David Drake News

Making his stage debut Outlander's John Bell (Outlander, The Hobbit, Wrath of the Titans) has been cast in multi award-winning Off-Broadway hit The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me by David Drake.  

Today (May 19) in live streaming: more chances to watch Miscast, Lilli and Chuck Cooper visit Backstage Live, a Pageant reunion on Stars in the House, and more!

Today's top stories: Dear Evan Hansen film has released its first official trailer and production photos, Paper Mill announces upcoming season, pre-Broadway engagement announced for Paradise Square, and more!

 Seth Rudetsky and James Wesley announced today a theater-lovers dream week of shows, as they will reunite the casts of “Godspell,” “Annie,” and “Pageant,” and host a very special Elphabas vs. Glindas “Wicked” game night!  All will benefit the Actors Fund, and several nights will include matching donations from generous supporters of the arts. 

Stars in the House continues tonight (8pm ET) with a PAGEANT Reunion with Miss West Coast (John Salvatore), Miss Bible Belt (Randl Ask), Miss Industrial Northeast (Joe Joyce), Miss Great Plains (Dick Scanlan), Miss Deep South (David Drake), Miss Texas (Russell Garrett), Understudy (Jack Plotnick), and Director/Choreographer Bobby Longbottom.

Now in its 11th year, the Provincetown Theater in partnership with The Provincetown Playwrights’ Lab will present the annual 24-Hour Plays on Presidents’ Day weekend. Only for this year, the newly created collection of 10-minute plays –written, cast, rehearsed and debuted in a 24 hour timeframe -- will be done online.

The Provincetown Theater will present, fresh from his 2019-2020 Fulbright grant in Bulgaria, the renowned Cape Cod pianist and musical director John Thomas in a new musical meditation series on the theater's website this month entitled Music without Borders.

In celebration of Halloween – and the quest to continue making new online entertainment -- on Thursday, October 29 at 7pm, the Provincetown Theater will premiere its first play created exclusively for virtual consumption with the haunting Hallow's Eve tale Ghost Light: A Provincetown Ghost Story.

Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS will sponsor a one-night-only streamed presentation of the archival video of the 2013 performance of THE NIGHT LARRY KRAMER KISSED ME to benefit Provincetown Theater.

In the quest to continue creating new virtual entertainment programming, on Sunday, May 24 at 7pm, the Provincetown Theater will debut its online production of Our Townie Variety Show, via the thesater's streaming feature on provincetowntheater.org.

Heeding Gov. Baker's stay-at-home policy to combat Covid-19 in Massachusetts, on April 9, 2020 the Provincetown Theater on Outer Cape Cod will begin streaming a roster of performances.

In response to the necessity of keeping the Cape Cod theater-going community safe and healthy during these uncertain times, the board of directors of the Provincetown Theater and artistic director David Drake have elected to postpone their 2020 spring season opener, Mae West's The Drag, until the fall.

Diversionary has announced their 2020 D-Tours production of WELCOME TO LA MISA, BABY which will tour the San Diego Unified School District as part of the Arts Education and Outreach programming.

Check out the details below for the next installment of Wild Things Comedy at Secret Loft. 

The Provincetown Theater, in conjunction with The Provincetown Playwrights' Lab, will present the 10th anniversary production of The 24-Hour Plays on Presidents' Day weekend, Feb 15 & 16 at the company's playhouse at 238 Bradford Street in Provincetown, MA.  This year, seven writers, seven directors and 21 actors will participate in the annual event in which plays are written, rehearsed, and premiered within 24 hours. The 2020 playwrights are Lucy Blood, Linda Fiorella, Tamora Israel, Bob Keary, Jody O'Neil, Fermin Rojas and Kate Wallace-Rogers.

Starting January 28, five full-length new American plays will be presented free to the public over the next 3 months 

Just in time for the holidays, the Provincetown Theater opens its final main stage production of the 2019 season with Joe Landry's unique adaptation of the beloved Frank Capra classic It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play. Running Nov 21 thru Dec 8, as the title states, this iconic movie steps onto the stage as a live 1940s radio broadcast a?" complete with a real live Foley Artist. Performed by an acting ensemble of ten, bringing the many dozens of residents of Bedford Falls to life (not to mention Heaven!), the story of idealistic George Bailey unfolds as he considers the relevance and meaning of his life one fateful Christmas Eve a?" thanks to the help of an angel-in-waiting named Clarence Oddbody.

Johnstown, PA native and Brooklyn, NY based actor, writer Dan Ruth returns to the Pittsburgh area with his multi-award-winning, critically acclaimed black comedy solo work, A Life Behind Bars, at Carnegie Stage in Carnegie, PA this coming October 24th, 25th and 26th at 8pm. The tour-de-force show performed to sell-out houses in Pittsburgh earlier this year.

Rep Stage, the professional regional theatre in residence at Howard Community College (HCC), continues its 27th season with the world premiere of a?oeE2,a?? written by Bob Bartlett and directed by Joseph W. Ritsch.

Theater Resources Unlimited presents the Writer-Producer Speed Date, a unique opportunity to pitch a project to a roomful of New York producers and artistic directors on Sunday, October 13, 2019 from 4:30pm to 8:30pm at the newly opened 797 Studios, 797 Eighth Avenue (betw. 48th and 49th), 3rd floor, NYC.