Sage News

Duluth Playhouse opens their new season with the Tony Award-winning musical ONCE, running September 16 - Oct 2, 2022 at the NorShor Theatre. See photos from the production.

The HAIRSPRAY North American tour, helmed by Jack O'Brien and Jerry Mitchell, will kick off at The Carson Center in Paducah, KY, prior to visiting more than 55 cities in its second touring season. Get a first look inside rehearsals here!

The Write Out Loud Team – Taylor Louderman (Tony Nominee, Mean Girls), Benjamin Rauhala (Disney Princess - The Concert), Hannah Kloepfer (Pitch In), Sarah Glugatch, Josh Collopy- has  announce the finalists of the FOURTH ANNUAL Write Out Loud Contest.

Singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist RJ Thompson has released his, nostalgia-driven new single, ‘Rescue You’, out now. ‘Rescue You’ is the follow up to previous single releases ‘Feel Alive,’ ‘Super 8’ and ‘Your Money Or Your Life’, launching RJ’s brand new era and his first new music since 2020’s Official UK Top 5 sophomore album Lifeline. 

He’s transformed high-end dining with his own twists - where else can you get a true Jewish deli inspired black and white cookie after a lamb chop instead of a corned beef sandwich - and now Mark Strausman, chef and owner of Mark’s Off Madison, is taking over the neighborhood with his al fresco Aperitivo Hour - his way, of course! 

Mabou Mines and Weathervane Productions, in association with Philip Glass’ Days and Nights Festival, will present a return engagement of their acclaimed revival of Mud/Drowning, two intimate works by legendary playwright and director María Irene Fornés.

Through my disdain of self tapes and hope to revive the feeling of being in a physical audition room, I've created some ground rules for myself. I hope these help, because they have surely helped me.

Fierce, the Birmingham biennial festival of international performance, has announced the programme for 2022 - it marks the biggest programme ever for Fierce, celebrating the Festival's 25th anniversary. The programme welcomes international artists from Tokyo to Rio de Janiro as well as from the West Midlands. It embraces the outlandish and the new, presenting over 20 fresh and feisty productions of the kind that the Festival has become acclaimed for.

First look at Luke Bayer in DIVA: Live From Hell!, opening tonight!

The New York Coffee Festival has announced the return of The Coffee Music Project for 2022.

Theatre Tulsa has launched its first Broadway Series musical of its 100th season with the hit comedy 'Something Rotten!,' which opened on August 12.

Berkeley Repertory Theatre has announced casting for the world premiere production of the ripple, the wave that carried me home by Christina Anderson, directed by Jackson Gay, and produced in association with Goodman Theatre. 

After skipping a year, the seventh (almost) annual Cloris Awards will honor eight local theater companies that produced 33 shows during the 2021-2022 season.

Returning cast members Andrew Levitt aka Nina West (from “RuPaul's Drag Race”) as Edna Turnblad, Niki Metcalf as Tracy Turnblad, Sandie Lee as Motormouth Maybelle, Billy Dawson as Corny Collins, Ryahn Evers as Amber Von Tussle, Addison Garner as Velma Von Tussle, and Emery Henderson as Penny Pingleton will be joined by new principal cast members Charlie Bryant III as Seaweed J. Stubbs, Ralph Prentice Daniel as Wilbur Turnblad, Brayden Krikke as Link Larkin and Joi D. McCoy as Little Inez.

Wales Millennium Centre has announced further artists joining the line-up for Llais 2022, WMC's flagship international arts festival which returns to Cardiff from 26-30 October with an eclectic line-up of international acts. 

With her unique brand of kindness and a wit sharper than a scalpel, Myra Dubois offers to heal the wounds of the world weary. Here she discusses how she’s made therapy into a artform for other to watch and why she’s uniquely qualified to offer advice.

With its bold, brilliant, sassy, urbanely funny, and warmly heartfelt production of KINKY BOOTS, Maine State Music Theatre has chosen the perfect vehicle to close its main stage season. The irresistible musical by Harvey Fierstein and Cyndi Lauper is given a spectacular, big-hearted production that pulls out all the stops and showcases MSMT at its Broadway best.

Burlesque acts, performance artists and sideshow performers are to join the powerhouse musical comedy star Wilfredo next Friday, 19 August at Coney Island USA.

Largely unscripted and intimately broken, 'The Keepin' Cozy Show' will return to The Players Theatre on August 17th at 7pm with a brand new and darkly comic variety show, featuring 'Hollywood's Most Available Ingenue' and America's favorite open wound, Kitten Solloway.

What did our critic think of OUR COUNTRY'S GOOD at The Seat Of The Pants Productions? The Seat of the Pants Productions' mission states that 'Our hope is to create theater that challenges minds, moves hearts, and mobilizes hands and feet - in both performers and patrons.'