Laura Rikard News

Asheville Musical Theatre, a queer-led nonprofit, will present the Tony Award-winning rock musical SPRING AWAKENING at the Diana Wortham Theatre in downtown Asheville, NC.

The Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival at the Dobbins Conservatory of Southeast Missouri State University has new leadership: Co-Artistic Directors Charles Goforth and Tim Nicolai and Managing Director Lisa Fischel. Kenneth L. Stilson returns in the capacity of Founding Executive Director. Former Artistic Director Kitt Lavoie departs after shepherding the festival from an idea to five successful seasons and a national profile.

Hendersonville Theatre will preset the Western North Carolina premiere of Terms of Endearment, a heartfelt tale that captures the fierce, fragile, and fiercely funny ties between a mother and daughter. Learn more!

The Off-Broadway production of A Guide for the Homesick by Ken Urban will present a special series of post-show talkbacks during its extended run this January. Learn how to purchase tickets.

The New York debut of A Guide for the Homesick, a play by Ken Urban, directed by Shira Milikowsky, will extend its limited Off Broadway run. Learn more here!

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts hosted more than 125 outstanding theater students from colleges and universities across the nation as part of the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (KCACTF).

Virginia Children’s Theatre (VCT) has added a new workshop to the vast array of programming offered in VCT’s Theatre Academy: Intimacy Choreography.

The Live Arts Teen Summer Musical returns with a darkly funny and slyly subversive musical for summer 2023! HEATHERS THE MUSICAL: Teen Edition is written and composed by Kevin Murphy and Laurence O'Keefe, based on the 1980s cult classic film.

The Live Arts 2022/23 Transformations Season will continue with Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage's poignant memory play, CRUMBS FROM THE TABLE OF JOY, directed by Live Arts Education Director Ti Ames.

The 2021/22 reIGNITE Live Arts Season continues with Dominique Morisseau's searingly emotional family drama, PIPELINE. PIPELINE will have 12 performances, January 14 through January 30, 2022, at Live Arts Theater, 123 E. Water Street, in Charlottesville.

As BroadwayWorld previously reported, theatre makers are taking to the streets on Thursday, April 22, to demand change in the industry. Of the demands outlined by the group is is a full list of organizations that AEA is working with to help Black, Indigenous, and POC feel safer, in addition to a full report of how the 2020 Equity dues were spent and what percentage is being spent to help conversations around diversity. Now Equity has responded with a statement.

NPTC and Banana Boat Productions are reprising their powerful production of The Ritual by noted Trinidadian playwright Zeno Obi Constance at New Perspectives Studio, 458 West 37th Street (@10th Avenue.) This limited-run production celebrates the 40th Anniversary of Constance's ground-breaking play which caused a stir in 1979 when it was aired live on Trinidadian television-and then blacked out in the middle of the broadcast because it was perceived to be too shocking. Performances are June 19 - 30, 2019 , Weds - Sat @7:30pm, Sundays @4pm..

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts hosts more than 120 outstanding theater students from colleges and universities across the nation as part of the 50th annual Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (KCACTF), which runs April 16-20, 2019 in multiple locations throughout the Center. The Center also announced the national awardees for the KCACTF. Selected awardees and representatives will be brought to Washington, D.C. for an expense-paid trip to participate in the National Festival. These student artists from across the United States have been recognized for their outstanding work from the eight regional festivals that were held January 8 through February 28, 2019.

Theatrical Intimacy Education imparts directors, performers, production designers/crew/management and teaching artists/educators with the knowledge and tools for approaching sensitive material (for stage, film, and television) safely and ethically. In this workshop, participants will learn best practices for discussing and staging intimate content in class, rehearsal, and coaching without sacrificing creative vision and maintaining the joy of the creative process.

Unusual production elements will be evident when 'bobrauschenbergamerica' opens at 7:30 tonight in W.M. Turner Auditorium on the Stephen F. Austin State University campus.

Firehouse Theatre Project's CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF Closes Tonight, 10/8

The Firehouse Theatre Project has announced Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, the timeless and rich family portrait by Tennessee Williams, running September 15 - October 8, 2011 at the Firehouse Theatre.

The Firehouse Theatre Project has announced Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, the timeless and rich family portrait by Tennessee Williams, running September 15 - October 8, 2011 at the Firehouse Theatre.