Karen Thornton News

The Billie Holiday Theatre has announced details for its 2024-25 season. Learn more about the season lineup here!

Summit Playhouse, one of the oldest continuously operating amateur community theaters in the United States, will be presenting Agnes of God from February 23rd to March 9th. Broadwayworld had the pleasure of interviewing the show’s director, Karen Thornton about her career and the upcoming production.

Disney’s Winnie the Pooh, the new musical stage adaption opened to rave reviews including “Winnie the Pooh Is a Perfect Reintroduction to Live Theater. The show features the Sherman Brothers’ classic Grammy Award-winning music with additional songs by A.A. Milne. 

Beginning today, November 1, the Great Hunny Pot Hunt begins in celebration of the opening of Rockefeller Productions Disney’s Winnie the Pooh. Pooh’s Hunny Pots will be “hidden” throughout New York City until the end of the month.

Corbin Bleu performed The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh theme song alongside a montage of puppets ahead of the upcoming off-Broadway run of Winnie the Pooh: The New Musical Adaptation, coming to New York City this October.

Rockefeller Productions and casting director Cindi Rush will host an open call on Monday, October 4 from 3-6 PM at Theatre Row (410 West 42nd Street) with the hopes of finding a young actor to play Christopher Robin in the upcoming new musical, Disney’s Winnie the Pooh: The New Musical Stage Adaptation. 

Acclaimed playwright Tommy Jamerson brings “Amityville '74,” an original play inspired by the true story of the DeFeo murders, to the interACT stage, directed by Nicholas J. Clarey, with original music by Eddie Bean.

Rockefeller Productions has announced its cast and creative team for their highly anticipated debut of Disney’s Winnie The Pooh: The New Musical Stage Adaptation created by Jonathan Rockefeller beginning performances on October 21, 2021, at Theatre Row. 

Rockefeller Productions has announced one of the country’s most thorough and considerate safety protocols for their highly anticipated new musical, Disney Winnie The Pooh, beginning performances on October 21, 2021, at Theatre Row. The new protocols will ensure the safety of every audience member and performer.

DanceAfrica-the nation's largest African dance festival-continues its celebration through May 29 with special Memorial Day weekend programs.

BAM celebrates DanceAfrica-the nation's largest African dance festival-through digital public programming, launching May 18. The series of digital offerings pays special tribute to the people who have shaped the popular festival over the past 42 years.

A superb play, The Diary of Anne Frank is now on stage at The Summit Playhouse. Based on the Anne Frank's journal accounts, it is written by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, adapted by Wendy Kesselman and directed by Karen Thornton.

2019 marks the 101st season for veteran NJ community theatre Summit Playhouse. Perhaps it is fitting, then, that the first play on the bill to kick off their next century also comes with a legendary past. For, as the title A Doll's House: Part 2 suggests, there is a rich past leading up to the ideas and characters being explored on Summit's stage this November. Lucas Hnath's recent play is about Nora, that famed feminist initially introduced to us by Ibsen, and what happened to her and the Helmer family after she strode out the door back in 1879.

The Legacy Continues…KWANZAA 2010! A vibrant cultural festival of African and African-American music, dance and crafts that commemorates the seven principles of Kwanzaa at the American Museum of Natural History, The Legacy Continues…KWANZAA 2010!

The Legacy Continues…KWANZAA 2010! A vibrant cultural festival of African and African-American music, dance and crafts that commemorates the seven principles of Kwanzaa at the American Museum of Natural History, The Legacy Continues…KWANZAA 2010!

Many of everyone's Broadway and off-Broadway favorites, including Michael Urie, Wesley Taylor, Jennifer Damiano, Karen Olivo, Mitchell Jarvis and more have teamed up on the webisode project Billy Green.