Stephanie Thomas

Winners Announced For The 2021 Easterseals Disability Film Challenge

Tonight, nonprofit disability services provider and disability inclusion resource Easterseals Southern California hosted the 2021 Easterseals Disability Film Challenge  Awards Ceremony powered by Microsoft Teams, honoring the best of this year's record-breaking applicants to the second “Home Edition” of the annual event. 

Groundbreaking PSAs Enable Philanthropists to Live Up To Their Values on Diversity, Equity, Access and Equality

A new series of PSAs is breaking ground on ensuring philanthropists are inclusive of people with disabilities. Representing a diverse group of people with disabilities, the stars speak directly to the camera in their own words.

Phantom Projects Theatre Group to Present West Coast Premiere of GATHERING BLUE

On November 16, 2017, Phantom Projects Theatre Group will present the West Coast Premiere of Gathering Blue with a special day-time performance for Southern California schools at 10AM and for the public at 7PM.

Found Theatre Debuts Comedy TRAFFIC SCHOOL This Summer

They only met once, but it changed their lives for the rest of the day. A tongue-in-cheek tribute to fresh-faced teacher flicks such as 'To Sir, With Love,' and troubled teen dramedies like 'The Breakfast Club,' 'Traffic School' is an original Found Theatre comedy written and directed by company member John Sturgeon.

Found Theatre Debuts Comedy TRAFFIC SCHOOL This Summer

They only met once, but it changed their lives for the rest of the day. A tongue-in-cheek tribute to fresh-faced teacher flicks such as 'To Sir, With Love,' and troubled teen dramedies like 'The Breakfast Club,' 'Traffic School' is an original Found Theatre comedy written and directed by company member John Sturgeon.

Costa Mesa Playhouse to Present NINE

For the first musical of its 51st season, the Costa Mesa Playhouse presents 'Nine,' based on auteur Italian filmmaker Federico Fellini's Oscar-winning, semi-autobiographical masterpiece, '8½.' With music and lyrics by Maury Yeston ('Titanic') and a book by acclaimed playwright Arthur Kopit ('Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad'), this sultry and enchanting musical follows the life of world famous director Guido Contini as he prepares his latest picture and balances the numerous women in his life. Drifting toward a nervous breakdown, Contini falls into nostalgic reverie, eventually focusing on the formative sexual encounter of his life, which occurred at the age of nine.

BWW Reviews: Carolyn Montgomery-Forant Triumphantly Rises Again in Cabaret With Life-Affirming Show VISIBLE PHOENIX at the Beechman

According to mythology, the 'Phoenix' was a bird of great beauty, said to have lived 1,000 years in the Arabian wilderness. The Phoenix burns itself to ashes on an ancient funeral pyre, only to rise again from those ashes with the renewed exuberance of youth. Its renewed life cycle symbolizes the immortality of the spirit, the rebirth of idealism, the essence of creativity, and the aura of eternal hope. With her new show at the Laurie Beechman, Visible Phoenix (which opened October 17 and returned last Friday night), multi-award winner Carolyn Montgomery-Forant has returned to the cabaret stage (after a 14-year hiatus to raise her son and run a cafe business) as the very personification of that rare beautiful bird.

Photo Flash: First Look at Olio Theatre's OLD BLACK MAGIC: A HAUNTED MUSICAL

One night a year spirits dead n' gone rise up to walk the earth trying to find their way home. These wandering spirits are lost in limbo as penance for something they've left undone in life, unless they can find a sympathetic ear to life the burden. But don't be fooled, they're not innocent and havoc will arise when jealous lovers, ambitions ingenues and drunk has-beens clash, threatening to recreate the turmoil of their lives and keep them locked in limbo eternally. Ushered into the land of the living by Voodoo Queen Marie Laveau, these celebrity ghosts are given one last chance to heal their 'past life issues' or remain in limbo forever. Featuring the ghosts of John Barrymore, Jayne Mansfield, Edgar Allen Poe & more! The show runs January 31st - February 9th, 2014. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!

3 New Actors Join Olio Theatre Works' INTIMATELY WILDE

Local theatre company Olio Theatre Works and director Gigi Fusco-Meese welcome three new actors to the cast of timely drama INTIMATELY WILDE to the Long Beach Playhouse's Studio Theatre January 11th - 27, 2013 as a part of the 2nd Annual "People's Theatrical Collaborative".

Broome, James, Knowles & More End Run in Finborough's THE NORTHERNERS, 4/19

Chequered Blue Theatre in association with Neil McPherson for the Finborough Theatre will end their run of the London premiere of The Northerners by Harold Brighouse on April 19th.

Broome, James, Knowles & More Slated for Finborough's THE NORTHERNERS, 4/4-4/19

Chequered Blue Theatre in association with Neil McPherson for the Finborough Theatre presents The London Premiere of The Northerners by Harold Brighouse.