A Virtual Irish Poetry Slam For a Very Real St. Patrick's Day

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Published on Thursday, 11 March 2021 18:23

Written by Brad Balfour

The Gingold Theatrical Group announced that in lieu of the 2021 Golden Shamrock Gala, they will celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with an Irish Poetry Slam. The Poetry Slam will be held online on Wednesday March 17th and the event is FREE to attend but you must register here by March 15th.  There is a cap to the amount of guests who can join via Zoom, so it will also be live streamed on the GTG Faceook page.

Speakers include:

• Robert Cuccioli
• Tyne Daly
• Melissa Errico
• Jessica Hecht
• Daniel Jenkins
• Andrea Marcovicci
• Tonya Pinkins
• Thom Sesma
• Renee Taylor
• Sally Wilfert
• Karen Ziemba

and more!

Along with a plethora of speakers, the even includes a digital open mic. "Ordinarily, we’d be having our annual Golden Shamrock Gala on the 17th, but…nope! This shindig will take place over Zoom! Not Irish? Not a problem. On St. Pat’s, we’re ALL a little Irish. This is just a party. Not a performance. Not a fundraiser. Just a chance for us all to raise a glass and be ‘together’..,” said David Staller, Artistic Director of Gingold Theatrical Group.

Now celebrating its 16th year, Gingold Theatrical Group's Project Shaw made history in December 2009 as the first company ever to present performances of every one of Shaw's 65 plays (including full-length works, one-acts and sketches).

To learn more, go to: https://gingoldgroup.org/

Irish Poetry Slam
March 17. 2021

Under the Radar Festival: Daring Theater Online

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Published on Tuesday, 05 January 2021 15:39

Written by Brad Balfour

Over the last 17 years, The Public Theater’s Under the Radar Festival (UTR) has grown into a landmark event part of The Public's mission, providing a high-visibility platform to support artists from diverse backgrounds who are reinventing the stage. This year’s festival, running January 6 to the 17th, continues the tradition, featuring new and cutting-edge performance from the U.S. and abroad.

This year’s fest features streamed on deman and live streamed events and performances, including Capsule by Whitney White and Peter Mark Kendall, ESPÍRITU by Teatro Anónimo  and directed by Trinidad González, Borders & Crossing by Inua Ellams, and more. These are performances addressing the human condition, social plights, and spiritual crises from daring artists.

To learn more, go to: https://publictheater.org/programs/under-the-radar/under-the-radar-2021/

Under the Radar Festival
January 6 - 17. 2021

Theater & Music Go Beyond at the FERUS Festival

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Published on Thursday, 17 December 2020 20:24

Written by Brad Balfour

National Sawdust's FERUS Festival, the showcase for cutting-edge audio, novel multimedia performances and provocative creative discussion has its 2021 installment coming January 7 to the 9th. Streaming at https://live.nationalsawdust.org/,  lineup includes Ash Koosha and his anthropomorphized artificial intelligence YONA independently collaborating for a uniquely futuristic duet concert. The presentation Active Hope brings together  a Broadway director, a poet and TED Global Fellow, and an award winning composer to articulate how artists and arts workers can shape this transformational, historical, and polarizing moment. Featuring artistic leaders from The Apollo Theater, The Kennedy Center, and National Sawdust - Kamilah Forbes, Marc Bamuthi Joseph, and Paola Prestini - in a public conversation about applying creative intelligence to how we cross borders, disciplines, and outlooks as we build a path for healing and the future.

Choreographer and MacArthur Fellow Kyle Abraham and pioneering producer Jlin have come together to create a new commission exploring death, folklore, and reincarnation through a reimagining of Mozart’s Requiem in D minor. While Abraham’s work is typically performed in proscenium, for FERUS he has reconceptualized an excerpt from an evening length work, exploring abstracted movement for the digital landscape. The duet features Keerati Jinakunwiphat and Jae Neal from A.I.M by Kyle Abraham, costumed by highly noted designer Giles Deacon with musical excerpts by producer Jlin. Choreography created in collaboration with A.I.M. dancers Keerati Jinakunwiphat and Jae Neal. A short live discussion with the artists will follow the screening.

National Sawdust's co-founder and Artistic Director Paola Prestini says, "Our sixth annual FERUS Festival is emblematic of the core values we're stressing for National Sawdust's 2021 season: encouraging innovation in form and approach, emphasizing financial and professional mentorship for artists, expanding our work with movement and dance, and intensifying our commitment to spotlight the experience and creative work of a gender-diverse and racially-diverse roster of performers and composers."

To learn more, go to: https://nationalsawdust.org/festivals-and-series/ferus/

National Sawdust's FERUS Festival
January 7 - 9, 2021