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Watch Now: What the Constitution Means to Me Official Trailer

Source: BroadwayDirect.com | Posted: October 5 2020 @ 5:37 pm

Fifteen-year-old Heidi Schreck earned her college tuition by winning Constitutional debate competitions across the United States. In this hilarious, hopeful, and achingly human show, Heidi resurrects her teenage self in order to trace the profound relationship between four generations of women and the founding document that shaped their lives.

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Aladdin's Jonathan Freeman Longs for a Crystal Ball as He Awaits Broadway Return

Source: Broadway.com | Posted: October 5 2020 @ 3:14 pm

Living near the theater district during the Broadway shutdown, photographer and performer Matthew Stocke has been haunted walking past the empty palaces sitting in repose, waiting for the lights and stars to return. In this new Broadway.com photo feature, he reunites members of the theater community with their Broadway home #AwayFromHome.

JONATHAN FREEMAN
ALADDIN

For the past 28 years, Tony nominee Jonathan Freeman has been entwined with the character of Jafar. Having voiced the Aladdin villain in the 1992 animated feature, Freeman returned to the world of Agrabah to originate the role on Broadway in 2014 and has continued in the part ever since then. With three other Disney musicals to his name (Beauty and the Beast, Mary Poppins and The Little Mermaid) as well as many other credits on Broadway and beyond, Freeman always been a busy actor. During this season away from the New Amsterdam Theatre, Freeman has rediscovered the little joys in life as well as new passions. Here, he shares what is delighting him now and more.

"I have a house in Long Island that I've had for 28 years and I've been quarantined with my partner of 30 years. The really weird …

The Broadway Fix for October 2, 2020 Featuring Ali Ewoldt of The Phantom of the Opera

Source: Broadway.com | Posted: October 5 2020 @ 2:25 pm

The Phantom of the Opera star Ali Ewoldt talks about performing at the Phantom drive-in experience at Radial Park in Queens and more with Caitlin Moynihan. 

LA’s Center Theatre Group Creates A New Digital Stage

Source: ArtsJournal.com | Posted: October 5 2020 @ 1:31 pm

CTG Artistic Director Michael Ritchie said in an interview that he would like to make the Digital Stage a permanent fixture, even after the threat of the coronavirus fades. The hope is that the kind of work appearing on the Digital Stage will transcend COVID-related restrictions to establish a new language for theater. – Los […]

See Heidi Schreck in Action in What the Constitution Means to Me Film

Source: Broadway.com | Posted: October 5 2020 @ 1:00 pm

After playing a twice-extended Broadway run, audiences can stream Heidi Schreck's Tony-nominated What the Constitution Means to Me. A filmed version of the stage production will premiere on October 16 exclusively on Amazon Prime Video. Captured by director Marielle Heller during the play's final week on Broadway, What the Constitution Means to Me stars Schreck telling the true story of putting herself through college by giving speeches about the U.S. Constitution and tracing the document's impact on women's bodies. See Schreck, along with Mike Iveson, Rosdely Ciprian, and Thursday Williams, in action in the first full trailer below!