Theatre Partners News

Ensemble Theatre Company, Santa Barbara’s professional theatre company, has announced a partnership with “One Tree Planted,” a non-profit that aims to plant trees in California. For every ticket purchased for the upcoming play, The Children, Ensemble Theatre Company will plant one tree.  

Shakespeare Sports will partner with organizations for Hunter Heartbeat inspired interactive theatre and workshops that serve the I/DD (intellectual and developmental disabilities) community. Games in scenes from As You Like It, Tempest, Pericles and Midsummer Nights Dream for both in person and virtual programming.

Black Theatre Coalition has announced a partnership with fraternal organization, Black Broadway Men.

The hysterical dark comedy, Arsenic and Old Lace will open at Jacksonville's Alhambra Theatre & Dining on March 23, 2023. Best known through the 1944 film starring Cary Grant and directed by Frank Capra, Arsenic and Old Lace was written in 1939. The play opened on Broadway at the Fulton Theatre on January 10, 1941.

The William Daniel Mills Apprentice program has announced auditions for the 2023-24 Apprentice Program! The program provides elite high school and early college talent around central Florida with professional training through expert master classes and professional paid opportunities. 

Mercury Theatre, led by Executive Director Steve Mannix, Executive Producer Tracey Childs and Creative Director Ryan McBryde, have announced their two latest Premier-level partners for 2023: The George Hotel and Fiducia Wealth Management.

The McCarter Theatre —the Tony Award-winning performing arts center on the campus of Princeton University—will premiere a set of commissioned performances on March 24 and 25, 2023 as part of a robust calendar of campus-wide programming celebrating the acclaimed author Toni Morrison’s (1931–2019) life and legacy.

​​​​​​​Actors Theatre of Indiana (ATI) has formed a new partnership with the Carmel Clay Public Library Foundation. With similar mission statements - to engage, inspire lifelong discovery and learning, to provide enriching social and cultural experiences and to entertain - bringing the ATI LabSeries to the Carmel Clay Library is the perfect union.

The Abbey Theatre has announced the world premieres of two new plays, from Irish playwrights Deirdre Kinahan and Mark O'Rowe. Appearing on the stages of Ireland's national theatre in Spring 2023, An Old Song, Half Forgotten by Deirdre Kinahan and Mark O'Rowe's adaptation of the Henrik Ibsen classic Ghosts, will both open in April. 

Lower Depth Theatre partners with A Noise Within's 'Noise Now' community engagement series to present 'Cycle of Poverty' reading festival.

As the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) celebrates the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's First Folio in 2023, the Company today announced the opening of submissions for its new nationwide playwriting competition 37 Plays: an ambitious and ground-breaking new initiative open to anybody from anywhere in the UK.

Marking the 50th anniversary of the Roe v Wade decision on January 22,1973, The Fountain Theatre is partnering with the Los Angeles LGBT Center to present a screening of the Fountain's 'hyper-staged' reading of Roe by Lisa Loomer on Saturday, Jan. 21 at the LGBT Center's Renberg Theatre.

PLAYSTUDIOS, Inc., the creator of the playAWARDS loyalty platform and an award-winning developer of free-to-play mobile games that offer real-world rewards to players, announced their first-ever partnership with Nevada Ballet Theatre (NBT), the largest professional ballet company in the state.

Dallas Black Dance Academy is launching a new Adopt-A-School Dance Program providing an intense dance curriculum to support middle and high schools with existing dance programs.

Chicago Tap Theatre has announced its 20th Anniversary Season including two productions of new and classic works, its 20th Anniversary Gala, national performances, a celebration of National Tap Dance Day and more.

Acclaimed Washington actor Craig Wallace will return to Ford’s Theatre to reprise the role of Ebenezer Scrooge for the company’s holiday production of A Christmas Carol. Performances of the classic Charles Dickens story begin November 18, 2022 and continue for a six-week engagement through December 31, 2022.

When Craig Smith and Theatre Partners reopened the historic Alhambra Theatre & Dining in 2009, they promised that everything about the experience would be new from the chairs to the menu to stemware. 

The Arc of Litchfield County (LARC) has been awarded a grant from Thomaston Savings Bank Foundation to fund a performance and movement workshop at the Warner Theatre.

Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati (ETC) and several community partners will host the NEA Big Read: Greater Cincinnati, sponsored in part by grant funding from the National Endowment for the Arts through Arts Midwest.

Ford's Theatre Society announced full casting and the design team for Horton Foote's The Trip to Bountiful, September 23 – October 16, 2022. Directed by Michael Wilson, this classic American drama is a compelling portrait of family, what we hold onto and what we leave behind.