William Johnson News

The Lakewood Playhouse is proud to present the FINAL SHOW of our Landmark 80th ANNIVERSARY SEASON: "THE PRODUCERS - A (new) MUSICAL BY MEL BROOKS!"  

Playhouse Creatures Theatre Company is honored to announce the public presentation of its 2018 Dr. R.J. Rodriguez Emerging Playwrights' Contest winner: 'The Followers,' by William Johnson. This will happen at Access Theater (380 Broadway, 4th floor, NYC) on Saturday, April 27th, 7pm.

Playhouse Creatures Theatre Company is honored to announce the public presentation of its 2018 Dr. R.J. Rodriguez Emerging Playwrights' Contest winner: 'The Followers,' by William Johnson. This will happen at Access Theater (380 Broadway, 4th floor, NYC) on Saturday, April 27th, 7pm.

Metropolitan Performing Arts (MPA) in collaboration with The Vancouver Community Library invites the SW Washington community to watch a free 30-minute play, Peter Pan and Annabelle. The show is at the Vancouver Community Library, located at 901 C St. on Friday, March 22nd at 5:00pm.

It's the last week to vote for the 2018 BroadwayWorld Seattle Awards, brought to you by BroadwayHD! Readers are already setting records as they vote for their favorites. Regional productions, touring shows, and more are all included in the awards, honoring productions which opened between October 1, 2017 through September 30, 2018. Our local editors set the categories, our readers submitted their nominees, and now you get to vote for your favorites! Voting will continue through December 31st, 2018.

There's just two weeks left to vote for the 2018 BroadwayWorld Seattle Awards, brought to you by BroadwayHD! Readers are already setting records as they vote for their favorites. Regional productions, touring shows, and more are all included in the awards, honoring productions which opened between October 1, 2017 through September 30, 2018. Our local editors set the categories, our readers submitted their nominees, and now you get to vote for your favorites! Voting will continue through December 31st, 2018.

There's just two weeks left to vote for the 2018 BroadwayWorld Seattle Awards, brought to you by BroadwayHD! Readers are already setting records as they vote for their favorites. Regional productions, touring shows, and more are all included in the awards, honoring productions which opened between October 1, 2017 through September 30, 2018. Our local editors set the categories, our readers submitted their nominees, and now you get to vote for your favorites! Voting will continue through December 31st, 2018.

There's just one month left to vote for the 2018 BroadwayWorld Seattle Awards, brought to you by BroadwayHD! Readers are already setting records as they vote for their favorites. Regional productions, touring shows, and more are all included in the awards, honoring productions which opened between October 1, 2017 through September 30, 2018. Our local editors set the categories, our readers submitted their nominees, and now you get to vote for your favorites! Voting will continue through December 31st, 2018.

There's just one month left to vote for the 2018 BroadwayWorld Seattle Awards, brought to you by BroadwayHD! Nominations were reader-submitted and now our readers are already setting records as they vote for their favorites. Regional productions, touring shows, and more are all included in the awards, honoring productions which opened between October 1, 2017 through September 30, 2018. Our local editors set the categories, our readers submitted their nominees, and now you get to vote for your favorites! Voting will continue through December 31st, 2018.

Playhouse Creatures Theatre Company (www.playhousecreatures.org)is proud to announce the winners of its first annual 'Dr. R.J. Rodriguez Emerging Playwrights Contest.'

Bright and Brave: A New Musical, opens tonight and runs through Saturday, June 9th at 7pm each night in a workshop production at Dixon Place. A love story set at Eton College, the musical originated, fittingly, amongst a group of Hofstra University undergrads. Jack Saleeby, Peter Charney, Noah Silva, and Natasha Cole, four students finishing up their senior year, were anticipating the daunting reality of post-collegiate life.        

The Lakewood Playhouse is proud to present the FINAL SHOW of our 79th SEASON: The Lakewood Playhouse Premier of the Monster Hit Comedy Musical - LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS!

The Lakewood Playhouse is proud to present the FINAL SHOW of our 79th SEASON: The Lakewood Playhouse Premier of the Monster Hit Comedy Musical - LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS!

The Lakewood Playhouse is proud to present the FINAL SHOW of our 79th SEASON: The Lakewood Playhouse Premier of the Monster Hit Comedy Musical - LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS!

The New Victory Theater, a leading presenter of Theater for Young Audiences, announces the 2017-18 New Victory LabWorks Artists, NYC-based artists pursuing the creation of bold and exciting performing arts for family audiences.

National Geographic Channel has closed a drama series script development deal with Amblin Television, Sony Pictures Television and CrichtonSun for a global limited series based on the soon-to-be-published Michael Crichton manuscript, DRAGON TEETH.

SUPERGRAVITY Pictures has acquired rights to Maya Newell's award-winning documentary feature GAYBY BABY and will distribute the film this spring. The release is in partnership with Heard Well, the first music label powered by social tastemakers. Event theatrical screenings for GAYBY BABY in over 50 cities starts April 1, 2016, ahead of the VOD/EST release date of May 1, 2016, including Today, April 6, 2016 at 7:30PM PT as the special FOCUS presentation at the OUTFEST West Hollywood Series presented by SHOWTIME.

SUPERGRAVITY Pictures has acquired rights to Maya Newell's award-winning documentary feature GAYBY BABY and will distribute the film this spring. The release is in partnership with Heard Well, the first music label powered by social tastemakers. Event theatrical screenings for GAYBY BABY in over 50 cities starts April 1, 2016, ahead of the VOD/EST release date of May 1, 2016, including Wednesday, April 6, 2016 at 7:30PM PT as the special FOCUS presentation at the OUTFEST West Hollywood Series presented by SHOWTIME.

Black students want change. In their view, all students should receive an education which includes a truthful history of racial issues in America. They also want an education which celebrates men and women who lived good lives, helping build a stronger, more just society, instead of celebrating the lives of others, like slaveholders, who helped destroy lives. Now is the time for 'A Black Man's Journey from Sharecropper to College President: the Life and Work of William Johnson Trent, 1873-1963.'

The answer to last year's question of whether the digital arts venture STAGE RAW could bring back its awards ceremony celebrating the best of LA's up-to-99-seat theaters, the answer is YES. STAGE RAW is pleased to announce the SECOND ANNUAL STAGE RAW LOS ANGELES THEATER AWARDS, championing the best work of 2015 in L.A.'s still-embattled theaters of up to 99-seats.