Vanessa Claire Stewart

Interview: Gregory Harrison's Ready to Relax After TESLA: A RADIO PLAY FOR THE STAGE
by Gil Kaan - Sep 26, 2024

Dan Duling’s Tesla: A Radio Play for the Stage opens October 4, 2024, for five performances only as part of the Getty-led PST ART: Art & Science Collide Festival. Michael Arabian directs the stellar cast of: Gregory Harrison, Dan Lauria, Hal Linden, Charles Shaughnessy, French Stewart and Vanessa Claire Stewart at the Ramo Auditorium on the Caltech campus.

Caltech Will Present TESLA: A RADIO PLAY FOR THE STAGE
by Stephi Wild - Sep 4, 2024

As part of the Getty-led PST ART: Art & Science Collide Festival, Caltech will present Tesla: A Radio Play for the Stage, written by Dan Duling and starring Gregory Harrison, Dan Lauria, Hal Linden, Charles Shaughnessy, French Stewart and Vanessa Claire Stewart for five performances only October 4, 5, and 6 at Ramo Auditorium on the Caltech campus.

The Planet Earth Farewell Concert Comes to Hollywood Fringe in June
by Stephi Wild - May 8, 2024

Sacred Fools Theater Company has announced Jonas Oppenheim’s new play, The Planet Earth Farewell Concert, a world premiere musical satire about the climate crisis. 

Winners Announced For 62nd Annual Garden Grove Strawberry Festival Contests
by Stephi Wild - Jun 7, 2022

​​​​​​​The long awaited 62nd Annual Garden Grove Strawberry Festival, “Celebrating Essential Workers,” made its triumphal return May 27 – 30, 2022, after a two-year hiatus due to the worldwide health pandemic. 

BWW Review: AN OCTOROON Plays (With) The Race Card
by Evan Henerson - Jun 24, 2021

Judith Moreland’s cunning production for the Fountain Theatre sneaks up behind you, gooses, tickles, sings, brays and pretty much does everything but give everyone in the audience a wedgie.

BWW Interview: The Versatile Matthew Hancock Inhabits Many Characters - Just in AN OCTOROON
by Gil Kaan - Jun 10, 2021

The Fountain Theatre will inaugurate their new outdoor stage with Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ 2014 Obie Award-winning AN OCTOROON, with previews beginning June 11, 2021. Judith Moreland directs the cast of Leea Ayers, Matthew Hancock, Mara Klein, Hazel Lozano, Rob Nagle, Kacie Rogers, Vanessa Claire Stewart and Pam Trotter. Between final rehearsals, Matthew, who plays the playwright’s alter-ego among other characters, made some time to answer a few of my inquiries.

AN OCTOROON Casting Complete, Dates Set For On Fountain Theatre Outdoor Stage
by A.A. Cristi - May 12, 2021

Casting is complete and rehearsals begin this week for the Los Angeles premiere of a radical, incendiary and subversively funny Obie award-winning play by MacArthur Foundation “Genius Grant” recipient Branden Jacobs-Jenkins.

Laguna Playhouse Celebrates 100 Years With Live-Streamed Reading
by A.A. Cristi - Oct 16, 2020

Laguna Playhouse announces they will live-stream a reading of the first show produced by Laguna Playhouse 100 years ago in celebration of the Playhouse’s 100th Anniversary, “Suppressed Desires,” by Susan Glaspell and George Cram Cooke. 

The Blank Theatre's NIXON ON NIXON And NATHAN C. JONES: A LOVE STORY? Extended On YouTube
by A.A. Cristi - Jun 11, 2020

The Blank Theatre's critically acclaimed streaming productions of Nixon on Nixon, a new play by Sean Waldron featuring Rob Nagle and directed by Bree Pavey (with dramaturgy by Shelagh McFadden) and Nathan C. Jones: A Love Story?, a world premiere musical with book by Vanessa Claire Stewart, music by Brendan Milburn, and lyrics by Milburn and Stewart, featuring Amir Levi and directed by Daniel Henning, have now been extended through July 4 for free viewing on YouTube. Both will then move to The Blank's Third Stage on Patreon.

BWW Review: The Blank Theatre's Living Room Series Takes NATHAN C. JONES: A LOVE STORY? Online
by Ellen Dostal - May 31, 2020

On the surface, NATHAN C. JONES appears to be an unassuming little show about a young man and his new romance. But, as the audience is drawn further and further into the story, it becomes clear that the writers are exploring much deeper questions about loneliness, the desire to be loved, and what happens when reality sits on shifting sands.

VIDEO: Watch The Blank Theatre's Stream of NATHAN C. JONES: A LOVE STORY?
by Stephi Wild - May 30, 2020

Kicking off its 30th anniversary season, The Blank Theatre in Hollywood presented a livestream of Nathan C. Jones: A Love Story?, a world premiere musical with book by Vanessa Claire Stewart, music by Brendan Milburn, and lyrics by Milburn and Stewart, featuring Amir Levi and directed by Daniel Henning.

The Blank Theatre's 30th Anniversary Season Kicks Off With Livestreamed Shows NIXON ON NIXON and NATHAN C. JONES: A LOVE STORY?
by Stephi Wild - May 12, 2020

Kicking off its 30th anniversary season, The Blank Theatre in Hollywood has announced two live-stream shows.

Magnum Opus Theatre to Present ABI'S CHOICE
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jan 8, 2020

Village Theatre and the Magnum Opus Players and Magnum Opus Theatre present Abi's Choic.

Center Theatre Group Announces Productions For Block Party 2020
by A.A. Cristi - Nov 6, 2019

Center Theatre Group has selected two local productions for the fourth annual Block Party: Celebrating Los Angeles Theatre at the Kirk Douglas Theatre from March 18 through April 19, 2020. Block Party 2020 will remount Sacred Fools Theater Company's a?oeThe Art Couplea?? and IAMA Theatre Company's a?oeCanyon.a?? The visiting companies will receive the full support of Center Theatre Group and its staff in order to fund, stage and market each production. 

BWW Review: World Premiere Musical DEADLY Offers Victims the Chance to be Heard and Remembered
by Shari Barrett - Sep 24, 2019

Sacred Fools Theater Company is launching its 23rd season with the World Premiere of the musical DEADLY by Vanessa Claire Stewart with Music by Ryan Thomas Johnson and directed by Jaime Robledo. Taking place in 1893, a time of hope and optimism as the World's Fair turns the globe's eyes toward Chicago and the cultural explosion of art and technology on display. But it is also a time when a demon lurks beneath, taking advantage of the adventuresome spirit of modern-thinking and very independent women. It just wouldn't do to forget who they were.

Sacred Fools Kicks Off 23rd Season With World Premiere Musical DEADLY
by A.A. Cristi - Sep 3, 2019

Sacred Fools Theater Company is launching its 23rd season with the World Premiere of Deadly, by Vanessa Claire Stewart, Music by Ryan Thomas Johnson and directed by Jaime Robledo. Opening Friday, September 13 and running through November 2 on the Main Stage at the Broadwater Theater Complex, the murderous musical will run Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm, Sunday September 15th at 7pm and one performance on Monday, October 21 at 8pm. 

Sacred Fools Announces Season 23 For 2019-2020
by A.A. Cristi - Jun 12, 2019

The Sacred Fools Theater Company is excited to announce its upcoming 23rd Season (2019-2020), featuring two World Premieres and two West Coast Premieres. These four shows serve as the company's Prime Season, in addition to the high volume of late-night and off-night programming the company produces.

BWW Interview: HARVEY's French Stewart Elaborates On 2 of His Loves - Theatre & Vanessa
by Gil Kaan - May 31, 2019

The always working French Stewart, a most recognizable face from television, will next be seen on the theatrical boards of the Laguna Playhouse, co-starring with his wife Vanessa Claire Stewart in Mary Chase's Pulitzer Prize-winning HARVEY, opening June 2, 2019. French plays the pivotal role of Elwood P. Dowd who befriends the titular Harvey, a six-foot-and-a-half tall rabbit. French graciously made some time available to answer a few of my inquiring queries.

Photo Flash: Laguna Playhouse Presents HARVEY
by A.A. Cristi - May 30, 2019

LAGUNA PLAYHOUSE is delighted to present French Stewart and Vanessa Claire Stewart starring in the wonderfully comic HARVEY, written by Mary Chase and directed by Andrew Barnicle.  Comments Artistic Director Ann E. Wareham and Executive Director Ellen Richard, "We could not think of a better play to end our 98th season with than HARVEY, starring French and Vanessa Claire Stewart under the inspired direction of Andrew Barnicle. French Stewart will be the perfect Elwood, a role he has always wanted to play! Our subscribers and audiences are going to go crazy with laughter and believe in very tall rabbits once more!"

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.