StreamingPhylicia Rashad and Debbie Allen Star in Virtual Reading of Angry Raucous and Shamelessly Gorgeous April 8Tony nominee Camille A. Brown directs the event for the Spotlight on Plays series.
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Dan Meyer
April 08, 2021
Phylicia Rashad and Debbie Allen
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Sister duo Debbie Allen and Phylicia Rashad star in the April 8 virtual reading of Pearl Cleage’s Angry Raucous and Shamelessly Gorgeous as part of Spotlight on Play’s spring lineup of female playwrights. Tony-nominated choreographer Camille A. Brown directs with Heather Alicia Simms and Alicia Stith also in the cast.
The performance streams live at 8 PM ET on Stellar. It will be available on demand through April 12 at 6 PM ET.
Up next will be Paula Vogel’s The Baltimore Waltz April 29 at 8 PM. Mary-Louise Parker stars as Anna opposite Eric McCormack as Carl and Brandon Burton as The Third Man in a production directed by Lileana Blain-Cruz.
While dates for the additional plays this season will be announced later, casting and creative team details have begun to trickle in over the past few weeks. Meryl Streep and Kevin Kline will star in Dear Elizabeth with Carla Gugino and Ellen Burstyn in Watch on the Rhine, Audra McDonald in Ohio State Murders, and Kathryn Hahn in Wendy Wassersteins’ The Sisters Rosensweig.
A musical rom-com series from Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez, a new Mel Brooks comedy extravaganza, and a quirky series from & Juliet and Schitt's Creek writer David West Read.
Presented by Broadway Podcast Network, the season will feature works by Harriet Beecher Stowe, W.E.B Du Bois, Joyce Carol Oates, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and more.
The three-time Tony nominee had representation on the mind while playing the narcissistic baddie in ABC's upcoming Beauty and the Beast: A 30th Celebration.
Created with students at Granite Bay High School, the musical has been licensed around the world as schools seek to amplify the academic pressures facing today’s adolescents.
The Broadway alum will take on the role in an upcoming sequel to The Descendants after starring in the 1997 TV movie of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical.
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Logan Culwell-Block,
Talaura Harms
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November 2, 2022
Releasing later this month, the modern twist on A Christmas Carol features original songs from the Tony-winning songwriters Benj Pasek and Justin Paul.
In the Heights and Wicked film director Jon M. Chu will executive produce the animated-live action hybrid version of the Howard Ashman-Alan Menken musical.
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Logan Culwell-Block,
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October 11, 2022
Stephen McKinley Henderson, Rosal Colón, Elizabeth Canavan, and most of the original Off-Broadway company will reunite for the Second Stage production, joined by Oscar, Grammy, and Emmy winner Common.
Antwayn Hopper, Carolee Carmello, and Jay Armstrong Johnson were among the all-star line-up for the concert benefiting the Entertainment Community Fund.
The Broadway musical has announced a special opportunity go behind-the-scenes, ask cast members questions, and see the first number live from the Neil Simon Theatre.
In honor of Banned Books Week, the podcast about censorship in theatre will feature performances by Bryan Cranston, Raúl Esparza, Celia Keenan Bolger, and more.
Filmed at London's The Other Palace, the musical adaptation of the 1989 cult film favorite features a book, music, and lyrics by Kevin Murphy and Laurence O'Keefe.