Roxanne News

Today Wolverhampton Grand Theatre announced a brand new season, including the touring production of sell-out West End musical FUNNY GIRL.

Students of McCallum Fine Arts Academy take on the story of the swashbuckling poet Cyrano in a challenging operetta.

Longtime comedians Steve Martin and Martin Short will play a one-night only show at the Morrison Center today, October 21.

Tickets are now on sale for Roundabout Theatre Company's one-night only Benefit Concert Reading of Kiss Me, Kate by Sam and Bella Spewak, with music and lyrics by Cole Porter, starring Kelli O'Hara and Will Chase. Roundabout's Associate Artistic Director Scott Ellis will direct this one-night only special event.

Following a critically acclaimed season in the UK, Mr. Popper's Penguins comes to The New Victory for its American debut from today, October 14, through October 30, 2016.

Kenny Wax Family Entertainment is delighted to announce the West End debut of new family musical - Mr Popper's Penguins, which will open at the Criterion Theatre for a magical Christmas season from the 15 December to 31 December. Mr & Mrs Popper and their remarkable family of performing penguin puppets come to London direct from a UK tour and US premiere at New York's renowned New Victory Theatre.

Long Wharf Theatre, in conjunction with the Old Globe in San Diego, presents the world premiere of Steve Martin's Meteor Shower, directed by Artistic Director Gordon Edelstein, running from September 28 through October 23, 2016. The full cast has just been announced!

After a thriving summer during which our hit comedies Addition and Moliere in Spite of Myself attracted hundreds of international theatregoers,Theatre in Paris announces the opening of the 2016-2017 season with five brand new productions. We have selected a wide variety of plays and musicals in French and have made them available to English-speaking audiences. Thanks to our exclusive translation service, anglophone spectateurs can experience an authentic Parisian night out, and will have the opportunity to discover the best shows Paris has to offer, all whilst understanding every word with our English translations or 'surtitles' projected above the stage in real-time. 

The award-winning Canal Cafe Theatre and Russell Lucas announce an exciting new season of American Theatre.

Revolution is the story of transman Fernando Reyes' life growing up on the hacienda and joining the Zapatistas in the Mexican Revolution. Colonel Fernando Reyes is inspired by Amelio Robles (born Amelia Robles), a decorated Zapatista officer. Unlike many women - the well-documented soldaderas - who cross-dressed only for the duration of the war, Robles took the opportunity of the chaos of the Revolution to transition. He lived the rest of his life as a man. 

Teatro Paraguas presents Revolution, a play about Fernando Reyes' journey involving Love, Self, and Tierra y Libertad, by Alix Hudson, directed by Malcolm Morgan, and running September 29 - October 16.

Revolution is the story of transman Fernando Reyes' life growing up on the hacienda and joining the Zapatistas in the Mexican Revolution. Colonel Fernando Reyes is inspired by Amelio Robles (born Amelia Robles), a decorated Zapatista officer. Unlike many women - the well-documented soldaderas - who cross-dressed only for the duration of the war, Robles took the opportunity of the chaos of the Revolution to transition. He lived the rest of his life as a man. 

BWW speaks to the writer creator and performer Ian Stroughair of Iconic: A Brief History Of Drag ahead of its world premiere at the St James Theatre on November 4th.

Longtime comedians STEVE MARTIN and MARTIN SHORT will play a one-night only show at the Morris Performing Arts Center, South Bend, on Friday, March 17, 2017, at 8:00 p.m. Martin and Short will be joined by the Grammy-winning STEEP CANYON RANGERS, the bluegrass band with which Martin frequently performs. The show, “An Evening You Will Forget for the Rest of Your Life,” includes stand-up, film clips, musical numbers and conversations about their lives in show business.

Ten-minute play festivals are often populated by material that cannot be strictly classified as plays. But the academic distinction between sketch and fully formed play may reasonably give way to a simpler, more binary metric: it either works or it doesn't. Some of the finest writing in this sixth year of shorts produced by The Bard's Town feels as if they are either lifted from a longer piece or are the seeds of a larger story.

Gallery Players announces its first show of its 50th season with the award-winning show, Gypsy. Featuring a book by Arthur Laurents, music by Jule Styne and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. Gypsy is a show not just for 'Some People' but for everyone. 

Kenny Wax Family Entertainment today announced Mr Popper's Penguins will be visiting 6 venues in the UK from the 27 September to 11 December prior to a West End Christmas season. The Penguins will also be sailing across the Atlantic for their US premiere at New York's renowned New Victory Theatre this autumn. 

Following a critically acclaimed season in the UK, Mr. Popper's Penguins comes to The New Victory for its American debut from October 14 - 30, 2016. 

Geffen Playhouse has just announced the cast for its West Coast premiere production of Barbecue, written by Obie and Helen Hayes Award winner Robert O'Hara. Tony nominee Colman Domingo directs the production starring Yvette Cason, Dale Dickey, Omar J. Dorsey, Frances Fisher, Kimberly Hebert Gregory, Travis Johns, Elyse Mirto, Maya Lynne Robinson, Heather Alicia Simms and Rebecca Wisocky.

After a thriving summer during which our hit comedies Addition and Moliere in Spite of Myself attracted hundreds of international theatregoers, Theatre in Paris announces the opening of the 2016-2017 season with five brand new productions.