John Glover News

InterAct Theatre Company will present a special Sunday afternoon staged reading of Life, Death, and Other Opportunities, a new family drama by acclaimed filmmaker and playwright Jeff Kaufman.

From June 11-14, 2025, MATA will present its 27th annual MATA Festival, this year in partnership with ISSUE Project Room, featuring four concerts across four nights exploring the concept of INTERGALACTIC INFINITY: Music Between Spaces.

From June 11-14, 2025, MATA will present its 27th annual MATA Festival, this year in partnership with ISSUE Project Room, featuring four concerts across four nights exploring the concept of INTERGALACTIC INFINITY: Music Between Spaces.

The Jeff Awards has announced the newest recipients of its Jeff Impact Fellowships. The Fellowships, which began in 2023, come with a financial award of $10,000 each to help inspire two early career artists of color in the Greater Chicagoland area.

MATA will present its 27th annual MATA Festival, this year in partnership with ISSUE Project Room, featuring four concerts across four nights exploring the concept of INTERGALACTIC INFINITY: Music Between Spaces.

The Joseph Jefferson Awards will honor The Theatre School at DePaul University with the 2025 Joseph Jefferson Special Award at the 51st Non-Equity Awards. Learn more about the awards and see how to attend.

The Douglas Moore Fund for American Opera in collaboration with the South Dakota Symphony Orchestra and the Scandinavian House of New York City will present Douglas Moore: Giants in the Earth Rediscovered, a FREE program on Tuesday, March 11 at the Scandinavian House.

The Jeff Impresario Award celebrating an outstanding Chicago theater stage manager will become a new annual award presented by the Joseph Jefferson Awards. 

The lobby of the HERE Theatre in SoHo was buzzing after Saturday’s performance of the new opera EAT THE DOCUMENT—not just for the performance we’d just watched but for the memories of the age that the piece evoked for many in the audience. Based on the novel of the same name by Dana Spiotta, DOCUMENT is a story of the ‘70s underground, with its activism, and a tale of sacrifice and living a secret.

New York’s annual PROTOTYPE Festival—produced by Beth Morrison Projects and HERE, which has been showcasing visionary, nontraditional opera-theatre and music-theatre pieces since 2013—kicked off its 2025 edition on January 9 followed by BLACK LODGE/BARDO, IN A GROVE, POSITIVE VIBRATION NATION, AROOJ AFTAB: NIGHT REIGN, ART BATH, through January 19.

Boston has a long history with “A Christmas Carol.” Victorian-era author Charles Dickens gave his first American reading of the holiday classic at Tremont Temple in December 1867 while he was living just a block away at the Parker House.

The Acting Company announced the cast for THE SHADOW OF A GUNMAN, featuring a lineup of accomplished actors. The production is set to bring Sean O'Casey's classic play to life on stage.

Kelley Rouke was driving when she received a text from Mark Campbell informing her that she was the winner of Opera America’s 2024 Campbell Opera Librettist Prize. Her reaction? She answered, “Stop it! It’s mean. Never joke about that!” because she couldn’t quite digest that she’d been chosen for the prize. “There are so many people doing great work that I couldn’t believe I’d been singled out,” she modestly insists.

Beth Morrison Projects has announced its 19th season, featuring a World premiere, two West Coast premieres, an NYC premiere and the third cycle of their acclaimed NEXT GEN program, along with the 2025 PROTOTYPE: OPERA | THEATRE | NOW Festival in partnership with HERE.

OPERA America has announced the 2024 Campbell Opera Librettist Prize recipient, Kelley Rourke.

At the GREMLINS: THE WILD BATCH panel at San Diego Comic-Con, Max let loose a flurry of exciting casting announcements for the second season of the hit animated prequel series, including news that Simu Liu will join the main cast, and John Glover – star of the “Gremlins” film sequel – will return to the franchise as a guest voice.

HERE's 2024-2025 season features four world premieres and a diverse lineup of innovative performances. See the full schedule here!

PROTOTYPE: Opera | Theatre | Now has announced the lineup for 2025, set to resume January 9-19, 2025. This will mark the final season co-produced by HERE and co-curated by Kristin Marting, who founded the Festival together with Beth Morrison and Kim Whitener, and who is also the outgoing Founding Artistic Director of HERE.

Theatre West will screen the Emmy-nominated documentary EVERY ACT OF LIFE about Terrence McNally on June 23, 2024, followed by a discussion with director Jeff Kaufman, producer Marcia Ross, and Tyne Daly.

Check out photos from the opening night red carpet of Home on Broadway!