Playwrights Foundation and the National Center for New Plays at Stanford conclude their 2016 Rough Reading Series with an April 11, & 12th reading of Br'er Cotton by Tearrance Arvelle Chisholm on Monday, April 11 - 7:30pm at Stanford and Tuesday, April 12 - 2:00pm at Custom Made Theatre in San Francisco.
Disney•Pixar's “Finding Dory” filmmakers revealed today that Hank, the film's cantankerous octopus with camouflaging capabilities, has appeared in every one of their feature films since 1995's “Toy Story.” “Finding Dory,” featuring the voice of Ed O'Neill as Hank, opens in theaters nationwide on June 17, 2016.
Discovery Communications will soon debut an all-new SEEKER - a web-native network with over 250 videos premiering every month and socially driven content
History Matters/Back To The Future, committed to promoting the study and production of women's plays of the past, has announced the winner of the second annual Judith Barlow Prize. Lindsay Adams, a student at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., has been chosen for her one-act play, HER OWN DEVICES, which was inspired by Mary Chase's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Harvey.
With a career spanning seventy years in the theatre, Lucille Lortel's life mission was to help nurture emerging innovative playwrights.
Lincoln Center Theater, in association with Jujamcyn Theaters, has announced that Stephanie J. Block, Christian Borle, and Andrew Rannells will head the cast of its new production of William Finn and James Lapine's Tony Award-winning musical FALSETTOS. FALSETTOS begins previews Thursday, September 29, and opens on Thursday, October 27 at the Walter Kerr Theatre (219 West 48 Street).
Irvington Town Hall Theater (ITHT) closes out a second season of their Stage Door Series, ( where new works are presented in a relaxed setting without sets, costumes, or props) with an afternoon of one-act plays. Three different one-acts by two diverse local playwrights will be read on Sunday, April 24 at 3:00pm. Two plays by Evelyn Mertens: Stray Gloves and Sleep Study and one by Stephanie Okun: Fishing. There will be a Q&A with the playwrights following the reading.
PlayPenn, Philadelphia's nationally recognized professional new play development organization, will hold its 12th annual New Play Development Conference from July 5 - July 24 in Philadelphia at The Drake, a new home for new plays. The Conference, including three weeks of intensive work on six works-in-progress, will offer staged readings open to the public. The six selected plays and playwrights are:
Boston Globe Media Partners and Grand Central Publishing (GCP), a division of Hachette Book Group, announced the acquisition of You Should Have Called Me an Uber: Lessons from the Front Lines of the Love Letters Advice Column by Boston Globe columnist Meredith Goldstein. Suzanne O'Neill, VP, Executive Editor at GCP acquired the North American rights at auction from Lane Zachary and Todd Shuster of the Zachary Shuster Harmsworth Literary Agency, who represented The Boston Globe and Meredith Goldstein in the transaction.
Disney•Pixar's FINDING DORY has revealed its full roster of characters, as well as THE VOICE talent tapped to help bring each character to life.
The Huntington Theatre Company's 2016 Breaking Ground festival of new plays will be held April 14 - 17 at the Huntington's home for new work, the Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA.
Ambreen Razia with Black Theatre Live present THE DIARY OF A HOUNSLOW GIRL, written by Razia and directed by Sophie Moniram, will head out on a UK tour, running 4th May to 18th June 2016. Press night is slated for Friday 6th May at 7.30pm at Ovalhouse.
Good morning, BroadwayWorld! Because we know all our readers eat, sleep and breathe Broadway, what could be better than waking up to it? Today's big news: THE CRUCIBLE and TUCK EVERLASTING bow on Broadway!
Just in time for Roundabout's Broadway revival, Yale University Press has released a multimedia edition of Eugene O'Neill's LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT, edited by William Davies King (professor of theater at the University of California at Santa Barbara), with Foreword by Broadway star Jessica Lange.
On Monday, March 28, the Broadway at Birdland concert series was proud to present "Piano Men," starring pianists Brad Simmons, Eric Yves Garcia and Matt Baker. The one-night-only event was directed by John McDaniel. BroadwayWorld has photos from the concert below!
Disney•Pixar's 'Finding Dory' reveals its full roster of characters, as well as the voice talent tapped to help bring each character to life. Directed by Andrew Stanton, who helmed the Oscar-winning films 'Finding Nemo' and 'WALL•E,' 'Finding Dory' revisits everyone's favorite blue tang Dory as she embarks on a life-changing adventure to find her family.
The Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival (TWP Fest) announced that the outstanding multi-award-winning actor Brian Dennehy, recognized for his interpretation of many of Eugene O'Neill's complex characters, will be the guest of honor at their annual dinner on June 4. The gala is to support this fall's 11th festival, Eugene O'Neill and Tennessee Williams: Beyond Success with performances from theaters around the world throughout the charming seaside town from Sept 22 - 25, 2016.
Britt Byrd takes on the challenging role of Carnelle Scott in The Larry Keeton Theatre's upcoming production of Beth Henley's The Miss Firecracker Contest, running at the Donelson theater April 14-30 – the first presentation of a non-musical at The Keeton in quite some time, according to producer Jamie London.
In just their second season as a theater company, New Epic Theater is tackling not one but two challenging and not often performed political plays with THE NORMAL HEART and CORIOLANUS, performed in rep (something that's also not often done). It's an ambitious undertaking for any theater company, much less a young one. But in this short time New Epic has already established themselves as a company that does striking work, both visually and emotionally. The first half of this pair of plays opened last weekend, a strikingly beautiful and devastating production of the 1985 Off-Broadway play THE NORMAL HEART about the early days of the AIDS crisis. Friends, this is a piece of theater not to be missed. The Normal Heart returns on April 7, but in the meantime you can see the other piece of the puzzle, Shakespeare's CORIOLANUS, this weekend, as I will be. Director Joseph Stodola and New Epic Theater have a unique vision, one that deserves to be seen.
This spring, Merrimack Repertory Theatre (MRT) will celebrate one of its most successful seasons and look ahead to the future at its annual fundraising event, the 2016 Set the Stage Celebration. The evening will feature musical performances by Benjamin Scheuer, whose performance of The Lion kicked off Sean Daniels' inaugural year as MRT's artistic director and broke several box office records. Scheuer will perform a mix of songs from The Lion and others previously unheard by MRT audiences. Joining Scheuer will be Charissa Bertels, whose one-woman musical, My 80-Year-Old Boyfriend, was recently announced as the closing production of MRT's 2016-17 Season. Bertels is currently on the national tour of the Broadway musical If/Then.
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