Taylor Swift’s new album The Life of a Showgirl dropped on October 3rd, and it includes plenty of references—some explicit and some ambiguous—to real showgirls throughout history. Many of these women have a Broadway past worth exploring that adds new context to Swift’s songs.
The North American Premiere of Lauren Gunderson’s anthropology, directed by John Perrin Flynn, will launch Rogue Machine’s new season on their mainstage. Learn more here!
The 32nd annual Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize has been awarded to actress, director, dramaturg, and theater founder Rosalba Rolón. Learn more about Rolón here!
June Squibb is a beloved actor with an incredibly long career—but does 96 make her the oldest actor to play Broadway in a regular production with 8 performances a week? According to our research, that is indeed the case!
Denver-based husband-and-wife writing team Lucy Wright and William Missouri Downs will premiere their dramedy, Becky and Her Lung Transplant, at the 7th Annual Durango PlayFest.
Durango PlayFest has revealed the four new works that will headline its 7th annual play development festival in June. Learn more about the festival and the lineup and see how to attend.
The Trip to Bountiful is set in Houston, Texas in the 1940s after World War II. The story follows Carrie Watts, an elderly Southern woman who dreams of escaping the bustling city to return to her rural home of Bountiful. She sets out on a risky journey to her beloved hometown with her family in hot pursuit.
The Trisha Brown Dance Company returns to The Joyce Theater (April 29 - May 4) with a program celebrating Trisha Brown’s Unstable Molecular Structure cycle.
Long Wharf Theatre, in partnership with Yale Schwarzman Center, has announced that Anna Deavere Smith and Dr. Khalilah Brown-Dean will be the keynote speakers at the Artistic Congress, a three-day convening focused on fostering collaboration and conversations on the future of theater and its vital importance to expression, equity and democracy.
THE TRISHA BROWN DANCE COMPANY will present its second commissioned work at The Joyce Theater, March 26-31. New York premiere of 'In the Fall' by Noé Soulier, along with Brown's iconic works 'Working Title' and 'Glacial Decoy.'
Stories on Stage presents the world premiere of David Nehls' suspenseful new musical “The Wind,” a one-person musical, performed by Emily Van Fleet (fresh from her dazzling performance as Carole King at the Arvada Center), accompanied by Nehls, violinist Emily Lewis and cellist David Short.
The Atlantic magazine will publish a new play by Anna Deavere Smith, titled The Ghost of Slavery, in its December issue. The play is also available in full on the magazine's website.
The Perelman Performing Arts Center (PAC NYC, Executive Director Khady Kamara and Artistic Director Bill Rauch) presents Watch Night at the new performing arts center at the World Trade Center site in Lower Manhattan. The production opens tomorrow, November 8, 2023.
Discover Olney Theatre Center's production of 'Fiddler on the Roof' with a fresh global perspective. This timeless musical explores themes of rising anti-Semitism, Russian aggression, refugee crises, and women's struggles against patriarchal authority. Don't miss this captivating show running from November 8 to December 31 in Olney, Maryland.
The Perelman Performing Arts Center has revealed complete casting for Watch Night at the new performing arts center at the World Trade Center site in Lower Manhattan.
The Library of Congress National Audio-Visual Conservation Center is announcing the full lineup of rare cinema and special guests to be featured at the inaugural Library of Congress Festival of Film and Sound. The new four-day film festival will be held June 15-18 in association with the AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center at the American Film Institute's beautifully restored 1938 art deco theater in Silver Spring, Maryland.
Olney Theatre Center is extending the run of KINKY BOOTS (music and lyrics by Cyndi Lauper, book by Harvey Fierstein, directed by Jason Loewith) for one week of additional performances. The new closing date is March 26, 2023.