Union suggests no ‘stage-dooring’ once live performances resume

Union suggests no ‘stage-dooring’ once live performances resume

The areas around stage doors could look as deserted as the one above if theaters implement a union’s guideline prohibiting autograph seeking following live theater productions.     If you loved seeking autographs and taking backstage tours following stage productions, new safety guidelines may disappoint you. A theater union suggests...

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GableStage seeks to engage through multi-media

GableStage seeks to engage through multi-media

  By AARON KRAUSE While GableStage has decided to cancel the remainder of its 2019-20 season of live theater due to COVID-19, the company’s current endeavor might offer snapshots of what theater could, at least partially, look like in a post-pandemic world. Specifically, to replace the remainder of the 2019-20 season,...

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Obie winners include esteemed Black theater company

Obie winners include esteemed Black theater company

NBT founder Dr. Barbara Ann Teer     NBT Artistic Director Jonathan McCrory NBT CEO Sade Lythcott   One of the oldest Black theater companies in the country has received its first Obie Award. This is an honor recognizing excellence Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway. In fact, the Obie recognition came a...

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Celebrating South Florida theater’s ‘Unsung Heroes’

Celebrating South Florida theater’s ‘Unsung Heroes’

The South Florida Theatre League has announced the winners of this year’s Remy Awards. They annually go to “the unsung heroes who provide outstanding service behind the scenes of the South Florida Theatre League Community.” This year, award recipients will receive them via livestream on Zoom and Facebook Live at...

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Antonyo Awards winners announced

Antonyo Awards winners announced

  By AARON KRAUSE “I never thought I would see something like this for us black theater performers,” someone wrote in the online comment section while watching the inaugural, virtually-presented Antonyo Awards. It celebrates the successes of black theater artists on Broadway and off-Broadway. Someone else commented that he/she was...

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Inaugural ceremony honors Black theater artists

Inaugural ceremony honors Black theater artists

A new celebration honoring Black theater artists and contributors on Broadway and Off-Broadway will make its debut on Friday, June 19. It’s the day that Broadway Black, a multimedia organization which highlights Black theater artists’ achievements, will premiere the Antonyo Awards at 7 p.m. EST on June 19.  You can...

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Excellence in South Florida theater to be honored in August

Excellence in South Florida theater to be honored in August

                                    Caryl Fantel                                                             ...

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Drama Desk Awards winners announced

Drama Desk Awards winners announced

      The winners are in for the 65th Annual Drama Desk Awards. This annual ceremony honors the best in Broadway, off and off-off-Broadway theater for the year that just passed. This year, the presentations took place virtually during a special presentation of Spectrum News NY1’s On Stage, hosted...

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Drama Desk Awards postponed

Drama Desk Awards postponed

        Due to “breaking news events” in New York this weekend, “Spectrum News NY1″ and the Drama Desk organization postponed the Drama Desk Awards. Officials will re-schedule the ceremony. They had originally planned the broadcast for Sunday, May 31. “The Drama Desk celebrates all that’s outstanding in...

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Online exhibition showcases the lone artist, performer

Online exhibition showcases the lone artist, performer

Self Portrait in Barber Chair, 1989 © The Al Hirschfeld Foundation. All rights reserved. www.AlHirschfeldFoundation.org     There is an art to being alone. And at least when it comes to the theater, few have captured that art on paper better than the legendary Al Hirschfeld. Hirschfeld (1903-2003) was an...

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