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Off-Broadway News: MCC Theater Launches Casting Search for Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming Artists for Upcoming NYC Premiere of the Play “Charm”

December 21, 2016 | broadway company mail, gloria, hand to god, harmony, LGBTQ+, News, Off-Broadway, pretty woman, the lion king > | MCC Theater

MCC Theater (Robert LuPone, Bernard Telsey, William Cantler, Artistic Directors; Blake West, Executive Director) announces today a casting search for transgender and gender non-conforming performers as it prepares for the newly announced first show of its 2017-18 Season: the NYC premiere of Charm, a play by Chicago-based, Jefferson Award-winning playwright Philip Dawkins to be directed by Helen Hayes Award winner…

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Broadway Preview: Glenn Close Returns to Broadway as Norma Desmond in “Sunset Boulevard”

October 25, 2016 | black no, Broadway, News, Previews, sunset, the lion king, trapped > | Glenn Close, Norma Desmond, Sunset Boulevard

Producers Paul Blake and Mike Bosner announced today the Broadway return of three-time Tony Award-winner Glenn Close in her most iconic role, Norma Desmond, in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Tony Award-winning Best Musical, Sunset Boulevard. Based on Billy Wilder’s classic Academy Award-winning film, Sunset Boulevard features a celebrated book and lyrics by Don Black and Christopher Hampton. Direct from a bravura…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Nat Turner in Jerusalem” at the New York Theatre Workshop

October 3, 2016 | all i want is one night, Best Bet, constitution, Off-Broadway, slave play, the lion king, what the constitution > | New York Theatre Workshop

“Yes, and this country will either cease its injustice or it will slowly fall to ruin. Leave it while you can.” – Nat Turner The encounter between Nat Turner (played with a powerful morally ambiguous core by Phillip James Brannon), Thomas R. Gray (played with a palpable malicious intent by Rowan Vickers), and the Guard (also played by Mr. Vickers)…

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Preview: “A Muslim in the Midst” Sheds Light on Islamophobia at the Hudson Guild Theatre

August 29, 2016 | hudson guild, Off-Broadway, Previews, the lion king > | Hudson Guild Theatre

As Islamophobia continues to make headlines, a new play presenting a bold new perspective on the topic is set to make its debut in New York on 9/12, a day after the 15th anniversary of 9/11. At the Hudson Guild Theatre in Manhattan, on the day after the 9/11 anniversary, a new play by Anand Rao will have its much-awaited debut….

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Preview: The 22nd Annual MAAFA: “Speaking the Truth” at St. Paul Community Baptist Church

August 26, 2016 | maafa play review, once on this island, Previews, slave play, the lion king, the visitor, visitor >

For the 22nd consecutive year, New York-based and nationally recognized Pastor Rev. David K. Brawley of East New York’s St. Paul Community Baptist Church, presents The MAAFA: “Speaking The Truth.” The theatrical production recognizes and reflects the journey of African slaves to America from 1500-1900. Attracting more than 3,000 people every year, the play follows the journey of more than…

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Review: “Ironbound” at Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre (Closed Sunday April 24, 2016)

March 18, 2016 | Off-Broadway, the lion king > | Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, Women's Project Theatre

“As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.” (Virginia Woolf, “Orlando”) “One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.” (Virginia Woolf, “A Room of One’s Own”) Darja (Marin Ireland) has not had a room of her own since she arrived in the United States from Poland with her…

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Review: “Broadway and the Bard” at the Lion Theatre on Theatre Row (Closed Sunday March 6, 2016)

February 16, 2016 | Off-Broadway, othello, she loves me, the lion king > | Lion Theatre, Theatre Row

There is nothing better than listening to an actor deliver Shakespeare’s lines with unbridled passion and the natural “heartbeat” rhythms inherent in the Bard’s iambic pentameter. And that is precisely the way veteran actor Len Cariou delivers important scenes from “Twelfth Night,” Henry V,” Richard II,” “Love’s Labour’s Lost,” “Othello,” “Taming of the Shrew,” Much Ado About Nothing,” “Julius Caesar,”…

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“In Bed With Roy Cohn” at the Lion Theatre on Theatre Row (Closed October 3, 2015)

September 3, 2015 | angels in america, Off-Broadway, the lion king > | "In Bed with Roy Cohn", Lion Theatre, Theatre Row

The life and times of the notorious Roy Cohn have been chronicled in fiction and non-fiction and perhaps most notable in Tony Kushner’s “Angels in America” where Ethel Rosenberg “appears” at Cohn’s deathbed in a series of over-the-top conversations about her trial and execution. In a 2006 article in “The New York Times,” Adam Liptak wrote, “Mr. Kushner said he…

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“Broadway on 22nd” at the Metropolitan Room

May 28, 2013 | bernard dotson, Cabaret, the lion king, the room > | Metropolitan Room

Monday May 13th marked the first anniversary of “Broadway on 22nd,” the now annual star-studded Cabaret Series produced by Joseph Macchia at the iconic Metropolitan Room. This Series gives Broadway performers the opportunity to share their craft in a cabaret setting and gives the audience the opportunity to see some of their favorite stars in a more intimate and interactive…

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