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A RAISIN IN THE SUN to be Presented at Bristol Riverside Theatre This Winter

For its third production of the 2023-24 season, Bristol Riverside Theatre will present a poignant depiction of 1950s Chicago from the experiences of one Southside family in Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun.
Review: STEEL MAGNOLIAS At TheatreWorks Silicon Valley

What did our critic think of STEEL MAGNOLIAS at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley?
TheatreWorks Stages New Look At STEEL MAGNOLIAS This Summer

TheatreWorks Silicon Valley presents a new look at the cherished comic drama Steel Magnolias by Robert Harling. A tight-knit group of Southern women flock to Truvy's beauty parlor, where its occupants dish gossip, do hair, and provide strength and support through life's joys and tragedies.
Luna Stage Adds Matinee For TORN ASUNDER, February 25

On February 16, Luna Stage presented its first-ever matinee for older adults, a performance of Nikkole Salter's searing historical drama Torn Asunder.
DEATH OF A SALESMAN Sets Rush Ticket Policy; Complete Cast Announced

Broadway's upcoming production of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman announced it will offer day-of $35 rush tickets via TodayTix.
7th Annual Women In Theatre Festival to Return Virtually

Project Y Theatre Company commissioned 5 female playwrights to write 'Hybrid 2-Handers' as the centerpiece of this year's hybrid Women in Theatre Festival, a festival of new work written and created by women, originally conceived to be written for and performed to an in-person and streaming audience simultaneously.
Bristol Riverside Theatre Presents SKELETON CREW By Tony Nominee Dominique Morriseau

Bristol Riverside Theatre's 35th Anniversary Season continues with Bucks County premiere of TONY Nominee (Ain't Too Proud) Dominique Morriseau's timely play about four Detroit auto workers, Skeleton Crew.
The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center Announces SEGAL TALKS Week 11

The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center has announced the eleventh weekly line-up of its new global series, SEGAL TALKS, which was conceived, created and curated by Frank Hentschker in March 2020. New York, US, and international theatre artists, curators, researchers, and academics will talk daily for one hour with Segal Center's director, Frank Hentschker, about life and art in the Time of Corona and speak about challenges, sorrows, and hopes for the new Weltzustand- the State of the World.
The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center Announces SEGAL TALKS Week Four

The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center Announces SEGAL TALKS Week Four
The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center Announces SEGAL TALKS Week Three

The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center has announced the third weekly line-up of its new global series, SEGAL TALKS. New York, US, and international theatre artists, curators, researchers and academics will talk daily for one hour with Segal Center's director, Frank Hentschker, about life and art in the Time of Corona.
BWW Review: FENCES at Virginia Rep Is a Perfect Realization of a Great Play

Virginia Rep's production of August Wilson's great play 'Fences' is soulful and emotional, with cast, direction and technical elements at a peak.
Virginia Repertory Theatre Presents August Wilson's FENCES

This Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning drama will be presented at Virginia Rep's November Theatre (114 West Broad Street) beginning February 7th, 2020 with two preview performances on Wednesday, February 5th and Thursday, February 6th. August Wilson's powerful masterwork will be onstage through March 1st. Fences is presented as part of the Acts of Faith Festival. 
Quick Silver Theater Company Announces 2019 Citizen One Reading Series

Quick Silver Theater Company (QSTC) will present a staged reading of Lisa Strum's She Gon' Learn.
FOR COLORED GIRLS WHO HAVE CONSIDERED SUICIDE/WHEN THE RAINBOW IS ENUF Will Come to the Five Towns College Performing Arts Center

Five Towns College brings FOR COLORED GIRLS WHO HAVE CONSIDERED SUICIDE WHEN THE RAINBOW IS ENUF, to the Five Towns College Performing Arts Center beginning this Friday, November 1, 2019. Tickets are available now and cost $15, $12 for seniors & students.
SPRING AWAKENING, SHINKA & More Win Off-Off-Broadway IT Awards

On Monday, September 16, 2019, The New York Innovative Theatre Foundation announced the 2019 recipients at the annual Off-Off-Broadway IT Awards. For the past 15 years, the It Awards have celebrated the vibrant and creative indie theatre community under the dedicated leadership of Executive Directors Shay Gines and Nick Micozzi who are stepping down and at the ceremony introduced new leadership for the organization: Cat Parker, Artistic Director of Articulate Theatre Company; Ariel Estrada, Producing Artistic Director of Leviathan Lab Projects; and Jazmyn Arroyo, Co-Founding Artistic Director of Step 1 Theatre Project will join Akia Squiteri, Artistic Director of Rising Sun Performance Company as Directors of the organization.
The New York Innovative Theatre Awards Celebrates 15 Years & The 2019 Award Nominees

On Monday, July 29, 2019, The New York Innovative Theatre Awards, announced the 2019 nominees for the annual Off-Off-Broadway awards. The It Awards have celebrated the vibrant and creative theatre community for the past 15 years.  The official announcement took place at (Le) Poisson Rouge by six celebrated artists and producers from the community including: Jazmyn Arroyo, Jennifer Betite Yen, Iyvon Edebiri, Chris Ignacio, Ashley Rogers, and Erez Ziv.
Nominees Announced For New York Innovative Theater Awards, Celebrating Off-Off-Broadway

On Monday, July 29, 2019, nominees were announced for The New York Innovative Theatre Awards, celebrating Off-Off-Broadway.
BWW Review: FENCES at UD Rep Ensemble

Bono, friend to Troy the protagonist in UD Rep Ensemble's FENCES, comments 'Some people build fences to keep people out, some people build fences to keep people in'.
People's Light Presents Lynn Nottage's Pulitzer Prize-Winning SWEAT

People's Light presents Lynn Nottage's Sweat, winner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and nominee for the 2017 Tony Award for Best Play. Currently the second-most produced play in the country, Sweat is an extensively researched portrait of early 2000s Reading, PA and an incisive examination of deindustrialized America.

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