Blair Russell News

Theater Resources Unlimited (TRU) has extended the application deadline for its Producer Development & Mentorship Program (PDMP) to February 20, 2026. The program, led by Blair Russell, offers foundational training in producing for theater.

Goodspeed Musicals has revealed the participants for the 14th annual Johnny Mercer Foundation Writers Grove at Goodspeed Musicals, which will be held on the Goodspeed campus in East Haddam, Connecticut.

Theater Resources Unlimited continues its weekly Community Gatherings, marking five years of ongoing online conversations for theater artists and professionals.

Theater Resources Unlimited (TRU) will host their annual SPA Day, doling out the Essentials of Self-Producing to all our Self-Producing Artist friends.

A dependable haven for artists in isolation, Theater Resources Unlimited will present an upcoming town hall, Queery: Is Theater As Gay-Friendly As We Think?. Learn more and see how to attend.

The new play 'Prairie Park,' written by T.J. Pieffer, will receive a private industry reading at Manhattan's Open Jar Studios. Learn more about the play here.

Theatre Resources Unlimited will present Stories from the Trenches: How I Survived the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in September. Learn more and see how to join!

Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is August 27, 2025 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed in the last 24 hours.

Broadway/off-Broadway producers Blair Russell and Jane Dubin will return to teach TRU's Fall Producer Development and Mentorship Program classes starting in late September. Learn how to join!

Sex, drugs and coercive control... Jackie! is a new musical comedy that follows the young Jacqueline Bouvier as she dreams of becoming the first American Royal. After marrying into the illustrious Kennedy dynasty, Jackie discovers that power and notoriety come with the price of secrecy and silence. With Joe Kennedy pulling the strings, Jackie's sister Lee pulling away and JFK pulling anything that moves, Jackie is left alone to contemplate if life atop the American throne is really worth the familial curse that seemingly hangs over it.

A dependable haven for artists in isolation, Theater Resources Unlimited (TRU) is celebrating its fifth year of non-stop weekly Community Gatherings this Friday with Where Do You Start: Do Different Countries Offer Different Paths of Development?

A dependable haven for artists in isolation, Theater Resources Unlimited (TRU) is celebrating its fifth year of non-stop weekly Community Gatherings. Up next is a Free Introduction to their Producer Development & Mentorship Program.

Theater Resources Unlimited (TRU) is celebrating its fifth year of non-stop weekly Community Gatherings this Friday with Is New York Really a Safe Haven for School Arts Programs? Learn how to join!

The cast has been announced for Dylan MarcAurele's Pop Off, Michelangelo! which will run on the Udderbelly stage at Underbelly, George Square following its 2024 Edinburgh Festival Fringe season and 8-week London run at Underbelly Boulevard Soho.

A dependable haven for artists in isolation, Theater Resources Unlimited (TRU) is celebrating its fifth year of non-stop weekly Community Gatherings. Up next is From New York City to St. Paul to South Africa: a Director Who Moves in Many Directions.

Real-life exes David Carl and Katie Hartman stage a disastrous vow renewal in their new musical comedy David and Katie Get Re-Married, running at the 2025 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Pop Off, Michelangelo!, written by Dylan MarcAurele, will run on the Udderbelly stage at Underbelly, George Square following its hit 2024 Edinburgh Festival Fringe season and 8-week London run.

A private industry reading of the new play The Legend of Prairie Park, a dark workplace comedy by T.J. Pieffer, is being presented May 29 at Open Jar Studios in New York City. Angie Schworer will star.

For its 15th summer, Rhinebeck Writers Retreat is hosting 24 award-winning musical theatre writers of nine new musicals for nine consecutive weeklong residencies.

Theater Resources Unlimited in partnership with Streaming Musicals revealed that the 2025 TRU Voices New Musicals Reading Series Winner América Tropical will be available On Demand.