In her two great masterpieces, “Fires in the Mirror” and “Twilight: Los Angeles,” the playwright-performer Anna Deavere Smith introduced America to a novel kind of docudrama. In shows dealing with the Crown Heights riot (following the death of a Black child struck by a Rabbinical motorcade) and the Los Angeles riot (following the police beating…

The Toledo Alliance for the Performing Arts is moving locations. The alliance, which consists of many of Toledo’s talented artists, including the Toledo Symphony, Toledo Ballet, Toledo Symphony School of Music, Toledo Symphony Youth Orchestras and other extraordinary Toledo groups, will be moving it’s administration offices and performing art classes to the former Masonic Temple…

BUCKHANNON, West Virginia – The West Virginia Wesleyan College Department of Theatre & Dance presents “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown” based on the comic strip by Charles Schulz, Thursday through Saturday, Feb. 22-24 at 7:30 p.m. and also Saturday, Feb. 24 at noon in the Virginia Thomas Law Center for the Performing Arts. Tickets…

UC Santa Cruz’s African American Theater Arts Troupe (AATAT) and the Department of Performance, Play and Design are presenting Clyde’s, the Tony Award-nominated play about a group of formerly incarcerated people working in a roadside diner. This poignant show by two-time Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, Lynn Nottage, tells the story about the staff at a…

Anthony Rathbun (L-R) Luis Galindo and Tamarie Cooper in Catastrophic Theatre’s production of Mickle Maher’s “It Is Magic.” Listen Audio Embed Popup To embed this piece of audio in your site, please use this code: Houston’s Catastrophic Theatre is a longtime champion of the acclaimed Chicago-based playwright Mickle Maher. In fact, Catastrophic has produced virtually…

We have news of statewide honors for two local students – and an opportunity for you to support them. The announcement is from Denny-Sealth Performing Arts: Two Chief Sealth International High School students have received top honors by being selected by the Washington Music Educators Association to participate in prestigious WMEA High School All-State performing…

The developing work, following the true story of the Irish revolutionary Michael Collins, will premiere at UAB in November. Theatre UAB will present a reading of an original production, “Michael Collins,” which the company will premiere in November. The reading will be at 2 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 24, on the University of Alabama at Birmingham campus,…

Benefits and Galas Andrew Barth Feldman, Krysta Rodriguez, Ryan J. Haddad, More to Star in 13 Benefit Concert The event will honor Feldman’s late mother, with proceeds to benefit the arts program that Barbra Barth Feldman created. Andrew Barth Feldman, Krysta Rodriguez, and Ryan J. Haddad A host of Broadway favorites are set to star…

Leading Dallas dance company Avant Chamber Ballet goes classical — and neoclassical — with a triple bill for its “Star-Crossed” program at Moody Performance Hall. The pieces include George Balanchine’s Walpurgisnacht Ballet for 24 female dancers. Danced by the Paris Opera Ballet, it premiered in 1975 at the beginning of the last act of Charles…

LOS ANGELES: Cornerstone Theater Company has named Charlotte Brathwaite and Sunder Ganglani co-artistic directors. They will succeed Michael John Garcés, who stepped down in June after 17 years of leadership. Longtime collaborators Brathwaite and Ganglani applied to lead the organization together. They will join managing director Megan Wanlass in a leadership triumvirate. Tom O’Connor Consulting…