Monique News

The Kennedy Center hosts its 14th annual Page-to-Stage new play festival from Saturday, September 5 to Monday, September 7, 2015, featuring more than 50 theaters from the D.C. metropolitan area, all with a mission to produce and support new work. The 14th Annual Page-to-Stage event showcases more than 40 new plays by female playwrights and includes nine works that are part of the citywide Women's Voices Theater Festival, which officially begins on September 8.

The Laugh Riot Dolls Detroit, founded by popular comedian/performer Heather Kozlakowski, will perform for one night only at The Yellow Barn, 416 W. Huron, Ann Arbor, MI 48103 on August 15 at 9:30 pm with their wickedly irreverent take on life.

The Douglas Morrisson Theatre 2015-2016 Revelations Season kicks off with the regional premiere of Lynn Nottage's biting satire about racial stereotyping in Hollywood: BY THE WAY, MEET VERA STARK.  By The Way, Meet Vera Stark will have 15 performances, including one preview, August 27 through September 20, 2015, at the Douglas Morrisson Theatre, 22311 N. Third St. in Hayward, CA.

There's no day like today for Highway Run Productions in association with Hayes Theatre Co to announce the hugely anticipated cast line up of upcoming 1990's cult musical RENT playing from October 8 at the Hayes Theatre Co.

Collaboraction, the Chicago theater community's 'Ambassadors of Hope,' continues to spread its message of peace, art, love, hope and fun throughout Chicago with Crime Scene: Breathe Life, the company's third annual, free Chicago Park District Night Out in the Parks summer tour, playing every Thursday and Friday night in August at four different Chicago Park District venue

Cockpit in Court continues its 2015 season with a special treat for murder mystery fans. An Evening of Murder consists of two murder mysteries for the price of one. The Book of Murder and Art of Murder will be presented each night of its run. The show runs from tonight, July 18th to August 2nd.

'At The Inkwell' - the popular East Village monthly literary showcase curated by Monique Antonette Lewis - presents an intimate reading with critically acclaimed novelist / poet Kola Boof at the KGB Bar in Manhattan today, July 17 beginning at 7:00pm

American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) Young Conservatory Director Craig Slaight is proud to announce the summer Young Conservatory (YC) Festival, featuring the world premiere of Snakes, a collaboration with A.C.T.'s Young Conservatory, A.C.T.'s Education and Community Program and Oakland's Destiny Arts Center, and I'm Still Standing, a celebration of the music of Elton John. Snakes will perform August 11-23 at The Rueff at A.C.T.'s Strand Theater (1127 Market Street, San Francisco) and August 20-23 at Oakland's Destiny Arts Center (970 Grace Ave, Oakland).

The Douglas Morrisson Theatre 2015-2016 Revelations Season kicks off with the regional premiere of Lynn Nottage's biting satire about racial stereotyping in Hollywood: BY THE WAY, MEET VERA STARK.  By The Way, Meet Vera Stark will have 15 performances, including one preview, August 27 through September 20, 2015, at the Douglas Morrisson Theatre, 22311 N. Third St. in Hayward, CA.  Tickets are $10-$29, and are available through the Box Office at (510) 881-6777 or online at www.dmtonline.org.

Cockpit in Court continues its 2015 season with a special treat for murder mystery fans. An Evening of Murder consists of two murder mysteries for the price of one. The Book of Murder and Art of Murder will be presented each night of its run.

San Francisco Playhouse will complete its twelfth season with Stephen Sondheim's trailblazing musical comedy, Company, directed by Susi Damilano. The play will feature a cast of local favorites, with Keith Pinto (Into the Woods) starring as Robert, along with Teresa Attridge, Velina Brown*, Morgan Dayley, Michelle Drexler, Ryan Drummond*, Richard Frederick*, John Paul Gonzalez, Monique Hafen*, Stephanie Prentice*, Chris Reber*, Abby Sammons, Nicole Weber and Michael Scott Wells.

Hairspray will star Tony Maudsley (ITV1's Benidorm) as Edna Turnblad, TV and stage actress and presenter Claire Sweeney (Educating Rita, Guys and Dolls) as Velma Von Tussle, Olivier Award nominated actor and much-loved Blue Peter presenter Peter Duncan (BBC1 Tumble) as Wilbur Turnblad and British singer and West End performer Brenda Edwards (Chicago, We Will Rock You, The X Factor) as Motormouth Maybelle.

'At The Inkwell' - the popular East Village monthly literary showcase curated by Monique Antonette Lewis - presents an intimate reading with  critically  acclaimed novelist / poet   Kola Boof at the KGB Bar in Manhattan on Friday, July 17 beginning at 7:00pm

TV One's News One Now continues to devote the entirety of its daily live hour broadcast to the Charleston Emanuel A.M.E. Church Massacre

The New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich is producing a new actor-musician production of the classic swingin' sixties musical SWEET CHARITY which runs from Thursday 3 to Saturday 26 September, directed by Artistic Director Peter Rowe.

The Paris Committee of Chicago Sister Cities International is sponsoring the Second Annual Paris Jazz Tour and Singers Workshop, bringing singers from different genres together from the U.S., Paris and Croatia to travel to Paris from tonight, June 18-24, 2015, led by Paris Committee member and singer Claudia Hommel.

Heads will roll this summer when New Conservatory Theatre Center proudly presents the world premiere of Salome, Dance for Me, a savagely beautiful new glam rock re-imagining of the infamous Biblical tale, starring San Francisco's most erotically-charged and campily hilarious rock chanteuse, trixxie carr.

Based on one of the biggest blockbuster films of all time (you know the one we mean), Squabbalogic Independent Musical Theatre is proud to present the Australian premiere of TRIASSIC PARQ as part of the Seymour Centre's Reginald Season, from today, 17th June to 4th July, 2015.

LOS ANGELES, Calif.

Westport Country Playhouse will present a Script in Hand playreading of 'The Country Club,' a wry comedy by Tony Award nominee Douglas Carter Beane, on Monday, June 22, at 7 p.m., followed by a post-performance 'Meet the Cast' reception in the courtyard. Director is Anne Keefe, Playhouse associate artist and curator of the playreading series. Tickets are $20 each.