OPERA America Awards 2024 Opera Grants for Women Stage Directors and Conductors
by Stephi Wild - May 07, 2024 OPERA America has announced the recipients of the 2024 Opera Grants for Women Stage Directors and Conductors.... 
12 ANGRY ELECTRICS Begins Performances This March at Theater For The New City
by A.A. Cristi - February 03, 2022 Inspired by Sidney Lumet's classic film, 12 Angry Men, Emmy Award winning writer/director William Electric Black (aka Ian Ellis James) becomes all 12 jurors in this timely masterpiece - now calling it - 12 ANGRY ELECTRICS.... 
OPERA America Announces The 2022 Recipients Of Repertoire Development Grants
by A.A. Cristi - February 07, 2022 OPERA America has announced the recipients of the 2022 Repertoire Development Grants: American Lyric Theater (New York, NY); Beth Morrison Projects (New York, NY); Houston Grand Opera (Houston, TX); Lyric Opera of Chicago (Chicago, IL); MassOpera (Salem, MA); Opera Theatre of Saint Louis (St. Louis,... 
American Lyric Theater Offers Free Virtual Opera Writers Symposium
by A.A. Cristi - February 16, 2021 American Lyric Theater is inviting artists from all backgrounds to participate in its free, virtual Opera Writers Symposium as part of the organization's ongoing commitment to mentoring the next generation of operatic writers. ... 
Portland Opera To Receive $30,000 Grant From The National Endowment For The Arts
by A.A. Cristi - January 12, 2022 Portland Opera has been approved for a $30,000 Grants for Arts Projects award to support the company's upcoming production of The Central Park Five. ... 
Ken Burns's LEONARDO DA VINCI Documentary is Coming to PBS
by Michael Major - February 12, 2024 The film, which explores the life and work of the 15th century artist Leonardo da Vinci, is Burns's first non-American subject. It also marks a significant change in the team's filmmaking style, which includes using split screens with images, video and sound from different periods to further context... 
Long Beach Opera Announces 2022 Season
by Chloe Rabinowitz - August 12, 2021 Long Beach Opera has announced an audacious 2022 season that seeks to usher in a new era for the company. In addition to the recent announcements of James Darrah as Artistic Director and Derrell Acon as Associate Artistic Director, LBO has announced the appointment of conductor Christopher Rountree ... 
BWW Interview: Jaden Corniea And Miles Johnson of ALL AMERICAN BOYS at Stages Theatre Company And Capri Theater
by Jared Fessler - May 09, 2022 The lives of two high-school boys, one black and one white, powerfully intersect after a violent act of racially motivated police brutality. Unfolding through the boys' alternating perspectives, the story follows their journey as they grapple with the devastating impact of racism as it reverberates ... 
The Metropolitan Opera Announces The Company Premiere Of Anthony Davis's X: The Life And Times Of Malcolm X
by Stephi Wild - September 16, 2021 The Metropolitan Opera announced today that Anthony Davis's X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X will have its company premiere on November 3, 2023, making it the second opera by a Black composer in Met history, after Terence Blanchard's Fire Shut Up in My Bones. Playwright and director Robert O'Hara,... 
OPERA America Awards Opera Grants For Women Stage Directors And Conductors
by A.A. Cristi - January 26, 2022 OPERA America has announced the recipients of the 2022 Opera Grants for Women Stage Directors and Conductors. The program incentivizes companies to hire women in these key artistic roles in order to enrich the production and performance of new operas and works from the inherited repertoire; introduc... 
MUSE/IQUE to Present FREEDOM AT THE MOULIN ROUGE Beginning This Month
by Blair Ingenthron - August 11, 2024 Just at summer's end, MUSE/IQUE and Artistic & Music Director Rachael Worby will present MUSE/IQUE's next show of their 2024 season Freedom at the Moulin Rouge, the incredible, under-told story of the first-ever fully integrated hotel and casino in the country.... 
OWN Announces Black Fatherhood Special OWN SPOTLIGHT: THEY CALL ME DAD
by Sarah Jae Leiber - August 25, 2020 Oprah Winfrey Network announced today “OWN Spotlight: They Call Me Dad,” a one-hour special that celebrates Black fatherhood, is set to premiere on Tuesday, September 15 at 9 p.m. ET/PT (immediately after OWN’s hit drama series “Tyler Perry’s The Haves and the Have Nots”).... 
American Dance Guild Festival Week 5 Features Joan Myers Brown, Douglas Dunn and Bill Evans
by Chloe Rabinowitz - November 05, 2020 NEXT WEEK, Nov. 9 through Nov. 15, the 2020 ADG Virtual Festival will stream WEEK FIVE, a special tribute to choreographers Joan Myers Brown, Douglas Dunn and Bill Evans, honorees at American Dance Guild Festival 2014. Video footage each week will be live from 10am Monday to 11:59pm Sunday ET. To be... 
American Lyric Theater Announces Opera Writers Diversity and Representation Initiative
by Chloe Rabinowitz - February 03, 2021 Today American Lyric Theater has announced the Opera Writers Diversity and Representation Initiative as part of an ongoing commitment to mentoring the next generation of operatic writers. First steps include the appointment of conductor Kelly Kuo as ALT’s new Associate Artistic Director and the crea...
The Metropolitan Opera Announces The Company Premiere Of Anthony Davis's X: The Life And Times Of Malcolm X
by Stephi Wild - September 16, 2021 The Metropolitan Opera announced today that Anthony Davis's X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X will have its company premiere on November 3, 2023, making it the second opera by a Black composer in Met history, after Terence Blanchard's Fire Shut Up in My Bones. Playwright and director Robert O'Hara,... 
New York City Opera Returns To Bryant Park Picnic Performance Series This Friday
by Stephi Wild - June 15, 2021 New York City Opera will return to Bryant Park this weekend for its fourth season of operas as the centerpiece of Bank of America’s Bryant Park Picnic Performance series, beginning this Friday, June 18 with NYCO’s annual LGBTQ Pride concert, Pride in the Park.... 
VIDEO: Go Inside Rehearsal for X: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF MALCOLM X at the Metropolitan Opera
by Blair Ingenthron - October 22, 2023 Check out rehearsal video footage from Robert O'Hara's production of Anthony Davis's X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X at the Met Opera here!... 
International Contemporary Ensemble Releases AFTERWORD: AN OPERA IN TWO ACTS By George Lewis
by A.A. Cristi - September 19, 2023 International Contemporary Ensemble releases Afterword: An Opera in Two Acts by George Lewis on Friday, October 6, 2023 on New Focus Recordings/TUNDRA. ... 
Rob Richardson and Haley Swindal to Lead Industry Presentation of Broadway Bound Musical SAVE THE PALACE
by Chloe Rabinowitz - October 13, 2021 Rob Richardson (Broadway: Jekyll & Hyde, Tale of Two Cities) and Haley Swindal (Broadway: Chicago, Jekyll & Hyde) will head the industry presentations of Roy O’Neil’s Save The Palace on Thursday, October 21 at 2 PM & 6:30 PM.... 
Cherríe Moraga & Richard Wesley Named 2024 Recipients of the Legacy Playwright Awards
by Chloe Rabinowitz - October 23, 2024 Esteemed American playwrights Cherríe Moraga and Richard Wesley have been announced as the 2024 recipients of the Legacy Playwright Awards. Learn more about the playwrights and about the awards.... 
New York City Opera to Produce the World Premiere of Ricky Ian Gordon's THE GARDEN OF THE FINZI-CONTINIS
by Chloe Rabinowitz - August 13, 2020 New York City Opera under the direction of Michael Capasso, has announced plans to produce the world premiere of Ricky Ian Gordon's THE GARDEN OF THE FINZI-CONTINIS, a co-production with the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene (Zalmen Mlotek, Artistic Director, Dominick Balletta, Executive Director)... 
International Contemporary Ensemble Releases AFTERWORD: AN OPERA IN TWO ACTS By George Lewis
by Chloe Rabinowitz - October 06, 2023 International Contemporary Ensemble has released Afterword: An Opera in Two Acts by George Lewis. Lewis's first opera premiered in 2015 and is now available on New Focus Recordings/TUNDRA.... 
OPERA America Announces 2023 Opera Hall Of Fame Inductees
by A.A. Cristi - August 17, 2023 OPERA America has announced the induction of seven exemplary artists, administrators, and advocates to the Opera Hall of Fame as the Class of 2023. They join a distinguished roster of previous inductees who are honored in OPERA America's National Opera Center.... 
Laura Nirider Hosts 'Wrongful Conviction' Experts to Discuss Bills to Ban Deception During Police Interrogations
by Sarah Jae Leiber - April 14, 2021 These kinds of lies about the evidence have long been identified as risk factors for false confessions and have contributed to some of the most notorious known wrongful convictions, like those of the Exonerated Five, previously known as the Central Park Five.... 
Harry Lennix to Receive Samuel H. Scripps Award from Julie Taymor at 2022 TFANA Spring Gala
by Chloe Rabinowitz - May 12, 2022 Theatre for a New Audience has announced details of its Spring Gala Celebrating Shakespeare’s Birthday, held in-person at Capitale (130 Bowery, New York City) and emceed by Isabel Arraiza.... |
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