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Now on Broadway after the George Floyd murder, Antoinette Chinonye Nwandu's play "Passover" is just as powerful

Credit fmerenda / Flickr Roaring River State Park is offering bluegrass concerts on various dates this summer.  The Flyin Buzzards Band will perform Friday night (6/4) from 7 to 9 at the River Shelter.   Ha Ha Tonka State Park in Camdenton will host a Night Hike Friday night (6/4) at 8:45.  Meet at the Spring Trailhead in the lake parking lot.   Movies at Founders Park starts back up this weekend at Founders Park, 330 E. Water in Springfield.  See Wonder Woman 1984 Friday night (6/4) and...

Playwrights Horizons (Adam Greenfield, Artistic Director; Leslie Marcus, Managing Director) has announced a new lineup of Master Classes featuring writers and artists behind celebrated productions at Playwrights and beyond.

Jordan E. Cooper in off-Broadways Aint No Mo (Photo: Joan Marcus) Three talented scribes have earned the 2021 Whiting Award for Drama. Jordan E. Cooper, Donnetta Lavinia Grays and Sylvia Khoury will each receive a $50,000 prize. Jordan E. Cooper (Photo: Emilio Madrid for Broadway.com) Cooper wrote and starred in Aint No Mo, which had a twice-extended run at the Public Theater in 2019. He created a pandemic centered-short film called Mama Got a Cough, starring Danielle Brooks and DaVine Joy R...

SPACE on Ryder Farm in Brewster Announces Residents for Its 2021 Season Written by SPACE on Ryder Farm Prev AUDIBLE THEATER AMONG THIS SEASON’S INSTITUTIONAL RESIDENTS WITH NEW COVID-19 SAFETY PROCEDURES IN PLACE, SPACE RECOMMITS TO SERVING ARTISTS AND INNOVATORS Yesterday, SPACE on Ryder Farm, the artist residency program and organic farm located in Brewster, New York, announced the participants for its 2021 residency season.   The SPACE team is thrilled that residents will onc...

On my radar: Nick Lairds cultural highlights Nick Laird © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Murdo Macleod/The Guardian Born in 1975 in Cookstown, Northern Ireland, poet and novelist Nick Laird attended the University of Cambridge before working in law for six years. In 2005, he published his first collection of poems, Utterly Monkey. Since then, he has won numerous awards for his writing, including the Somerset Maugham award, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial prize and the Eric...

Covid Closed Theaters. But It Also Made Them Accessible. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/06/magazine/drama-streaming.html Covid Closed Theaters. But It Also Made Them Accessible. Before 2020, theater often felt inaccessible to me, a luxury for those who were more able-bodied or lived in certain cities. Now I’m obsessed. Credit...Illustration by Ariel Davis April 6, 2021Updated 9:50 a.m. ET I have never lived in either London or New York, and thus have next to no experience with the hotbeds of...

Aaron Sorkin Great art will be made from this time, about this time, inspired by this time. While we wait for that to emerge, we asked 75 artists to open up about their creative travails and triumphs a year into the pandemic. The questions we asked them are ones you may be asking yourself: Did you make anything that mattered? Who and what comforted you? Which moments will you remember? Which ideas would you like to forget? What would a do-over look like? And what’s still on your to-do list as...

(Photo of Will Arbery, upper left, and “Heroes of the Fourth Turning,” upper right, courtesy Playwrights Horizon. Bottom photo: Catholic News Service) “There’s a war coming, dude,” says one character to another very early in “Heroes of the Fourth Turning,” an Off-Broadway play by Will Arbery that created a sensation in 2019 for its nuanced portrait of young conservatives associated with a Catholic college in Wyoming. These were articulate, complicated people with political and rel...

The livestreams that won us round to online theatre in 2020 Exeunt’s writers look back on a year of livestreams, and the journey from despondency to hope. Normally, getting to grips with a new medium and a new artform is something you do by choice; “this winter I’ll get really into Twine”, you say to yourself, with no special urgency attached. But 2020 was the year when anyone interested in theatre and performance was ushered (or dragged, vigorously protesting that “it’s not the sa...