Kennedy Center Unveils 50th Anniversary Season Including a Fall Reopening
by Chloe Rabinowitz - April 06, 2021 The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts today announced plans for its 50th Anniversary season, slated to begin in September 2021 with a grand reopening of its stages and campus and culminate in September 2022 with a fresh interpretation of the seminal work that opened the Center in 1971, ...
Performances, An Indigenous Foodways Cooking Demonstration & More Announced for WE THE PEOPLES BEFORE
by Chloe Rabinowitz - May 03, 2022 First Peoples Fund and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts announced the full line-up for We The Peoples Before, a festival of events designed to explore and expand deep truths and reflections about the history and experience of this country’s Native peoples....
The 2023 Obie Awards Announce Judges & Eligibility
by Blair Ingenthron - July 12, 2023 The American Theatre Wing (Heather Hitchens, President & CEO) has announced its 2023 panel of judges and eligibility details for The Obie Awards. Now in its 67th year, the annual event, celebrating the best of Off and Off Off Broadway, is co-chaired by Obie-winning director David Mendizábal and vete...
MTC Chair Jane Hansen Honoured With Order Of Australia
by A.A. Cristi - January 27, 2020 The Board and staff of Melbourne Theatre Company congratulate MTC Chair Jane Hansen on her appointment as an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in the Australia Day Honours, for 'distinguished service to the community, to education and cultural institutions, and through philanthropic support for...
Blue Metropolis Celebrates 25 Years Of Literature In All Its Forms, April 27-30
by A.A. Cristi - March 16, 2023 The future of the planet, of democracy and identities, of languages and people, and of our imaginations: this is the theme of the 2023 edition of the Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival, gearing up to celebrate 25 years. It all kicks off online starting April 12, and culminates in a mass...
Sarah Pocklington Named Citadel's Newest Executive Director
by A.A. Cristi - July 30, 2021 The Citadel Theatre Board of Directors has announced the appointment of Sarah Pocklington as the theatre's new Executive Director. Sarah will be joining Artistic Director, Daryl Cloran, on the executive leadership team August 30, 2021....
SMU DataArts And TRG Arts Release Report On Critical Strategies And Structures For Cultural Organizations
by A.A. Cristi - May 26, 2020 SMU DataArts and TRG Arts today release a white paper aimed at helping arts and culture organizations consider key questions and variables as they plan for reopening and a post-COVID-19 future....
Sydney Opera House Announces First Nations Curated Program, MEREMERE & ALWAYS HERE
by Stephi Wild - June 29, 2022 Meremere, an award-winning multi-artform performance documentary from dancer Rodney Bell Ngāti Maniapoto (Aotearoa) will be presented from 25 – 27 August in the Studio. The free photographic exhibition ALWAYS HERE – 50 Years of Black Theatre recognises the pioneering activism of Redfern's National B...
Nashville Ballet to Highlight Stories of Music City's Past in ANTHOLOGY this February
by Stephi Wild - January 10, 2023 Nashville Ballet will continue their 2022-23 season and kick off the new year with the world premiere of Anthology. Conceptualized by Emmy Award-winning Artistic Director Paul Vasterling, Anthology will highlight unexplored stories of Music City’s past. Inspired by his passion for community, music,...
Cody Renard Richard, Mj Rodriguez, Camille A. Brown & More Named to Kennedy Center Next 50
by Chloe Rabinowitz - January 20, 2022 An elementary–aged rapper, an award–winning composer, and a dancer defying the stigmas of cerebral palsy, come together in the Kennedy Center Next 50, a new cultural leadership initiative....
Diné Storyteller Blossom Johnson Named Durango PlayFest 2022 Community Playwright
by Chloe Rabinowitz - July 06, 2022 Durango PlayFest today announced that Diné storyteller Blossom Johnson has been named the festival's 2022 Community Playwright. Her play 'monster SLAYer' will be workshopped with a Diné director and local Indigenous actors during the week of the festival and will be featured in a free, public readin...
Bangarra Dance Theatre Will Premiere HORIZON Across Australia
by Stephi Wild - November 09, 2023 Australia’s leading Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander performing arts company, Bangarra Dance Theatre, has announced the world-premiere of their first ever mainstage cross-cultural collaboration Horizon. ...
Sydney Opera House Announces 2021 Utzon Music Season
by Stephi Wild - June 16, 2021 The Sydney Opera House today announced Utzon Music will return for a triumphant 14th season in 2021. From Beethoven’s revolutionary sonatas to new music by First Nations composers and the next generation of cutting-edge chamber musicians, the 2021 program will feature some of the country’s most daz...
World Premiere of Claude Jackson, Jr.'s CASHED OUT to be Presented at San Francisco Playhouse Winter 2023
by Chloe Rabinowitz - December 08, 2022 San Francisco Playhouse will present the World Premiere of Cashed Out by Native American playwright Claude Jackson, Jr. Cashed Out will perform January 26 – February 25, 2023 (opening night: February 1) at San Francisco Playhouse....
The 2023 Obie Awards Announce Judges & Eligibility
by Blair Ingenthron - July 12, 2023 The American Theatre Wing (Heather Hitchens, President & CEO) has announced its 2023 panel of judges and eligibility details for The Obie Awards. Now in its 67th year, the annual event, celebrating the best of Off and Off Off Broadway, is co-chaired by Obie-winning director David Mendizábal and vete...
String Orchestra Of Brooklyn to Release ENFOLDING, Feat. Works By Anne Leilehua Lanzilotti And Scott Wollschleger
by Chloe Rabinowitz - June 03, 2022 On Friday, July 1, 2022, the String Orchestra of Brooklyn (SOB) will release its new album, enfolding, on New Focus Recordings. The album features the world premiere recordings of Scott Wollschleger's Outside Only Sound and Anne Leilehua Lanzilotti's with eyes the color of time, a finalist for the 2...
Adelaide Festival Announces 2023 Program
by Stephi Wild - November 09, 2022 The 38th Adelaide Festival, to be launched this Wednesday 9 November, at Adelaide Town Hall and via livestream offers a total of 52 events in theatre, music, opera, dance, media and visual arts, including major festivals-within-the-festival Adelaide Writers' Week, UKARIA Chamber Landscapes and WOMAD...
Cody Renard Richard, Mj Rodriguez, Camille A. Brown & More Named to Kennedy Center Next 50
by Chloe Rabinowitz - January 20, 2022 An elementary–aged rapper, an award–winning composer, and a dancer defying the stigmas of cerebral palsy, come together in the Kennedy Center Next 50, a new cultural leadership initiative....
Sydney Philharmonia Choirs Invites You To DAWN CHORUS
by Stephi Wild - November 21, 2019 Join the acclaimed Sydney Philharmonia Choirs for a FREE early-morning open-air acapella concert in one of Australia's most beautiful and iconic locations to celebrate the official launch of their 2020 centenary year....
BWW Review: EXPOSED at Space Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre
by Barry Lenny - April 08, 2022 This is another triumph for Restless Dance....
Sydney Festival Launches 2024 Program
by Stephi Wild - October 26, 2023 The mainstay of Sydney’s high summer season, Sydney Festival, sails back this January with a first class line-up of World Premieres, extraordinary immersive experiences, cutting-edge public art, Australian exclusives, free events, trailblazing First Nations programming and an epic live music offerin...
Melbourne Theatre Company Announces Season 2022
by Stephi Wild - September 29, 2021 Artistic Director & CEO Brett Sheehy has unveiled his final season for Melbourne Theatre Company – a program of 11 stellar productions including both new Australian and critically acclaimed international works....
Indigenous Artists Honor Past And Present In New Scottsdale Arts Exhibition
by A.A. Cristi - January 06, 2022 Scottsdale Public Art will host the “FIRST: Native American Artists of Arizona” Exhibition Jan. 10 – Mar. 30, 2022, at Scottsdale Civic Center Library. ...
Yale Repertory Theatre to Present BETWEEN TWO KNEES
by Chloe Rabinowitz - April 18, 2022 Yale Repertory Theatre will conclude its 2022 season with Between Two Knees. The play, written by the intertribal sketch comedy troupe The 1491s and directed by Eric Ting, is presented with Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Between Two Knees will be performed May 12–June 4 at Yale Repertory Theatre (1120...
Wallace Foundation Selects Eight Arts Service Organizations Of Color For $3M Field Studies Initiative
by A.A. Cristi - May 17, 2023 Today, The Wallace Foundation announced the first eight grantees selected to participate in its Field Studies program, a research component of its ongoing arts initiative focused on arts organizations founded by, with, and for communities of color. Wallace awarded a total of $2.96 million to the fol... |