Billy Crudup and Shuler Hensley Join Cast of NO MAN'S LAND and WAITING FOR GODOTby BWW News Desk - May 6, 2013Tony Award winners Billy Crudup and Shuler Hensley will join Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart in the limited season repertoire of Harold Pinter's No Man's Land and Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, directed by Sean Mathias, on Broadway at the Cort Theatre, 138 West 48th Street, this fall. Performances will begin Saturday, October 26 at 8pm. The official opening is Sunday, November 24, 2013. This limited season will run for 14 weeks only. (more...)
SNL's Kate McKinnon to Return to North Shore High School for Anniversary Gala, 6/15by BWW News Desk - May 30, 2013The North Shore Arts Angels are pleased to announce that 'Saturday Night Live' cast member Kate McKinnon will be appearing in the upcoming ',' a one night only fund raising event celebrating one half a century of her school's drama troupe. McKinnon will be joining over 140 other alumni from North Shore High School on stage to celebrate five decades of Masquers history and raise funds to revive the district's now defunct Summer Theater Workshop on June 15. (more...)
2013 William Inge Theatre Festival to Honor Its Namesake, May 1-4, 2013by BWW
News Desk - May 3, 2013The William Inge Theatre Festival has a long rich history of honoring great living playwrights, acknowledging these too-often underappreciated creative heroes of the stage. But the 32nd annual Inge Festival in 2013 changes pace: honoring its namesake American icon William Inge, to celebrate the centennial of his birth. The William Inge Theatre Festival at Independence Community College takes place May 1-4 of 2013, in Inge's rural hometown of Independence, Kansas, where, annually, Broadway and Hollywood artists meet on the prairie to mingle with visitors from more than 24 states. (more...)
BWW Blog: Kathryn Mowat Murphy - Trustby Guest Blogger: Kathryn Mowat Murphy - May 28, 2013TRUST (reliance on another person or entity) (more...)
Jen Danby's THE BLONDE BOMBSHELL PROJECT to Play Alchemical Theater Laboratory 137, 6/1-6/13by BWW News Desk - May 28, 2013Mississippi Mud Productions is proud to present The Blonde Bombshell Project, a new solo play written and starring Jen Danby and directed by Tony Nominee and Obie-Winning Director Austin Pendleton. Fresh from their collaboration as Catharine Holly and Dr. Sugar in Suddenly, Last Summer with Mississippi Mud, this new solo work is about about legendary Hollywood 'Blonde Bombshell' Marilyn Monroe in her final summer of 1962. (more...)
Eric Sommer to Kick Off Mid-Atlantic Summer Music Seasonby BWW News Desk - May 28, 2013Eric Sommer is on the road and coming to the Mid Atlantic States. This first week of summer, Mid Atlantic music fans are in for a real treat. (more...)
A Noise Within Announces 2013-2014 Seasonby BWW News Desk - May 23, 2013A Noise Within, led by Producing Artistic Directors Geoff Elliott and Julia Rodriguez-Elliott, presents its third season of classic plays in its new Pasadena home, beginning September 7, 2013 with Pericles, Prince of Tyre by William Shakespeare, followed by The Guardsman by Ferenc Molnar, Endgame by Samuel Beckett, Tartuffe by Moliere, Macbeth by William Shakespeare, and concluding with Come Back, Little Sheba by William Inge. (more...)
Melinda Porto and Steven Good to Star in MODROCK at El Portal Theatre; Full Cast Announced!by BWW News Desk - May 13, 2013The era of the British Music Invasion comes alive in 'ModRock,' a new musical, which is having its world premiere engagement beginning Wednesday, June 19 (press opening Sunday June 23 at 5pm) at the El Portal Theatre. 'ModRock' is set in the vibrant, swinging London of the mid 1960's - a time when styles and cultures clashed, the British bands ruled the pop charts and all fashion trends emerged out of Carnaby Street. (more...)
2013 William Inge Theatre Festival Honors Its Namesake, Now thru May 4by BWW News Desk - May 1, 2013The William Inge Theatre Festival has a long rich history of honoring great living playwrights, acknowledging these too-often underappreciated creative heroes of the stage. But the 32nd annual Inge Festival in 2013 changes pace: honoring its namesake American icon William Inge, to celebrate the centennial of his birth. The William Inge Theatre Festival at Independence Community College takes place today, May 1-4 of 2013, in Inge's rural hometown of Independence, Kansas, where, annually, Broadway and Hollywood artists meet on the prairie to mingle with visitors from more than 24 states. (more...)
Berkshire Theatre's THE LION IN WINTER with Treat Williams & Jayne Atkinson to Open 6/25by BWW News Desk - Jun 6, 2013Berkshire Theatre Group presents James Goldman's The Lion in Winter at The Fitzpatrick Main Stage in Stockbridge opening on June 29 at 8pm. Previews begin June 25 at 8pm and closing is on July 13 at 8pm. (more...)
Unpublished Marilyn Monroe Photographs to Be Sold At Auction, 7/27by Movies News Desk - Jun 6, 2013Over 3,700 unpublished Marilyn Monroe images highlight the auction. All images are to be sold with copyright and will go up for auction on July 27. (more...)
All-Star Marilyn Monroe Documentary to Premiere on HBO, 6/17by BWW News Desk - Jun 3, 2013One of the most enduring icons of 20th-century America, Marilyn Monroe invented an endlessly fascinating public persona, but also concealed a private side known only to her closest confidants. A half-century after her death, her creation still blazes brightly in the cultural imagination, while its creator remains in the shadows. (more...)
Enigmatic 'Dancer' Turns Heads In New York City at the BODY WORLDS: PULSE Exhibitby BWW News Desk - Jun 17, 2013Her chiseled visage is seen everywhere in New York City. You see her swan-like countenance on giant billboards on Times Square, Bus Stop shelters, subway cars, taxi tops, and tour buses. Her arms extended behind her as she kneels in a triumphant curtsy, like a dancer in an Edgar Degas painting, she is the epitome of balletic grace. But her backstory is as memorable as the orange halo that surrounds her in all her appearances about town. (more...)
Volvo Launches Noiseless Electric Buses in Gothenburgby BWW News Desk - Jun 17, 2013Buses that glide noiselessly without emissions, that pick up passengers indoors and which are powered by a renewable source of electricity - this will become a reality in 2015, through the launch of an ultramodern bus service in Gothenburg. The new technology enables completely new possibilities for future public-transport. Behind the initiative is the Volvo Group (STO:VOLVA) (STO:VOLVB), in cooperation with the Swedish Energy Agency, the City of Gothenburg, Vasttrafik, Lindholmen Science Park and Johanneberg Science Park.
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Profiles Theatre Extends Neil LaBute's IN THE COMPANY OF GOOD MEN thru 7/28by BWW News Desk - Jun 15, 2013Profiles Theatre announces an extended run for the World Premiere of Resident Artist Neil LaBute's revised stage version of In the Company of Men, now playing at The Main Stage, 4139 N. Broadway. Directed by Profiles Resident Artist and Steppenwolf ensemble member Rick Snyder, In the Company of Men opened May 16 to critical acclaim and has been extended for another four weeks through July 28, 2013. (more...)
Elaine Stritch Missing New York City Life After Move to Michiganby BWW News Desk - Jun 13, 2013As BroadwayWorld previously reported, Broadway legend Elaine Stritch recently announced that she would be leaving New York City for good, after 71 years here, to relocate to her home state of Michigan. According to the New York Post, the 88 year-old just left her home at the Carlyle, and 35 hotel employees were there to see her off when she got off the elevator. (more...)
Photo Flash: Meet the Cast of MODROCK at El Portal Theatreby BWW News Desk - Jun 12, 2013The era of the British Music Invasion comes alive in 'ModRock,' a new musical, which is having its world premiere engagement beginning Wednesday, June 19 (press opening Sunday June 23 at 5pm) at the El Portal Theatre. 'ModRock' is set in the vibrant, swinging London of the mid 1960's - a time when styles and cultures clashed, the British bands ruled the pop charts and all fashion trends emerged out of Carnaby Street. Scroll down for photos of the cast! (more...)
Amanda Quaid, Frank Wood and More Join Larry Pine in Lucas Hnath's Disney Play at Soho Rep, Beg. Tonightby BWW News Desk - Apr 30, 2013Soho Rep presents the world premiere of Lucas Hnath's play A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney. (more...)
Larry Pine Leads A PUBLIC READING OF AN UNPRODUCED SCREENPLAY ABOUT THE DEATH OF WALT DISNEY at Soho Rep, Now thru 5/26by BWW News Desk - Apr 29, 2013Soho Rep welcomes celebrated stage and screen actor Larry Pine in the world premiere production of Lucas Hnath's adrenaline-charged odyssey A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney. Directed by Soho Rep Artistic Director Sarah Benson, Pine will play the title character - the man who forever changed the American Dream. Hnath's fictional play centers around the reading of a screenplay Walt Disney has written about his last days on earth. The script is about a city he is going to build that is going to change the world; about his brother; about everyone who loves Disney and how sad they are going to be when he is gone. (more...)
Elaine Stritch Bids Adieu to New York Cityby BWW News Desk - Apr 26, 2013As BroadwayWorld previously reported, Broadway legend Elaine Stritch recently announced that she would be leaving New York City for good, after 71 years here, to relocate to her home state of Michigan. According to the New York Post, the 88 year-old just left her home at the Carlyle, and 35 hotel employees were there to see her off when she got off the elevator. (more...)
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