Theatre discovery platform Thespie has announced ten new online theatre and arts events including an International Women’s Day concert double feature and a conversation with the cast and creatives of a new virtual production of The Last Five Years streaming from New York.
On 8 March 2020, Thespie will mark International Women’s Day with a special double bill event including the re-streaming of its popular 2020 concerts The Reunion and Girl Power. Featuring previously unreleased behind-the-scenes footage and interviews along with an artist Q&A created specifically for the day, the special two-hour event reunites seven of Six’s ‘Queens’ – Aimie Atkinson, Alexia McIntosh, Grace Mouat, Millie O’Connell, Natalie Paris, Maiya Quansah-Breed and Jarneia Richard-Noel.
Showcasing Thespie’s first original production, The Reunion, was one of the best-selling paid theatre streaming events in the UK in 2020, and December’s follow-up concert Girl Power, The Reunion x Girl Power will be available to stream on-demand following the premiere with purchasers given seven days to view.
The free to view informal chat series Thespie Thursdays continues with a series of conversations with female theatre creatives including casting professional Danielle Tarento on 11 March, stage and screen casting director Olissa Rogers on 18 March and stage director and head of the all women theatre company Damsel Productions, Hannah Hauer-King.
There will also be five more instalments of the In The Room series which launched last month with a conversation with cast members from the hit Leicester Curve production of The Color Purple.
Musical theatre composer Dominic Powell once again takes on hosting duties for the March In The Room events which will include a special conversation with the cast and creatives from the newly devised site-specific production of Jason Robert Brown’s The Last Five Years.
Premiering on 17 March, the conversation will include cast members Nasia Thomas (Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations and Beautiful: The Carole King Musical on Broadway) and Nicholas Edwards (Disney’s Frozen on Broadway; Berkshire Theatre Group’s Godspell), along with Tony Award-winning director and music director Jason Michael Webb (The Color Purple, Choir Boy on Broadway), and associate director Christina Franklin (New York Theatre Workshop, Public Theatre). Presented by Out Of The Box Theatrics, Holmdel Theatre Company and Blair Russell, the production itself is due be to live-streamed to paying audiences from 15-28 March.
The line-up of In The Room events also includes conversations with former Strictly Come Dancing champion turned musical theatre performer Ore Oduba, Hamilton stars Jamael Westman and Sharon Rose and Les Misérables star Shan Ako.
Thespie’s February online charity concert premieres, Break Free and the Dominic Powell-directed The Road To Prominence will remain available to stream on-demand throughout the month of March.
Thespie launched in May 2020 as a platform to keep people connected to theatre and the arts. The platform now offers more than digital streaming listings along with audio, ebooks and educational resources including nearly 400 productions to stream free of charge.
Angela Thomas
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