Kate Brennan News

Bucks County Playhouse Youth Company is accepting video audition submissions for five male roles (ages 13-18) for their upcoming production of “ALiEN8.” Audition submissions should include the following: auditioner’s name and age, singing 16-32 bars of any song, as well as reading each audition scene as Ethan, Zach, Brasfield, and Ray Berry. Contact Ellen Gallos, Assistant Director of Education, at ellen@buckscountyplayhouse.org for scene materials as well as to submit audition videos.

The Playhouse Youth Company will hold auditions for ages 13 – 18 on Saturday, April 30, 2022, from 10am – 3:30pm, with callbacks on May 1 at Lambertville Hall, 57 Bridge Street, Lambertville, NJ.

In partnership with Eastern Michigan University (EMU), Matrix Theatre Company presents a lively staged reading of Muriel Rukeyser’s play/musical, Houdini, Saturday March 26, 8 pm and Sunday, March 27, at 3 pm at Matrix Theatre Company, located at 2730 Bagley Avenue in the heart of Mexicantown. 

Join DreamWrights Center for Community Arts as they kick off their 25th Anniversary Celebratory Year with “A Winter's Web” – an evening of select performances showcasing their upcoming 2022 Season, a proclamation from the Mayor of York City Michael Helfrich, as well as speeches from Representative Carol Hill-Evans and Founding members Ann Davis, Joan Bitzer, and Allison Witherow. 

Over 30 events including immersive orchestral performance, new commissions, live podcasts, art, screenings, talks and poetry showcasing local, national and international queer work in Belfast.

Produced by See-Saw Films, the 10-part series is a co-production between Sky UK and Foxtel Australia, and was created and written by Samantha Strauss and directed by Jessica M. Thompson and Jonathan Brough.

A decade ago, BCKSEET Productions was in residence at the historic Society Hill Playhouse. After four year in Oklahoma City and garnering a new name and mission, BCKSEET is BCK as Ignition Arts with a focus on process, podcasts and projects.

SHOWTIME has picked up the 10-episode first season of THE END, a half-hour dark comedy series starring Emmy nominee Harriet Walter.

Associate Professor Kate Brennan and undergraduate BFA candidate Avery Bruce have been awarded Oklahoma City University's  2020 CAIRS Undergraduate Research Grant to remotely develop Illuminate, a new type of distance learning musical theatre piece.

Ignition Arts and Literati Press collaborate for a unique book launch of elevated thoughts: 100 shadormas from 9,000ft. by Kate Brennan and Corinne Prudente. elevated, premiering on Thursday, May 7 at 7PM is a short film adaptation of the book. The film will be available free to the public for one month from launch (www.ignitionarts.org/2020) 

Ignition Arts presents their third season in Oklahoma City, with two book readings and new play workshop, and the third and final installment in The Infinity Trilogy. Ignition Arts also offers two podcasts on SoundCloud, Thank you 10 and Fair Play

In this gay musical comedy romp, jingle writer Robert experiences writer's block for a lipstick product, and with a small cry for help, he is magically and mysteriously thrown into a world full of glitter and fairy dust, the topsy-turvy domain of passionate drag queens with larger than life attitudes who come armed with lipsticka?"ready to write a jingle for Luscious Lips, help Robert out, and rule the worlda?"and all without breaking a sweata??or a nail. On December 7th, Jingle A Go-Go: The Musical comes to Studio C, 6448 Santa Monica Blvd. for the Holidays.

Kate Brennan's The Shoebox transports audiences back in time to high school and early adolescence. This is a time that many adults would consider simple, yet, as revealed through the plights of Brennan's characters, the viewer is reminded how complicated and tumultuous it felt in the moment. The Shoebox is part of the fourth annual She NYC Arts Summer Theater Festival at The Connelly Theater, which strives to provide women writers, composers, and directors with resources to jump-start their careers in the theater industry.

She NYC Arts will present the fourth annual She NYC Arts Summer Theater Festival, a festival featuring eight new full length shows by women writers and composers, June 19-30 at The Connelly Theater (220 East 4th Street, New York, NY 10009). Tickets ($20) are now on sale at www.shenycarts.org. 

She NYC Arts will present the third annual She NYC Arts Summer Theater Festival, a festival featuring eight new full length shows by women writers and composers, June 19-30 at The Connelly Theater (220 E 4th St, New York, NY 10009). Tickets ($20) will go on sale Monday, May 6 at www.shenycarts.org. The performance schedule for the festival will be announced in May.

This collection of six short plays wants to be immediate, relevant, and thought-provoking. The question is, what's the best way to go about writing shows like that?

Luna Stage has announced SoloFest 2017, opening December 8th and continuing through December 17th.

BWW REVIEW: LORD OF THE FLIES at Oklahoma City University's Burg Theatre Features an Entirely Female Cast

Luna Stage has announced SoloFest 2017, opening December 8th and continuing through December 17th.

BWW PREVIEWS: LORD OF THE FLIES Gets an Unexpected Makeover at Oklahoma City University's School of Theatre