Sheldon Epps News

The Pasadena Playhouse will world premiere a new musical next season with Mask, an adaptation of the Universal motion picture, beginning March 7, 2008, which will follow the already announced Ray Charles Live! - A New Musical set to open in November 2007...

'Blues in the Night,' now playing 8-weeks at San Francisco's Post Street Theatre, offers an evening from the loneliest pages of the American song-book performed by three stunning ladies in a dimly-lit hotel.

Sheldon Epps' Blues in the Night began its exclusive San Francisco engagement at Post Street Theatre (450 Post Street) on August 7; ready for its Opening Night on August 15.

The recipients of the 2007 James Irvine Foundation Leadership Awards were announced today

Sheldon Epps' Blues in the Night will return for an all-star San Francisco production.

Ray Charles Live! -- A New Musical, a musical biography of soul legend Ray Charles, will receive its world premiere at the Pasadena Playhouse on November 9th for a run through December 9th

Original Dreamgirls star Loretta Devine, as well as Jenifer Lewis, will co-host the second annual Sheldon Epps Theatrical Diversity Project Celebration at the Pasadena Playhouse on March 13th.

Frank Gehry will design the new Carrie Hamilton Theatre for the Pasadena Playhouse

The Goodman Theatre's staging of the musical Purlie has extended its run through October 30th

Jacques C. Smith, Paulette Ivory, E. Faye Butler and Loretta Devine have all been cast in the Broadway-bound revival of Purlie, which will start performances at the Pasadena Playhouse on June 24th

What do you do when an older show's anti-racist satire can seem racist to modern audiences?

Show runs 3/31-4/3, also stars John Cullum, and Doug E. Doug.