MUSICAL THEATRE. OPERA. THEATRE.
FOUR SISTERS, a play by Susanna Fournier
Toronto, CANADA - From the submission: FOUR SISTERS is a podcast written by Susanna Fournier, a sonic rendering of play that showed last year at the Theatre Centre as part of the Luminato Festival. It's a timely piece, and one just released, by an ascendant feminist voice in Toronto's independent theatre community.
ONE - Ghost River Theatre/Factory Theatre
Calgary/Toronto, CANADA - ONE - by Jason Carnew was set to open at Factory Theatre in Toronto, directed by Eric Rose.
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.
Navigate - Physical Theatre Performance by Sarah Stearns
BARCELONA, SPAIN
From Sarah’s submission: This piece, entitled “Navigate” was last performed at the Mutis XI Festival in Barcelona on Saturday March 8.
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!
Norm Foster’s SCREWBALL COMEDY, The Royal Canadian Theatre Company
CANADA - Submitted by production Director, Ellie King, these promotional photos feature cast members from The Royal Canadian Theatre Company’s production of Norm Foster’s SCREWBALL COMEDY, which was set to complete a tour through Lower Mainland and Vancouver, BC during March and April.
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.
The Slaughter Brother’s Dime Circus
Toronto, ON - This video, entitled “The Balladeer’s Speech”, is an excerpt from the disrupted [and disruptive] play THE SLAUGHTER BROTHERS DIME CIRCUS, which was to open at The Grand Canyon Theatre in Toronto on March 25.
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.
A SPLENDID, SAVAGE PLACE by Liesl Lafferty
BC, CANADA - This submission, written by UBC grad and Jessie Award-winning playwright Leisl Lafferty, is an excerpt from one of the Grad readings that was supposed to premiere at this year’s Brave New Rites Festival, March 17-22 in Vancouver.
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.