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BWW Review: RAISIN Brings Heart & Soul to Milwaukee's Skylight Music Theatre

For a moving musical portrait of 1950s Black American life, Raisin is certainly one to see.

Rubicon Theatre Company Opens Its 2022-2023 Season With Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992

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.

WHAT TO SEND UP WHEN IT GOES DOWN Comes to Stage West This Month

How does an entire community manage to express its anger and sorrow, and find a way to come together to heal? The answer can be found in Aleshea Harris’s What to Send Up When It Goes Down. This highly unique piece will begin a 4-week regional premiere run on Thursday, April 14 in the Evelyn Wheeler Swenson Theatre at Stage West.

Lincoln Center Theater to Present EPIPHANY by Brian Watkins

Lincoln Center Theater has announced its upcoming production of Epiphany, a new play by Brian Watkins, directed by Tyne Rafaeli.  Epiphany will begin previews Thursday, May 19 and open on Thursday, June 16 at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater (150 West 65 Street). 

Skylight Music Theatre Announces Cast & Creative Team for RAISIN

 Skylight Music Theatre today announced the cast and creative team for Raisin, running April 8-24, 2022. Raisin is an uplifting musical adaptation of the award-winning play, A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry. Raisin won the 1974 Tony Award and the 1975 Grammy Award for Best Musical.

BWW Review: A RAISIN IN THE SUN at Chesapeake Shakespeare Company

...it is as fine a theatrical treatment of this oft-produced - not though not oft enough - play as I’ve ever seen

Broadway Theatres to Dim Lights January 19 in Memory of Sidney Poitier

To commemorate the life of prolific actor, director and cultural icon Sidney Poitier, the Committee of Theatre Owners will dim the lights of Broadway theatres in New York for one minute on Wednesday, January 19 at exactly 7:45PM.

Springer Adds Keith McCoy To Its Creative Team

Springer Opera House producing artistic director Paul Pierce has added someone he calls an “artistic powerhouse” to his senior creative team – a familiar colleague whom he expects to be a gamechanger for the State Theatre of Georgia.

Last Chance To Vote For The BroadwayWorld Dallas Awards; MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG Leads Best Musical!

This is the last chance to vote for the 2021 BroadwayWorld Dallas Awards! The 2021 Regional Awards honor productions which had their first performance between October 1, 2020 through September 30, 2021.

Guthrie Theater to Present Lorraine Hansberry's A RAISIN IN THE SUN

The Guthrie Theater today announced casting for Lorraine Hansberry’s theatrical masterpiece A Raisin in the Sun, directed by acclaimed Twin Cities artist Austene Van. A Raisin in the Sun will play January 8 – February 12, 2022, on the McGuire Proscenium Stage.

VIDEO: 30 Days of Tony! Day 22- Denzel Washington Takes Home A Tony for FENCES

On Day 22 of 30 Days of Tony, we celebrate one of the most legendary actors of his time, Denzel Washington, who is nominated this year for his portrayal of Hickey in Eugene O'Neill's classic drama The Iceman Cometh.