Evan Edwards News

If you are looking for a fun, energetic, and uplifting musical experience, look no further than The Winter Park Playhouse's current production of FIVE GUYS NAMED MOE. This musical revue, featuring the songs of Louis Jordan, the 'King of the Jukebox', is a celebration of life, love, and music, with a dash of humor and a lot of soul. Directed and choreographed by Joshian Morales, FIVE GUYS NAMED MOE is a show that will have you tapping your feet, clapping your hands, and singing along to some of the most catchy and memorable tunes of the 1940s and 50s.

The PlayGround Experiment in Manhattan has announced their 200th Volume, Monday November 13th, marked with a special alumni presentation featuring works developed through the PG Evolution.

Open Jar Studios and GIGNITION revealed the shows selected for the 2nd edition of Broadway Shark Tank.

National Youth Theater will present Totally 80s, The Musical in November! Totally 80s, The Musical is a totally tubular comedy musical that follows a group of friends who come of age in the 80s, when Ronald Reagan was president, the Berlin Wall came down and the hits of Madonna, Genesis, Sting, Duran Duran and Michael Jackson filled the airwaves.

BLURRING BOUNDARIES 2022 delves into the idiosyncrasies and intersectionality that make up the multifaceted community.

On Saturday November 20th at 7pm ET / 4pm PT The PlayGround Experiment will be hosting its third annual Faces of America Monologue Festival to help raise funds to support Native American Rights Fund. 

Two Industry Presentations of Kevin Ray Johnson's Romantic Holiday Comedy Birdie and Tim are scheduled for Sunday, December 5th at 7:30 & 9:15 pm in New York City.

James A. Pierce III, a 2020 AUDELCO Award winner for Featured Actor in a Musical (The Dark Star from Harlem; La Mama E.T.C.) and a 9 year Broadway Veteran (Lion King, Anastasia) returns to the New York Stage in Evan Edwards' new drama Members of the Choir, directed by Rick Hamilton.

MorPi Productions in association with Chain Theatre has finalized casting for the workshop production of Members of the Choir, a new full-length drama by Evan Edwards. The play will be presented at the Chain Studio Theatre, 312 West 36th Street, 4th Floor on October 22 and 23 at 8pm and October 23 at 2pm.

The final Almost Adults Productions LGBTQ+ Online Short Play Series for the season will celebrate both Gay Pride month and the company's one-year anniversary. This will be on Sunday, June 27th at 3:30 PM Mountain Time.

New York City director, actor and writer Evan Edwards will direct Provincetown playwright Patrick Riviere's One-Act play The Days After presented on Zoom on May 14th.

The Days After had one prior public reading at the WOMR Davis Room in Provincetown in the summer of 2014. The original cast from that reading returns and is comprised of Brian Carlson, Jennifer Kopec and David McGlothlin. Directing this reading is Evan Edwards.

The next event for the Almost Adults Productions ongoing LGBTQ+ Online Short Play Reading Series is Sunday, August 30that 4:00 MT.

New York City based professional actor, playwright and director Evan Edwards will direct Patrick Riviere's short play, Remembering When I Used To Remember, which will premiere as part of the Santa Fe based Almost Adults Productions LGBTQ+ 2020 Short Play Series on Zoom, August 30th.

New York City based professional actor, playwright and director Evan Edwards will direct Patrick Riviere's short play, Remembering When I Used To Remember, which will premiere as part of the Santa Fe based Almost Adults Productions LGBTQ+ 2020 Short Play Series on Zoom, August 30th.

Playlight Theatre Company (Artistic Director, Ben Tostado) is presenting a staged reading of a new dark musical, McGurk's Suicide Hall on December 10 at 7:30PM at the Tada! Theater, 15 West 28th Street.

Michele Ragusa (Young Frankenstein, Titanic) has been cast to star in the reading of McGurk's Suicide Hall, a fictional account of actual events as "Big Mame" the lead attraction at the hall on October 19 at 9pm at TADA! Theatre in Manhattan. Alongside Michele will be Amanda Rose (Wicked, Oklahoma) playing "Emma" a new American arrival, and Brian Childers (Helen Hayes Award winner - Danny and Silvia) as "McGurk", the owner of the hall.

Emily Skeggs (Fun Home) will star in Three Times Fast at the Dixon Place Lounge to benefit the International OCD Foundation on Sunday, February 8th, 2015 at 7PM.

TraumNovela, a dynamic new alternative dance theater piece, will have its premiere September 22 - October 14 at the Barrow Street Theater. An official opening night is set for September 26, 2007. The new work will be play the Barrow Street concurrently with the hit musical Gone Missing and the upcoming Baby Wants Candy. TraumNovela is a production of Six Figures Theatre Company.

More casting has been announced for Atlanta's Theater of the Stars's 25th Anniversary production of Dreamgirls, with Jennifer Holliday reprising her iconic Tony-winning performance as Effie.