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Shop Talk: Beyond the Scenes with Prop Artisans - The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts-An exploration of the eclectic world of theatre props with three veteran prop designers. click here
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GUN HILL - A sleepy little town in the US - Zoe, a black English teacher, riskily attempts to convince her troubled white student Joey to abandon his disturbing plans of going on a shooting spree at their high school. Will she succeed? GUN HILL by award-winning Romanian-American playwright Saviana Stanescu, a timely play about gun violence in the US, has a (free) virtual reading on Monday, May 17, 6 pm EDT, opening Origin Theatre s 2021 European Month of Culture NYC, produced in partnership with the Delegation of the European Union to the United States. click here
The season includes more than a half dozen productions and performers making their Sarasota debuts, though Bensel acknowledged that because she has “had to announce a number of these shows more than once that it feels like most are repeats.”
The schedule for the three series includes 19 different Broadway musicals, concerts and tribute programs, including the delayed arrivals of “Come From Away” and “Anastasia.” The full variety series will be announced in August.
“I feel like ‘Come From Away’ has been coming from away for a long time,” she said about the Tony Award-winning musical that was originally booked for the 2019-20 season, then postponed until Thanksgiving week this year.
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TribLIVE s Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. The PNC Broadway in Pittsburgh series will take up where it left off, after “The Band’s Visit” was forced to close halfway through its 2020 run due to the pandemic.
The Tony Award-winning production will return to the Benedum Center for six performances Oct. 28-31, according to the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust.
“There is a poetry to starting where we left off, particularly given how this production rejoices in the way music makes us laugh, makes us cry and, ultimately, brings us together,” said Marc Fleming, the trust’s vice president of marketing, communications and Broadway programming. “More than half of the audience members who purchased tickets were unable to attend the show in 2020 due to the shutdown, and we couldn’t be more excited to bring the show back to complete its run and raise the curtain again for
PITTSBURGH – The first Broadway tour to play Pittsburgh since the pandemic is the last one that played here, in March 2020. The Band’s Visit, winner of numerous Tony Awards, will kick off the return of the PNC Broadway in Pittsburgh series, Oct. 28-31, at the Benedum Center.
There will be six new performances of The Band s Visit, which closed halfway through its Benerun run last year due to the pandemic.
“There is a poetry to starting where we left off, particularly given how this production rejoices in the way music makes us laugh, makes us cry, and ultimately, brings us together,” said Marc Fleming, vice president of marketing, communications and Broadway programming for the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust. “More than half of the audience members who purchased tickets were unable to attend the show in 2020 due to the shutdown and we couldn’t be more excited to bring the show back to complete its run and raise the curtain again for Broadway in the Cultural Distr