Melanie News

All new rehearsal photos have been released for the UK tour of AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN THE MUSICAL. Check out the photos here!

Ginna Claire Mason, Nathan Gunn, NaTasha Yvette Williams, and more join South Pacific in Concert with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra on May 10-11, 2024. Don't miss this captivating presentation of the beloved musical! Tickets available at IndianapolisSymphony.org.

Full casting has been announced for director Emily Burns' playful and contemporary take on Shakespeare's comedy, Love's Labour's Lost, which runs in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon between 11 April – 18 May.

The Mercury Theatre in Colchester has announced that The South East Local Enterprise Partnership (SELEP) has confirmed a capital grant of £500k from Central Government funding through their Getting Building Fund.

The Alley Theatre has revealed the cast of The World is Not Silent. See who is starring and learn how to purchase tickets.

North Coast Repertory Theatre will present Molière's timeless comedic masterpiece, TARTUFFE, March 6 to March 31. This extraordinary production, translated into English verse by two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Richard Wilbur, is directed by Richard Baird. 

There will be a staged reading of the new play Johnson/Johnson: Two Presidents, Same Problem, written and directed by Melanie MacQueen, on Saturday, February 17, 2024 at 2:00 p.m. at Theatre 40.

North Coast Repertory Theatre presents Molière's comedic masterpiece, TARTUFFE. Directed by Richard Baird and translated by Richard Wilbur, this production offers a satirical commentary on religious hypocrisy and self-inflicted chaos. Don't miss this inventive and entertaining evening of wit and laughter.

Houston Grand Opera and Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church invite Houstonians to join them for the Fifth Annual Giving Voice Concert. This free, ticketed event celebrates Black women artists in opera and song. The concert will be held on Friday, March 8, 2024, at Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church in the historic Third Ward.

Cornerstone Theater Company will welcome new Co-Artistic Directors, Charlotte Brathwaite and Sunder Ganglani.  After 17 years as Cornerstone’s Artistic Director, Michael John Garcés stepped down in June 2023. Learn more about the new members of the team here!

What did our critic think of CANDIDE at Palais Theatre?

Get a first look at Denver Center for the Performing Arts' Cebollas in an all new trailer. Tere are three sisters forced to take an unexpected road trip from Albuquerque to Denver. Speeding past Santa Fe, Colorado Springs, and Castle Rock, they reflect on family history and muse about the future. They don’t travel for business or for pleasure.

ZHU celebrated the Lunar New Year and the release of “Thrill Again” with a special show at Gin Ling Way in Los Angeles' Chinatown. UPSAHL made a surprise appearance to perform the new single with ZHU. He recorded most of GRACE in his hometown of San Francisco at historic Grace Cathedral.

The Cherry Orchard Festival presents the New York premiere of ADDRESS UNKNOWN, a play starring Evgeny Kissin and Thomas Hampson, based on the anti-fascist novel by Kathrine Kressmann Taylor. The performance will take place on April 17, 2024 at The Town Hall in New York City. Tickets are available now.

How Love Begins won Best Jazz Vocal Album at the 66th GRAMMY® Awards

Celebrating its 50th anniversary awarding recognition for Non-Equity theater, the Joseph Jefferson Awards has revealed its nominations for theater excellence among Non-Equity theater during the 2023 season.

Following rave Edinburgh reviews and a Fringe First Award, tension-filled two-hander BLUE, will transfer to Seven Dials Playhouse from 5th   - 30th  March. Learn more about the production and find out how to get tickets here!

Yuval Sharon, Detroit Opera's Gary L. Wasserman Artistic Director, will direct three performances of Cage's pioneering work, which challenges European opera tradition by transforming it into a collage.

Lucille Carr-Kaffashan is bringing two shows back to Don't Tell Mama with a cabaret honoring strong female songwriters of the 70's on February 17th and the 21st century on March 16th, both at 4 pm. We talked about both shows and what's coming up next for her this year.

Join Singer Katrina Aguilar in Concert, a Benefit for Autism Care Today at Hollywood Club LA. The event, hosted by Christopher Tenney, will take place on Sunday, February 25, 2024, at 5:00 p.m. in Los Angeles. Get your tickets now!