Emilio Rodriguez News

The Wharton Center has revealed the finalists for the 2026 Young Playwrights Festival. The selected young playwrights will showcase their works in a free public performance.

Theatre NOVA has called for submissions for the 2026 Michigan Playwrights Festival. The Festival will feature five to six original, full-length plays by Michigan-based playwrights.

​Experience the original works of six 2025 Young Playwrights Festival finalists on Saturday, May 10, 2025, in Wharton Center's Pasant Theatre. Learn more and see how to attend!

What did our critic think of FERGIE PHILIPPE AND AN UNLIKELY HERO at Arkansas Museum Of Fine Arts?

After the success of the inaugural Michigan Playwrights Festival eight years ago, Theatre NOVA continues its semi-annual tradition, announcing a call for submissions for this season’s festival.

“An Unlikely Hero” is a hero’s journey that would appeal to any young theater goer. It's a story that embraces friendship, teaches the values of honesty, collaboration, and helping your peers succeed. Metro Theater Company has created a show that grabbed a young audience's attention and engaged them with dynamic storytelling. 

Good Company Theatre in Ogden, Utah, presents the Utah premiere of GOD KINDA LOOKS LIKE TUPAC by Emilio Rodriguez, running from September 12-29. The play explores high school pressures and artistic integrity.

After the success of the inaugural Michigan Playwrights Festival seven years ago, Theatre NOVA continues its semi-annual tradition, announcing a call for submissions for this season’s festival. Learn more about how to submit here!

Discover the incredible lineup of shows at the 2023 Rochester Fringe Festival presented by Geva Theatre. From powerful emerging artists to international performers, this festival promises a unique and diverse experience. Get your tickets now!

A new digital showcase bringing Planet Ant Theatrics to you at home or work, or wherever your device is. Monthly on Wednesdays, the company will give you a preview of what's coming to their stage(s) featuring special guests, music, comedians, writers, and performers of all kinds, so you'll never have FOMO again!

Matrix Theatre Company opens its 2022-2023 Mainstage Season with, Swimming While Drowning by local playwright Emilio Rodriguez, opening December 2 and running through December 17.

Theatre NOVA, Ann Arbor's resident nonprofit professional theatre, is thrilled to announce its 2022-23 Season of Michigan and World Premieres. Proud to produce the hottest new plays at affordable prices, Theatre NOVA offers a subscription program as the best way to see quality programs at a discounted price. Subscribers can save up to 25% off single ticket prices and guarantee their seats for all our plays through August 2023.

Marking the beginning of their 2022-23 Season, titled BEGIN IT, West Seattle's own ArtsWest will present the Seattle Premiere of Emilio Rodriguez's SWIMMING WHILE DROWNING, running September 29th through October 23rd.

Theatre NOVA, Ann Arbor’s resident nonprofit professional theatre, wraps up its 2021-22 season of in-person productions with “God Kinda Looks Like Tupac” by Emilio Rodriguez, which runs August 5 through August 21, 2022. Check out all new photos here!

Theatre NOVA, Ann Arbor's resident nonprofit professional theatre, wraps up it's 2021-22 season of in-person productions with “God Kinda Looks Like Tupac” by Emilio Rodriguez, which runs July 29 through August 21, 2022.

Suicide is an epidemic of epic proportions that steals the people we love and devastates families all over Detroit every single day. The Covid-19 pandemic has only made this epidemic all the more dire as those at risk have become even more isolated and disconnected from the support and help they so desperately need.

Theatre NOVA, Ann Arbor’s resident nonprofit professional theatre, has announced its return to in-person productions.

This coming Saturday, June 5, at noon, a celebration is happening in Brush Park, Downtown Flint, as the Flint Mural Plays kicks off the Flint Rep Summer 2021 season.    

Flint Rep announces a new, reimagined season for the summer: FLINT REP OUTSIDE!

In partnership with the Surdna Foundation, NALAC embarks on a new grantmaking initiative to support Latinx artists working to radically imagine more racially just systems.