Susan Kelechi Watson News

The 2024 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize has been awarded to UK playwright Ava Pickett for her play 1536.  Awarded annually since 1978, The Susan Smith Blackburn Prize is the largest and oldest international award recognizing women+ who have written works of outstanding quality for the English-speaking theatre. See photos from inside the ceremony here.

The Invisible Theatre Managing Artistic Director Susan Claassen will pass “the torch” of Artistic Leadership to Betsy Kruse Craig, Associate Managing Artistic Director.

The 2024 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize has been awarded to UK playwright Ava Pickett for her play 1536. Learn more about Pickett and the award!

NiCori Studios & Productions will present the next installment of the long running Cabaret series 'Music at the Mansion' at the historic Thorne Mansion home of the Morristown Unitarian Universalist Fellowship. Learn how to purchase tickets.

The Inspired Acting Company has announced their production of the “The (Curious Case of the) Watson Intelligence” by Madeleine George.

Cliff & Susan, married country music duo from Little Rock, Arkansas, are releasing their new single, 'A Natural State.' Written by Arkansans Cliff Prowse and 'The Voice' Season 17 alumni Cory Jackson (Team Blake), the song is a tribute to growing up in rural areas and celebrates the simple joys and beauty of small town life.

Chef Susan Feniger will be honored at the Sonoma International Film Festival with the Culinary Excellence Award alongside the Bay Area premiere of SUSAN FENIGER. FORKED.

After an extensive search, Gateway Theatre has named Susan Shank as their new General Manager. Learn more about Shank!

The 2024 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize has revealed the finalists for this prestigious international award honoring women+ playwrights.

Performing Arts Center will host an expert presentation on the discovery of the unique profile of each music lover by a brilliant and courageous trailblazer in the music industry. Learn more about the presentation here!

Playwrights’ Center has announced that renowned director, educator, and arts leader Nicole A. Watson has agreed to join the Center as Producing Artistic Director.

The Paterson Performing Arts Development Council welcomes Susan Justiniano, the 2024 Playwright-In-Residence, also known as RescuePoetix. Her play, 'By the Light of the Ghetto Moon,' will be featured at the Annual Hamilton Arts Festival.

Following its hugely successful inaugural year in 2023, comedian and winner of Chortle’s Legend of Lockdown award Mark Watson has teamed up with worldwide streaming platform NextUp for the second year running to curate Access Festival, running until 28 January 2024.

Join other Young Professionals (ages 21-35) on Thursday, February 8, 2024 for a performance of MS. HOLMES & MS. WATSON - APT. 2B by Kate Hamill.

This Valentine’s Day, Quintessence Theatre is celebrating love in all of its messy glory with a performance starring award-winning television, film and stage actor David Morse* and his wife, Susan Wheeler.

The Old Globe announces one-week extensions for three shows in 2024: 'English' by Sanaz Toossi, 'Ms. Holmes & Ms. Watson – Apt. 2B' by Kate Hamill, and 'Dracula, A Comedy of Terrors' by Gordon Greenberg and Steven Rosen. Tickets for the extensions are now available at TheOldGlobe.org.

THE KITCHEN presents Martha Friedman and Susan Marshall's 'Two Person Operating System Type 2,' a sculptural-choreographic work examining the relationship between moving bodies and objects.

MS. HOLMES & MS. WATSON - APT. 2B by Kate Hamill will run at Playhouse on Park from January 24 - February 18, 2024. This production will be directed by Kelly O'Donnell. Learn more about the show and find out who is starring here!

Goodman Artistic Director Susan V. Booth talks about directing The Penelopiad, an unexpected remix of Homer’s 'The Odyssey,' told by the celebrated and subversive author Margaret Atwood ('The Handmaid’s Tale').

MGM+ announces start of production and additional casting for 1970s crime thriller 'Hotel Cocaine'. New cast members join previously announced stars Danny Pino, Michael Chiklis, Mark Feuerstein, and Yul Vazquez.