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MÁM, by internationally acclaimed Irish dance theatre company Teaċ Daṁsa, nominated for two UK Critics' Circle National Dance Awards Director and choreographer Michael Keegan-Dolan has been nominated for UK Critics' Circle National Dance Award for Best Modern Choreography for his piece MÁM, and dancer Rachel Poirier has been nominated for the Outstanding Female Modern Performance in the piece. Described as a "stirring, sensuous showcase of the emotional power of the physical form", MÁM brings together the virtuoso, Irish traditional concertina player Cormac Begley, the European classic...

Oscars 2021: Who should win, and who will win 11 min read A completely different Academy Awards year? Don’t bet on it. The ceremony will be much-changed, but zoom in on the nominees and things become much more certain There is, this season, no escaping the phrase “an Oscar year like no other”. The 2021 show will certainly look very different. Coproduced by the unlikely figure of Steven Soderbergh – not exactly a song’n’dance guy – the proceedings will be split between the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood and Union Station in Los Angeles’s oldest quarter. The granddaddy of awards cer...

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Primary Stages to restream ‘The Night Watcher’ in February Charlayne Woodard reprises her acclaimed performance. February 3, 2021 After a streamed revival of The Night Watcher in November 2020, Primary Stages have announced that the production will be available to watch again. Originally staged a decade ago, The Night Watcher will be streaming for a second time from February 17 - 28. First staged in 2009, The Night Watcher is an autobiographical play written by Charlayne Woodard. Woodard stars in her production, documenting her life through the children that she has mentored. After a N...

Cicely Tyson Dies at 96 by Sandi Durell . . . Sounder as the sharecropper’s wife in 1972, followed by her role in TV’s The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. She achieved 16 Emmy nominations, winning three and was the first black actress to win a lead actress Emmy. Small but mighty in talent and spirit, she eventually received an Honorary Oscar in 2019. Her career spanned 70 years racking up dozens of films, TV series  and a Tony Award in 2013 for her role as Mrs. Carrie Watts in the revival of Horton Foote’s Trip to Bountiful on Broadway opposite Cuba Gooding, Jr., Vanessa Williams...