Sara Porkalob News

National Alliance for Musical Theatre has announced this year's directors, musical directors and casting for their 32nd Annual FESTIVAL OF NEW MUSICALS, on Thursday, November 19 and Friday, November 20, 2020. Due to the pandemic, the Festival will be reimagined and shared online through Broadway On Demand. Events will kick off on November 17.

American Repertory Theater has announced virtual Fall 2020 Programming including the Civically Speaking discussion series; the Behind the Scenes series; and Kidding Around family programming.

National Alliance for Musical Theatre has announced the line-up of new musicals for their 32nd Annual FESTIVAL OF NEW MUSICALS, on Thursday, November 19 and Friday, November 20, 2020.

AATAB is not a theatre company. They were originally founded in 2018 as a social collective connected by a Facebook group. In response to Boston's need to embrace local Asian American artists she explains she would rather see established organizations do the work to welcome and elevate members of the community than see an individual company formed.

BroadwayWorld has just learned that the cast has been assembled for Diane Paulus' Broadway-Bound 1776, which just began a Zoom workshop. Exact production dates have not been announced, though the A.R.T. has confirmed that the musical will play as a part of its 2020/21 Season, and Roundabout will bring it to the American Airlines Theatre in Spring 2021.

Village Theatre kicks off the next series of Beta Productions with XY, a new musical written by Oliver Houser and developed and directed by Hunter Bird that runs at Village Theatre's First Stage Theatre in Issaquah from February 14 - 23, 2020. The production marks the beginning of an exciting collaboration between Village Theatre and Seattle Rep, who will continue development of the show in a future season.

Nordo is proud to present Seattle Times' a?oemover and shaker of the next decade,a?? Sara Porkalob's latest work, The Angel in the House. The play is a Victorian revenge thriller set in high society England at the turn of the 19th century. Forbidden love, secret betrayal, and unfolding prophecy is set to a decadent four-course meal. Cleverly scripted, this gothic tale exposes dark longings and their unpredictable consequences in Nordo's Culinarium February 9 - March 15, 2019.

Baltimore Center Stage is pleased to announce the cast and artistic team for Men on Boats by Jaclyn Backhaus. This rollicking comedy is history as you've never seen it beforea?"without a single man in sight. Join a team of explorers as they tell the true(ish) story of a?oediscoverya?? of the Grand Canyon and upend everything...including their boats. 

Baltimore Center Stage is pleased to announce the cast and artistic team for Men on Boats by Jaclyn Backhaus. This rollicking comedy is history as you've never seen it beforea?"without a single man in sight. Join a team of explorers as they tell the true(ish) story of a?oediscoverya?? of the Grand Canyon and upend everythinga??including their boats. 

The Kraine and UNDER St. Marks represent almost half of this year's Fringe BYOV offerings.

With The 19th Annual Festival of New Musicals taking place this upcoming weekend, Village Theatre is excited to announce the casting for XY, an uplifting musical about identity and coming to terms with your past; Cold Turkey, a wild and funny satire; Modern, an inspiring tale about a group of Amish teenagers; Eastbound, an poignant story about Chinese brothers in search of a home they've never known; and Cowboy Bob, an adventurous rock musical about a bank-robbing woman. The Festival will take place in Issaquah August 9-11, 2019 and provides an essential platform for writers to develop new works. Past Festival shows include Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning shows such as Next to Normal and Million Dollar Quartet, as well as Broadway and Off-Broadway hits: It Shoulda Been You, Desperate Measures, Lizzie, and many more.

ACT Theatre ACT Theatre and One Coast Collaboration announce the second year of their partnership on a new play festival. The ACT|One New Play Festival, scheduled at the end of August, includes a playwright-driven new works process, centering creative collaboration and conversation between local and national artists.

Nordo announces its 11th season today dubbed as a?oeWhere the Tea Party Never Endsa?? and includes stories of an attic of wicked toys where you are the size of the dolls, to a titillating English Christmas village festooned with murder, a Victorian revenge thriller inspired by a popular poem from 1854 about the a?oeperfect wifea??, a Nordo makeover of the classic Alice in Wonderland tale and, lastly, an immersive adventure in Japan's most haunted forest. 

Cafe Nordo is proud to present the world premiere of 7th and Jacksoncreated by award-winning theatrical creator Sara Porkalob (The Dragon Cycle). Set in the early 1960s, it's an intimate experience that transports audiences to Seattle's vibrant and multicultural International District and, true to Cafe Nordo's signature format, blends authentic jazz, ethinc cuisine and unforgettable history for a full-sensory experience like no other. 7th and Jackson runs July 19 - August 11, 2019 at Cafe Nordo's Culinarium and tickets are on sale now.

Awards were presented to more than two dozen outstanding actors, directors, designers, and ensembles tonight by The Boston Theater Critics Association (BTCA) at The 37th Annual Elliot Norton Awards ceremony, held at the Huntington Avenue Theatre.

Artistic Director Mathew Wright today announced AGENTS OF CHANGE, ArtsWest's 2019-20 Season, with six productions - featuring plays by Tony and Nobel Prize-winning playwrights, a boldly reimagined classic, and a world premiere from local luminary Sara Porkalob - all centered on revolutions, and the people who create, fuel and represent them.

At one point in time, a Seattle Opera ticket offered a relatively predictable experience: an enchanted night out, a grand presentation, and often a familiar telling of a popular work. But in the past few years, Seattle Opera has been inviting audiences to explore this art form from a different perspective. Prior to its May performances of Carmen, the company will hold a free panel discussion that will flip opera's depiction of the exotic "Other" on its head. On April 26, the company presents "Decolonizing Allure: Women Artists of Color in Conversation." 

Two dozen nominations of outstanding actors, directors, designers and ensembles were announced today by The Boston Theater Critics Association (BTCA), with winners to be revealed at the 37th Annual Elliot Norton Awards on Monday, May 20, 2019 at 7 PM, at the Huntington Avenue Theatre.

Bizet's Carmen is often labeled as a sexy opera. The leading lady is a woman who sings unabashedly of her appetite for l'amour, cigarette smoke billowing from her lips. And the music some of the most iconic in the art form can't help but get under one's skin; it's that tuneful and seductive. This May, Seattleites will be able to experience this titillating opera for themselves through a new production of Carmen under the baton of Maestro Giacomo Sagripanti, who returns following The Barber of Seville ('17). Renowned British director Paul Curran and production designer Gary McCann will treat audiences to lavish sets and a multitude of stylish factory girls, townsfolk, smugglers, soldiers, and toreadors.

Velocity is very excited to announce their upcoming co-production with Seattle's own rising dance star Neve Mazique-Bianco's Lover of Low Creatures, a world premiere that will run at Velocity's Founders Theater May 9-12 2019. This radical, genre-defying work is a sung-through Nubian musical ballet that tells the coming-of-age of a young, bi-racial, disabled, queer child growing up deep in the heart of white, small-town New Jersey. While the performance is a prequel to Bet Ya UnGodly Things, which premiered at Gay City Arts in January 2018, Mazique-Bianco is kicking things up a notch this time by teaming up with another rising star in Seattle performance, director Sara Porkalob, who recently co-curated the Intiman's 2017 season and snagged three Gregory Awards in 2018 for her new play Dragon Lady, in addition to landing on Seattle Magazine's "Most Influential People of 2018." This will be the first collaboration between these two radical artists of color who are changing the face of performance in Seattle, and will mark Mazique-Bianco's first full-length performance at Velocity.