Kenney M. Green News

From the moment, you are seated in the intimate Wisconsin Studio at the Overture Center you are transported to Emerson's Bar and Grill. The year,1959. The month, March. Billie Holiday will only live another 4 months, at which time she will die at the young age of 44 from cirrhosis of the liver.

Milwaukee Repertory Theater announces directors, creative teams, and initial casting for 2015/16, a season featuring a Tony Award-winning musical, a play by the Pulitzer Prize-winning Milwaukee playwright Ayad Akthar, and three world premieres.

Jivin' Jazz---What else does an audience need to raise the roof of The Milwaukee Rep's Stackner Cabaret in their red hot revue opening this March: Ain't Misbehavin': The Fats Waller Musical Show. Sultry and red-hot aptly describes the entertainment these five multi-talented dancers/musicians/singers energize the cabaret with for two hours, literally keepin' the audience jumpin' for the entire evening.

One of the most popular, well-crafted musical revues of all time, Ain't Misbehavin' is simply unforgettable and will be performed in the now-signature Rep style, with a group of five 'Quadruple Threat' actor/singer/dancer/musicians. The cast features Britney Coleman, Christopher James Culberson, Kenney M. Green, Bethany Thomas and Erin Willis. Ain't Misbehavin' runs in the Stackner Cabaret through May 18 and opened Sunday, March 16. The Executive Producers for this production are Greg and Rhonda Oberland and the Associate Producers are David and Camille Kundert.

A Tony Award-winning tour through the legendary Fats Waller songbook, Ain't Misbehavin' dives into the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s, the golden age of honky-tonk dives, swing music and stride piano players. Considered "a tribute to the timeless appeal of Waller's music" by The New York Times, Ain't Misbehavin' includes classic Waller hits like "Loungin' at the Waldorf" and "I Can't Give You Anything but Love." Ain't Misbehavin' was conceived by Murray Horwitz and Richard Maltby, Jr. and will be directed by Rep Associate Artist Dan Kazemi, who was the Musical Director of End of The Rainbow, A Christmas Carol, Forever Plaid and Ragtime this season at The Rep.

Finks by Joe Gilford, the award-nominated play about the blacklist travails of his parents, Jack Gilford and Madeline Gilford, that received much acclaim last season at the Ensemble Studio Theatre, will debut as both a public radio and streaming podcast hosted by onetime blacklisted actor Lee Grant and in print from Dramatists Play Service tonight, December 12, at 6:00pm at The Drama Bookshop, 250 West 40th Street.

Finks by Joe Gilford, the award-nominated play about the blacklist travails of his parents, Jack Gilford and Madeline Gilford, that received much acclaim last season at the Ensemble Studio Theatre, will debut as both a public radio and streaming podcast hosted by onetime blacklisted actor Lee Grant and in print from Dramatists Play Service Thursday, December 12, at 6:00pm at The Drama Bookshop, 250 West 40th Street.

There will be more Finks at the Ensemble Studio Theatre because Artistic Director William Carden has extended the widely-acclaimed production through Sunday, May 5 at the Ensemble Studio Theatre, 549 West 52nd Street. Finks opened Saturday, April 6.

Six children whose parents were on the blacklist of the 1950s will gather for a panel discussion after today's April 14, 5:00pm performance of Finks, playwright Joe Gilford's fictionalized account of his parents, Jack Gilford and MAdeline Lee Gilford, and their real life experience of the blacklist, at the Ensemble Studio Theatre, 549 West 52nd Street.

Six children whose parents were on the blacklist of the 1950s will gather for a panel discussion after the Sunday, April 14, 5:00pm performance of Finks, playwright Joe Gilford's fictionalized account of his parents, Jack Gilford and Madeline Lee Gilford, and their real life experience of the blacklist, at the Ensemble Studio Theatre, 549 West 52nd Street.

When is the last time you saw a musical and left the theatre feeling that the performers were literally pulling experiences directly from your own life? That's exactly what this scintillating production of The Full Monty at the Westchester Sandbox Theatre manages to deliver. This production is helmed by an extremely able production team; it's produced and overseen by Dan Farrante & Jason Summers, directed and choreographed by the visionary Kenney M. Green, and musically directed by the talented Adam Michael Tilford.

Directions Theatre Company (Tom Berger, Artistic Director; Erin Smiley, Producing Director) is thrilled to announce that Fairy Tales just got fabulous! Ms. Sahara Davenport (RuPaul's Drag Race, "15 Films About Madonna") stars as Jewell in this super-fierce Sleeping Beauty Redux that follows the banishment of the evil queen - drag queen, that is - and her revenge: to put the sweet-faced young prince (Brandon Chinn) to an enchanted sleep from which he can only be awakened by his one true love...his squire (Matthew G Myers).

Directions Theatre Company (Tom Berger, Artistic Director; Erin Smiley, Producing Director) is thrilled to announce that Fairy Tales just got fabulous! Ms. Sahara Davenport (RuPaul's Drag Race, "15 Films About Madonna") stars as Jewell in this super-fierce Sleeping Beauty Redux that follows the banishment of the evil queen - drag queen, that is - and her revenge: to put the sweet-faced young prince (Brandon Chinn) to an enchanted sleep from which he can only be awakened by his one true love...his squire (Matthew G Myers).

Directions Theatre Company (Tom Berger, Artistic Director; Erin Smiley, Producing Director) is thrilled to announce that Fairy Tales just got fabulous! Ms. Sahara Davenport (RuPaul's Drag Race, "15 Films About Madonna") stars as Jewell in this super-fierce Sleeping Beauty Redux that follows the banishment of the evil queen - drag queen, that is - and her revenge: to put the sweet-faced young prince (Brandon Chinn) to an enchanted sleep from which he can only be awakened by his one true love...his squire (Matthew G Myers).

In this day and age when budgets for Broadway musicals are reaching unprecedented highs and audiences expect to see a spectacle, often the very foundation of the musical - the score- is overlooked. In Broadway For Broke People, a one-night cabaret performance to benefit Theatrical Gems, the music takes center stage.

In this day and age when budgets for Broadway musicals are reaching unprecedented highs and audiences expect to see a spectacle, often the very foundation of the musical - the score- is overlooked. In Broadway For Broke People, a one-night cabaret performance to benefit Theatrical Gems, the music takes center stage.

WHAT A GLORIOUS FEELING is set to be the opening show at Adirondack Theatre Festival. The show will open today, June 23 and play through July 3. The play, which features dancing and music was created by Jay Berkow who became inspired after attending a interview with Donen at an event for Lincoln Center. Berkow wrote the book and directed the production.

David Henry Hwang's hilarious new play recalls the Miss Saigon controversy, Shakespeare's Cymbeline gets a gorgeous production at Lincoln Center and Barry Williams (a/k/a Greg Brady) shows off some impressive musical comedy skills.