Ian Smith News

Shakespeare's Globe is delighted to announce the programme for 'Shakespeare and Race', a new festival of events opening 11 August. This is the first time in the Globe's twenty-year history that the topic will be explored in depth over a week. Curated to draw attention to and provide a platform for scholars, practitioners and educators of colour in the teaching, study and performance of Shakespeare, this festival will highlight the importance of race to the consideration of Shakespeare not only in his time, but more urgently, in our own. The festival includes a play American Moor by Keith Hamilton Cobb, a workshop entitled Staging Race and Diversity in the Shakespearean Theatre, The Sam Wanamaker Fellowship Lecture is to be given by Professor Kim F. Hall, a pre-show talk for Emilia with Morgan-Lloyd Malcolm, a panel discussion of actors who have played Othello, and an international symposium featuring Kimberle Crenshaw, Professor of Law at Columbia Law School and UCLA, who coined the term 'intersectionality'. The festival starts and finishes with two theatre productions, Voices in the Dark and Hip-hop Shakespeare Unplugged.

BWW catches up with Matt Winning to chat about bringing Climate Strange to the 2018 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

BWW catches up with Robyn Perkins to chat about bringing 10,000 Decisions to the 2018 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

BWW catches up with Ian Smith to chat about bringing Craft to the 2018 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

BWW Reviewer Natalie O'Donoghue selects her top comedy picks from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe programme.

The Raw Word (www.TheRawWord.com), launching Monday, March 5th (check local listings) and hosted by best-selling author Dr. Michael Eric Dyson, revealed some of the bold-faced names set to appear during the month-long run of the new, syndicated daytime talker.

The prestigious Amused Moose Comedy's National New Comic Award contest which searches out 2018's hottest breakthrough stars in the making, who will battle for glory, fame and ultimately the shiny moose trophy, is about to launch. This exciting talent search is impressive for discovering unknown comedy stars of the future such as previous winners Sarah Millican and Jack Whitehall, with finalists including Josh Widdicombe, Romesh Ranganathan, Jimmy Carr, Katherine Ryan, Kevin Bridges and Greg Davies.

Leicester Square Theatre and Museum of Comedy have announced their December 2017 lineups. Scroll down for details!

Halloween is just around the corner and the Playhouse is celebrating the season with the opening of a sophisticated, chillingly sinister thriller that will hold audiences spellbound with suspense!

The sellout sketch extravaganza returns with more Toronto comedy in one room than should be physically possible.

Final casting has been announced for Dream Theater's production of Disney's High School Musical.

Dream Theater Productions is excited to announce casting for its upcoming production of Disney's High School Musical! based on the Emmy Award winning Disney Channel hit musical.

Artscape Theatre Centre is set to celebrate the talent of young musicians as well as the success of their band leaders within their respective communities in a grand mass band extravaganza to be held on stage from 26 28 October.

Halloween is just around the corner and the Playhouse is celebrating the season with the opening of a sophisticated, chillingly sinister thriller that will hold audiences spellbound with suspense!

This Autumn, for two weeks only, audiences can catch Toronto's comedy elite together on-stage as they revision and remount The Adventures of Tom Shadow from October 11-22, 2017 at Factory Theatre!

Final casting has been announced for Dream Theater's production of Disney's High School Musical.

Carnegie Hall today announced that legendary jazz artist Chick Corea will join world-renowned pianist Lang Lang as featured soloists at Carnegie Hall's Opening Night Gala concert today, October 4 at 7:00 p.m.

For one night only, six exceptional stars-of-the-future who all beat hundreds of aspiring comedians in the Amused Moose Comedy Awards when they were handpicked by comedy cognescenti and comedygoers at the Edinburgh Fringe as the very best emerging comedy talent of the year, following in the footsteps of Jack Whitehall and Sarah Millican.

TROIKA Entertainment is thrilled to present KINKY BOOTS, the smash-hit musical that brings together four-time Tony Award-winner Harvey Fierstein (Book) and Grammy Award-winning rock icon Cyndi Lauper (Tony Award-winner for Best Score for KINKY BOOTS), at Miller Auditorium, on the campus of Western Michigan University, Oct. 20 22.

The Weekend of Saturday, October 7th and Sunday, October 8th brings a feast of music to the stage of the Everyman Theatre: on Saturday, two of Ireland's greatest sopranos, Cara O'Sullivan and Majella Cullagh, will come together to present an unforgettable evening of music and on Sunday the return of the Everyman Sunday Songbook will mark the 100th birthday of Vera Lynn.