Mark Lee News

Tony Award nominee Ramin Karimloo will play his final performance as Gleb in the hit Broadway musical ANASTASIA on December 3, 2017. Karimloo is an original member of the Broadway company. A casting announcement for Gleb will be made shortly.

Now in it's eighth successful year offering Sydney audiences an exciting, accessible and powerful voice, Sport for Jove Theatre's 2018 season is our freshest, most exciting season to date, featuring the world premiere of two brilliant, passionate new Australian works and an iconic American classic, new partnerships with regional theatres, and our annual Summer Season, two classic productions performed outdoors over the summer.

Students in an engaged learning workshop called Practice Sessions will mock-up a design of a solar umbrella roof for a former wallpaper factory that now is a graduate art center at UCLA-a project the firm has been working on for some time and will complete this year.

A Rutgers public health student puts his acting skills into play to help people with mental illness and substance use disorders overcome anxiety and communicate more effectively

The new musical, ANASTASIA, opens tonight on Broadway at the Broadhurst Theatre (235 West 44th Street), produced by Stage Entertainment, Bill Taylor (Sister Act, Rocky), Tom Kirdahy (It's Only A Play, The Visit) and Hunter Arnold (Kinky Boots, Spring Awakening). The company is led by Christy Altomare, Derek Klena, John Bolton, Ramin Karimloo, Caroline O'Connor and Mary Beth Peil.

Take a peek into the newly renovated Sydelle and Lee Blatt Performing Arts Center with tour guide and BSC favorite Mark H. Dold!

Prolific screenwriter and playwright Del Shores is perhaps best known for his series of plays about growing up gay in the South. In the semi-autobiographical SOUTHERN BAPTIST SISSIES, now playing at the Desert Rose Playhouse in an excellent production, he describes the clash between his identities as a devout Baptist and a gay child.

Riverside Children's Theatre presents the enchanting musical, Seussical JR. Part of RCT's 2016-2017 Student Series, Seussical JR. performs two weekends on the Anne Morton Stage -February 17 & 18 and February 24 & 25, 2017

Riverside Children's Theatre presents the enchanting musical, Seussical JR. Part of RCT's 2016-2017 Student Series, Seussical JR. performs two weekends on the Anne Morton Stage -February 17 & 18 and February 24 & 25, 2017

ArtCenter/South Florida has launched the maiden voyage of ARTSail, the nomadic floating art project taking artists aboard sea vessels for creative explorations along the coastlines and waterways surrounding Miami.

Charles Busch's SLEEPING BEAUTY OR COMA and VAMPIRE LESBIANS OF SODOM are difficult plays to produce, but Desert Rose's director (Jim Strait) and its performers are up to the task. The double bill is the company's annual Gay Heritage presentation, which succeeds spectacularly.

ArtCenter/South Florida has launched the maiden voyage of ARTSail, the nomadic floating art project taking artists aboard sea vessels for creative explorations along the coastlines and waterways surrounding Miami.

THE SANTALAND DIARIES, Joe Mantello's stage adaptation of David Sedaris's memoir of his experience working as Crumpet the Elf, is playing in Rancho Mirage, at the Desert Rose Playhouse.

Thursday, December 1st at 7:30 pm, Pamela Rose, a sultry voiced blues and jazz vocalist will thrill Angelica's audience with her vibrant personality and soulful style. She will be joined in this special Holiday Song Fest evening by her long-time vocal partner, the "King of Retro Cool,' Glenn Walters. Glenn has been described as "one of the most soulful singers in town, his gritty coal-mine voice echoing Otis, Brother Ray and the wicked Mr. Pickett."-SF Chronicle  Together Pamela and Glenn will slide you into the Holiday Spirits with a heartfelt rendition of the 'Christmas Song' and a sexy duet on 'Baby It's Cold Outside'.

United States Artists (USA) has announced the 2016 USA Fellowship Awards. This year, 46 artists across nine creative disciplines will receive unrestricted $50,000 cash awards. The awards honor their creative accomplishments and supports their ongoing artistic and professional development.

Dino Dimitriadis, in association with Red Line Productions, is pleased to present The Shadow Box by Michael Cristofer at the Old Fitz Theatre from November 15.

Dorothy Berwin, Mark Lee and Tom Kirdahy are pleased to announce the third winners of the Berwin Lee Playwrights Award. The Berwin Lee Award was created to foster and promote the craft of playwriting in both the United States and the United Kingdom and to encourage the writing and production of plays.

Desert Rose Playhouse's production of POZ, by Michael Aman, is superbly acted and directed. The play is more o a sweet comic drama than the comedy, as which it was originally billed.

Desert Rose Playhouse, the Coachella Valley's 501(c)(3) LGBT-oriented theatre, has received ten nominations for the Desert Theatre League's 2016 Desert Star awards, for three different shows: the drama, ANGELS IN AMERICA, PART ONE, and the comedies, COCK and LOOT. This season, Desert Rose plans to present a largely light-hearted lineup.