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This episode is the final part of the Frozen takeover of The Theatre Podcast for the month of March. Be sure to follow @theatre_podcast on Instagram for all this month's surprises.

JAILBIRDS ON BROADWAY by Tony Nominated writers Cheri & Bill Steinkellner (Sister Act), with music by Jeff Rizzo will receive an invitation-only industry developmental reading in NYC on Monday, March 25 at 4pm.  Directed by Glenn Casale, with Musical Direction by Andrew Bourgoin.

Red Bull Theater today announced the cast for the next REVELATION READING, Aphra Behn's SIR PATIENT FANCY, directed by Leigh Silverman: Whitney Maris Brown, Charles Busch, Lea DeLaria, Zachary Fine, Gibson Frazier, Kendyl Ito, Kristolyn Lloyd, Cherie Corinne Rice, Austin Smith, Amelia Workman and more to be announced!

The Dramatists Guild of America is proud to announce they will present the 2019 Horton Foote Playwriting Award to playwrights Amy Herzog and Heidi Schreck at the Dramatists Guild's annual awards presentations in July. The Richenthal Foundation is again sponsoring the award. Each writer will receive a $12,500 prize.

Unstoppable Theater in association with Less Than Rent Theatre will present a private, industry reading of AUNT JACK by S.P. Monahan on Monday, March 25th, at 7pm. Directed by John Lampe, the reading will star Charles Baran, Shauna Bloom, S.P. Monahan, Christopher Reyes, Morgan Sullivan, and Everett Quinton (The Mystery of Irma Vep).

Actors' Equity Association has announced that Lynn Rhinehart has been named Special Counsel, effective immediately.

Steele Spring Stage Rights, the licensing company that represents The Marvelous Wonderettes, has just acquired the licensing and theatrical performance rights to the award-winning off-Broadway musical comedy smash that sets William Shakespeare's Measure for Measure in the Wild West.

Waterwell is proud to announce the 2019 New Works Lab World Premiere of June July August by Sinead Daly, directed by Heather Lanza.

Vatican Falls, Frank J. Avella's epic play set against the backdrop of the Catholic sex abuse scandal, will have a reading presentation on Tuesday, March 19, 2019 at 7PM at Alchemical Studios, 104 W 14th St., (between 6th & 7th Avenues), NYC.

Theater Resources Unlimited (TRU) announces the 2019 Audition Weekend, Combined Auditions presented with sponsorship from BackStage, Actors Connection, The PIT and Reproductions.com on May 19 and 20 at The Peoples Improv Theater, 123 E 24 Street, NYC.

Theater Resources Unlimited (TRU) presents the March Panel, Secrets of Successful Not-for-Profits: How to Keep Your Theater Company Going and Growing on Tuesday, March 19, 2019 at 7:30pm (networking at 7pm) at Polaris North, 245 W. 29th Street, 4th floor, NYC, 10001. This panel is free for TRU members; $12.50 for non-members in advance ($15 at door). Please reserve using the bright red reservation box at https://truonline.org/events/successful-not-for-profits/ or e-mail TRUStaff1@gmail.com.

29th Street Playwright Collective presents a reading of WHY BIRDS FLY written by Emma Goldman-Sherman and directed by Brooke Viegut on Friday, March 29th at 7:30pm, in the Dramatists Guild's Mary Rodgers Room, as part of the DG's Friday Night Footlights Reading Series.

Theatrical licensor Music Theatre International (MTI) has secured worldwide licensing rights to the hit musical Rocky, coinciding with the anniversary of the show's Broadway debut on March 13, 2014 at the Winter Garden Theatre.

Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, with book, music, and lyrics by Nathan Dame and Rob Baumgartner, Jr., will be given a private industry reading in New York City on March 15th.

Producer Eric Krebs, in association with Harriet Spalding & Michael Planit, will present developmental lab presentations of I Spy A Spy, a new (declassified) musical comedy, with book and lyrics by Jamie Jackson and music & lyrics by SoHee Youn

New York Representatives from Actors' Equity Association joined the 32nd Annual Arts Advocacy Day meeting in Washington, D.C. to protect the bipartisan National Endowment for the Arts. The meetings were part of a multi-day national arts action summit meeting that united arts advocates from across the country.

Maia Directors was created as a consulting service for organizations and artists engaging with stories and cultures from the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia (MENASA). Services provided by Maia Directors include casting and personnel support, production cultural consulting, script and dramaturgical support, and outreach and communications advising. Founded by theatre artists Kareem Fahmy, Evren Odcikin, Megan Sandberg-Zakian, and Pirronne Yousefzadeh, Maia Directors is an advocate for the inclusion of MENASA artists and stories as a vital part of the American cultural conversation. maiadirectors.com

The 2019 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize has been awarded to U.S. playwright Jackie Sibblies Drury for her play Fairview.

La Vie Productions will present a private industry reading of The Porch, a new play by Kari Floren, on Monday, March 4, 2019 in NYC. Directed by Antoinette DiPietropolo, the presentation will take place at Sunlight Studios (321 W 44th Street).  

On the heels of two sold out runs at 54 Below, STRANGER SINGS! THE PARODY MUSICAL will be having will be having special industry readings on Monday, March 4th at 4PM & 6:30PM and Tuesday, March 5th at 1PM at Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (405 West 55th Street at Ninth Avenue).

The Vicious Circle will present two private industry readings of Academy Award-nominee Michael Weller's new play, BUYER BEWARE or How Lenny Bruce Found a Safe Space (and lost it again), directed by Tony Speciale.  Casting to be announced.  

The first national, all-discipline childcare grant awards from Parent Artist Advocacy League for the Performing Arts have been awarded to five recipients, including four individual childcare grants and one institutional childcare match grant. The institution match grant has multiplied and more institution sponsorships and grants will be awarded for this year as well. In just this first year offering the grants designated for 2018-2019, PAAL received over 100 applications, and the PAAL reviewing committee would like to publicly acknowledge the humbling clarity of need and profound work achieved by each parent artist exhibited in every application received.

The NYU Tisch School of the Arts' Department of Drama and live entertainment advertising agency Serino Coyne are proud to announce they have teamed up to create the Women's Mentorship Program, an initiative that pairs female-identifying students interested in arts management with some of New York's top female cultural leaders.

With over 25 years in the industry, John Bolton is the ultimate showman. He made his Broadway debut in 1994 and has been honing his comedy skills ever since.John has starred in many many show, with some of the most notable being How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, Titanic, Spamalot, Contact, Curtains, Dames At Sea, and A Christmas Story. John is currently starring as Vlad in Anastasia on Broadway, which he has been a part of since the 2016 Hartford, CT production. Anastasia ends its spectacular run on Broadway on March 31, 2019 so get tickets before it's too late!

The Tony Awards and Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) today announced a group of talented actors serving as Ambassadors for the 2019 Excellence in Theatre Education Award.