Monique News

'Before This New Year,' a coming-of-age identity and right-of-first-passage love story by playwright Liana Sonenclar, will play a reading for industry on Monday, November 19th at 7 PM, at the Jerry Orbach Theater at the Theater Center at 210 West 50th Street, and will feature a notable cast. The play is helmed by director Kimberly Loren Eaton, who has been working on the development of the piece with Sonenclar the past several months through her creative development and production company Theatrum Mundi Productions.

Join Harlem 's Underground Rhythm King , Broadway's Omar Edwards, at Mist on Nov. 15thfor 'HARLEM NIGHTS' a Kool and Jazzy Odyssey through the music, song , and dance of Harlem.

New play This Is Me will have a public reading, directed by Award-Winning director Yudelka Heyer, Founding Artistic Director of Red Soil Productions, in New York City. The play is written by Barbara Bernardi.

VH1 today announced the guest judges set to join the highly anticipated fourth season of “RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars.” RuPaul will be joined by a star-studded line-up of celebrities, alongside show regulars Michelle Visage, Carson Kressley, and Ross Mathews, as they decide who will stay, lip-sync for their legacy, or “sashay away.” “RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars” follows the record-breaking tenth season of VH1's “RuPaul's Drag Race,” which just became the first show to ever win an Emmy® Award in both the Outstanding Reality-Competition Program and Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality-Competition Program categories in the same year. The series will return to the runway with supersized 90-minute episodes on Friday, December 14th at 8:00 PM ET/PT on VH1.

With less than a week away for the World Premiere of the Public Reading of 'This is Me', the cast and crew got together to celebrate in a brand new photo shoot.

Following the record-breaking tenth season of VH1's “RuPaul's Drag Race,” which just became the first show to ever win an Emmy® Award in both the Outstanding Reality-Competition Program and Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality-Competition Program categories in the same year, VH1 has announced the queens returning to the mainstage to compete in the fourth season of “RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars.”  The groundbreaking competition is set to return with supersized, 90-minute episodes and more stunning fashions, killer lip-syncs, and jaw-dropping twists than ever before. “RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars” will also be making Friday nights fierce again when it premieres on Friday, December 14th at 8:00 PM ET/PT on VH1.

Next week, FEINSTEIN'S/54 BELOW, Broadway's Supper Club & Private Event Destination, presents some of the brightest stars from Broadway, cabaret, jazz, and beyond.

An intimate and intriguing show from a 'one to watch' choreographer is to grace the Pyramid stage next week.

A Workshop reading is being directed by Award-winning Director Yudelka Heyer', Founding Artist Director of Red Soil Productions in alliance with New Theatre Company, WBRP Productions, Adapted for the stage by Claire-Monique Martin.

A striking and comprehensive exploration of the Wizarding World's most important and mystical tool, Harry Potter: The Wand Collection: Collector's Edition builds upon 2017's IBPA Ben Franklin Award–winning original. With never-before-seen art and content from the real-life wandmakers behind the Harry Potter films, as well as a trove of collectible items, this is the set that all fans of the Wizarding World have been waiting for.

A striking and comprehensive exploration of the Wizarding World's most important and mystical tool, Harry Potter: The Wand Collection: Collector's Edition builds upon 2017's IBPA Ben Franklin Award–winning original. With never-before-seen art and content from the real-life wandmakers behind the Harry Potter films, as well as a trove of collectible items, this is the set that all fans of the Wizarding World have been waiting for.

EXPERIMENTS IN OPERA Presents 'Modularias' Friday November 2, 2018 at 7:00pm and Today November 3, 2018 at 3:00pm and 7:00pm.

EXPERIMENTS IN OPERA Presents 'Modularias' Today November 2, 2018 at 7:00pm and Saturday November 3, 2018 at 3:00pm and 7:00pm.

The Actors Fund's Looking Ahead Program presented The 2018 Looking Ahead Awards on Sunday, October 28, 2018 at the magnificent Taglyan Cultural Complex in Hollywood. Hosted by Ashley Argota and Garrett Clayton, The Looking Ahead Awards honors leaders in the current and former young performer community who inspire the world by living the program's core values of growth, education, leadership and community service.

Thirty-three nonfiction works from seventeen countries comprise the latest Sundance Institute Documentary Fund and Stories of Change Grantees, announced today. 81% of the supported projects have at least one woman producer or director; 48% originate from outside the US.

The Court Theatre is bringing the most loved rock musical to the stage in their summer production of Jesus Christ Superstar.  

In a promo shoot like no other, Writer and Producer Barbara Bernardi, along side Director and Producer Yudelka Heyer, wanted to bring back the 1950's commercial vibe to life for THIS IS ME

Join Harlem 's Underground Rhythm King , Broadway's Omar Edwards, at Mist on Nov. 15thfor 'HARLEM NIGHTS' a Kool and Jazzy Odyssey through the music, song , and dance of Harlem.

South African Thriller NUMBER 37 Releases In Theaters and On Demand In November

The Wicker Park Bucktown Chamber of Commerce is proud to announce the artists and venues for its annual ChillFest pop music festival—Chicago's only free music festival on Small Business Saturday, Nov. 24 from 2-6 p.m. This free one-day-only event celebrates the creative and entrepreneurial roots of the Wicker Park and Bucktown neighborhoods by curating 60+ local musicians to perform in more than 20 neighborhood storefronts at the start of the holiday shopping season.