Thursday, January 30, 2014
An interview with New York City playwright Brooke Berman (whose roots are in Michigan) about her world-premiere drama set in Detroit high-rise apartment building that was a symbol of aspirat…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 05:13PMSaturday, January 25, 2014
Barrymore Award-winning composer-lyricist-librettist Michael Ogborn returns to his hometown of Philadelphia to workshop 1980s-set musical "Field Hockey Hot" with 11th Hour Theatre Co.
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 12:52PMSaturday, January 18, 2014
Playwright Sarah Shaefer shares a few thought about her new Off-Off-Broadway play, "The Gin Baby," about a woman in crisis.
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 12:55PMSaturday, January 4, 2014
Playwright Chuck Blasius talks about his new Off-Off-Broadway dramedy "I Could Say More," which is in the spirit of handcrafted ensemble plays of Lanford Wilson.
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 03:11PMMonday, December 30, 2013
An update about the progress of the holiday-themed musical comedy "Naughty/Nice," by Kenneth Jones & Gerald Stockstill, recently seen at Caroline's on Broadway and now being optioned by The …
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 10:34PMThe year 2013 ended on a positive note for the new musical Naughty/Nice, the holiday-set four-actor show that I co-wrote with composer Gerald Stockstill. A producer is picking it up, and we …
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 06:28PMThursday, December 12, 2013
Tony Award-winning puppet designers Adrian Kohler and Basil Jones and puppeteer Jessica Krueger talk about the magic of "War Horse" on the occasion of the Detroit stop of the North American …
SOURCE: www.detroitnews.com at 09:37AMThursday, December 5, 2013
Folk singer-songwriter Laurelyn Dossett talks about her collaboration on a new Appalachian-set musical, "Snow Queen," inspired by the Hans Christian Andersen story, now getting its world pre…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 12:04PMMonday, December 2, 2013
In How I Learned What I Learned, Ruben Santiago-Hudson conjures August Wilson’s past — Late in his life, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright August Wilson added a grace note to the…
SOURCE: TDF at 02:26PMSaturday, November 30, 2013
Director Gordon Greenberg, co-conceiver Abigail Pogrebin and producer Daryl Roth talk about crafting their new musical "Stars of David," a revue about Jewish personalities processing their r…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 12:22PMThursday, November 28, 2013
As one of two national tours of "Elf" visits Detroit, songwriters Chad Beguelin and Matthew Sklar reflect on getting into the head of the title character.
SOURCE: www.detroitnews.com at 10:03PMWednesday, November 27, 2013
At a recent matinee of the new musical Stars of David: Story to Song, now playing a limited engagement through Dec. 15 at Off-Broadway’s DR2, actor Aaron Serotsky spoke the Hebrew words �…
SOURCE: TDF at 01:30PMFriday, November 22, 2013
A look at how director Rob Ruggiero approached Goodspeed Musicals' current revival of Frank Loesser's "The Most Happy Fella," including trimming songs, changing the time period and adding a …
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 12:22PMSaturday, November 9, 2013
An appreciation of lyricist Dorothy Fields, whose work is heard on Philip Chaffin's new PS Classics release, "Somethin' Real Special: The Songs of Dorothy Fields." Includes reprint of Maury …
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 12:27PMFriday, November 1, 2013
Playwright Ken Ludwig reveals details about his sequel to "Lend Me a Tenor," and discusses his Sherlock Holmes-inspired titles and his new book about teaching Shakespeare to kids.
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 02:12PMTuesday, October 29, 2013
In showstopping performances, Dee Dee Bridgewater and Adriane Lenox evoke the legends of jazz and blues — Welcome to Building Character, TDF’s ongoing series on actors and how th…
SOURCE: TDF at 09:07AMMonday, October 14, 2013
Alabama Story, the new history-inspired six-actor play by Kenneth Jones, is one of three plays announced to be presented in Pioneer Theatre Company’s inaugural Play-by-Play new-play re…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 06:54PMThursday, October 3, 2013
The 25th-anniversary season of Jewish Ensemble Theatre in West Bloomfield, MI, in suburban Detroit, kicked off Sept. 25 with the first performance of Wendy Wasserstein’s rueful comedy …
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 04:07PMSunday, September 29, 2013
The idea of the kitchen-sink drama — gritty, angry plays of social realism — gets a full remodeling job in suburban Detroit this month with “The Kitchen Plays,” a world-premi…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 12:42PMFriday, September 27, 2013
The first great discovery of the 2013-14 Off-Broadway season, TACT/The Actors Company Theatre’s Natural Affection by William Inge, expertly directed by Jenn Thompson, is bait for tho…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 12:31AMWednesday, September 18, 2013
Theatre students in Rochester, NY, are cutting their teeth on a world-premiere collection of short comic pieces — including eight songs — by two-time Tony Award winner Greg Kotis (Urinet…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 11:33AMTuesday, September 17, 2013
A blog news item about the two world-premiere titles in InterAct Theatre Company's 2013-14 season in Philadelphia.
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 04:37PMFriday, September 13, 2013
InterAct Theatre Company, the Philadelphia troupe that produces “new and contemporary plays that explore the social, political, and cultural issues of our time,” will stage two w…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 07:30AMMonday, August 19, 2013
The Toronto premiere of the 25th-anniversary edition of Les Misérables, starring Ramin Karimloo (London's The Phantom of the Opera and Love Never Dies) as Jean Valjean, will …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:51AMTuesday, August 6, 2013
Tickets are now on sale for the Broadway production of the new musical A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, which arrives at the Walter Kerr Theatre in October starring Tony Award win…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTuesday, July 30, 2013
Long Island businessman Mark Hotton, who was charged with defrauding producers of the Broadway-aimed musical Rebecca, has pleaded guilty in a Manhattan court, according to the New York Times.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:25PMMonday, July 29, 2013
Bryce Pinkham will co-star opposite Tony Award winner Jefferson Mays in the Broadway production of the new musical A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, which arrives at the Walter Ker…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01PMWednesday, July 17, 2013
Sheet music from the 2013 Lucille Lortel Award-winning musical Dogfight — featuring a pop-rock score by rising theatre songwriters and Tony Award nominees Benj Pasek and Justin Paul &m…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:32PMWednesday, July 3, 2013
Human Race Theatre Company, the Ohio resident Equity company that gave my musical Voice of the City a workshop production, has two new musicals planned for its summer 2013 Musical Theatre W…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 01:48PMWednesday, June 26, 2013
David Caudle’s new play Damsel, a psychological drama about a husband and wife — and the husband’s interest in a needy co-worker — will be presented 7 PM June 26-27 in the Ne…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 01:48AMSunday, June 23, 2013
Playwright Kelli Kerslake Colaco’s new play, You Are My Sunshine, the multi-decade character study of a man of mythic American proportions whose passions and demons lead to tragedy, wi…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 08:01PM 
