Tag: Performing arts
Dozens of playwrights, actors join ‘Period Piece’ monologues
Mandy Moore, Shahadi Wright Joseph, Beth Leavel, Jessica Hecht and dozens of other actors are teaming up to talk about something rarely mentioned on...
Twyla Tharp, nearing 80, isn’t slowing down. Next question?
NEW YORK — The new PBS documentary on dancer-choreographer Twyla Tharp is called “Twyla Moves.” In retrospect, that sounds a bit weak.
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Tulsa Opera fires composer of Greenwood massacre piece
TULSA, Okla. — The Tulsa Opera has canceled a piece written for a concert on the city’s 1921 race massacre after the composer of...
George C. Wolfe, Anne Carson win PEN achievement awards
NEW YORK — Tony Award-winner George C. Wolfe and Canadian poet-translator Anne Carson are among this year's winners of PEN America awards for career...
Meryl Streep, Mary-Louise Parker to star in spring plays
NEW YORK — Meryl Streep, Mary-Louise Parker, Audra McDonald, Kevin Klein, Carla Gugino and Keanu Reeves have signed on to perform in a new...
Vivian Gornick, 7 others win Windham-Campbell Prizes
NEW YORK — Playwright Michael R. Jackson, author-critic Vivian Gornick and fiction and nonfiction writer Renee Gladman are among this year's winners of Windham-Campbell...
Plans solidify for 93rd Oscars: No Zoom, no sweatshirts
With nominations set and just over a month until showtime, details are trickling out about the 93rd Oscars and neither sweatshirts nor zoom made...
Indianapolis arts festival kicks off during March Madness
INDIANAPOLIS — Nearly 600 artists, musicians, dancers and other creative professionals will turn downtown Indianapolis into a sidewalk art gallery and cultural festival timed...
Bread and Cameos — a year without income from Broadway stage
NEW YORK — A year ago, Max Kumangai was dazzling crowds with a jolt of live Broadway excitement. Now he’s doing it with his...
Erivo on near-EGOT status: ‘I’m just going to keep working’
NEW YORK — “The Color Purple” turned into Grammy, Tony and Emmy gold for Cynthia Erivo.
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