Broadway fans won’t have to rely on CBS’ Grease Sing-a-Long for their would-have-been Tony night celebrations: the Broadway On Demand streaming service, with support from the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League, will present a one-hour celebration of theater and the Tony Awards on Sunday, June 7 at 6 pm Et.
The new special, directed by Tony Award nominee Lonny Price, will stream on TonyAwards.com and BroadwayOnDemand.com, and will serve as a fundraiser for both the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League, presenters of the annual Tonys. Specifically, the evening will support The American Theatre Wing’s Education and Professional Development initiatives and The Broadway League Foundation’s efforts to train young artists around the country.
Details on cast and performances were not announced, but the special will be written by Tony nominee Karey Kirkpatrick,...
The new special, directed by Tony Award nominee Lonny Price, will stream on TonyAwards.com and BroadwayOnDemand.com, and will serve as a fundraiser for both the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League, presenters of the annual Tonys. Specifically, the evening will support The American Theatre Wing’s Education and Professional Development initiatives and The Broadway League Foundation’s efforts to train young artists around the country.
Details on cast and performances were not announced, but the special will be written by Tony nominee Karey Kirkpatrick,...
- 5/20/2020
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Jagged Little Pill, Moulin Rouge!, Tina: The Tina Turner Musical, Grand Horizons, Mary-Louise Parker and Jonathan Groff are among this year’s Outer Critics Circle Awards recipients, a collection of Broadway and Off Broadway recipients that make up the organization’s first-ever slate of multiple honorees.
With the Tony Awards remaining a mere possibility this year, the 70th Annual Outer Critics Circle Awards took an unusual approach to an unusual, pandemic-shortened theater season: In lieu of selecting traditional nominees with one winner from each category, the Occ named five honorees in each of its technical categories and up to six honorees in acting categories. Four artists received the annual John Gassner Award this season, commemorating works by new American playwrights.
Recalibrated to celebrate “widespread excellence in New York theater this season,” the Occ Awards – chosen by the official organization of writers on New York theatre for out-of-town newspapers and national...
With the Tony Awards remaining a mere possibility this year, the 70th Annual Outer Critics Circle Awards took an unusual approach to an unusual, pandemic-shortened theater season: In lieu of selecting traditional nominees with one winner from each category, the Occ named five honorees in each of its technical categories and up to six honorees in acting categories. Four artists received the annual John Gassner Award this season, commemorating works by new American playwrights.
Recalibrated to celebrate “widespread excellence in New York theater this season,” the Occ Awards – chosen by the official organization of writers on New York theatre for out-of-town newspapers and national...
- 5/11/2020
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Casting is confirmed and tickets are now on sale for the Signature Theatre Paige Evans, Artistic Director Harold Wolpert, Executive Director New York premiere of Cambodian Rock Band by Lauren Yee, directed by Chay Yew, featuring songs by Dengue Fever. The production will play from February 4 to March 8, 2020 with opening night set for February 24, 2020 in The Irene Diamond Stage at The Pershing Square Signature Center 480 West 42nd Street between 9th and 10th Avenues. Click here for more information.
- 12/5/2019
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Asian Pacific American Heritage Month may have ended, but the Los Angeles-based theatre organization East West Players (Ewp) continues to celebrate Asian and Asian American by announcing their 54th season which they have dubbed “We Are the Ones We Are Waiting For.” Ewp’s 2019/2020 season takes place from Summer 2019 through Spring 2020 and consists of four productions, including a Los Angeles Premiere, a West Coast Premiere, and co-productions with The Fountain Theatre and Pasadena Playhouse. The forthcoming season includes The Great Leap written by award-winning playwright Lauren Yee and directed by Emmy-nominated Bd Wong as well as Hannah and the Dread Gazebo, written by Jiehae Park, directed by Jennifer Chang.
Ewp is the longest-running professional theatre of color and the largest producing organization of Asian American artistic work. Coming off of its successful run of Mamma Mia! for the 53rd season, is ready to bring more inclusive, Asian-centered stories.
“For our 54th season,...
Ewp is the longest-running professional theatre of color and the largest producing organization of Asian American artistic work. Coming off of its successful run of Mamma Mia! for the 53rd season, is ready to bring more inclusive, Asian-centered stories.
“For our 54th season,...
- 6/3/2019
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
Yesterday, October 15th at The Lotos Club 5 East 66th Street, New York City,the 2018 recipients of the biennial Horton Foote Prize, were celebrated for excellence in American theater. The 2018 Prize for Outstanding New American Play, presented to a work produced in the 2016-17 or 2017-18 seasons, was awarded to Cambodian Rock Band by Lauren Yee. The 2018 Prize for Promising New American Play, presented to a previously unproduced work, was awarded to India Pale Ale by Jaclyn Backhaus.
- 10/16/2018
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
The thing about doing a play is: You gotta really like it. That’s actor Bd Wong’s philosophy, anyway.
“You need to enjoy it more in a play than a television show or in a film, I think,” Wong said in the latest episode of Stagecraft, Variety’s theater podcast. “Because you have to do it every night repeatedly, and you want to be 100% behind it.”
The play he’s currently 100% behind is “The Great Leap,” the new Off Broadway play by Lauren Yee. The production, now playing at the Atlantic Theater Company (where recent Tony champ “The Band’s Visit” originated), marks Wong’s first New York stage stint since “Pacific Overtures” in 2004.
But despite a busy career in film and TV — including juicy, ongoing roles in “Mr. Robot” and “Gotham” and a part in the upcoming tentpole “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom” — the actor, who won a Tony...
“You need to enjoy it more in a play than a television show or in a film, I think,” Wong said in the latest episode of Stagecraft, Variety’s theater podcast. “Because you have to do it every night repeatedly, and you want to be 100% behind it.”
The play he’s currently 100% behind is “The Great Leap,” the new Off Broadway play by Lauren Yee. The production, now playing at the Atlantic Theater Company (where recent Tony champ “The Band’s Visit” originated), marks Wong’s first New York stage stint since “Pacific Overtures” in 2004.
But despite a busy career in film and TV — including juicy, ongoing roles in “Mr. Robot” and “Gotham” and a part in the upcoming tentpole “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom” — the actor, who won a Tony...
- 6/19/2018
- by Gordon Cox
- Variety Film + TV
Critically acclaimed theatre company The Playwrights Realm presents the New York premiere of Lauren Yee's new play The Hatmaker's Wife, directed by recent Obie Award winner Rachel Chavkin Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812. The Hatmaker's Wife marks the first Playwrights Realm production at the Peter Jay Sharp Theater 416 West 42nd Street in midtown Manhattan, following previous engagements in several downtown Off-Broadway venues. Previews begin tonight, August 27, for an opening Thursday, September 5. Check out a first look below...
- 8/27/2013
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Critically acclaimed theatre company The Playwrights Realm presents the New York premiere of Lauren Yee's new play The Hatmaker's Wife, directed by recent Obie Award winner Rachel Chavkin Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812. The Hatmaker's Wife marks the first Playwrights Realm production at the Peter Jay Sharp Theater 416 West 42nd Street in midtown Manhattan, following previous engagements in several downtown Off-Broadway venues. Previews begin tonight, August 27, for an opening Thursday, September 5.
- 8/27/2013
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Critically acclaimed theatre company The Playwrights Realm will present the New York premiere of Lauren Yee's new play The Hatmaker's Wife, directed by recent Obie Award winner Rachel Chavkin Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812. The Hatmaker's Wife marks the first Playwrights Realm production at the Peter Jay Sharp Theater 416 West 42nd Street in midtown Manhattan, following previous engagements in several downtown Off-Broadway venues. Previews begin Tuesday, August 27, for an opening Thursday, September 5. Below, BroadwayWorld brings you an exclusive first look at the team in action...
- 8/15/2013
- by BroadwayWorld TV
- BroadwayWorld.com
Critically acclaimed theatre company The Playwrights Realm has announced the cast and creative team for the New York premiere of Lauren Yee's new play The Hatmaker's Wife, directed by recent Obie Award winner Rachel Chavkin Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812. The Hatmaker's Wife marks the first Playwrights Realm production at the Peter Jay Sharp Theater 416 West 42nd Street in midtown Manhattan, following previous engagements in several downtown Off-Broadway venues. Previews begin Tuesday, August 27, for an opening Thursday, September 5.
- 7/29/2013
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
David Henry Hwang
About five years ago, Chay Yew, a playwright and the artistic director of the Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago, was approached by schools for copies of Asian American plays that could be taught and performed. Except Yew couldn’t find a recent compilation of Asian American plays. So when Theatre Communications Group (Tcg) approached him about editing a new anthology, he agreed, and the result is “Version 3.0,” released by Tcg yesterday.
“What was important was to platform...
About five years ago, Chay Yew, a playwright and the artistic director of the Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago, was approached by schools for copies of Asian American plays that could be taught and performed. Except Yew couldn’t find a recent compilation of Asian American plays. So when Theatre Communications Group (Tcg) approached him about editing a new anthology, he agreed, and the result is “Version 3.0,” released by Tcg yesterday.
“What was important was to platform...
- 8/2/2011
- by Barbara Chai
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Maintaining truthfulness and avoiding stereotypes are the major challenges when playing racial, ethnic, and sexual minorities.Consider the daunting task that Tamer Aziz faces in tackling a character who is gay, Iranian, and Muslim in Jay Paul Deratany's fact-based play "Haram Iran" (now at the Celebration Theatre in Hollywood). Or the issues that black actors deal with in enacting a brutal racist episode within the context of a minstrel show in John Kander and Fred Ebb's musical "The Scottsboro Boys" (currently at New York's Vineyard Theatre). Justin Huen also has his work cut out for him playing Oedipus in Luis Alfaro's play "Oedipus el Rey," a retelling of Sophocles' tragedy set in a Los Angeles barrio (playing the Theatre @ Boston Court in Pasadena, Calif.). Jennifer Lim grapples with a fully assimilated and not very sensitive Asian American in Lauren Yee's satire "Ching Chong Chinaman" (now at New York's...
- 3/31/2010
- backstage.com
Tisa Chang, Artistic Producing Director of Pan Asian Repertory Theatre continues its 33rd season with Ching Chong Chinaman, a satirical new comedy by Lauren Yee directed by May Adrales. The limited engagement plays March 19 - April 11, 2010 at the West End Theatre (263 W. 86th Street between Broadway & West End Avenue in the Church of St. Paul & St. Andrew, 2nd floor). Opening night is Wednesday, March 24, at 7:30 p.m.
- 3/25/2010
- BroadwayWorld.com
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