DEZART PERFORMS SEASON AND MORE at Dezart Performs
by Kay Kudukis on Jul 8, 2025
Dezart Performs has announced its new home: the Dezart Playhouse, formerly the First Church of Christ, Scientist, an architectural landmark designed in 1957 by Robson Chambers and Albert Frey.
MTI Launches New Licensing Division, MTI Concert Dance
by Nicole Rosky on Mar 28, 2024
MTI Concert Dance will license choreographed works from well-known choreographers across many genres of dance. For its launch, MTI has partnered with The Robbins Rights Trust to exclusively license the entire ballet repertory of the legendary Jerome Robbins.
Hit Show FATAL FOLLIES OF '27 Comes To Lima With An All Local Cast!
by A.A. Cristi on Jun 28, 2023
Tickets are now on sale for Avant Garage's next Dinner Theatre Production - 'Fatal Follies of '27!' An Audience Participation Musical Comedy Murder Mystery written and directed by the Award-Winning team of Michael Bouson and Joe Correll.
REP Founder Sanford (Sandy) Robbins to Step Down
by A.A. Cristi on Aug 4, 2021
After 32 years of working devotedly as the Producing Artistic Director of the Resident Ensemble Players (REP), Founder and Director of the Professional Theatre Training Program (PTTP), and Theatre Department Chairperson at the University of Delaware, Sanford (Sandy) Robbins has announced that he will complete his leadership of the REP and Theatre Department on August 31, 2022.
Now Live (and Dead) and In Person TODD ROBBINS' HAUNT QUEST
by BWW News Desk on Apr 26, 2021
The building that houses the SoHo Playhouse has been around for about 200 years. So many dark events have occurred there through the years. So many people that had a connection with the building are now dead.
THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS Reunion Special Announced at Theatre Raleigh
by A.A. Cristi on May 18, 2020
Theatre Raleigh presents its first reunion show, featuring the cast of our 2019 production of The Scottsboro Boys. The final collaboration by musical theatre legends, John Kander and Fred Ebb (Cabaret, Chicago) and nominated for twelve Tony Awards, The Scottsboro Boys confronts an infamous event in the history of the American criminal justice system.
BWW Interview: Producing Artistic Director Sandy Robbins of UD REP
by Greer Firestone on May 4, 2020
This is the 3rd of Aisle Say's interviews with local arts professionals. Each organization has similar overarching concerns of cancellations, lost revenues, refunds, donations, personnel anxiety and the preposterous nightmare of rescheduling in uncertainty. On the other hand, each have specific issues relevant to their own procedures and organizational structures.
Oscar-Winner Tim Robbins To Attend THE NEW COLOSSUS Events In Folsom
by A.A. Cristi on Feb 20, 2020
In this intensely physical production, cast members from The Actor's Gang tell their ancestors' stories in twelve different eras, all woven into a single narrative about escaping an oppressive homeland and being drawn to the beacon above Ellis Island.
Dharon E. Jones Replaces Ben Cook in WEST SIDE STORY
by Stephi Wild on Jan 9, 2020
Dharon E. Jones, making his Broadway debut, will succeed actor Ben Cook in the role of 'Riff' in the new Broadway production of West Side Story, producers Scott Rudin/Barry Diller/David Geffen announced today.
WEST SIDE STORY Has Broken All-Time Broadway Theatre House Record
by Chloe Rabinowitz on Dec 30, 2019
Producers Scott Rudin / Barry Diller / David Geffen announced today that the Broadway return of the Jerome Robbins / Arthur Laurents / Leonard Bernstein / Stephen Sondheim musical, West Side Story, has once again broken the all-time Broadway Theatre house record for a single week, with a gross of $1,807,025.94. In 7 performances the previous week, West Side Story broke the record (with a gross of $1,497,319) held by Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella ($1,479,889.97, established on 12/29/13, for an 8-performance week).
BWW Review: Theatre Raleigh's THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS
by Nicole Ackman on Sep 8, 2019
When you open a program to find a page recommending ways that people can take action after seeing a musical (like registering to vote and supporting groups like the ACLU), you know that you're going to see something special. Theatre Raleigh's last show of their 2019 Summer Season, THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS, is a daring musical about the Scottsboro Boys trials in the 1930s in Alabama. It has a company of all African-American performers, except one, and takes inspiration from minstrel shows. The show is directed and brilliantly choreographed by Gerry McIntyre who manages to make it very impactful, without feeling overdone.
Harvey Robbins' SUPERSTARS OF LAS VEGAS Comes to Theatre By The Sea
by Stephi Wild on Aug 19, 2019
Theatre By The Sea (TBTS) owner and producer Bill Hanney is proud to welcome back Harvey Robbins, who enjoyed a phenomenally successful performance of his Doo-Wopp Hall of Fame of America and Motown earlier this season. Mr. Robbins will close out this season's Monday Concerts and Events series with his Superstars of Las Vegas show on Monday, August 26 at 7:30 pm
Austin Pendleton's WARS OF THE ROSES Returns 12/3
by Julie Musbach on Oct 29, 2018
Theater for the New City has announced that due to popular demand they will be presenting Tony nominated theatre luminary Austin Pendleton's adaptation of Richard III, Shakespeare's greatest villain, WARS OF THE ROSES: HENRY VI & RICHARD III for three nights only December 3rd, 4th and 5th.
Baryshnikov Arts Center to Hold Annual Fall Fete October 1
by Julie Musbach on Sep 12, 2018
Baryshnikov Arts Center (BAC) will host its annual benefit to support BAC's programs on Monday, October 1, 2018, in the Jerome Robbins Theater and Howard Gilman Performance Space (450 W. 37th Street, Manhattan).