Greg Allen News

To end the summer “Back in Show Business” season, City Theatre Austin is honored to present the musical classic, The Fantasticks. It is a show years in the making and the company's first full-length musical production since their 2018 mega-hit sensation Tommy. The curtains rises September 2 – 18 at Trinity Street Playhouse located at the First Baptist Church of Austin.

Flying V will host the New York Neo-Futurist's at the Silver Spring Black Box Theatre the weekend of August 26, 2022. The residency will include two productions of the Neo-Futurist's The Infinite Wrench and one 3-hour workshop for arts creators entitled: The Basics of Neo-Futurism

The Main Street School Lawn in Irvington will transform into a fun-filled, open air concert venue as Irvington Theater welcomes Ramblin' Dan's Freewheelin' Band for a family-friendly performance on Saturday, June 25 at 1:30pm.

The Lehigh Valley Charter High School for the Arts (Charter Arts) Theatre Department will present the hit show '30 Neo-Futurist Plays from Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind (30 Plays in 60 Minutes)' by Greg Allen. This production is directed by Kim Carson and features an exceptional cast of young actors.

The Department of Theater and Dance presents Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind, a unique ensemble performance that seeks to present 35 plays in 70 minutes. Directed by UCSB lecturer Michael Bernard, the show opens at 1 p.m. on November 6 and runs through November 14. 

The Department of Theater and Dance at UC Santa Barbara has announced another exciting year of performances, this time back in-person. This season includes everything from unique takes on old classics to new and original works in both theater and dance.

Hocus Pocus, the classic Halloween hit you know and love, will be screened under the stars on the Main Street School Lawn as part of IT's Sunset Cinema series, which launched this past summer.

Since March of 2020, the Irvington Theater has been dark. The pandemic required that the doors stay closed, but the planning for what can and will be has continued on — so that live theater, films, comedy shows, and children's performances would one day come alive on the stage again.

The New Art Dealers Alliance, the definitive non-profit arts organization dedicated to the cultivation, support, and advancement of new voices in contemporary art, is pleased to announce the participants in a first time collaborative exhibition with Foreland, an 85,000 square-foot arts campus in the Hudson River Valley.

Christina Franklin has been training and working in New York's theater scene since she was eight years old — starting out in the rehearsal studios of TADA! Youth Theater (whose notable alumni include Kerry Washington and Jordan Peele) and taking her gift for storytelling all the way to Broadway. Irvington Theater will bring Franklin's newest play, Cleanse, to virtual audiences from May 21-23.

Irvington theatergoers will have a chance to take in a live performance for the first time in over a year with the inaugural production from the Irvington Shakespeare Company: a reimagined, 90-minute Twelfth Night.

The legendary multi-award-winning stage show Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind (now in its 4th decade!) continues its live nationwide adaptation on Zoom with two special, two-person performances on April 9th and 10th, 2021 at 9pm Eastern Standard Time. 

A world premiere short puppet film about an African-American child in Chicago navigating the Covid-19 pandemic is the first new work to emerge from the Springboard Project, a new initiative launched in 2020 by Chicago Children’s Theatre to foster new works for young audiences by diverse local writers.

The city sidewalks may not be so busy this year, but there's no place like home for the holidays! After a sold-out, in-person performance last season, Irvington Theater will stream a filmed version of their treasured Holiday Celebration on Friday, December 4 at 7:30pm EST. 

Internationally acclaimed singer, actor, and impressionist Christina Bianco is no stranger to the Rivertowns. After playing Cunégonde in a production of Candide almost twenty years ago, Bianco returned to the Irvington Theater stage this summer to film her wildly hilarious multimedia concert, which streams on Saturday, November 14 at 7:30pm.

After a six-month pandemic induced hiatus UnTheatre Co, Detroit's only Neo-Futurist performing arts group, has reinvented their fast-paced interactive show to be presented on Zoom. 

Multi-hyphenate superstar Dennis Quaid continues to connect with audiences of all facets of his legendary career, as he releases 'America, I Love You, Too,' a LIVE performance track.

Goodman Theatre's commitment to new work and commissioning emerging artists continues as four Chicago-based writers are announced as the 2020/2021 Playwrights Unit.

In a year of unprecedented challenges and physical distance, Irvington Theater will present 'Irvington Anywhere,' their entirely virtual fall season of short films, lively concerts, and classic celebrations. The season kicks off on September 26 with a with a free, online event for the whole family!

Showtunes Theatre Company produced its first musical in concert on January 22, 2000 at Town Hall in Seattle. That first show was Anyone Can Whistle, a Stephen Sondheim/Arthur Laurents cult favorite that showcased 30+ local performers and musicians and enjoyed a sold-out-one-night-only performance. Now, 20 years and one month to the day, Showtunes has produced 40 musicals in concert, multiple cabarets and special events produced in and around Seattle since January of 2000 on the very stage it all began - Town Hall Seattle.