Donovan News

Faye Driscoll will make her BAM debut with the electrifying dance-play Thank You For Coming: Play, running Nov 16-19, 2016.

LA Femme International Film Festival (LAFIFF) is proud to announce that Connie Stevens, Aisha Tyler, Gina Torres (pictured), Wendie Malick, and Kerris Dorsey are being honored at this year's at LAFIFF Awards Show and Gala event on October 23, 2016 (Red Carpet at 6 pm; Show at 7 pm) at the Los Angeles Theatre Center in downtown Los Angeles.

Two-time Obie Award-winning The Builders Association brings their technical wizardry to the NYC premiere of ELEMENTS OF OZ, directed by The Builders Association director Marianne Weems and co-created and written by James Gibbs and Moe Angelos.

This November, Pipeline Theatre Company is partnering with the New York Public Library (NYPL) to present six never before seen plays written by Pipeline's PlayLab Class of 2017 for this year's Matchstick Series: While We Slept, performed at the Jefferson Market Library (425 6th Ave, New York, NY 10011). 

FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THE takes us to a new era in J.K. Rowling's Wizarding World, decades before Harry Potter and half a world away. Check out newly released Twitter emojis inspired by the film below!

HERE launches its 2016-2017 producing season with Ship of Fools, conceived by Jessica Scott, and devised by Jessica Scott with Anonymous Ensemble. This HERE Resident Artist and Dream Music Puppetry Program production plays 15 performances, tonight, October 12, through October 22 at HERE (145 Sixth Avenue, just below Spring Street).

???????The King's Head Theatre today announces a new production of Paul Boakye's Boy with Beer, directed by Harry Mackrill, 25 years after the original production at the Man in the Moon Theatre.  Enyi Okoronkwo plays Donovan and Chin Nyenwe plays Karl in the production, which also features new music from Taurean Antoine Chagar, regular collaborator of acclaimed drum and bass group Rudimental.  It opens at the King's Head Theatre, on 11 November, with previews from 8 November, running until 26 November. 

Motivated by the ambivalent outcomes of the Arab Spring and a failed effort to understand the war in Syria, future friend/ships plays in the imaginary realms of future fiction, December 15-17, 2016 at CounterPulse in San Francisco. Tickets $20-$30 (no one turned away for a lack of funds)

Today's big news: The new FREAKY FRIDAY musical begins tonight in D.C., PLENTY, starring Rachel Weisz, starts at The Public, VIETGONE begins previews at MTC, TICK, TICK...BOOM! returns Off-Broadway, and CAMELOT, featuring Robert Sean Leonard, launches in Westport!

 Insomnium Theatre Company's second season continues with NIGHTMARE BEFORE INSOMNIUM: PROM. The one night only event promises an immersive horror theatre experience, as well as a killer Halloween party with live music, drinking, and dancing.

On October 14 and 15, Prospect Theater will be filled with the joyous sounds of a live big band, and 80s songs that defined your life. Take On Me will send audiences back to the 1950's New Orleans in this musical revue featuring four couples struggling with the highs and lows of love! All told with 80's pop hit, the four couples promise a swinging good time "all night long."

To celebrate the Manchester By the Sea, the films stars, producers, director and numerous other came out to the NYFF. From arrivals to Q&A's, BroadwayWorld has your first look at all the festivities below! Check it out!

Our universal need to be remembered is the underlying theme of a behind-the-scenes baseball comedy by Ken Levine, an Emmy Award-winning writer (Cheers, M*A*S*H, The Simpsons), acclaimed sportscaster and former host of Dodger Talk. Andrew Barnicle directs the world premiere of Going... Going... GONE! for an Oct. 1 opening at the Hudson Guild Theatre in Hollywood.

Hollywood actor and computer expert Craig Ricci Shaynak returns to Hollywood as Google in his original and hilarious look at our obsession with the internet.

Acclaimed actors Joanne Froggatt ('Downton Abbey') and Ioan Gruffudd (Fantastic Four) star in a compelling emotional six-part thriller from Two Brothers Pictures. LIAR starts shooting in November 2016 and is being produced in conjunction with ITV in the UK.

On September 13th, 2016, Charging Moose Media teamed up with the band Common Jack to record and film three tracks off their new album, Strange New State. The session took place at sunset on a rooftop in Ridgewood, with the New York City skyline in the background.

Due to popular demand, Warner Bros has announced more locations for our upcoming free Global Fan Event, FANTASTIC BEASTS: A RETURN TO J.K. ROWLING'S WIZARDING WORLD, taking place on October 13th.

Below, check out the final trailer for FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM as well as an announcement greeting from the cast for our upcoming free Global Fan Event, FANTASTIC BEASTS: A RETURN TO J.K. ROWLING'S WIZARDING WORLD,

The Casting Society of America has announced the nominees for the 32nd Annual Artios Awards. The ceremony, which honors excellence in casting in all forms of entertainment, has included some of the theatre's finest among their 2016 nominations.

Portland Players opened its 86th season with an intense production of the Ivan Menchell-Don Black-Frank Wildhorn musical, Bonnie and Clyde, about the legendary Depression-era American outlaws. The 2009 musical theatre retelling of the short and violent lives of this pair, who robbed banks and left scores of dead victims in their wake as they evaded the law in a misguided quest for notoriety, puts a romantic spin on their legend at the same time that it does not side step the grittier aspects of this tale.