Eve Ensler News

The Obie Award-winning HERE will present the HERE Artist Residency Program production of Cannabis! A Viper Vaudeville. 

Last night, the WP Theater’s Gala – The Women Of Achievement Awards honored Grammy, Emmy, and Tony Award nominee Vanessa Williams, award-winning director Schele Williams, and Tony Award-winning producer Mara Isaacs.

COVID-19 had put a pause on theaters across the Nation, but as things have started to settle down, theater is now back in action! After celebrating Ten Sold Out Shows, The Award-Winning show, The Penis Monologues: The Long Hard Truth, will be back on stage for a Special Father's Day Weekend Edition on June 18, 2022 at California State Dominguez Hills University Theater at 1000 E Victoria Street, Carson CA 90747.

LOVE ALL, a new play by Anna Deavere Smith and directed by Marc Bruni will explore the life and career of the legendary Billie Jean King. 

PEN America convenes an Emergency World Voices Congress to address the invasion of Ukraine and the role of the writer in times of turmoil and brutality, and Ukrainian author and PEN Ukraine President Andrey Kurkov delivers the 2022 Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture, on May 13.

Milwaukee Chamber Theatre has announced their full 2022-23 season consisting of five full productions, the return of the celebrated Young Playwrights’ Festival Showcase, and readings of two new plays by Wisconsin playwrights in its Montgomery Davis Play Development series.   

Theatre Communications Group has announced the recipients of the second round of the 2021-22 Edgerton Foundation New Play Awards. The awards, totaling $731,000, allow 16 productions extra time for the development and rehearsal of new plays with the entire creative team, hoping to extend the life of the world premiere play after its first run.

The Obie Award-winning HERE has announced programming for Puppetopia, a presentation of HERE’s Dream Music Puppetry program. Puppetopia will run May 11–22, 2022 in the HERE Mainstage & Dorothy B. Williams Theatres (145 Sixth Avenue, New York, NY 10013).

Abingdon Theatre Company has released photos from their Broadway on the Bowery event, the music of It Happened In Key West on March 7th. Artistic Director, Chad Austin directed the evening at Duane Park, with music direction by Nick Wilders.

​​​​​​​Traveling Players Ensemble performs Euripides' ancient revenge tragedy Hecuba, followed by a discussion led by American University Professor Barbara Wien, on Saturday March 12 at the Traveling Players Studio in Tysons Corner Center.   

American Repertory Theater at Harvard University and the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia announced today the co-presentation of the next event in A.R.T’s Civically Speaking series, Betsy Ross Beyond the Flag, to be held online on Wednesday, March 16, 2022 at 6:30PM ET.

Following a one-year hiatus, Eve Ensler's wildly popular series of monologues about women and performed by women is back for the nineteenth year with the Roxy Regional Theatre's presentation of THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES, January 7 - January 15.

SiriusXM Broadway host Seth Rudetsky has announced the lineup for his January virtual concert series with Jessica Vosk, Christy Altomare, Ciara Renée, and Ana Gasteyer. Every Sunday at 8pm ET, Seth and one of his favorite Broadway stars will perform an intimate concert filled with Broadway tunes, Seth’s signature hilarious interviews and even song requests from viewers requested in real time!  

American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) at Harvard University's concert production of WILD: A Musical Becoming began performances at the Loeb Drama Center in Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts on Sunday, December 5, 2021, and opened officially on Thursday, December 9. The production will run through January 2, 2022.

American Repertory Theater’s WILD: A MUSICAL BECOMING does not hold back in its message, and truth be told, it shouldn’t. With a book by V and a score by Justin Tranter and Caroline Pennell (with contributions by V and Idina Menzel), WILD forces its audiences to think about the choices they make and the impact it has on the future.

For the first time ever, Ronald Rand allows us to enter into his two-hour transformation as he embodies 79-year-old Harold Clurman, the 'Elder Statesman of the American Theatre,' as he brings him to life in his world-acclaimed solo play, LET IT BE ART! performing in 25 countries and twenty states.

New rehearsal photos have been released for WILD: A Musical. Tony Award winner Idina Menzel and musician YDE appear as mother and daughter in the ensemble cast.

After months of refurbishments and closure due to coronavirus, the Royal Albert Hall is back open and ready to celebrate its 150th anniversary. Part of its full re-opening programme was the return of Letters Live, an event which has taken place at various venues across the world (from the Union Chapel in Islington to the Calais refugee camp to Los Angeles), and made its debut at the Royal Albert Hall back in 2019.

El pasado 3 de octubre se cumplieron 25 años del estreno de The Vagina Monologues ( Los Monólogos de la vagina) , esta obra de Eve Ensler revolucionó el pensamiento femenino. A través de cada monólogo su autora nos lleva en un viaje emotivo, a través de generaciones distintas, a comprender el sentido de ser mujer. El impacto de su mensaje te deja con una profunda sensibilidad y comprensión de los retos que viven las mujeres cada día y que a pesar de los 25 años que han pasado, esa realidad sigue presente en pleno 2021.