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Karin Abarbanel's 60-minute play dramatizes the fight of Sojourner Truth, the Black abolitionist and women's rights advocate, to save her enslaved son.

Paul Shapera writes pulp operas. Just as pulp fiction covered everything from hard boiled detective stories to Buck Rogers, Tarzan to Flash Gordon, Paul's albums fantasy musicals cover a 180 year span of history in the fictional city of New Albion.

Actor/ comedian Rhonda “Passion' Hansome (SiriusXM “John Fugelsang's Tell Me Everything”) will host the 'Laughs Likely!' live comedy showcase on Friday, June 17 at Gotham Comedy Club's Vintage Lounge as part of the 2022 Black Women in Comedy LaffFest in New York City.

Just last year, stage and screen legend Cloris Leachman passed away. With a career spanning more than seven decades, eight Primetime Emmy Awards, an Academy Award, a BAFTA, a Golden Globe Award, and a Daytime Emmy Award, one of her final roles is in LGBTQ drama Jump, Darling.

With the classic comic Boom! and Pow!, Stages continues its excellent season with Inda Craig-Galvain's Black Super Hero Magic Mama. Hot off the heels of the epic jukebox musical, You Are Cordially... by ShaWanna Renee Rivon, Black Super Hero Magic Mama truly represents the magnificence of Houston theatre. 

Actor / comedian Rhonda 'Passion' Hansome, (SiriusXM “John Fugelsang's Tell Me Everything”) will be among the performers featured at the “Ladies Night Comedy Show' a  live Women's History Month comedy showcase on Saturday, March 26, 2022  @  Comedy In Harlem in Manhattan. Rhonda will be joined at the 7:00pm show (doors @ 6pm)  by host Nicky Sunshine (The Nick Cannon Show) and fellow comics Shatara Curry  (Apollo Comedy Club), Peaches Rodriguez   ('The Latin Heavy Hitters of Comedy' film), Vicky Kuperman (Live From.Gotham)  and Meshelle (Nickelodeon's 'Search For Funniest Mom In America').

Actor / comedian Rhonda 'Passion' Hansome, (SiriusXM “John Fugelsang's Tell Me Everything”) will be among the performers featured at the “Ladies Night Comedy Show' a  live Women's History Month comedy showcase on Saturday, March 26, 2022  @  Comedy In Harlem in Manhattan.

Having joined the cast of Les Misérables at the newly refurbished Sondheim Theatre back in December 2019, Gerard Carey and Josefina Gabrielle have had quite the rollercoaster experience as everyone's favourite rogues, the Thénardiers. Between them, their list of theatre credits is impressive and despite having never met prior to the show, Carey and Gabrielle have united to create a strong partnership throughout multiple lockdowns and two different productions.

Some stage shows just refuse to retreat into the sunset, and one of those is MAMMA MIA!, that enduring, unapologetically giddy jukebox musical, now getting a fun, vibrant new staging at the La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts, under the direction of T.J. Dawson. With performances continuing in the city of La Mirada, CA through Sunday, November 21, this infectiously peppy show---featuring a book by playwright Catherine Johnson that wraps around songs made famous by ABBA---is certainly an invigorating way to welcome theatergoers back for live, in-person performances, especially those looking for a silly, non-serious respite from our current realities. If you're looking for some cute laughs paired with some terrific singing and dancing, this show should fit the bill.

The trailer and first photo have been released for the world premiere of BROKEN LAD, set in the world of stand-up, at the Arcola Theatre.

BroadwayWorld spoke with Ta'Rea Campbell, the Hamilton Philip Company's own Angelica Schuyler, to discuss stepping back on stage after a year and a half, how she's changed as a performer, her favorite things about Angelica Schuyler, and more! 

For his opening salvo as Magic Theatre’s newly appointed Artistic Director, Sean San José has decided to throw a party. On Thursday, August 5th, Magic will present its 2021 gala 'The New Age of Magic' outdoors at Fort Mason. San José strongly believes theater should be for everyone, not just people of means, so Magic is hosting a more egalitarian event with ticket prices starting at a very reasonable $25. Mainly, though, the goal is to bring people together to kick back and have some fun.

Actor / comedian Rhonda 'Passion' Hansome, (SiriusXM “John Fugelsang's Tell Me Everything”) will be among the performers featured at the “Funny Women Of A Certain Age” (FWOACA) live comedy showcase of “female comics who tell it like it is” on Thursday, July 8, 2021 at Stand Up NY Comedy Club in Manhattan.

Actor/comedian Rhonda 'Passion' Hansome, will be featured at four of the upcoming  Black Women In Comedy Laff Fest live comedy showcases set for June 16- 20, 2021 in New York City.  

The fun kicks off with    'Mic Divas' on Wednesday,  June 16 @ 8:00pm (EST)  at Bedford Manor in Brooklyn  where Hansome will be joined by fellow Laff Fest headliners:  Shatara Curry, Calise Hawkins, MeMe Simpson, Areshia McFarlin, Franqi French,  Leighann Lord and Meshelle “The Indie Mom of Comedy” with host Dara Jemmott. 

The first single has been released from the musical film ANNETTE. The soundtrack to the film is an album of music by legendary art-pop duo SPARKS.

Arizona Broadway Theatre has announced its 2021-2022 season this week. The Broadway-style productions will appear on ABT's Mainstage, with two limited engagement shows on the Encore Room stage, beginning this Fall. Get the full schedule and tickets information.

“This song to me encapsulates the feeling of meeting someone and falling in love. In it, I compare the girl to one of my favorite flowers, a cherry blossom, because they’re rare and beautiful,” explains Indii.

Actor / comedian Rhonda 'Passion' Hansome,  (SiriusXM  “John Fugelsang's Tell Me Everything” podcast)  will be among the performers featured at   the  “ Funny Women Of  A Certain Age' live comedy showcase of “female comics who tell it like it is” on Wednesday, April 28th  in Manhattan.

 Actor/comedian Rhonda 'Passion' Hansome closes out the AARP New York  Women's History Month virtual comedy series  with a performance on Tuesday, March 30, 2021. 

We're rounding up 24 tweets from the week of 3/1/2021 to 3/5/2021 from Broadway stars and theater fans!

Eli Tokash reminds us of the beauty of art, perseverance, passion, and most notably - the hope we can give others by the simple act of Taking a Bow.

I owe a lot to Follies - friendships with fans and actors and occasional pieces of journalism have resulted from the show - but it made me realise how transformative live theatre can be. Thinking about it, it's ironic that a show signalling the death of old Broadway should ignite such a passion, but isn't that the point of Follies?

the exquisite voice, dramatic stage presence and winning personality of this Grammy-nominated artist have garnered kudos throughout the opera world

University of North Texas Press announces the publication of Conducting Opera: Where Theater Meets Music by renowned conductor Joseph Rescigno. The book discusses operas in the standard repertory from the perspective of a conductor with a lifetime of experience performing them. It focuses on Joseph Rescigno's approach to preparing and performing these masterworks so that the full greatness of each opera can be realized.