Paul Edwards

Zara Larsson Releases New Album 'Venus'

Zara Larsson releases her brand-new studio album VENUS. Get the 12-track album now via Sommer House/Epic Records. Along with the new album, Zara Larsson has shared the electric official music video for new single “You Love Who You Love.” The video was notably co-directed by Zara herself alongside Viivi Huska.

City Lit Sets 2023-24 Season; Producer/Artistic Director Terry McCabe to Retire

City Lit Producer and Artistic Director Terry McCabe announced that the theatre’s 2023-2024 season—its forty-third—will be his last on its staff. 

SLEEPING BEAUTY Panto Comes to The Grange Theatre in December

The Grange Theatre will welcome back pantomime producers KD Theatre Productions with this year's must-see pantomime adventure, Sleeping Beauty.

Casting Announced For CINDERELLA Panto at The Grange Theatre

Welcoming audiences back into The Grange for panto are Northwich favourites Rob Stevens as Fairy Godmother and Oliver Scott as Buttons.

BWW Review: DIRTY DANCING at One And Only Musical Teater

Flere måtte gå forgæves for 5 år siden, da ”Dirty Dancing” spillede for fulde huse. De får nu chancen, når Silas Holst og Mathilde Norholt igen spiller hovedrollerne som Johnny og Baby.

Casting Announced For THE POINTE at Theatre Row

Casting has been announced for the upcoming Theatre Row premiere of The Pointe, a new work by Craig Donnelly. Kate London will take on the role of Madeline Davis, the legendary ballerina tasked with choreographing for a young dancers' summer intensive. Rounding out the cast are Blair Ely (Brooklyn Matthews), Fiona Huber (Raina Goldberg), Sabrina Karlin (Haley Edwards) and Yessenia Rivas (Jasmine Guerrero).

St. Charles Singers' 2019-2020 Season To Include World Premiere Of Work By Composer Jake Runestad

Craig Donnelly Presents Two New Dramas In Two NYC Festivals

Playwright and performer Craig Donnelly will be premiering two new plays in two New York festivals this August.

Composer Ricky Ian Gordon To Receive P.R.I.D.E. Performing Arts Award

The Playthings Theatre, an LGBTQ+ Company in New York City, will be performing its gala concert PlayFresh on Monday, March 11th at 7:00pm. PlayFresh is an evening of new LGBTQ+ music performed by Broadway's finest. Playthings will be honoring Ricky Ian Gordon with The P.R.I.D.E. Performing Arts Award for his contribution to theatre and the LGBTQ+ community.

BWW Review: New Jewish Opens a Gorgeous DISTRICT MERCHANTS.

The New Jewish Theatre has opened 'District Merchants', by Aaron Posner, and it is certainly among the finest productions I've ever seen there. Posner's script is most remarkably beautiful-it's masterful indeed.

TNC's Dream Up Fest To Present ADAM & BRIAN A Drama By Craig Donnelly

Even after the legalization of same-sex marriage in 2015, there is no shortage of hate surrounding the gay community. We are powerfully reminded of this in "Adam & Brian," a drama by Craig Donnelly that tells the story of New York City gay couple who are viciously attacked after leaving the movies one night. As they cope with the physical and emotional damage in the aftermath of their assault, their relationship begins to unravel, revealing the devastating potential of a few hateful individuals on the lives of others. Theater for the New City's Dream Up Festival will present "Adam & Brian" September 12 to September 16.

Chevrolet & DoSomething.org Partner With David Mazouz for Safe Driving Campaign

How well do you know your best friend? What's their favorite snack on a road trip? What musician are they most likely to play in the vehicle? And what if answering these questions could keep your best friend safe on the road?

Zero Untitled - NYC Presents The First Stage Reading Of CAPTIVE PILGRIM

The Big Apple's branch of the seasoned Texan company, Zero Untitled, presents the first stage reading of the new play 'Captive Pilgrim', by Anel Carmona.

Zero Untitled - NYC Presents The First Stage Reading Of CAPTIVE PILGRIM

The Big Apple's branch of the seasoned Texan company, Zero Untitled, presents the first stage reading of the new play 'Captive Pilgrim', by Anel Carmona.

Photo Flash: Will Cobbs, Brenda Denmark And Toni Ann DeNoble In Camille Darby's QUEEN NANNY

Blackboard Plays presented a workshop reading of Camille Darby's Queen Nanny, directed by Miranda D. Haymon, as part of the cell's Third Annual C-MORE Festival at the cell, 338 W. 23rd St. in Chelsea.

Liberation Theatre And Blackboard Plays To Premiere New Work By Liz Morgan, Camille Darby And More As A Part Of The Cell's Third Annual C-MORE Festival

the cell (Founding Artistic Director Nancy Manocherian, Artistic Director Kira Simring) in Chelsea, New York City has partnered with Liberation Theatre Company and Blackboard Plays to produce five new play readings as a part of the cell's annual C-MORE Festival.

THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY Comes to City Lit, 3/11

Edwards's world premiere adaptation of THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY, Oscar Wilde's story of a man who sells his soul for unaging beauty, transports the story from the novel's setting of Victorian-era England to 1970's New York City, during the dawning of the AIDS and crack cocaine epidemics.

DORIAN GREY Moves to '70s NYC in City Lit Adaptation

Paul Edwards's world premiere adaptation of THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY, Oscar Wilde's story of a man who sells his soul for unaging beauty, transports the story from the novel's setting of Victorian-era England to 1970's New York City, during the dawning of the AIDS and crack cocaine epidemics. THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY, to be directed by Andrea J. Dymond, will feature Javier Ferreira (Shakespeare in HER MAJESTY'S WILL and Henry Olney in NORTHANGER ABBEY, both at Lifeline) in the title role. Gabriel Fries, who recently appeared in Nothing Without a Company's THE KID THING, will be Basil, the painter of the eponymous portrait that on the canvas not only shows its subject aging, but also shows Gray's sins, while in life Gray himself remains young and attractive.

City Lit Theater Hosts Celebration for 'Banned Books' Week

City Lit Theater Company, in association with the American Library Association's Office of Intellectual Freedom, will present BOOKS ON THE CHOPPING BLOCK, a celebration of BANNED BOOKS WEEK, September 24 - 30, 2017, at various locations in and around Chicago. Thanks to increased support from funding sources, the number of performances has been doubled for the 2017 festival over the 2016 schedule. All events are free to the public.

New Adaptation of 'DORIAN GRAY', World Premiere of PROMETHEUS BOUND Set for City Lit's 2017-18 Season

City Lit Theater's 38th season will embrace Chicago's first look in a century at an Irish classic, a rarely done Pulitzer winner performed by a non-traditional cast composed entirely of women over 55, a new adaptation by a three-time Jeff-winning adapter of one of the great 19th Century novels, setting its story in a new time and place; and theCity Lit debuts of both the world's first playwright and Chicago's most esteemed translator, retelling an ancient myth through a cast of human actors and life-sized puppets.