Sarah Hughes News

Brevity is the soul of Irvington Theater's inaugural Arts Incubator Short Play Fest, streaming on demand March 26-28. Celebrating short, new plays and the playwrights behind them, this virtual festival features a musical and three plays that speak candidly to this global moment.

Britain's leading disabled led theatre company, Graeae today announces Beyond: Develop, a series of FREE online wellbeing and CPD (Creative Professional Development) workshops for Deaf and disabled artists affected by the pandemic. 

A brand new film of the Scarborough theatre's sell-out Christmas show, The Snow Queen, will be available on the SJT website from noon on Wednesday 23 December 2020 until midnight on Sunday 31 January 2021. It's the first time the famous North Yorkshire theatre has ventured into filming its productions.

A new play by John Greenwood (Board Member, The New Group) will receive a work-in-progress reading via streaming on Wednesday, December 2nd at 7:00 pm EST. The work is based on the novel of the same name by Sarah Caudwell. The event will benefit the Indie Theater Fund, and presented to an invited audience for exlusive presentation on FiveOhm.TV.

A brand new adaptation of the Hans Christian Andersen classic The Snow Queen will weave some sparkling festive magic live on stage at Scarborough’s Stephen Joseph Theatre this Christmas.

Washington, D.C.-based band Beauty Pill is pleased to present their new single and accompaning video for “Instant Night.'

WP THEATER has announced the 15 artists selected for the 2020-2022 WP Lab. The two-year residency begins now and culminates with the biennial WP Pipeline Festival.

This weekend, the DC Jazz Festival (DCJF) will kick off its first-ever digital initiative with DCJazzFest From Home presented by Live From Our Living Rooms.

WP Theater has announced that their third biennial Pipeline Festival will continue virtually, with #pipelineonline. Originally slated to begin performances on March 26, each of the Festival plays will now be featured weekly by WP Lab Artists in weekly emails and on WP Theater's Instagram @wptheater, through April 24.

A co-production with Hull Truck Theatre, Jim Cartwright's mesmerising, bittersweet comedy TWO opens at Scarborough's Stephen Joseph Theatre later this month.

WP Theater, under the leadership of Producing Artistic Director Lisa McNulty and Managing Director Michael Sag, has announced the 2020 lineup for The Pipeline Festival, the third biennial showcase of its celebrated WP Lab residency for playwrights, directors and producers. Running from March 26 - April 25, 2020 at WP Theater (2162 Broadway, at 76th Street), the festival is the culmination of the renowned two-year WP Lab residency, providing a unique opportunity for audiences to see five new plays - in various stages of development, ranging from staged readings to full-length workshop productions - presented over a span of five weeks.

On Tuesday, March 10, Stowe transforms into a figure skating destination when Ice Dance International (IDI) arrives for a week-long residency hosted by Spruce Peak Arts that includes community engagement programs for area students, adults, developing skaters, and enthusiasts. The week culminates in a March 14 world premiere performance of a piece to be choreographed during the residency.

WP Theater, under the leadership of Producing Artistic Director Lisa McNulty and Managing Director Michael Sag, has announced that the world premiere of playwright and performer Donnetta Lavinia Grays' Where We Stand, co-presented by WP Theater and Baltimore Center Stage, will star Grays [Men on Boats, In The Next Room (or The Vibrator Play)], who will alternate select performances with David Ryan Smith (One Man, Two Guvnors; Passing Strange) beginning February 15. Directed by Tamilla Woodard (Hadestown Broadway associate director), previews begin Off-Broadway on Friday, January 31 at WP Theater with an opening night of February 11, 2020. The limited engagement at WP Theater will run through March 1, 2020 before playing Baltimore Center Stage April 2-26.

Twin brothers Paul Rescigno ('The Other Two'; 'The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt'), and Robbie Rescigno ('The Resident'; 'The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt') will bring their award-winning comedy show back to The Duplex (61 Christopher St) in NYC, December 5-6. This year's brand new holiday installment titled, The Rescignos: Deck the Pauls with Boughs of Robbie, is written by the Rescigno brothers and Mike Hadge (NEWSical: The Musical), and features their distinct brand of comedy and original music.

The holiday season is one of joy, warmth, and togetherness . . . but it can include some other emotions that choirs never seem to sing about! We're taking an honest and humorous musical look at the a?oemost wonderful time of the yeara?? with a program that combines the music of community and celebration with works about everything from the winter doldrums to the overabundance of Facebook posts on Christmas morning. Hear works by Cécile Chaminade, Joan Szymko, Eleanor Daley, Daniel Pinkham, and more! The concerts will take place at Newport Harbor Lutheran Church, 798 Dover Drive, Newport Beach on Saturday, December 7, 2019 at 7:00 p.m. and at St. Wilfrid of York Episcopal Church, 18631 Chapel Lane, Huntington Beach on Sunday, December 8, 2019 at 3:00 p.m. Please join us for a reception after each performance.

A brand new adaptation of the Robert Louis Stevenson classic Treasure Island swashbuckles its way onto the stage at Scarborough's Stephen Joseph Theatre this Christmas.

Theatre Row has announced the recipients of the first-ever Kitchen Sink Residency, its most ambitious initiative yet, designed to nurture smaller, emerging performing arts companies

National New Play Network, the country's alliance of nonprofit theaters that collaborate in innovative ways to develop, produce, and extend the life of new plays, in association with the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival and Stanford University's National Center for New Plays, announce the 14th Annual MFA Playwrights' Workshop. The Kennedy Center will host more than 60 theater-makers from July 27-August 4, 2019 as part of the week-long Workshop featuring new works by graduate students or recent MFA graduates from the University of California, San Diego, Iowa Playwrights' Workshop, Boston University, National Theatre School of Canada, and Brown University. 

Theatre Row, a program of Building for the Arts, has long provided a home in the Theater District to nonprofit theaters without a home of their own. To support the next generation of artists, Theatre Row is launching its most ambitious initiative yet: the Kitchen Sink Residency, designed to nurture smaller, emerging performing arts companies.

New Ohio Theatre annual Obie Award-winning Ice Factory Festival officially opens tonight. The festival will feature seven new works over seven weeks, June 26 - August 10, at New Ohio Theatre (154 Christopher St.) in New York City