Soul Rep Theatre Company will present the TED SHINE NEW PLAY FESTIVAL at the South Dallas Cultural Center, featuring eight works by Black playwrights as part of the company's 30th Anniversary Season.
Closet Cases will return to The Stonewall Inn on September 26th at 6:30pm, featuring LGBTQIA+ comedians and storytellers sharing their coming out and transitioning stories.
Soul Rep Theatre's World Premiere - ELM THICKET is set in a gentrifying Dallas neighborhood and will kick off AT&T Performing Arts Center’s 2024 Season of Elevator Project.
Actor / comedian/ Sirius XM radio contributor Rhonda “Passion' Hansome will host and curate Laughing Liberally's 'Indictment Excitement' live pre-midterm elections political comedy showcase at Theatre 555 (42nd Street between 10th & 11th Aves) in Manhattan.
Closet Cases is returning to the stage this fall at the legendary Stonewall Inn as a benefit for the new scripted series, Hotline. Closet Cases is a cathartic storytelling show about LGBTQ+ comedians and performers telling their coming out and transitioning stories. Hotline is from a team of passionate queer black folks decide that people of transgender experience deserve more than they get in the media.
What does it mean to be a good democratic citizen, and who gets to become one? How do our perceived civic duties change when democracy is under threat? Where do we get our ideas about what we 'ought' to do (vote? wear masks?) in the first place?
Good morning, BroadwayWorld! We hope you all enjoyed your holiday weekend! Kick-start this short work week by catching up on the latest Broadway news!
Since I have already told you how much I LOVE the current Broadway Limited-Run Hit, CHOIR BOY, it stands to reason that with a little artful requesting, I would be able to wrangle an interview with somebody from that show.
I really do love it when I finally get the chance to sit with one of my favorite Broadway Divas. I have been waiting to have studio time with the Tony Award© Nominee, Drama Desk Award Winning, Jenn Colella for a long time. While still wowing crowds 8 shows a week in COME FROM AWAY, she took some time from her busy schedule to sit and gab with me about her show, her career, her life, and so much more. When I found out that Ms Colella also had a life as a comedian, it made me love her more. Please enjoy my conversation with the absolutely fabulous, Jenn Colella.
Every year at this time, I get very excited because I get the chance to meet some of the most promising lyricist and librettist in musical theater at the Kleban Prize Reception. Sometimes, I get a chance to talk to them before the big day. I recently got the chance to talk to 2 of the 3 winners of the coveted prize in studio, Sarah Hammond and Charlie Sohne, and I got a chance to talk to the 3rd winner, Shaina Taub, at the event along with some of the other notable guests.
I have the great fortune to talk to fabulous people all of the time, and Multi-Award Winning Playwright and Screenwriter, Dominique Morriseau, is no exception. This playwright has taken to the written word to create amazing conversations with her plays like SUNSET BABY, DETROIT 67, SKELETON CREW. Her recent Off Broadway play, PIPELINE, starring one of my fierce STAGE/FILM//TV Divas, Theater World Award Winner, Karen Pittman, ( Broadway's DISGRACED, Marvel's LUKE CAGE, FX's THE AMERICANS). It is a discussion about the pipeline that is taking young men of color out of our schools and right into the prison system, and some of the forces that could be responsible for making this happen.
I have waited for a LONG time to get a chance to talk to Tony Award Nominee, Melissa Errico, in a studio, when we can have more than a 10 minute window. Her latest CD, SONDHEIM SUBLIME, is being hailed as a new innovative interpretation of Stephen Sondheim's musical catalog. We sit and talk about this new project along with her life and career.
Quick Silver Theater Company's (QSTC) third annual Citizen One Reading Series launches Friday November 16th. QSTC will present staged readings of four emerging playwrights of color as part of their series.
Celebrated press agent and author, Susan L. Schulman, drops by the studio to sit and gab with me about the updated edition of her memoir BACKSTAGE PASS TO BROADWAY.
Don't miss Adam Sank's final stand-up performance, capping off a 15-year career that has taken him to live stages across a dozen U.S. states and three countries, as well as multiple TV and radio outlets (NBC, CBS, FOX, CNN, Vh1 and Sirius-XM) and his own popular weekly podcast, 'The Adam Sank Show.'
After an eight-year hiatus, Closet Cases is returning to the stage at the legendary Stonewall Inn. The show is a cathartically hilarious storytelling show about LGBTQ comedians and performers telling their coming out and transitioning stories.
Having had the opportunity to meet Drama Desk Award Winning actor, Chesney Snow, during his run of IN TRANSIT and maintaining a connection to his artistry, have both been an absolute honor and pleasure. And at that time, Mr. Snow began the process of bringing his autobiographical choreopoem, UNWRITTEN LAW, to life at Dixon Place. Since then, Chesney has been performing, teaching, and writing all over the world.
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It is official that the Broadway Theater Season has begun. Head Over Heels, Pretty Woman, and Getting The Band Back Together, are the musicals kicking off the summer. I recently had a chance to sit with Brandon Williams from Getting the Band Back Together. He makes his Broadway debut playing the show's Bad Boy.
Actresses, Liz Mikel (Lysistrata Jones) and Kiersey Clemons (Hearts Beat Loud, Transparent) stop by my studio to talk about their upcoming run in the New York Premiere of Eve Ensler's FRUIT TRILOGY, being presented by Abingdon Theatre Company as their final production of its 25th Anniversary season. These women talk to me about getting involved with the project, the obvious conversation about women of color in these roles. and so much more. Please enjoy my chat with these FABULOUS women.
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