Michael McKee News

Island City Stage opens it's fifth season with the regional premiere of Topher Payne's "Perfect Arrangement" which The New York Times heralded as a "clever canape of comedy" during its premiere Off-Broadway last fall at Primary Stages.

The audience were barefooted when they stood for their standing O at the Arsht's Carnival theatre opening night. Why? They'd just had their socks knocked off by Zoetic Stage's production of After, Michael McKeever's world premiere.

'The tale of an eighteenth century Scandinavian king may sound dull, but this bit of history feels more like something out of 'GAME OF THRONES.'

'The tale of an eighteenth century Scandinavian king may sound dull, but this bit of history feels more like something out of 'GAME OF THRONES.'

Island City Stage opens it's fifth season with the regional premiere of Topher Payne's "Perfect Arrangement" which The New York Times heralded as a "clever canape of comedy" during its premiere Off-Broadway last fall at Primary Stages, the same company that will be producing Michael McKeever's play "Daniel's Husband" this coming Spring which had its world premiere at Island City Stage.

Horton Foote's The Roads To Home opened last night at the Cherry Lane Theatre and Broadwayworld was there for the festivities.  The Roads To Home is a Primary Stages production in association with Catherine Adler and Jamie deRoy. It's run has been extended throughSunday, November 27, 2016.

Primary Stages, in association with Catherine Adler and Jamie deRoy, has announced an extension for the first show of the 2016/17 season, THE ROADS TO HOME, written by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Horton Foote (Harrison, TX).

One thing in theater seems certain: Give an accomplished and veteran director the reins to a show and you can be guaranteed they will approach the work decisively and imaginatively - no matter how weak or how strong a particular play's script may be…

Penguin Rep Theatre, the award-winning theatre in Stony Point, New York, under the leadership of Artistic Director Joe Brancato and Executive Director Andrew M. Horn, closes its 2016 season with the New York premiere of Daniel's Husband by Michael McKeever from September 23 through October 16, 2016. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!

PRIMARY STAGES has announced the recipient of the inaugural Jeffry Melnick New Playwright Award, established by Jeffry Melnick and administrated by Primary Stages.

Penguin Rep Theatre, the award-winning theatre in Stony Point, New York, under the leadership of Artistic Director Joe Brancato and Executive Director Andrew M. Horn, closes its 2016 season with the New York premiere of Daniel's Husband by Michael McKeever from September 23 through October 16, 2016. In Daniel's Husband, Mitchell and Daniel are the ideal couple, everything but married. Mitchell does not believe in marriage; Daniel does. "When their life together takes a shocking and unexpected turn," says Mr. Brancato, who will stage the production at Penguin Rep, "we learn about the power and pain of love in this breathtaking new play."

?Lynn University and Producer Jan McArt, director of theatre arts program development, are launching this season's series of Jan McArt's New Play Readings on Monday, October 31. Under the leadership and guidance of McArt, this program develops new plays by highly acclaimed playwrights through staged readings.

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.

In the hallowed halls of Lynn University's Wold Performing Arts Center, where the New York-bound 'Daniel's Husband' began, they're buzzing about another new play - 'A KING ! A PLOT! A GUN! A SHOT! And All That Followed (Quite a Lot!),' by Tony Finstrom.

Primary Stages announced today that the Primary Stages 2016 Gala will celebrate the Horton Foote Centennial on Monday, October 17, 2016 at 6:30 pm. The event, which will be held at 583 Park Avenue, will be chaired by Charles Davis, Hallie Foote, David Richenthal and Michael Wilson.

Primary Stages announced today the selections for the 7th Annual ESPA Drills, a developmental play program that provides staged readings to four playwrights selected by blind submission, for scripts developed at Primary Stages ESPA.

Penguin Rep Theatre, the award-winning theatre in Stony Point, New York, under the leadership of Artistic Director Joe Brancato and Executive Director Andrew M. Horn, presents the New York premiere of Dancing Lessons by Mark St. Germain from August 12 through September 4, 2016.

City Theatre and Island City Stage are proud to present Shorts Gone Wild 4: Decision 2016 playing now through August 28, 2016 at Island City Stage in Wilton Manors. This all-new production marks the fourth season of South Florida's hottest LGBT-themed short play festival that returns just in time to explore the wild political theatre that is Election 2016.

City Theatre and Island City Stage are proud to present Shorts Gone Wild 4: Decision 2016 from August 4 - 28, 2016 at Island City Stage in Wilton Manors.