Paul Schwartz

FGO's artist-administrators are banding together to clamber over the footlights and show off their singing chops in Staff Sing, a fun-filled concert of operatic favorites designed to kick off the 2023–24 season and benefit the opera.

Obie Award winner Metropolitan Playhouse presents a festival of five one-acts by Tom Lavagnino, Natalina Lopez, Christian Missonak, Bara Swain, and Jonathon Ward.

Crackle Plus, a Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment (Nasdaq: CSSE) company and one of the largest operators of streaming advertising-supported video-on-demand (AVOD) networks, in partnership with Screen Media announced today that the action comedy Blue Iguana will be available for free.

A Measure of Doubt by award-winning playwright Paul Schwartz opened at The Winterfest Festival Of New Plays this past weekend. Starring Steve Blanchard, Kathleen Simmonds, Anna Holbrook, and James B. Kennedy and lead by indie theater director Janet Bentley, Schwartz has managed to bring together a troupe of power house veterans and promising up and coming talents to tell an impactful story that will touch audiences near and far. 

Award-winning playwright and filmmaker Paul Schwartz (Lifetime member of the Actors Studios) and his new play called 'A Measure of Doubt,' (directed by Janet Bentley) is having its world premiere at the Hudson Guild Theatre in association with The New York Theatre Festival this coming March. Loosely informed by the Kavanaugh hearings, A MEASURE OF DOUBT explores the battle between the Left and the Right. The #METOO movement, and the very nature of jurisprudence in our society. At the same time it has at its center a gripping personal story of a young woman trying to find her identity, and a man faced with the question: 'Am I defined by the worst thing I've ever done?'

Florida Grand Opera (FGO) is pleased to announce the promotion and addition of new members to its music staff. Katherine Kozak, continuing in the position of Chorus Master at Florida Grand Opera and celebrating 20 years in the opera industry, will be promoted to also serve as Head Coach of the company's Young Artist Program. Howard Lubin will serve as Senior Coach, and Paul Schwartz and Paul Kovacovic will fill the roles of staff accompanists.

Think fast....your alcoholic father has vanished, your mother is a paranoid pill popper, and the remaining family members have sunk into a depth of dysfunction of epic proportions and harbor shady little secrets--where are you? No, not immersed in another Real Housewives episode in any given city--but you are at the Mesa Arts Center as Mesa Encore Theatre proudly presents one of the best pieces of American dramatic theatre in a decade, August: Osage County! Written by the 2008 Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tracy Letts, this epic Tony Award Best Play storms the stage at the Mesa Arts Center, located at 1 East Main Street, from Jan 31 through February 9. Tickets can be obtained by visiting www.MesaArtsCenter.com or by calling the box office at 480-644-6500.

The Baltimore Playwrights Festival (www.baltplayfest.com) announces the fifth public reading 'Marathon" of their 30th Season, to take place on Saturday, February 12th at the Andrew White Student Center of Loyola University of Maryland, 4501 North Charles Street, Baltimore, Maryland, 21210.

The Baltimore Playwrights Festival (www.baltplayfest.com) announces the fifth public reading 'Marathon" of their 30th Season, to take place on Saturday, February 12th at the Andrew White Student Center of Loyola University of Maryland, 4501 North Charles Street, Baltimore, Maryland, 21210.

Who Knows Productions presents Greetings from Yorkville with music and lyrics by Robert Grusecki, lyrics and book by Anya Turner. Turner and Grusecki will both perform. The production, directed by Thommie Walsh, will run Off-Broadway at the SoHo Playhouse with previews beginning Tuesday, September 25. The official opening is Thursday, October 4 at 7PM.

The New York premiere of Southern Comforts by Kathleen Clark, presented by Primary Stages, will ends its limited engagement Saturday evening, November 4 at 8:00PM

Due to an actor injury, Kathleen Clark's Southern Comforts has been delayed at Primary Stages, and Larry Keith has replaced William Biff McGuire

Kathleen Clark's Southern Comforts, running from September 19th through October 29th at Primary Stages, will co-star Tony Award-nominees Penny Fuller and William Biff McGuire

Danny Gurwin and Sally Wilfert will be among the performers celebrating the songs of the musically versatile Arthur Schwartz in the New-York Historical Society's March 6th benefit concert

HAL HOLBROOK AND DIXIE CARTER TO SHOWCASE SPECTACULAR THEATRICAL TALENTS IN KATHLEEN CLARK'S NEW PLAY 'SOUTHERN COMFORTS'