Nandita Shenoy News

Head over to the Green Room 42 on 6/02 to celebrate the work of Live & In Color and all the artists that have come through their doors! The fundraiser will be hosted by Tony Award Winner BD Wong and will feature songs from all the different pieces Live & In Color has created throughout the years. This concert will be a fundraiser to help support the company's mission to develop talent with the goal of diversity and inclusion at its core.

Clubbed Thumb has announced complete casting for the final production of the rescheduled 25th SUMMERWORKS festival of new plays, Bodies They Ritual. Performances will run June 22-July 2.

 The Hermitage Artist Retreat announces new community programs in June with Hermitage Fellows spanning music, visual art, and theater. These newly added programs are presented at outdoor venues throughout Sarasota County as part of the Hermitage’s partnerships with local organizations, including Marie Selby Botanical Gardens, the Van Wezel Foundation, and Art Center Sarasota.

The Tony Awards Administration Committee will present the 2022 Tony Honors for Excellence in the Theatre to five outstanding contributors to the Broadway industry - the Asian American Performers Action Coalition (AAPAC); Broadway For All; music copyist, Emily Grishman; Feinstein's/54 Below and United Scenic Artists, Local USA 829, IATSE.

Flint Repertory Theatre presents 2022 New Works Festival April 29-May 1. Flint Rep's annual New Works Festival is a three-day event presenting staged readings of new plays. Audience members will get a chance to experience this new work before anyone else and participate in post-show discussions with the playwrights.

Disney Television Discovers: Talent Showcase has served as a launching pad for new artists, previous members include Lupita Nyong'o, Chadwick Boseman, Ali Stroker, Ginda Rodriguez, Carrie Ann Inaba, Jesse Williams, Alexandra Shipp, Meghan Markle, and more.

LOVE, REPEAT, the romantic indie film, has announced that it will now be available across the world on various streaming platforms as well as a DVD. International sales have been handled by the film's distributor, Freestyle Digital Media, a division of Byron Allen's Entertainment Studios.

Queens Theatre will mark its first in-person play readings since the start of the pandemic with two evenings of performances. 'SHORTS! An Evening of Short Plays' on Saturday, November 6th at 8 PM ET and 'MORE SHORTS! Another Evening of Short Plays' on Saturday, December 4th at 8 PM ET.

Queens Theatre marks its first in-person play readings since the start of the pandemic with two evenings of performances. SHORTS! An Evening of Short Plays on Saturday, November 6th at 8 PM and MORE SHORTS! Another Evening of Short Plays on Saturday, December 4th at 8 PM feature plays written and directed by artists who identify as Asian. 

Zoetic Stage will present the 2nd Annual Finstrom Festival of New Work. This festival will be the culmination of a national playwriting contest in which three to five finalists will have their plays workshopped and presented as staged readings.

BEDLAM's PERSUASION, a new play by Sarah Rose Kearns adapted from the novel by Jane Austen and directed by Eric Tucker, opened on Tuesday, September 28, 2021. Read all of the critic's reviews.

BEDLAM’s PERSUASION, a new play by Sarah Rose Kearns adapted from the novel by Jane Austen and directed by Eric Tucker, opens Tuesday, September 28, 2021. The cast features Rajesh Bose, Annabel Capper, Shaun Bennet Fauntleroy, Yonatan Gebeyehu, Carolin Grogan, Claire Hsu, Sarah Rose Kearns, Randolph Curtis Rand, Nandita Shenoy, and more.

Bill Connington, star of the indie film LOVE, REPEAT (now streaming on Amazon Prime Video) is teaching an ongoing in-person acting class at the Riverside Initiative for the Alexander Technique (RIAT) on West 27th Street in Chelsea.

BEDLAM's PERSUASION, a new play by Sarah Rose Kearns adapted from the novel by Jane Austen and directed by Eric Tucker, will now be opening on Tuesday, September 28, 2021.

IAMA Theatre Company will amplify Asian American and Pacific Islander voices with its second annual Pass the Mic virtual theater festival.

Performances of BEDLAM's World Premiere of PERSUASION begin Saturday, September 11, 2021, at The Connelly Theater (220 East Fourth Street), opening Tuesday, September 21, for a limited 7-week engagement. 

BEDLAM’s PERSUASION, a new play by Sarah Rose Kearns adapted from the novel by Jane Austen and directed by Eric Tucker, will feature Sarah Rose Kearns, Rajesh Bose, Caroline Grogan, Nandita Shenoy, Jamie Smithson, Randolph Curtis Rand, Shaun Bennet Fauntleroy, Claire Hsu, Annabel Capper and Yonatan Gebeyehu.

The producers of LOVE, REPEAT, a romantic family comedy directed by Shelagh Carter and written by Bill Connington, have just released a second music video for the film.

Project Y Theatre Company presents 12 playwright commissions as part of TINY BARN, streaming from VT to NYC June 23, 2021 through July 3, 2021.

The casts and creative teams have been assembled for Zoetic Stage’s inaugural Finstrom Festival of New Work which will be presented virtually from June 23rd thru 27th, on the theatre company’s Facebook page.