Rayanne Gonzales

Video: Jordan Donica Sings 'Goodbye, Old Girl' from DAMN YANKEES
by Joshua Wright - Oct 28, 2025

Get a first look at Jordan Donica as Joe Hardy singing 'Goodbye, Old Girl' from Damn Yankees, running through November 9, 2025 at Arena Stage.

Exclusive: Rob McClure Sings 'Those Were The Good Old Days' from DAMN YANKEES
by Joshua Wright - Oct 28, 2025

Get a first look at Rob McClure singing Those Were The Good Old Days' from Damn Yankees, running through November 9, 2025. This newly-imagined take on the beloved classic stars Rob McClure (Applegate), Ana Villafañe (Lola), and Tony Award nominee Jordan Donica (Joe Hardy).

Video: Cast of DAMN YANKEES Performs 'Shoeless Joe from Hannibal, MO'
by Joshua Wright - Oct 24, 2025

Watch Alysha Umphress as Gloria Thorpe, Jordan Donica as Joe Hardy, and the Company of DAMN YANKEES performing 'Shoeless Joe from Hannibal, MO.' 

Video: Ana Villafañe & Jordan Donica of DAMN YANKEES Perform 'Two Lost Souls' at Arena Stage
by Joshua Wright - Oct 7, 2025

Watch Ana Villafañe as Lola, Jordan Donica as Joe Hardy, and the Company of DAMN YANKEES at Arena Stage performing 'Two Lost Souls.'

Video: First Look at Revised DAMN YANKEES at Arena Stage
by Michael Major - Sep 30, 2025

Watch a video of Damn Yankees starring Rob McClure (Applegate), Ana Villafañe (Lola), Jordan Donica (Joe Hardy), Grammy Award nominee Quentin Earl Darrington (Joe Boyd), Bryonha Marie (Meg Boyd), and Alysha Umphress (Gloria Thorpe),

Photos: First Look at Arena Stage's Revised DAMN YANKEES
by Nicole Rosky - Sep 22, 2025

Now running at Arena Stage is a revival of Damn Yankees, running through November 9, 2025, in the Fichandler Theater. Check out a first look at the star-studded cast in action!

Review Roundup: DAMN YANKEES Opens at Arena Stage
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Sep 22, 2025

See what the critics are saying about Damn Yankees at Arena Stage! Read the reviews for the production starring Rob McClure, Ana Villafañe and more, and learn more here!

Review: SOUTH PACIFIC IN CONCERT at Olney Theatre Center
by Tavish Young - Aug 23, 2025

It was an enchanting night of envigorating and touching music and tender narrative—a celebration of one of the most famous and apt musicals in the American Canon.

Rob McClure, Ana Villafañe, Jordan Donica and More to Star in DAMN YANKEES at Arena Stage
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jul 29, 2025

Arena Stage has revealed the cast for their revival of Damn Yankees, starring Rob McClure, Ana Villafañe and more. See who else is starring and learn how to purchase tickets!

SOUTH PACIFIC IN CONCERT Comes to the Olney Theatre Center
by Stephi Wild - Jul 7, 2025

William Michals will return to Olney Theatre Center, to reprise his 2018 performance as Emile de Becque along with his co-star Jessica Lauren Ball, who played Nellie Forbush, in a one-night concert version of Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific.

Interview: SISTER ACT: BEHIND THE HABIT with Joe Mallon
by Elliot Lanes - Apr 15, 2025

Today in our weeklong series Sister Act: Behind The Habit, you are going to meet another one of the performers to makes the show come alive eight performances a week. Please meet Joe Mallon who plays Eddie Souther.

Interview: Theatre Life with Rayanne Gonzales
by Elliot Lanes - Mar 24, 2025

Today’s subject Rayanne Gonzales is currently living her theatre life onstage at Signature Theatre in a role she is very familiar with. Through May 4th in Signature’s MAX space, Rayanne is portraying Abuela Claudia in In The Heights.

Review: IN THE HEIGHTS at Signature Theatre
by Jackson Malmgren - Feb 20, 2025

In Washington Heights, Usnavi (Ángel Lozada) sings to us about life in the neighborhood while carrying out his day-to-day activities involved in operating his bodega (“In the Heights”). There’s Sonny (Nicolas Garza), the young aspiring entrepreneur who helps Usnavi run things; Abuela Claudia (Rayanne Gonzales), Usnavi’s elderly neighbor who’s “not really [his] abuela;” and Vanessa (Adriana Scalice), a woman Usnavi is too shy to talk to, but who is trying to move out of Washington Heights as soon as possible.

Video: Watch a First Look at IN THE HEIGHTS at Signature Theatre
by Michael Major - Feb 18, 2025

Signature Theatre has released a video preview of In the Heights, with music and lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda (Hamilton, Encanto) and a book by Quiara Alegría Hudes (Daphne’s Dive, Water by the Spoonful).

Video: Inside Rehearsals For IN THE HEIGHTS at Signature Theatre
by Michael Major - Feb 11, 2025

See inside rehearsals for In The Heights at Signature Theatre! The new video features a look into choreography rehearsals, as well as interviews with the cast and creative team, a first look at the set design, and more.

Video: 'In the Heights' from IN THE HEIGHTS at Signature Theatre
by Blair Ingenthron - Feb 8, 2025

Watch Ángel Lozada and the cast of IN THE HEIGHTS at Signature Theatre perform the title song in the video here! Performances will run from February 11 – May 4, 2025.

Video: Signature Theatre's IN THE HEIGHTS Cast Rehearses 'Carnaval del Barrio'
by Michael Major - Jan 31, 2025

Watch the cast of Signature Theatre's In the Heights rehearse 'Carnaval del Barrio.' The video features Ángel Lozada, Berto Fernández and more! The musical features music by Lin-Manuel Miranda (Hamilton, Encanto) and a book by Quiara Alegría Hudes.

Cast & Creative Team Set for IN THE HEIGHTS at Signature Theatre
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jan 14, 2025

Signature Theatre has revealed the cast and creative team for In the Heights, with music and lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda and a book by Quiara Alegría Hudes. See who is starring and learn how to purchase tickets.

Interview: Krystina Alabado in MYSTIC PIZZA at Paper Mill Playhouse
by Marina Kennedy - Jan 14, 2025

We had the pleasure of interviewing Krystina Alabado who stars as Daisy Arujo in Paper Mill Playhouse’s production of 'Mystic Pizza.'

Review: BROADWAY IN THE PARK at Wolf Trap
by Roger Catlin - Jul 2, 2024

The intent of Wolf Trap’s annual “Broadway in the Park” event is to blend the star power of the Great White Way (if it’s still called that) with the rising stars of the local co-presenter, Signature Theatre.