Donovan News

Professional Performance Prep (The Prep) announces its cast for PSYKIDZ, a new musical made into a film premiering in September with a Virtual Red Carpet and special guests.

Fort Worth Opera (FWO) has announced the launch of FWO Green Room, a new digital initiative to kick off the company's 75th anniversary season.

Tune in at 4pm to watch the next episode right here at BroadwayWorld or on Facebook Live. This week's special guest is casting director Erica A. Hart!

Gravitas Ventures has acquired North American rights to Van Ditthavong's feature directorial debut ALL ROADS TO PEARLA (formerly known as SLEEPING IN PLASTIC), which had its world premiere at the 2019 Austin Film Festival.

Today (August 8-9) in live streaming: Free to Be... You and Me returns for an Encore, Liz Callaway performs with Seth Rudetsky, and so much more!

The Theatre Lab School of the Dramatic Arts will be recognized this Sunday, August 9 at 2pm during the performance of Lady Liberty and the Donut Girl by Eric Lane livestreamed on Stars In The House YouTube Channel. The performance is part of Plays in the House Teen Edition, livestreamed readings of plays for young people, performed by young people to support not-for-profits bringing theater to young people. The reading will be performed by Simone Clotile and Donovan Rogers and will also feature interviews with the playwright and Theatre Lab student Zach Rakotomaniraka.

The National Indigenous Music Awards have revealed the Hall of Fame inductee at tomorrow night's live broadcast will be awarded posthumously to Ngarrindjeri woman Ruby Hunter.

Stars in the House continues today (2pm) with Plays In The House Teen Edition: LADY LIBERTY AND THE DOUGHNUT GIRL: By Eric Lane. Starring Simone Clotile and Donovan Rogers.  Directed by Jacob Daniel Smith.  Benefitting The Theatre Lab School of the Dramatic Arts.a??

A new video has been released of Kimberley Walsh singing 'Outta My Hands' from the new musical SLEEPLESS, A Musical Romance, which will begin socially distanced indoor performances at the Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre from 25 August. 

The official trailer has released for Honest Thief, starring Liam Neeson.

Stanislav Ioudentich, Founder and Artistic Director of Park International Center for Music, announced today that the organization's opening concert would indeed take place, albeit revamped. Stanislav & Friends will now take place at the Boulevard Drive-In (1051 Merriam Lane, Kansas City, KS). Gate opens at 6:00 p.m. Tickets start at $50 for two patrons in one car and can be purchased at Park ICM 2020 Gala Drive In.

Today, Signature Theatre released the inaugural episode of The Signature Show, a biweekly half-hour digital experience featuring performances by acclaimed artists, interviews, celebration of new musical voices and tributes to the past, present and future of Signature Theatre.

Magic Theatre announced today that the Company will host its first-ever Virtual Gala Fundraiser, Springing Forward, on Thursday, August 6, 2020 at 6:00 p.m. PST / 9:00 p.m. EST. The Gala will feature guest appearances from Ed Harris and Amy Madigan, Taylor Mac, Mfonsio Udofia, Lloyd Suh, and many more.

The upcoming Aretha Franklin biopic, Respect, starring Jennifer Hudson, has pushed its release day back to January 15, 2021, during MLK weekend.

SLEEPLESS, which will begin socially distanced indoor performances at the Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre on 25 August, will begin using a new accurate COVID-19 test on cast, musicians, crew and theatre staff on a daily basis during rehearsals and during the run of the show. ests results will be sent directly to crew, cast and staff phones via a secure app within an hour of a swab being taken.

The producers of the first new production in 25 years of Jim Jacobs & Warren Casey's iconic musical GREASE, have announced that the show will tour the UK and Ireland in 2021. The musical was due to tour in 2020 but had to be postponed due to COVID-19.

Raye Zaragoza releases new video for Entitled 'The It Girl', the Tucker Martine produced track (First Aid Kit, The Decemberists) details Zaragoza's personal struggles with love and acceptance as a multicultural brown woman due to society's western expectations of women.  The funk fueled indie rock tune is her outcry for diverse representation in the media. 

Actress + Career Coach, Christine Horn has opened the doors to her groundbreaking signature course for actors, Book More TV.  Registration ends on July 22, 2020.

Tony-winners Ann Reinking and Santino Fontana (Tootsie), George Wendt (Cheers), Cedric Yarbrough (Reno 911), Rachel Dratch (SNL), Beverly D'Angelo (National Lampoon's Vacation films), Maulik Pancholy (30 Rock), Renee Taylor (The Nanny), Lynne Stewart (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia), Anika Larsen (Beautiful) and Drew Droege (Bright Colors and Bold Patterns) have joined The Pack Podcast.

Tonight, in celebration of Off- and Off-Off Broadway theater, the American Theatre Wing and The Village Voice honored the recipients of the 65th Annual Obie Awards.