2013 Broadway Performance Project Set for the Laurie Beechman, 6/11 & 13by BWW News Desk - May 24, 2013The Group Theatre Too, along with choreographer, Justin Boccitto and director, Kimberly Vaughn presents the 2013 Broadway Performance Project (BPP), an evening of young, aspiring Broadway bound talent performing on Tuesday, June 11th and Thursday, June 13th, 7:00pm at Cabaret hub, The Laurie Beechman Theater. BPP selected twelve participants from among those who auditioned, including: Caitlin Catanella, Melissa Coffey, Isaac Dayley, Kristin Feeney, Anelena Frollini, Billy Hannon, Erica Kimble, Amelia Rose Ortman, Kelly Reader, Daniel Schultz, Alan Simon and Micki Weiner. In preparation for their Beechman performances these artists will have coached with Justin and Kimberly, along with musical director Andrea Grody, and workshopped their songs in an 'in studio' performance class with a panel of industry professionals who include talent manager Naomi Kolstein and casting director Dale Brown. The project also had a successful benefit show last December where they unveiled "The Nicole Fosse Scholarship" and saw performances from Richard Kline, Phillip Boykin, Anita Gillette, Kurt Peterson, Wayne Alan Wilcox, Colleen Zenk, Kevin Spirtas, Raissa Katona Bennett and Sheri Sanders. (more...)
Alice Ripley & Jinkx Monsoon to Headline Balagan Theatre's Free Season Preview Party, 6/10by BWW News Desk - May 24, 2013Balagan Theatre will introduce the 2013-2014 mainstage season with a free community celebration, Monday, June 10, 7:30pm at the Moore Theatre, featuring America's Next Drag Superstar, Jinkx Monsoon (also known in Seattle as musical actor Jerick Hoffer), and Broadway star and Tony Award winner Alice Ripley, best known for creating the role of Diana Goodman in the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Next to Normal. (more...)
ANNIE Headliner Lilla Crawford Joins Betsy Wolfe, Allie Trimm and Diane Ladd in Scott Alan's June 27 HOME Readingby BWW News Desk - May 24, 2013Renowned musical theatre composer and lyricist Scott Alan will soon host a reading of HOME, written by Christy Hall and himself, on June 27, 2013 directed by Stafford Arima. 'For the first time in ten years of doing readings and workshops of HOME,' Alan writes, 'I am presenting the story I always set out to tell.' (more...)
Penny Seats Theatre Company to Present LITTLE ME, 7/11-27by BWW News Desk - May 24, 2013Now in its third year of operation, Ann Arbor's Penny Seats Theatre Company is set to produce its trademark summer show at the West Park Band Shell, 215 Chapin Street in Ann Arbor for three weekends from July 11 through July 27. (more...)
Photo Flash: First Look at Riverside Studios' THE GREAT GATSBYby BWW News Desk - May 24, 2013Michael Lindall is the face of London's latest Jay Gatsby as Ruby in the Dust's acclaimed stage version of the American literature classic The Great Gatsby returns to the London stage the very same week as Baz Luhrmann's Gatsby Hollywood movie opens in the UK. Check out a first look at the production below! (more...)
Salonga-Led THE VOICE PH Releases Blind Auditions Trailerby Oliver Oliveros - May 24, 2013ABS-CBN, the Philippine television network that bagged the rights to adapt the hit reality show 'The Voice' from Talpa Media Group, based in the Netherlands, has just released 'The Voice PH' newest blind auditions trailer, which features coaches Lea Salonga, Apl. de. ap of Black Eyed Peas, Bamboo Maņalac, and Sarah Geronimo-all four have carved out solid music careers and have huge fan bases in the Philippines. (more...)
THE FRIDAY SIX: Q&As with Your Favorite Broadway Stars- Joey Calveriby BWW - May 24, 2013In this week's edition, we caught up with Joey Calveri, who is starring as 'Stacee Jaxx' in Rock of Ages- currently playing at the Helen Hayes Theatre. (more...)
Meadow Brook Theatre to Stage 70, GIRLS, 70, 5/29-6/23by TV News Desk - May 24, 2013When the residents of the New Sussex Arms, an Upper West Side retirement hotel, discover it's slated to be sold, they know they have to stop it. But how? They can't afford to buy it. Or can they? They hatch a scheme to steal furs from New York City stores, planning to use the profits to buy it themselves. This final presentation of (more...)
JOSEFINA LOPEZ to Deliver Commencement Address at Los Angeles High School for the Arts' 2013 Graduationby BWW News Desk - May 24, 2013 JOSEFINA LOPEZ, the award-winning playwright and screenwriter, best known as the creator of the play and the film, "Real Women Have Curves," will deliver the Commencement Address at Los Angeles High School for the Arts' (LACHSA's) 2013 Graduation Ceremony at Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 South Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90012 on Friday, June 7, 2013, starting at2:00 p.m., it was announced today by LACHSA Principal George Simpson. The graduation will feature many LACHSA performing arts groups and is open to the general public to attend. (more...)
BWW Reviews: THE BEAR, Ovalhouse, May 23 2013by Gary Naylor - May 24, 2013Gary Naylor sees a bear in South London! (more...)
Playhouse on Park Announces Master Class with Artist in Residence, Brendan Nortonby BWW News Desk - May 24, 2013On Tuesday, June 25th, 2013, Playhouse on Park is offering a one night only master class in Shakespeare's text with Artist-in-Residence, Brendan Norton. (more...)
BWW Reviews: Force of Nature Lauren Robert Rocks Iridium Againby Stephen Hanks - May 24, 2013Four songs into Lauren Robert's show at Iridium this past Tuesday night (her third appearance at the jazz club since last August), she was already producing her usual pulsating, percussive, and passionate presentation of hard-driving blues and soulful pop when the show took a transformative turn and reached a higher ground. The mature, sultry, blue-eyed blonde, whose sound goes beyond blue-eyed soul, put on her Louisiana accent cultivated from years playing down south with her old band, Mojo Hand, and told her audience that the set's fifth song was 'inspired by the swamps and sexy action of N'awlins.' Then Robert and her new band, which included three members of the old gang, really got their mojo going, jumped into a musical swamp boat and navigated through a Robert original called 'Two Alligators' (from Mojo Hand's 1992 album Zulu Parasol), an intense and rhythmic mix of blues, hard rock n' roll, and Zydeco, and that featured a cool background vocal arrangement and Robert playing a washboard-better known as a fotoi (fo-twa)-draped down her chest. Like an alligator, the song stalked and then snapped, and with Noe Matos supplying some frenetic percussion, it was a draw-dropping number that wouldn't let you stop bouncing in your seat. (more...)
John Cullum, Ryan Silverman, Brad Oscar and More Join Alexandra Silber, Santino Fontana and Montego Glover in Caramoor's SHE LOVES MEby BWW News Desk - May 23, 2013On Saturday, June 22 at 8:30pm and Sunday, June 23 at 4pm, Caramoor kicks off the 68th Summer Festival with its first ever Broadway production, She Loves Me. Joining the cast will be John Cullum, Ryan Silverman, Brad Oscar, Etai BenShlomo and Jonathan Freeman. Michele Lynch will choreograph. (more...)
WONDERSHOW to Premiere at XL Cabaret, 6/6by BWW News Desk - May 23, 2013Get Ready for WONDERSHOW, an extraordinary line up of the city's hottest magicians and variety acts. Developed by award-winning producer Patrick Terry (Naked Angels), don't miss the epic vaudevillian feats of the one and only Albert Cadabra (Ripley's Believe it or Not), the extreme juggling super powers of Michael DuBois (The Tonight Show), the breath taking miracles of New York's own devious showman Matt Holtzclaw (Slipper Room), much more! (more...)
Joy Franz, Hunter Herdlicka and More Set for SONDHEIM UNPLUGGED at 54 Below, 5/26by BWW News Desk - May 23, 2013Sondheim Unplugged, hosted by Phil Geoffrey Bond, makes a return visit to 54 Below this Sunday, May 26th at 7pm. (more...)
Photo Flash: First Look at Pittsburgh CLO's SIDE BY SIDE BY SONDHEIMby BWW News Desk - May 23, 2013Pittsburgh CLO presents the Stephen Sondheim celebration, Side By Side By Sondheim, which will run tonight, May 23 through August 18 at the CLO Cabaret. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below! (more...)
THE PENNY JIVE, MORTIFIED and More Set for A.R.T.'s OBERON, June 2013by BWW News Desk - May 23, 2013OBERON, the American Repertory Theater's second stage and club theater venue, continues its mission to bring exciting and original programming. A destination for theater and nightlife on the fringe of Harvard Square, OBERON is the home of the A.R.T.'s hit productions of Pirates of Penzance, The Lily's Revenge, Futurity, The Donkey Show, Cabaret, and Prometheus Bound and Ryan Landry's Rocky Horror Show, OBERON is also a thriving incubator for local and visiting talent. (more...)
Salonga Comments On ALLEGIANCE, Cafe Carlyle, THE VOICE & Moreby Pat Cerasaro - May 23, 2013In a new essay penned by Tony and Olivier Award-winning stage icon Lea Salonga for the Philippine Enquirer, the triple-threat discusses her many current endeavors and her immediate plans for the future, including her ongoing Cafe Carlyle Cabaret residency, the recent ALLEGIANCE workshop and her upcoming judging duties on THE VOICE in The Philippines. (more...)
Michael Feinstein's Great American Songbook Vocal Competition Set for 6/1 in Chicagoby BWW News Desk - May 23, 2013High school vocalists from Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois and Missouri will compete on Saturday, June 1 at a regional for the Great American Songbook Vocal Academy & Competition. Sponsored by the Michael Feinstein Great American Songbook Initiative, the annual endeavor is the only U.S. competition dedicated solely to the music from Broadway, Hollywood musicals and the Tin Pan Alley era of the early to mid-twentieth century. (more...)
THE YEAR OF DEAD CATS to Make World Premiere 6/16 at Stage Left Studioby BWW News Desk - May 23, 2013Erica Herd and L.E. Swenson's breakout comedic masterpiece, THE YEAR OF DEAD CATS, will have its World Premiere on Sunday, June 16th at Stage Left Studio (214 West 30th Street - between Seventh & Eighth Avenues - Sixth Floor) where it will play through Sunday, June 30th with the option to continue through September. (more...)
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