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Theater for the New City to Stage NY Premiere of PASSING THROUGH, 4/10-28
by BWW
News Desk - Apr 27, 2013
Tristan Grigsby is a young, tall, virile, dark-haired, handsome, muscular actor and playwright whose first New York play, 'Passing Through,' is a deceptively spare, often humorous disquisition on loneliness. The play presents five characters, all of whom are in a particular state of loneliness, who go through brief dramatic encounters with each other and a visitor/messenger who has been sent by the gods to investigate their peculiar predicament. It has a gentle touch, a distilled style and a Beckettian effect. Theater for the New City will present the work April 10 to 28, directed by Guenevere Donohue. (more...)
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Theater for the New City Stages NY Premiere of PASSING THROUGH, Now thru 4/28
by BWW News Desk - Apr 10, 2013
Tristan Grigsby is a young, tall, virile, dark-haired, handsome, muscular actor and playwright whose first New York play, 'Passing Through,' is a deceptively spare, often humorous disquisition on loneliness. The play presents five characters, all of whom are in a particular state of loneliness, who go through brief dramatic encounters with each other and a visitor/messenger who has been sent by the gods to investigate their peculiar predicament. It has a gentle touch, a distilled style and a Beckettian effect. Theater for the New City will present the work tonight, April 10 to 28, directed by Guenevere Donohue. (more...)
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PHANTOMS OF THE OPERA to Make World Premiere at Texas A&M, Today
by BWW
News Desk - Apr 03, 2013
One of the world's most famous musicals is set to premiere at Texas A&M. Phantom of the Opera has been around for decades, and the story is centuries old. But now, a group of award winning stage actors are preparing a new-take on a story of fear and love. On a cloudy day at Texas A&M University, in a ballroom, beautiful music drifts across the air. Three people surround a piano while the ballroom is being set-up for an event later Monday evening. Rebecca Pitcher. Danny Zolli. Producer Neil Berg on the piano. (more...)
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Marin Theatre Company Announces 2013-14 Season
by BWW News Desk - Apr 03, 2013
Marin Theatre Company's artistic director Jasson Minadakis and managing director Michael Barker announced the company's 2013-14 season today. Featuring six productions in MTC's intimate 231-seat Boyer Theatre, the season includes the regional premiere of David Lindsay-Abaire's national sensation Good People; a revival of August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning play Fences;world premieres of I and You by Bay Area-based playwright Lauren Gunderson and Lasso of Truth, which MTC commissioned from Carson Kreitzer with the support of the National New Play Network; the west coast premiere of Philip Dawkins' "whimsical beyond all imagining" Failure: A Love Story; and a unique holiday production of Jacob Marley's Christmas Carol by Tom Mula. Based in Mill Valley, MTC is a 47-year old professional nonprofit theater, a destination for exhilarating performances, inspired new American plays and powerful theatrical experiences. (more...)
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PHANTOMS OF THE OPERA to Make World Premiere at Texas A&M, 4/4
by BWW News Desk - Apr 02, 2013
One of the world's most famous musicals is set to premiere at Texas A&M. Phantom of the Opera has been around for decades, and the story is centuries old. But now, a group of award winning stage actors are preparing a new-take on a story of fear and love. On a cloudy day at Texas A&M University, in a ballroom, beautiful music drifts across the air. Three people surround a piano while the ballroom is being set-up for an event later Monday evening. Rebecca Pitcher. Danny Zolli. Producer Neil Berg on the piano. (more...)
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Kneehigh to Return to St. Ann's Warehouse with THE WILD BRIDE, 2/23-3/17
by BWW
News Desk - Mar 16, 2013
St. Ann's Warehouse welcomes back Kneehigh and director Emma Rice for the New York premiere of The Wild Bride. In this adaptation of the Brothers Grimm fairy tale 'The Girl Without Hands,' narrated by Satan himself, a father accidentally sells his daughter to the Devil. When our heroine cleverly escapes, a lyrical love story laced with devilish humor unfolds. The production features a bluegrass score by longtime Kneehigh composer Stu Barker, performed by live musicians and the cast. (more...)
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Theater for the New City to Stage NY Premiere of PASSING THROUGH, 4/10-28
by BWW News Desk - Mar 15, 2013
Tristan Grigsby is a young, tall, virile, dark-haired, handsome, muscular actor and playwright whose first New York play, 'Passing Through,' is a deceptively spare, often humorous disquisition on loneliness. The play presents five characters, all of whom are in a particular state of loneliness, who go through brief dramatic encounters with each other and a visitor/messenger who has been sent by the gods to investigate their peculiar predicament. It has a gentle touch, a distilled style and a Beckettian effect. Theater for the New City will present the work April 10 to 28, directed by Guenevere Donohue. (more...)
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Kneehigh Returns to St. Ann's Warehouse with THE WILD BRIDE, Now thru 3/17
by BWW News Desk - Feb 23, 2013
St. Ann's Warehouse welcomes back Kneehigh and director Emma Rice for the New York premiere of The Wild Bride. In this adaptation of the Brothers Grimm fairy tale 'The Girl Without Hands,' narrated by Satan himself, a father accidentally sells his daughter to the Devil. When our heroine cleverly escapes, a lyrical love story laced with devilish humor unfolds. The production features a bluegrass score by longtime Kneehigh composer Stu Barker, performed by live musicians and the cast. (more...)
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Kneehigh to Return to St. Ann's Warehouse with THE WILD BRIDE, 2/23-3/17
by BWW News Desk - Jan 25, 2013
St. Ann's Warehouse welcomes back Kneehigh and director Emma Rice for the New York premiere of The Wild Bride. In this adaptation of the Brothers Grimm fairy tale 'The Girl Without Hands,' narrated by Satan himself, a father accidentally sells his daughter to the Devil. When our heroine cleverly escapes, a lyrical love story laced with devilish humor unfolds. The production features a bluegrass score by longtime Kneehigh composer Stu Barker, performed by live musicians and the cast. (more...)
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Critically Hailed KINGDOM UNDONE Returns to the Southern, 3/15-3/30
by BWW News Desk - Jan 22, 2013
After a successful 2012 premiere, Kingdom Undone, the new play with a compelling twist on the last days of Jesus and Judas, returns to the Southern Theater March 15 - 30. Critics praised the show as "Remarkably intelligent... a first rate production" - John Olive, How Was the Show; "a labor of love by artists who really know what they're doing" - Matthew Everett, Twin Cities Daily Planet; and "[having] the potential to become an estimable piece in the passion literature" - Graydon Royce, Star Tribune. (more...)
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New Season Announced at Little Angel Theatre
by BWW News Desk - Jan 07, 2013
Little Angel sees in 2013 a wide range of visiting companies. Companies presenting work for children include Norwich Puppet Theatre (THE TINDERBOX / PIED PIPER), Horse + Bamboo (THE NIGHTINGALE) and Folded Feather (NICE). For adults, we welcome Flabbergast Theatre's anarchic BORIS AND SERGEY straight from their Soho Theatre run, and the successful Edinburgh hits by Theatre Témoin (THE FANTASIST) and The Wrong Crowd (THE GIRL WITH THE IRON CLAWS). The season starts with Santé Theatre's PASSING ON written by Mike Kenny. (more...)
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Little Angel Theatre Announces Touring Plans
by BWW News Desk - Nov 12, 2012
After years of being one of London and the UK's best kept secrets in its hidden Georgian square in Islington, Little Angel Theatre, through the extraordinary work of its dynamic touring department, is suddenly to be found in venues the length and breadth of the UK. And demand, both national and international, is growing all the time for its stunning puppetry productions. The next six months sees one of the busiest periods of touring in the theatre's 51 year history. (more...)
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UWM Department of Dance Announces Second Four Year Cycle of New Work Award Program
by BWW News Desk - Oct 15, 2012
The UWM Department of Dance has announced the second four-year cycle of the New Work Award program, made possible by the generous contribution of an anonymous local donor for the amount of $20,000. This award will allow us to continue with two important missions of the UWM Department of Dance - supporting the artistic growth and vision of our dance alumni while at the same time creating exciting original works to be performed by our current students. (more...)
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BWW Reviews: Meadow Brook Theatre's THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE is Haunting Good Time
by Katie Laban - Oct 13, 2012
When entering the Meadow Brook Theatre in Rochester, the first site to be seen is the curtain draped on the stage with a creepy house and ominous tress projected on it, which sets the tone perfectly for the production of the Michigan premiere of The Haunting of Hill House. This dramatic and scary play is done extremely well by the seven-person cast. It is a great show to open the theatre's season and get the audience in the mood for the eeriness of the Halloween season with all its creepy surprises. (more...)
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Little Angel Theatre Opens THE TEAR THIEF Tonight, Sept 22
by BWW News Desk - Sep 22, 2012
THE TEAR THIEF, adapted from the book written by Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy, opens at Little Angel Theatre in London. Produced in association with the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, the show runs at Little Angel from tonight, 22 September to 4 November with its press showing on 29 September at 3.30pm. It is suitable for age 3 and up. (more...)
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Little Angel Theatre Opens THE TEAR THIEF on September 22
by BWW News Desk - Aug 28, 2012
THE TEAR THIEF, adapted from the book written by Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy, opens at Little Angel Theatre in London. Produced in association with the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, the show runs at Little Angel from 22 September to 4 November with its press showing on 29 September at 3.30pm. It is suitable for age 3 and up. (more...)
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