House of Stones delivers Black-led narrative about four brothers and a funeral

Pittsburgh City Paper: House of Stones started with Black Pittsburgh artists contemplating what a story that came from their authentic experiences as Black men in the city would look like. As these conversations progressed, the narrative came into focus: the relationship between Black men and their fathers.

The United Ukrainian Ballet Company will perform Giselle at the Kennedy Center

NPR: Some 60 Ukrainian dancers are preparing to travel from The Hague, Netherlands, to Washington, D.C., where they will perform Giselle, with choreography by Alexei Ratmansky, at the Kennedy Center.

NY Lawmakers, AG Warn MSG Over its Continued Ban of Lawyers

www.ticketnews.com: Madison Square Garden and its CEO James Dolan continued to defy growing calls for it to stand down with its policy banning lawyers representing clients in litigation against it, despite new pressure from lawmakers and state Attorney General Letitia James this week.

What Makes Little Shop of Horrors Such a Fan Favorite?

TheaterMania: I have always had an affinity for Little Shop of Horrors. Maybe it's Alan Menken and Howard Ashman's score. Maybe it's because my birthday is on the 21st day of September. Whatever the reason, I've never attended as many productions of Little Shop as I did in the last year and a half

Pittsburgh duo slowdanger continues dance series with memory 7: farthest field

Pittsburgh City Paper: The Pittsburgh duo slowdanger has, over the past several years, unfolded a story through movement. The latest chapter of that story, titled the memory series, will play out at The Space Upstairs.

Stage Manage on Broadway

Dramatics Magazine Online: Jereme Kyle Lewis has been stage managing on Broadway for 10 years. He says, “The work is hard. The road to get [to Broadway] is hard. But the payoff to be living my dreams and to be a working artist is worth all the late nights, all the times I was told no or when I didn’t get the gig.”

International Association of Venue Managers Oak View Group Forms National Theater Alliance -

blog.iavm.org: Oak View Group has announced the creation of a national Theater Alliance with an initial roster of venues in markets across North America that will benefit from collective buying power, routing of non-traditional content, sponsorship opportunities, industry best practices and resources, as well as shared proceeds from an annual fundraising gala.

For a Pioneering Artist, the Joy of Having Done the Work His Way

The New York Times: If you keep a musician friend for over 50 years, as the experimental director Ping Chong has done with Meredith Monk, just maybe at your retirement celebration, that friend will sing you a song. And so on Wednesday night at the performance space Chelsea Factory, a luminous Monk sat down at a keyboard, reminisced about Chong when she first knew him — as a pony-tailed student in her dance class, wearing bell-bottom jeans — and played “Gotham Lullaby.”

THE PIANO LESSON to be Filmed for the Lincoln Center Theatre on Film and Tape Archives

www.broadwayworld.com: The Broadway revival of August Wilson's The Piano Lesson will be filmed tonight for the Lincoln Center Theatre on Film and Tape Archives, therefore providing all theatre professionals a chance to watch the most successful Wilson production in Broadway history.

Surprising No One, Three People Needed Medical Treatment on ‘Squid Game’ Reality Show Set

The Mary Sue: In fact, real life Squid Game is antithetical to the very THESIS of Squid Game: society itself is a rat race game with rules made by the elite, and we need to all collectively STOP RUNNING and rise up against them. Sounds a bit like a Communist revolution, right? Well, that seems to be the reality that Squid Game is hinting at with regards to the future of the show.

Meyer Sound Introduces 2100-LFC Low-Frequency Control Element

LightSoundJournal.com: Meyer Sound announces the 2100-LFC low-frequency control element, a powerful new loudspeaker that extends the advanced technology of the PANTHER large-format linear line array loudspeaker down to the lowest limits of audibility.

Fanny Soulard | Your Interviews

Women in Lighting: I’ve been exploring and learning about lighting design with a transversal itinerary through the industry – working successively for an Italian manufacturer, Mexican architects’ studios, a French electrical material supplier, French, Vietnamese and Australian lighting studios, and currently an Australian engineering company. These opportunities brought me the past fifteen years to different locations, including Argentina, Mexico, Spain, France, Australia and my ultimate setup - Vietnam.

Bay Area arts leader Debbie Chinn explores her Chinese immigrant family history through memoir

Datebook: Long before Debbie Chinn was named the new executive director of TheatreWorks Silicon Valley last November, she made her debut as a hula dancer at her departed parents’ restaurant on New York’s Long Island.

'Rust' A.D. Dave Halls Gives His Version of Shooting

Variety: Dave Halls, the first assistant director on “Rust,” became the first person held accountable in the death of Halyna Hutchins when he agreed to plead to a misdemeanor charge of negligent use of a deadly weapon.

All the Times Phantom of the Opera Made History on Broadway

Playbill: Thirty-five years ago, a new musical took the Broadway stage on the heels of its smash-hit success on the West End. The cultural response, both in London and New York was described as "Phantom-mania," with theatregoers around the nation buzzing about the spectacle-filled melodrama full of mystery, suspense, and romance.

The strength of community

Chicago Reader: At the end of September 2020, I wrote a piece for the Reader titled “Black artistic leaders take charge at several Chicago theaters,” which framed the influx of new (and preexisting) Black leadership in Chicago theater against the backdrop of a historic disruption in the industry. That disruption was powered in part by COVID-19 leading to budget cuts and mass layoffs, and in part by intense public criticism of the shortcomings of many predominantly white theater institutions, with a call to action for faster and more concrete gains in racial equity in the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement’s impact on the arts sector.

6 Artists Named 2023 USA Fellows for Theatre & Performance

AMERICAN THEATRE: The fellowships are formally awarded in 10 discrete disciplines: Architecture & Design, Craft, Dance, Film, Media, Music, Theatre & Performance, Traditional Arts, Visual Art, and Writing, though many of the fellows are multidisciplinary artists and active in community-based, socially engaged practices in fields beyond the arts.

Yamaha presents redeveloped ProVisionaire Software Suite and new DME7 Digital Signal Processor

LightSoundJournal.com: Already renowned for its flexibility, the ProVisionaire platform has been redeveloped with three core applications which support the user’s entire workflow: ProVisionaire Design for system design, ProVisionaire Control for system operation and ProVisionaire Cloud for system management. DME7 is an open architecture-type digital signal processor, which offers state-of-the-art performance and connectivity, 96 kHz sound quality and support for up to 256 input/output channels.

Review Roundup: Anthony Rapp's WITHOUT YOU Opens At New World Stages

www.broadwayworld.com: Without You, written and performed by Anthony Rapp, directed by Steven Maler with musical direction by Daniel A. Weiss opens tonight, Wednesday, January 25, 2023 at New World Stages. Read the reviews!

& JULIET, TITANIQUE & More Nominated For Queerties Awards

www.broadwayworld.com: Queerty, the LGBTQ+ entertainment news site, is announcing its nominees for The 11th anniversary Queerties awards, taking place February 28th in Los Angeles.