The third time's the charm for Cara Parisi, who was chosen as the 2022 KC SuperStar! The Bishop Miege High School graduate had auditioned for the past two years but won the big prize this time around-a $10,000 scholarship.
Each year, a well-known celebrity is part of the KC SuperStar final event. Broadway Star Matt Doyle will be joining the Aug. 28 event as host and performer.
CenterStage will return with four MainStage live performances for the 2022-23 season in its new home at the Trager Family Jewish Community Center. CenterStage has been on hiatus since February, 2020 following the COVID-19 pandemic.
The J (St. Louis Community Center) will welcome Rebekah Scallet as the New Jewish Theatre’s new artistic director. Scallet will begin her New Jewish Theatre career by producing the world-premiere of The Bee Play this September. Scallet replaces previous artistic director Edward Coffield.
One-person shows have long been a hallmark of the entertainment world and My Son, The Waiter --now playing at Theater J (the Edlavitch Jewish Community Center of Washington, DC) –continues the trend. This show is a pleasing mix of banter, anecdotes, and warmth. The world of the one-man show is alive and well.
This Week's New Classified Listings on BroadwayWorld for 7/28/2022 include new jobs for those looking to work in the theatre industry.
Remember SpongeBob Square Pants, the joyful, fun-loving, childish, and accident-prone sea sponge who starred in the Nickelodeon television series? While Kansas City is far from his ocean home, SpongeBob and his beloved friends have found their way to Theatre in the Park in “The SpongeBob Musical,” the final OUTDOOR production of the 2022 summer season!
Eleven award-winning movies will be featured as part of the 22nd Kansas City Jewish Film Festival (KCJFF), presented by The Lewis and Shirley White Theatre at The Jewish Community Center (The J).
The Edlavitch DCJCC has announced that Adam Immerwahr, Theater J’s Artistic Director since December 2015, will be departing in July to be the Artistic Director of Village Theatre in Issaquah, WA.
Village Theatre announces Adam Immerwahr (Washington DC’s Theater J) as its next Artistic Director and Laura Lee (Seattle’s ArtsWest) as its first-ever Managing Director.
The Jewish Plays Project has announced Madeleines, by Bess Welden of Portland, Maine, has won the 11th annual Jewish Playwriting Contest. The play earned its title after over 1,400 voters across the United States and Israel chose their preference for the best new Jewish play.
Director Mike Donahue’s production on the Geffen’s Cates stage is so intelligent, well-crafted and downright fun that A WICKED SOUL IN CHERRY HILL seems destined to have a future beyond Westwood.
The Kinnor Philharmonic will celebrate the musical achievements of three musical pupils of former Kansas City Symphony Concertmaster and violinist Tiberius Klausner in a special concert on Sunday, June 12 at 3 p.m. in The Lewis and Shirley White Theatre of the Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City.
Twenty of the finest high school singers* from across the metro have been selected as semifinalists for KC SuperStar 2022! These singers were selected from live auditions done earlier this spring. (NOTE: A complete list of the semifinalists appears at the end of this release.)
The Perseverance Project is a one-night-only musical cabaret, produced by Reese Leif, intended to highlight college-aged artists' voices and raise money to support the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society in the process. The in-person performance will take place on June 21st at 7 pm, located at the Evelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center in the Kaplan Theatre.
For the first time since 2020, the Aurora Fox Arts Center will present a full season of four mainstage shows and two smaller black box shows. The Aurora Fox’s 38th season will include Joan Didion’s theatrical adaption of her best-selling memoir, “The Year of Magical Thinking;” the Colorado premieres of “Futurity” by César Alvarez and The Lisps and more.
There is no easy or simple way to discuss the Israeli Palestinian conflict. Seth Rozin’s world premiere play, Settlements, which opened last night at InterAct Theatre Company, centers on exactly that—not the conflict itself, but the discussion around it.
Theater J and Mosaic Theater, both located in Washington, DC, are collaborating to produce an evening of short Ukrainian plays benefiting Ukrainian charities. The in-person event, consisting of readings of short contemporary plays, will be held on Thursday, April 28, 2022, at 8:00 pm at the Edlavitch DC Jewish Community Center (1529 16th Street NW, Washington DC). The evening will raise funds for Ukrainian causes and highlight the plight of artists in Ukraine while showcasing the plays. Some of these plays were commissioned, written, and translated just in the last few weeks, and are based on what the playwrights are currently experiencing in their war-torn country.
InterAct Theatre Company continues its 2021-2022 season with SETTLEMENTS, a “world premiere” play by InterAct's founding Producing Artistic Director, Seth Rozin. SETTLEMENTS marks InterAct's 3rd live, in-person production since returning from the pandemic shutdown, following on the heels of its critically acclaimed THIS BITTER EARTH in February 2022.
For its second installment of the 2022 Spring Puppet Forum Series, the Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry at the University of Connecticut will host 'Adventures in Jewish Puppet and Spectacle Performance' with panelists Jenny Romaine, Matthew Cohen, and Steve Abrams on Thursday, March 24 at 7 p.m. ET.
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