TheatreworksUSA News

The thrilling story of Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad will come to life upon the stage of Clarksville’s oldest professional theatre this month.  

Raue Center For The Arts has announced its  2021 – 2022 Mission Imagination season! Mission Imagination is Raue Center’s fine arts education program at the storied Crystal Lake theatre, one that has brought joy to over 400,000 children from school districts across the Chicagoland area. 

The Musical Theatre Program at Anderson University has announced the release of an audio-play podcast featuring AU students performing with Broadway actors Jill Abramovitz and Aaron Lazar. The podcast, titled The Show Must Go On: A Musical Mystery at Sea, is the first piece created under The Musical Theatre New Works and New Media Initiative.

Meredith Suttles has been announced as Marin Theatre Company's new Managing Director.

Janet Hubert, best known to television audiences as “Aunt Viv” on The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, will star as Baneatta Mabry in a virtual reading of Douglas Lyons' family comedy, CHICKEN AND BISCUITS on Saturday, February 27, 2021 at 8:00p.m.

New York City Children's Theater in collaboration with 37 Theatres for Young Audiences , Bay Area Children's Theatre, Seattle Children's Theatre, and Alliance Theatre in Atlanta, will present the virtual premiere of A Kids Play About Racism, a theatrical adaptation of Jelani Memory's A Kids Book About Racism premiering August 1 and 2.

Dallas Children's Theater joins a groundbreaking collaboration of 37 Theatres for Young Audiences(TYA) across the United States, led by the lead producing team of Bay Area Children's Theatre, Seattle Children's Theatre, and Alliance Theatre in Atlanta. 

Alliance Theatre joins groundbreaking collaboration among 37 Theatres for Young Audiences across the United States, led by the lead producing team of Bay Area Children's Theatre, Seattle Children's Theatre, and Alliance Theatre in Atlanta, will present  the virtual premiere of A Kids Play About Racism, a theatrical adaptation of Jelani Memory's A Kids Book About Racism. Premiering August 1 and 2 on the streaming platform Broadway On Demand, the new work is adapted and directed by award-winning director and TYA artist Khalia Davis and will be brought to life by an entirely Black and BIPOC cast and creative team from across the United States. 

Lead producers Bay Area Children's Theatre, Seattle Children's Theatre and Alliance Theatre in Atlanta, in a collaboration with 37 other theatres that serve young audiences across the United States, will present A Kids Play About Racism.

Chicago Children's Theatre has joined a groundbreaking collaboration among 37 Theaters for Young Audiences across the United States to present the virtual premiere of A Kids Play About Racism, a theatrical adaptation of Jelani Memory's 'A Kids Book About Racism.'

Childsplay Theatre joins a groundbreaking collaboration among 37 Theatres for Young Audiences across the United States, led by the lead producing team of Bay Area Children's Theatre, Seattle Children's Theatre, and Alliance Theatre in Atlanta, will present  the virtual premiere of A Kids Play About Racism, a theatrical adaptation of Jelani Memory's A Kids Book About Racism.

Today's top stories: Broadway Barks goes virtual this year with Bernadette Peters, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Bette Midler, Josh Groban, and more!

Today (July 8) in live streaming: The Public Theater premieres The Line, Bernadette Peters visits Stars in the House, and so much more!

TheatreWorksUSA has announced that their Chelsea Studios will not reopen.

On July 8, 2020 at 7 pm EST, TheaterWorksUSA will host a free virtual community event for the entire family entitled Telling Our Stories and Talking About Race. The evening will include the reading of two short plays from the five play series 'Free Play: Open Source Scripts Toward an Antiracist Tomorrow' by award-winning playwright Idris Goodwin.

Children's Theatre Company (CTC) has announced the impossibly possible 2020 - 2021 Season, including seven productions, a brand new preschool show, and four musicals designed to delight and inspire families and children of all ages and backgrounds.

Meadow Brook Theatre's Children's Series, sponsored by Genisys Credit Union, is set to kick off with Rosie Revere, Engineer & Friends. A fun new musical based on the beloved books by Andrea Beaty, this show will be on the Meadow Brook Theatre stage Saturday, February 29, 2020 at 10am & 1pm.  

Emelin Theatre For The Performing Arts has announced its lineup of events for March. See full details below:

FEINSTEIN'S/54 BELOW, Broadway's Supper Club, presents New Writers at 54: Mark Sonnenblick on Wednesday, January 22nd at 9:30PM. Emmy, Drama Desk, and Lucille Lortel nominated songwriter Mark Sonnenblick makes his Feinstein's/54 Below debut with a rare NYC concert-his first in five years. The Jonathan Larson Award-winning author of Midnight at The Never Get ('Utterly transporting' - NYTimes Critic's Pick, 'Show of the Year' MAC Award) and the very bio you're reading right now, Mark called in a lot of favors to get some incredible performers for an evening of genre-spanning musical theater. There will be laughter, there will be tears, there will be microphones and instruments-everything you'd expect at a concert you've told your date 'looks interesting.'

The Center for the Arts at George Mason University continues the 2019/20 Great Performances at Mason season this January and February with innovative dance programsa?"including a world premiere co-commission, stirring classical music, and the return of Virginia Opera, in addition to signature events from Mason's College of Visual and Performing Arts.