Best New Play 2019 Olivier Awards

Matthew Lopez's 'The Inheritance' premiered in two parts at the Young Vic Theatre, London, in March 2018 and went on to Noël Coward Theatre in 2019. This play has won the 2019 AMERICAN AIRLINES BEST NEW PLAY at the Olivier Awards, this April. Checkout this play for monologues or duologues for showcase!

Click here to find it in the library  

"You have to wonder why there isn't a word in the English language for the fireworks that go off in your brain when you finally kiss someone you've wanted for years. Or for the intimacy and tenderness you feel as you hold the hand of a suffering friend. A generation after the height of the AIDS crisis, what is it like to be a young gay man in New York? How many words are there now for the different kinds of pain, the different kinds of love?"

3rd Manhattan Music Competition

We've been notified of this competition for piano, strings, and singers. No transport required. Details all online, deadline 28 February 2018:-

• https://www.manhattancompetition.com/

John Cage 100th birthday

John Cage unbound

 

Bibliolore blog celebrates Cage's100th birthday with a special blog about a New York exhibition in his honour.  Here's how Bibliolore introduces the exhibition:-

 

"John Cage unbound: A living archive is an online multimedia project about the American composer and avant-garde music pioneer. Hosted by the New York Public Library ..."

 

Meanwhile, musicologist Dr David McGuinness (University of Glasgow) shares with us a John Cage Prepared Piano app:-

John Cage Prepared Piano for iPhone™, iPad™ and Android™

If you've no other way of celebrating today, you could always stage your own performance of,

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