Need a Disney sing-a-long to get you through the day Broadway favorite Susan Egan is here to help Watch as thethe original voice of Meg, sings the Hercules classic ‘I Won’t Say I’m In Love’ from home, with the help of her Broadway Princess Party pals- Courtney Reed, Laura Osnes,Adam J. Levy and Benjamin Rauhala.
Cherry Artists’ Collective, based out of Ithaca, New York, will premiere a new work of international theatre created specifically to be live streamed. Written in collaboration with six playwrights from around the world, the new piece, titled Felt Sad, Posted a Frog (and other streams of global quarantine), will go live May 1–9.
Sliding scale tickets start at $15 and can be purchased by clicking here. Confirmations will be sent by email followed by an exclusive link to the live stream, which will be sent an hour before performance time.
Felt Sad, Posted a Frog is co-directed by Artistic Director Samuel Buggeln and Collective member Beth F. Milles. The writers are Iva Brdar from Belgrade, Serbia; Jorgelina Cerritos from San Salvador, El Salvador; Rebekka Kricheldorf from Berlin, Germany; Santiago Loza from Buenos Aires, Argentina; Saviana Stanescu from Bucharest, Romania and New York; and Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon from New York.
The new work, which is performed in English, explores interactions and relationships as they play out on global screens in a time of danger. The translations are by Neil Blackadder, Buggeln, and Ana Brdar.
“Since 2014 the Cherry has been making theatre by our watchwords ‘radically global, radically local, formally innovative’. We’ve created productions with writers from Serbia, France, Germany, Argentina, El Salvador, and Quebec, as well as experimental new works based in our histories of upstate New York,” says CAC’s artistic director Buggeln. “This tough current moment is a paradox: a time of forced isolation that is bringing people from vastly different places into common(-ish) experience. The Cherry is humbled and grateful for the opportunity to bring together theatermakers’ voices from around the world, to muse in their very different ways on the days we are all living through.”
To learn more about Cherry Artists’ Collective, visit TheCherry.org.
The Emmy and Golden Globe winner, known for her long-running variety series The Carol Burnett Show, made her Broadway debut in Once Upon a Mattress in 1959, originating the role Princess Winnifred. She returned five years in Fade Out – Fade In as Hope Springfield in 1964.
With a booming career on screen, Burnett would not return to the Great White Way until three decades later, starring in Moon Over Buffalo in 1995. Four years later, Burnett took the Broadway stage again in Putting It Together, a revue of Stephen Sondheim’s work. Burnett was last seen on Broadway in 2014 in Love Letters, A.R. Gurney’s two-character play following a relationship through written correspondences.
In addition to her time on Broadway as a performer, the special Tony Award recipient made her playwriting debut with 2002’s Hollywood Arms, an adaptation of Burnett’s memoir.
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Love Never Dies is now streaming through the weekend, as part of The Shows Must Go On We’re celebrating the streaming production with a flashback to the show’s journey.
Taylor Louderman Tony Nominee, Mean Girls, Hannah Kloepfer, and Nat Zegree present PITCH IN a new one-act STEM youth musical for all genders and flexible cast sizes.
Onassis USA, an affiliate of the Onassis Foundation, has commissioned a number of artists around the U.S. and the world to create new work (from home) as part of its new ENTER project. Theatre artists invited to take part in the global initiative include 600 Highwaymen, Isabella Rossellini, MacArthur Fellow Annie Dorsen, and Radiohole, among many others.
Developed from the artists’ homes in 120 hours or less, the ENTER pieces will draw on different experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic and its many transformations of life as we know it. The series of original works launches April 24 and can be viewed for free on the Foundation’s YouTube channel and at Onassis.org/enter.
Among the first works to be freely available will be 600 Highwaymen’s short narrative film Fighting World; Maria Antelman’s video work AntiBody; married duo Kimberly Bartosik and Roderick Murray’ The Game, created with their daughter Dahlia Bartosik-Murray; Radiohole’s Happy Hours, a new work from playwright and screenwriter Efthimis Filippou; and Dorsen’s Training Text, Step 2250, a short cartoon featuring a text generated by a machine learning algorithm trained on answers to the question: “What is the meaning of life?”
“The space created, filled, and tragically sometimes taken away by COVID-19, has challenged how we experience and make new art,” says Vallejo Gantner, the artistic and executive director of Onassis USA. “This strange combination of isolation and constant reaching out; of new ways of listening and talking; and of touching and being touched; have inspired us to create a new commissioning program called ENTER which we hope will be in part a kind of artistic time capsule, refracting the frustration, grief, comedy, and fear of this moment of pandemic.”
