PERFORMING ARTS

Performing Arts Pallas M. Gutierrez Performing Arts Pallas M. Gutierrez

Best Script of a Play: A Plea to the American Theatre Wing

A play could have the best direction, but not be the best play. Why can’t it have the best script? Best Musical functions as Best Production of a New Musical – it goes to the show that was overall the best. Plays should be able to be awarded in the same discrete categories as musicals. The art of playwriting deserves a moment separate from the overall production.

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Lifestyle Karlye Whitt Lifestyle Karlye Whitt

Sapphic Vampires and the Suspension of Disbelief with Opal Elwell

Opal Elwell is creating magic, sapphic vampire spectacles with orchid mantises, and exploring their sexual identity without the weight of religious guilt in their upcoming Hymen Opus, a reworking of one of the first puppet shows they made, March 22nd, 2026 at the Stone Circle Theatre and as part of the New Orleans Giant Puppetry Festival this April.

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Performing Arts Karlye Whitt Performing Arts Karlye Whitt

A Saxy Nutcracker, New Roots, and Community Values. Welcome to Eva Ding’s World

Founder, artistic director, and flutist Eva Ding is one year into a new classical music venture Orchestra Q, an artist-driven, boundary-pushing, conductor-less orchestra of the next generation, and is spending the holidays bringing New York a unique twist on Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker and twinkling dreamscape of the city December 9th.

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