Dulé Hill News

The Shakespeare Center LA and After Hours Theatre Company announce the premiere of The Tempest: An Immersive Experience, a fully reimagined immersive performance based on William Shakespeare's The Tempest.  The director is Ben Donenberg, Shakespeare Center LA Artistic Director; Graham Wetterhahn is the Producing Artistic Director at After Hours Theatre Company. 

New York City Center today announced additional casting for the 2022 Encores! Season as part of the full calendar of events for City Center’s 2021 – 2022 Season. The productions launch Lear deBessonet’s first season as Encores! Artistic Director, alongside Encores! Music Director Rob Berman and Encores! Producing Creative Director Clint Ramos.

Performances of five-time Tony Award-winning production of 'A Christmas Carol' began this week at the Ahmanson Theatre. Get a look inside the show's star-studded opening night!

Emmy-winning stage and screen star Dulé Hill will join Tony-nominee Saycon Sengbloh, Elisha Williams and Laura Kariuki on the upcoming reboot of The Wonder Years.

Learn all about the Ambassador Theater's best known shows including Bring in 'da Noise, Bring in 'da Funk and You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, plus the many stars to have graced the stage in Chicago and much more!

There are just two more days to watch Sticks & Stones right here on BroadwayWorld before it disappears forever.  The concert benefits Broadway Cares & Born This Way Foundation and stars Audra McDonald, Javier Muñoz, George Salazar, Mykal Kilgore, Joshua Colley plus 135 young performers from around the globe.  

Today (August 10) in live streaming: BD Wong premieres Songs from an Unmade Bed, Liz Callaway sings with Seth Rudetsky, and so much more!

According to The Hollywood Reporter, 'The West Wing' will change streaming services. The political drama will move from Netflix to HBO Max.

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/.

Lights Out: Nat 'King' Cole/book by Colman Domingo & Patricia McGregor/music supervision:John McDaniel/directed by Patricia McGregor/Geffen/Gil Cates Theater/through March 17 A much anticipated musical in Los Angeles has been Lights Out: Nat 'King' Cole, which has received previous tryouts back east. Penned by Colman Domingo and Patricia McGregor, who also directs the piece, the show is supposedly based on real facts from Cole's life and includes most of his standard hits arranged by John McDaniel. Currently onstage at the Gil CatesTheater of the Geffen Playhouse in Westwood, Lights Out is spectacular entertainment, especially from Dule Hill as Cole and Daniel J. Watts as Sammy Davis Jr. but its book is in need of some major retooling. It is December 17, 1957 in the NBC Studio in Burbank where Cole's final  30 minute TV variety show is about to be presented live with the Nelson Riddle Orchestra and Randy Van Horn Singers. Fifteen minutes to air time, Cole is in a deep state of depression over this being the final show. Why? He has millions of fans. Southern states have refused to continue paying for advertising on the show. Cole is a Negro, pure asnd simple. In spite of his fame, it's Lights Out for him. Guest star Peggy Lee has not shown up and friend Sammy Davis Jr. comes in to replace her with his amazing style of frantic comed

Ain't Too Proud celebrated opening night at Center Theatre Group's Ahmanson Theatre on August 24, 2018. Check out photos from the evening below!

The Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles (SCLA), under the artistic direction of Ben Donenberg, returns to The Japanese Garden on the West Los Angeles VA Campus with a new production - 'Henry IV' - condensing two of Shakespeare's plays and staged by Tony Award winning director Daniel Sullivan.  The world-class acting company includes Tom Hanks as Falstaff and Rita Wilson; with additional cast members to be announced shortly, as confirmed.  Tom Ware is the executive producer.

LIGHTS OUT: NAT 'KING' COLE runs through December 3 at People's Light Theatre, and the critics are weighing in!

Good morning, BroadwayWorld! Today's big news: BRIGHT STAR begins in LA, COME FROM AWAY recoups, and more!

Fear the Walking Dead star and Philadelphia native Colman Domingo partners with nationally-acclaimed theatre-maker Patricia McGregor to co-author Lights Out: Nat 'King' Cole, a surprising and unsettling exploration of race and the American Dream. McGregor will also direct.

Fear the Walking Dead star and Philadelphia native Colman Domingo partners with nationally-acclaimed theatre-maker Patricia McGregor to co-author Lights Out: Nat 'King' Cole, a surprising and unsettling exploration of race and the American Dream. McGregor will also direct.

A first look at the long-awaited PSYCH: THE MOVIE was revealed at the show's reunion panel at San Diego Comic-Con today. Check it out below! The two-hour Psych: The Movie will premiere on USA Network network in December

People's Light is delighted to announce the headliners for the upcoming world premiere of Lights Out: Nat 'King' Cole by Colman Domingo and Patricia McGregor, slated to open the Theatre's season in October 2017. Emmy-nominated actor Dule Hill (The West Wing) will play Cole, and Broadway regular Daniel J. Watts will appear as Sammy Davis, Jr.

USA Network is taking several of its most beloved series to San Diego Comic-Con this year, including a multi-faceted MR. ROBOT experience, a reunion of the cast of PSYCH (along with a sneak peek at the upcoming PSYCH: THE MOVIE), and a panel featuring the stars and creators of drama series COLONY.

The high-profile creative team behind People's Light's upcoming world premiere of Lights Out: Nat 'King' Cole will workshop the developing piece at San Diego's prestigious Old Globe Theatre from April 20-23, 2017.