Kate Douglas News

Ars Nova announces the lineup for its 6th Annual ANT Fest. This year's festival of All New Talent runs from today, June 3 - 29, featuring fresh new work from some of New York's most exciting emerging artists. From trapeze thrillers to hip-hop basketball musicals, 2013's ANT Fest heats up Ars Nova this summer with four weeks of comedy, music, theater and a fusion of all three you won't see anywhere else.

Trinity Repertory Company announced today that three local Rhode Island residents will be receiving Pell Awards this year in addition to Kate Burton, who had previously been announced as the recipient of the 2013 Pell Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Arts. The 17th annual Pell Awards will be held on Monday, June 10, 2013 at Trinity Rep with a reception to follow next door at the Providence Public Library.

Max Vernon makes his sold-out return to Joe's Pub with Frisk Me: The Songs of Max Vernon tonight, November 30 at 9:30PM.

Robert Petkoff (Anything Goes, Ragtime) and Larkin Bogan (American Idiot, Hair) have been added to the lineup of performers to join Max Vernon, one of the most innovative young voices in contemporary musical theater, in his return to Joe's Pub tonight, November 30 at 9:30PM.

Robert Petkoff (Anything Goes, Ragtime) and Larkin Bogan (American Idiot, Hair) have been added to the lineup of performers to join Max Vernon, one of the most innovative young voices in contemporary musical theater, in his return to Joe's Pub on November 30 at 9:30PM.

Saycon Sengbloh (Hair, Fela!, Wicked), Sarah Stiles (Into The Woods), Christopher Jackson (In The Heights), and Lady Rizo (Lady Rizo: Unescorted @ Joe's Pub, The Lily's Revenge) lead the lineup of performers to join Max Vernon, one of the most innovative young voices in contemporary musical theater, in his return to Joe's Pub on November 30 at 9:30PM.

Composer, writer and performance artist Kate Douglas makes her debut at Joe's Pub on Friday, August 31st at 7:30 p.m. with an evening of original songs, poems and curiosities entitled Kate Douglas and the Imaginary Menagerie. Douglas, who can currently be seen in PUNCHDRUNK's Sleep No More, will perform her own original music and lyrics, supported by a sexy collection of singers, musicians and a deer named Lucy.

This week at Joe's Pub, August 27 through September 2, look out for Sasha Allen, Ryan Raftery, Jared Evan, Veronica Klaus, Tori Scott, Annie and the Beekeepers, The Snow / C. Gibbs, Kate Douglas and the Imaginary Menagerie, Julia Haltigan / Rusty Belle and Saul Williams. More details below!

The New York Musical Theatre Festival's Student Leadership Program (SLP) presents its first ever concert series, Part of It All: Introducing The New Generation, at the 45th Street Theater's Mainstage tonight, July 26th at 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. Featuring all-new works and performances by talented students and recent graduates, Part of It All sets out to showcase a new generation of artists who've grown up in the age of the mega-musical, power belting, and three-named composers.

The New York Musical Theatre Festival's Student Leadership Program (SLP) presents its first ever concert series, Part of It All: Introducing The New Generation, at the 45th Street Theater's Mainstage on Thursday, July 26th at 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. Featuring all-new works and performances by talented students and recent graduates, Part of It All sets out to showcase a new generation of artists who've grown up in the age of the mega-musical, power belting, and three-named composers.

Walt Disney Productions' classic 1963 movie musical "Summer Magic" is being re-imagined as a new stage production in Morristown, Tennessee.

Goodspeed Musicals will undertake a musical workshop production of an adaptation of the beloved children's book 'Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm', reports Variety. Henry Krieger (of 'Dreamgirls') will write the music, and Susan Birkenhead (of 'Jelly's Last Jam') will pen the lyrics. Daniel Goldfarb will write the book. The production will be directed by Christopher Gattelli who recently directed Goodspeed's 'Jim Henson's Emmett Otter'.

The Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation today named ten recipients of the 2009 Whiting Writers' Awards. The awards, which are $50,000 each, totaling $500,000, have been given annually since 1985 to writers of fiction, non fiction and plays exceptional talent and promise in early career. This years recipient of the Whiting Award for playwriting went to Rajiv Joseph. His productions include Animals out of Paper, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo and the forthcoming Gruesome Playground Injuries.

East of Doheny has announced that it will present a special invitation-only reading of the new musical Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm today, Monday, November 3, 2008.