Creating a world where orphan boys can be heros, girls can be leaders, and nothing is impossible, the cast of Episcopal Academy's Peter and the Starcatcher highlighted the true meaning of friendship and home in a beautifully refreshing way. 

This week, I got the chance to sit down with the cast of Rock the Presidents to talk about small casts, presidential knowledge, and advice for aspiring actors.

We would like to invite you, family and friends to our fall musical production of 'The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee' at Fort Hayes High School. It's a fantastic show that even involves some audience participation!

A Clean, Crisp, and Entertaining "Pippin" Plays at Newbury Park High School!

All the kids are saying it these days...and I join with them in the name of theatre. GCIT's Senior Drama Class Production of Don Taylor's translation of Sophocles's Antigone has got me shook.

I attend public school every day and go from rehearsal to rehearsal after school. I am lucky to have these opportunities to perform and work with others in my theatre department. These opportunities often times lead me to being home later than expected. I sometimes go to three rehearsals after school and get home at 9:30.

In my short absence from BroadwayWorld, I spent my time interacting with my community, meeting new people and having new conversations. These conversations focused on local and school theater. From parents to teenagers to elementary students, I met people who expressed their excitement about South Florida's rich theater community, but also their worry about the uncertainty of that rich theater community. Every year a budget cut occurs, the arts are the first item on the chopping block. While South Florida is a strong theater hub, many communities across the nation aren't as certain. These communities exist in a state of chance, which is an awful environment for developing arts education and promoting creativity for all ages. Thus, I present a well-thought plan that you, YES YOU, can use to bring theater to your community and keep it there. 

In this video, I discuss Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde at the Orlando Shakespeare Theatre, and get to interview some of the cast!

In Netcong, New Jersey, the Growing Stage Theater is known for producing high quality productions such as Peter and The Starcatcher and A Christmas Carol. One of the more unique aspects of the Growing Stage though is an annual New Play Reading Festival. Each year, the theater selects four unpublished plays from authors all around the globe. These plays are read in front of a live audience, and are recorded to see how the audience reacts to their piece. The authors then have an interim period of editing before the second round of readings, which happen in the spring. The winning piece of the festival gets the most rewarding prize imaginable, as their piece becomes a full, main stage production at The Growing Stage the following season. 

Which brings us to today's edition of High School Drama, introducing you to one of the show's leading men: Jonathan Hankins. Here's your opportunity to get to know more about the talented HFA senior prior to opening night (You've made your reservations, right? Curtain's at 7 p.m. Don't be late!)…

Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut is searching for high school playwrights to follow in the steps of Edward Albee, Neil Simon, Stephen Sondheim, Beth Henley, Lin-Manuel Miranda or Sarah Ruhl, among others.

I currently have the pleasure of attending a school that provides many opportunities for kids, especially those interested in the performing arts. I was selected to be one of four student directors, in which we select a show of our choice and get to direct it and put it up in the black box theatre at our school. My freshman year, I got to stage manage and help direct two of the one acts for the school's evening of one acts. Last year, I assistant directed the fourth quarter show. Will all of these opportunities, I got to see the other side of an audition process, which was very eye opening.

When it comes to Greek mythology, I'm a total geek. I love the Percy Jackson series, and pour over those huge illustrated mythology books. Not only do I know major gods like Zeus and Aphrodite, but I can name all four gods of the wind and all of the rivers of the Underworld (NERD ALERT). So naturally, I was excited to see these myths come to life onstage at Central Florida Community Arts. 

Besides Damn Yankees, there is not much common ground between the baseball world and the theater world. In case you have not heard, the Chicago Cubs have finally climbed back to the World Series after years of missed chances and deflating blunders by players and Cubs fans alike. The Cubs have not won a World Series Title since 1908, nor made an appearance in the series itself since 1945. What does any of this have to do with Broadway or theater in general? Well, it turns out 1945 was a pretty interesting year in the theater world.

The Holy Cross Student Theatre (HCST) is proud to announce Bernard Pomerance's classic The Elephant Man as its fall production for the 2016-2017 school year.

Sheyenne Theatre will bring CHARLOTTE'S WEB to the stage in Joseph Robinette's adaptation of the classic tale by E.B. White.

2015 First Night Honoree Paula Flautt directs the Moss Hart-George S. Kaufman classic comedy, The Man Who Came to Dinner, as Christ Presbyterian Academy's high school theatre stages the show about a critic and raconteur who becomes a surprising houseguest for a small-town Ohio family.

Today, Megan Scott, one of 2015 First Night Star Award winner Brenda Dent Gregory's talented student sat Murfreesboro's Siegel High School, continues our new season of High School Drama, the latest in a long list of younger actors to be introduced via Broadway World Nashville in the coming year…

Luckily, I can always count on Palm Beach Dramaworks to finely tune the most delicate of pieces. The creative team of The Night of the Iguana, led by director William Hayes, along with a Tim Altmeyer-led cast, gave a sudden and much needed voice to a play many put on the back burner.

Injuries are the worst thing to have when you are running from rehearsal to rehearsal. Inevitably, everyone will end up with some sort of injury during some part of their life. When I was younger, I played softball competitively, and I was a catcher. My knees are a testament to taking care of your body, as I didn't ice after every game, and ended up needing physical therapy because of it.

As a member of the cast of A Christmas Carol, I am able to get to know the actors that get to grace the stage beside me better than most people. In Meet the Carolers, I try to bring the actors to you, so you can know these special people like I do. This week, you get to meet John Patrick Cleary, who portrays Ebenezer Scrooge.

Nestled in the lakeside community of Netcong, New Jersey sits The Palace Theater, home of the Growing Stage Theater. When attending a main stage production, you'll not only watch a high-quality show, but also see an elaborate set designed by Perry Kroeger and Stephen Fredricks. The only thing more astonishing than the set is what the set is made of-cardboard. You may be asking yourself, How can such a flimsy material be chosen as the main material on set? Executive Director Stephen Fredricks explains. 'Honestly the inspiration came from the cost of buying wood. At the time the theatre couldn't afford sheets of plywood and other such materials, so we needed to find an affordable alternative. Perry Kroeger and I would visit all the area appliance stores on Thursdays - right after they had their deliveries for the weekend sales. Refrigerator and mattress containers were gold! We called it our weekly dumpster diving exercise. In time we discovered a company that sold cardboard in 4'x 8' sheets and then rest is history.'

As the leaves begin to turn and the temperatures start to drop and we see autumn all about us, it signals the frantic period of 2016 when local high schools are busily prepping their fall productions. Nashville's Hume-Fogg Academic High School is one such place, where students - under the direction of 2014 First Night Honoree Daron Bruce and his artistic collaborator Lisa Forbiss - are deep into rehearsals for the first of this academic year's presentations: Big Fish, starring Lindsey George, Jonathan Hankins and Nashville theater legacy Michael Dunaway.

In this week's vlog, I review Mad Cow Theatre's all-female production of 1776. Make sure to watch the bonus footage of cast members Lulu Picart and Laura Hodos in which they discuss their experience working with a cast of twenty six women! 

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