Jennifer Smith News

Casa Mañana Theatre closes its Broadway Season with Come From Away, a musical sensation with deep local ties. The show, presented by Autobahn. Check out the photos!

Casa Mañana Theatre will close its Broadway season with COME FROM AWAY, a musical based on the true story of 7,000 passengers diverted to Gander, Newfoundland after 9/11, including TCU alum and local American Airlines captain Beverley Bass.

The URSB Carteret Performing Arts & Events Center has announced the nominees and honorable mentions for the 2026 Carteret PAC Central Jersey Marquee Awards. Learn more here!

The Legacy Theatre announced the cast and crew for NUNSENSE, running April 23 through May 17 in Branford, CT, featuring Semina De Laurentis reprising her original off-Broadway role as Sister Mary Amnesia.

Winter Rhythms will present Michael Colby’s CAST OF CHARACTERS as part of its “2025 Winter Rhythms” series, the award-winning music festival at Urban Stages Theater.

The Y2K and boy band-themed live table read of What Ever Happened to Baby J? which starred Jodie Sweetin, Drew Seeley, Tony winner Marissa Jaret Winokur, and a cast culture icons raised $7,000 for the AIDS Resource Foundation for Children.

The Long Island Music and Entertainment Hall of Fame (LIMEHOF) has announced the lineup of films to be screened and the expected guests at its first-ever LIMEHOF Music Documentary Film Festival, taking place August 8th-10th.

Theatre for a New Audience is presenting Taylor Mac’s Prosperous Fools, directed by Darko Tresnjak. Get a first look at photos here and learn how to purchase tickets!

See Drew Seeley, and a cast of '90s pop culture favorites including Marissa Jaret Winokur in 'What Ever Happened to Baby J?' a Y2K and boyband-obsessed comedy written by award-winning screenwriter Victoria Male.

Theatre for a New Audience will present Taylor Mac’s Prosperous Fools, directed by Darko Tresnjak. Learn more about the upcoming performance and see how to purchase tickets!

The WYO Performing Arts and Education Center and the Civic Theatre Guild will present “Misery” as this year’s co-production, opening this month. Learn more here!

 American Theater Group will present the premiere reading of Paul Marsh’s new comedy The Waiting Room as part of its free Monday Night Play Reading Series in February.

Directed and edited by Bruce Johnson, the song, conducted by Roosevelt André Credit, features 11 women Broadway singers including Julie Benko, Ali Ewoldt, Allyson Tucker, Stephanie Pope Lofgren, Danielle Nicole Chambers, Alie B. Gorie, Rosemary Loar, Jennifer Smith, Nandita Shenoy, and more. Watch the video now!

Rocky Mountain Repertory Theatre will open Come From Away on Saturday, June 29th, at 8:00pm.

Rocky Mountain Repertory Theatre has announced the company for their 2024 season!  Tickets for the 2024 season are now on sale! 

Watch the cast of Casa Mañana's Once perform Ej Pada Pada featuring their youngest cast member.  The cast of actor-musicians play their own instruments to tell a compelling and immersive love story, underscored by emotionally charged music.

Go behind the scenes of Once rehearsal at Casa Manana in an all-new video.

Watch as Ian Ferguson as Guy and Elizabeth Nestlerode as Girl perform Falling Slowly from Casa Mañana's production of Once! The cast of actor-musicians play their own instruments to tell a compelling and immersive love story, underscored by emotionally charged music.

Actor-musicians bring an immersive love story to audiences in ONCE at Casa Mañana. Casa Mañana continues its Broadway Season with this captivating production in Fort Worth, Texas.

Jared Zirilli (The Donna Summer Musical) is joining the cast of The Jerusalem Syndrome, replacing at The York Theatre Company James D. Gish in the role of Mickey Rose.