Brooks News

Class Act Community Playhouse has announced Tonight Belongs To You, a benefit concert for the theatre on Saturday, February 27 at 6PM/9PM EST on YouTube. One-of-a-kind sponsorship packages featuring items such as a portrait session, musical theatre coaching, and one-of-a-kind art from Frozen on Broadway, are available.

Featuring new performers with every show, the weekly, award-winning Piano Bar Live! will stream this Tuesday, February 23 at 7:15 pm ET, with host Scott Barbarino and guests Pamela Clay, Trip Kennedy, Gina Milo and Tracy Stark, plus Mystery Guests and MORE!

MetropolitanZoom will present TRIP KENNEDY in a live premium virtual venue experience, with full service, including pre-show entertainment and meet and greet at the end of the show. The virtual event will take place on Feb 27th at 7pm.

Lively McCabe Entertainment and CuzBro Productions – the production company founded by Brian Kelley of the multi-platinum, award-winning duo Florida Georgia Line – will world premiere the musical MAY WE ALL in June 2022 as a special presentation of Tennessee Performing Arts Center’s Broadway at TPAC series.

Today's Theater Stories features the Gershwin Theatre! Learn about the theatre's longest running show, Wicked; the extravagant production of Starlight Express; the Theater Hall of fame featuring theater's biggest names, and more!

Today (February 22) in live streaming: Santino Fontana sings with Seth Rudetsky, Patrick Page takes on Shakespeare's villains, and more!

Stage West has announced pieces which will make up the 12th annual Festival of the Kid performances, which will take place virtually again this year. 

NY PopsUp is an expansive festival consisting of hundreds of pop-up performances that will regularly permeate the daily lives of New Yorkers. It is intended to revitalize the spirit and emotional well-being of New York citizens through the energy of live performance.

Join MST in welcoming a panel of distinguished Black theatre artists as they discuss what Black History Month means to them, their hopes, fears, and dreams for our country in general and the performing arts in particular, and their vision for a way forward as we look to re-open theaters and perform again.

Following the success of last year’s Bobbie’s Summer and Fall Series, Berkshire Theatre Group has announced the Colonial Concert Series, introducing 2 shows each Saturday from May 1 through June 12.

Pittsburgh Public Theater has announced the finalists of the 27th Annual Shakespeare Monologue & Scene Contest. This year's contest was held virtually for the first time in the organization's history in an effort to unite and celebrate students and educators across the region during this time of isolation. Tune in on February 22 at 7:00pm.

Bart plays a lawyer who recently helped get nefarious blacklister The Freelancer released from prison, who runs up against Spader’s Red Reddington in his effort to find Elizabeth Keen (Megan Boone).

The Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment announced the first two Spring 2021 virtual “Made in NY” Talks, which are starting next week.  

Get the latest news on upcoming film adaptations, the schedule of movie musicals in development or production, and more with our always up-to-date musical film adaptation schedule!

Lookingglass Theatre Company has announced their 2021 gglassquerade unGALA, a virtual event in support of the Tony Award-winning Lookingglass Theatre Company. Stay home, stay safe, stay cozy, and all the while, sustain America's most innovative ensemble-based theatre.

Out of the Box Theatrics, Holmdel Theatre Company, and Blair Russell have announced the creative team and streaming dates for their upcoming site-specific virtual production of The Last Five Years.   

Sarah Cahill, described as “a sterling pianist and an intrepid illuminator of the classical avant-garde” by The New York Times, announces two virtual events in March 2021, including concerts presented by the San Francisco Symphony's SFSymphony+ Soundbox series and the Community School of Music & Arts.

Tennessee Playwrights Studio and Angela Gimlin (Founder and COO of Nashville's own Inebriated Shakespeare Company) present a virtual workshop reading of the to-be-produced-after-the-pandemic play, THAT WOMAN, comprised of a series of monologues from the perspectives of women who were involved (or rumored-to-be involved) with President John F. Kennedy. 

Before Trip Kennedy's debut  performance of his latest cabaret creation “The Book Of Mel” was over, Bernie Furshpan, producer for Metropolitan Zoom,  booked it  for a new date and  suggested the theme could be developed as a series-- “because there is just so much great Mel Brooks material and cabaret is the place to do it!”

Filmed in Berlin, the video’s main character is played by Scottish transgender performer Shrek 666 who wears extensive makeup and prosthetics. The non-human form echoes the universal surrealism of life during lockdown. Elfman also appears in a few surprise cameos in the video. Listen and watch it below.