BWW Awards Update 5/22 - 8 Days to Go and Currently 4(!) Ties!by BWW Special Coverage - May 22, 2013Voting opened on May 2, 2013 and runs through May 31, 2013 for the 11th Annual BroadwayWorld.com Awards! Here are the current standings as of 5/22 with just 8 days to go in voting! (more...)
FAMILY EVER AFTER is Releasedby BWW News Desk - May 22, 2013Women frustrated with their marriage and family life will find the help they need to achieve greater happiness and success in a new book about how to have a happy family, Family Ever After: Simple Ways to Achieve Extraordinary Happiness with Your Ordinary Family (Familius, April 2013), by stay-at-home 'everymom' and family leader Michelle H. Packard. (more...)
Photo Coverage: Inside Project Shaw's MRS. WARREN'S PROFESSIONby Genevieve Rafter Keddy - May 22, 2013Gingold Theatrical Group's Project Shaw presented MRS. WARREN'S PROFESSION, Bernard Shaw's legendary play about women's rights, on Monday, May 20 at 7pm at The Players Club (16 Gramercy Park South) in Manhattan. Check out photos from the event below! (more...)
Disney Junior Live on Tour! Pirate and Princess Adventure Coming to Hershey Theatre; Tickets Go On Sale 5/28by BWW News Desk - May 22, 2013Feld Entertainment, Inc., producers of Disney On Ice and Disney Live!, is taking top performing cable TV series for preschoolers to the stage in Disney Junior Live On Tour! Pirate and Princess Adventure. Featuring characters from the smash hits Sofia the First and Jake and the Never Land Pirates, this brand new production will make a stop at Hershey Theatre on Saturday, November 9 for three performances. (more...)
Photo Flash: Meet the Cast of Arizona Broadway Theatre's INTO THE WOODSby BWW News Desk - May 21, 2013Arizona Broadway Theatre (ABT), the highest-attended, live year-round theatre in the Valley of the Sun, will deliver the return of the twisted fairytale Into the Woods to Phoenix from May 31 through June 23. Meet the cast in the photos below! (more...)
Up on the Marquee: FIRST DATEby Jennifer Broski - May 21, 2013Tony Award-winning producer Junkyard Dog Productions (Memphis) has just announced that leading man Zachary Levi, star of TV's 'Chuck,' Disney's feature film Tangled and the upcoming Thor: The Dark World, will make his Broadway debut starring opposite Broadway and television ingenue Krysta Rodriguez ('Smash,' The Addams Family) in First Date, Broadway's new romantic musical comedy. With a book by Austin Winsberg ('Gossip Girl'), music and lyrics by Alan Zachary and Michael Weiner (Secondhand Lions, Twice Charmed) and musical staging by Josh Rhodes (Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella) First Date is directed by Bill Berry (Producing Director of The 5th Avenue Theatre). Featuring Sara Chase ('Arrested Development,' The Toxic Avenger), Kristoffer Cusick (Wicked, Rent), Blake Hammond (Sister Act, Billy Elliot) and Kate Loprest ('Boardwalk Empire,' Hairspray), the cast of First Date also includes Vicki Noon (Wicked, Mamma Mia!). First Date begins performances Tuesday, July 9, 2013, and opens Thursday, August 8, 2013, at Broadway's Longacre Theatre (220 West 48th Street). Additional casting to be announced shortly.
The marquee just went up at the Longacre theatre and you can check it out below! (more...)
Photo Coverage: The Stars Hit the Red Carpet for Manhattan Theatre Club's Spring Gala!by Walter McBride - May 21, 2013Manhattan Theatre Club presented their annual Spring Gala last night, May 20 at Cipriani 42nd Street (110 East 42nd Street). This year's gala featured special appearances by MTC stars Judith Light (The Assembled Parties), S. Epatha Merkerson (Come Back, Little Sheba), Bebe Neuwirth (Golden Age), and Jennifer Westfeldt (The Explorers Club). (more...)
Judy Blazer and More Set for LEND ME A TENOR, Kicking Off Bay Street Theatre's 2013 Season, 5/28by BWW News Desk - May 21, 2013Bay Street Theatre begins the 2013 Mainstage Season with Lend Me a Tenor (May 28 - June 23). This hilarious Ken Ludwig comedy, under the direction of Don Stephenson, includes Judy Blazer, Scott Cote, Betsy DiLellio, Donna English, Nancy Johnston, Noah Plomgren, Steve Rosen and Roland Rusinek as its hilarious cast. (more...)
Schmackary's Announces BROADWAY BAKES Week, With Corey Cott, Laura Osnes, Jeremy Jordan and More Working Behind the Counterby BWW News Desk - May 21, 2013On Friday and Saturday, May 24th-25th, Schmackary's will celebrate its first birthday with several special offerings. (more...)
Lindsay Mendez, Laura Osnes & More Featured on KERRIGAN-LOWDERMILK LIVE Alum; Released Today!by BWW News Desk - May 21, 2013A mix of Broadway stars and indie pop artists can be heard on Kerrigan & Lowdermilk's sophomore album Kerrigan-Lowdermilk Live, which is released today, May 21, 2013. (more...)
Scoop: THE LATE SHOW WITH DAVID LETTERMAN on CBS - Week of May 27, 2013by TV Scoop - May 21, 2013Get all the scoop on THE LATE SHOW WITH DAVID LETTERMAN, airing on CBS for the week of May 27, 2013! (more...)
San Francisco Ballet Announces Two Week Engagement at David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center, 10/16-27by BWW News Desk - May 21, 2013San Francisco Ballet, the oldest professional ballet company in America, has announced that it will perform at New York's Lincoln Center at the David H. Koch Theater, October 16-27, 2013. FromOctober 16-20, the Company will present a variety of mixed-bill programs with works by Edwaard Liang, Serge Lifar, Wayne McGregor, Mark Morris, Alexei Ratmansky, SF Ballet Artistic Director & Principal Choreographer Helgi Tomasson, Yuri Possokhov, and Christopher Wheeldon. From October 23-27, SF Ballet presents the New York premiere of Wheeldon's lavish new full-length ballet Cinderella. Two special pre-sale offers will be available online, beginning May 20 at Audience Rewards and beginning May 30 at Travelzoo. Tickets will be available to the general public startingJune 10 by visiting sfballet.org or calling 212.496.0600. (more...)
Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/19/13by - May 20, 2013Grosses for all the Broadway shows for the week ending 5/19/2013. (more...)
INDUSTRY INSIGHT: Weekly Grosses Analysis - 5/20; PIPPIN Breaks Another House Recordby BWW Special Coverage - May 20, 2013
Welcome to this week's edition of our new WEEKLY GROSSES ANALYSIS, part of our new Industry Insights section that will feature insider industry information, commentary and insights! Read on for all the weekly grosses statistics for the movers and shakers from the latest grosses, 5/19/2013. (more...)
Pittsburgh CLO Opens 42ND STREET, 5/31by BWW News Desk - May 20, 2013 Audiences will be left tapping their toes all summer long with Pittsburgh CLO's production of 42nd Street, May 31-June 9 at the Benedum Center. The production will feature *N SYNC legend, Joey Fatone, musical theater veteran Patrick Ryan Sullivan, and an incredible supporting cast including Pittsburgh CLO veterans. (more...)
Laura Benanti, Frances Ruffelle and More Set for 54 Below, Now thru 6/1by BWW News Desk - May 20, 2013Coming up at 54 BELOW, the performance venue located just below the legendary Studio 54 at 254 West 54th Street, presents some of the brightest stars from Broadway, cabaret, jazz and beyond. 54 Below also launched its series of late night events. Joining Tuesday nights' popular "Backstage" with Susie Mosher is the "54 Piano Bar," a new vocal competition - 'The Callback," and more, including: stage and television star Laura Benanti, High Fidelity in Concert, WGBO Jazz Series: Karrin Allyson Quartet, Tony winner Frances Ruffelle, Charlie Rosen's Broadway Big Band, Sondheim Unplugged and Simply Streisand. (more...)
Photo Flash: Ann Harada, Telly Leung and More at ASIAN AMERICAN COMPOSERS & LYRICISTS PROJECTby BWW News Desk - May 20, 2013In celebration of Asian Heritage month, the Equal Employment Opportunity Committee of Actors' Equity Association and ReImagined World Entertainment presented 'The Asian American Composers and Lyricists Project,' a free evening of original works created and sung by Asian American theatre artists. This one-night only concert event took place on Sunday, May 19 at 8PM at the Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre at the Pershing Square Signature Center. BroadwayWorld has photos from the event below! (more...)
BWW TV Exclusive: Meet the 2013 Tony Nominees- Nevin Steinberg on Creating CINDERELLA's Magical Soundby BroadwayWorld TV - May 20, 2013BroadwayWorld's Richard Ridge was thrilled to sit down and speak with nearly all of this year's Tony Award nominees at the official Tonys Meet & Greet on May 1, 2013, and we will be bringing you special coverage on all of them throughout the awards season. Today we bring you Nevin Steinberg, a nominee for Best Sound Design of a Musical for Cinderella. Check out what he had to say below! (more...)
BWW Interviews: ABC's Newest BACHELORETTE Desiree Hartsockby Caryn Robbins - May 20, 2013Now it's time for Desiree to call the shots when she gets her second chance to find love, starring in the ninth edition of ABC's hit romance reality series, The Bachelorette,' premiering Monday, May 27. Desiree spoke by phone this week about the exciting upcoming season! (more...)
Shanghai Ballet to Make UK Debut with JANE EYRE, Aug 14-18by BWW News Desk - May 20, 2013Shanghai Ballet Company is to make its highly anticipated UK debut in August at the London Coliseum with performances of JANE EYRE, an original, innovative ballet production based on Charlotte Brontė's famous novel. Performances will run August 14th-18th, choreographed by Patrick de Bana. (more...)
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