2013 FREDDY Nominations Announced!by BWW News Desk - May 9, 2013The 2013 FREDDY Award Nominations have just been announced. Scroll below for the full list of nominees! (more...)
Kevin Kline, Glenn Close, Eric Idle and Martin Short Headline The Public's THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE Benefit!by BWW News Desk - May 8, 2013The Public Theater announced today that Kevin Kline will reprise his Tony Award-winning role of The Pirate King with Glenn Close as Ruth, Eric Idle as the Sergeant, and Martin Short as Major-General Stanley in the one-night-only concert performance of THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE for The Public's annual gala. Co-chaired by Sir Howard Stringer, Arielle Tepper Madover, and Renee Beaumont, this unforgettable summer evening will also honor the late Nora Ephron who was a long-time board member and consummate lover of The Public's Shakespeare in the Park. (more...)
Rebecca Luker, Marin Mazzie & More Set for NewNJTV Cabaret Seriesby TV News Desk - May 8, 2013NJTV, New Jersey's public television network, and the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) announced the production of a new music television series, American Songbook at NJPAC, taped before a live audience at the Arts Center and airing on NJTV and WNET this fall. (more...)
Light Opera Works Presents H.M.S. PINAFORE, Opening 6/8by BWW News Desk - May 7, 2013H.M.S. PINAFORE, Gilbert and Sullivan's musical comedy of manners, has been a calling card of Light Opera Works ever since the company presented it as its inaugural production in 1981. The Pinafore sails once more onto the stage of Evanston's Cahn Auditorium in a new production, with 26-piece orchestra, June 8 to 16. The score includes: 'I'm Called Little Buttercup,' 'When I Was a Lad,' 'I Am the Captain of the Pinafore' and many others. (more...)
Now Playing Onstage in Los Angeles - Week of 5/05/2013by BWW - May 5, 2013Upcoming Shows - Week of 5/05/2013 for Los Angeles (more...)
Now Playing Onstage in Boston - Week of 5/05/2013by BWW - May 5, 2013Upcoming Shows - Week of 5/05/2013 for Boston (more...)
Now Playing Onstage in Miami - Week of 5/05/2013by BWW - May 5, 2013Upcoming Shows - Week of 5/05/2013 for Miami (more...)
Now Playing Onstage in Las Vegas - Week of 5/05/2013by BWW - May 5, 2013Upcoming Shows - Week of 5/05/2013 for Las Vegas (more...)
Moonlight Stage Set to Open 2013 Summer Season with SOUTH PACIFIC, 6/26-7/13by BWW News Desk - May 23, 2013Moonlight Stage Productions' 33rd summer season, the first planned by new Artistic Director Steven Glaudini, will begin with the great American classic musical SOUTH PACIFIC, with performances from June 26 to July 13. (more...)
2013 FREDDY Awards Announced - All the Winners!by BWW News Desk - May 23, 2013The 2013 FREDDY Awards recipients were announced tonight, May 23rd, during the 11th Annual live ceremony from the State Theatre, broadcast on WFMZ Channel 69 and wfmz.com. For more information, visit www.freddyawards.org. Scroll down for the full list of winners! (more...)
Photo Flash: Tony Nominee Phillip Boykin Performs at GIVE MY REGARDS TO BROADWAY! in Morristownby BWW News Desk - May 19, 2013Two standing ovations and a packed house greeted Tony and Grammy Award-nominee Phillip Boykin as he joined a slew of stars to salute a Century of Broadway Showstoppers in GIVE MY REGARDS TO BROADWAY! on Saturday, May 11, 2013, 7:30 pm, at the Morris Museum's Bickford Theatre, 6 Normandy Heights Road, in Morristown, NJ. Scroll down for photos from the benefit below! (more...)
FLASH SPECIAL: Always - An Irving Berlin 125th Birthday Celebrationby Pat Cerasaro - May 18, 2013Today we are tipping our best top hat to one of Broadway and Hollywood's most significant songwriters, the one and only Irving Berlin, in honor of what would have been his 125th birthday this week. (more...)
Minnetonka Theatre's 9 TO 5 Opens 7/19by BWW News Desk - May 17, 2013Tickets are now on sale for Minnetonka Theatre's summer production of 9 to 5 - The Musical, presented on the Arts Center on 7 Main Stage July 19- August 3. Based on the hit 20th Century Fox Picture, the story follows three female coworkers as they join forces in the late '70s to get even with their "sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot" boss after he pushes them past their limits. (more...)
Megan Lewis, Alex Hoeffler and More to Star in DERMA Premiere at 2013 Piccolo Spoleto Festival, 6/3-8by BWW News Desk - May 17, 2013The Piccolo Spoleto Festival and Banner New York have announced the premiere of Derma, a stirring new American musical to run at the Woolfe Street Playhouse in Charleston, SC from June 3rd through June 8th, 2013. (more...)
STAGE TUBE: On This Day 5/16- ANNIE GET YOUR GUNby Stage Tube - May 16, 2013Today in 1946, Annie Get Your Gun opened at the Imperial Theatre, where it ran for 1147 performances. Annie Get Your Gun is a musical with lyrics and music written by Irving Berlin and a book by Herbert Fields and his sister Dorothy Fields. The story is a fictionalized version of the life of Annie Oakley (1860-1926), who was a sharpshooter from Ohio, and her husband, Frank Butler. Songs that became hits include 'There's No Business Like Show Business', 'Doin' What Comes Natur'lly', 'You Can't Get a Man with a Gun', 'They Say It's Wonderful', and 'Anything You Can Do.' (more...)
Moonlight Stage to Open 2013 Summer Season with SOUTH PACIFIC, 6/26-7/13by BWW News Desk - May 16, 2013Moonlight Stage Productions' 33rd summer season, the first planned by new Artistic Director Steven Glaudini, will begin with the great American classic musical SOUTH PACIFIC, with performances from June 26 to July 13. (more...)
MONTY PYTHON'S SPAMALOT Set for Starlight Theatre, 5/31-6/6by BWW News Desk - May 14, 2013A chorus line of dancing knights, flatulent Frenchmen, killer rabbits and one legless knight will kick off Starlight Theatre's 63rd Season during Monty Python's Spamalot, May 31-June 6. (more...)
Angie Schworer, Sara Gettelfinger and Rick Pessagno to Lead Reagle Music Theatre's CHICAGO, 6/13-23by BWW News Desk - May 13, 2013A dazzling new production of the long-running Broadway revival CHICAGO directed and choreographed by Broadway veteran Gerry McIntyre opens Reagle Music Theatre of Greater Boston's 45th anniversary season June 13-23. Starring Broadway's Angie Schworer as Roxie Hart, Sara Gettelfinger as Velma Kelly, and Rick Pessagno as Billy Flynn, CHICAGO gets Reagle's spectacular summer season off to a bang with all-new staging and exciting choreography in the style of Bob Fosse. (more...)
Photo Flash: Saturday Intermission Pics, May 11 - Mother's Day Edition with KINKY BOOTS, CHICAGO, NEWSIES and More!by BWW News Desk - May 11, 2013It's Saturday, and that means it's time for BroadwayWorld's 'Saturday Intermission Pics' round-up. Today's photos feature Mother's Day SIPs from Kinky Boots, CHICAGO, NEWSIES and more, plus the cast of NICE WORK channeling THE GREAT GATSBY, the return of SIP 'co-founders' Max von Essen and Andrew Keenan-Bolger to the game, and shots from THE BOOK OF MORMON, MATILDA, ANN, MOTOWN, F#%KING UP EVERYTHING, WICKED, LES MISERABLES, THE LION KING, BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, JERSEY BOYS, BROADWAY BARES, MAME, THE WIZARD OF OZ in Toronto and more! (more...)
BWW Interviews: Jessica Humphrey of Dutch Apple's CATSby Marakay Rogers - May 11, 2013She's a singer, a ballet dancer, and though only recently out of college she's been everything from a spirit in the Temple of Wisdom to a dame at sea. Jessica Humphrey talks about opera, CATS, and the current state of arts education. (more...)
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