A Life - 2019 - Off-Broadway Articles Page 13

New Village Arts (NVA) launches its milestone 25th Anniversary Season with WE WILL ROCK YOU, a story by Ben Elton and featuring more than 20 iconic Queen songs. Globally recognized, this awe-inspiring rebel rousing musical has attracted over 15 million theatregoers in 17 countries and features Queen’s biggest hits.

Something Better Productions will present FORGET I SAID ANYTHING, a new musical by Samantha Roberts, Off-Broadway at Theatre Row. The 30-song show draws on Roberts' personal experiences, reframed through memory and fictional characters.

The Flea announced the cast of BEYOND THE STARDUST, an immersive nightlife show conceived by Niegel Smith and The Illustrious Blacks, featuring aerialists, vocalists, and dancers in an Afro-disco-space-punk production.

International Literary Properties has promoted Jeremy Barclay to Vice President, Film & Television, and Yoni Weiss to Manager, Theatrical Licensing & Development.

Today’s subject Peggy McKowen is currently living her theatre life as the Artistic Director for one of the most important theatre festivals for new plays in the country Contemporary American Theatre Festival (CATF). Located at Shepherd University in Shepherdstown, West Virginia this year’s festival will present five new plays in repertory between July 10th and August 2nd. 2026 marks CATF’s 36th season.

Altadena Music Theatre announced its 2026 summer season with productions of GREASE and LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS, performed at a temporary outdoor venue at the Mountain View Mausoleum after the Eaton Fire displaced the company.

Cleveland-based playwright Lisa Langford has been named the fourth recipient of the Dominic Orlando Playwriting Award, earning a $12,000 unrestricted grant. Her winning play will have its world premiere in Cleveland Heights.

Country artist Randy Travis will release his first album of original music in over 18 years. The album is a collection of lost songs from throughout Travis's career, which have been assembled, remixed, and remastered by longtime producer Kyle Lehning.

The John Farnham musical extends again! Bonnie Anderson & Ben Hall join Michael Paynter at Sydney's Roslyn Packer Theatre, Nov 15–Jan 3.

The Actors' Gang will present Two Gentlebots of Verona, a free, family-friendly adaptation of William Shakespeare's Two Gentlemen of Verona, from August 1–30, 2026 in Culver City and Burbank as part of its annual Free Shakespeare in the Park for Families series.

Fresh off making her Broadway debut in Every Brilliant Thing, Emmy Award-winning actor, director, producer and television icon Mariska Hargitay has been tapped as host of the 78th Emmy Awards.

Jordan von Haslow performed An Unforgettable Fourth: An American Celebration of Nat 'King' Cole at The Green Room 42, featuring over 20 Cole songs, special guests, and improvised cabaret moments. See photos!

Comedian and bookseller Ben Pope will bring BEN'S BOOK CLUB to Edinburgh Fringe for three shows only, featuring guest comedians Ania Magliano, Rhys James, and Celya AB at Assembly Studio 3.

The next generation find their voices with help from the National Theatre's development programme

Twenty-eight years ago, The Ladyboys of Bangkok made a brief appearance at what was then the Queen's Theatre on Shaftesbury Avenue (now the Sondheim, which has committed itself to Les Misérables with a fervour that makes Swifties look fickle). Now the company has finally brought its full touring operation to London. The Sabai Pavilion — a vast pink tent pitched on Shepherd's Bush Green, fragrant with pad thai and ambition — houses what the company bills as its official London debut: a two-hour kathoey cabaret revue now in its twenty-sixth year of nine-month UK tours.

Scottish actors Claire Dargo and Scott Fletcher, known for their roles in River City, will reunite for the world premiere of OVERTONE at the Edinburgh Fringe, marking their first stage work since leaving the show.

Gregor Fisher will perform his first one-man show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, joined by director Nigel West for an evening of stories and reminiscences from his decades-long career.

The Board of Directors of The Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts, Inc. elected three new Board members, Peter D. Cummings, Steven Sanders and Steven W. Barnes.

Whether you are Team Black or Team Green, there is probably a stage veteran on your side. Like other HBO shows such as The Gilded Age and Julia, the Game of Thrones spin-off, House of the Dragon, is full of Broadway, West End, and stage alums. 

Canadian-born Jesse Robb and American-born Shana Carroll, who now resides in Montréal, serve as co-choreographers on the Tony Award-nominated musical Water for Elephants, presented at Toronto’s CAA Ed Mirvish Theatre from July 7-19.

Papatango Theatre Company and Pentabus announced a new collaboration to produce and tour two world premieres by prize-winning playwrights Tom Powell and Laura Waldren to venues across the UK.

The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis announced its 26/27 Steve Woolf Studio Series, featuring three productions at the Emerson Studio, as part of the company's 60th Anniversary Diamond Season.

Step inside rehearsals for Theatre Aspen's Guys & Dolls In Concert with Bonnie Milligan and Christopher Sieber. Watch a video Milligan as ‘Miss Adelaide' and Sieber as ‘Nathan Detroit’ rehearsing 'Sue Me.'

East West Players will launch its 61st season by centering female, queer, and marginalized voices, both onstage and off. The mainstage season opens with the Southern California premiere of the comedy Wives by Jaclyn Backhaus.

Raven Theatre’s production of Dave Malloy’s Octet has extended at The Goodman. The a cappella musical is directed by Keira Fromm, Associate Director of The Goodman’s Iceboy!.