447 stories by "David Roberts"
The Irish Repertory Theatre has been a leader in providing accessible online performances during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Digital Fall Season begam on September 22 featuring five Performan…
"Encore Monthly" is a new theatre magazine for the 21st Century. It celebrates everything we love about American theatre, whether it is happening on the stages on Broadway or on the pages we…
"Scrooge," Noel Langley's 1951 black-and-white film adaptation of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol," is perhaps the most celebrated version of the holiday classic. Notable among the sever…
It is not at all news that theatre stages throughout the world have been dark and empty since the outbreak of COVID 19 and the rise of this virus to pandemic proportions, but it is also a re…
The Nutcracker at Wethersfield, a Covid-19 compliant "Nutcracker," choreographed and directed by Troy Schumacher, runs this holiday season through December 26 at the glorious Wethersfield Es…
We can't go to Broadway this holiday season, but there are many ways to celebrate theatre with friends and family. Check out our favorite holiday gifts of 2020! FOR THOSE LOOKING TO GET INTO…
Dreambird Studios debut feature film, #valentinesday, produced by industry veteran, Mark Forstater (Monty Python and the Holy Grail) is set to be released on February 14, 2021. A modern day …
Born on May 1, 1937 in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Bennett and Esther Garland nee Tumin, Mr. Garland attended St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland. Mr. Garland's first job in televis…
Musical Theatre Web Series Review: Rock-Themed Episode Three of London's "The Theatre Channel" to Be Released November 27, 2020 Direction and Choreography by Bill Dreamer Reviewed by David R…
The National Alliance for Musical Theatre (Betsy King Militello, Executive Director) is thrilled to announce that the public can attend NAMT's 32nd Annual FESTIVAL OF NEW MUSICALS by making …
After years of touring and multiple performances in New York City, Geraldine Hughes's autobiographical "Belfast Blues" is currently playing at Irish Repertory Theatre " virtually " as the fi…
Irish Repertory Theatre (Charlotte Moore, Artistic Director and Ciarán O'Reilly, Producing Director) is proud to announce its Online 2020 Fall Season. This fall will feature five Performa…
June 18, 2020 " Nashville, TN " Today, singer, songwriter, and musician Katie Pruitt has released her cover of Tegan and Sara's "Walking With A Ghost," the first installment of her Pride Mon…
Arts journalist and editor Mark Blankenship is pleased to announce the debut of The Flashpaper: Theatre's Thoughts on Right Now, a new journal dedicated to the urgent ideas of contemporary t…
The Outer Critics Circle (OCC), the official organization of writers on New York theatre for out-of-town newspapers and national publications, present the recipients of this year's spe…
Over 50 leading and emerging actors and playwrights have united for The Homebound Project, a new independent, online theater initiative created to help feed children affected by COVID-19. Fo…
Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, in partnership with Rosalind Productions, Inc., is proud to announce the line-up for New Songs Now in Your Living Room. This free unplugged concert series gi…
Fantasy Non Fiction is a fierce four-piece rock band featuring the original music of drummer/vocalist, Rose Cangelosi, a queer songwriter navigating the world through the catharsis of musica…
Rattlestick Playwrights Theater and piece by piece productions, in association with Rising Phoenix Repertory, are proud to announce that a limited number of tickets to view-at-home recording…
Mr. Townsend, Mr. Yeats, and the creative team collaborate to transform Muldoon's elegy to his late partner Mary Farl Powers into one of the most powerful theatrical experiences of the curre…
"The Fact, the very Fact that it is biologically possible is Devastating. I need to know that I am where it ends." " Bonnie to Diane If a suicide could be dissected, what would be found that…
It is such a treat to walk out of a theater feeling refreshed, happy, and relieved that you can still believe that there are good people in the world doing good things. Upon leaving the Abro…
The audience seemed to enjoy the production now playing at the Marjorie S. Deane Little Theater entitled "Miss America's Ugly Daughter" written and performed by Bess Myerson's daughter Barra…
Brilliantly re-envisioning E.M. Forster's masterpiece Howards End to 21st-century New York, THE INHERITANCE asks how much we owe those who lived and loved before us, questions the role we mu…
Under Leigh Silverman's meticulous direction, the ensemble cast could not be better poised to ensure the success of "Grand Horizons." Bess Wohl develops her characters with precision which a…