Touchstone News

Corn Stock Theatre has announced their 2021 Summer Showcase with three productions lined up to bring entertainment back under the Tent in Bradley Park.

HIP HOP 50 programming will begin airing later this year on SHOWTIME, running over the next three years and culminating with the 50th anniversary of the genre in 2023. The announcement was made by Vinnie Malhotra, Executive Vice President, Nonfiction Programming, Showtime Networks Inc.

BroadwayWorld has learned details of Paper Mill's upcoming 2021-2022 season. Productions set include Jason Robert Brown's SONGS FOR A NEW WORLD, a production titled 'A Jolly Holiday' in partnership with Disney on Broadway, CLUE - the 1997 off-Broadway Peter DePietro musical based on the popular Hasbro board game, the long awaited THE WANDERER based on the life and music of Dion, and the Broadway smash-hit SISTER ACT.

The Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall's Education and Community Engagement department announces “Teen Voices,” a program developed in response to the need for creative outlets for teens and young adults as they navigate life's challenges, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Long Beach Playhouse is now streaming a special online production of As Your Like It, running through July 1, 2021.

Touchstone Theatre presents the sixteenth year of its acclaimed Young Playwrights' Festival. This showcase of new plays written by local elementary and middle school students will take place on May 22, 2021.

The story of an elite group of pilots competing to earn the title of “Top Gun” captured the imagination of moviegoers upon its release, ultimately earning a worldwide box office of over $350 million and becoming a pop culture touchstone that helped define a generation.

We've rounded up some of the top productions on stage this summer! Find something near you to see using our comprehensive guide below!

American Players Theatre has announced a new play development program, New Voices: Creating the Classics of Tomorrow. As an organization that has dedicated 40 years to classical plays, the APT company has been questioning what exactly 'classical' means today. This new play development program is a first step in addressing this question.

Said Kasabian, “I’ve been so impressed with Tara’s vision for Freeform, so the chance to be a part of it was incredibly exciting. There is an energy to the network of risk-taking and enthusiasm that is palpable and invigorating. I am so grateful to my longtime mentor, Sharon Klein, for this opportunity and to Tara for inviting me to join her on this ride.”

“All the world’s a stage” and on it, Capital Classics Theatre Company will celebrate its 30th anniversary season this summer with a return to live theatre. The centerpiece of the troupe's beloved Greater Hartford Shakespeare Festival will be an outdoor staging of As You Like It, one of the Bard’s most popular romantic comedies.

Providence Performing Arts Center has unveiled their 2021/2022 Broadway season! Along with the Broadway season, PPAC Board Chairman Joseph W. Walsh, Esq. and President and CEO J.L. “Lynn” Singleton announced the completion of the theatre’s façade restoration project.

Touchstone Theatre presents the second Latinx Block Party/Fiesta Latina of their socially-distanced 2020-21 season, on Saturday, April 24, 6-9p.

Get ready to raise your voice and make a joyful noise! The Kean University Theatre Conservatory will present the high-energy musical Sister Act by Alan Menken, Glenn Slater, and Cheri and Bill Steinkellner. Sister Act the Musical is based on the Touchstone Pictures Motion Picture, Sister Act, by Joseph Howard.

There is a lot good about Enigma Chamber Opera’s new meta-comedy adaptation of Mozart’s The Impresario, but the highest praise must be reserved for its formatting as a highly scroll-able hour-long entertainment (mainly because it is actually at most a 20 minute performance trapped inside a redundant overdrawn explanation of and apology for itself).

Today, Broadway San Jose announced the updated season lineup that will make up the company’s upcoming season. The season opens with HAMILTON (October 12–31, 2021), followed by the all-new touring production of Broadway’s Tony Award-winning musical, HAIRSPRAY (November 23–28, 2021) (replacing the previously-announced Anastasia).

The hall easily accommodated the more than two hundred people who came to hear the Lumina Ensemble.

Pepperdine University’s Fine Arts Division will present their production of As You Like It by William Shakespeare on Friday, April 9 and Saturday April 10, 2021 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, April 11, 2021 at 2 p.m.

Touchstone Theatre announces AN IMAGINED AMERICA - a living museum bringing history to life through a re-imagination of what America is, was, and can/may be.