Featuring new performers with every show, the weekly, award-winning Piano Bar Live! (PBL!) streams this Tuesday, January 19 at 7:15 pm ET, with host Scott Barbarino and guests Rick Jensen, Renee Katz, Molly Mahoney, Sean Patrick Murtagh, Randy Taylor and Parker Weathersbee, plus Mystery Guests and MORE!
The Lyric Stage Company of Boston has announced its newest development: the Walking Plays audio play series. Artistic Director Courtney O'Connor said, “In a world where people are unable to experience the beauty of live theatre, we've created the Walking Plays as a way to bring a form of live theatre to them.”
To raise funds for the Theatre Community Benevolent Fund (TCBF), an organization that helps theatre practitioners in times of need, fifty-four area theatre companies have joined together to promote a limited-edition T-shirt which celebrates the diversity and vitality of the Boston Theater Community.
BabsonARTS has announced the Fall 2020 production from The Empty Space Theater Company (TEST) a curated series of 21st century monologues by Christina Anderson, Sam Chanse, Jackie Sibblies Drury, Idris Goodwin, Jen Silverman, and James Still, titled Altered States presented digitally on Vimeo, November 1-7, 2020.
Merrimack Repertory Theatre (MRT) joins theatres across America this month in presenting Cheryl L. West's electrifying Fannie Lou Hamer: Speak on It!, a new play with music about the civil rights icon and voting rights leader.
Boston Theater Company, the organization that produced Finish Line: A Documentary Play About the 2013 Boston Marathon, is excited to announce a one-time virtual preview performance of its newest work The Gay Agenda: A Documentary Play About the LGBTQ+ Community on Saturday, September 19, 2020 at 8:00PM.
Deadline has reported that Wesley Taylor and Alex Wyse have signed with ICM Partners for literary representation across all media. Taylor and Wyse are writers, actors and directors for Broadway and Television.
On August 28, 2020, Naxos will release a recording featuring one of Tobias Picker's most performed symphonic works, The Encantadas, with narration by the composer, paired with Mr. Picker's newest symphonic work, Opera Without Words, in its world-premiere recording—both performed by the Nashville Symphony conducted by Music Director Giancarlo Guerrero.
Award-winning director Will Nunziata (Miss Peggy Lee, Over Here!, Carnegie Hall) and award-winning composer, lyricist, and librettist Billy Recce (A Musical About Star Wars, Balloon Boy) are at work on a stage musical about the infamous 1990s pop culture icon Heidi Fleiss, entitled Little Black Book.
Who better to shed light on the BFA Musical Theatre program at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music than Cincinnati-native Katie Johannigman?
Join Chris Pinnella, last seen at Lyric Stage as Billy Bigelow in CAROUSEL and Nick Arnstein in FUNNY GIRL, as he debuts 'Broadway, My Way' - streaming live exclusively on Lyric Stage's Facebook page.
PLAY AT HOME, the new micro-commissioning initiative begun by Baltimore Center Stage, Long Wharf Theatre, The Public Theater, The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis and Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, has announced their 100th playwright commission, ensuring that $50,000 has gone directly to playwrights in need in this time of crisis.
Among tonight's winners was the pre-Broadway engagement of Six the Musical. which took home Outstanding Visiting Production for its run at ART, while David Byrne's American Utopia was honored with Best Visiting Performance, Musical.
Because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Madison Lyric Stage finds itself unable to bring the double-bill production of Suor Angelica and Erwartung, scheduled for June 4-14, to our public.
Two dozen nominations of outstanding actors, directors, designers and ensembles were announced today by The Boston Theater Critics Association (BTCA) for the 38th Annual Elliot Norton Awards.
As theaters all over the country have been forced to temporarily shut their doors due to the ongoing health crisis, many have adjusted to the change by bringing their content online. Theaters are planning for future season by holding online video auditions!