A writer, activist and co-founder of Open Clasp Theatre Company, Catrina McHugh has been working for decades to bring the voices of women who need to be heard the most to audiences and communities throughout the United Kingdom. After winning the 2015 …Read more

“Alive and Kicking!” could be a theme of the APAP (Association of Performing Arts Presenters) conference and its closing speaker: Rita Moreno, 84-year-old multi-award winning performer (including the Oscar for the role of Anita in the film West Side …Read more

Brooklyn-based Canadian librettist Royce Vavrek is a very busy man these days, and New York audiences are very lucky!  This month, the 2016 Prototype Festival features two of his operas, Angel’s Bone with composer Du Yun and Dog Days with composer Da …Read more

Acrobatic Conundrum, Seattle’s premier contemporary circus arts company, will be performing The Language of Chance at the NYU Skirball Center on January 14th as part of Circus Now 2016. Acrobatic Conundrum is led by Artistic Director and Co-founder, …Read more

Playing an all-Tchaikovsky program,the night of January 6, 2016 at Lincoln Center’s David Geffen Hall, the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra proved they are at the very top of their game. Under the conduction of the extraordinary Louis Langrée, the orche …Read more

In Yellow Day, Drew Seeley plays a man whose worldview is changed during the title day; time during which god reveals himself to people in need. The faith-based film is set in real life Camp Grace and aims to shed light on the struggles of people in …Read more

Performance artist John Kelly is known for his emotionally and intellectually complex works in which he draws from elements of his own life, current politics and other arts. Going from writing, to singing, to acting, Kelly is always on the lookout fo …Read more

Nobody does organized fandom better than Melissa Anelli, the popular author and webmistress, is also the co-owner of Mischief Management, the company behind conventions: LeakyCon, GeekyCon and starting in 2016, BroadwayCon. Anelli, who was one of the …Read more

One of the most talked about international theatre pieces of the decade is finally making its New York debut at the Under the Radar festival. In Germinal (January 6-9), Halory Goerger and Antoine Defoort use various elements to build the world from s …Read more

Guillermo Calderón’s Escuela (January 13-17 at the Public Theater) takes place in 1987 Chile and focuses on the efforts of a group of young activists who are training to help overthrow Augusto Pinochet’s military dictatorship. Concealing their identi …Read more