Meet the 2022 Next Wave Initiative Winners by Leah Putnam

The program, founded by The Directors Company in 2020, provides financial scholarships to emerging Black theatre artists.

SOURCE: Playbill at 4:42pm on March 25, 2022☆⚑

Shaina Taub's Suffs Sets 2nd Off-Broadway Extension at The Public by Leah Putnam

The new musical about suffragists from the Devil Wears Prada lyricist opens April 6.

SOURCE: Playbill at 2:18pm on March 25, 2022☆⚑

Read the Reviews for West End The Human Voice, Starring Ruth Wilson by Leah Putnam

Ivo van Hove directs his adaptation of the Jean Cocteau piece at London's Harold Pinter Theatre.

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:03pm on March 25, 2022☆⚑

Read the Reviews for London's Straight Line Crazy, Starring Ralph Fiennes by Leah Putnam

The world premiere of David Hare's new play about Robert Moses officially opened March 23.

SOURCE: Playbill at 10:42am on March 25, 2022☆⚑

World Premiere of Dael Orlandersmith's New Age Opens March 25 by Leah Putnam

Milwaukee Repertory presents the new work from the Pulitzer Prize finalist.

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:33am on March 25, 2022☆⚑

The Drama Book Shop Goes Digital at 104 Years Old by Leah Putnam

Theatre lovers can now shop at the New York theatrical icon in-person and online.

SOURCE: Playbill at 5:18pm on March 24, 2022☆⚑

Cast Complete for Irish Rep's Belfast Girls by Leah Putnam

The Jaki McCarrick play tells the story of five women in 1850 as they seek new lives in Australia.

SOURCE: Playbill at 5:18pm on March 24, 2022☆⚑

See the Cast of Jersey Boys Return to New World Stages by Leah Putnam

The cast and crew chase the music in this new video celebrating the jukebox biomusical's Off-Broadway return.

SOURCE: Playbill at 5:18pm on March 24, 2022☆⚑

Broadway's For Colored Girls... Announces Buy a Ticket, Give a Ticket Partnership by Leah Putnam

The ticket initiative gives high school students the chance to see the show for free.

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:03pm on March 24, 2022☆⚑

Heidi Blickenstaff, Tina Benko, David Wilson Barnes, More to Star in Industry Reading of Disruption by Leah Putnam

The new play from Andrew Stein explores what technology can do for people's happiness, and if humanity should pursue it.

SOURCE: Playbill at 11:24am on March 24, 2022☆⚑

Steven Levenson's New Musical Series Up Here to Star Mae Whitman on Hulu by Leah Putnam

The new show from the writer of tick, tick...BOOM! and Dear Evan Hansen is a musical romantic comedy.

SOURCE: Playbill at 10:12am on March 24, 2022☆⚑

His Story, The Musical Will Receive April Workshop Directed by Jeff Calhoun by Leah Putnam

Anna Miriam Brown's new musical reimagines the story of Jesus.

SOURCE: Playbill at 9:12am on March 24, 2022☆⚑

Billy Eugene Jones, Benja Kay Thomas, and Marcel Spears to Star in N.Y. Premiere of Fat Ham by Leah Putnam

The Public and National Black Theatre are co-producing the play by James Ijames.

SOURCE: Playbill at 3:03pm on March 23, 2022☆⚑

Cynthia Nixon, Anika Noni Rose, Kelli O'Hara, More Join Symphony Space's Wall to Wall Selected Shorts by Leah Putnam

The free, in-person, and live-streamed event commissioned authors for 35 new short stories.

SOURCE: Playbill at 1:48pm on March 23, 2022☆⚑

Beetlejuice Producers Named in Wrongful Death Lawsuit by Leah Putnam

The wife of Broadway stagehand and longtime flyman Peter Wright, who fell to his death in 2020, filed the suit.

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:42pm on March 23, 2022☆⚑

Milwaukee Repertory to Present World Premieres by Eleanor Burgess, Lloyd Suh, More by Leah Putnam

The 2022-2023 season will also include Ragtime, Seven Guitars, Much Ado About Nothing, and more.

SOURCE: Playbill at 10:54am on March 23, 2022☆⚑

Crossing the Ocean: Meet Four Emerging Irish Voices by Leah Putnam

Felicia Olusanya, Kwaku Fortune, Jade Jordan, and CN Smith discuss the Transatlantic Commissions Program co-headed by Irish Repertory Theatre.

SOURCE: Playbill at 10:06am on March 23, 2022☆⚑

Late Shubert Chairman Philip J. Smith Remembered at Music Box Theatre by Leah Putnam

The service featured speeches as well as performances by Broadway favorites Bernadette Peters, André De Shields, Ciaran Sheehan, and Peter Cincotti.

SOURCE: Playbill at 4:54pm on March 22, 2022☆⚑

Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles Documentary Screening to Benefit Ukrainian Refugees March 21 by Leah Putnam

The documentary goes into the story of international and Broadway favorite Fiddler on the Roof.

SOURCE: Playbill at 1:33pm on March 21, 2022☆⚑

New Musical Adaptation of Thornton Wilder's The Bridge of San Luis Rey Receives Industry Workshop by Leah Putnam

The cast for the London reading will include Marc Elliott, Celine Schoenmaker, Kaisa Hammarlund, Abiona Omonua, and more.

SOURCE: Playbill at 11:42am on March 21, 2022☆⚑

Neuro-Diverse Theatre Company EPIC Players to Present Cabaret at Lincoln Center by Leah Putnam

Broadway alums DeAnne Stewart, Derek Klena, Jake David Smith, more will perform along with EPIC artists.

SOURCE: Playbill at 11:18am on March 21, 2022☆⚑

On Sugarland Closes at Off-Broadway's New York Theatre Workshop March 20 by Leah Putnam

The new work from Is God Is and What to Send Up When It Goes Down playwright Aleshea Harris stars Kiki Layne.

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:18am on March 20, 2022☆⚑

Broadway and London Co-Stars Tom Hiddleston and Zawe Ashton are Engaged by Leah Putnam

The couple shared the stage three years ago in Betrayal.

SOURCE: Playbill at 11:12am on March 18, 2022☆⚑

Original West End Queens of Six to Reunite at Hampton Court Palace by Leah Putnam

The actors will perform in concert at the famed Tudor home of King Henry VIII.

SOURCE: Playbill at 10:33am on March 18, 2022☆⚑

Off-Broadway's Heartland Begins Previews at 59E59 March 18 by Leah Putnam

Mari Vial-Golden, Mark Cuddy, and Owais Ahmed star in the new play by Gabriel Jason Dean.

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:24am on March 18, 2022☆⚑