Monique News

CCAE Theatricals in association with The California Center for the Arts, Escondido announce the cast of the cult-classic horror spoof The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

Los Angeles based artist and activist Monique DeBose is inspiring women to choose  “MORE,” with her powerful new single released today. “MORE has always been my personal anthem that I quietly kept in the back of my head for years,” Monique told Black Girl Nerds on her IG Live conversation  with the publication this week  “and now I hope it can be an anthem for  everyone who identifies as female . It’s so important to consciously decide as women what we are choosing MORE of for ourselves so we can band together and support each other to make it happen!”

Today (October 21) in live streaming: LaChanze visits Backstage Live, Our America: A Concert for the Soul of the Nation, and so much more!

The 24 Hour Plays: Viral Monologues made us laugh out loud last night with a special series of comedic monologues to benefit Gilda's Club New York City! A top-notch team of writers and actors collaborated from afar to write, rehearse, perform and produce 18 all-new pieces in just 24 hours.

V’s (formerly Eve Ensler) That Kindness: Nurses in their Own Words is extended until Nov 3, 9pm. That Kindness: Nurses in their Own Words is a new virtual play honoring nurses’ selfless act of service and revealing raw, passionate testimonies from the front lines of the Covid-19 pandemic.

The Keegan Theatre is pleased to announce the Keegan Galaween Special, a virtual gala taking place on Halloween! The event celebrates 24 years of The Keegan Theatre and supports the Return to Good Company campaign, Keegan's initiative focused on helping to restore DC's collective sense of community when it's finally safe to open theatre doors to the public again.

The 24 Hour Plays: Viral Monologues will bring the humor tonight with a special series of comedic monologues to benefit Gilda's Club New York City! A top-notch team of writers and actors will collaborate from afar to write, rehearse, perform and produce 18 all-new pieces in just 24 hours.

Elm Shakespeare Company announced its free, online event series, Building a Brave New Theater: Exploring Shakespeare & Race in 2020. Five evenings of performances and moderated conversation with BIPOC artists and scholars will bring the New Haven community (and beyond) together to celebrate and interrogate the 400-year old white playwright's work.

Today (October 14) in live streaming: Kate Rockwell, Chilina Kennedy and Jenn Colella visit Backstage Live, Broadway for Biden hosts a pep rally, and so much more!

That Kindness: Nurses in their Own Words is a new virtual play created by American nurses with writer, activist, and performance artist V (formerly known as Eve Ensler), honoring nurses' selfless act of service and revealing raw, passionate testimonies from the front lines of the Covid-19 pandemic.

THE ROAD THEATRE COMPANY and Taylor Gilbert, Founder/Artistic Director together with Sam Anderson, Artistic Director, remain committed to their meaningful mission to produce and develop New Work for the Stage. This was the final step.  Develop plays from the bottom up!  With Carlyle King, Jessica Broutt and Carlos LaCamara, the dream was hatched.  

American Repertory Theater has announced virtual Fall 2020 Programming including the Civically Speaking discussion series; the Behind the Scenes series; and Kidding Around family programming.

Today, the 4th season of the multiple award-winning Story Pirates Podcast launches on a big wave of excitement with a special guest appearance by Stephanie Hsu (Be More Chill, Marvelous Mrs. Maisel) and a new theme song written by Bobby Lord, arranged by Brendan O'Grady and Jack Lord, and performed a capella by beatbox artist Kaila Mullady.

Peter Mulvey has been a songwriter, raconteur and almost-poet since before he can remember.

BAM today announced plans for virtual programs including theater, kids and family, literary, and film events. The fresh slate of offerings include the world premiere of V's (formerly Eve Ensler) That Kindness: Nurses in their Own Words; a talk with co-creator of #BlackLivesMatter and the Black Lives Matter Global Network Alicia Garza; and more!

New Hampshire Theatre Project is partnering with Strawbery Banke Museum to bring Jes Marbacher's historical drama, Well-Behaved Women, to the virtual stage on October 27, 2020. The recorded playreading and supporting workshops are available to the public any time on that day.

Today (October 7) in live streaming: Next on Stage is Back for Season 2, meet the cast of Boyfriends, and so much more!

New York actor and playwright Robert Galinsky's Off Broadway hit 'The Bench' has announced additional casting, including Monique Coleman (star of Disney's 'High School Musical' franchise), Amber Crawford (Film: Broken), Renee Rogoff (Regional: Ways to Leave a Body) and Michael Houston (Regional: Six Degrees of Separation).

RED BULL THEATER today announced the participants for Salon Seminar Series: EXPLORING OTHELLO IN 2020. These webinar/livestream matinee discussions, bringing together a group of BIPOC theater artists to read and discuss Othello with Shakespeare scholar, Ayanna Thompson, will take place on Wednesday afternoons October 7th, 14th, 21st, and 28th.

The Old Globe announced today that it will present the series finale of Erna Finci Viterbi Artistic Director Barry Edelstein's hit online series Thinking Shakespeare Live: Sonnets! on Tuesday, October 20 at 6:30 p.m. PDT.