Theatre Four News

Billy Strings will continue his extensive headline tour next year with newly confirmed shows at Port Chester’s The Capitol Theatre (four nights), Augusta’s Bell Auditorium (two nights), Knoxville’s Civic Auditorium (two nights), Madison’s The Sylvee (three nights), and Cleveland’s KeyBank State Theatre, among many others.

The return season of Antipodes Theatre Company's inaugural production, Dave Malloy's Ghost Quartet, runs through 20 November at Meat Market Stables in North Melbourne. Originally produced in August 2019, this production received rave reviews across the board and was nominated for two Green Room Awards. 

Leo has just cycled 4000 miles across the USA.

“Menopause The Musical” has opened with an expected “Hot Flash” for an eight week run at Overland Park’s New Theatre Restaurant. The jokes and song parodies are all gleefully inappropriate.

​​​​​​​Mentalhaus and Thumbprint Studios present Collab24, a new 24-hour, devised theatre festival. Interdisciplinary artists unite with the goal of strengthening the artistic community through a shared process of creating devised theatre.

CulturalDC is partnering with the co-creators of Theater in Quarantine to present a limited-run screening as part of the ongoing window projection series at CulturalDC's Source Theatre. Four works have been selected, edited, and combined into a single installation by creators Joshua William Gelb and Katie Rose McLaughin.

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.

As part of the Distinguished Concert Artist Series, DCINY introduces American Soprano Rachel Eve Holmes in her debut performance at Carnegie Hall.

Skylight Music Theatre today announced the cast and creative team for The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, running February 7-23, 2020 in Skylight's beautiful Cabot Theatre at the Broadway Theatre Center, 158 N. Broadway, in Milwaukee's Historic Third Ward.

Internationally acclaimed actor Benjamin Evett takes on the whole gallery of characters in Shakespeare's shimmering comedy, A Midsummer Night's Dream. The production is the first offering of a new theatre company Evett is heading, called Queen Mab - a Micro-Theatre. Four performances will be staged from December 13-15 at the Multicultural Arts Center, 41 Second Street in Cambridge.

Performing Arts Center Eastside (PACE) welcomes Annie DiMartino as the cutting-edge cultural hub's new education director. With over a decade of experience in performance arts, DiMartino will work to develop PACE's art and education programming.

The Play That Goes Wrong brings mayhem to The Hanover Theatre and Conservatory for the Performing Arts from October 31 through November 3. The Play That Goes Wrong is generously sponsored by The Club at Rockland Trust Bank.

The Wrong Kind of People. World Premiere engagement of a new comedy. WHO: Written by George W. Corbin. Directed by C. Julian White. Presented by The Robey Theatre Company. Producing Artistic Director: Ben Guillory.

Antipodes Theatre Company is pleased to announce casting for the Australian premiere of Dave Malloy's Ghost Quartet. Hailed as "rapturous" by The New York Times, performances run August 14-23 at Gasworks Arts Park.

My Big Gay Italian Wedding, created by Anthony J. Wilkinson, is celebrating its 16-year anniversary with a special pride week of seven performances at the brand-new Avenel Performing Arts Center. Wilkinson is currently the Executive and Artistic Director of the venue in the Avenel section of Woodbridge Township, New Jersey. 

LA's favorite clown troupe Four Clowns makes their triumphant return to the 2019 Hollywood Fringe Festival with a brand new show, 'Four Clowns Presents: Shakedown at the Dusty Spur!' Four Clowns is dishing out their signature fare of physical comedy, this time with an old western twist. It's a rootin' tootin' cowboy shootin' romp of a show that will have you cheering the heroes, booing the villains and laughing your chaps off!

Jonathan Maitland delivers a satirical take on Brexit in general and Boris Johnson in particular, that lacks the insight and the jokes required to do justice to its source material's rich potential.