Kramer News

On this day in 2011, the star-studded Broadway premiere of Larry Kramer's landmark play The Normal Heart opened on Broadway at the Golden Theater.

Island City Stage is reaching a milestone in its upcoming 2021-2022 season as it celebrates its 10th Anniversary. The new season begins with a revival of the very first play they produced and continues their tradition of presenting a combination of new work and classics, hilarious comedy and cathartic drama.  

A LETTER TO HARVEY MILK ran Off-Broadway for 6 months in 2018. Members of the original cast have reunited for an online presentation of the hit musical which streams from April 22 through 25, 2021. Money raised will benefit The Actors Fund and HIAS.

The New York Opera Fest will celebrate its sixth season with both virtual and in-person performances by 20+ local, New York City-based opera companies. Presented by the New York Opera Alliance, with support from OPERA America, this annual festival runs for two months May-June 2021 starting with a special kick-off event April 29th.

In 1998, Mitchell wrote (along with composer Stephen Trask) and starred in Hedwig and the Angry Inch, an Obie Award-winning off-Broadway rock musical about a genderqueer East German rock musician chasing after an ex-lover who plagiarized her songs.

A LETTER TO HARVEY MILK ran Off-Broadway for 6 months in 2018. Members of the original cast have reunited for an online benefit presentation of the hit musical which streams from April 22 through 25, 2021. Money raised will benefit The Actors Fund and HIAS.

Symphony Space will present a special conversation between Tony Award-winning director, playwright, and producer George C. Wolfe and Tony Award-winning stage, film, and television actor John Benjamin Hickey, on Wednesday, April 28, at 7pm EST.

The New Group Off Stage will launch with Waiting for Godot, by Samuel Beckett, with Ethan Hawke, John Leguizamo, Wallace Shawn, Tarik Trotter and Drake Bradshaw. Waiting for Godot will premiere online Thursday, May 6 at 7PM EST.

Off-Broadway musical, A LETTER TO HARVEY MILK will be presented as a benefit online beginning April 22 at 7 PM and running through 25, 2021. When Harry fulfills a writing assignment to compose a letter to someone from his past who's dead, he writes not to his late wife Frannie but Harvey Milk, the first openly gay political leader in California.

There Is Wonder, which represents the debut-album of 21-year-old Gavin Preller, was written and recorded between October 2020 and February 2021 in Albany, NY.

BREATHE, a new musical from #1 New York Times bestselling novelist Jodi Picoult (in her theatrical debut) and playwright Timothy Allen McDonald, will have its world premiere exclusively on OVERTURE+ on Friday, May 14th at 8 PM ET, it was announced today. 

MusicalFare Theatre will live stream from the Premier Cabaret in April:   An Evening with Broadway's Emily Koch.

Cloud 21 PR International and Kultura PR International will present the inaugural installment of its latest franchise 'Global Content Creators Showcase 2021' a special event that will be held virtually during MIP-TV 2021.

Starring Buffalo and MusicalFare Theater will team up to present 'eMulbOy5: a pre-teen saga of love, fandom and identity', an original 'solo-ish' show from visiting Broadway actress Emily Koch (Wicked, Waitress).

Lantern Theater Company continues its reimagined 2020/21 season with a filmed version of its 2019 mainstage production of Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare, directed by Lantern Artistic Director Charles McMahon, and streaming April 6 – May 2, 2021.

Margolis joined BAM in 2017 as Associate Vice President of Major Gifts and Patron Programs, and has been serving as Interim Vice President, Development since the November 2019 departure of Bill Kramer who became the Director and President of the AMPAS Academy Museum.

Correspondent Richard Schlesinger and 48 HOURS investigate the disappearance of Jonelle and how more than three decades later, one-time Idaho gubernatorial candidate Steven Dana Pankey became a person of interest in the case.

The Off-Broadway musical, A LETTER TO HARVEY MILK, presented at Theatre Row in 2018, will be presented as a benefit online beginning April 22 at 7 PM and running through 25, 2021.  

“When we wrote this song, we tried to capture that relatable feeling of running into an ex and wondering if it was right to break up. This is one of our favorite songs we’ve written and we’re so excited for everyone to hear it!” says The Hobbs Sisters.

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