Ellen Simon, daughter of the late great playwright Neil Simon, will finally see the world premiere of her play, Ass, starting Oct. 22 in a production by Pioneer Theatre Company. The drama ab…
The famously hawk-nosed actress Margaret Hamilton " best known as The Wicked Witch in the film "The Wizard of Oz," but employed for decades as a treasured character actress " gets a fresh sp…
Music Theatre of Connecticut launches New Voices " a non-musical pilot program that gives a spotlight to five contemporary plays by living authors in staged readings " Oct. 11 with Jeff Talb…
A troubled war veteran shakes the lives of residents of a South Side Chicago apartment building in Joshua Allen's The October Storm, getting its world premiere Oct. 8-23 by Hudson Stage Comp…
Georgia Ensemble Theatre in Roswell, GA, will give Alabama Story " the six-actor, one-set drama about an embattled librarian in the Deep South " its state premiere as part of the resident Eq…
Provenance, a new play set in and around a Hoosier history museum, gets a staged reading Sept. 25 as the first title in Actors Theatre of Indiana's 2021-22 Lab Series devoted to developing n…
Midwest actor and playwright Adam Tran conjures the conquering mood of the Mongol Empire's Genghis Khan in a new one-man show, Mongrel, getting an open-air world-premiere staging by Know The…
The First Annual Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival welcomes playwrights, other theater practitioners, students and theatergoers from around country to shine a spotlight on new works …
New plays by Mark St. Germain and Anne Undeland will enliven Great Barrington Public Theater's summer 2021 season in the Berkshires in Massachusetts. Six weeks of performances " including th…
A few years ago when a play of mine was being produced by Florida Studio Theatre, a twentysomething intern named Dave Osmundsen picked me up at the airport and we got to chatting about plays…
Two Henrys, Kenneth Jones' three-character humor-laced drama about Wisconsin snowbirds dealing with grief, guilt, prejudice and perceptions in Florida, is among titles featured in PlayWorks …
Alabama Story, the six-actor/one-set social justice drama by Kenneth Jones, will make its professional streaming debut Jan. 18-Feb. 14, 2021, when Actors Theatre of Indiana offers an on-d…
Simply put, Greta Lambert is one of the great things to happen to regional theater. If you don't know her work, you're in luck: The veteran Alabama actress who has spent 35 years working wit…
Oak Ridge Playhouse, the 77-year-old civic theater in eastern Tennessee, got more creative than usual for the year of COVID 19. Executive artistic director Reggie Law conceived a production …
Alabama Story, the six-actor drama cited by The Washington Post for its "national relevance" " trafficking in racial tensions, bullying politicians, persecuted but persistent women, Civil Ri…
Cape May Stage in New Jersey will stream a virtual reading of Kenneth Jones' three-actor, one-set play Two Henrys live on Facebook 7 PM June 18 in celebration of Pride Month as part of the n…
Cape May Stage in New Jersey will stream a virtual reading of Kenneth Jones' three-actor, one-set play Two Henrys live on Facebook 7 PM June 18 in celebration of Pride Month as part of the n…
The adaptation of P.G. Wodehouse's classic tales opened at the Helen Hayes in 2001, and can be streamed though May 10 on composer Andrew Lloyd Webber's YouTube Channel The Shows Must Go On.
The epic musical, drawn from Irish history by the creators of Les Misérables and Riverdance, was directed by Frank Galati.
To mark the 80th birthday of composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim in 2010, Playbill.com asked Broadway songwriters to do the impossible"pick their favorite songs by the master. A decade later,…
Of the many gratifying experiences I've had witnessing the regional life of my play Alabama Story since 2015, I'm uniquely touched by the college and high school productions that have surfac…
Washington Stage Guild will give playwright Alex Webb a first-listen of his new six-actor comedy Beautiful Monster, about young aspiring novelist and gadabout George Bernard Shaw in the year…
The inaugural TheatreLab series of new plays developed in readings by Actors Theatre of Indiana continues Feb. 4 with the presentation of Lindsay Adams' drama Rattler, about a support group …
Alabama Shakespeare Festival has announced casting for its March 2020 production of Kenneth Jones' six-actor social justice drama Alabama Story " the Montgomery premiere of the acclaimed pla…
Alabama Shakespeare Festival has announced casting for its March 2020 production of Kenneth Jones' six-actor social justice drama Alabama Story " the Montgomery premiere of the acclaimed pla…