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Summer Academy 2021!
New Bedford Festival Theatre Summer Academy 2021! We are thrilled to offer the New Bedford Festival Theatre Summer Academy this year with two exciting workshops. The first is To Broadway, With Love 2.0, a Musical Theatre performance workshop taught by Diane DiCroce, professor of Musical Theatre at Emerson College, and Juan Rodriguez, NBFT music director.…
Read MoreTo Broadway, With Love! A Virtual Theatrical Event! April 8 – 11, 2021
“There’s No Business Like Show Business!” New Bedford Festival Theatre Returns! We’ve missed you and are thrilled to announce – WE’RE BACK! New Bedford Festival Theatre and Executive Producer Wendy Hall returns April 8-11, 2021 with “TO BROADWAY,WITH LOVE” The spring production will be presented for four streamed performances, each with special post-performance Zoom offerings.…
Read MoreActing For Teens! Ages 14 – 18
This four session virtual workshop guides students as they hone skills essential to the craft of acting. Students will thoroughly explore a monologue, taking it from the rehearsal stage to performance level while developing their voice and physicality. Risk-taking and creativity will also be a focus, as students practice the art (and fun!) of improvisation…
Read MoreThe Founding of NBFT
The Founding of Festival Theatre and the Promise of The Best of Broadway No fewer than 300,000 people over the past 30 years have attended a New Bedford Festival Theatre production at the Zeiterion Performing Arts Center. In addition to supporting the arts, these audiences patronize many downtown New Bedford hotels, shops, restaurants, and…
Read MoreThe Best Of Times – Welcome to the 60’s
CONTROVERSY and ACCLAIM Flip Sides of a Generation Festival Theatre began its third decade in the summer of 2010 with the musical fable GYPSY. Earlier that year, Festival Theatre moved its offices once again,…
Read MoreThe Best Of Times – Cutlery, Cats, and that other French Revolution
“The Best of Times” A Look back at the Best of Broadway on The South Coast Cutlery, Cats, and that other French Revolution! A trifecta of tour de force productions puts Festival Theatre on the map. The year 2000 began a new decade and a new century for the world. For New Bedford Festival…
Read MoreThe Best Of Times – La Cage Aux Folles
“The Best of Times” A look back at the Best of Broadway on The South Coast Bugle Beads, Ostrich Plumes, and A Little More Mascara – How Festival Theatre’s inaugural production of La Cage aux Folles began a 30-year legacy Rapturous cheers and applause drowned out the triumphant finale “The Best of Times.” It…
Read MoreANNIE Artistic Staff Announced
New Bedford Festival Theatre is pleased to announce our artistic staff for ANNIE. Diane DiCroce (Director) is a Musical Theatre Director, Actor and Educator. Most recently she directed Spotlight Repertory’s (NYC) first full production, Mamma Mia, at the Music Hall. Other Directing credits include: Always, Patsy Cline, Our Town, Inherit the Wind and The King…
Read MoreANNIE Audition Information
Audition Dates: Sat & Sun, January 25 & 26, 2020 – Zeiterion Performing Arts Center, New Bedford, MA – 10:30 am – 4 pm *Saturday, January 25 is for girls 8 & up ONLY. Sunday, January 26 is adults 16 years and up ONLY* Fri & Sat, February 21 & 22, 2020 – Ripley-Grier…
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