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FOOD FOR THOUGHT PRODUCTIONS, now in its 21st year, will continue celebrating the oft-neglected one-act play and theatre at its best with Award-winning actors, writers and directors, with a tremendously fun opening on March 8th, 2021.
Jan Maxwell, a five-time Tony Award nominee and two-time Drama Desk Award winner, was last seen on stage in City of Conversation at Lincoln Center, for which she wBas nominated for 2015 Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards and Scenes From an Execution in the Potomac Theatre Project revival at Atlantic Theater's Stage II.
The Reading Series, a new virtual benefit series, has announced the next production in their lineup with Neil LaBute's Tony-nominated play REASONS TO BE PRETTY.
Today (January 7) in live streaming: Wayne Brady guests on Backstage Live, Laura Bell Bundy visits Ten Minute Tidbits, and so much more!
The production, which will be directed by Alison Tanney, will star Nicholas Belton (“The Great Comet”) as Guy, Kate Rockwell (“Mean Girls”) as Sam, Samantha Pauly (“Six”) as Tyler, Rema Webb (“Violet”) as Lindsay, and Koko Marshall (“A Perfect Host”) as Bobbi.
Door Shakespeare has announced the third offering in 2020's Door Shakespeare Reading Series: Dream Upon Avon, by Wisconsin's own John Kishline, running Friday, December 11 through Sunday, December 13. Shows are Friday and Saturday at 7:00, and Sunday at 5:00. The Door Shakespeare Reading is free, with donations encouraged. More information can be found online (doorshakespeare.com) or by calling 920.854.7111.
Today (November 19) in live streaming: Luba Mason visits Backstage Live, Andrew Barth Feldman guests on Ten Minute Tidbits, and so much more!
Today's top stories: Joshua Henry joins Hamilton's Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade performances, watch Randy Rainbow's latest parody, Thoughts of a Colored Man comes to Broadway next season, and more!
The 'Spotlight on Plays' series continues with Anton Chekov's UNCLE VANYA on Thursday, November 19 at 8PM EST/ 5PM PST. This is a world premiere of Neil LaBute's adaptation of Chekov's masterpiece, directed by Danya Taymor.
Laurissa Romain aka 'Lala' is an Actor, Singer, Songwriter, Model, and Native New Yorker, raised in Hell's Kitchen and has been working since she was a young child appearing in the entire 3-year run in Lincoln Center's Tony Award Winning Broadway Revival of Rogers & Hammerstein's South Pacific as Ngana, Directed by Bartlet Sher, starring Kelli O'Hara and Paulo Szot.
The DENIZEN Theatre in New Paltz, New York quietly opened its doors for the first time since the pandemic began on October 8, with the world premiere of Neil LaBute's True Love Will Find You In the End, a love story for our Covid-19 age.
Door Shakespeare has announced their second virtual production: The Comedy of Errors, by William Shakespeare. The Comedy of Errors streams to homes from Tuesday, October 27 through Monday, November 16.
On Wednesday, October 21st, the Nuyorican Poets Cafe and Romy Nordlinger will present NYSEEING 2020: a benefit to raise funds for the Nuyorican Poets Cafe & The Artists Relief Fund.
Broadway's Best Show will be a new home for entertaining, engaging content, long form features and exclusive access to Broadway's Best, will continue its weekly 'Spotlight On Plays' series on Thursday October 14, 2020 to benefit The Actors Fund.
Nuyorican Poets Cafe and Romy Nordlinger present NYSEEING 2020: a livestreamed benefit to raise funds for the Nuyorican Poets Cafe & The Artists Relief Fund.
Responding to the extreme precarity the artistic community is experiencing amidst a dire lack of government intervention, Soho Rep. Project Number One creates jobs to support artists in this moment and will be part of building a new path forward.
On September 29th at 2:00pm, the award-winning theatre company, Food For Thought Productions will present the third show in its current season with a common thread – comedy (something we can all use a bit of in our present world)!
The upcoming feature film 'Kurt' about the rise and demise of one model's career through the eyes of a famous yet fading photographer, has added Laurissa Romain to its cast in the role of Veronica.
Nick Gaswirth (The Great Comet; Wicked), Tim Realbuto (Yes; Assassins), and Laurissa 'Lala' Romain (South Pacific; The 8th) will star in Play Reading Fridays' production of Neil LaBute's a?oeIn A Dark Dark Housea?? benefiting The Actors Fund. It will be directed by Alison Tanney.
Hudson Theatre Works' Virtual Festival continues. New work will appear every Wednesday and Thursday at 6pm on Hudson Theatre Works YouTube Channel and Instagram account respectively. Donations to various organizations will be listed including Hudson Theatre Works.
