary Oliver Dowden announced what he's calling "Operation Sleeping Beauty," a plan "to bring back some of the magi…
"To alleviate the [lockdown-induced budget] shortfall, orchestra musicians have amended their contract to take a 25% cut in base salary in the 2020-21 season and a 50% cut in overscale pay. …
That amount is almost five times what the complex paid producers to put on the next most expensive show, the Broadway tour of The Book of Mormon in 2015. The price is also more than theaters…
The elaborate shrine to Becket at Canterbury Cathedral, where he was Archbishop and where he was murdered at the altar by King Henry II's knights in 1170, was smashed to bits by Protestant i…
Thank goodness for liquor-law loopholes, because one of them is the reason that Open Jar Studios, a complex normally used for rehearsals, has become the only indoor venue in New York City pr…
