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As the ultimate holiday gifting destination, Bloomingdale's announces a series of holiday programming including The Carousel @ Bloomingdale's: Wonka, and window unveiling in partnership with Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.

Ari Groover of Tina - The Tina Turner Musical heads to Omaha this week to show audiences why Tina truly was simply the best!

The Off-Broadway revival of Alan Menken & Howard Ashman's LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS will paint the town green in honor of the musical's ruby red 40th anniversary. Beginning Thursday, April 28, and throughout the month of May, there will be various events, contests, special performances, and activations to celebrate the beloved, award-winning show's incredible legacy.

Pass Over, the first Broadway show to begin performances since the start of the pandemic, took its first bow at the August Wilson Theatre just last night, heralding Broadway's return after a year and a half away. BroadwayWorld was there for the special night and you can check out photos below!

PASS OVER announced today it will hold a block party on West 52nd Street in celebration of its first preview, and the first performance of a play on Broadway since March 2020, on Wednesday August 4 outside of the August Wilson Theatre (245 W 52nd Street, New York, NY).

Today’s subject Lileana Blain-Cruz is currently living her theatre life as the director of Signature Theatre’s latest Signature Features streaming offering entitled Daniel J.Watts’ The Jam: Only Child. The show recounts Watts’ life as the only child of a single mother. From the fierce growing pains of boyhood innocence to the awkwardness of teenage years to a proud Black man, Daniel digs through his memory’s attic in a powerful and playful story of metamorphosis. The production is available for streaming through May seventh on Marquee TV.

Signature Theatre’s second production in their Signature Features 2021 season, Daniel J Watts THE JAM: ONLY CHILD is written and performed by 2020 Tony Award Nominee Daniel J Watts and is the fifth installment of Watts’ The Jam series. The series namesake comes from his great grandmother’s method of creating jam, whereupon what she could not use for herself, she would share with other people. It is available to stream in HD on Marquee TV from March 16 through May 7.

Signature Theatre has announced the full cast and streaming dates for Daniel J. Watts’ The Jam: Only Child, the second production in the Signature Features 2021 Season. Written and performed by Daniel J. Watts and featuring DJ Duggz, The Jam: Only Child is the fifth in Watts’ The Jam series.

Signature Theatre has announced the full lineup for Signature Theatre’s 2021 Signature Features season, five fully-staged plays and musicals, made exclusively for the screen and professionally filmed in HD on set (multiple safety protocols were employed to ensure artists’ and crew’s safety).

Claim Our Space Now, Hamilton's Krystal Joy Brown, along with fellow officials, leaders, and activists have come together to urge the Broadway & theatrical community at large to peacefully protest the erasure of Black lives and Black Trans Lives in our communities. In alliance with Broadway for Racial Justice, Claim Our Space Now is fighting for respect and action for Tony McDade, Riah Milton, Dominique Fells, Nina Pop, and the countless other lives that have been stolen with little to no recourse. All of our voices are valuable in this urgent fight to save ALL Black lives. 

See full details for NJPAC's slate of Valentine's Day Shows below!  

Raphael Saadiq's Jimmy Lee Tour with Jamila Woods and DJ Duggz comes to Old Forester's Paristown Hall, Monday, February 17, 2020 at 8 p.m., doors open at 7 p.m.

Daniel J. Watts (TINA - The Tina Turner Muiscal, Amazon's 'The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,' and TBS' 'The Last O.G.') and WattsWords Productions present Daniel J. Watts' The Jam: Only Child, an evening of music, dance, spoken word, and storytelling as part of The Public Theater's Under the Radar Festival. He will be performing the show on Monday, January 6th, Friday, January 10th, Sunday, January 12th, and Monday, January 20th at Joe's Pub at the Public Theater (425 Lafayette Street).

Daniel J. Watts, currently starring as Sammy Davis, Jr. opposite Dule Hill in the Geffen Playhouse's record-breaking box office smash Lights Out: Nat King Cole, is bringing his solo show The Jam: Only Child to Los Angeles on Monday, March 11th at The Federal in North Hollywood (5303 Lankershim Boulevard). Doors open at 6:30pm, the show begins at 8:30pm. All advance general admission tickets are $20. Tickets are $25 day of and can be purchased at http://thefederalnoho.com/tickets/9231155/daniel-j-watts-the-jam-only-child/.

Daniel J. Watts (Hamilton, TBS' "The Last O.G.," Signature Theatre's The Death of The Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World) and WattsWords Productions present Daniel J. Watts' The Jam: Only Child, an evening of music, dance, spoken word, and storytelling on Monday, December 3rd at Joe's Pub at the Public Theater (425 Lafayette Street).  Doors open at 6pm, the show begins at 7pm. 

Daniel J. Watts recently presented Daniel J. Watts' The Jam: Only Child, an evening of music, dance, spoken word, and storytelling at new NoHo staple SubCulture

Daniel J. Watts (Hamilton, TBS' 'The Last O.G.,' Signature Theatre's The Death of The Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World) and WattsWords Productions present Daniel J. Watts' The Jam: Only Child, an evening of music, dance, spoken word, and storytelling on Monday, October 15th at new NoHo staple SubCulture (45 Bleecker Street).  Doors open at 7pm, the show begins at 8pm. 

Daniel J. Watts (Hamilton, TBS' upcoming 'The Last O.G.,' Signature Theatre's The Death of The Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World) and WattsWords Productions presented Daniel J. Watts' THE JAM: Only Child, an evening of music, dance and spoken word, on Monday, February 19 at Joe's Pub at The Public at New York's famed Public Theater (425 Lafayette Street).  Watts was joined by DJ Duggz, aka Preston Dugger III (Motown the Musical, Memphis), the pair performed for a sold out house. 

Daniel J. Watts (Hamilton, TBS' upcoming The Last O.G., Signature Theatre's The Death of The Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World) and WattsWords Productions present Daniel J. Watts' THE JAM: Only Child, an evening of music, dance and spoken word, onMonday, February 19 at Joe's Pub at The Public at New York's famed Public Theater (425 Lafayette Street). Doors open at 9pm, the show begins at9.30pm. For more information, click here.

Featuring DJ Duggz (aka Preston Dugger III), this edition of THE JAM explored the life of an only child working to connect with the world. BroadwayWorld has photos from the event below!