In recognition of National Poetry Month, The Estate of Tupac Shakur celebrates Tupac's passion for art with an exclusive line inspired by his poems and announces the Tupac Poetry Month Competition. Share your VERY OWN poem on how Tupac inspires... Continue Reading →
The Bitter Game, a "high-impact" immersive theater experience ripe with pain, poetry, and laughter that explores the experience of being black in America, debuts at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on Wednesday, November 14 through Saturday, November... Continue Reading →
Two years after the infamous Access Hollywood tape of our current President Donald Trump, comes a delightfully illustrated poetry guide to what is—and is not—available for grabbing. In Please Don’t Grab my P#$$y: A Rhyming Presidential Guide, co-writers and masters of... Continue Reading →
by Matt Ritchey Immersive theatre is the hot ticket these days, and will probably only be gathering steam and expanding for the next few years. There are many different forms of immersive, of course, and much of the enjoyment has... Continue Reading →
by Bob Rich The Women of Lockerbie is about a father and mother who just lost their son, who was a passenger on a tragic airplane flight. Wisely, this play was written with an abundance of poetry, a little levity... Continue Reading →
by Matt Ritchey There’s a cliché phrase that goes, “I laughed, I cried, it was better than CATS.” The cliché is true for A Mile In My Shoes, Kathryn Taylor Smith’s one-woman show about the journey of homeless citizens in... Continue Reading →
by Tracey Paleo, Gia On The Move Collaborative Artists Ensemble officially opened its world premiere of Don Nigro's Waste Land at Studio/Stage, last weekend. A tragicomedy, set in the modernist era, that lays bare the tumultuous love between T.S. Eliot... Continue Reading →
by Guy Picot Melrose Poetry Bureau describe themselves as a live-writing ensemble with an emphasis on blurring the lines between poetry, theatre, and improvisation. They have built a loyal following at the Bootleg Theater through Write Club, and Quick Draw... Continue Reading →
Press Release The MacDowell Colony has awarded fellowships to 85 artists from 20 states and six countries, working in seven disciplines. The fellowships are for upcoming late-winter and spring residencies at the nation’s first artist residency program. The incoming group... Continue Reading →
Theatre of NOTE is proud to announce the 23rd Annual Hollywood Performance Marathon, on Saturday, January 20 beginning at 3pm and continuing until dawn, at Theatre of NOTE, 1517 N. Cahuenga Blvd. (just North of Sunset) in Hollywood. NOTE’s Hollywood... Continue Reading →
August will mark 13 years of the monthly reading series, Tongue & Groove! But first things first. Another unique mix of writers performers that you'd be hard pressed to assemble anywhere else will be at The Hotel Cafe, 1623 1/2... Continue Reading →
We're mix-taping it up today with the groundbreaking band, The Veldt. Identical twins Daniel and Danny Chavis may originally hail from Raleigh/ Chapel Hill, North Carolina, but they have been East Village residents for the past 28 years. They are also co-founders of the band who lifted their bands... Continue Reading →