Baldwin News

The Second City’s SHE THE PEOPLE has brought a cadre of comedic women to the San Diego Repertory Theatre who will make you laugh and then want to go out and try to change the world.  Entirely created, designed, and performed by the women of this world-famous comedy institution it proves that the future is female and very funny.  SHE THE PEOPLE is playing through December 5th.

Merrimack Repertory Theatre (MRT) will present a socially distanced performance – reducing its seating capacity from 279 to 86 – for the 7 p.m. Tuesday, December 7, performance of its world premiere holiday comedy, The Rise and Fall of Holly Fudge by Trista Baldwin, according to Artistic Director Courtney Sale and Executive Director Bonnie J. Butkas.

IN MONET'S FOOTSTEPS WITH DEAN & DUDLEY EVENSON invites the viewer on their journey. Hollywood Music in Media Awards (HMMA) has nominated it for BEST SCORE - SHORT FILM (DOCUMENTARY).

The October Go Try PlayWrite winner is Lee Tonouchi for his play Checkers & Pogo and da House of No Fun. The contest prompt was: In honor of Halloween, submissions must center on the first time a group of kids go trick-or-treating without their parents, and the scariest house in the neighborhood is next.

Author Cheryl R. Lane has announced the release of her romantic historical novel, A Revolutionary Engagement. This is the second book in her Wellington Patriot Series.

The Gateway Playhouse in Somers Point NJ Presents Piano Bar at the Gateway on Thursday November 18th at 7pm with Michael McAssey on stage playing the baby grand. For tickets please go to www.gatewaybythebay.org or call 609-653-0553. All seats are $25. Bar service available. If you would like to sing, please bring your sheet music or just come and enjoy the evening.

Zions Bank Broadway at the Eccles announced today that the individual tickets for the tour of The Band's Visit, featuring music and lyrics by Tony and Drama Desk Award-winner David Yazbek, went  on sale Friday, November 12 at 10am.  

INTO THE WOODS is a musical with a book by James Lapine and music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim.

From November 12th to December 5th, Rodgers & Hammerstein's golden age musical, Cinderella, will be showing at Stagecrafters' Baldwin Theatre in Royal Oak. Featuring such songs such as 'In My Own Little Corner,' 'Impossible,' and 'Ten Minutes Ago,' Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella at Stagecrafters will certainly prove to be a superb night of theatre for people of all ages.

Sciorra plays the episode’s titular “blacklister,” “the avenging angel,” a character who will use any means necessary to return what has been unjustly stolen. The show also stars stars James Spader, Amir Arison, and Hisham Tawfiq. Check out exclusive new photos of Sciorra in the episode now!

Press night was recently held for the West End premiere of THE CHOIR OF MAN at the Arts Theatre. Check out the photos here!

Fort Worth Opera announced today the starry line-up of internationally renowned artists headlining the company’s second annual celebration of Black History Month, A Night of Black Excellence: Say It Loud - Songs of a Revolution. 

Reprising their roles from the 2019-2020 season are Danielle Wade as Cady Heron, Megan Masako Haley as Gretchen Wieners, Jonalyn Saxer as Karen Smith, Mary Kate Morrissey as Janis Sarkisian, Eric Huffman as Damian Hubbard, Adante Carter as Aaron Samuels, Kabir Bery as Kevin G. and Lawrence E. Street as Mr. Duvall.

The National Tour of the 2019 Drama Desk Award winner for Outstanding Musical THE PROM began performances on November 2 at Playhouse Square in Cleveland. The tour stars Kaden Kearney (they/them) as 'Emma, High School Student, Banned from The Prom,' Kalyn West as 'Alyssa Greene, Head of Student Council with a Secret,' and more.

Asolo Repertory Theatre announces a new series to commission three plays by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) playwrights and directors over the next three years. The Muriel O’Neil American Heritage Commission Series, made possible by a generous $75,000 grant from the Community Foundation of Sarasota County, is part of the Ground Floor program, a new work development initiative at Asolo Rep.

A two-week Musical Theatre intensive for performers who are, or soon to be, #ready4newyork, Ages 18 and up. All students, all faculty: fully vaccinated.

There are so many things to like about the season’s revival of Gershwin’s PORGY & BESS, which was new in the 2019-2020 season, before Covid became the “song” that no one wanted to hear. PORGY on the other hand, is the music that everybody can take a liking to, with its fluid combination of opera, Broadway musical and versions of spirituals and Gullah folk music that nobody ever heard before. It has been best known for its songs, which have become “standards” in the Broadway songbook. The stylistic shifts in the complex, yearning, comic score are handled mightily by the Met’s game orchestra under David Robinson.

Marking its first live theatrical production since 2019, Westport Country Playhouse will stage “Doubt: A Parable,” winner of 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Tony Award® for Best Play, from November 2 through November 20. A

Fin's wedding was a few months before the pandemic. Seeing as he's now been married for 300 years, he's getting out the house and hitting the road.

Just last night, the best of Broadway gathered at Haswell Green’s to celebrate the publication of When The Lights Are Bright Again. The new book was released by Applause Theatre & Cinema Books and is now available.