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A FLAG IN THE WINDOW Tells Boy's Wartime Story
by BWW News Desk - Mar 28, 2013
All 12-year-old Billy Roarke wants is to have his father back safe and sound. His father, an engineer, is serving with paratroopers in England during World War II. This debut novel features a look at wartime through the eyes of a boy on the cusp of becoming a young man. Although he and his mom live fairly comfortably in Pasadena, far from the front lines, an unexpected event will change their lives forever. (more...)
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Saturday Evening Post Celebrates the Release of F. Scott Fitzgerald's GATSBY GIRLS
by BWW News Desk - Mar 20, 2013
He made the Roaring '20s come alive in numerous novels and created the Flapper Girl. As fans anticipate the release of the fourth film version of F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece The Great Gatsby, there is renewed interest in the legendary writer's work. Fans will delight in knowing that The Saturday Evening Post is working with intellectual property studio SD Entertainment and romance transmedia and company BroadLit to publish F.Scott Fitzgerald's Gatsby Girls-a collection of his first eight short stories originally published in The Saturday Evening Post. Included are the original illustrations, cover art, reproductions of the actual pages of the Post, plus a fascinating introduction by the Post's historian. No other writer of his time wrote so skillfully, so sympathetically and so fascinatingly about women. (more...)
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Theatre Artists Studio Opens MAPLE AND VINE, 3/1
by BWW News Desk - Feb 21, 2013
Imagine waking up to find Dwight D. Eisenhower in the White House, Disneyland first opening its gates, and Elvis Presley making his television debut! That's what happens to super-achieving urbanites Katha and Ryu after they meet a charismatic man from a 1950s re-enactment community and abandon their stressful modern lives for a simpler world of TV dinners, Lawrence Welk and transistor radios. (more...)
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Photo Flash: First Look - Vanity Fair's 2013 HOLLYWOOD ISSUE COVER
by Movies News Desk - Jan 29, 2013
It's time for Vanity Fair's Annual Hollywood Issue Cover. This year, photographer Bruce Weber's tribute to tinsel town includes a cover featuring Ben Affleck, Bradley Cooper, Emma Stone, Quvenzhané Wallis, Olivia Wilde, Kerry Washington, and Eddie Redmayne. Get a first look below! (more...)
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Jenness Cortez Presents New Important Work of American Realism
by BWW News Desk - Jan 21, 2013
DeBruyne Fine Art of Naples, Florida, will host its twelfth solo exhibition by internationally acclaimed artist Jenness Cortez. On view January 24 through March 31, 2013, "Homage to the Creative Spirit 2013," presents the next installment in a thought provoking visual conversation between the artist and the viewer. Among the many topics raised by her new American realist works of art is Cortez's heartfelt conviction that iconic images, when seen in familiar domestic settings, can inspire each of us to rediscover and revalue our own creative potential. (more...)
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Mandy Gonzalez Joins Cast of ROCKWELL: LIFE ON A PALETTE Readings in NYC, 1/10 & 11
by BWW
News Desk - Jan 10, 2013
Mandy Gonzalez has joined the cast of Rockwell: Life on a Palette, a new musical based on Norman Rockwell's covers for the Saturday Evening Post, which will receive staged readings in New York City on January 10 and 11, 2013. With book and lyrics by Eleanor Albano and Anthony Barnao, and music by Ron Abel, this reading of Rockwell will be directed by Glenn Casale. (more...)
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Mandy Gonzalez Joins Cast of ROCKWELL: LIFE ON A PALETTE Readings in NYC, 1/10 & 11
by BWW News Desk - Jan 10, 2013
Mandy Gonzalez has joined the cast of Rockwell: Life on a Palette, a new musical based on Norman Rockwell's covers for the Saturday Evening Post, which will receive staged readings in New York City today, January 10 and the 11th, 2013. With book and lyrics by Eleanor Albano and Anthony Barnao, and music by Ron Abel, this reading of Rockwell will be directed by Glenn Casale. (more...)
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Mandy Gonzalez Joins Cast of ROCKWELL: LIFE ON A PALETTE Readings in NYC, 1/10 & 11
by BWW News Desk - Jan 02, 2013
Mandy Gonzalez has joined the cast of Rockwell: Life on a Palette, a new musical based on Norman Rockwell's covers for the Saturday Evening Post, which will receive staged readings in New York City on January 10 and 11, 2013. With book and lyrics by Eleanor Albano and Anthony Barnao, and music by Ron Abel, this reading of Rockwell will be directed by Glenn Casale. (more...)
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Nancy Opel, Andre de Shields and More Set for ROCKWELL: LIFE ON A PALETTE Reading
by BWW News Desk - Dec 21, 2012
Rockwell: Life on a Palette, a new musical based on Norman Rockwell's covers for the Saturday Evening Post, will receive a staged reading in New York City on January 10 and 11, 2013. With book and lyrics by Eleanor Albano and Anthony Barnao, and music by Ron Abel, this reading of Rockwell will be directed by Glenn Casale. (more...)
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BWW REVIEW: AN 'OUR TOWN' FOR OUR TIME
by Jan Nargi - Dec 17, 2012
David Cromer's stunning reimagining of Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama 'Our Town' reverberates with life and longing in the Huntington Theatre Company production now at the Boston Center for the Arts (more...)
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Pearl Theatre Presents AN EVENING WITH O. HENRY, 12/2
by BWW News Desk - Nov 21, 2012
The Pearl Theatre Company presents An Evening with O. Henry, a one-night special event, on Sunday, December 2, at New York's legendary Players Club in Gramercy Park. Featuring works by the beloved American author and songs that celebrate the era, An Evening with O. Henry will benefit The Pearl; proceeds will support the company's work. (more...)
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Broadway Leading Man David Elder Has a WHITE CHRISTMAS Homecoming in Nashville
by Jeffrey Ellis - Nov 12, 2012
For David Elder, making the trip to Nashville to star in the national touring company of Irving Berlin's White Christmas-the stage musical based on the holiday film favorite-is a homecoming of sorts. For it was in Music City that the talented young man from Texas first set off on his circuitous route to stardom. (more...)
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