Community Play Readings Return to L.A. Libraries
by Stephi Wild - Mar 24, 2023
Through Center Theatre Group’s Education and Community Partnerships’ Community Play Readings, Boyle Heights libraries will be the first to experience new works from three local playwrights in March and May.
GROUNDHOG DAY THE MUSICAL to Have Connecticut Premiere at Curtain Call
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jan 11, 2023
It may have been baseball great, Yogi Berra, who coined the phrase, 'It's deja vu all over again,' but for that feeling of the same things happening over and over again, no property tells the tale better than Groundhog Day, The Musical, making its Connecticut premiere at Curtain Call.
BWW Interview: ALMA's Cheryl Umaña's Simply Beaming On Playing Her Dream Role
by Gil Kaan - Mar 10, 2022
Playwright Benjamin Benne’s Alma (already in previews) will world premiere March 13, 2022, at Center Theatre Group's Kirk Douglas Theatre, produced in cooperation with American Blues Theater. Juliette Carrillo directs Cheryl Umaña in the title role with Sabrina Fest as her daughter Angel.
I had the most delightful Zoom interview with Cheryl before she had to go to her rehearsals.
PlayGround-LA Announces November 8 Monday Night PlayGround
by A.A. Cristi - Oct 29, 2021
Following the successful opening of Season 10 earlier this month, Los Angeles playwright incubator PlayGround-LA has recently announced the prompt for the next Monday Night PlayGround short play staged reading event. Thirty-six Los Angeles writers had just four-and-a-half days to generate their original scripts inspired by the prompt 'WHODUNNIT' as they vie for one of six slots in the second round of this year's Monday Night PlayGround staged reading series, presented live at The Broadwater Second Stage and simulcast online on November 8th at 7pm PT.
PlayGround-LA Announces Monday Night PlayGround
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Oct 5, 2021
On the eve of the return to in-person theatre and PlayGround's expansion to New York, Los Angeles playwright incubator PlayGround-LA has chosen the prompt of 'rebirth' as inspiration for the opening Monday Night PlayGround of Season 10.
The Blank Theatre Presents 28th Annual Young Playwrights Festival
by A.A. Cristi - Jul 15, 2020
Now celebrating its 28th Anniversary, The Blank Theatre's Nationwide Young Playwrights Festival is set to present 13 plays by playwrights aged 15a?"19 from nine different states. These plays will be presented as digital shorts on Vimeo by professional actors and directors, running from August 8 through September 19. They will then migrate to The Blank's 3rd Stage on Patreon.
The Blank Theatre LIVING ROOM SERIES Begins Next Week
by A.A. Cristi - Sep 11, 2019
Now in its 29th year, The Living Room Series (LRS) is a new play development program that embodies The Blank's commitment to developing new work by diverse voices from both established and emerging writers.
THE BOOK OF MORMON Comes To Bristol
by Stephi Wild - Jun 17, 2019
The Book of Mormon, Broadway's smash-hit musical written by Trey Parker, Matt Stone and Robert Lopez, is coming to Bristol.
The Blank Theatre's 27th Annual Young Playwrights Festival Announces Winners
by A.A. Cristi - May 17, 2019
Now celebrating its 27th Anniversary, The Blank Theatre's Nationwide Young Playwrights Festival has chosen 12 plays by playwrights aged 14 19 from six different states. These plays will be presented by professional actors and directors in this year's Festival at The Blank's YPF Pop-Up Playhouse in Hollywood from June 6 30.