All stories by Zack Calhoon on BroadwayStars

Sunday, August 1, 2021

People You Should Know . . . Michael Alvarez by Zack Calhoon

Michael Alvarez (Director) Michael’s directorial work has been seen internationally at Her Majesty’s Theatre in the West End, Arcola Theatre, Westminster Library, Royal Academy of Music,…

SOURCE: Visible Soul at 10:36AM
Saturday, July 31, 2021

People You Should Know . . . Peter Gray by Zack Calhoon

Peter Gray (Playwright) has studied Buddhism on a North Carolina goat farm, philosophy in the ruins of Socrates' jail cell, and fairy tales in Copenhagen. His most recent play Salem: Post-Mo…

SOURCE: Visible Soul at 09:24PM
Thursday, May 13, 2021

People You Should Know . . . Helen Banner by Zack Calhoon

Helen Banner (she/they) is a playwright and librettist and an associate artist at New Georges. They grew up in the British Channel Islands and studied at Cambridge and the Tisch School of t…

SOURCE: Visible Soul at 10:12AM
Wednesday, May 12, 2021

People You Should Know . . . Grace Oberhofer by Zack Calhoon

(Photo by Justin McCallum) Grace Oberhofer (composer/librettist) is an award-winning choral composer, who has particular expertise in writing for treble voices and making non-traditional m…

SOURCE: Visible Soul at 10:06AM
Tuesday, May 4, 2021

People You Should Know . . . Elinor T Vanderburg by Zack Calhoon

Elinor T Vanderburg is a Black-American writer, performer and voice artist born in Washington, D.C. She writes plays for and about misfits, creating troubled chimerical landscapes to call he…

SOURCE: Visible Soul at 08:48PM
Monday, May 3, 2021

People You Should Know . . . Tess Howsam by Zack Calhoon

Tess Howsam is a Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary artist who curates and directs ekphrastic shows that blend theater, installation art, and performance. Howsam seeks to subvert theatrical ex…

SOURCE: Visible Soul at 08:42PM

People You Should Know . . . Emily Krause by Zack Calhoon

Emily Krause is a Brooklyn-based playwright, songwriter, and performer. Her plays have been produced at Whitman College, the Center for Performance Research, and the IRT 3B Development Serie…

SOURCE: Visible Soul at 08:42PM

People You Should Know . . . Porcia Lewis by Zack Calhoon

Porcia Lewis started her career in the arts at the tender age of 5. She was in theatre productions from elementary school throughout college. After dropping out of college, Porcia began to w…

SOURCE: Visible Soul at 08:42PM

People You Should Know . . . Leah Barker by Zack Calhoon

Leah Barker's plays have been developed or performed by Hartford Stage, Troy Foundry Theatre, Capital Repertory Theatre, Dixon Place, Spark Creative Works, Mount St. Mary's University, and E…

SOURCE: Visible Soul at 08:42PM
Wednesday, April 7, 2021

People You Should Know . . . Ryan McCurdy by Zack Calhoon

(Photo by Jody Christopherson) RYAN McCURDY is a multi-disciplinary performer, writer, and producer who has worked extensively on both coasts and across the United States. As an actor-musi…

SOURCE: Visible Soul at 04:36PM
Monday, March 1, 2021

People You Should Know . . . Eli Batalion by Zack Calhoon

  ELI BATALION is a writer, producer, director, actor and composer for film, TV, the web and the stage. Eli began his career in musical theatre with the hit the award-winning internation…

SOURCE: Visible Soul at 02:48PM

People You Should Know . . . Eli Battalion by Zack Calhoon

ELI BATALION is a writer, producer, director, actor and composer for film, TV, the web and the stage. Eli began his career in musical theatre with the hit the award-winning internationally …

SOURCE: Visible Soul at 12:36PM
Saturday, February 6, 2021

People You Should Know . . . Bill Connington by Zack Calhoon

Bill Connington is an actor and filmmaker. His feature film LOVE, REPEAT recently started streaming on platforms including Amazon and iTunes. His next film, POUGHKEEPSIE IS FOR LOVERS, is in…

SOURCE: Visible Soul at 11:03AM
Monday, January 4, 2021

People You Should Know . . . Anna Cherkezishvili by Zack Calhoon

Anna Cherkezishvili was born in Georgia. As a child, she experienced a civil war in her country. The war caused poverty and despair in Georgia. Her family had to go through hard social times…

SOURCE: Visible Soul at 02:36PM
Sunday, December 6, 2020

People You Should Know . . . November Christine by Zack Calhoon

(Photo by PJ Norton) November Christine holds a degree in Cellular Biology and Molecular Genetics from the University of Maryland, as well as a BM in Musical Theatre from the East Carolina…

SOURCE: Visible Soul at 05:24PM
Wednesday, October 14, 2020

People You Should Know . . . Kurt Johns by Zack Calhoon

KURT JOHNS, as a 20-year resident of New York, had a great performing career in regionals, Broadway and national tours before repatriating to Chicago to concentrate on directing and writing.…

SOURCE: Visible Soul at 03:54PM
Tuesday, September 1, 2020

People You Should Know . . . Joshua Morgan by Zack Calhoon

Joshua Morgan is an actor based in NYC. He founded and ran the first dual city theatre company that was based out of Washington, DC and Winston-Salem, NC before returning to work as an actor…

SOURCE: Visible Soul at 12:24PM
Friday, August 28, 2020

People You Should Know . . . Stephanie Streisand by Zack Calhoon

Stephanie Streisand is a Los Angeles based writer born and raised on Long Island, NY. She is an accomplished writer who has written and performed sketch comedy at UCB Theater, Magnet Theater…

SOURCE: Visible Soul at 01:18PM
Friday, August 14, 2020

People You Should Know . . . Genevieve Simon by Zack Calhoon

GENEVIEVE SIMON’s plays include Bloom Bloom Pow, Sister/Friend, Guarding, Delivery, and Romeo + Juliet + Anybodys. Her work has produced and developed in New York at The Tank, The People�…

SOURCE: Visible Soul at 12:36PM
Thursday, August 13, 2020

People You Should Know . . . Cinthia Chen by Zack Calhoon

Cinthia Chen is an interdisciplinary artist working primarily in theater and film. She was a SUITE/Space artist at Mabou Mines, Fresh Ground Pepper BRB Resident Artist, Creators Collective�…

SOURCE: Visible Soul at 03:42PM
Monday, August 10, 2020

People You Should Know . . . Andrew Siañez-De La O by Zack Calhoon

ANDREW SIAÑEZ-DE LA O is a Boston-based Mexican-American playwright from El Paso, Texas. He is currently a Huntington Playwriting Fellow at the Huntington Theatre Company in Boston, Massach…

SOURCE: Visible Soul at 03:18PM

People You Should Know . . . Serena Berman by Zack Calhoon

Serena Berman is a writer, performer, and producer. Her work has been developed with Ars Nova (Play Group 2019-2021), Westport Country Playhouse, Williamstown Theater Festival, Corkscrew The…

SOURCE: Visible Soul at 03:18PM
Thursday, August 6, 2020

People You Should Know . . . Sharrell D. Luckett by Zack Calhoon

Sharrell D. Luckett, PhD, is Director of the Helen Weinberger Center for Drama and Playwriting and Associate Professor of Drama and Performance Studies in the Department of English and Compa…

SOURCE: Visible Soul at 08:24PM
Thursday, July 16, 2020

People You Should Know . . . Dorothea Gloria by Zack Calhoon

Dorothea Gloria is an actress from the Philippines. She is a resident actor at the award-winning company, The Flea Theater in Tribeca and a founder of TeamTheatre LLC. She has performed pro…

SOURCE: Visible Soul at 10:24PM
Saturday, May 30, 2020

People You Should Know . . . Eliza Kingsbury by Zack Calhoon

Eliza Kingsbury is a comedy writer, actor, and musician based in New York City. She composes and writes original musical parody sketches in the style of different artists, and was a performe…

SOURCE: Visible Soul at 10:48PM
Monday, March 16, 2020

People You Should Know . . . Dominick Balletta by Zack Calhoon

Dominick Balletta was named Executive Director of the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene (NYTF) in November 2019, following an 11 ½ year stint as Managing Director of the Jacob Burns F…

SOURCE: Visible Soul at 08:32PM
Monday, March 2, 2020

People You Should Know . . . Ryan O'Connor by Zack Calhoon

(Photo by Ryan Carpender) Ryan O’Connor is a self-described bon vivant, working successfully in various mediums in entertainment without ever really committing to any one particular vocat…

SOURCE: Visible Soul at 10:06PM
Monday, February 24, 2020

People You Should Know . . . Mark Junek by Zack Calhoon

MARK JUNEK. George Street Playhouse debut came as Officer Paul Larkin in 2017's American Son. Other credits include Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus and The Performers on Broadway, Fran…

SOURCE: Visible Soul at 08:42PM
Sunday, February 16, 2020

People You Should Know . . . Paul Schwartz by Zack Calhoon

Paul Schwartz is a writer, director and composer. His work is in the field of dramatic story-telling in all its forms, and encompasses projects in film, theatre, opera and dance. He is a mem…

SOURCE: Visible Soul at 08:18PM
Thursday, February 13, 2020

People You Should Know . . . Cheri Wicks by Zack Calhoon

Cheri Wicks a founding member and Managing Director from 2012 to 2017 joined forces with Erin as Co-Producing Artistic Directors in February 2017.  Growing up in central Montana where prod…

SOURCE: Visible Soul at 10:06PM

People You Should Know . . . Ross G. Hewitt by Zack Calhoon

Ross G. Hewitt is an associate member of the American Dramatists Guild and an active member of the Village Playwrights, a group that gives LGBTQ playwrights and screenwriters a voice. His fu…

SOURCE: Visible Soul at 10:06PM

All that Chat

2023-2024 BROADWAY SEASON
May 30, 2023: Grey House - Lyceum Theatre
Jun 26, 2023: Just For Us - Hudson Theatre
Jul 24, 2023: The Cottage - Hayes Theater
Nov 16, 2023: Spamalot - St. James Theatre
Dec 18, 2023: Appropriate - Hayes Theater
Mar 07, 2024: Doubt - Todd Haimes Theatre
Apr 14, 2024: Lempicka - Longacre Theatre
Apr 17, 2024: The Wiz - Marquis Theatre
Apr 18, 2024: Suffs - Music Box Theatre
Apr 25, 2024: Mother Play - Hayes Theater
Jun 10, 2024: The Drama Desk Awards