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Center Repertory Company has appointed Matt M. Morrow as its new Artistic Director following a nationwide search.

Diversionary Theatre has announced the cast and creative team for its San Diego-premiere of Head Over Heels, a musical based upon “The Arcadia” by Sir Philip Sidney, with songs by the iconic 80's all-girl rock band, The Go-Go's. 

The Original Cast Recording of Julia Meinwald & Gordon Leary's The Magnificent Seven will be released on all streaming and digital platforms Friday, April 14, 2023.

This April, Broadway fans can keep busy with the premiere of two musical series, the return of Schmigadoon and the premiere of Paramount+'s new Grease prequel series, The Rise of the Pink Ladies, along with more exciting releases. Check out the April 2023 Broadway Streaming Guide below!

FIM Flint Repertory Theatre presents another world premiere with The Magnificent Seven March 31 – April 16. With book and lyrics by Gordon Leary and music by Julia Meinwald, this dazzling new show explores the inner lives of the 1996 U.S. Women's Gymnastics Team as they capture the nation's imagination while competing for Olympic Gold.

Diversionary Theatre has announced the cast and creative team for its production of The Mystery of Irma Vep by Charles Ludlam, co-directed by Diversionary Executive Artistic Director Matt M. Morrow and Allison Spratt Pearce. The Mystery of Irma Vep will run December 1 - December 24 at Diversionary Theatre in University Heights. 

Walking on Water Productions will present their inaugural festival of staged readings, WoW's Now: Walking on Water's New Original Works, featuring three new musicals.

Diversionary Theatre has announced its 2022/2023 season: the legacy revival The Mystery of Irma Vep (December 2022), by Charles Ludlam and directed by Matt M. Morrow; the American Premiere of The High Table (February/March 2023), by Temi Wilkey, directed by Bibi Mama; and more.

Gordon Leary and Julia Meinwald's The Magnificent Seven, a new musical about the 1996 U.S. Women's Olympic Gymnastics team, begins its limited run July 7 at Theatre Row. Performances continue through July 17.

​​​​​​​The Magnificent Seven, a new musical about the 1996 U.S. Women's Olympic Gymnastics team, will be presented in a limited run this summer, from Thursday, July 7 to Sunday, July 17, at Theatre Row.

The New Works Festival is an annual weeklong event featuring staged readings and workshops of new plays and musicals. Playwrights and composers from around the country are in residence in Flint during the process, which includes post-show audience discussions.

Always be willing to take an adventure and see something about which you know nothing... it could turn out to be something worth seeing.

The Flint Repertory Theatre’s Producing Artistic Director Michael Lluberes unveiled an exciting line-up of shows for Rep’s 2021—2022 Season. The Rep season kicks off in the fall with Samuel Beckett’s surreal and darkly comic masterpiece HAPPY DAYS, starring Janet Haley.

THE SPOTLIGHT SERIES, a bi-monthly livestreamed concert series created by A LITTLE NEW MUSIC will “spotlight” the catchy music of composer/lyricist team, Meinwald & Leary, on June 15th. The evening will be co-hosted by ALNM co-producers Luke H. Klipp and Kila Packett. The ALNM Spotlight Series is produced by Amy Francis Schott.

Weston Playhouse Theatre Company continues its Reimagined 2020 Season with the debut of Songs for Today, a series of bite-sized musical tracks in the spirit of classic Playhouse shows. The project is the second in the recently launched new works initiative, Weston Writers.

The Flint Repertory Theatre is announcing its updated 2020-21 season, which will now begin in March 2021.

a??a??a??a??a??a??a??Dramatists Guild Foundation (DGF) has announced this year's recipients of the Stephen Schwartz and Thom Thomas Awards. Khiyon Hursey is the recipient of the Stephen Schwartz Award. Erika Dickerson-Despenza, Julia Meinwald, and Benjamin Velez are the first multiple honorees of the Thom Thomas Award

The National Alliance for Musical Theatre (NAMT) announces 11 awards granted from their Frank Young Fund for New Musicals(formerly known as the National Fund for New Musicals), and six awards granted from their Innovation & Exploration Fund.

After a short run of previews in Windsor, ON, Pregnancy Pact, co-produced by The Edge Productions and Gangway! Theare Co, has landed in Toronto and will transport you back to a time of raccoon eyeliner and painful behaviour.

The Edge Productions is bringing the deeply empathetic and hard hitting musical about a high-school pregnancy pact back to Canada. Previously produced by The Edge Productions in 2017 and performed in Windsor with an entirely student cast, Pregnancy Pact is back for a professional run in Toronto from May 1st through May 19th. This is Pregnancy Pacts professional Canadian Premiere. This is the first co-production between The Edge Productions and their new Toronto partners at Gangway! Theatre Co!