Wayne Brady to Host the 35th Annual GLAAD Media Awards
by Michael Major - Feb 6, 2024
This spring Brady returns to Broadway in the all-new production of The Wiz, leading the cast as the titular character. The highly-anticipated musical features award-winning creatives and producers including Schele Williams, Common, Amber Ruffin, Sharen Davis, Deborah Cox, Nichelle Lewis and many other talents.
Cast Set For the Premiere of TRANSGRESSION at The White Bear Theatre
by Stephi Wild - Jan 9, 2024
The cast has been announced for the premiere of Transgression at the White Bear Theatre. It’s the 1990s and the societal revolution to smash the nuclear family is on the horizon. A psychoanalyst battles against the demise of established traditions, while younger women debate pregnancy and the relevance of a father’s name on a birth certificate. It’s all an uphill campaign to rattle the patriarchy until a father and son face the unthinkable. When the dust settles a new birth order awaits future generations. Transgression by Loretta Monaco, directed by Bryan Oliver, is a ferociously funny play. Cast: Bruce Allinson, Alexandra Etudor, Zara Hadeshian, Jonathan Hansler, Abigail Moore.
Broadway Alum Walter Charles Dies at 78
by Stephi Wild - Aug 4, 2023
BroadwayWorld is saddened to learn of the passing in Walter Charles, Broadway alum, and staeg and screen actor. He was 78 years old.
Irvine Barclay Theatre Reveals Upcoming Season
by Stephi Wild - Aug 1, 2023
Irvine Barclay Theatre has announced more shows for its 2023-24 season. One of the most popular performing arts venues in Orange County, Irvine Barclay Theatre presents renowned artists in a wide range of genres, from jazz, classical, country, Motown, and global music, to comedy, dance, theater, captivating speakers, and more.
Interview: LisaGay Hamilton Cooks Up a Tasty STEW at the Pasadena Playhouse
by Gil Kaan - Jul 19, 2023
Just opened at the Pasadena Playhouse, recently crowned recipient of the 2023 Regional Tony Award, the Los Angeles premiere of Pulitzer Prize-finalist Zora Howard’s Stew. Tyler Thomas directs the cast of LisaGay Hamilton, Roslyn Ruff, Jasmine Ashanti and Samantha Miller. LisaGay graciously found some time after the opening to answer a few of my queries.
Arden Theatre Company Continues Season With August Wilson's RADIO GOLF, March 23- April 16
by A.A. Cristi - Mar 3, 2023
Arden Theatre Company is bringing audiences back into the world of August Wilson's ten-part series, The American Century Cycle. This time audiences will journey to Pittsburgh in the late 1990s for the final play of the cycle, August Wilson's Radio Golf. This bittersweet drama of assimilation and alienation in nineties America traces the forces of change on a neighborhood and its people caught between history and the twenty-first century. This is the fifth play in the cycle that the Arden has produced. Kash Goins, who was an actor in the Arden's production of Two Trains Running, returns to direct. August Wilson's Radio Golf runs March 23-April 16.
Baryshnikov Arts Center Announces Spring 2023 Performances and Artist Residencies
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Dec 15, 2022
Baryshnikov Arts Center has announced the Spring 2023 season of dance, music, and multimedia performances. The season will feature the New York Premiere of AMOC (American Modern Opera Company)’s How to Fall Apart composed by Carolyn Chen, the World Premiere of Eunbi Kim’s music and new media work it feels like a dream and more.
Candace Bushnell's IS THERE STILL SEX IN THE CITY Comes To The Ridgefield Playhouse Next Month
by Stephi Wild - Oct 28, 2022
Was there a real “Mr. Big”? Does she really have a shoe obsession? Find out when Sex and the City creator Candace Bushnell brings her one-woman show “Is There Still Sex in the City?” to The Ridgefield Playhouse stage! After an Off-Broadway run in 2021, The New York Times bestselling author will entertain audiences at The Ridgefield Playhouse on Friday, November 11, 2022 at 8pm in her only area performance before she takes the show international in 2023!
Richard Krevolin's OUR TOWN... BUT WILDER To Hold Special Post Show Talkbacks
by Blair Ingenthron - Oct 9, 2022
Off Broadway's Our Town... But Wilder, a new comedy that centers on a small-town high school theater department in the 1980's and the chaos that ensues from a love affair between a teacher and a student, will be presenting special post-show talkbacks featuring several prominent figures from the worlds of journalism, law, and religion.
Candace Bushnell's IS THERE STILL SEX IN THE CITY Comes To The Ridgefield Playhouse In November
by Stephi Wild - Sep 9, 2022
Grab your Samantha, Miranda and Charlotte and join the OG Carrie Bradshaw for a Girls' Night Out! After a run Off-Broadway in 2021, New York Times Bestselling Author Candace Bushnell brings her one-woman show Is There Still Sex in the City? on the road! The novelist and creator of Sex and the City will perform her stage show at The Ridgefield Playhouse on Friday, November 11, 2022 at 8pm.
La MaMa Announces 61st Season Featuring 40 Productions From 8 Nations
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Aug 24, 2022
La MaMa ETC’s 61st season will feature world-premieres by John Kelly, Erik Ehn, Elizabeth Swados, Witness Relocation/Dan Safer, Bobbie Jene Smith and Ping Chong, along with the live, in-person stage debut of Split Britches’s 2021 digital production LAST GASP and the first-ever revival of Maria Irene Fornes’ EVELYN BROWN.
Nettle Creek Players Announces 2022 Summer Season
by Stephi Wild - Jun 7, 2022
Nettle Creek Players, a 501c3 not-for-profit arts organization in Hagerstown, Indiana, has announced its 2022 troupe of visiting professional theatre artists who will live in the community for nine weeks as they prepare and present the Nettle Creek Players 2022 Summer Stock Tent Theatre Season.
World Premiere of LONESOME TRAVELER: GENERATIONS to be Presented by Rubicon Theatre Company
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jun 6, 2022
Rubicon Theatre Company, Ventura’s non-profit professional theatre company, will continue the company’s 2022-2023 Season with the World Premiere of LONESOME TRAVELER: GENERATIONS, conceived by George Grove and James O’Neil, with musical direction by Rick Dougherty and George Grove and direction by Rubicon Co-Founder James O’Neil.