Studio Productions News

Good morning, BroadwayWorld! Because we know all our readers eat, sleep and breathe Broadway, what could be better than waking up to it? Today's big news: THE GIN GAME and ECLIPSED bring big screen stars to Broadway, A WONDERFUL LIFE takes a classic to Connecticut and more!

Grammy Nominated Professor Louie & The Crowmatix to play NY. The group came into existence preparing songs for Aaron Professor Louie Hurwitz' studio productions for the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame group The Band. Professor Louie collaborated with The Band for over fifteen years co-producing The Band CD's Jericho, High On The Hog and Jubilation in the 90's.

Shakespeare has become as much a part of summertime in Houston as baseball and backyard barbecues. Produced by the University of Houston's School of Theatre & Dance, the Houston Shakespeare Festival (HSF) has brought the Bard to Bayou City residents for four decades.

This Saturday, June 20th at 6:30pm at Videology, Broadway World featured web series Dates, Mates and Clean Slates; This is Art; and Rules of Cool will be showcased in A 'Web Series' Series: THE LADIES WHO LAUNCH, an exciting evening celebrating the comedic women who run the World (wide web)!

Continuing to expand its footprint in the Chinese market, IMAX Corporation (NYSE: IMAX) today announced the creation of the IMAX China Film Fund with its subsidiary IMAX China and partner China Media Capital

From Director Mitchell Walker ('Brass Act' & 'A Shining Hour) of AKA Studio Productions comes a one night comedy event that will combine some of NYC's best stand up comics and Improv. The event will be hosted by Cole Cook at the Metropolitan Room. 

From Director Mitchell Walker ("Brass Act" & "A Shining Hour) of AKA Studio Productions comes a one night comedy event that will combine some of NYC's best stand up comics and Improv. The event will be hosted by Cole Cook at the Metropolitan Room. 

The robot shrapnel will fly in the BattleBox this summer, with expert play-by-play analysis from veteran sports broadcaster Chris Rose, and color commentary from former UFC fighter Kenny Florian.

The Guthrie Theater today announced the nine productions that will be included in the theater's 2015-2016 subscription season, including To Kill a Mockingbird, Pericles, Harvey and South Pacific on the Wurtele Thrust Stage and The Events, The Cocoanuts, The Real Inspector Hound/The Critic, Trouble in Mind and Disgraced on the McGuire Proscenium Stage.

The Abingdon Theatre Company will present a reading of Charles Messina's play A ROOM OF MY OWN, starring Mario Cantone on April 21, 2015. The comedy is based on Messina's life growing up in Greenwich Village in the late 1970s.

All My Children's Alfredo Diaz will join the cast of The Sunday Series at Abingdon's presentation of 3 From The Neighborhood. It is a one night only workshop performance on March 22nd of three new one act plays by New York-based playwright Charles Messina. Diaz played the unscrupulous villan Vlad Koslov on the daytime soap.

As BroadwayWorld previously reported, AKA Studio Productions just presented an industry reading of Diana Amsterdam's The Dodgers. Dave Solomon directed the project, which starred Into the Woods stars Billy Magnussen and Mackenzie Mauzy, along with American Horror Story's Finn Wittrock and Hannah Bos, Greg Hildreth and Preston Sadleir. BroadwayWorld is excited to bring you exclusive photos from inside the reading below!

The Sunday Series at Abingdon will present 3 From The Neighborhood, a one night only workshop performance on March 22nd of three new one act plays by New York-based playwright Charles Messina.

The winner of the 2015 Richard Rodgers Award for Musical Theater was announced earlier this week by the American Academy of Arts and Letters, which administers the Rodgers Awards: String, by Adam Gwon and Sarah Hammond. The show was awarded a Studio Production.

BroadwayWorld has just learned that AKA Studio Productions will soon present an industry reading of Diana Amsterdam's The Dodgers. Dave Solomon is set to direct the project, which will star Into the Woods stars Billy Magnussen and Mackenzie Mauzy, along with American Horror Story's Finn Wittrock and Hannah Bos, Greg Hildreth and Preston Sadleir.

AKA Studio Productions will launch a nine-episode SAG original comedy web series, 'Rules of Cool' on January 26th at 9:00 pm on the series' YouTube channel.

Jazz fans will have a rare chance to see two celebrated New Orleans jazz icons in the same performance at Harris Center for the Arts in Folsom. The celebrated Preservation Hall Jazz Band and one of New Orleans favorite sons, Allen Toussaint, are touring the United States in a joint tour for the first time ever. Unlike many tour packages, where two artists tour together but perform their own shows, this tour will be a combined show, with lots of interaction between the two legends

Emmy award-winning ESPN producer Tom Engle has joined Golf Channel as coordinating producer for Morning Drive, the network's daily morning lifestyle and news program. The hire was announced today by Molly Solomon, Golf Channel executive producer.

Emmy award-winning ESPN producer Tom Engle has joined Golf Channel as coordinating producer for Morning Drive, the network's daily morning lifestyle and news program. The hire was announced today by Molly Solomon, Golf Channel executive producer.

The Sunday Series at Abingdon will present MOONLIGHT IN GREENWICH VILLAGE, a one night only workshop performance on NOVEMBER 16th of three new one acts by New York-based playwright Charles Messina.