Michael Meyer News

Watch a trailer for Park Theatre's production of Miss Julie, running now through 6 July, in the video here!

Max Harrison’s production is a beautiful textbook revival that, while leaning into the comic side of the text (translated here by Michael Meyer) accordingly tips into the opposite range of emotional distress. This Miss Julie is funny one second, horrid the immediate next.

The latest standings as of Monday, December 19th, have been released for the 2022 BroadwayWorld Raleigh Awards! Nominations were reader-submitted and now our readers get to vote for their favorites.

The Historic Royal Theatre will bring GREEN DAY'S AMERICAN IDIOT to the stage in 2023, sponsored by ARVEST Bank and performed by the Young Players Second Stage.

The latest standings as of Monday, December 12th, have been released for the 2022 BroadwayWorld Raleigh Awards! Nominations were reader-submitted and now our readers get to vote for their favorites.

The latest standings as of Monday, December 5th, have been released for the 2022 BroadwayWorld Raleigh Awards! Nominations were reader-submitted and now our readers get to vote for their favorites.

La trayectoria del escritor Gerardo de la Torre, con un vasto legado en los campos de la literatura, la traducción, el cine y el periodismo cultural, será recordada durante un homenaje póstumo que se le rendirá el domingo 19 de junio a las 12:00 horas en la Sala Manuel M. Ponce del Palacio de Bellas Artes, como parte de la estrategia #VolverAVerte de la Secretaría de Cultura del Gobierno de México y del Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura (Inbal), a través de la Coordinación Nacional de Literatura (CNL). 

“The Song of Purple Summer”, the last song of the show, always felt more like a coda than a conclusion to me. But what does it mean? Is it a flower that only blooms in summer? Or what if spring represents the green and innocent childhood, and the purple summer is an analogy for adulthood?

The Wallace has announced its next two productions as a part of their 2022 Season entitled, 'Gather' to West Texas!

OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network announced today the acquisition of the evocative documentary film 'OWN Spotlight: (In)Visible Portraits' from thought leader, storyteller and filmmaker, Oge Egbuonu, as her directorial debut to air in 2021.

The MacDowell Colony has awarded Fellowships to 87 artists from 21 states and seven countries. The incoming Fellows reflect seven artistic disciplines and will arrive from locales as far apart as Poland, Mexico, Belgium, and Israel, as well as Tennesee, Washington, and Minnesota. The Fellowships are for upcoming winter and spring residencies at one of the nation's leading contemporary arts organizations.

 Roy Clark, the legendary 'superpicker', GRAMMY, CMA and ACMaward winner, Country Music Hall of Fame and Grand Ole Opry member and co-host of the famed 'Hee Haw' television series, died today at the age of 85 due to complications from pneumonia at home in Tulsa, Okla.

Discover the past and present of Britain's most unusual performance venues as debut author Amber Massie-Blomfield pens a love letter to theatre.

Fall is here and we have so many fun events on the horizon at QED! In collaboration with Raising Astoria, Tony Deyo (Conan) hosts a new all-star stand up showcase where parents can drop their kids off down the block and enjoy comedy from Jon Fisch (Colbert), Carmen Lynch (Letterman), Joe Zimmerman (Comedy Central) and more!

Everyone's favorite TV family will be singing and dancing their way across the stage this summer when Happy Days - The Musical opens at The Way Off Broadway Dinner Theatre, the area's only year-round producing theatre.

Musical Theatre West (MTW) opens its 2016-2017 season with Broadway's smash hit musical Memphis, at the Carpenter Performing Arts Center October 21 - November 6. 

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A site-specific production of August Strindberg's Playing with Fire (translated by Michael Meyer) will open August 22nd in Williamsburg.

Made possible by the producers of the high-octane rock musical AMERICAN IDIOT, Globe Telecom and 9 Works Theatrical, BroadwayWorld.com (BWW) readers Maxine Dimaano, Aundrea Bunyi, Jerico Ranin, and Lemuel Villanueva, together with their guests, scored tickets to the show via a digital lottery. At last night's performance at the sprawling amphitheater within the new Globe Iconic Store at Bonifacio High Street, these lucky lottery winners also had the chance to hang out a bit with the show's producers, cast, and crew.

Live theater in the Philippines has entered a new dawn. The Globe Iconic Store in the busy Bonifacio High Street is now home of a humongous open-air theatre--complete with video boards--aimed to reach out to new theater audiences in the metro, which telco company Globe calls 'accidental theater.' For its maiden offering, Globe has partnered with one of the Philppines' multi-awarded theater companies, 9 Works Theatrical ('Grease,' 'La Cage Aux Folles'), to stage the Philippine premiere of the rock Broadway musical AMERICAN IDIOT.