Powerhouse Theatre News

Paul Sand Projects has announced that it will present a workshop production of THE PILOT WHO CRASHED THE PARTY: A Dangerous Satire in Two Acts, a new play written and directed by Tony and two-time Drama Desk Award winner Paul Sand.

NYC promoter and producer brings his Summer series to Fire Island's Whyte Hall for Summer 2022.

This 6-part weekly concert series will be hosted on the StoryBook grounds, featuring some of Calgary's brightest rising and shining stars. Each week will be themed from evenings with the music of powerhouse theatre legends like Stephen Schwartz and Andrew Lloyd Webber to new Calgary singer-songwriters.

Lookingglass Theatre Company has announced that Artistic Associate Sara Gmitter has been awarded the The Adrienne Shelly Foundation Playwrights Award.

Before there was Drew...The name Barrymore was revered in the world of entertainment long before perky Drew Barrymore acted, produced, became an author, created a cosmetics line, and hosted a television show. This month, Town Players of New Canaan will present William Luce's play, Barrymore, an almost one-man show about Drew's grandfather, John Barrymore, starring veteran stage and screen actor Will Jeffries.

Sewer Rat Girl by Siobhan Gibbs will tour from its home in inner-city Brisbane to the bustling metropolis of Adelaide for this year's Adelaide Fringe Festival. Debuting an independent season in May 2021 as half of the RAT DOG DOUBLE BILL co-produced by Backbone, Sewer Rat Girl will be reaching new heights with the show's return to audiences this March 8-19 at My Lover Cindi.  

In 2009, at the peak of his Broadway musical In The Heights, Lin Manuel Miranda took a little vacation and started to read a copy of the 2004 biography Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow. Shortly after, he began to work on a project entitled The Hamilton Mixtape.

Diana returns to Broadway and we've got all you need to know about the cast of the production. Learn more about them here!

StoryBook Theatre will launch their 45th Season with a new outdoor concert series, Singers @ Sunset, a 6-part weekly presentation that features some of Calgary's brightest rising and shining stars, from August 1 to September 5, 2021. 

StoryBook Theatre has announced an exciting lineup of shows for its 45th season!

NYSAF returns July 17-August 1 with in-person programming in Poughkeepsie for their 2021 Summer Season.  In partnership with Vassar College, Marist College, and Revel 32 °, NYSAF will serve the needs of theater and film artists today, bringing them safely together in community to generate new stories and reconnect with one another and audiences.

Uproar Theatrics, a new digital theatrical licensing company, has been created to transform how regional, school, stock, and amateur groups license plays and musicals.  Uproar Theatrics is expanding the theatrical pipeline to bring thrilling, fresh theatre to creators and audiences across America.

Join Rachel Lynett Theatre Company on April 11 to hear playwrights Adrienne Dawes, Darcy Parker Bruce, Ian August, and Rachel Lynett perform monologues from their own work and vote on your favorites.

Theatre Now New York, a non-profit artists service organization and theatre company dedicated to supporting musical theatre writers, has added four writers to their Musical Writers Lab.

This Broadway performer, who made her debut on the West End and followed her gut to NYC, is spending time during the shutdown spreading the benefits of theater education, while patiently waiting to bring it all full circle with a notorious bit of England on the New York stage in Diana.

Deadline reports that DeMarius Copes has joined the cast of the upcoming 'Dear Evan Hansen' film.

Birmingham-based theatre company Powerhouse Theatre will present their very first LIVE Zoom play, White Noise, which will be performed at the end of the month.

The Group Rep presents a pay-per-view staged production from the Lonny Chapman Theatre of TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE, written by Jeffrey Hatcher and Mitch Albom, from the book by Mitch Albom directed by L. Flint Esquerra, co-produced by Lloyd Pedersen and Gina Yates.   

The Dog Lives Productions and Streaming Musicals will partner with FoodTank to present a free virtual opening night on Friday, May 22 for the original romantic musical comedy, Marry Harry.

The Dog Lives Productions and Streaming Musicals will partner with FoodTank to present a free virtual opening night on Friday, May 22 for the original romantic musical comedy, Marry Harry.