Photo Flash: First Look at Harrison Dowzell as BILLY ELLIOTby BWW News Desk - May 28, 2012Twelve year old Harrison Dowzell from Nottinghamshire has become the thirtieth boy to play the title role of Billy Elliot in the West End. Check out the production photographs of Dowzell in action below. (more...)
CURTAINS, from The Creators of Cabaret & Chicago, Set for European Professional Premiere July 25by BWW News Desk - May 28, 2012Curtains, the backstage musical comedy whodunit from the creators of Cabaret and Chicago, will get its European professional premiere production in a strictly limited 6-week season at the Landor Theatre from 25 July - 1 September. (more...)
SPAMALOT Starring Marcus Brigstocke and Jon Culshaw Plays West End, July 24-Sep 9by BWW News Desk - May 28, 2012Howard Panter (Mr West End himself) for The Ambassador Theatre Group presents Monty Python’s Spamalot, a new musical lovingly ripped off from Monty Python and the Holy Grail by Eric Idle and John Du Prez, directed by Christopher Luscombe. Galloping into the West End for a truly bespoke season at the Harold Pinter Theatre (long pause) Tuesday 24 July – Sunday 9 September 2012 (press night Tuesday 31 July). Tickets on sale now. (more...)
Lillias White Celebrates THE NIGHT AFTER THE TONYS at Catalina Jazz Club, 6/11by BWW News Desk - May 27, 2012Chris Isaacson Presents and Upright Cabaret proudly present Broadway diva Lillias White: The Night After The Tonys, as she belts out the best of Broadway and Jazz, at the Catalina Jazz Club in Hollywood, for one performance only, on Monday, June 11. Showtime is 8pm, with cocktail and dinner service beginning at 6:30pm. (more...)
Commedia Beauregard Presents CORLEONE: THE SHAKESPEAREAN GODFATHER, 6/1-24by BWW News Desk - May 27, 2012This Friday, Commedia Beauregard, a Chicago-based theater company dedicated to producing plays in translation, opens its final production of the 2011-2012 Season. Corleone: The Shakespearean Godfather will be presented at the Greenhouse Theater Center, 2257 North Lincoln Avenue Chicago, Ill. The production opens on June 1 at 7:30p.m. Remaining shows are scheduled for Thursdays through Saturdays at 7:30 p.m., Sundays at 2:30 p.m. through June 24, 2012. (more...)
Are You Following BWW Yet on Twitter & Facebook?by BWW News Desk - May 27, 2012Are you one of the thousands already following BroadwayWorld.com, the biggest theatre site on the net on Twitter and Facebook? (more...)
BWW Reviews: Broadway Sacramento Goes WICKEDby Harmony Wheeler - May 27, 2012Seven is the perfect number. Thursday night marked my seventh time seeing the hit musical “Wicked.” Here’s the countdown: Twice in San Francisco in high school, once in New York as a high school graduation present, three times in Chicago to see a family friend in the cast, and, now, once in Sacramento where the mind blowing show — as so many have called it — plays through June 17 at the Community Center Theater. (more...)
Patrick Cassidy Joins Upright Cabaret's VIVA LAS VEGAS, 6/8by BWW News Desk - May 26, 2012Chris Isaacson has announced that Upright Cabaret’s AMERICAN ICON Series ends another stunning season with VIVA LAS VEGAS - a presentation of personality and pop that honors the flashiest performers of all time: Elvis, Cher and Elton John. Joining the group of all-star performers will be Patrick Cassidy. (more...)
BWW TV: Broadway Salutes the Troops at Fleet Week- Part 1; GHOST, SISTER ACT, and More!by BroadwayWorld TV - May 26, 2012The Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, along with the City of New York and the United States Navy, this week celebrates the 25th annual Fleet Week, to be held through May 28, 2012. Fleet Week is America’s premier tribute and “thank you” to the men and women who serve in the armed forces, and BroadwayWorld was there this afternoon for a special tribute to the troops from Broadway.
Check out performances from the casts of GHOST, Chicago, and SISTER ACT below! (more...)
Photo Coverage: Casts of ANYTHING GOES, SISTER ACT, GHOST and More Perform for Fleet Week 2012!by Genevieve Rafter Keddy - May 26, 2012The Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, along with the City of New York and the United States Navy, celebrates the 25th annual Fleet Week, now through May 28, 2012. Fleet Week is America’s premier tribute and “thank you” to the men and women who serve in the armed forces. As part of the festivities, Peter and the Starcatcher's Teddy Bergman and Greg Hildrethof hosted a Fleet Week Broadway showcase, featuring performers from Anything Goes, Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess, Memphis, Ghost, Sister Act, Godspell, Chicago and Rock of Ages. BroadwayWorld was there and brings you photos from the event below! (more...)
Bay Street Theatre's All Star Comedy Showcase & Ivy League of Comedy Set for 6/11 & 18by BWW News Desk - May 26, 2012Sag Harbor, New York's Bay Street Theatre has announced two nights of comedy, beginning with THE ALL STAR COMEDY SHOWCASE on Monday, June 11 and continuing with THE IVY LEAGUE OF COMEDY on Monday, June 18. Both shows begin at 8 pm. Tickets are $25 per show and are available online at www.baystreet.org or by calling the Box Office at 631-725-9500. (more...)
Waymon Hudson to Host Gay Chicago TV's CRITICAL THINKINGby BWW News Desk - May 26, 2012Gay Chicago TV welcomes Waymon Hudson as the host of Critical Thinking. GCTV believes in Waymon’s passion and commitment as a vocal community activist and LGBT rights advocate and is happy to provide him with a platform that will expand the already great work he does for the LGBTQ community. (more...)
Whittaker, Kraski Star in Chaffin's Barn's FIDDLER ON THE ROOF, Helmed by Wilkinson and Opening 5/31by Jeffrey Ellis - May 26, 2012Nine-time First Night Award-winner Martha Wilkinson directs Derek Whittaker, Debbie Kraski and a cast of Nashville’s stage favorites in the Chaffin’s Barn Dinner Theatre production of Fiddler on the Roof, opening Thursday, May 31, and running through July 8 at the theater in West Nashville. (more...)
Are You Following BWW Yet on Twitter & Facebook?by BWW News Desk - May 26, 2012Are you one of the thousands already following BroadwayWorld.com, the biggest theatre site on the net on Twitter and Facebook? (more...)
BrightSide Theatre to Present MY WAY, Opening 6/15by BWW News Desk - May 25, 2012BrightSide Theatre today announced its production of My Way: A Musical Tribute to Frank Sinatra, conceived by David Grapes and Todd Olson with book by Todd Olson. (more...)
TBS' MEN AT WORK Series Premiere Brings In More Than 2.6 Million Viewersby BWW News Desk - May 25, 2012TBS's all-new comedy series Men at Work scored 2,649,000 viewers; 1,630,000 adults 18-49; and 851,000 adults 18-34 in its debut last night, according to cable fast national data. The premiere of Men at Work also drew 14% more adults 18-34 and 7% more adults 18-49 than the prior four weeks of The Big Bang Theory in the Thursday 10 p.m. (ET/PT) timeslot. And it garnered more men 18-34 (395,000) than any previous TBS original sitcom premiere. (more...)
Photo Flash: First Look at Sally Struthers and Carter Calvert in ALWAYS PATSY CLINEby BWW News Desk - May 25, 2012The 80th Anniversary Season at the Ogunquit Playhouse kicked off with Always, Patsy Cline on May 23, and we have the production photos below, starring Carter Calvert as Patsy Cline and Sally Struthers as Louise Seger. Check them out! (more...)
JCS Broadway: This One's Got Swag, And Three Filipinos In Itby Oliver Oliveros - May 25, 2012My first dose of musical theater was through my uncle’s old screechy phonograph recording of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s hippie, loud, angst-laden rock musical “Jesus Christ Superstar” (JCS). The classic stage hit, which was originally a concept album before evolving into a full-blown Broadway musical that follows the passion and death of Jesus Christ as seen through the eyes of Judas Iscariot, had completed its three-year run on Broadway (1971-1973), and its first commercial movie release (1973) by the time I got to experience JCS’s electrifying, personally-impactful songs in the ‘80s though. So when the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Toronto, Canada announced late last year that its critically-acclaimed, deemed revolutionary production of JCS, directed by Tony winner Des McAnuff, was coming to Broadway, I was delighted to hear the news; and more so when I learned that three Filipino-Canadian musical theater artists – brothers Julius and Jason Sermonia, and Laurin Padolina – are part of the show.
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THE VIC & PAUL SHOW Comedy Revue Plays 14th Street Theatre, 7/12-15by BWW News Desk - May 25, 2012Former Saturday Night Live writer (and three-time Emmy nominee) Paul Barrosse and his actress wife, Victoria Zielinski, star in The Vic & Paul Show, an original two-person comedy revue with music that will play July 12-15th at Playhouse Square’s The 14th Street Theatre. (more...)
STAGE TUBE: Jane Lynch Gives Smith College Commencement Speechby Stage Tube - May 25, 2012Jane Lynch, the Emmy and Golden Globe-winning actress of film, television and theater, spoke at Smith College’s 134th commencement ceremony on Sunday, May 20. "You are about to receive a piece of paper that proves to the world you are now fit to join the ranks of an elite and tremendously powerful group of game-changing women," she told the students. "Smith women have transformed cuisine, spearheaded social movements, created great literature and, in the case of my friend Piper, class of ’92, even gone to prison! But damnit — when a Smithie goes to prison — she writes a clever and compelling book about it!" Watch a video of Lynch at the podium below, and for the full text of the speech, click here! (more...)
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