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Signature Theatre presents the DC premiere of The Scottsboro Boys directed by Signature Theatre's Director of New Works Joe Calarco and choreographed by Jared Grimes. Get a first look at the…
Performances continue at the Arlington, Virginia, venue through July 1.
Get a first look atSignature Theatre'sD.C. premiere of The Scottsboro Boys, directed bySignature Theatre's Director of New WorksJoe CalarcoSignature's Jesus Christ Superstar, Gypsy and chore…
Performances will begin at the Arlington, Virginia, venue May 22.
The Scottsboro Boys were nine African American teenagers who were accused of raping two white American women on a train near Alabama in 1931. The boys were falsely accus…
Performances will begin at the Arlington, Virginia, venue May 22.
Tue, May 22 thru Sun, July 1 @ Signature Theatre, presented by Signature Theatre -- In the vein of their iconic Chicago and Cabaret, the Tony Award®-winning masterminds deliver a breatht…
As we began to write The Scottsboro Boys, it was immediately apparent why it was so important to tell their story. Behind the headlines, the spectacle, the ongoing trials, the histrionics …
A white man insists that nine black men perform a song about his sweet home Alabama. You know the one, he tells them. It's the one he loved hearing as it rose above the cotton fields. "And w…
John Kander and the late Fred Ebb have created an art form of remaking history into groundbreaking musicals.
1931: On March 25, a fight breaks out between groups of young black and white men on a freight car in Alabama. Nine black youths, age 12 to 19, are arrested, and rape charges are added based…
The new musical Beast in the Jungle, from Scottsboro Boys collaborators David Thompson (book), Susan Stroman (director) and John Kander (composer), will open at off-Broadway's Vineyard T…
Here's a selection of upcoming auditions in the New York area and around the country.
Come From Away star Rodney Hicks shares rare photos and stories from his acclaimed stage career.
In Kander and Ebb's "The Scottsboro Boys," powerfully presented by Porchlight Music Theatre, the juxtaposition of the antic shenanigans and the tragic story they're telling creates the sense…
THE SONGS AND THE FURY Sardonic, ironic, cheeky, subversive"hip epithets can't convey the excruciating call-and-response fusion of humor and horror, laughter and tears, that you feel seeing …
Between the Broadway opening of John Kander and Fred Ebb's "The Scottsboro Boys," and Tuesday night's Chicago premiere from Porchlight Music Theatre, more than six years have elapsed. This h…
The all-star creative team behind Broadway's The Scottsboro Boys, including scribe David Thompson, director Susan Stroman and composer John Kander, are joining forces on a new musical, a…
Every week director Robert W Schneider and actor Kevin David Thomas pull back the curtain on neglected, forgotten, and under appreciated musicals, as well as bizarre performances, endearing …
The Scottsboro Boys ended its brief Broadway run on this date in 2010.
Porchlight Music Theatre announces the Chicago premiere of the Broadway musical The Scottsboro Boys, February 3 " March [...]
Porchlight Music Theatre announced the cast of the Chicago premiere of "The Scottsboro Boys" Thursday, featuring an expanded number of Equity contracts. The production will feature Stephe…