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Dan School of Drama and Music presents inaugural Watershed Festival - Reimagining Music Theatre In a year filled with challenges the Queen’s University Dan School of Drama and Music is presenting the inaugural Watershed Festival – Reimagining Music Theatre. The first of its kind, the online celebration explores all things music theatre and brings together the worlds of opera, musical theatre, and those pushing the boundaries far beyond these traditional music boxes. The festival opens on Tuesday, May 25 with a gala book launch event When Words Sing: Seven Canadian Libretti written by Da...

WHYY By Rebekkah Lee Krumenacker appears in the Open Stage production of "Tales from Sleepy Hollow." All the actors were recorded separately and edited together to resemble dialogue. (Open Stage) Hope Pesner likes the theater. Before the pandemic shut down all theaters in Pennsylvania a year ago, she used to frequent regional theater companies around Elizabethtown, Pa., where she lives. “I have a lot of friends, and I’m lucky in that regard, but I don’t always know how to talk to people in groups,” said Pesner. “Sharing an experience like theater or a movie, you know, helps bridge t...

Prompted by the Pandemic, Opera Philadelphia Innovates Online With its own streaming service and a string of premieres, this company is setting the pace for virtual performances. The baritone Johnathan McCullough in David T. Little’s “Soldier Songs,” which he starred in and directed for Opera Philadelphia.Credit...Will Espinola By Seth Colter Walls Jan. 22, 2021 What can an opera company actually do in a pandemic? Yes, some previously planned performances can be turned into livestreams, and broadcasts of past stagings can be made freely available — if only to remind the public what it...

WHYY By Jonathan McCullough (Dominic Mercer) “Soldier Songs” starts with a shot of a large tree in an empty field in late October, slightly right of center. Its leaves have fallen, showing off the lines of craggy branches. At first, you hardly notice the small figure on the left, dwarfed by the towering tree. The character, simply named Soldier, hesitates before moving toward the tree. Next we see that Soldier lives in a trailer, surrounded by a picnic table, a grill, a lawn chair, and a smattering of junk. There is nothing else around him but the open field. “He’s a solitary person,�...