Theatre Four News

Last summer, a group of college-age theatre students decided to start an online theatre education company from the ground up. Since then, we’ve connected with aspiring and professional theatremakers around the world. I catch up with our founder Alyssa Jiwani to reflect on TVTC’s incredible journey.

At the weekend Theatre Royal Winchester hosted the first previews of its socially distanced Christmas Show, Four Dames in Search of a Panto. These were the first live performances in the theatre since 15 March. Four Dames in Search of a Panto features panto set pieces, hilarious gags, original songs and familiar faces to Winchester audiences.

Like no other actor's memoir you've ever read before, this is the hilarious, behind-the-scenes, no- holds-barred account of Millson's first decade in the second oldest profession. Work is about the shit that sticks to the walls of a career. Honest, poignant, truthful and spellbinding.

Theatre Now New York, a non-profit artists service organization and theatre company dedicated to supporting musical theatre writers, has added four writers to their Musical Writers Lab.

See two of the most iconic Motown groups of all time live in concert at the Stage Theatre New Jersey as they perform their top hits including 'My Girl,' 'Just My Imagination,' 'Papa Was a Rolling Stone,' 'I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch),' 'Ain't Too Proud to Beg,' 'Baby, I Need Your Loving,' and many more.

Theatre Royal Winchester has today announced that the show will go on this Christmas after all with a panto-styled show called Four Dames in Search of a Panto

To raise funds for the Theatre Community Benevolent Fund (TCBF), an organization that helps theatre practitioners in times of need, fifty-four area theatre companies have joined together to promote a limited-edition T-shirt which celebrates the diversity and vitality of the Boston Theater Community.  

Strawdog Theatre Company is pleased to launch its all-virtual 33rd season with two live-streamed performances of The Four, an original poem written and directed by Interim Artistic Director Kamille Dawkins and performed by Strawdog ensemble members.

State Theatre New Jersey announces four new online events for September and October. During the month of September, State Theatre joins venues across the country for a nationwide watch of the riveting new documentary John Lewis: Good Trouble. 

Strawdog Theatre Company has announced its upcoming all-digital 2020-21 season. The company's 33rd season will be comprised of four virtual offerings.

Queen's Theatre Hornchurch is today announcing it has this week commissioned four Outer East London and Essex writers to work collaboratively with Artistic Director Douglas Rintoul.

As theatres face extended closure due to Covid-19, Blackeyed Theatre is making its acclaimed 2018 production of Sherlock Holmes: The Sign of Four available to watch online for free, from Sunday 5th July a?" Wednesday 15th July. 

Burning Coal Theatre Company would like to announce recipients of the inaugural the Four Corners Project, beginning in its 2020-2021 season. This project grants the Murphey School space for one week, four times a year to creative individuals coming forth with innovative and exciting projects, whether it be a show, a workshop, a class, or so on.

The Temptations & The Four Tops have been rescheduled for Saturday, November 21 at State Theatre New Jersey.

Liberation Theatre Company (LTC) has named four early career playwrights to participate in their Writing Residency Program for 2020-2021.

The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center Announces SEGAL TALKS Week Four

We continue our interview series with the leaders of the entertainment industry in the Garden State to find out how they are coping with the Covid-19 outbreak. We had the pleasure of interviewing Anthony Wilkinson, the Executive and Artistic Director of Avenel Performing Arts Center.

The San Diego Tribune has reported that actor J. Todd Adams has passed away at age 51. Read the full story HERE. 

STRIPPED SCRIPTS Theater Company will present the world premiere of CANARY SNUFF FILM, written by Elizabeth M. Kelly (LAByrinth, EST), Heidi Armbruster (Mrs. Christie at Dorset Theater Festival, Every Good Girl Deserves Funa?? at Walker Space) and Maggie Diaz Bofill (Devil of Choice at LAByrinth, Winners at EST), and directed by Alfredo Narciso (LAByrinth, EST & Partial Comfort company member), Michelle Bossy (HBO Access Program semifinalist, Denham Fellowship recipient) and Jessica Bauman (Dorset Theater Festival resident director, New Georges).

Jay is trapped in a toxic home environment. Taking care of her drug-addicted mother and lonely and misunderstood younger brother, she dreams of escaping into a better world. She is presented with the chance-of-a-lifetime when winning a nation-wide essay contest to be the new writer of the final book in a beloved series left incomplete by the death of the author. However, Jay's 'dream ending' of the story is threatened when she has to collaborate with an additional, surprise contest winner. Set in the American Midwest, Jay and the Contest explores what it means to make it out of our hometown, no matter the consequences.