Shonda Rhimes News

AMA Theatre Company has announced its 2022-23 15th anniversary “Jubilee” season: two world premieres at the company’s new, permanent home at Atwater Village Theatre; a production to be announced at a later date; and a West Coast premiere, presented in association with Center Theatre Group, at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City.

Hundreds gathered in Pittsburgh's historic Hill District on Saturday, Aug. 13, for a day of festivities to mark the grand opening of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright August Wilson's restored childhood home at 1727 Bedford Ave.

The Public Theater has has received an Artist Employment Program grant from Creatives Rebuild New York. Designed to support employment opportunities for artists, the program is funding 98 collaborations involving a dynamic group of 300 artists employed by community-based organizations, municipalities, and tribal governments across New York State.

Top stories include a look inside closing night of Company, Beanie Feldstein's final bow in Funny Girl, and more! Plus, The Nosebleed opens off-Broadway tonight, and more!

Shonda Rhimes, 'Bridgerton''s executive producer, defended Netflix's decision to sue the creators behind The Unofficial Bridgerton Musical.

Recipients include actor and filmmaker George Clooney; contemporary Christian and pop singer-songwriter Amy Grant; the legendary singer of soul, Gospel, R&B, and pop Gladys Knight; Cuban-born American composer, conductor, and educator Tania León; and iconic Irish rock band U2, comprised of members Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton, and Larry Mullen Jr.

Netflix and Shondaland has shared a new video signaling that Bridgerton is back in production for Season 3 with new cast members Daniel Francis, Sam Phillips and James Phoon joining the cast. This season will focus on the love story of Penelope Featherington (Nicola Coughlan) and Colin Bridgerton (Luke Newton).

Mike & Carlee Productions, the team behind Oh Hello, Jacqueline Novak's Get On Your Knees, Chris Gethard's Career Suicide, and most recently, Alison Leiby's Oh God, A Show About Abortion, have announced their Summer of Comedy at Cherry Lane!

Center Theatre Group is announcing six new commissions as an extension of Not a Moment, But a Movement initiative created to amplify, center and celebrate Black voices.

The Latinx House, the Sundance Institute’s Women at Sundance program, Netflix, and Shondaland announced three Latina directors who will participate in the inaugural Adelante Directors Fellowship, a groundbreaking program that supports up-and-coming directors’ professional development, creating a pipeline to uplift independent filmmakers.

Golda Rosheuvel (Queen Charlotte in Bridgerton) and Nicky Spence, the Scottish Tenor currently presenting Anyone can Sing on Sky Arts have today been announced as the first ever patrons for the Isle of Mull based venues An Tobar and Mull Theatre. 

The McKittrick Hotel (530 West 27th Street, NYC), home of Sleep No More, announced today that the New York premiere of How the Hell Did I Get Here?, a new musical story starring “Downton Abbey's” Mrs. Patmore, Lesley Nicol, has now been extended and will play performances through Sunday, May 22 when it must close to continue its national tour.

The McKittrick Hotel, home of Sleep No More, welcomes the New York premiere of How the Hell Did I Get Here?, starring “Downton Abbey’s” Mrs. Patmore, Lesley Nicol. Playing a strictly limited engagement in The Club Car through May 8.

Your favorite podcast hosts Jason A. Coombs and Samantha Tuozzolo are back with the hilarious, insightful and genuine “Inventing Anna” star, Chris Cafero who plays ‘David Morrison’, on the hit Netflix limited series.  Chris guides  us through his artistic journey from working in the hospitality industry to booking his first major recurring role on the classic soap opera, “As the World Turns”, to writing and producing the award winning New York City based sketch comedy show, “Uncle Function”!

IAMA Theatre Company has selected June Carryl as the 2022 recipient of the company's annual Rhimes Unsung Voices Playwriting Commission. Sponsored by award-winning writer and producer Shonda Rhimes (Grey's Anatomy, Scandal), the commission, now in its fifth year, was created to help grow and nourish budding playwrights and artists with emphasis on cultural inclusion and the goal to showcase fresh, creative, thought-provoking work.

RUBICON THEATRE COMPANY, Ventura's non-profit professional theatre company, opens the company's 2022-2023 Season on April 29 with an exclusive engagement of TWILIGHT: LOS ANGELES, 1992 by Anna Deveare Smith.

Vitamin String Quartet cover Nirvana’s “Stay Away” and Robyn’s “Dancing on My Own.” Kris Bowers reimagines Madonna’s “Material Girl” and “Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham,” a Jatin-Lalit/Lata Mangeshkar song from the hit 2001 Bollywood film of the same name. Duomo offers fresh takes of Alanis Morissette’s “You Oughta Know” and P!nk’s “What About Us.”

The highly anticipated Broadway revival of Funny Girl is beginning performances tonight, March 26, at the August Wilson Theatre, ahead of an official opening on April 24. Meet the cast bringing this iconic show back to the stage!