Boston Theater Critics Association Announces 2013 Elliot Norton Awards Nominations
by BWW Special Coverage - Apr 10, 2013
The Boston Theater Critics Association has announced its nominations for the 31st Annual Elliot Norton Awards. The awards, which recognize excellence in Greater Boston theater, will be presented on Monday, May 13, at 7 p.m. at the Paramount Mainstage, 559 Washington Street, Boston. Tickets are $30 (including post-party) and available by phone at 617-824-8000 or online www.nortonawardsboston.com. (Use "NortonSave" code to receive $5 off for the month of April only.) Sponsors for the 2013 awards ceremony include, ArtsEmerson, Actors' Equity Association, ArtsBoston, EdgeBoston, Emerson College, TheaterMania, The Boston Globe, WBUR, WERS and WGBH. (more...)
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STAGE TUBE: Watch the 2013 Elliot Norton Award Nominations Announcement!
by Stage Tube - Apr 10, 2013
The Boston Theater Critics Association (BTCA) has announced its nominations for the 31st Annual Elliot Norton Awards. The awards, which recognize excellence in Greater Boston theater, will be presented on Monday, May 13, at 7 p.m. at the Paramount Mainstage, 559 Washington Street, Boston. Click below to watch the announcement, and scroll down for a full list of the nominees! (more...)
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Yale's Institute for Music Theatre Announces 2013 Selections
by BWW News Desk - Mar 26, 2013
The YALE INSTITUTE FOR MUSIC THEATRE (Mark Brokaw, Artistic Director) has selected two original book musicals, The Last Queen of Canaan, with music by Jacob Yandura and book and lyrics by Rebekah Greer Melocik, and Mrs. Hughes, with music and lyrics by Sharon Kenny and book by Janine Nabers, to be developed in an intensive lab setting in New Haven, June 4-16. The residency culminates with open rehearsal readings of each project, presented as part of the International Festival of Arts & Ideas, on June 15 and 16, 2013. (more...)
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Stage Tube: First Look at Royal Opera House's 2013/14 Season
by BWW News Desk - Mar 19, 2013
The Season sees seven new productions on the Main Stage including new productions of Parsifal, Les Vepres siciliennes, and Die Frau ohne Schatten to celebrate milestone anniversaries of Wagner, Verdi and Strauss respectively. Other new Main Stage productions include Don Giovanni from Kasper Holten and Manon Lescaut from Jonathan Kent. (more...)
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BWW Reviews: HUGHIE Shines at Shakespeare Theatre Company
by Jeffrey Walker - Feb 12, 2013
HUGHIE, by Eugene O'Neill, shines in a handsome production at Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, D.C. Lead by Emmy-winner, Richard Schiff HUGHIE is an O'Neill curiosity that is worth seeing. Just ignore the voice-overs, please. (more...)
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Michael Morpurgo's PRIVATE PEACEFUL Plays Theatre Royal Haymarket Now thru 29 September
by BWW News Desk - Sep 18, 2012
The award-winning children's author Michael Morpurgo's Private Peaceful plays for a strictly limited 16 performances only at the Theatre Royal Haymarket from tonight, 18 - 29 September 2012. Directed and adapted for the stage by Simon Reade, Private Peaceful has designs by Bill Talbot and sound by Jason Barnes. The National Theatre's One Man, Two Guvnors will continue its run at the Haymarket from 1 October after this two-week break. (more...)
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New Work by Disabled and Deaf Artists Presented with London 2012 Paralympic Games, Beg. Aug 30
by BWW News Desk - Aug 30, 2012
With just eight days to go until the start of the London 2012 Paralympic Games, London 2012 Festival presents a ground-breaking series of commissions by disabled and deaf artists in the Unlimited programme. Originally initiated as part of the Cultural Olympiad, the programme represents the largest ever series of commissions to disabled and deaf artists and celebrates their work on an unprecedented scale across the UK. (more...)
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Photo Flash: Poetry in the Persian Tent Opens at Edinburgh's Festival of Spirituality and Peace
by BWW News Desk - Aug 22, 2012
Yesterday, August 22, Liz Lochhead launched Poetry in the Persian Tent at the Festival of Spirituality and Peace in Edinburgh, UK, to raise money for Oxfam project Old MacDonald Had a Farm for Africa. In the first of five Poetry in the Persian Tent readings with music, poets Liz Lochhead, John Glenday, Ryan Van Winkle, and Stephanie Green performed their verse accompanied by John Sampson on wind instruments. (more...)
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Lochhead, Kay and More Headline POETRY IN THE PERSIAN TENT, Now thru Aug 26
by BWW News Desk - Aug 22, 2012
Renowned poets Liz Lochhead, Jackie Kay, John Glenday, Vicki Fever, Aonghas MacNeacail and Stewart Conn will headline the Poetry in the Persian Tent reading series this month to raise funds for Liz Lochhead and Jim Carruth's Old MacDonald Had a Farm for Africa Project, in association with Oxfam. (more...)
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New Work by Disabled and Deaf Artists Presented with London 2012 Paralympic Games, Beg. Aug 30
by BWW News Desk - Aug 21, 2012
With just eight days to go until the start of the London 2012 Paralympic Games, London 2012 Festival presents a ground-breaking series of commissions by disabled and deaf artists in the Unlimited programme. Originally initiated as part of the Cultural Olympiad, the programme represents the largest ever series of commissions to disabled and deaf artists and celebrates their work on an unprecedented scale across the UK. (more...)
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Paul Chequer and Mark Quartley to Lead PRIVATE PEACEFUL at Theatre Royal Haymarket
by BWW News Desk - Jul 31, 2012
Paul Chequer and Mark Quartley will share the title role in Michael Morpurgo's Private Peaceful which will have a strictly limited run at the Theatre Royal Haymarket from 18 - 29 September 2012. Directed and adapted for the stage by Simon Reade, award-winning children's author Michael Morpurgo's Private Peaceful has designs by Bill Talbot and sound by Jason Barnes. (more...)
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Michael Frayn's DEMOCRACY Transfers to Old Vic from June
by BWW
News Desk - Jul 13, 2012
The Old Vic will bring the critically acclaimed Sheffield Theatres' production of Michael Frayn's cold-war drama Democracy to London with previews from 15 June and press night on 20 June. Associate Director of Sheffield Theatres Paul Miller directs. (more...)
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Lochhead, Kay et al Headline POETRY IN THE PERSIAN TENT, Aug 22 - 26
by BWW News Desk - Jun 28, 2012
Renowned poets Liz Lochhead, Jackie Kay, John Glenday, Vicki Fever, Aonghas MacNeacail and Stewart Conn will headline the Poetry in the Persian Tent reading series this August to raise funds for Liz Lochhead and Jim Carruth's Old MacDonald Had a Farm for Africa Project, in association with Oxfam. (more...)
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PROMETHEUS AWAKES Kicks Off Greenwich+Docklands International Festival, Now thru June 24
by BWW News Desk - Jun 22, 2012
Greenwich+Docklands International Festival (GDIF), London's ambitious annual festival of outdoor arts and spectacle, breaks new ground this year with visual storytelling on an epic scale, pioneering text based theatre on the street, site-specific outdoor dance framed by pre-Olympic London and, in a Festival first, GDIF brings the essence of the outdoors inside, with Crow, the world premiere of a visceral new production from Handspring Puppet Company UK, breathing new life into TEd Hughes' celebrated Crow poems. (more...)
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Photo Flash: First Look at Michael Frayn's DEMOCRACY!
by BWW News Desk - Jun 21, 2012
The Old Vic brings the critically acclaimed Sheffield Theatres' production of Michael Frayn's cold-war drama Democracy to London. Associate Director of Sheffield Theatres Paul Miller directs. Press night was held last night and BroadwayWorld has a first look at the production photos below! (more...)
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