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TodayTix & Shakespeare Theatre Company Announce Digital Lottery for Macbeth

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Monday, April 8, 2024

TodayTix and Shakespeare Theatre Company are offering an exclusive lottery for the production of Macbeth, making its debut at 1301 W St. NE on Tuesday, April 9 through Sunday, May 5.

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  • TodayTix and Shakespeare Theatre Company are offering an exclusive lottery for the production of Macbeth, making its debut at 1301 W St. NE on Tuesday, April 9 through Sunday, May 5.
  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240408496002/en/
    Tickets to Macbeth are in high demand, and this special-priced inventory is only available through TodayTix’s lottery for just $20 per ticket.
  • The lottery will open for entries each Sunday at 12:00am EST with the lottery for this week’s performances open now.
  • “We’re excited to partner with TodayTix to offer exclusive lottery tickets to Macbeth, allowing even more patrons to see this incredible, sold-out performance in an accessible way,” said Neal Racioppo, Shakespeare Theatre Company’s Senior Director of Marketing & Communications.

The National Theatre for Children (NTC) Wraps Up Another School Year with In-Person and Digital Shows

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Tuesday, August 1, 2023

At the same time, many schools opted for exclusively online programs, which NTC was able to deliver through livestream events and virtual shows.

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  • At the same time, many schools opted for exclusively online programs, which NTC was able to deliver through livestream events and virtual shows.
  • Whether presented live in schools or virtually, NTC’s K-12 programs were supplemented by print and digital resources like student playbooks, graphic novels and online, interactive games.
  • This additional curriculum aims to benefit teachers and students by aligning with state and national education standards and incorporating the creative arts along with social-emotional learning tools.
  • Career prep information for high school students and climate change-related topics like electrification and environmental justice are sure to become more prominent.

Grenfell: in the words of survivors – new play is an angry demand for accountability

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Wednesday, July 26, 2023

Often focused on communities that are marginalised or excluded, verbatim theatre emerged in the 1970s.

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  • Often focused on communities that are marginalised or excluded, verbatim theatre emerged in the 1970s.
  • It uses the words of real people as the basis for theatrical performance.
  • Grenfell expertly combines verbatim performances drawn from first-hand accounts with a film made by the survivors in their ongoing campaign for justice.
  • Also threaded through the play are staged excerpts from the transcripts of the Grenfell Tower Enquiry (2017-22).

The challenges facing verbatim theatre

    • Creating theatre from the words of “ordinary people” can run the risk of speaking for the marginalised people theatre makers aspire to “give voice” to.
    • Done without sufficient care, verbatim might appropriate their stories, or paint those it apparently “speaks for” only as victims.
    • Verbatim theatre may lack nuance in its depictions, suspending its subjects in a traumatic moment, or a position of grievance or helplessness.

Never Forget

    • The survivors’ remembrances culminate in a sensitive yet truly harrowing account of the catastrophic fire.
    • Movable archive boxes marked with the number of each flat, act as building blocks of various locations in the minimalist set and also contain the sombre relics of the fire.
    • A vacated seating bank, illuminated from above, honours those that were lost.
    • Our own work on The Verbatim Formula research uses elements of verbatim with communities of young people who have experienced social care.

Children's Tumor Foundation Announces Nearly 500 Architectural Icons Around the World to Shine a Light on NF on World NF Awareness Day

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Wednesday, May 17, 2023

NEW YORK, May 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Children's Tumor Foundation announces nearly 500 world-famous buildings, bridges and architectural icons are participating in this year's Shine a Light on NF campaign and will show their support in the global fight against NF by lighting up in blue and green, the official colors of the NF cause. NF is a group of genetic conditions that affects 4 million people around the world and causes tumors to grow on nerves throughout the body. It can lead to blindness, deafness, bone abnormalities, disfigurement, learning disabilities, disabling pain, and cancer. There is no cure yet, but this campaign raises awareness and communicates the need for scientific research funding into NF.

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  • There is no cure yet, but this campaign raises awareness and communicates the need for scientific research funding into NF.
  • There is no cure, but this campaign raises awareness and communicates the need for scientific research funding into NF.
  • Launched by the Children's Tumor Foundation in 2014 to increase public knowledge of this rare disease, the Shine a Light on NF campaign has grown substantially over the years.
  • The Children's Tumor Foundation partners with NF organizations, medical and research institutions, and corporate and media partners around the world to expand awareness globally.

Livestream Learning Studio's Invigorates Edtech Post-COVID

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Friday, May 12, 2023

Minneapolis, Minn., May 12, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- ‒It's working!– an enthusiastic Ward Eames notes. Eames, who also founded The National Theatre for Children, is referring to his more recent brainchild, Livestream Learning Studio (the Studio).

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  • Eames, who also founded The National Theatre for Children, is referring to his more recent brainchild, Livestream Learning Studio (the Studio).
  • Livestream Learning Studio is a digital platform that offers virtual, arts-integrated, live events for students in kindergarten through grade 5.
  • Livestream Learning Studio is based in Minneapolis, MN and provides livestream, theater-based learning for K – 12 students nationwide in a variety of school settings.
  • To this end, Livestream Learning Studio engaged two independent research outlets to validate its approach.

Tartan at V&A Dundee: a celebration of the pattern’s disruptive power

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Friday, May 12, 2023

Following radiocarbon dating and extensive dye analysis, the Glen Affric tartan – first discovered in a peat bog in the 1980s – has been dated to between 1500 and 1600.

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  • Following radiocarbon dating and extensive dye analysis, the Glen Affric tartan – first discovered in a peat bog in the 1980s – has been dated to between 1500 and 1600.
  • There are examples of 1960s ecclesiastical architecture by Dutch Benedictine monk Hans van der Laan, based on the Grey Douglas tartan pattern.
  • This includes Shuka cloth from west Africa and Bhutanese fabric that shares a visual affinity with Scottish tartan.
  • Visitors are encouraged to understand tartan in four interlinked spaces: Innovating Tartan, Tartan and Identity, Tartan and Power, and Transcendental Tartan.

Moments of rupture and discontinuity

    • We rejected a chronological narrative for this exhibition because of tartan’s unique history, which is complex, multilayered, and full of moments of rupture and discontinuity.
    • Possibly the most significant of these ruptures occurred following the final defeat of the Jacobite cause at the Battle of Culloden.

Tartan and the establishment

    • In this sequence, a soldier of the Black Watch regiment serving in Iraq is repeatedly dressed and undressed in successive variants of the regimental tartan uniform.
    • Here, tartan is used to represent a choreographed collapsing of military history.
    • That collection catapulted tartan into the 21st century, reclaiming its potential for resistance and revolt.

Boston Court Pasadena Announces 20th Anniversary Season

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Friday, January 27, 2023

Boston Court Pasadena, which opened in 2003 with its groundbreaking production of Romeo & Juliet: Antebellum New Orleans 1836 starring Tessa Thompson, celebrates its 20th Anniversary in 2023.

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  • Boston Court Pasadena, which opened in 2003 with its groundbreaking production of Romeo & Juliet: Antebellum New Orleans 1836 starring Tessa Thompson, celebrates its 20th Anniversary in 2023.
  • The theatre season begins with the world premiere of a co-production with Playwrights’ Arena, Unrivaled by Rosie Narasaki, directed by Margaret Shigeko Starbuck (March 16 – April 23).
  • The music season comprises 15 concerts in a wide variety of styles, including classical, new music, and jazz.
  • The world premiere of Measure STILL for Measure (September 7 – October 15), written and directed by Jessica Kubzansky, concludes the season.

FIRST-EVER FILMED FOR IMAX CONCERT, "INDOCHINE CENTRAL TOUR IN CINEMA", SCORES $2.23 MILLION ACROSS FRANCE AND SELECT MARKETS

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Thursday, December 1, 2022

NEW YORK and LEON, France, Dec. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- IMAX Corporation (NYSE: IMAX) and PATHE LIVE brought French pop-rock band INDOCHINE to IMAX screens last week. After IMAX exclusive previews on Wednesday 23rd November, CENTRAL TOUR - the first recorded music event to be released through the Filmed for IMAX program – topped the French box office in wide release on Thursday, November 24 (surpassing Disney/Marvel's Black Panther: Wakanda Forever on that day). Continuing with IMAX-exclusive encores throughout the weekend, the concert film was also the top new opener this past weekend in the market.

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  • NEW YORK and LEON, France, Dec. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- IMAX Corporation (NYSE: IMAX) and PATHE LIVE brought French pop-rock band INDOCHINE to IMAX screens last week.
  • In France alone, 120,000 tickets were sold for an overall Box-office total of $2.08M.
  • Previews were held the night before at those 16 IMAX screens, which then continued for 5 days of exclusive encore screenings.
  • IMAX, IMAX Dome, IMAX 3D, IMAX 3D Dome, Experience It In IMAX, The IMAX Experience, An IMAX Experience, An IMAX 3D Experience, IMAX DMR, DMR, Filmed For IMAX, IMAX LIVE, IMAX Enhanced, IMAX nXos, SSIMWAVE and Films to the Fullest, are trademarks and trade names of the Company or its subsidiaries that are registered or otherwise protected under laws of various jurisdictions.

LION VS THE LITTLE PEOPLE TO BE RELEASED ON DIGITAL PLATFORMS IN US, UK & BEYOND | DECEMBER 16th 2022

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Monday, November 21, 2022

LONDON, Nov. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- 

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  • UK / US Press Screenings to be announced soon, sign up here to be the first to know more.
  • Lion vs The Little People (LVTLP), a low budget UK produced feature film creatively deconstructing one of the greatest internet phenomena of all time.
  • The film is due to be released in the US and UK on digital platforms, starting with Amazon Prime, for the festive season in December 2022.
  • Release.Lion vs the Little People will be released on digital platforms this festive season, starting with a release on Amazon Prime on December 16th 2022.

LION VS THE LITTLE PEOPLE TO BE RELEASED ON DIGITAL PLATFORMS IN US, UK & BEYOND | DECEMBER 16th 2022

Retrieved on: 
Monday, November 21, 2022

LONDON, Nov. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- 

Key Points: 
  • UK / US Press Screenings to be announced soon, sign up here to be the first to know more.
  • Lion vs The Little People (LVTLP), a low budget UK produced feature film creatively deconstructing one of the greatest internet phenomena of all time.
  • The film is due to be released in the US and UK on digital platforms, starting with Amazon Prime, for the festive season in December 2022.
  • Release.Lion vs the Little People will be released on digital platforms this festive season, starting with a release on Amazon Prime on December 16th 2022.