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TheatreWorks Silicon Valley will stream an advance look at tomorrow's hits in New Works Festival Online. Transforming the Tony Award-winning company's hit

Jewish Ledger WHAT’S HAPPENING – June 1 – June 20 Jewish organizations are invited to submit their upcoming events to the our What’s Happening section. Events are placed on the Ledger website on Tuesday afternoons. Deadline for submission of calendar items is the previous Tuesday. Send items to: judiej@ jewishledger.com. THRU TUESDAY, JUNE 1 Art in Action: Young Artists’ Vision of 2020  The Mandell Jewish Community Center, in collaboration with the Hartford Fou...

“Studying performance was a critical moment for me as an artist,” University alumna says Rachael Swain believes that performance can cross political boundaries. Pictured: Rachael Swain. Courtesy of Marrugeku. May 15, 2021 At an outdoor theatre in Broome, a dancer paces around a restraining chair in a lifelike prison cell. CCTV video projections paint the stage, evoking harrowing images of Don Dale Youth Detention Centre. Jurrungu Ngan-ga — a Yawuru kinship concep...

Subscribe to Fiat Vox. See all Fiat Vox episodes. In the second part of a three-part series, playwright and UC Berkeley professor Philip Kan Gotanda...

Story Nicole Forrest. Read time 6 min. South Africa’s longest-running public arts festival has been renamed (Un)Infecting the City for 2021 to reflect the thematic focus on the psychological and social impacts of living through this tumultuous period of history. Photo Image courtesy of Mud & Fire Parables. In partnership with the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Institute for the Creative Arts (ICA), Infecting the City – South Africa’s longest-running public arts festival ...

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Academic Theatre Returns to GSU with bobrauschenbergAMERICA May 12, 2021 From left to right: Thea L. Anderson, Michael DePriest Reed, Reynolds “Rey” Andújar, Chuck Salvatore, Samantha Patti, and Rachel A. Kim (Photo: Lane Cameron) University Park, IL-(ENEWSPF)- Live theatre is back. At least, back online. With Governors State University’s Spring 2021 drama “bobrauschenbergAMERICA”, audiences experienced the excitement and magic of live performance from the comfort and safety of their...

Jewish Ledger WHAT’S HAPPENING: May 10 – June 17 Jewish organizations are invited to submit their upcoming events to the our What’s Happening section. Events are placed on the Ledger website on Tuesday afternoons. Deadline for submission of calendar items is the previous Tuesday. Send items to: judiej@ jewishledger.com. NOW THRU TUESDAY, JUNE 1 Art in Action: Young Artists’ Vision of 2020  The Mandell Jewish Community Center, in collaboration with the Hartford Fo...

Share In partnership with the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Institute for the Creative Arts (ICA), Infecting the City – South Africa’s longest-running public arts festival – is back for its 12th edition, taking place from 8 May to 30 June 2021 throughout Cape Town’s city centre, in locations across the Cape Flats, and online. Now renamed for its thematic focus on the psychological and social impacts of living through this tumultuous period of history – and the strict mask and soci...

Dark academia: how institutions fail learning The main critique of dark academia is its centralisation of cultural and economic privilege. The daydreams we conjure are often escapist, attempting to actualise what we subconsciously recognise to be missing.  The first time I read Donna Tartt’s The Secret History, my daydreams were haunted by the woollen plaid blazers and wire-rimmed spectacles of dark academia for some time afterwards. What interested me was not just the colour palette and te...