Ken Ludwig News

The original stage play Murder on the Orient Express, adapted by Ken Ludwig, will tour 11 cities in China from October to December 2025.

East Lynne Theater Company has chosen to produce the remaining performances of “Ken Ludwig's Dear Jack, Dear Louise” at the Clemans Theater for the Arts at the Allen AME Church through July 12.

The islands are putting up some exciting and innovative theatre this summer, and we wanted to highlight three of the shows we're most looking forward to. You won't want to miss these picks!

Cinnabar Theater has announced that subscriptions are now available for its 53rd Season, a bold and adventurous year of live theater On the Road at Warren Theater at Sonoma State University.

New Jersey entertainment rocks in the summer.  Here are just a few choices of what is going on in the Garden State!  Check them out and find a few of your own.  There's are a lot of shows to look forward to.

Ken Ludwig's classic, door-slamming farce will get the royal treatment when it opens at The Actors Repertory Theatre of Simi. Learn more about the production here!

Looking for a good laugh? Don’t miss your chance to see Ken Ludwig’s The Three Musketeers with UCA Summer Theatre, which is running through July 29 at the Windgate Center for Fine and Performing Arts in Conway! Directed by the ever-talented Chris Fritzges, this swashbuckling adventure is packed with some of my favorite Arkansas theatre pros (seriously, I’d follow them anywhere). They had me laughing so hard, I was wiping away tears. Grab your tickets before the final curtain falls! 

Due to an unexpected issue with the air conditioning system at Cape May Presbyterian Church, East Lynne Theater Company is relocating select upcoming performances of “Ken Ludwig's Dear Jack, Dear Louise” to the Clemans Theater for the Arts at the Allen AME Church.

Way Off Broadway Dinner Theatre has announced a change to its upcoming fall production. The originally scheduled Company will be replaced with Ken Ludwig’s Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery, running September 12 through November 2, 2025.

Wright State University’s Department of Theatre, Dance, and Motion Pictures has announced its 2025–2026 season, themed “Remember, Reflect, Reimagine.” Spanning comedy, drama, musicals, and world premieres, the season invites audiences to explore coming-of-age stories, historic turning points, and fresh takes on theatrical classics.

Find time this weekend to experience Wichita Community Theatre’s comedic marathon Lend Me A Soprano by Ken Ludwig. A rewrite of the Tony Award winning play Lend Me A Tenor, a summer theatre favorite for decades, which had become a bit culturally dusty in recent times.

Before select performances, audiences are invited to arrive early and enjoy conversations with a variety of experts in fields ranging from literature and history to mental health.

There is probably no contemporary playwright who writes better theatrical farces than Ken Ludwig. What better way to close Westport Community Theatre’s 67th season than with Ludwig’s The Gods of Comedy?

Shakespeare & Company has unveiled the final productions rounding out its 2025 season, including the regional premiere of Paula Vogel’s Mother Play: a play in five evictions, a new family-friendly Shakespearean circus experience, and the return of its Plays in Process and winter programming.

Shakespeare & Company has revealed its remaining titles of Season 2025, including Circus & The Bard, co-created by Allyn Burrows, Robin Eldridge, and Pedro Reis; Mother Play: a play in five evictions by Paul Vogel. Learn more here!

Ken Ludwig has adapted his wonderful comic hit, Lend Me A Tenor, into another madcap farce switching the Tenor for a Soprano. The play takes place in 1934 in a hotel room where the Cleveland Grand Opera Company nervously waits for the one-night only performance by world-famous soprano Elena Firenzi.  Ms. Firenzi is a diva in the true sense of the word. She arrives late and tempers explode, chaos begins, with a whirlwind of slamming doors, mistaken identities, and bigger than life egos. Directed by Mark Schuster.

East Lynne Theater Company will present its first show of the company's Mainstage Season, “Ken Ludwig's Dear Jack, Dear Louise,” from June 19 to July 12, with a special performance to honor Veterans on June 27.

Tickets are now available for Inland Valley Repertory Theatre's production of Disney's Newsies. Learn more about the production being presented this summer here!

Whisper Walk is partly inspired by the Japanese Kaze no Denwa (“wind phone”) and explores how memories are deeply connected to a seemingly ordinary place. Learn more here!

After years of multi-million-dollar renovations, East Lynne Theater Company, Cape May’s award-winning Equity Professional Theater, was officially handed the keys to the former Allen African Methodist Episcopal Church.