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On Tuesday, May 23, 2023, I had the excellent opportunity to sit down with Eric Sciotto, Director and Choreographer of Rock of Ages at MTWichita, and Brian J. Marcum, Artistic Director at MTWichita. It was a wide ranging interview, with a very stream of consciousness feel, and they were gracious enough to grant me an hour over a lunch break during rehearsal last Tuesday. The energy was high, and I was able to get some excellent insight into Eric’s choreographic process. I also spoke to Brian about leading MTWichita into a new era.

Orlando Fringe is celebrating the highly successful return for Year 32 “Festival Beautiful” of the Orlando International Fringe Theatre Festival presented by City Beverages held May 16-29, 2023. 

Providing assistance to young conductors in the early stages of their careers and thereby helping to continue the art form, The Solti Foundation U.S. has selected a record 22 young conductors to receive a 2023 Career Assistance Award (CAA).

The Maryland Theatre Collective has announced casting and production teams for their next three events of the 2023/2024 season!

Are you afraid of Shakespeare? Well fear not young squires. Arkansas Shakespeare Theatre’s programming this year is assessable to all who shy away from The Bard. Starting June 15th at the beautiful new Windgate Center for Fine & Performing Arts on the University of Central Arkansas campus, there are three options to choose from-THE TEMPEST, THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (ABRIDGED), and SHAKESPEARE CABERAT, but each show is so entertaining, I suggest you go see them all. 

“The music and the story are moving, compelling, beautiful, funny, and this particular telling is unique because it utilizes incredible technology not previously available,” says actor Ian Knauer, who plays the Titanic’s first officer William Murdoch, in the spectacular new production that opens Maine State Music Theatre’s 2023 season at the Pickard Theater on June 7th.

This summer in the lead up to a camp take of On The Razzle15-22 July 2023, Director Simon Rudkin (Ghost Train) will take us on an immersive journey from the Regency period back to the present in his elegant adaption of Tom Stoppard's Arcadia.

Prospect Theater Company is launching rush tickets and student pricing for the New York premiere of the award-winning new indie-rock musical Lizard Boy, which begins performances tomorrow, Thursday, June 1st at Theatre Row, ahead of an opening night set for Wednesday, June 14.

The Off Broadway Alliance, an organization of Off-Broadway producers, theaters, general managers, press agents, and marketing professionals, just announced the winners of the 12th Annual Off-Broadway Alliance Awards

New York City Center has announced programming for the 2023 – 2024 Season, 80 Years at the Center of the Arts, which will include productions of Pal Joey, Titanic, Once Upon a Mattress, Jelly's Last Jam, and more!

Following a whirlwind two-year career in the late 00’s that saw the four teenagers release two records (via Thurston Moore’s Ecstatic Peace in the US and XL Recordings in the UK), become magazine cover stars, and play to ravenous sold-out crowds around the world, it became clear that the flame burned too quickly and they needed to call it quits.

Sheffield Theatres has announced the full cast and creative team for the first non-replica regional production of Miss Saigon. By special arrangement with Cameron Mackintosh, Boublil and Schönberg's hit musical retelling of Madame Butterfly set during the Vietnam war.

This August, The Studio Theatre™ Tierra del Sol (806 San Marino Drive, The Villages, FL) opens the second Summer Show of the 2023/2024 Season: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.

​​​​​​​ Unicorn Theatre has announced that Producing Artistic Director Cynthia Levin will retire in June 2024. Levin's departure will culminate a historic run spanning more than four decades at one of Kansas City's landmark theatres, where she gained a regional and national reputation for innovating and bringing to life bold and diverse plays with powerful messages and illuminating people in an empathetic and unique way.

The 2023-2024 season has been announced at Stolen Shakespeare Guild, Fort Worth's esteemed classical theatre company. Join in for the company's 18th season and experience the magic of live theatre with seven incredible productions.

Set phasers to stun and beam yourself to your Fox Cities Performing Arts Center on October 13, 2023 for an unforgettable night with the original 'Captain James T. Kirk,' award-winning actor William Shatner, live on stage!

What did our critic think of THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG at Reynolds Performance Hall?

Director Nick J. Browne and the Center at West Park are set to premier the new play with music Is My Microphone On? from May 26-June 3, 2023.

Boston Landmarks Orchestra, under the direction of Music Director Christopher Wilkins, brings its annual summer series of free, live orchestral concerts to the iconic DCR Hatch Memorial Shell on the Esplanade, with a special focus on concerts in Dorchester, Roxbury, Hyde Square, and Chelsea.

Hay textos cuya premisa resulta inviable en el contexto de sociedades que persiguen la equidad y reconocen la importancia de la diversidad: tal es el caso de La fierecilla domada, clásico de William Shakespeare, que constituye una de las cimas del ingenio verbal y la construcción cómica, pero que parte de valores culturales hoy por fortuna obsoletos, como la presunta superioridad masculina y la extraviada noción de sumisión de una mujer a su marido.