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Parity Productions Announces Commission Award Winners and More!

Theatre production company Parity Productions, the only New York theatre company that ensures that they fill at least 80% of the creative roles on their own productions—playwrights, directors, and designers—with women, trans, and gender-expansive artists and offers free tools to encourage the rest of the theatre industry to do the same, has awarded two commissions to Kelley Nicole Girod for This Stretch of Montpelier and M Sloth Levine for At Hotel MacGuffin. The ceremony took place on Wednesday, November 10th as a hybrid event over zoom and in person at the Manny Cantor Center.

Hampstead Theatre Announces Three Premieres as Part of 2022 Season Lineup

The Forest by Florian Zeller, translated by Christopher Hampton, with direction by Jonathan Kent, will run from 4 February until 12 March. The Fever Syndrome by Alexis Zegerman, directed by Hampstead Theatre's Artistic Director, Roxana Silbert, will run from 18 March until 23 April. The Fellowship by Roy Williams, directed by Paulette Randall, will run from 17 June until 23 July.

Performances Added for THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM at Theatre Row

The Elephant In The Room, a wry musical from writer/ actor/ musician Melanie Greenberg, premiered at United Solo Theatre Festival at New York's Theatre Row Friday October 29 at 9:30pm to a sold-out audience followed by newly added November 3rd show as well as November 6th and 7th and now November 18th.  

Composers Concordance to Present The Formation Solenne

Composers Concordance will present The Formation Solenne from Germany in a program of eclectic contemporary music for voice, piano, and other instruments on Saturday, December 11 at Benzaquen Hall at the DiMenna Center in New York City.

First Folio Theatre Announces it Will Cease Operations

First Folio Theatre’s Board of Directors has announced that Founding Executive Director David Rice will be stepping down in the spring of 2024. In conjunction with that decision, the Board has also determined that First Folio will cease operations at the end of the 2023-2024 season.

Capital Theatres Welcomes Tony Mills to Their Board

Capital Theatres welcomes Tony Mills, Artistic Director of Dance Base, to our board. He joins fellow trustees: Karen Cairney, Lesley Drummond, Gordon Jack, Helen Mackie, Cllr Melanie Main, Cllr Amy McNeese-Mechan, Tony Mills, Cllr Max Mitchell, Andrew Neilson, Alasdair Peacock, Karyn Watt and Cllr Donald Wilson, under the chairpersonship of Professor Dame Joan Stringer.

BWW Previews: THIS SIDE OF CRAZY at Palm Canyon Theatre

Playwright Del Shores and Palm Canyon Theatre (PCT) have a long-lasting love affair with each other. The theatre recently presented their eighth production of Sordid Lives, and for the first time, ran the popular comedy for two weekends instead of one. There are two plaques for Palm Springs' Walk of Fame in the sidewalk in front of PCT. One is for the Layne Family, founders of the theatre company, and the other is for Del Shores!

BWW Interview: Bernadette Sefic of HENRY IV at The Old Globe

Bernadette Sefic makes their program performance debut in HENRY IV as Falstaff with a new approach to an established character.  Safic talks about the approach to the show, their character, and why Shakespeare is eternally adaptable and relevant. The Old Globe and USD Shiley Graduate Theatre Program production of HENRY IV is playing November 12th - 19th.

92Y Announces New Season Of Theater For Young Audiences

92Y's Musical Theater program announces its exciting new season of repertory Theater for Young Audiences with in person performances in its storied Buttenweiser Hall at 1395 Lexington Avenue in New York City.

NUTCRACKER 2021 Announced At Beck Center For The Arts

Beck Center for the Arts is elated to produce the upcoming Dance Education Production, The Nutcracker 2021. Choreographed by Associate Director of Dance Education Melanie Szucs, this ballet follows the traditional beloved classic form.

Photos: PUMP BOYS & DINETTES Opens at Porchlight Music Theatre

Award-winning Porchlight Music Theatre returns to live performances and the launch of its 27th Mainstage season with Pump Boys & Dinettes, now playing through December 12 at The Ruth Page Center for the Arts, 1016 N.

Photos/Video: Go Inside National Youth Theatre's ON THE EDGE

The National Youth Theatre and University of Hull have released brand new images and the live recording from their production On the Edge, which was performed live at the global UN climate conference, COP26 in Glasgow today, Friday 5 November. 

BWW Review: PUMP BOYS & DINETTES at Porchlight Music Theatre

After the long pandemic hiatus, Porchlight Music Theatre returns to in-person productions with a feel-good staging of PUMP BOYS & DINETTES. It’s clear that Artistic Director Michael Weber knew that audiences would be craving some classic, lighthearted musical theater sentiment after such a long time away. He was wise to program director Daryl Brooks’s production of this 1983 show as a welcome back.

VIDEO: Showtime Releases Full First Episode of YELLOWJACKETS For Free

The psychological thriller stars Melanie Lynskey, Juliette Lewis, Christina Ricci and Tawny Cypress. The series follows the saga of a team of wildly talented high school girls soccer players who become the (un)lucky survivors of a plane crash deep in the remote northern wilderness. Watch the first full episode now!

Dylan Owen Teams Up With Kinetics And One Love for 'Hurt Enough'

Nine years later and the trio is back with another collaboration for the books! While they've been actively pursuing fruitful solo careers in the meantime, the duo have not collaborated on a single since 'In the Corner' off of Dylan's 'Keep Your Friends Close' EP.

Casting Announced for HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD in San Francisco

The full cast has been announced for the exclusive West Coast engagement of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. The world’s most award-winning new play returns to San Francisco’s Curran (445 Geary St.) on Tuesday, January 11, 2022 as a newly staged, single magical adventure.

Hampstead Theatre Announces Full Cast and Creative Team For Alan Plater's PEGGY FOR YOU

Tamsin Greig will be joined in the cast by Josh Finan (The Responder, BBC One; Shook, Papatango Theatre Co - Southwark Playhouse/UK tour), Trevor Fox (My Brilliant Friend, National Theatre; The Jungle, New York/San Francisco/Playhouse Theatre/Young Vic), Danusia Samal (Maryland, Royal Court; The Great, Hula) and Jos Vantyler (King Lear, Old Vic; Love's Labour's Lost, Shakespeare's Globe).

Aspire PAC Will Perform MOANA JR. This Month

See the line where the sky meets the sea? You'll love this thrilling and heartwarming stage adaptation of the coming-of-age tale of Moana as she sets sail across the Pacific to save her village and discover the truth about her heritage.

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