Tuesday, August 27, 2024
EXCLUSIVE: Kecia Lewis, who won a Tony Award this year for her featured portrayal of Miss Liza Jane in the Alicia Keys Broadway musical Hell’s Kitchen, has signed with Paradigm Talent Agen…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:00AMThursday, August 22, 2024
Three-time Grammy Award winner and Tony Award nominee Branford Marsalis has joined the music team for A Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical. Marsalis will create all-new musical a…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:02PMFriday, August 16, 2024
From BroadwayWorld's Archive: 'For so many reasons this has been the single most challenging thing that I've ever done, but the most rewarding thing I've ever done.' Joshua Jackson, who ma…
SOURCE: YouTube at 02:56PMMonday, April 22, 2024
On stage, “chemistry” usually refers to a romantic pairing, but in the case of the new musical Hell’s Kitchen, it’s the perfect description for the teacher-pupil bond between Broadwa…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:36PMTuesday, September 5, 2023
This October, Tony Award winner John Rubinstein (Pippin, Children of a Lesser God) will play a four-week Off-Broadway return engagement as President Dwight D. Eisenhower in Eisenhower: T…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:04AMTuesday, August 15, 2023
The upcoming Broadway production of Joshua Harmon’s play Prayer for the French Republic has set initial casting. Tony Award winner David Cromer will direct the previously announced produ…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:04PMSaturday, July 22, 2023
If the average theatergoer were asked about “deaf plays,” they might think of William Gibson’s “The Miracle Worker” or Mark Medoff’s “Children of a Lesser God,” both Tony-win…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:37PMFriday, July 21, 2023
Wednesday, June 21, 2023
By: Samuel L. Leiter
June 21, 2023: There was a time early in the 1960s when former President Dwight D. Eisenhower became a subject of the “wind-up doll” joke fad, which made fun of c…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:10AMSunday, June 4, 2023
Tony Award winner John Rubinstein (Children of a Lesser God), who, under the direction of Bob Fosse, made his Broadway debut in 1972, originating the eponymous role in the iconic musical Pip…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 09:01AMFriday, February 24, 2023
God, that's good! How I fell for my favorite musical
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In a youth almost entirely unblemished by voluntary physical exertion, I remember one particular sprint quite vividly. The objective …
SOURCE: TDF at 12:00AMWednesday, November 16, 2022
A grandmother pacifies her hyperactive grandson with history, stories, and marshmallows under the stars that coyote once hung. Starring acclaimed actress and three-time Oscar nominee, Piper …
SOURCE: broadwaypodcastnetwork.com at 04:01AMWednesday, September 28, 2022
After a two-and-a-half-year delay, the costume designer is finally being feted by her peers at the TDF/Irene Sharaff Awards
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How in demand is costume designer Dede Ayite? While interviewi…
SOURCE: TDF at 12:00AMWednesday, September 21, 2022
As a longtime theatre lover with cerebral palsy, I've been waiting decades for characters—and actors—who look like me
I saw my first Broadway show, Annie, when I was 10 years old. The ex…
SOURCE: TDF at 12:00AMThursday, December 30, 2021
In this never before seen full interview, Director Kenny Leon shares his journey, specifically working on the revival of Children of a Lesser God on Broadway in 2018. Much (if not all) of h…
SOURCE: YouTube at 05:18PMMonday, May 24, 2021
In Part One of our interview with John Rubinstein we hear how the man who has appeared in Pippin, Children of a Lesser God, Fools, Hurlyburly, M Butterfly, Ragtime, and Charlie and the Choco…
SOURCE: broadwaypodcastnetwork.com at 03:00AMWednesday, April 14, 2021
So wonderful to catch up with Dede Ayite, who made her Broadway debut in the 2018 revival of Children of a Lesser God. On the podcast today, Dede and Hal explore how to use design to constru…
SOURCE: broadwaypodcastnetwork.com at 03:00AMTuesday, March 9, 2021
This Week in Broadway History:
March 9 - 16
🎭OPENING NIGHTS🎭
March 9, 2008: The first musical by Lin-Manuel Miranda, In the Heights, opened at the Richard Rodgers Theatre, where…
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 08:48AMThursday, June 11, 2020
Joshua Jackson, of TV's Dawson's Creek fame and most recently Little Fires Everywhere and The Affair, made his Broadway debut in 2018 as James Leeds in the first Broadway revival of the Kenn…
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 12:15PMThursday, April 16, 2020
This charming little musical was all the more charming because of its thoroughly stellar cast. The talent on this roster of the original Broadway cast is mind-boggling. Not just chock full o…
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 07:06AMThursday, March 5, 2020
From Anna Cora Mowatt to James Baldwin, from 'Children of a Lesser God' to LMDA, March has had a plethora of theatrical milestones.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:28PMWednesday, February 5, 2020
David Alan Grier, Blair Underwood and Billy Eugene Jones in a scene from Charles Fuller’s “A Soldier’s Play” at the American Airlines Theatre (Photo credit: Joan Marcus) Joel Benjami…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:16PMTuesday, October 29, 2019
Tickets are now on sale for MsTRIAL, a new drama written by and starring Dep Kirkland, slated to debut at New World Stages next month. Rick Andosca will direct the off-Broadway production,…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 08:03PMFriday, October 18, 2019
Playwright Dep Kirkland (Lawyer Games) will head the cast of his new drama MsTRIAL, set to make its New York premiere at off-Broadway's New World Stages this fall. Rick Andosca will direct…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:18PMTuesday, July 30, 2019
Casting is complete for the upcoming Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams' Tony-winning 1951 play The Rose Tattoo. Trip Cullman will direct the previously announced production, set to beg…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:48AMMonday, July 22, 2019
Lauren Ridloff, a 2018 Tony nominee for her Broadway debut in Children of a Lesser God, will break ground on the big screen next year taking on the role of Makkari, Marvel's first deaf sup…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:24PMWednesday, May 8, 2019
Although Mark Medoff wrote more than 30 plays for stage and radio and a further 12 screenplays, he will be largely remembered
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:12AMTuesday, May 7, 2019
Playwright Mark Medoff, who won the Tony and the Olivier for his play Children of a Lessser God and who taught screenwriting and acting the University of New Mexico for 27 years, died on Ap…
SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:14PMSunday, May 5, 2019
Playwright best known for Children of a Lesser God, which was turned into a 1986 hit filmThe playwright Mark Medoff, who has died aged 79, wrote Children of a Lesser God, the story of a deaf…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:42PMTuesday, April 30, 2019
Michael Leonard is an NYC based actor and filmmaker. He holds an MFA in acting from Columbia University. Since 2012 Michael has been an active member in both One-Eighth Theatre and Cloud of…
SOURCE: Visible Soul at 08:12AMFriday, April 26, 2019
“Medoff wrote 30 plays and wrote, produced or directed 19 movies. He found his greatest success with Children of a Lesser God, the tale of a troubled love affair between a speech teacher a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:31AM 
