Lauryn Hobbs

Jessica Vosk, Telly Leung, and More Set For NEW YORK CITY CHRISTMAS Benefit Concert Tonight at Joe's Pub
by Stephi Wild - Dec 11, 2023

Arts Ignite's annual benefit concert, New York City Christmas: A Concert to Benefit Arts Ignite, will return tonight! The concert will take place Monday, December 11 at 7:00 PM at Joe’s Pub at The Public in New York City.  Get your tickets now!

THE CHOSEN ONE Will Hold Industry Reading This Month
by Stephi Wild - Nov 1, 2023

THE CHOSEN ONE, a queer coming-of-age musical by Eli Cohen, is holding a private industry reading directed by Mack Brown (Pictures From Home, I Can Get It For You Wholesale) on Monday, November 6.

Shereen Pimentel, Darius Jordan Lee & More Join 34th Annual FESTIVAL OF NEW MUSICALS
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Oct 11, 2022

National Alliance for Musical Theatre has announced additional casting for their 34th Annual FESTIVAL OF NEW MUSICALS, which returns in person and takes place on Thursday, October 20 and Friday, October 21, 2022 at New World Stages.

National Alliance For Musical Theatre Announces Initial Casting and Additional Programming For FESTIVAL OF NEW MUSICALS
by Stephi Wild - Oct 3, 2022

National Alliance for Musical Theatre has announced preliminary casting and additional programming for their 34th Annual FESTIVAL OF NEW MUSICALS, which returns in person and takes place on Thursday, October 20 and Friday, October 21, 2022, at New World Stages (340 West 50th Street, between 8th and 9th Avenues).

Review: LIFE AFTER at Goodman Theatre
by Rachel Weinberg - Jun 23, 2022

Britta Johnson's LIFE AFTER is a deeply moving and creative new musical that beautifully probes the complexities of grief and the accompanying anxiety and unanswered questions it brings in its wake. See what our critic had to say. 

Samantha Williams, Paul Alexander Nolan & More to Star in LIFE AFTER at Goodman Theatre
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Apr 27, 2022

Goodman Theatre announced casting for Life After by rising star writer/lyricist/composer Britta Johnson, directed by Annie Tippe. Leading the cast of nine is Samantha Williams as teenaged Alice—a young woman who, in search of facts, uncovers a more complicated truth as she pieces together events of the fateful night that changed her family forever.

Virtual Theatre Today: Wednesday, June 17- with CHAOS TWINS, Josh Gad, and More!
by Nicole Rosky - Jun 17, 2020

Today (June 17) in live streaming:The premiere of CHAOS TWINS, Josh Gad visits Backstage LIVE and so much more!

Casting Announced For World Premiere Of New Play RHAPSODY IN BLUE
by Stephi Wild - Feb 10, 2020

The world premiere workshop production of Lauryn Hobbs' Rhapsody in Blue, inspired by the classic folk song a?oeThe Ballad of Omie Wisea?? will be presented April 2nd and 3rd at the Duderstadt Video Studio in Ann Arbor, MI.

Lauryn Hobbs' RHAPSODY IN BLUE Selected To Premiere With Runyonland Victor's Series
by Stephi Wild - Sep 30, 2019

Lauryn Hobbs, a Senior Musical Theatre Major at the University of Michigan, has been selected as the playwright in residence of Runyonland Productions' inaugural Victor's Series. RHAPSODY IN BLUE explores the experience of a straight-laced, ambitious college girl who begins to lose her identity in a toxic relationship with a man who is far from who he claims to be. She's the forced to make the choice; love or her sanity.

The Kennedy Center Announces 50th KCACTF National Festival
by A.A. Cristi - Apr 9, 2019

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts hosts more than 120 outstanding theater students from colleges and universities across the nation as part of the 50th annual Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (KCACTF), which runs April 16-20, 2019 in multiple locations throughout the Center. The Center also announced the national awardees for the KCACTF. Selected awardees and representatives will be brought to Washington, D.C. for an expense-paid trip to participate in the National Festival. These student artists from across the United States have been recognized for their outstanding work from the eight regional festivals that were held January 8 through February 28, 2019.

BWW Review: Music, staging, performances makes reimagined “Jane Eyre” special
by Roy Berko - Sep 6, 2018

Charlotte Bronte's book, 'Jane Eyre,' is a gothic melodrama which centers on strong-minded Jane's cruel treatment by her sadistic cousin and aunt, being shipped off to jail-like boarding school, departing to become a nanny for the ward of the wealthy but psychologically tortured Edward Fairfax with whom she falls in love, and the resulting angst of secrets revealed.

Terrence Mann & Liz Larsen to Lead SWEENEY TODD Concert in Connecticut
by Julie Musbach - May 22, 2018

Connecticut Repertory Theatre (CRT) announces the casting for the second production of the 2018 Nutmeg Summer Series: 'Sweeney Todd: A Musical Thriller in Concert', a Tony-Award-winning tale of love, murder and revenge set against the backdrop of 19th century London. Peter Flynn directs.

20 YoungArts Foundation Winners Selected as 2016 U.S. Presidential Scholars in the Arts
by Tyler Peterson - May 4, 2016

The National YoungArts Foundation (YoungArts) congratulates the 52nd class of U.S. Presidential Scholars, announced today by U.S. Secretary of Education John King. The 20 U.S. Presidential Scholars in the Arts-one of the nation's highest honors for high school students and all of whom are YoungArts Winners-were nominated to The White House Commission on Presidential Scholars for their artistic achievement, and selected based on academic and artistic accomplishments, leadership responsibilities, community service and outreach initiatives, and overall creativity.