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All Out Arts Announces The 2024 Fresh Fruit Festival Award Winners
by A.A. Cristi - Jan 31, 2025

The Fresh Fruit Festival, now in its 23rd year of presentation by All Out Arts, is announcing this year's major award winners. In December, Awards were presented at The Wild Project for Outstanding Productions as well as Playwrighting, Directing, Performance, and Technical Achievement.

Cast Set For A CHRISTMAS CAROL at Denver Center Theatre Company
by Stephi Wild - Oct 18, 2024

The Denver Center for the Performing Arts (DCPA) Theatre Company has announced the full casting and creative team for the 30th anniversary of A Christmas Carol. 

STAGES St. Louis Announces Full Casting for DISNEY'S NEWSIES
by James Lindhorst - Jun 27, 2024

STAGES St. Louis has announced the full cast of their 2024 production of Disney’s NEWSIES, performing July 26- August 25 at The Ross Family Theatre at the Kirkwood Performing Arts Center. The show will be led by Daniel Marconi as Jack Kelly and Taylor Quick as Katherine. St. Louis’ Matthew Cox will be making his STAGES St. Louis Debut when he takes on the role of Crutchie.   Steve Bebout, immediately off of his St. Louis Theatre Circle win as Best Director of a Comedy for last year’s hit show CLUE, will return to STAGES to direct Disney’s NEWSIES. Bebout’s CLUE set box office records as the best-selling production in the history of STAGES St. Louis. Choreography will be created by STAGES newcomer, Lindsay Joy Lancaster. 

Review: FIFTY KEY STAGE MUSICALS - PART 4 Is A Swell Sampling at 54 Below
by Rob Lester - Aug 24, 2023

The choices made for a satisfying potpourri that didn’t seem to be trying to overdo the “think outside the box” approach or check every possible box to ensure variety in every possible way.

Tom Jones Will Be Honored at FIFTY KEY STAGE MUSICALS: VOL. 4 at 54 Below
by Stephi Wild - Aug 14, 2023

Lyricist Tom Jones, who passed away on August 11th, 2023, will be honored at the beginning of 54 Below's Fifty Key Stage Musicals: Vol 4, on Thursday, August 17th, at 9:30pm.

Nikki Renee Daniels Joins 50 KEY MUSICALS at 54 Below
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Aug 11, 2023

Broadway legends Nikki Renee Daniels (Company) and Steve Rosen (Guys and Dolls) are joining the cast of Fifty Key Stage Musicals: Vol 4, which will celebrate the rich tapestry of diversity woven through the American Musical Theater. 

Broadway Veteran Lee Roy Reams Joins FIFTY KEY STAGE MUSICALS: VOL. 4
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Aug 7, 2023

Get the latest news on Broadway legend Lee Roy Reams joining the cast of FIFTY KEY STAGE MUSICALS: VOL. 4. Find out all the details about this star-studded stage musical production and where you can catch it.

Allison Blackwell, Sara Jean Ford, and Daniel Assetta join 54 CELEBRATES FIFTY KEY STAGE MUSICALS: VOL. 4
by Stephi Wild - Aug 1, 2023

Routledge Press’ highly praised new book FIFTY KEY STAGE MUSICALS by Robert W. Schneider and Shannon Agnew, which rounds-up fifty musicals whose creations were seminal in altering the landscape of musical theater, is now being given a one night only concert with the artists who helped create these monumental musicals at 54 Below.

Isaac Mizrahi, Jason Danieley, Adam Pascal, and More to Play 54 Below Next Month
by Blair Ingenthron - Jul 29, 2023

Next month, 54 BELOW, Broadway's Supper Club & Private Event Destination, presents some of the brightest stars from Broadway, cabaret, jazz, and beyond. A recipient of the 2022 Tony Awards Honor for Excellence in the Theatre, 54 Below is a non-profit organization with a mission to preserve and expand the art of the cabaret, honor the music of Broadway, and provide an unparalleled experience to diverse communities.

BWW Review: Welcome to the Renaissance! Touring SOMETHING ROTTEN Delights at EJThomas
by Roy Berko - May 16, 2019

Theater history books refer to 'The Black Crook,' which opened in 1866 in New York, as the first book musical. According to 'Something Rotten!,' by Karey Kirkpatrick and John O'Farrell (book) and Wayne and Karey Kirkpatrick (music and lyrics that honor should go to 'Omelette.'

BWW REVIEW: Sioux Falls Welcomes SOMETHING ROTTEN! to The Washington Pavilion.
by Katie Becker - Apr 24, 2019

SOMETHING ROTTEN! kicked off a three-night run in Sioux Falls, SD Tuesday night, which just so happen to also be William Shakespeare's 454th birthday. What a great way to celebrate Shakespeare!

BWW Previews: MIDLANDS THEATRE ROUNDUP in Columbia, SC 3/1 - SOMETHING ROTTEN, THE WOLVES, and More!
by Patrick Michael Kelly - Mar 1, 2019

It's a very busy weekend for theatre in the Midlands!

Broadway Hit SOMETHING ROTTEN! Comes To Wilmington March 7-10
by Julie Musbach - Feb 15, 2019

The completely original new musical Something Rotten!, originally directed and choreographed on Broadway by Tony Award-winner Casey Nicholaw (Mean Girls, The Book of Mormon, Aladdin), with music and lyrics by Grammy Award-winner and Tony Award nominee Wayne Kirkpatrick and Golden Globe Award and Tony Award nominee Karey Kirkpatrick and a book by Tony Award nominees Karey Kirkpatrick and best-selling author  John O'Farrell, plays The Playhouse on Rodney Square in Wilmington March 7-10, 2019. The show is part of the 2018-19 Broadway in Wilmington season, presented by Bank of America.

BWW Review: SOMETHING ROTTEN! (and very funny) was afoot at Broadway San Jose!
by Linda Hodges - Feb 4, 2019

SOMETHING ROTTEN! is a bit of fluff that's easy on the brain, but you absolutely forget your troubles and isn't that a great gift in these troubling times?

BWW Review: SOMETHING ROTTEN! at Broadway In Louisville
by Keith Waits - Jan 18, 2019

Something Rotten! roared into town this week. And judging from the high-energy opening night, audiences won't be lifting their noses at this hybrid Shakespeare/Musical production. The title itself is a quotation from one of Shakespeare's best-known plays and includes the ubiquitous use of exclamation points in titles of musicals. Additionally, this particular quote points to some of the plot points in the storyline.

BWW Review: SOMETHING ROTTEN at Kentucky Center For The Arts
by Taylor Clemons - Jan 18, 2019

Louisville is going back to the Renaissance!

BWW Review: SOMETHING ROTTEN! at Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall
by Carolan Trbovich - Jan 10, 2019

Something Rotten! is Something Awkwardly Awesome

Emily Kristen Morris of SOMETHING ROTTEN Tour Takes Over Instagram Tomorrow!
by Jeffrey Vizcaino - Nov 2, 2018

Go behind the scenes of the national tour of Something Rotten! with Emily Kristen Morris as she takes over the BroadwayWorld Instagram tomorrow, November 3rd! Follow along as Morris shows you her two show day while performing as Bea! Be sure to tune in tomorrow!

BWW Review: SOMETHING ROTTEN! Bedazzles at the Fox Cities P.A.C.
by Meredith Kreisa - Oct 24, 2018

SOMETHING ROTTEN! opened at Appleton's Fox Cities Performing Arts Center on October 23 and will continue to play through October 28. SOMETHING ROTTEN! offers laughs, entertaining dance numbers, and enough musical theater references to delight any fan.

BWW Review: Shakespeare Meets Musical Theater in SOMETHING ROTTEN! at The Marcus Center
by Kelsey Lawler - Oct 17, 2018

A delightful, dazzling escape filled with corseted girls in golden tap shoes, The Bard on air guitar, and a big ol' wink to the audience before launching knowingly into any musical encore. If serious theater is your only joy, then you will find little of it here; playfulness and jokes made of delicious low-hanging fruit rule in 'Something Rotten.'