Tuesday, January 19, 2016
A reading Jeff Talbott’s new play Elliot is on the inaugural 2016 calendar of Crowded Outlet, a fresh New York City not-for-profit theatre company devoted to developing and producing new w…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 05:18PMMonday, January 11, 2016
A respected professor falls from grace when his lack of academic credentials is revealed T.J. Brady’s four-actor drama Two Dollar Bill, getting its world premiere by Utah’s Pioneer Theat…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 10:58AMTuesday, January 5, 2016
Personal and societal tensions between actors in a community theatre production of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? fuel Stephen Kaplan’s new serious comedy The Community, getting a readi…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 11:42AMSunday, December 27, 2015
Naughty/Nice, a musical comedy revue featuring four adult performers playing a multitude of twisted, profane and heartbreakingly desperate children writing letters to Santa Claus, joined the…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 01:04PMWednesday, December 23, 2015
Christine Toy Johnson‘s new play The Secret Wisdom of Trees, about a woman’s need to map her past as she faces a future with Alzheimer’s disease, will get a reading Jan. 10…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 01:29PMFriday, December 18, 2015
Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theatre has revealed three titles of its upcoming season.
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 10:16AMSaturday, December 12, 2015
A real-life crime linked to the film "Cruising" and set in the Greenwich Village gay community of the '70s gets a fictional spin.
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 10:08AMWednesday, December 9, 2015
Broadway's Cass Morgan shares her new autobiographical musical "The Road to Where" in a private industry presentation following appearances at Geva Theatre and and Weston Playhouse.
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 08:30AMWednesday, December 2, 2015
A new three-character play about German students charged with treason in Nazi Germany gets additional development this month.
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 10:59AMMonday, November 16, 2015
Door County's major resident Equity theatre announces a five-show 2016 season, including the Midwest premiere of a play about censorship and Civil Rights.
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 01:51PMMonday, November 9, 2015
Casting has been announced for the new holiday revue "It Happened One Christmas," premiering in Salt Lake City in December. Rehearsals begin Nov. 9.
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 10:11AMMonday, October 19, 2015
Florida Studio Theatre has announced its 2015-16 season, to include the Southern premiere of "Alabama Story," a six-actor drama characterized as a highly theatrical cousin to "To Kill a Mock…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 07:17AMMonday, September 21, 2015
Broadway and Off-Broadway stars sing the songs of composer Will Van Dyke and lyricist Jeff Talbott, who are collaborating on two musicals and a pop album, tonight at Feinstein's/54 Below.
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 10:42AMWednesday, September 16, 2015
Playwright-actor Matthew-Lee Erlbach talks about the characters and conflicts of his new Off-Broadway play "Sex of the Baby."
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 12:20PMMonday, September 14, 2015
Theatre and pop songwriters Jeff Talbott & Will Van Dyke unveil some of their work on a new EP featuring Broadways stars Billy Porter, Kate Baldwin, Jonathan Groff and more.
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 12:23PMMonday, August 31, 2015
More than sixty titles are included in the just-published annual collection "2015 The Best Men's Stage Monologues" from Smith & Kraus. The eclectic list of playwrights includes The book feat…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 11:15AMTuesday, August 25, 2015
Quick Silver Theater Company, devoted to artists of diverse heritage, will stage "Proof" in a co-pro with Classics in Color: A Theatre Company. An interview with QSTC's co-founder Tyrone Hen…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 02:47PMMonday, August 24, 2015
"Love On Ice," a musical tale about love preserved by "cryonics," gets Manhattan readings Aug. 24 and 31. The creators share their process.
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 10:40AMMonday, August 17, 2015
A look at the collaboration between director Sean Daniels and singer-songwriter Benjamin Scheuer, whose one-man musical "The Lion" is now on a tour of resident theatres.
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 01:01PMThursday, August 13, 2015
Everything you wanted to know about the summer's hot trapeze-swinging shark movie parody, now at Dixon Place. John Behlmann and Wes Grantom are interviewed.
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 10:33AMTuesday, August 11, 2015
Broadway actress and voice teacher Ann Arvia teams with director Linda Brovsky to run classes for musical theatre performers in New York. They explain their goals.
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 09:28AMMonday, August 3, 2015
New theatre-pop songwriting team of Will Van Dyke & Jeff Talbott (2015 NAMT Festival of New Musicals) will release an album followed by a 54 Below concert. Billy Porter, Kate Baldwin, Jonath…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 01:47PMWednesday, July 29, 2015
Actress and playwright Julia Gibson, of Playmakers Rep, will hear her new play "105 Bank Street, or The Joanna Play," in a Manhattan reading this week. Tisch School alumni populate the priva…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 09:38AMTuesday, July 28, 2015
The titles and dramatists of the revamped Festival of New Works, running Aug. 7-8 at Ohio's Human Race Theatre Company, have been announced.
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 10:07AMFriday, July 10, 2015
A Q&A with playwright Melissa Ross, whose "Of Good Stock" — a tale of three sisters — is now at Off-Broadway from Manhattan Theatre Club.
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 11:03AMMonday, July 6, 2015
Writers and titles for the eight musicals in the National Alliance for Musical Theatre's Festival of New Musicals have been announced.
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 04:42PMMonday, June 29, 2015
Fault Line Theatre's Off-Broadway world premiere of Michael Perlman's "At the Table" at HERE Arts Center conjures culturally eclectic conversation among a group of characters in their thirti…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 09:11AMMonday, June 22, 2015
An interview with Seattle playwright Vincent Delaney, whose new history-inspired play is getting a reading in Manhattan June 24-25.
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 09:21AMSaturday, June 20, 2015
Liz Thaler talks about working out the kinks of creating her new play "Happy," about a professional dominant who falls for a feminist gender studies professor, now at The Brick Theater in Br…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 08:24AMThursday, June 11, 2015
Playwright Joe Tracz talks about collaborating with composer Joe Iconis to bring the late Ned Vizzini's YA novel, "Be More Chill," to life as a musical.
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 10:16AMFriday, June 5, 2015
Fresh from its Geva Theatre Center premiere, "The Road to Where," the folk-tinged musical memoir by actress-writer Cass Morgan, gets a "listen" in Manhattan prior to a run Weston Playhouse i…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 11:46AM 
