Powerhouse Theatre News

Diana returns to Broadway and we've got all you need to know about the cast of the production. Learn more about them here!

StoryBook Theatre will launch their 45th Season with a new outdoor concert series, Singers @ Sunset, a 6-part weekly presentation that features some of Calgary's brightest rising and shining stars, from August 1 to September 5, 2021. 

StoryBook Theatre has announced an exciting lineup of shows for its 45th season!

NYSAF returns July 17-August 1 with in-person programming in Poughkeepsie for their 2021 Summer Season.  In partnership with Vassar College, Marist College, and Revel 32 °, NYSAF will serve the needs of theater and film artists today, bringing them safely together in community to generate new stories and reconnect with one another and audiences.

Uproar Theatrics, a new digital theatrical licensing company, has been created to transform how regional, school, stock, and amateur groups license plays and musicals.  Uproar Theatrics is expanding the theatrical pipeline to bring thrilling, fresh theatre to creators and audiences across America.

Join Rachel Lynett Theatre Company on April 11 to hear playwrights Adrienne Dawes, Darcy Parker Bruce, Ian August, and Rachel Lynett perform monologues from their own work and vote on your favorites.

Theatre Now New York, a non-profit artists service organization and theatre company dedicated to supporting musical theatre writers, has added four writers to their Musical Writers Lab.

This Broadway performer, who made her debut on the West End and followed her gut to NYC, is spending time during the shutdown spreading the benefits of theater education, while patiently waiting to bring it all full circle with a notorious bit of England on the New York stage in Diana.

Deadline reports that DeMarius Copes has joined the cast of the upcoming 'Dear Evan Hansen' film.

Birmingham-based theatre company Powerhouse Theatre will present their very first LIVE Zoom play, White Noise, which will be performed at the end of the month.

The Group Rep presents a pay-per-view staged production from the Lonny Chapman Theatre of TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE, written by Jeffrey Hatcher and Mitch Albom, from the book by Mitch Albom directed by L. Flint Esquerra, co-produced by Lloyd Pedersen and Gina Yates.   

The Dog Lives Productions and Streaming Musicals will partner with FoodTank to present a free virtual opening night on Friday, May 22 for the original romantic musical comedy, Marry Harry.

The Dog Lives Productions and Streaming Musicals will partner with FoodTank to present a free virtual opening night on Friday, May 22 for the original romantic musical comedy, Marry Harry.

American Blues Theater presents the 2020 Blue Ink Playwriting Festival digitally, May 1-4, 2020. For the first time ever, audiences around the world can access the scripts of the Blue Ink Playwrighting Festival online, free of charge.

Streaming Musicals' next streaming production will be the original romantic musical comedy, Marry Harry. Premiere date will be announced in coming days. Sign up for details at www.MarryHarry.com. 

DIANA is officially in previews on Broadway! Tony Award®-winning director Christopher Ashley (Come From Away) and the writers behind the Tony Award-winning musical Memphis (Joe DiPietro and David Bryan) bring us face-to-face with one of the 20th century's most compelling figures in this landmark musical event, featuring an epic and sweeping contemporary score with music supervision and arrangements by Olivier Award® winner Ian Eisendrath, choreography by Olivier Award winner and Tony Award nominee Kelly Devine, and Diana's iconic style reimagined by six-time Tony Award-winning costume designer William Ivey Long.

Playwright Gina Femia is the recipient of the 2020 William Inge Theatre Festival's Otis Guernsey New Voices in the American Theatre Award, which recognizes substantial early contributions to the contemporary American stage.

American Blues Theater, under the continued leadership of Artistic Director Gwendolyn Whiteside, announces the winner of the 2020 Blue Ink Playwriting Award is Recent Unsettling Events by Andrea Stolowitz. A staged reading of the play will be presented as part of the 2020 Blue Ink Playwriting Festival, along with new work by finalists Football Football Football Football (or I Love Lave Dash) by Kristoffer Diaz, The Mermaids' Parade by Gina Femia, and Crying on Television by R. Eric Thomas. The Blue Ink Playwriting Festival runs May 2-4, 2020 at 4809 N Ravenswood, Suite #126, in Chicago.

On Wednesday January 23rd and Thursday, January 24th, Musical Theatre Factory will present a staged reading of Jacob Jarrett's latest musical Wonderboy.

An international cast is set to star in a new production of Gruesome Playground Injuries next month. The original production premiered at the Alley Theatre in Houston in 2009, then off-Broadway in 2011. The play will be put up during the both romantic and equally commercialized Valentine's day season.