Michael Gene Sullivan News

San Francisco Playhouse (Artistic Director Bill English; Producing Director Susi Damilano) announced casting for Twelfth Night, Shaina Taub and Kwame Kwei-Armah’s musical adaptation of William Shakespeare’s romantic comedy.

A traumatized black teen works his way through buffoonish white liberalism, racist oppression, a protective mother, and his desire to fight the good fight against his repressors in Michael Gene Sullivan's well-crafted, fully realized fantasia. Opening their 19th season with this collaboration with the SF Mime troupe, director Darryl V. Jones turns Sullivan's witty cross millennial odyssey into a universal polemic on racism and stereotypes.

San Francisco Playhouse and the San Francisco Mime Troupe announced casting for The Great Khan by Michael Gene Sullivan, directed by Darryl V. Jones. The play, a National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere, is co-produced by San Francisco Playhouse and the San Francisco Mime Troupe and presented at the Playhouse's Mainstage at 450 Post Street.

San Francisco Playhouse announced today the six plays that will comprise its 2021/22 Season. In announcing their first full in-person season since the COVID-19 pandemic shut down production in March 2020, the company reasserted its commitment to producing bold, challenging, and uplifting plays and musicals for the Bay Area community.

As I reported last year, SF Mime Troupe has revived the good old days of episodic radio serials, a perfect genre for shelter in place entertainment. In the comfort of your home, you can listen to these funny, left-leaning, provocative broadcasts that allow your imaginations to soar.

San Diego Repertory Theatre has announced today the details of the brand new San Diego REP Black Voices 2021 Play Reading Series, a brand new program that will be presented in March and April, 2021. The series will consist of a selection of plays representing a diverse range of Black voices.

Ah the simple holiday joys of benevolent capitalism! Probably the most popular of the Xmas productions, Dicken's novella A Christmas Carol has been praised by socialists for its anti-capitalist sentiments.

If there’s any truth to the notion that names can become our destiny, then I can’t think of a more apt name for TheatreWorks Silicon Valley’s new Artistic Director than Tim Bond. As an artist, as a leader and as a person, he is all about finding and honoring those things that can bring us all together. The latest case-in-point is Simple Gifts, the brand-new holiday show he has crafted to ring in the season. Simple Gifts is a joyful, multicultural celebration of beloved holiday songs and traditions from many diverse backgrounds. Conceived and directed by Bond, the show features a cast of Bay Area theater veterans who share beautiful music, meaningful memories, and take audiences on a journey through a variety of winter celebrations, including Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, Bodhi Day, Noche Buena, Diwali, Las Posadas, Winter Solstice, as well as exploring Christmas traditions from around the world. Presented as part of TheatreWorks from Home, Simple Gifts will be streamed at set times through December 27, 2020, with on-demand streaming available December 28, 2020 - January 1, 2021. Live post-show conversations with members of the cast will follow every performance. For additional information, and to gain streaming access to Simple Gifts, visit TheatreWorks.org. BroadwayWorld spoke with Bond about how he came up with the idea for the show and went about putting it all together in the time of Covid. We also talked about what the winter holidays mean to him and his own traditions and memories. He is effortlessly engaging and very easy to talk to, sort of like that interesting person you happen to meet at a party and suddenly find yourself chatting away with about any number of things. And it seems that any conversation with Bond ultimately comes around to his passion for using the arts to bring people together.

Central Works second audio play presentation The Human Ounce by Nicole Parizeau posts this holiday weekend. The Human Ounce by Nicole Parizeau opened Central Works' 30th season and was the inaugural offering for the Central Works Script Club.

TheatreWorks Silicon Valley will ring in the holiday season with Simple Gifts, a joyful, multicultural celebration of beloved holiday songs and traditions from many diverse backgrounds. TheatreWorks Artistic Director Tim Bond directs his first virtual production with this World Premiere work, crafted by Bond and a cast featuring a bounty of Bay Area theatre veterans.

Dec.11, 2020 will mark another premiere and the first time the SFMT presents a Holiday Audio offering with a SFMT worker's take on the Dicken's classic in A Red Carol. A Red Carol will be broadcasting on select public radio station and available online beginning Dec. 11, 2020.

Central Works second audio play presentation The Human Ounce by Nicole Parizeau posts on Thanksgiving Day November 26.

Central Works second audio play presentation The Human Ounce by Nicole Parizeau posts on November 26. The Human Ounce by Nicole Parizeau opened Central Worksa?? 30th season and was the first offering from the Central Works Script Club.

Circle Theatre will stream a digital reading of George Orwell's 1984 adapted for the stage by Michael Gene Sullivan, Thursday, October 29, 2020 a?" Thursday, November 4, 2020 at 8pm (CT).

San Francisco Playhouse  announced five new episodes of its live streaming calendar, including three Zoomlet Live Play Readings and two Fireside Chats. The events will be streamed free of charge on the Company's website. Announcements of additional episodes and programming will be made over the coming weeks.

SFMT will share their unique style of theatrical performance in a different way, producing their first ever serialized radio play, Tales of the Resistance.

The Tony Award-winning Alley Theatre is delighted to share the filmed production of 1984 with its patrons and supporters.

Radial Theater Project is currently presenting an adaptation of George Orwell's classic dystopian nightmare a?oe1984a??, and don't even THINK about saying anything good about it. Big Brother has sent down orders from the Ministry of Truth that there is nothing good about this production and it has no good performances or redeeming qualities, and everything is un-good. But if you know anything about the Ministry of Truth, you know everything is the exact opposite there and that holds true here as this production is a spectacular, riveting telling of this horrifying story and you need to see it. Just don't tell The Thought Police I said that.

Radial Theater Project and 18th & Union will present a live stage production of George Orwell's 1984, opening February 21, 2020 at 18th & Union in Seattle's Central District.

Radial Theater Project and 18th & Union are delighted to announce the cast and creative team for a live stage production of 1984, opening February 21, 2020 at 18th & Union in Seattle's Central District.