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Virtual Theater Review: IN THESE UNCERTAIN TIMES — A ZOOM PLAY (Source Material)
A CERTAIN UNCERTAIN I found myself alternately laughing, weeping, and being in the doldrums watching this new interdisciplinary work from the company Source Material. Founding Artistic Director Samantha Shay has created a compelling live virtual experience with In These Uncertain Times, created for and presented on Zoom. The 60-minute piece centers on life during the…
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Music Preview: MARVIN HAMLISCH INTERNATIONAL MUSIC AWARDS (2020-2021 Awards Ceremony)
HAMLISCH AWARDS EXTENDS REGISTRATION DEADLINE 2020-2021 Awards Ceremony Announced The actual 2020-2021 awards ceremony is planned for Monday, March 22, 2021 at Queens College’s Lefrak Concert Hall of the Kupferberg Center for the Arts in New York. Registration is open till August 31; works can be submitted till Sept. 30, 2020: FILM/MEDIA SCORING CLASSICAL COMPOSITION…
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Event Feature: SUMMERSTAGE ANYWHERE DIGITAL SERIES
SummerStage Anywhere Digital Series Shows Week of July 20 – July 26 THIS WEEK’S PERFORMERS: La India, DJ Michael Brun, Eduardo Vilaro, Miguel Atwood-Ferguson, Afro-Latino Festival NY, LaFrae Sci, Kool Herc & Cindy Campbell, La Bruja, DJ Moullinex, Kevin Powell and Karine Plantadit Capital One City Parks Foundation SummerStage is continuing its free digital…
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Concert Preview: AN EVENING OF BROADWAY (Shoshana Bean and Friends on YouTube)
SHOSHANA BEAN HOSTS THE BEST OF BROADWAY Powerhouse vocalist and Broadway star Shoshana Bean is back for her third fundraiser for Beaverton High School’s performing arts department. But, instead of packing her alma mater’s auditorium with performances from Bean, her music industry peers, and student performers, she’s taking the show online. Now, anyone can tune into…
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Broadway Feature: ROUNDABOUT MOVES SEASON TO 2021
DUE TO COVID-19, ROUNDABOUT MOVES SEASON TO 2021 Roundabout Theatre Company has announced that the current theatrical season will resume in Spring 2021, and has added the Broadway debut of Alice Childress’s Trouble in Mind, directed by Charles Randolph-Wright, to its roster of upcoming shows. Childress was a Founding Member of the American Negro Theatre and the first African-American woman…
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Music Review: RAISE YOU UP (New Video from Kinky Boots’ Billy Porter, Stark Sands, Annaleigh Ashford, and more)
LET THIS NEW VIDEO “RAISE YOU UP” To celebrate New York City pride, and to close-out pride month, Producers Daryl Roth and Hal Luftig today released an epic, multi-national, all-new music video of the stirring finale anthem, “Raise You Up” from the smash-hit musical sensation Kinky Boots. The video features cast members from seven nations across four continents, and reunites…
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Theater Review: BLEEDING LOVE (Musical Podcast)
BLOODY GOOD! You know, Stage and Cinema has received hundreds of podcasts and other streaming paraphernalia since April when COVID-19 shut the arts down, but most are technically awkward, strangely self-congratulatory, or simply meh. So it took a month for me to finally listen to a podcast of Bleeding Love, a wholly accessible and instantaneously…
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Theater Preview: EAST SIDE STORIES: INSIDE EDITION (Metropolitan Playhouse in New York)
ALL NEW PLAYS CELEBRATING THE LIFE AND LORE OF THE LOWER EAST SIDE Obie Award winner Metropolitan Playhouse will present free “screened” readings of four new one-act plays inspired by life and history in the East Village, via live stream video and YouTube with talkback to follow, on Saturday, June 26 and 27, 2020, at 8…
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Theater Preview: BEETHOVEN — LIVE FROM FLORENCE (Hershey Felder)
BEETHOVEN TO APPEAR LIVE IN YOUR HOME Dramatizing Dr. Gerhard von Breuning’s factual memoir, Aus dem Schwarzspanierhaus (Out of the House of Black-Robed Spaniards, Beethoven’s last residence), Hershey Felder brought Ludwig van Beethoven to life on stage through the eyes of the Viennese Doctor Breuning who spent his boyhood by the Maestro’s side. Featuring some of…
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Dance Preview: DECLASSIFIED MEMORY FRAGMENT (Olivier Tarpaga, choreographer, on JoyceStream)
DECLASSIFIED IN A CLASS OF ITS OWN During the Broadway shutdown, The Joyce Theatre has been streaming, for free on JoyceStream, some of the best things I’ve seen from all the global offerings out there. For some reason, dance translates much better than theater performances when streaming. Now, they bring you the online premiere of…
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Theater Preview: STEPHEN SONDHEIM’S “FINISHING THE HAT” (Poetry in America Live)
HOW YOU GET TO FINISH THE HAT This has been a milestone year for America: but aside from an epidemic and protests — and all that is entailed therein — we have Stephen Sondheim’s 90th birthday to celebrate. Until we can rejoin the masses to enjoy Sondheim’s works in person, there are events recorded live…
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Theater Preview: PRIDE PLAYS 2020 FESTIVAL (Pride Plays, Playbill, and Rattlestick)
GAY PLAYS STREAMED LIVE FOR PRIDE BY PRIDE PLAYS Pride Plays (Festival Producers Doug Nevin and Michael Urie, and Festival Director Nick Mayo) and Playbill, in partnership with Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, are celebrating the LGBT month of Pride with the Pride Plays 2020 Festival’s Primetime Livestream lineup. Playbill will present a free livestream theatrical event…
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Theater Preview: THE ABSOLUTE BRIGHTNESS OF LEONARD PELKEY (Streaming at 92Y)
ABSOLUTELY BRIGHT INDEED Available now at 92Y, here’s is a can’t-miss piece of pride — and handily one of the best solo shows I’ve seen in years: The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey. Oscar winner Lecesne’s monologue play, seen Off-Broadway and around the country, recounts the story of a small Jersey shore town as they…
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Theater Preview: OH WHAT A LOVELY WAR / YOU’RE A GOOD MAN, CHARLIE BROWN (The York Theatre Company)
YORK’S YOUNG PERFORMERS MAKE GOOD MON., JUNE 8, 7:10 pm EST Top: Josh Colley and Aidan Gemme Bottom: The full cast of You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown Photos by Carol Rosegg. CLICK HERE TO MAKE YOUR FREE RESERVATION Live Panel SHOW! (and Tell): YOU’RE A GOOD MAN, CHARLIE BROWN For York’s fifth Virtual Company Reunion…
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Theater Preview: THE GORGEOUS NOTHINGS – IN CONCERT (Life Jacket Theatre Co. at Joe’s Pub)
NOTHINGS IS SOMETHING ELSE Shortly before the COVID-19 pandemic shut down theaters around the world, a slew of stage and cabaret favorites got together at Joe’s Pub to celebrate the vibrancy of NYC’s hidden gay community in the 1920s and ’30s. This terrific concert is just a taste of things to come: Life Jacket Theatre…
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Broadway Preview: SMASH, A NEW MUSICAL (produced by Steven Spielberg)
HERE’S HOPING SMASH IS A SMASH The 2012 NBC TV series, Smash, which had as many loyalists as detractors in its short burst of life, is headed to Broadway, which is where some critics thought it belonged in the first place. Subtitled A New Musical, Smash will be co-produced by Steven Spielberg, whose original idea…
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Theater Review: BOMBSHELL IN CONCERT (streaming)
IT’S DA BOMB! The best set of new Broadway-style songs I’ve heard in years. Marc Shaiman and Scott Witman deserve a standing ovation for creating the spectacular score, the songs of which came from the cancelled TV show Smash. These are the tunes that were from Bombshell, the musical-within-the musical that was about Marilyn Monroe…
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Dance Preview: LINCOLN CENTER AT HOME (Ballet Hispánico, New York City Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, The School of American Ballet, and Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater)
DANCE ME TO LINCOLN CENTER We all know that dancing is good for you. But did you know that watching dance is also good for you? Science has suggested that the high you get after watching great dancing is your brain is attempting to turn that high into something real, as if you just danced…
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Music Preview: LISTEN LOCAL: NEW YORK CITY (Spotify)
ONE WAY TO ENSURE THAT THE CITY NEVER SLEEPS With the news that Broadway will remain shuttered until at least Labor Day, New Yorkers and those who visit the city to enjoy the life now have a way to get your Big Apple fix during quarantine through an exclusive content hub on Spotify: Listen Local:…
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Exhibit Review: SOCIALLY DISTANT THEATER: THE SOLO SHOW AS SEEN BY HIRSCHFELD (The Al Hirschfeld Foundation)
TAKE A SOLO BOW, MR. HIRSCHFELD How many of us theater addicts have gone to a solo show only to find some woman squealing about her private parts (or man for that matter), and you think “Never Again.” Then you catch Whoopi Goldberg or Robert Morse or Julie Harris or John Leguizamo or the great…
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