American Academy of Dramatic Arts News

Catherine Russell has a full schedule of performances slated throughout the East Coast and in Europe to finish off the year. Among them include her annual four-night residency at Dizzy’s Club at Jazz at Lincoln Center from September 29 through October 2, with two shows nightly.

Mental health takes center stage in Anthony M. Laura's new play The Girl with the Red Hair which will play The Gene Frankel Theatre in Manhattan. The production runs November 3 - 12 with opening night slated for November 3.

54 BELOW, Broadway's Supper Club, presents Cristina Fontanelli in BE ITALIAN TU on September 20, 2022 at 7:00pm.

The award-winning Red Seed Films has announced the online premiere of FRANKIE and film festival screening dates for THE BOTTOM, the company's two inaugural short films.

Gearing up for the holiday season, Jimmy Fallon, Willie Nelson, Billy Ray Cyrus, Jimmie Allen, Zach Williams and Miley Cyrus have been cast as guest stars in NBC’s “Dolly Parton’s Mountain Magic Christmas.” In addition to the legendary Dolly Parton in the lead role, the film will star Tom Everett Scott, Ana Gasteyer and Angel Parker.

The 13th Annual Stockholm Fringe Festival (STOFF 2022) Presents Solo Show Baggage From BaghDAD: Becoming my Father's Daughter, One Middle Eastern Jewish Family's True Epic Journey to America.

Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati opens its 37th year with the Pulitzer Prize–winning drama Sweat by MacArthur genius and two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Lynn Nottage. Shining a powerful light on America's working class, Nottage infuses this searing script with her trademark mix of compassion, humor, and suspense. It's explosive drama, made in America. Playing September 17–October 9, 2022. Directed by Darnell Pierre Benjamin.

​​​​​​​Award-winning performer and playwright Valerie David will return to Gothenburg with the world premiere Baggage From BaghDAD: Becoming my father's daughter on September 8, 10 & 11.

Theater Resources Unlimited will present Meet the Coaches, during which actors can meet more than 10 monologue and music coaches, plus accompanists, who will share their methods and then meet individuals in breakout rooms.

Berkeley Repertory Theatre has announced casting for the world premiere production of the ripple, the wave that carried me home by Christina Anderson, directed by Jackson Gay, and produced in association with Goodman Theatre. 

WE ARE TRAFFIC: An Uber Adventure, Written and Performed by Jonathan Tipton Meyers and Directed by Harry Kakatsakis, comes to Edinburgh Fringe this month. Performanaces run August 3 – 28th.

An Tobar and Mull Theatre in partnership with the Citizens Theatre, Ensemble Studio Theater (New York) and Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater with support from Playwrights' Studio Scotland and Arch 468 have announced the playwrights who have been selected to take part in the inaugural The East by West UK/US Playwright Exchange.

This Week's New Classified Listings on BroadwayWorld for 8/11/2022 include new jobs for those looking to work in the theatre industry.

This Week's New Classified Listings on BroadwayWorld for 8/4/2022 include new jobs for those looking to work in the theatre industry.

Atlantic Theater Company will present First Gen MixFest, a series of free readings co-produced by playwrights Ngozi Anyanwu and Sanaz Toossi, that will run at Atlantic’s Linda Gross Theater from Monday, August 8th through Wednesday, August 17th, 2022. 

Roundabout Theatre Company has announced the newest addition to the artistic team: Directing Fellow Mack Brown. Brown is the fifth Roundabout Directing Fellow. This season they will assist on multiple Roundabout productions, and work with the theatre's artistic team as a script reader and on developing two projects of their choosing.

Shakespeare & Company has announced the cast of Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare, to be staged outdoors at the Company's New Spruce Theatre, July 2 through August 14.

The American Popular Song Society recently hosted a gala benefit honoring Tony Award nominee Lee Roy Reams and guest photographer Bowie Dunwoody captured it all in their camera's lens.

A stage reading of Tennyson Bardwell's new play Glass Houses will be held at The Players Theatre on June 21st on 115 MacDougal Street in Greenwich Village at 7pm.

When Jonathan Tipton Meyers lost his girlfriend, his business and his identity, he got in his car and drove. With the audience in the backseat, this bravura monologue chronicles Jonathan's two-year journey through the gig economy with Uber and Lyft.  In a timely story simultaneously personal and universal, melancholy and hilarious, he explores – through vignettes based on actual passengers – how the vehicles of segregation might just be our best hope for integration.