Vineyard Playhouse News

Rebecca Bradshaw (she/her/hers), Associate Producer of Boston's Huntington Theatre, and Cary Bland Simpson (she/they), Director of Corporate & Special Events at Only Make Believe have been named the new Producing Artistic Director and Managing Director of Ithaca's Kitchen Theatre Company, respectively, effective July 1, 2021.

FEINSTEIN’S/54 BELOW will present Jared Weiss in DYLAN ON DYLAN on Wednesday July 28th at 9:45pm. Jared Weiss brings his singular interpretation of Bob Dylan back to 54 Below in this musical journey through Dylan’s psyche that follows the bard from his early Greenwich Village days up through his seminal mid-70’s Rolling Thunder Revue Tour.

City Theatre Company, Pittsburgh’s home for contemporary plays, has announced the details of the theatre’s 47th season of new works, taking place in-person beginning in September 2021. Reopening to audiences after 18 months due to the Covid-19 pandemic, City Theatre will fully produce six plays, live and in-person.

As the industry and theater artists grapple with equity and the many issues facing the field, the 2021-2024 Core Writers Mathilde Dratwa, L M Feldman, Franky D. Gonzalez, Yilong Liu, TyLie Shider, Deborah Yarchun, and Nathan Yungerberg will be given the space and support to create over the next three years.

Centenary Stage Company's Women Playwrights Series kicks off its Spring 2021 reading series with Deborah Yarchun's Atlas the Lonely Gibbon on Wednesday, April 14th at 7:30 PM in the Sitnik Theatre of the Lackland Performing Arts Center.

Who gets to tell the story of race, history and power in America? In this riveting, provocative play, a black student and her white professor - both brilliant - debate whether the legacy of slavery defines our past, and our present.

Broadway personality Michael Urie will appear on On the Rocks Radio Show Tuesday, January 26th at 7pmPST/10pmEST with host TV/radio personality Alexander Rodriguez and guest co-host sitcom writer/playwright/director Stan Zimmerman (The Golden Girls, Yes, Virginia) to chat about theatre during COVID, his career, and more!

Today Keen Company Artistic Director Jonathan Silverstein announced additional guests for the highly popular FREE event, Keen After Hours.  Coming up next: Chisa Hutchinson (January 25th), followed by Michael Urie (February 1st), among others, in coming weeks.

17 Cape Cod and Islands organizations were chosen for just over $1 million, or about 10%, of the $9,960,600 state Cultural Organization Economic Recovery Grant Program.

Misha Osherovich stars in 'Freaky,' a horror-comedy also starring Vince Vaughn and Kathryn Newton. The film was released on digital December 4th, 2020.

Centenary Stage Company's rescheduled 2020 Women Playwrights Series launches on Wednesday, November 4 at 7:30 PM with Drive by Deborah Yarchun. 

Today (August 12) in live streaming: The Chers reunite on Stars in the House, Cherry Jones visits Backstage Live and so much more!

No Puppet Co. will present the World Premiere of CRUSH, a video puppet play written by Krista Knight, presented in six parts and released in separate installments on YouTube, August 4-20.

Martha's Vineyard Playhouse and Rosalind Productions Inc. will be presenting a live online benefit play reading of CRUMBS FROM THE TABLE OF JOY by two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage, to raise money for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund.

Michael Urie took to Twitter to share a video of himself performing Hamlet's famed 'To Be Or Not To Be' Soliloquy as Arnold Bekhoff from Torch Song!

Kathleen Culebro, Artistic Director of Amphibian Stage, today announced that Hans & Sophie, a new play created by New York-based trio Sean Hudock, Illana Stein and Deborah Yarchun, will have its world premiere at the Fort Worth, TX theatre February 5 - March 1, 2020. Illana Stein, who helmed Amphibian's regional premiere of David Davalos' A Lost Leonardo, will direct.

Grand Horizons is now in previews on Broadway!  Grand Horizons will play a strictly limited 10-week engagement, and officially open on January 23, 2020 at The Hayes Theater (240 West 44th Street).

Second Stage Theater (Carole Rothman, President and Artistic Director; Casey Reitz, Executive Director) has announced Ben McKenzie (Ben) will complete the cast of Bess Wohl's GRAND HORIZONS. The production will mark his Broadway debut.

Chance Theater, Anaheim's official resident theater company, is delighted to announce its OTR New Works lineup for 2020. We will be presenting two staged readings from past and president Resident Playwrights, as well as a LAB Workshop production, and our first commissioned play, which is being written by our first Resident Playwright, Adam Szymkowicz. All performances will take place at the Bette Aitken theater arts Center. 

Tom Stoppard's genre-bending comedy, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead comes to the Huntington Theatre Company helmed by Norma Jean Calderwood Artistic Director Peter DuBois. Performances began September 20 at the Avenue of the Arts / Huntington Avenue Theatre (264 Huntington Avenue, Boston) and will run through October 20. Tickets are now on sale to the general public.