Company member Eva Kaminsky is in Paranormal Activity, written by Levi Holloway and directed by Felix Barrett, presented at the August Wilson Theatre on Broadway. James and Lou move from Chicago to London for a fresh start. But as the young couple settles into their new home, Lou is certain that something isn’t right, and before long they will both have to grapple with the same truth: places aren’t haunted, people are. An entirely new story inspired by the iconic film series, Paranormal Activity comes to Broadway direct from critically acclaimed runs in Chicago, Los Angeles, and London. Performances run through January 3, 2027.
Company member Ryan Spahn is in An American Daughter, written by Wendy Wasserstein and directed by Sarna Lapine, presented Off-Broadway at the Pershing Square Signature Center. Set in Washington, D.C., the play focuses on Dr. Lyssa Dent Hughes, a health care expert and 40-something daughter of a long-time senator. When the President nominates Lyssa to a cabinet post, an indiscretion from her past is discovered. The media turns it into a scandal, which imperils her confirmation and divides her family and friends. Lyssa is forced to make a decision: continue to pursue the post and face an ugly Senate hearing; or decline the nomination, becoming a sacrificial lamb for the President. Performances run through September 6.
Company member Anthony Crane returns as Chandler Groff in fifth and final season of Outer Banks, the mystery drama series from Josh Pate, Jonas Pate, and Shannon Burke. Set in a coastal town along the Outer Banks of North Carolina, the series follows a tight-knit group of working-class teenagers hunting for legendary lost treasure while navigating fierce class divides and high-stakes danger. Season 5 will be available to stream on Netflix starting August 20. Watch trailer here.
Company member Ivory Aquino is in The Real Ivanov, written by Anton Chekhov and adapted and directed by Laura Strausfeld, Off-Broadway at The Lynn F. Angelson Theater. In the course of a year, Nikolai Ivanov—mid-30s, once charismatic and admired—has become overwhelmed and depressed. Everyone around him thinks they know why. Ivanov isn’t convinced. This faithful, fast-paced adaptation captures the central insight of Chekhov’s first masterpiece: misunderstanding one another is both comic and calamitous. Performances run through September 19.
Company member Welker White is in the feature film Late Fame, directed by Kent Jones and starring Willem Dafoe and Greta Lee. The film follows Ed Saxberger, a postal worker whose former life as a downtown poet in late-70s New York is rediscovered by a young admirer and his “Enthusiasm Society,” a group of 20-somethings with a comically romanticized sense of the past. In the company of his new friends, including the mysterious and mercurial Gloria, Ed has the uncanny feeling of merging with his younger self. Now showing in select theaters. Watch trailer here.
Company member Matthew Rauch is in Lucky, a new series created by Jonathan Tropper, based on the crime novel by Marissa Stapley, and starring Anya Taylor-Joy, Timothy Olyphant, and Annett Benning. When a multi-million-dollar heist goes sideways, con artist Lucky is forced to go on the run. Pursued by both the FBI and a ruthless crime boss, she must fight for her life-and a way out. New episodes air Wednesdays through August 19 on Apple TV. Watch trailer here.
Company member Crystal Dickinson was in Best for Baby, written by Sharyn Rothstein and directed by Oliver Butler, presented earlier this summer by the Chautauqua Theater Company. The play takes audiences inside Johnson & Johnson’s decades-long and still evolving baby powder scandal. A Big American Play ripped straight from the headlines, this world premiere is equal parts showbiz spectacle and intimate human storytelling.
Company member Kathryn Markey directed Darker the Night, Brighter the Stars, written by company member John Cariani earlier this month at Opera House Arts in Stonington, Maine. In a certain small town in far Northern Maine, the Perseid Meteor Shower has begun, and shooting stars are streaking across the vast northern night sky. And some young Mainers are wishing on those shooting stars. This interconnected collection of short plays is about identity, love, loss, lack, hope for the future, making wishes, and learning that there’s light even when it’s really, really dark.
Read the recent feature in The New York Times about John Cariani and the play: “This Playwright Says He’s Done With Maine. Let’s Hope Not.”
Company member Haley Rawson is in the feature film The Arrow at Rest at Every Instant of its Flight, written and directed by Theodore Schafer. Gus Birney stars as Violet, a jaded arcade worker, Sinopia, an upper-class professor bored with her marriage, and Jade, an endlessly cool young woman who decides to help a stranger out of her debt. Meanwhile, a woman with a suitcase moves through the city in search of the doppelganger trying to take over her life. The film premiered this month at the Edinburgh International Film Festival.
Company member Ka-Ling Cheung is in The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare, presented by Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey as part of Rogue Shakespeare—a season add-on that throws the rules out the window and puts the play exactly where it belongs: in the hands of extraordinary actors. With no director shaping the action, the company dives headfirst into Shakespeare’s language, with their imagination fully unleashed. When the boastful Sir John Falstaff attempts to woo two clever, happily married women, he sends them identical love letters—only to discover that Mistress Ford and Mistress Page are far smarter than he expects. Performances run through August 23 in Madison, NJ.
Company member Tamilla Woodard directed The House I Live In: Josh White’s America, a world premiere musical by Donnetta Lavinia Grays, presented earlier this summer at South Carolina New Play Festival. Born in Greenville, South Carolina, Josh White was the first Black artist to sell a million records, shared stages with Billie Holiday, Woody Guthrie, and Duke Ellington, and became a pioneer of the civil rights movement before the House Un-American Activities Committee tried to silence him. SCNPF commissioned award-winning playwright Donnetta Lavinia Grays and spent three years facilitating original research and interviews with Josh White’s family members, local historians, and Greenville community leaders to create a work rooted in the real voices of the people who knew him and the city that shaped him.
Company member Emma Ramos is in the feature film SOULM8TE, directed by Kate Dolan. After a ruthless tech giant acquires his company, a grieving engineer is tasked with testing their new AI companion. But when he attempts to program her to be a truly sentient soulmate, she develops needs of her own—unleashing a relentless spree of precision-engineered mayhem. Now available to stream. Watch trailer here.
Company member Geneva Carr is in Mooch, a feature film written by, directed by and starring Jeff Ryan. Mooch tells the story of Shane, the oldest caddy at his local golf club, who takes on the job of digging up dirt for a charismatic New Jersey nightclub owner. The cast includes Scott Cohen, Will Chase, and Katerina Tannenbaum. The film debuted on digital platforms earlier this month, and is now available to stream. Watch trailer here.
Company member Julian Elijah Martinez was in moments after Aias, written and directed by Andrew Watkins, presented by What Will The Neighbors Say, Hamlet Isn’t Dead, and Sanguine Theatre Company at JACK. A decade of war is coming to a close. A soldier is dead. Devastated by the loss of his closest friend and betrayed by his commanding officers, he also committed an act of unspeakable violence. Now those left behind face a series of collective questions: What was his life worth? What do they owe him? Where does responsibility lie? This adaptation of Sophocles asks how a community remembers tragedy, and why it is easier to mourn someone than it is to help them.