Recognizing a strong return to the spotlight over the 2021-2022 Equity theater season, the Joseph Jefferson Awards in Chicago announced its nominations for theater excellence. This year’s nominees include 201 theater artists across 38 categories of excellence in theater production among shows from 43 companies.
The Joseph Jefferson Awards have announced this year's Equity nominations, including 201 theater artists across 38 categories. The 54th anniversary Equity Jeff Awards will take place October 17, 2022, at Drury Lane in Oakbrook, IL.
Registration is open for Playhouse Theatre Academy’s fall 2022 classes in Simsbury and Hartford, CT! With such a wide variety of classes for different age groups, there is truly something for everyone.
Actor / comedian Rhonda 'Passion' Hansome (SiriusXM 'John Fugelsang's Tell Me Everything,' / 2022 Black Women in Comedy LaffFest) will be joined by Hollie Harper, Kelli Dunham, Robin Siegel Lakin, Maribeth Mooney and Mina Hartong at the Funny Over 50 live (and livestream) comedy showcase on Tuesday August 23, 2022.
In 1929, several of the city's most prominent individuals and families were determined to become part of a national trend of community theaters that relied on volunteers to bring live theater to the public.
Garden Level Theatre Co. will share the world premiere of 'Because the Grass Started to Breathe' by Max Mooney as part of their inaugural season. Led by two Jewish women, Dinah Rokhinson and Haley Fragen, Garden Level Theatre Co. (GLTC) is a grassroots arts laboratory seeking to merge the needs of both artist and audience to create a core of shared authorship through every production.
The two-part, season premiere episode, “Soldier of Illusion,” written by John Mulaney and starring Alexander Skarsgård (The Northman, Big Little Lies), Nicholas Braun (Succession, Zola) and August Diehl (Inglourious Basterds), was inspired by the Werner Herzog-focused documentary Burden of Dreams.
The Alliance Theatre is now presenting the world-premiere musical production, THE INCREDIBLE BOOK EATING BOY. Based on the witty and charming children's book by Oliver Jeffers, THE INCREDIBLE BOOK EATING BOY celebrates the joy of reading and the insatiable appetite for knowledge in a hilarious family production.
Shakespeare & Company has announced the cast of Hymn, by Lolita Chakrabarti - to be staged at the Elayne P. Bernstein Theatre at the Shakespeare & Company campus, July 22 through August 28.
Inishmaan is a small island off the Irish coast whose residents are impoverished farmers and fishermen and their families. Martin McDonagh, created a tragi-comic yarn woven from their sad dissatisfactions. Running July 23 – August 20, 2022 at the Long Beach Playhouse.
Ophelia's Jump Productions' Midsummer Shakespeare Festival returns this July, presenting The Winter's Tale at The Sontag Greek Theatre, the historic outdoor venue located on the grounds of Pomona College in Claremont.
'Sprawl' follows members of a high school wrestling team grappling with the crippling expectations of their coach and peers, body dysmorphia and eating disorders, and the pressures of early manhood.
In 1970, Stephen Sondheim's Company received a record-setting 14 Tony nominations. The story's focus is Robert, a confirmed bachelor, a well-liked man living in New York City, who is celebrating his 35th birthday with a collection of his married friends.