Daniel Fish News

Heartworm, a new sci-fi drama featuring Tony Award nominee Amber Gray, will make its World Premiere at the 2026 Cinequest Film & Creativity Festival, running March 10 through March 22, 2026 in Silicon Valley.

It's time to meet Broadway's new creatures of the night! Roundabout Theatre Company has announced the complete cast for Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show, with direction by Tony Award winner Sam Pinkleton.

OPERA America is recognizing the nearly 100 artists, companies, and trustees whose creative work and initiatives won grants and awards totaling more than $1,000,000 in 2025.

St. Ann’s Warehouse has announced two new international productions for early 2026, following its upcoming staging of Eugene O’Neill’s Anna Christie, directed by Thomas Kail and starring Michelle Williams (November 25, 2025–February 1, 2026).

Three dream roles have so far eluded Broadway and West End favorite Marisha Wallace. She just ended an acclaimed Broadway run in Cabaret, but her heart is set on playing these three characters someday. So cast her already! Watch in this video as she sings through the roles that she hopes to play one day.

Marisha Wallace, Broadway’s current Sally Bowles, has had a career in New York and London marked by starring roles in musicals about women surviving tough circumstances. As we find out in her debut live recording, Live in London, her own life hasn’t been much different.

The Stage Directors and Choreographers Society (SDC) has announced the release of 65 for the 65th, a celebratory publication honoring 65 directors and choreographers whose work has transformed the American theatre.

OPERA America has revealed the five recipients of the 2025 Commissioning Grants from its Opera Grants for Women Composers program. Learn more about the program here!

St. Ann’s Warehouse will open its 2025–26 Fall season with three productions. Julia McDermott anchors the blistering dark comedy Weather Girl by Brian Watkins, plus more.

Olivier-nominated actress and singer Marisha Wallace will release a brand-new album, Live in London. The album was recorded in front of a full house at the Adelphi Theatre in March 2025.

Norm Lewis, Michael James Scott, Cameron Anika Hill, Terence Archie, Allison Blackwell, Troy Iwata, Michael Hartung and Meghan Murphy will star in La Cage aux Folles when the musical returns to The Muny this summer after nearly four decades.

A new musical adaptation of Yentl the Yeshiva Boy is in development, with a book and lyrics by Lisa Kron and music by Adam Benzwi. The production is part of the Civis Hope Commissions at the Fisher Center at Bard.

Clarinetist Sam Sadigursky and accordionist/multi-instrumentalist Nathan Koci have set the release of the next two volumes of The Solomon Diaries for April 11th.

In this video, Oh, Mary! understudy extraordinaire Hannah Solow breaks down how she manages doing double understudy duty as Mary and Mary's Chaperone.

Starring Brie Larson, Daniel Fish directs the first major revival in over a decade of Sophokles’ electrifying and timeless play, Elektra, with a translation by poet Anne Carson, at the Duke Of York’s Theatre.

So why is Daniel Fish’s Elektra such a droning dud?

The cast has been announced for an upcoming reading of The Blue Parts, created by playwright Liba Vaynberg & director Dina Vovsi. Learn more about the reading and the cast here!

Theatre Royal Brighton and Empire Street Productions have announced Brighton's first-ever Pay What You Can Lottery for the highly anticipated production of ELEKTRA, starring Brie Larson.

Tickets are now on sale for Elektra at Duke of York's. Performances will begin in January 2025. Learn more about the show and find out how to get tickets here!

All new photos have been released from the rehearsal room of ELEKTRA, the UK Premiere production of the translation by award winning poet Anne Carson of Sophokles’s play. Check out the photos here!