Willy News

SaraSolo Productions, Inc. announces the first SaraSolo Encore from the 2017 SaraSolo Festival.

Carol Hickey Acting Studio presents Good People, written by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Lindsay-Abaire.  He pays his respects to his old South Boston neighborhood and the insurmountable class divide between those who make it out of this blue-collar neighborhood and those who find themselves left behind.   Good People has been hailed as enthralling, utterly gripping, remarkable" by the Los Angeles Times, "painfully funny and gut wrenchingly real" by Washingtonian Magazine and "masterful and oh-so-compelling" by The Boston Globe. 

In theatre, we often see the physical world thrown out of balance. RUSTBELT:1984, written by Damon W. Arrington (Broadway Assistant Director, Award Winning Off Broadway Director/Producer) and being presented as a staged reading by Fifth Wall Theatre at Richmond's historic Hofheimer Building, is no exception. RUSTBELT: 1984 is the first installation in a series of three plays using the visceral world of the theatre to shake up social consciousness regarding water quality and policy.

The cast of Broadway's CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY appeared on this morning's 'Good Morning America' to perform a medley of 'I've Got a Golden Ticket' and 'It Must Be Believed to Be Seen.'

The improv troupe "Dark Side of the Room" started off in 2014 at Dad's Garage as an in-house project for improvisers of color to experiment with new formats geared towards giving voice to the African American experience. The group, composed entirely of African American performers from Dad's Garage, settled on a style where the improvisers riff on popular movies such as Cocktail, Top Gun, and Willy Wonka that are driven primarily by white characters.

SaraSolo Productions, Inc. announces the first SaraSolo Encore from the 2017 SaraSolo Festival, actress/artist/writer Jan Wallace brings her sell-out hit, SHIRLEY AND ME, back to Sarasota for one Encore show only, on Friday June 9 at 8:00pm, at The Starlite Room, at 1001 Cocoanut Ave, Sarasota, FL 34236.

In theatre, we often see the physical world thrown out of balance. RUSTBELT:1984, written by Damon Arrington and being presented as a staged reading by Fifth Wall Theatre at the historical Hofheimer Building, is no exception. RUSTBELT: 1984 is the first installation in a series of three plays using the visceral world of the theatre to shake up social consciousness regarding water quality and policy.  This is not a dry night of statistics, but rather a satirical tale told through theatre, multi-media, music, and dance with the intent to encourage conversation. 

Michael, this one's for you! SHIRLEY AND ME, written and performed by Jan Wallace and directed by E. Katherine Kerr, will play the 2017 Planet Connection Theatre Festivity, which runs June 12 - July 9 at The Clemente, 107 Suffolk Street, NYC.

Long Beach theatre company, Olio Theatre Works presents the Los Angeles Premiere of "Willy's Lil Virgin Queen", a mad-cap, comic romp through the ages as Willy Shakespeare teaches a 20th century "lil virgin" how to skip the prince and be the queen she was always meant to be.

The Studio is proud to present highlighted musical works of Anthony Newley and Leslie Bricusse, featuring memorable songs from Stop the World - I Want to Get Off, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, The Roar of the Greasepaint and more.

Tony Award-winning Trinity Repertory Company, under the artistic leadership of Richard L. Bready Artistic Director Curt Columbus, announces initial casting for its robust 2017-2018 season. 

Artistic Director Bradley Hemmings today announces the full programme for this summer's Greenwich + Docklands International Festival (GDIF), London's leading festival of outdoor theatre and performing arts, which takes place from 23 June to 8 July in locations across Royal Greenwich, Docklands and Tower Hamlets.  It follows the previous announcement in March of eight newly commissioned productions.

City Theatre is wrapping up the 2016-17 season that began with the box-office smash-hit Hand to God by Robert Askins, followed by the world premiere of Sharon Washington's Feeding the Dragon, and included critically acclaimed plays by Marco Ramirez, Jessica Dickey, and Colman Domingo.

Arthur Miller's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece Death of a Salesman comes to Exeter in May as part of a major touring revival by Northampton's Royal & Derngate. Directed by Abigail Graham, the production can be seen at Exeter Northcott Theatre from Tue 30 May - Sat 3 June.

J's Cultural Arts Theatre (JCAT) in association with Aaron Grant Theatrical & Kodesh Congregation, Inc is proud to announce the World Premier Production of Ben Andron's new intellectual thriller, BROKEN SNOW, in Miami, Florida.

Shirley is a Liverpool housewife. Her kids have left home and she makes chips and egg for her husband while talking to the wall. Where has her life disappeared to? Out of the blue, her best friend offers her a trip to Greece for 2 weeks and she secretly packs her bags. She heads for the sun and starts to see the world and herself very differently.

As blasphemous as it sounds, Arthur Miller's classic American tragedy is almost as good as peak television.

The 2017 Tony nominations were announced this morning. If you haven't checked them out yet, what are you waiting for?! CLICK HERE to check out a full list of this year's nominees, and HERE for reactions from the lucky few!

Alice Sommer Herz, the world's oldest living Holocaust survivor and a prolific concert pianist, once said, 'Music saved my life, and Music saves me still.' On Yom Hashoah, a day devoted to honoring the lives lost in the Holocaust, a group of artists visited Pangea to pay tribute to souls saved through music, the strong men and women of the concentration camps, and the resilience of the human spirit.

Music icon Method Man and supermodel Hailey Baldwin are ready to pick up the mic as the hosts of TBS's DROP THE MIC, the new comedic music series from executive producers James Corden, Ben Winston and Jensen Karp.