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4 weeks ago | 
theashlandchronicle.com | James Ijames |Amy Hawkins |Hainan Province |Dan Jervis-Bardy
ArtsAshlandBusinessCommunityEducationEventsHuman InterestJackson CountyOregonRogue Valley Angus Bowmer founded OSF in 1935 with the singular mission of bringing transformative, world-class theatre to Southern Oregon. Next year in 2025, we celebrate 90 unbelievable years of that dream.
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Sep 27, 2024 | 
dctheaterarts.org | Deb Miller |James Ijames |Rajiv Joseph |Eboni Booth
American Theatre magazine, published daily online and quarterly in print by Theatre Communications Group (TCG) – the national organization for theatre founded in 1961, with a membership of more than 700 theaters and affiliate organizations and over 7,000 individuals – has released its lists of Top 10 Most-Produced Plays and Top 20 Most-Produced Playwrights for the new 2024-25 season.
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Feb 12, 2024 | 
broadwayworld.com | Chloe Rabinowitz |James Ijames
Pittsburgh Public Theater's newest venture is a first in the organization's nearly 50-year history as it will live stream select performances of a mainstage production through a partnership with one of the industry's most exciting emerging nonprofits. Audiences worldwide will have the opportunity to watch the final four performances of DRAGON LADY from Broadway's Sara Porkalob (1776) Feb.
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Feb 10, 2024 | 
broadwayworld.com | Blair Ingenthron |James Ijames
Sara Porkalob's solo cabaret musical DRAGON LADYis currently running at Pittsburgh Public Theater through Feb. 25, 2024. Check out photos from the production below!After Grandma Porkalob’s birthday party karaoke antics, you’ll never hear “House of the Rising Sun” or “Gangsta’s Paradise” the same way again. Broadway star Sara Porkalob belts out the funny and fearless tale of her Filipino gangster family’s sordid and often laugh-out-loud past in a musical that will have all generations buzzing.
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Feb 8, 2024 | 
broadwayworld.com | A.A. Cristi |James Ijames
Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre (PBT)'s Beauty and the Beast opens on February 16 at the Benedum Center. The family-friendly ballet will run for two weekends - February 16-18 and February 23-25. This beautiful ballet offers something for everyone - romance and charm for adults, fun, joyful characters for children, magnificent choreography for dance aficionados and a stunning Tchaikovsky score for music lovers.
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Feb 8, 2024 | 
broadwayworld.com | Stephi Wild |James Ijames
Fatin Dantzler and Aja Graydon — better known as the Philadelphia-based, husband and wife duo, Kindred The Family Soul — AKA Kindred - comes to Pittsburgh, performing in the latest edition of the Soul Sessions series at the August Wilson African American Cultural Center (AWAACC), 980 Liberty Avenue, on February 14, 2024 at 8:00 pm.
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Feb 5, 2024 | 
broadwayworld.com | James Ijames |A.A. Cristi
City Theatre announces the fourth show of its 2023/2024 season, Fat Ham by James Ijames, a co-production with TheatreSquared in Fayetteville, AR. The play had its digital world premiere at the Wilma Theater in Philadelphia in 2021, made its off-Broadway debut in 2022 at New York's Public Theater and transferred to Broadway in 2013 after receiving overwhelmingly positive reviews.
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Jan 9, 2024 | 
broadwayworld.com | Stephi Wild |James Ijames
Geffen Playhouse has announced the full cast for its West Coast premiere of the Broadway production of five-time Tony Award nominee and 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Drama winner Fat Ham, written by James Ijames (Kill Move Paradise, The Most Spectacularly Lamentable Trial of Miz Martha Washington).
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Nov 22, 2023 | 
americantheatre.org | James Ijames
In Dark Disabled Stories—the complete script of which is available only in our Fall 2023 print edition—playwright/performer Ryan J. Haddad recounts complicated moments moving through a world not built for him. For an interview accompanying the published play, Haddad spoke to James Ijames, Pulitzer winner for Fat Ham, about his inspirations, his process, and what he learned from making the show. JAMES IJAMES: I love your play.
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Oct 25, 2023 | 
broadwayworld.com | James Ijames |A.A. Cristi
Mad Horse Theatre Company presents the Maine Premier of White by James Ijames, November 15th - December 10th. White explores issues of race, gender, sexuality, and art. A modern Frankenstein story with a dash of Mahogany, and Pygmalion to keep it gay and light. Gus is pissed. He's a white guy who can't get picked up by a major museum. Vanessa is trying to make it as an actress but finds there is something holding her back.
