MUSICAL THEATRE. OPERA. THEATRE.
Stories from Quarantine
Los Angeles, California, USA - So many of us have been searching for ways to flex our creative muscles during this quarantine, and student documentarian Samuel G Brooks has created something incredibly funny, charming and relatable! His new web series, ‘Stories from Quarantine’ is 4 episodes long and is an entertaining and required binge for quarantine viewing!
The Yellow Wallpaper, a new musical
Atlanta, Georgia, USA - This video was submitted to us by Julia Appleton, the composer The Yellow Wallpaper, the Musical. This new show was set to premiere at the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta for a one night only presentation as part of a Festival of New Works at the Woodruff Arts Center, but this Festival was cancelled due to social distancing. Julia, and the playwright, Hannah Church had worked for 12-months at the Alliance Theatre through the Reiser Lab, and this presentation was supposed to be a culmination of that developmental process.
“The Falling”
Oja, California, USA - “The Falling” is a spoken prose story about getting dumped, the failure to receive, and being like a Vulture. Delivered in Licity Collins’ signature raw, open, style that exposes intimate details in real-time. Licity offers her life to be carved up and consumed in a style like the vultures to which she compares herself.
“Spectrum of Love”
New York City, USA - “ Spectrum of Love” is a documentary that explores how the language of love shifts and changes when children with special needs enter the picture and how healing comes from this dynamic. The movie was submitted to over ten film festivals, all of which have been canceled because of the pandemic.
WildClaw Theatre presents Deathscribe XII
Chicago, USA- Chicago's WildClaw Theatre has postponed their twelfth annual Deathscribe, the only annual international festival of live horror audio drama.
The Seamstress’ Daughter
LA, USA - “The Seamstress' Daughter” by Joumana Haddad is a powerful story of four women from four generations of a family and their experience with war, violence, and traditions in the Middle-East. It is a story about family, love, loss, and resilience.
Welcome to America: A Caribbean Musical
Queens, USA - Welcome to America tells the story of Sabrina Barnes, a talented and ambitious ingénue actress from the Caribbean, who leaves her home behind and arrives in America determined to pursue her dreams of stardom.
My Name is Katia - The Songs that Made the Singing Pastry Chef
NY, USA - This video is an excerpt from performer and baker Katia Malarsky’s fierce one woman show, ‘My Name is Katia - The Songs that Made the Singing Pastry Chef’. Listen to her wail the song Hound Dog, originally by Mama Thornton!
3 stars of MATILDA: THE MUSICAL, Pegasus Playhouse
Springfield, USA - Listen to these musical theatre divas! These stars were all set to play the title role in Pegasus Productions MATILDA: THE MUSICAL opening on April 3rd at the Wildish Theatre in Springfield, Oregon before cancellation.
Deep River - Visual Art created for Rigoletto at Florida Grand Opera
Florida, USA - The piece, entitled ‘Deep River - Mixed Media on Wood Panel’ was created for Florida Grand Opera’s production of Rigoletto, which was supposed to run March 28-April 4 at the Adrienne Arscht Center for the Perfoming Arts of Miami-Dade County.
Bruce Dow is pretty awesome
CANADA/USA - On a break from performing in Broadway’s Diana: A True Musical Story, Bruce Dow made a gorgeous video that I think really speaks to the place a lot of us are in these day. I’m calling it A Sonnet and a Song. Enjoy!
NOT SO SUPERNOVA by Shannon Milliman
USA - Shannon was planning and securing venues for performances in Utah of her one-woman play when she suddenly had to cease due to social distancing.
New Conservatory Theatre Center’s The Book of Mountains and Seas
USA - New Conservatory Theatre Centre’s World premiere of The Book of Mountains and Seas by Yilong Liu and directed by Becca Wolff. Due to the corona virus, it only got one performance on stage on March 6th before we had to close and sadly that might end up being the only one of this beautiful play about friendship, grief, and cultural and generational divides.
95 POEMS, tedted Performance Group, Brooklyn NYC
NY, USA - Submitted by company Artistic Director, Teddy Tedholm, this projection plays during tedted Performance Group’s new piece, 95 Poems, a show based on the works of EE Cummings, using spoken word, dance, projection mapping, and sculpture.
It’s Ella Schnoor, peeeeoople!
USA - When this arrived in my inbox, I was just like…. jaw drop. So sorry your production of Wizard of Oz was cancelled during tech week after three months of work!!! Don’t worry, I think you’ll be brightening the stage for a long time to come!
The stars of MATILDA: THE MUSICAL, Pegasus Playhouse
Oregon, USA - Listen to these musical theatre divas! These stars were all set to play the title role in Pegasus Productions MATILDA: THE MUSICAL opening on April 3rd at the Wildish Theatre in Springfield, Oregon before cancellation.