by Webmaster | Aug 27, 2020 | New Musical News Feed
Read on for some recent theatre headlines and videos you may have missed.
Sharon D. Clarke and Celia Imrie Perform From Jennifer Lunn’s Popcorn Writing Award-Winning Es and Flo
Jennifer Lunn has won the 2020 Popcorn Writing Award for her play Es and Flo, which was due to premiere at the Edinburgh Fringe festival this year but was canceled due to the pandemic. The playwright receives a cash prize of £2,500. Finalists were Matilda Ibini, Chris Thompson, and Camilla Whitehill. Lunn and the finalists were selected by a committee including Golden Globe winner Ruth Wilson, Olivier-nominated producer Francesca Moody, singer-songwriter Aurora, film scribe Gonzalo Maza (A Fantastic Woman), and BAFTA winner Wunmi Mosaku.
As a bonus, Olivier winners Sharon D. Clarke (Caroline, or Change) and Celia Imrie (Acorn Antiques: The Musical) performed a virtual excerpt from Lunn’s lesbian-themed drama—check it out below.
#ArtsHero Launches Town Hall Series August 27 With Jerry Mitchell
The #ArtsHero campaign to get the U.S. Senate to pass emergency arts relief launches a series of virtual town halls August 27 at 9 PM ET with Tony-winning director-choreographer Jerry Mitchell. The event is open to any theatre worker, including performers, box-office attendants, stagehands, and more. Click here to sign up for the free session, hosted on Zoom. Two additional talks will be presented next week. An August 31 at 2:30 PM ET session led by Actors Theatre of Louisville Executive Artistic Director Robert Barry Fleming, Roundabout Theatre Artistic Director/CEO Todd Haimes, and Arena Stage Artistic Director Molly Smith is open to all theatre leaders. Later that day at 8 PM, Jackie Cox will lead a session for nightlife entertainers.
Latino Theater Company Streams Reading of The Last Angry Brown Hat
The Latino Theater Company at The Los Angeles Theater Centre will offer a sneak peek reading of Alfredo Ramos’ The Last Angry Brown Hat, in which four former members of the Brown Berets (a 1960s militant Chicano civil rights organization) reunite after the funeral of a pal. Directed by José Luis Valenzuela, the September 4 at 10 PM ET reading will feature Robert Beltran, Mike Gomez, Sal Lopez, and Geoffrey Rivas. Originally announced for LTC’s 2020 season, the fully staged production has been postponed until 2021. The reading will be preceded by a live, online conversation with the artists September 3 at 10 PM ET; the reading and the conversation will each will remain available on demand for 10 days. Visit TheLATC.org.
Cast Set for World Premiere of Gemma Lawrence’s Sunnymead Court
Defibrillator, in association with The Actors Centre, will present the world premiere of Gemma Lawrence’s Sunnymead Court September 22-October 3 at London’s Tristan Bates Theatre at The Actors Centre. Playwright Lawrence will play Marie with Remmie Milner (Coriolanus, Chicken Soup) as Stella. James Hillier directs the queer romance. The theatre will have a maximum capacity of 28 seats for each performance, with tickets available in singles or pairs only. Attendees, unless they have a known medical condition, will be required to wear a mask at the venue, and for the duration of the 45-minute performance. Jack Holden produces. Visit DefibrillatorTheatre.
Caroline, or Change in the West End
by Webmaster | Aug 26, 2020 | New Musical News Feed
MT Shorts and Broadway Unlocked have announced its next original musical short film, HIGH SCHOOL ZOOMSICAL, starring Broadway’s Ryann Redmond Frozen, IfThen, Bring it On, Alan Wiggins Pretty Woman, Beautiful, The Lion King and Social Media Star Kay Brown IG’s Betches.
by Webmaster | Aug 26, 2020 | New Musical News Feed
The latest installment of R&H Goes Pop! - At Home commemorates the 100th anniversary of Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart’s first professional collaboration (1920’s Fly With Me), with Dyllón Burnside performing “Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered” from Pal Joey. The video will be available to stream above beginning at 1 PM.
Burnside was seen on Broadway as Anthony in Holler If Ya Hear Me. He plays Ricky in Ryan Murphy’s FX drama series Pose, which explores the ballroom culture of NYC in the late ’80s and early ’90s at the height of the AIDS epidemic.
R&H Goes Pop! – At Home (previously R&H Goes Live!) is a spin-off of R&H Goes Pop!, hosted by two-time Tony nominee Laura Osnes (Bonnie and Clyde, Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella), featuring contemporary takes on the Rodgers and Hammerstein catalog.
WATCH: Syndee Winters Sings ‘Where or When’ on R&H Goes Pop! – At Home
Previous live editions have included Jelani Alladin and Christiani Pitts dueting on “The Lady Is a Tramp” from Rodgers and Hart’s Babes in Arms, Jeremy Jordan performing “Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin'” from Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! and Christy Altomare singing “A Cockeyed Optimist” from South Pacific.
Additional performances have included Alladin and Matt Doyle singing “We Kiss in a Shadow” from The King and I (the pair reunited virtually in June to perform live in quarantine), Katrina Lenk performing “Something Good,” and Ashley Park singing “Do-Re-Mi” from The Sound of Music.
by Webmaster | Aug 24, 2020 | New Musical News Feed
Wicked star Jessica Vosk will host a panel on integrative health August 25 as part of the Centerstage With Healthcare Heroes series. She’ll be interviewing Alka Gupta, MD, co-founder and co-director of the Integrative Health and Wellbeing program at New York-Presbyterian, in collaboration with Weill Cornell Medicine, and Jackie Herback, LMSW, LMT.
The event begins at 5:30 PM ET on Playbill.com and its YouTube. Interviews will remain available following the live stream.
The live interview series pairs Broadway favorites like Vosk with physicians from WCM to explore the intersection of health, wellness, and theatre. The streams, presented by Playbill in partnership with WCM, allow audiences to interact with the performers and healthcare professionals via a virtual Q&A. Centerstage with Healthcare Heroes kicked off July 31 with Telly Leung, who spoke with three voice physicians from the Sean Parker Institute for the Voice on vocal care.
WATCH: Telly Leung Hosts a Discussion With Voice Physicians for New Health and Wellness Interview Series
Weill Cornell Medicine is an academic medical community that is passionate about improving the health of communities both globally and locally through our innovative, collaborative approach to care. For over a hundred years, Weill Cornell Medicine has been providing care to New York families. With patient care at the forefront of their mission, Weill Cornell Medicine has over 40 locations around the city including Primary Care services and over 1,600 specialists caring for families in Queens, Brooklyn, and Manhattan. Recent expansions into Brooklyn have increased access to world-class care for the entire family: Brooklyn Heights practices offer everything from IVF, to pediatrics to ObGyn and much more. In light of recent events, Weill Cornell Medicine has also increased their use of Video Visits and continue to be at the forefront of modernizing remote access to care through their digital health services to ensure that all patients remain connected with their healthcare providers. For more about their services, visit WeillCornell.org
by Webmaster | Aug 24, 2020 | New Musical News Feed
In line with current government advice to prevent the spread of COVID-19, performances ofHarry Potter and the Cursed Childat Melbourne’s Princess Theatre will be suspended for a further seven weeks.
by Webmaster | Aug 23, 2020 | New Musical News Feed
James Lapine will release a new book about the creation of the musical Sunday in the Park with George.
