Hartley News

Stageworks Theatre, Tampa's longest-running professional theatre company, will raise the curtain on six new productions for its 2023 - 2024 season. See full programming and learn how to purchase tickets.

Harlem will host its first large-scale sculpture exhibition in Spring, 2024. The historic parks Morningside, St. Nicholas, and Jackie Robinson have been selected to be the featured sites for these works.

Rehearsals for the blockbuster Broadway hit, Hello, Dolly!, are underway at Matthews Playhouse of the Performing Arts. See who is starring and learn how to purchase tickets!

After a sell-out show at New York's 54 Below, multi-award-winning composer and lyricist Eamonn O'Dwyer brings his evening of moving, funny and bittersweet songs to Crazy Coqs.

The Great American Trailer Park Musical written by David Nehls and Betsy Kelso is a two-act musical exploring relationships between the tenants of Armadillo Acres Trailer Park in Starke, Florida. Its main focus is between Pippi a “stripper on the run,” Jeannie an Agoraphobic, and Norbert, Jeannie’s toll booth collector husband. First performed in 2004 at the first annual New York Music Theatre Festival, and then on off-Broadway in 2005. Opening at Bows at Dodger Stages in November of 2005, with Betsy Kelso directing. The show played 121 performances and closed in December of 2005. The first regional premiere in the U.S. was performed in June of 2006 at the Hippodrome in Gainesville, Florida. The first National Tour began in Spokane, Washington in January of 2008.

Playwrights Foundation, the West Coast's premier launchpad for exceptional new plays and playwrights, has revealed the semifinalists and finalists for the 46th Bay Area Playwrights Festival, which will be presented in a hybrid festival.

South Coast Repertory announced its 60th season, with a lineup that ranges from an American classic to contemporary works, with two world premieres—including one musical—and a special offering featuring pianist and actor Hershey Felder.

MasterVoices has announced details of the celebrated chorus’ 82nd season, celebrating the power of the human voice to unite, inspire and connect since 1941.

Andy Mientus (“Spring Awakening”), Krystina Alabado (“Mean Girls”) and Noah J. Ricketts (“Disney’s Frozen”) will star in a new production of Jonathan Larson’s “Tick, Tick … Boom!” as part of Bucks County Playhouse’s 2023 Season. 

 Silkroad has announced the appointment of Ben Hartley to the position of Executive Director, beginning on May 15, 2023. Hartley was selected through an international search process that drew interest from more than 400 applicants.

Yellow Dog Records announces a June 23rd release date for Ghost Hymns, the new album from tradition-bred songsmith and fleet fingerpicker William Lee Ellis.

A Class Act NY Acting Studio will offer New York City an amusingly different way to think about everyone's favorite fairy tale characters through their production of Into the Woods JR. The show is double cast and features students ages 6 - 15!  

Join Playhouse Theatre Group, Inc. for their annual fundraiser, ENCORE! It will be held on Saturday, May 13th, 2023. The theme this year is RAZZLE DAZZLE: A TRIBUTE TO THE WORK OF JOHN KANDER.

The Argyle Theatre will present Rock of Ages, directed and choreographed by Sara Brians, musical direction by Jonathan Brenner. It will be performed through June 18, 2023.  Check out all new photos here!

The Argyle Theatre's production of Rock of Ages, directed and choreographed by Sara Brians, with musical direction by Jonathan Brenner, celebrated opening night on Saturday, April 29, 2023, at 7:30 PM, and BroadwayWorld was there to capture the festivities. Check out the photos here!

The Argyle Theatre's production of Rock of Ages, directed and choreographed by Sara Brians, with musical direction by Jonathan Brenner, celebrated opening night on Saturday, April 29, 2023, at 7:30 PM, and BroadwayWorld was there to capture the curtain call. Check out the photos here!

Biloxi Little Theatre will present its fourth show of its 76th season - WOMEN PLAYING HAMLET, by William Missouri Downs.

MUSICAL CON, the West End's official musical theatre fan convention, is back with over 70 West End stars joining fans at the ExCeL London on Saturday 21 and Sunday 22 October 2023.

New casting has been announced for Hamilton in the West End, who will have their first performance at the Victoria Palace Theatre on 19 June 2023 where tickets are currently on sale to 2 March 2024.

Three years after the initial cancelation due to the pandemic, Fulton Theatre will produce Titanic. The production runs from April 20th through May 21, 2023.