RuPaul News

Baz Bamigboye has reported that drag star Bianca del Rio will join the cast of the West End hit Everybody's Talking About Jamie!

The queens of RuPaul's Drag Race must save the galaxy in their brand new WERQ THE WORLD show, touring the USA and Canada, September through November 2019.

The divas at the wildly popular Voss Events Drag Brunch will begin a brand-new run at NYC's The Iridium beginning Sunday, April 7. "It's about time this big derriere of mine made its way to Broadway," proclaims Jada Valenciaga who stars in the show alongside drag queens Bootsie Lefaris, Pattaya Hart, and Egypt. The show will feature DJ David Serrano and the divas performing hilarious remakes of disco favorites. Drag legend and former America's Got Talent contestant Shequida hosts. "We will leave drag fans gagging, laughing and feeling fabulous," she promises. "This is brunch, honey, and the best brunch is one you stumble out of!" Voss Events Drag Brunch takes place every Sunday at 12pm and 2:30pm from now through December at The Iridium, 1650 Broadway.

The Boch Center and Voss Events announced today that the queens of RuPaul's Drag Race will bring their brand new "Werq The World" show to the Boch Center Wang Theatre on Tuesday, October 29 at 8:00PM. Tickets go on sale to the general public on Friday, March 29 at 10:00AM.

The queens of RuPaul's Drag Race must save the galaxy in their brand new WERQ THE WORLD show, touring the USA and Canada this September through November, including a stop at the Majestic Theatre (224 E. Houston St.) in San Antonio, TX on November 8, 2019 at 8PM. Tickets go on sale this Friday, March 29 at 11AM.

With under two weeks to go until opening, Underbelly Festival Southbank has 31 more shows for 2019 including international drag sensation Courtney Act - the star who gained global recognition for starring in Australia's Got Talent, RuPaul's Drag Race and Celebrity Big Brother UK returning with her acclaimed show Under the Covers.

Ensemble for the Romantic Century (Eve Wolf, Executive Artistic Director) continues the 2018 - '19 season, ERC's 18th, with its final offering of the season, Hans Christian Andersen: Tales Real & Imagined by Eve Wolf. 

The US Premiere of BLEACH by Dan Ireland-Reeves will extend through March 30, 2019. This award-winning underground hit, seen throughout the UK as well as in Paris, Stockholm, London and Dublin, made its US premiere in January in an intimate, immersive production performed for an audience of 10.

The Television Academy Foundation announced the winners of the 39th College Television Awards, which recognizes and rewards excellence in student-produced programs from colleges and universities nationwide.

After a 14 year hiatus the bad boys of Shakespeare took to the stage and command the stage they did. For the next 90ish minutes the audience was thrust into a world of side-splitting head over heels laughter. Jobsite's Artistic Director David Jenkins entered the space with a hilarious curtain speech. One of the most memorable moments was when he said, "We are in a small space, so if you're talking and thinking you can't be heard you can… and if anyone came with a child shut the little bastard up and let them fend for themselves." Introducing the facts that over the next hour and a half the audience will be thrust into a world unknown to some, a place of Elizabethan England; Stratford on Avon to be exact, and thus he went forth and introduced all of the players that would be seen that evening.

For the first time in the 20-plus years of Peaches Christ Productions herstory, Peaches will mount her first-ever theatrical movie mash-up

Following a critically and publicly acclaimed engagement in the San Francisco Bay Area, VOLTA-Cirque du Soleil's newest Big Top production-will play its final performance under the Big Top at the Santa Clara County Fairgrounds on Sunday, March 24, 2019. The 48 acrobats, actors, singers, and musicians-along with the 71 trucks transporting the 2,000 tons of equipment needed to set-up VOLTA's tents and stage-will next head to San Diego, California.

Erin Wehrenberg has been named senior vice president, Network Comedy, ABC Entertainment, it was announced today by Karey Burke, president, ABC Entertainment. In this position, she will lead the comedy series development team and oversee the department's day-to-day operations, including creatively supervising production of new comedy series for ABC.

New York City Gay Men's Chorus announces that Peppermint, from RuPaul's Drag Race, will join them as their guest star for the eleventh annual Big Gay Sing, its annual sing-along extravaganza. This year the chorus of 250+ singers presents, BIG GAY SING BODY & SOUL. Performances will run from March 22 - 24 at NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts.

Following last year's total sell-out tour of The Vaudevillians which was performed in countries around the world, RuPaul's Drag Race Season Five winner, Jinkx Monsoon and lyrical genius Major Scales, return to showcase new music from their latest album The Ginger Snapped, at HOME Manchester, Thu 28 - Sat 30 March 2019.

Good morning, BroadwayWorld! Happy Friday! Finish off your week by catching up on the latest Broadway news!

The US Premiere of BLEACH by Dan Ireland-Reeves will extend for an additional 2 weeks. This award-winning underground hit, seen throughout the UK as well as in Paris, Stockholm and Dublin, made its US premiere in January in an intimate, immersive production performed for an audience of 10.

Carolines on Broadway, New York City's premier comedy venue, presents its talented line-up for the month of March, highlighted by headliners Kevin Nealon, from CBS' Man with a Plan, March 1 and 2; Alyssa Edwards, from VH-1's RuPaul's Drag Race, March 7 - 9; Gilbert Gottfried, host of 'Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing, Colossal Podcast!,' one night only March 20; and social media influencer HaHa Davis, March 29 - 31.

Tell your best squirrel friends! From World of Wonder, producers of RuPaul's Drag Race, comes The Official RuPaul's Drag Race Podcast, hosted by Drag Race producer and Herstorian John Polly.

The Butterfly Guild - formerly Pleasure Guild of Nationwide Children's Hospital presented Disney's The Little Mermaid February 22-24th, 2019. This is their annual broadway-style production at the historic Palace Theatre in downtown Columbus. All of the proceeds raised goes to support Nationwide Children's Hospital Hospice and Palliative Care Program.